As we have seen in a prior post of this blog, "2001 - A Space Odissey" was one of the most spetacular films ever made -- if not "the one". And in such a movie there was also one of the most spetacular scenes ever seen in a cinema -- if not "the" most spetacular. it was called "the one-million-year cut".
It is very, very hard to explain this scene. And even the best description is far, far from the scene itself. It is extraodinary, like the film and just like the year in which it was launched.
Ok. let's try to remember this scene. It is an impossible task, but just to give an idea.
First, it is important to remember that the film is divided in three parts. The first shows the "ape man", a pre human being who is weak and fearful. This starts to change after the "black monolith" appears to some ape men. This monolith is present in all the parts of the filme and is one of its keys.
Well, after its first appearence this monolith changes the ape men's lives. They start to be more "smart" and more violent. Among its discoveries they started to use bones as weapons. First the bones become an important tool to hunt other animals. After it started to be also a weapon against other ape men.
When the first ape man discovered this "bone-weapon" and killed another ape man, he was in such an euphory that threw the bone to the sky. That was the moment when happened the "one-million-year cut": the camera focuses exclusively on the bone in the air that, in a cinematrographic resource, was transformed in a "cut" in a spacecraft floating in the sky.
The resource is breathless and scene had such an impact that it is hard to explain.
Yes, you understand in one second, during that "one-million-year" cut, the strong message of Stanley Kubrick, the director of "2001".
One of the most wonderful and meaningful scenes in the history of the cinema. In a film launched in 1968, of course!
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