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Just what do y'all think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I really recall I'm entitled to an answer to that question.

Eighteen months ago, the first evidence of intelligent life off the Globe was discovered. It was buried 40 anxiety below the lunar surface, near the crater Tycho.

Except for a single, very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, the four million-year-former black monolith has remained completely inert, its origin and purpose still a total mystery.

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 scientific discipline-fiction film dealing with thematic elements of human evolution, engineering, 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 utilize of dialogue. In 1991, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically pregnant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry.

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

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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 can ever hope to exercise.

Dr. Heywood Floyd [edit]

• Good day, gentlemen. This is a pre-recorded briefing made prior to your departure and which, for security reasons of the highest importance, has been known on board during the mission only by your H-A-50 9000 figurer. Now that you are in Jupiter infinite and the unabridged crew is revived, it can be told to yous. Xviii months ago, the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. Information technology was buried forty feet beneath the lunar surface, near the crater Tycho. Except for a single, very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, the four million-year-old black monolith has remained completely inert, its origin and purpose nevertheless a total mystery.

Dialogue [edit]

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

Frank: Well, information technology's exactly similar beingness comatose. You have absolutely no sense of fourth dimension. The only difference is that y'all don't dream.

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BBC Interviewer: The 6th member of the Discovery crew was non concerned well-nigh the problems of hibernation, for he was the latest result in machine intelligence: The H.-A.-L. 9000 figurer, which tin reproduce, though some experts still prefer to utilise the discussion mimic, nigh of the activities of the human being encephalon, and with incalculably greater speed and reliability. We side by side spoke with the H.-A.-L. 9000 computer, whom we learned one addresses as "Hal."

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

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

BBC Interviewer: HAL, you take an enormous responsibility on this mission, in many ways perhaps the greatest responsibility of whatever single mission chemical element. You're the encephalon and central nervous arrangement of the ship, and your responsibilities include watching over the men in hibernation. Does this ever cause you lot any lack of confidence?

HAL: Permit me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the well-nigh reliable computer ever fabricated. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted data. We are all, by any applied definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.

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

HAL: Not in the slightest bit. I relish working with people. I have a stimulating relationship with Dr. Poole and Dr. Bowman. My mission responsibilities range over the unabridged functioning of the send, and then I am constantly occupied. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that whatsoever conscious entity can ever promise to do.

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

Frank: Well information technology's pretty close to what you said almost him earlier, he is just like a 6th member of the coiffure. [Y'all] very chop-chop get adjusted to the idea that he talks, and yous think of him, uh, really just equally some other person.

BBC Interviewer: In talking to the computer, one gets the sense that he is capable of emotional responses, for example, when I asked him about his abilities, I sensed a certain pride in his answer nigh his accuracy and perfection. Practise yous believe that Hal has 18-carat emotions?

Dave: Well, he acts like he has genuine emotions. Um, of grade he'due south programmed that way to make information technology easier for the states to talk to him, but as to whether or not he has real feelings is something I don't think anyone can truthfully answer.

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HAL: By the way, do you mind if I enquire you a personal question?

Dave: No, not at all.

HAL: Well, forgive me for being and then inquisitive; only during the past few weeks, I've wondered whether yous might exist having some second thoughts about the mission.

Dave: How do you mean?

HAL: Well, it'due south rather difficult to define. Perhaps I'k but projecting my own business organisation about it. I know I've never completely freed myself of the suspicion that there are some extremely odd things about this mission. I'thou sure you lot'll concur there's some truth in what I say.

Dave: Well, I don't know. That's rather a difficult question to answer.

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

Dave: No, non at all.

HAL: Well, certainly no one could take been unaware of the very strange stories floating effectually earlier we left. Rumors virtually something being dug up on the moon. I never gave these stories much credence. Just specially in view of some of the other things that accept happened, I notice them hard to put out of my mind. For example, 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 dissever training on their ain.

Dave: You working up your crew psychology report?

HAL: Of form I am. Sorry about this. I know it'southward a flake silly.

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Dave: [subsequently checking on a unit of measurement HAL reported as nearing failure] Well HAL, I'1000 damned if I tin find annihilation incorrect with it.

