2001 Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey is a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick. This film is about the evolution of mankind. The film jumps through time from monkeys to humans and into the future. The one thing that appears in all time period is the black monolith. In order to further analyse this movie, I will look at the composition and design of 2001: A Space Odyssey and look at the design of the set and use of props and how it sets up the futuristic feel of the movie.
In the first scenes in the movie before we even see the monkey we see a land full of sand that seems to have no humans on it. We later see animals like monkey, tigers, and zebras running around. Even Though there is no dialogue we can understand that this is a time before humans existed because of the way the
One of the first props we see humans use are shown when we get a close up of the flight attendants feet on the spaceship. During this scene we see a women all in white and we get a close up of her shoes. We can then see that she is wearing gravity shoes. We watch the women walk from one side of the ship to the other to grab a passenger's pen that is floating while she stays perfectly on the ground. The use of the porps in this scene show us that our characters are up in space and have new technology to help them assimilate into the atmosphere.
Finally another prop that is used interestingly throughout the movie is food. In one of the first scenes after we meet Dave and the crew of the Jupiter mission we see Dave and his crew mate eating. We watch them get there food from a machine that dispenses four trays of mashed up food. We can only infer what they are eating by the color because the food that we see is mashed up so there is no shape to types of food they are eating. This yet again shows us that we are in a futuristic time because something as simple as eating the way they are is foreign to the