Special Effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Music and Movies

 

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November 20, 2013

 

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Even the astronauts on the ship, Poole and Bowman, have brief, uninteresting verbal exchanges. The only time that dialogue is really a plot motivator is ironically when the astronauts can't be heard, discussing HAL's apparent malfunction. More important to the narrative is the use of other types of aural cues...
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The most vastly used one would be the overabundance of classical music throughout the film. It's interesting to note that the pieces used were all previously written and recorded?a strange fact when the industry standard at the time was to commission original orchestrations and compositions. Perhaps his reasoning behind this was that the previously written pieces are already tied to some kind of emotion in people who are familiar with the piece, so the music can very accurately convey a specific feeling or meaning, something an original composition could have a hard time doing...
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