Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begins with a shot of an eclipse condition: the earth, moon, and sun in orbital conjunction, shown on a single vertical plane in center screen. The image is central and becomes one of three prerequisites for each major progression made in the film...
...grass, are victimized by carnivores, huddle together defensively. One morning they awake to find in their midst a tall, thin, black rectangular monolith, its base embedded in the ground, towering monumentally above them, plainly not a natural formation. They touch it and we note at that moment that the moon and sun are in orbital conjunction...
...transition from pre-history to future becomes a simple cut from the bone descending in the air to a rocket preparing to land at a space station midway between earth and moon. A classic example of Bazin's "associative montage," the cut proves an effective, if simplistic, method of by-passing history and setting-up the link between bone and rocket as the spectral tools of man, one primitive and one incredibly sophisticated...
...moon, American scientists discover an identical black monolith, apparently buried over four million years before, completely inert save for the constant emission of a powerful radio signal directed toward Jupiter. The scientists examine it (touching it tentatively as the apes did) at a moment when the earth and sun are in conjunctive orbit. They conclude that some form of life on Jupiter may have placed the monolith there and, fourteen months later, an expedition is sent to Jupiter to investigate...
KUBRICK prepares us for the ultimate emotional detachment of Bowman and Poole; his characterization of Dr. Floyd, the protagonist of the moon sequence and the initiator of the Jupiter expedition, stresses his coldness, noticeably in a telephone conversation with his young daughter, a dialogue which suggests a reliance on manipulating her more than it demonstrates any love for her. These men, all professional, are no longer excited by space travel: they sleep during flights and pay no attention to what-we-consider extraordinary phenomenon occurring before their eyes (the rapid rotation of the earth in the background during the telephone...