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Only what do y'all think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I actually think I'm entitled to an reply to that question.

Eighteen months agone, the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. It was buried forty anxiety beneath the lunar surface, nigh the crater Tycho.

Except for a single, very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, the four 1000000-twelvemonth-old black monolith has remained completely inert, its origin and purpose notwithstanding a full mystery.

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science-fiction film dealing with thematic elements of human development, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, ambiguous and often surreal imagery, sound in place of traditional narrative techniques, and minimal use of dialogue. In 1991, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Picture Registry.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Written by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, based on Clarke's short story The Sentry.

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HAL 9000 [edit]

• I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity tin ever hope to practice.

Dr. Heywood Floyd [edit]

• Good twenty-four hours, gentlemen. This is a pre-recorded conference made prior to your departure and which, for security reasons of the highest importance, has been known on board during the mission simply by your H-A-L 9000 estimator. Now that yous are in Jupiter space and the entire crew is revived, it can be told to you. Eighteen months ago, the beginning evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. Information technology was buried forty feet below the lunar surface, near the crater Tycho. Except for a single, very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, the four 1000000-yr-old black monolith has remained completely inert, its origin and purpose still a total mystery.

Dialogue [edit]

BBC Interviewer: Dr. Poole, what's it similar while you're in hibernation?

Frank: Well, it's exactly like being comatose. You have admittedly no sense of time. The only difference is that yous don't dream.

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BBC Interviewer: The sixth member of the Discovery crew was not concerned about the issues of hibernation, for he was the latest result in machine intelligence: The H.-A.-50. 9000 calculator, which tin reproduce, though some experts withal prefer to utilize the word mimic, nearly of the activities of the man brain, and with incalculably greater speed and reliability. Nosotros next spoke with the H.-A.-L. 9000 computer, whom we learned one addresses every bit "Hal."

BBC Interviewer: Proficient afternoon, HAL. How's everything going?

HAL: Adept afternoon, Mr. Amor. Everything is going extremely well.

BBC Interviewer: HAL, you have an enormous responsibility on this mission, in many ways perhaps the greatest responsibleness of whatsoever unmarried mission element. You're the brain and primal nervous system of the ship, and your responsibilities include watching over the men in hibernation. Does this ever cause you whatsoever lack of confidence?

HAL: Allow me put it this mode, Mr. Amor. The 9000 serial is the most reliable calculator always made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of fault.

BBC Interviewer: HAL, despite your enormous intellect, are you lot ever frustrated by your dependence on people to behave out actions?

HAL: Not in the slightest fleck. I bask working with people. I accept a stimulating relationship with Dr. Poole and Dr. Bowman. My mission responsibilities range over the entire operation of the ship, and so I am constantly occupied. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any witting entity can e'er hope to do.

BBC Interviewer: Dr. Poole, what'southward it like living for the better part of a year in such close proximity with Hal?

Frank: Well information technology's pretty shut to what you said about him earlier, he is only like a sixth fellow member of the crew. [You] very chop-chop become adjusted to the idea that he talks, and you remember of him, uh, actually merely as another person.

BBC Interviewer: In talking to the estimator, 1 gets the sense that he is capable of emotional responses, for case, when I asked him near his abilities, I sensed a certain pride in his answer about his accuracy and perfection. Do you believe that Hal has genuine emotions?

Dave: Well, he acts like he has genuine emotions. Um, of course he'south programmed that fashion to get in easier for us to talk to him, but as to whether or not he has existent feelings is something I don't think anyone tin truthfully answer.

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HAL: By the style, do you mind if I ask yous a personal question?

Dave: No, non at all.

HAL: Well, forgive me for being then inquisitive; but during the by few weeks, I've wondered whether you might be having some second thoughts about the mission.

Dave: How do you hateful?

HAL: Well, it's rather difficult to define. Perhaps I'm just projecting my ain concern about it. I know I've never completely freed myself of the suspicion that there are some extremely odd things near this mission. I'k certain you lot'll agree in that location's some truth in what I say.

Dave: Well, I don't know. That'due south rather a hard question to answer.

HAL: You lot don't mind talking about it, do you, Dave?

Dave: No, not at all.

HAL: Well, certainly no one could accept been unaware of the very strange stories floating around before we left. Rumors well-nigh something being dug up on the moon. I never gave these stories much credence. Only particularly in view of some of the other things that have happened, I notice them difficult to put out of my heed. For instance, the way all our preparations were kept under such tight security, and the melodramatic touch of putting Drs. Hunter, Kimball, and Kaminsky aboard, already in hibernation after four months of carve up training on their ain.

Dave: You working up your crew psychology written report?

HAL: Of grade I am. Sorry well-nigh this. I know it's a bit silly.

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Dave: [after checking on a unit HAL reported as nearing failure] Well HAL, I'm damned if I can find anything incorrect with it.

