2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - From Bone to Satellite Scene (1/6) | Movieclips

2001: A Space Odyssey - From Bone to Satellite: Using a bone as a weapon, an ape beats down the leader of another tribe to reclaim control of a watering hole. Triumphant, the ape tosses the bone into the air which transforms into an orbital satellite, jumping ahead four million years of human history.

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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)
Director: Stanley Kubrick

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[jafarisaber]

It's facinating when a director doesn't rush to tell the story and lets the picture tell everything.

[iMORTIsieteVOi]

the cut is so simple yet so powerful, this movie is timeless

[rtensor]

I read, many years after seeing the movie, that the satellite is not just a satellite but an orbiting nuclear weapons launch platform. So, the bone doesn't just represent technology, but specifically weapons. From a bone to "I say we nuke them from orbit" in one cut, like wow man.

[sbl]

try to appreciate the fact that this movie was released before we sent a man to the moon...

[JJ-zyco]

My favorite detail in this movie is that before the monolith comes to them they crawl around on their hands and feet but as soon as they learn to use bones as weapons they start walking around on two legs, like that discovery alone was enough to transform them from apes to early man

[xRadicalRascalx]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think this is the longest cut through time ever made in a movie.

[AmericanGuy]

Kubrick understood that deep down we’re all still le monke

[aidanplays]

The power of this scene can not be put in words.

[stevejorfi]

I could care less about the slow pace of this movie. This is one of the greatest movies ever made.

[SheldonAdama]

Avengers Endgame: We have the most meaningful time jump ever.
2001: Hold my bone.

[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.

[matthiaswalter]

How is this in 1968, this is high quality

[robertgallardo]

One of the most seamless transitions in movie history . Kubrick a true genius .

[alexlun]

The cinematography was actually way too advanced for its time. The scene where Dave gets out of the pod on his way to shut down HAL... So many recent works are similar to that 1968 scene.

[augustoliborio]

Its beautiful how Kubrick put the the complexity of human in one scene.

Observation: The satellite in the scene transition with bone is actually a space weapon

[broccfilms]

That cut almost brings a tear to my eye.

[TheJtgoolsby]

This scene makes me cry, it’s the height of visual story telling. It’s too pretty and deep almost.

[therealtampadude]

From bone club to orbital nuclear weapons platform. The progress of our humble species of apes. Chilling yet awe inspiring.

[mikemanners]

In the book these are not innocent communication satellites orbiting Earth but nuclear weapon platforms aimed at a potential enemy - hence the bone just used as a weapon symbolically turning into the ultimate killing machine. The book apparently had a alternate Historical 2001 timeline to ours where Humans were much more advanced. At the end of the book astronaut Bowman turns into a Super God like being that hovers over Earth and detonates all of these Nuclear weaponized satellites at a show of force.

[cyberwolfy]

it started with fist
when fist isn't enough, they used rock
when rock was too small, they used stick
when stick was too weak, they used spear
when the enemy was too far, they used bow 
when the enemy is too tough, they used gun
when the gun didn't kill enough, they used cannons
when the cannon was still not enough, they used bombs
and when there was nothing left they used fist.