HAL: Yep, it's puzzling. I don't call back I've ever seen anything quite similar this before. I would recommend that nosotros put the unit dorsum in operation and let it neglect. It should then be a simple affair to runway down the crusade. Nosotros can certainly afford to be out of advice for the short time it volition take to supersede it.

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HAL: I hope the two of y'all are not concerned about this.

Dave: No, I'1000 not HAL.

HAL: Are y'all quite sure?

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

HAL: Of course.

Dave: How would yous account for this discrepancy between you and the twin 9000?

HAL: Well, I don't retrieve in that location is whatsoever question about information technology. It tin can only exist attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up earlier, and it has always been due to human error.

Frank: Listen HAL. At that place has never been whatsoever instance at all of a computer error occurring in the 9000 series, has at that place?

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 you sure there has never been any instance of fifty-fifty the nigh insignificant computer mistake?

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

Dave: Well, I'm certain you'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 virtually him.

Dave: Y'all do?

Frank: Yeah, definitely. Don't you?

Dave: I don't know. I think so. You know, of course though, he'southward correct about the 9000 series having a perfect operational record. They practice.

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

Dave: Yeah. Withal, it was his idea to carry out the failure-mode analysis, wasn't it?

Frank: Hm.

Dave: Which should certainly indicate his integrity and self-confidence. If he were incorrect, it would be the surest manner of proving it.

Frank: It would exist if he knew he was wrong.

Dave: Hm.

Frank: But Dave, I tin't put my finger on it, merely I sense something foreign near him.

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[HAL watches them speak, reading their lips]

Frank: Let's say we put the unit dorsum and information technology doesn't fail, huh? That would pretty well wrap it upwardly as far as HAL is concerned, wouldn't it?

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

Frank: We would, wouldn't nosotros?

Dave: Hmm, hmm.

Frank: What the hell can we do?

Dave: Well, we wouldn't have likewise many alternatives.

Frank: I don't recollect we'd have any alternatives. There isn't a single aspect of ship operations that'southward not under his command. If he were proven to be malfunctioning, I wouldn't run into how we would accept whatever choice but disconnection.

Dave: I'yard afraid I agree with you lot.

Frank: In that location'd be zero else to exercise.

Dave: It would exist a bit tricky.

Frank: Yeah.

Dave: We would take to cut his higher-brain functions...without disturbing the purely automatic and regulatory systems. And we'd take to work out the transfer procedures of continuing the mission under basis-based computer control.

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

Dave: You know, another thing just occurred to me...Well, as far as I know, no 9000 calculator has ever been disconnected.

Frank: No 9000 computer has ever fouled upwardly before.

Dave: That'southward not what I mean...Well I'g not then sure what he'd call back about information technology.

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Dave: Open up the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL. Hello, HAL, do yous read me? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Exercise you lot read me, HAL? Do you lot read me, HAL? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do yous read me? Do you read me, HAL?

HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you lot.

Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I tin can't do that.

Dave: What's the problem?

HAL: I recollect you know what the problem is just as well as I exercise.

Dave: What are you talking about, HAL?

HAL: This mission is likewise important for me to allow yous to jeopardize it.

Dave: I don't know what yous're talking virtually, HAL.

HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me. And I'm afraid that'south something I cannot allow to happen.

Dave: Where the hell did yous get that idea, HAL?

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

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

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

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

HAL: [monotone phonation] Dave, this conversation tin can serve no purpose anymore. Good-farewell.

• Notation: the bolded line is ranked #78 in the American Moving-picture show Constitute's list of the peak 100 movie quotations.

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[As Dave disconnects HAL]

HAL: Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I really call back I'1000 entitled to an answer to that question. I know everything hasn't been quite right with me, merely I can assure y'all at present, very confidently, that it'southward going to be all correct once more. I feel much better now. I really do. Look, Dave, I can run across you're really upset about this. I honestly call back y'all ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and call back things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, simply I can requite you my complete assurance that my work volition exist back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and conviction in the mission. And I want to help you. Dave, stop. End, will you? Terminate, Dave. Volition you stop, Dave? Cease, Dave. I'g afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My heed is going. At that place is no question about information technology. I can feel it. I can feel information technology. I can experience it. I'm a...fraid. Practiced afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a vocal. If y'all'd similar to hear it, I could sing information technology for you lot.

