2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Star Child Scene (6/6) | Movieclips

2001: A Space Odyssey - Star Child: As Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) – now an elderly man – lays on his death bed, the monolith appears, and the star child is born.

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FILM DESCRIPTION:
An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time.

CREDITS:
TM & © Warner Bros. (1968)
Cast: Keir Dullea
Director: Stanley Kubrick

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[onionburger]

this was before CGI was invented so they had to actually hire that space fetus

[christopherspielbergproduc]

It's interesting that not only the ending of 2001 is one of THE best general and sci-fi movie endings of all time, but also the last 25 minutes of the movie has absolutely no dialogue. Amazing.

[ragejoona]

When you have seen this movie close to 50 times, and still notice new things every time you see it. I only just recently noticed that Starchild's eyes move a bit.

[pronins]

It’s amazing how this one movie can cover the origins of humanity, our concerns about AI, human nature and the subconscious, along with many other psycho-philosophical subjects. Nowadays directors are trying so hard to add depth to their shallow movies, spending millions in budget, yet this 52 year old film remains an irreplaceable and unmatched masterpiece.

[youdontseeanoldmanhavinatw]

The extraterrestrials tried to make a room that was comfortable for a species they don't understand. That's why everything looks slightly off.

[metsrus]

These higher beings are cruel. They should've provided Dave with a Playboy Playmate or two since he was already dressing up like Hugh Hefner. Instead they let him live out his days all by his lonesome self in that room.

[melanchollyyy]

it makes no sense but it also makes perfect sense

[benhuether]

It's supposed to be confusing at first to show that the human brain can't fully comprehend the cosmic magnitude of his metamorphosis into the next stage of evolution at the hands of extraterrestrial forces.

[TheMuttFromMars]

First Monolith: *Knowledge of invention*
Second Monolith: *Knowledge of the creation of life*
Third Monoloth: *Knowledge of the Future*

[square]

Not only one of the best sci-fi films, but one one of my favorite sci-fi films. What makes it amazing is not the story but the experience.

[gojirafan]

There will never be another film like 2001 the film is the definition of a masterpiece and is definitely Stanley Kubrick’s magnum opus

[peterstanbury]

Very few people ever seem to notice that the Star Child actually first appears during the 'stargate' scene....when you can clearly see a red shape getting closer and more distinct and it clearly has a head and arm....and is in fact the exact mirror image ( though rotated by 90 degrees ) of the Star Child when it appears over the bed as Bowman dies. Have a look towards the end of the stargate scene and see !

[fubaralakbar]

Maybe this is just me, but I was curious to know where exactly Bowman went on his trip through the monolith. Information and descriptions from the book tell us that it was a double star, on the edge of globular cluster, about 20, 000 light years from Earth in the approximate direction of the Milky Way's galactic core. Using Stellarium, the closest match I could find was--drum roll, please--the Rose Cluster, known as M5, about 24, 000 light years away in the constellation Serpens.

But in any case, as Clark put it in the book, Bowman was so inconceivably remote from the Solar System that it hardly mattered to him.

[benjaminturner]

Am I the only one that gets terrified by the image of the Cosmic Foetus?

[jojones]

Is his position to the monolith supposed to mirror Michelangelo's Creation of Adam?

[Zombiesnyder]

BEHOLD

The movie that gave birth to...

* Star Wars
* Alien
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind
* Blade Runner
* Tron
* Terminator
* Akira
* Jurassic Park
* The Fifth Element
* Dark City
* The Matrix
* Donnie Darko
* Sunshine
* Avatar
* Inception
* Pacific Rim
* Gravity
* Interstellar
* Ex Machina
* Arrival
* Ready Player One

[Lucasfan]

I forgot how creepy this scene is. Everything about it is unsettling. Yet, triumphant. Since he becomes the star child.

[jamesdrynan]

Kubrick was responsible for sci-fi growing up. A visual and aural feast! The landmark film that influenced so many young directors like Spielberg, Lucas, Scott, Cameron and others.

[satanisacomputer]

Mmhhmm...


































*What.*

[derekbaall]

Btw the beginning part is complete silence