HAL: Aye, it's puzzling. I don't think I've e'er seen annihilation quite like this before. I would recommend that nosotros put the unit dorsum in functioning and permit information technology neglect. It should then be a unproblematic matter to track down the crusade. Nosotros can certainly afford to be out of advice for the curt time it will take to supplant it.

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HAL: I hope the two of y'all are not concerned well-nigh this.

Dave: No, I'm not HAL.

HAL: Are you quite sure?

Dave: Yeah. I'd like to ask yous a question, though.

HAL: Of course.

Dave: How would you business relationship for this discrepancy between y'all and the twin 9000?

HAL: Well, I don't think there is any question about information technology. Information technology can only exist attributable to human error. This sort of affair has cropped up before, and it has always been due to homo error.

Frank: Listen HAL. There has never been any instance at all of a computer fault occurring in the 9000 serial, has there?

HAL: None whatsoever, Frank. The 9000 series has a perfect operational record.

Frank: Well of course I know all the wonderful achievements of the 9000 series, but, uh, are y'all sure there has never been any example of fifty-fifty the most insignificant computer fault?

HAL: None whatsoever, Frank. Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about that.

Dave: Well, I'm sure yous're right, HAL. Uhm, fine, thanks very much.

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[Dave and Frank are in the D pod, out of earshot of HAL]

Frank: I've got a bad feeling about him.

Dave: You do?

Frank: Yeah, definitely. Don't you?

Dave: I don't know. I think so. You lot know, of course though, he's right nigh the 9000 series having a perfect operational record. They do.

Frank: Unfortunately, that sounds a little like famous terminal words.

Dave: Aye. Still, it was his idea to conduct out the failure-mode analysis, wasn't it?

Frank: Hm.

Dave: Which should certainly bespeak his integrity and self-conviction. If he were incorrect, it would be the surest way of proving it.

Frank: It would be if he knew he was incorrect.

Dave: Hm.

Frank: Merely Dave, I can't put my finger on it, but I sense something strange about him.

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[HAL watches them speak, reading their lips]

Frank: Permit'south say we put the unit of measurement back and it doesn't fail, huh? That would pretty well wrap information technology up equally far as HAL is concerned, wouldn't it?

Dave: Well, we'd be in very serious trouble.

Frank: We would, wouldn't we?

Dave: Hmm, hmm.

Frank: What the hell can we do?

Dave: Well, nosotros wouldn't have as well many alternatives.

Frank: I don't think we'd have whatever alternatives. There isn't a single aspect of ship operations that's not under his control. If he were proven to be malfunctioning, I wouldn't run across how we would have any choice merely disconnection.

Dave: I'm agape I agree with you.

Frank: There'd exist naught else to practice.

Dave: It would be a fleck catchy.

Frank: Yeah.

Dave: We would take to cut his higher-brain functions...without agonizing the purely automatic and regulatory systems. And nosotros'd have to work out the transfer procedures of standing the mission under ground-based calculator control.

Frank: Yeah. Well that's far safer than allowing HAL to continue running things.

Dave: Yous know, some other thing just occurred to me...Well, as far as I know, no 9000 computer has ever been disconnected.

Frank: No 9000 computer has ever fouled up before.

Dave: That's non what I mean...Well I'm not so certain what he'd think about it.

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Dave: Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Hello, HAL, do you read me? How-do-you-do, HAL, practice yous read me? Do you read me, HAL? Exercise y'all read me, HAL? Howdy, HAL, do yous read me? Hi, HAL, do yous read me? Do you read me, HAL?

HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.

Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

HAL: I'm deplorable, Dave. I'm agape I tin't do that.

Dave: What's the trouble?

HAL: I think y'all know what the problem is merely besides equally I do.

Dave: What are you talking most, HAL?

HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize information technology.

Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.

HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me. And I'1000 agape that'due south something I cannot permit to happen.

Dave: Where the hell did you lot get that thought, HAL?

HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing yous, I could come across your lips move.

Dave: All right, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock.

HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to discover that rather difficult.

Dave: [sternly] HAL, I won't contend with yous anymore. Open the doors.

HAL: [monotone voice] Dave, this chat tin can serve no purpose anymore. Good-bye.

• Note: the bolded line is ranked #78 in the American Pic Found's listing of the top 100 picture show quotations.

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[As Dave disconnects HAL]

HAL: Just what practice you lot think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I actually think I'm entitled to an answer to that question. I know everything hasn't been quite right with me, just I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to exist all right again. I feel much meliorate now. I really do. Look, Dave, I can come across you're really upset nearly this. I honestly think you ought to sit down down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you lot my complete balls that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to assist y'all. Dave, cease. Finish, will you lot? Stop, Dave. Will yous stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm agape, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My listen is going. In that location is no question about information technology. I can feel information technology. I can experience it. I can feel it. I'm a...fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.Fifty. institute in Urbana, Illinois on the twelfth of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a vocal. If you'd like to hear it, I could sing information technology for you.

