2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

 

CD Winner BAFTA for Best Soundtrack

 

While the score is always s integral to its film, director Stanley Kubrick elevated music from soundtrack to character in his 1968 masterpiece,2001: A Space Odyssey.  Kubrick jettisoned much of the film’s dialogue and instead used works from core classical repertoire to illustrate mood and character motivation as well as to highlight the film’s motifs.

 

Kubrick created a masterful marriage of the sound and the visual, but perhaps these three moments are the most striking and memorable:

 

Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra, which evokes the film’s major the me of transition, from the startling opening scene to the ape’s evolution, through man’s ultimate transformation to star-child.

 

Setting the choreography of the spaceship docking sequence to Johann Strauss’ The Blue Danube waltz.

 

Hal9000’s rendition of “Daisy Bell”, a heartbreaking scene which spurs the viewer to question what makes one human, what makes one machine?

 

This version of the sound track to 2001: A Space Odyssey also includes modernist composer György Ligeti’s Requiem, Lux Aeterna and Jupiter and Beyond, Adagio from Aram Khachaturian’s Gayane Ballet Suite and the complete Hal 9000 dialogue montage.

 

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