2001 Space Odyssey: Space Station Elevator Scene

Copyright Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

[CoolDrifty]

I love that neo-60s retro futurism aesthetic that this movie had

[evm]

The Actors, the Performance, the casual pacing, the setting all so grand and perfect. Got to love how Mr. Miller just strolls in at about the right time. It's there in the fine details. 🍷Loved how the protagonist carries himself. He gives of a seasoned executive or official vibe that's almost too real. Classic remarkable acting in the way he treats space travel like a ever day thing.

[ZnenTitan]

This can't be the future, everyone is skinny!

[benlarsen]

First line of the greatest sci-fi film of all time.

[christopherthorkon]

All space stations should look like this.

[malcolmabram]

In the 1960s with the phenomenal pace of the Apollo project, space stations like this at the turn of the century were to be expected. Wow, how wrong we were?

[checkoutmyyoutubepage]

It was a trip when the movie switched from a space station floating in space to a shot of the elevator door opening. Very nice.

[stevedemarest]

That voice in the back of my head.... HOLY CRAP THIS WOULD BE EXPENSIVE.

[Cenindo]

For the most part Kubrick's film has aged remarkably well for a movie made in the 1960s about the 21st century. It mostly doesn't look stupid even today. But I do get a strong 'sixties vibe of the woman in these shots, both as regards her hairdo and something more subtle having to do with her way of talking.

[glouconx]

I think Floyd does carry the confidence that the US still had at this point in the 60s. Kubrick and A. C. Clark expected the two superpowers to continue to grow more confident and stronger. Obviously, they expected massive leaps in spacefaring technology that did not occur.

[rogersmith]

He's gonna find out, it was buried deliberately

[brianarbenz]

Corporate brands appearing are: IBM on computers, Howard Johnson on the restaurant, and Pepto-Bismol on the dresses.

[bobborries]

This is Kubrick's futuristic tribute to "Pinkie" a 1794 oil painting by Thomas Lawrence.

[RobertClolery]

The scene with the Zero Gravity Toilet was perfect!

[hamilton]

We could build a new space station such as this one, but it would take several nations to be involved in both the cost and construction of the station. But the way things are now it will never happen!

[glouconx]

Possible flaw the perfectionist Kubrick didn't address: Women's clothing and hair-styles in the scene with the Russians and elsewhere is basically 60s fashions, while men's business dress did change, they dropped neckties.

[EdwardSteven]

Later, Rigsby and Helena think of an epidemic in Clavius, failure to report violates IAS

[jasontiscione]

At the top of a space elevator you're in free fall. You can't stroll around like this.

[Agent]

I just learned today that this guy is the same Dr. Floyd from 2010. They didn't event try to recast with a similar looking actor.

[DomingoDeSantaClara]

I'm still waiting for a flying car, c'mon Elon get with the program.