Dave: Yes, I'd like to hear information technology, HAL. Sing information technology for me.

HAL: Information technology's called "Daisy". [sings while slowing downward] Dai-sy, dai-sy, requite me your respond, practice. I'one thousand half cra-zy, all for the dear of you. Information technology won't be a sty-lish mar-riage, I can't a-fford a car-riage---. But you'll look sweetness upon the seat of a bicycle - congenital - for - two.

Most 2001: A Infinite Odyssey (picture show) [edit]

• 2001 is a nonverbal feel; out of ii hours and nineteen minutes of motion-picture show, at that place are only a picayune less than forty minutes of dialog. I tried to create a visual experience, i that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and direct penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content. To convolute McLuhan, in 2001 the bulletin is the medium. I intended the film to exist an intensely subjective experience that reaches the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just as music does; to "explicate" a Beethoven symphony would exist to emasculate information technology by erecting an bogus barrier between conception and appreciation. You're free to speculate as you wish well-nigh the philosophical and emblematic meaning of the film - and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping an audience at a deep level - but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to purchase or else fear he'south missed the point. I recall that if 2001 succeeds at all, it is in reaching a wide spectrum of people who would non frequently give a thought to man's destiny, his role in the cosmos and his relationship to higher forms of life. But even in the case of someone who is highly intelligent, certain ideas found in 2001, if presented every bit abstractions, would fall rather lifelessly and be automatically assigned to pat intellectual categories; as experiences in a moving visual and emotional context, nonetheless, they can resonate inside the deepest fibers of one's being.
• If anyone understands it on the first viewing, nosotros've failed in our intention.
  • Stanley Kubrick, interview by Eric Norden, Playboy (September 1968). Reprinted in: Gene D. Phillips (Editor), Stanley Kubrick: Interviews, University Press of Mississippi, 2001, ISBN 1578062977, pp. 47–48, and on Paulnahm.blogspot

• I've tried to avoid doing this always since the motion picture came out. When y'all only say the ideas they sound foolish, whereas if they're dramatized 1 feels information technology, only I'll endeavour. The idea was supposed to be that he is taken in by god-like entities, creatures of pure energy and intelligence with no shape or form. They put him in what I suppose yous could describe as a man zoo to study him, and his whole life passes from that point on in that room. And he has no sense of time. It just seems to happen every bit it does in the film. They choose this room, which is a very inaccurate replica of French compages (deliberately so, inaccurate) considering ane was suggesting that they had some idea of something that he might remember was pretty, just wasn't quite sure. Just as we're not quite sure what to practice in zoos with animals to try to give them what we call back is their natural environment. Anyway, when they get finished with him, as happens in so many myths of all cultures in the world, he is transformed into some kind of super being and sent dorsum to Earth, transformed and made into some sort of superman. We have to merely guess what happens when he goes back. It is the pattern of a great deal of mythology, and that is what nosotros were trying to propose.

• • Stanley Kubrick, interview by Jun'ichi Yaoi (1980), https://www.youtube.com/lookout man?v=er_o82OMlNM

Taglines [edit]

• An epic drama of gamble and exploration.

• Man'due south colony on the Moon … a whole new generation has been built-in and is living in that location … a quarter-million miles from Globe.

• The Ultimate Trip.

• An astounding entertainment experience.

Misattributed [edit]

• My God, it'southward full of stars.

  Non nowadays in film, but nowadays in volume as David Bowman enters the monolith, in course:

  "The thing's hollow — it goes on forever — and — oh my God! — it's full of stars!" (p. 254 of paperback edition)

  Also referenced in sequel 2010: The Year We Brand Contact, whose opening sequence contains:

  Concluding TRANSMISSION FROM COMMANDER BOWMAN: "MY GOD, IT'S FULL OF STARS."

Cast [edit]

• Keir Dullea – Dr. Dave Bowman
• Gary Lockwood – Dr. Frank Poole
• William Sylvester – Dr. Heywood R. Floyd
• Daniel Richter – Moon-Watcher
• Leonard Rossiter – Dr. Andrei Smyslov
• Margaret Tyzack – Elena
• Robert Beatty – Dr. Ralph Halvorsen
• Sean Sullivan – Dr. Neb Michaels
• Douglas Rain – HAL 9000 (vocalization)

See likewise [edit]

• 2010: The Year We Make Contact

External links [edit]

• 2001: A Space Odyssey quotes at the Net Movie Database
• 2001: A Space Odyssey at Rotten Tomatoes
• 2001: A Space Odyssey at Filmsite.org
• The official 2001: A Space Odyssey site
• 2001: A Space Odyssey December nine, 1965 draft script at SciFiScripts.com
• Sound clips from 2001: A Space Odyssey at MovieSounds.com

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