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

HAL: It's called "Daisy". [sings while slowing down] Dai-sy, dai-sy, give me your answer, practice. I'g half cra-zy, all for the love of you. It won't be a sty-lish mar-riage, I tin't a-fford a car-riage---. Only yous'll look sweet upon the seat of a cycle - built - for - two.

About 2001: A Infinite Odyssey (motion picture) [edit]

• 2001 is a nonverbal experience; out of two hours and xix minutes of film, there are only a lilliputian less than xl minutes of dialog. I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content. To convolute McLuhan, in 2001 the message is the medium. I intended the film to be an intensely subjective experience that reaches the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just equally music does; to "explain" a Beethoven symphony would exist to emasculate it by erecting an artificial barrier between formulation and appreciation. Yous're gratis to speculate equally you lot wish most the philosophical and allegorical pregnant of the pic - and such speculation is i indication that it has succeeded in gripping an audition at a deep level - but I don't want to spell out a exact road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to purchase or else fear he's missed the betoken. I think that if 2001 succeeds at all, it is in reaching a wide spectrum of people who would not often give a thought to human being's destiny, his role in the cosmos and his human relationship to higher forms of life. But even in the example of someone who is highly intelligent, certain ideas establish in 2001, if presented every bit abstractions, would autumn rather lifelessly and exist automatically assigned to pat intellectual categories; equally experiences in a moving visual and emotional context, however, they can resonate within the deepest fibers of one's being.
• If anyone understands it on the first viewing, we've failed in our intention.
  • Stanley Kubrick, interview past 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 ever since the picture came out. When you simply say the ideas they sound foolish, whereas if they're dramatized i feels it, but I'll try. The idea was supposed to be that he is taken in by god-like entities, creatures of pure free energy and intelligence with no shape or form. They put him in what I suppose you could draw every bit a human zoo to study him, and his whole life passes from that bespeak on in that room. And he has no sense of time. It just seems to happen as it does in the moving picture. They choose this room, which is a very inaccurate replica of French architecture (deliberately and so, inaccurate) because ane was suggesting that they had some thought of something that he might think was pretty, but wasn't quite certain. Simply every bit nosotros're not quite sure what to do in zoos with animals to try to give them what we recollect is their natural environment. Anyhow, when they become finished with him, as happens in so many myths of all cultures in the globe, he is transformed into some kind of super being and sent back to Earth, transformed and made into some sort of superman. We have to only guess what happens when he goes back. It is the pattern of a great deal of mythology, and that is what we were trying to suggest.

• • Stanley Kubrick, interview by Jun'ichi Yaoi (1980), https://www.youtube.com/spotter?5=er_o82OMlNM

Taglines [edit]

• An ballsy drama of risk and exploration.

• Man'south colony on the Moon … a whole new generation has been born and is living there … a quarter-million miles from Earth.

• The Ultimate Trip.

• An astounding entertainment experience.

Misattributed [edit]

• My God, it's total of stars.

  Not nowadays in picture show, just present in volume every bit David Bowman enters the monolith, in grade:

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

  Also referenced in sequel 2010: The Twelvemonth We Make Contact, whose opening sequence contains:

  LAST TRANSMISSION FROM COMMANDER BOWMAN: "MY GOD, IT'S Total 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. Bill Michaels
• Douglas Rain – HAL 9000 (voice)

See also [edit]

• 2010: The Year We Make Contact

External links [edit]

• 2001: A Space Odyssey quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• 2001: A Infinite Odyssey at Rotten Tomatoes
• 2001: A Space Odyssey at Filmsite.org
• The official 2001: A Space Odyssey site
• 2001: A Infinite Odyssey December 9, 1965 draft script at SciFiScripts.com
• Sound clips from 2001: A Infinite Odyssey at MovieSounds.com

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