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Film Analysis Of 2001: A Space Odyssey

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The film selected for this analysis is the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film is directed by Stanley Kubrick, story, and screenplay developed by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke with the casting of Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, and Douglas Rain. The film is inspired by Arthur C. Clarke’s short story The Sentinel published in 1951. For this analysis will be arranged in three sections, which analyze the three acts of the film independently and how these acts are related to the storytelling of the film. These analyses are consisted of the dawn of man act, following with the space station act, and finally the Jupiter and beyond infinite act. The film addresses several topics such as evolution, dependency on technology,

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