2001 Space Odyssey Summary

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2001 A Space Odyssey
The four main characters in 2001 A Space Odyssey are Dr. David Bowman, Dr. Frank Poole, Dr. Heywood R. Floyd, and HAL 9000. Dr. Bowman and Poole are both scientist and astronauts onboard the Discovery One which is set for Jupiter so that they can research an unknown radio signal they received from there. Dr. Heywood is the chairman of the NCA (National Council of Astronautics). He was there when they first encountered the monolith on the moon and he is the leader of the Discovery One mission. HAL 9000 was the AI in charge of flying the Discovery One, it was incapable of making errors and made to understand human emotion. I believe all the actors were well-chosen for their individual role because while watching …show more content…

Then, we see Dr. Heywood going to Clavius, he encounters some of his friends, and they ask him about a possible epidemic on the moon. Dr. Heywood then meets the board to talk about a buried object they found on the moon which out to be the moonlight. Dr. Heywood goes to the moon and touches the moonlight, it then cuts to the Discovery One and says “18 Months later”. Dr. Poole and Dr. Bowman are on the Discovery One to figure out what this peculiar radio signal that they’re receiving from Jupiter is. The AI HAL 9000 states that there is a problem with a Satellite and that Dr. Poole needed it to fix it while going outside the spacecraft. Both men suspect there to be something wrong with HAL 9000 after they find out that there was nothing wrong with the satellite, to begin with, HAL states that surely, he can’t make mistakes and that this was a human error. After Dr. Poole and Dr. Bowman try to shut of HAL 9000 he starts to create this feeling that he doesn’t want to die, he then retaliates and sends Dr. Poole into space while cutting his oxygen cord killing him on the spot, after HAL sends Dr. Poole into space Dr. Bowman is outside of the spacecraft in a pod because he tried to rescue Dr. Poole, HAL doesn’t let him back in. After Dr. Bowman finds a way back into the spacecraft through an emergency hatch he reaches HAL mainframe and starts to erase him, it then cuts to Dr. Bowman leaving the Discovery One and make his way towards Jupiter. A strange tunnel of color and light starts to appear and then the scene suddenly changes, Dr. Bowman is then seen laying in his deathbed in a bedroom that looks like it is from older France. When Dr. Bowman is about to die the monolith shows up and he reaches for it which transforms him into what is supposedly the next stage of human

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