A Space Odyssey 'And The Sentinel'
Week 4 Compare/Contrast “2001: A Space Odyssey & “The Sentinel”
Science Fiction
In the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, it deals with a series of encounters between humans and a mysterious black monoliths that is apparently effecting human evolution. In the short story “The Sentinel”, the story basically reverses the roll of the black monoliths. The narrator in the short story speculates that the mysterious aliens who left the monolith behind may have used mechanisms belonging “to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces.”
Let’s start with that difference. It seems in the movie the story of the monolith is the energy of the sun, and it is the basic for evolution. In the movie it starts …show more content…
Clarke. The short story has seemingly the same concept of finding the artifact on the moon while exploring other aspects of the moon. It also elaborates entirely on the discovered artifact. The movie seems to have some sort of tangent when it goes to the Jupiter Mission. The HAL 9000 computer just takes up space in an already too long movie. I think in 1968 we were obsessed with technology, so that’s why the producer decided to put this hour long tangent of just the computer showing off, and controlling the ship while also destroying lives of the three men in suspended animation. The movie seemingly takes up space with the creation of the “HAL” computer. It really has nothing to do with the monolith, or anything besides the story of the space travel which is what the movie is entitled “A space Odyssey”. There are too many aspects of the movie lost in transition from the monolith to the space station and HAL computer. I for one got lost in this part of the movie and almost completely forgot about the black monolith. As I stated in the short story, the monolith or “discovered artifact” is the main point of the story. The only mention in this act of the movie about the monolith is the messaged displayed when Bowman is trying to destroy HAL, because HAL is about the demise of the crew and is trying to stop Bowman from destroying it. When he pulls HAL’s memory chips from the computer, the message is displayed: “The four million year old black monolith on the moon, “Its origin and purpose is still a total mystery.” The message also adds that it has remained completely inert, except for a single very powerful radio emission aimed at
Science Fiction
In the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey”, it deals with a series of encounters between humans and a mysterious black monoliths that is apparently effecting human evolution. In the short story “The Sentinel”, the story basically reverses the roll of the black monoliths. The narrator in the short story speculates that the mysterious aliens who left the monolith behind may have used mechanisms belonging “to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces.”
Let’s start with that difference. It seems in the movie the story of the monolith is the energy of the sun, and it is the basic for evolution. In the movie it starts …show more content…
Clarke. The short story has seemingly the same concept of finding the artifact on the moon while exploring other aspects of the moon. It also elaborates entirely on the discovered artifact. The movie seems to have some sort of tangent when it goes to the Jupiter Mission. The HAL 9000 computer just takes up space in an already too long movie. I think in 1968 we were obsessed with technology, so that’s why the producer decided to put this hour long tangent of just the computer showing off, and controlling the ship while also destroying lives of the three men in suspended animation. The movie seemingly takes up space with the creation of the “HAL” computer. It really has nothing to do with the monolith, or anything besides the story of the space travel which is what the movie is entitled “A space Odyssey”. There are too many aspects of the movie lost in transition from the monolith to the space station and HAL computer. I for one got lost in this part of the movie and almost completely forgot about the black monolith. As I stated in the short story, the monolith or “discovered artifact” is the main point of the story. The only mention in this act of the movie about the monolith is the messaged displayed when Bowman is trying to destroy HAL, because HAL is about the demise of the crew and is trying to stop Bowman from destroying it. When he pulls HAL’s memory chips from the computer, the message is displayed: “The four million year old black monolith on the moon, “Its origin and purpose is still a total mystery.” The message also adds that it has remained completely inert, except for a single very powerful radio emission aimed at