2001: A Space Odyssey implies that it is the film, not the trailer. The only, ONLY reason that this is not 5 stars, is because of the title. The trailer is a flattering close up of the beauty that is 2001: A Space Odyssey.
#2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY MOVIE#
Even though the action and tone of the movie and trailer are extremely different, I would say the path they chose was perfect as well. The music is perfect, the cuts are perfect, the style of the trailer mimics the style of the film. How can it sell the facinating every-day feeling behind space and secrets, in just under 2 minutes? So instead it shows us the highest stakes, a personal conflict between man and machine that has both nothing and everything to do with all of mankind, and when watching the film we can see how it came to be. The tone of the film is simply amazing for the first half of the film, yet the trailer cuts it out. A slow, gorgeous space flight that is slept through, on the way to a highly important and top secret meeting. It highlights the beauty and mundanity in this world of the future. It uses the action that the film lacks to set up conflict and give us snapshots into the world of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and with this world in mind you watch the film to find a world almost exactly like ours, set in the very very near future (or twenty one years ago, but with the technology of, hopefully, our very near future.) We are shown the dawn of mankind, before seeing it's adulthood. However, I would argue that the trailer sells the film very very well. Clarke 's Space Odyssey series, Monoliths are machines in black cuboids whose sides extend in the precise ratio of 1 : 4 : 9 (1 2 : 2 2 : 3 2) built by an unseen extraterrestrial species whom Clarke dubbed the Firstborn and who he suggests are the earliest highly intelligent species to evolve in the Milky Way. If you set out to watch exactly what the trailer promises, you'll find yourself with a very boring film indeed.
Some could call this trailer misleading in regards to the true nature of the movie, afterall, the trailer hits all the right beats and ignores all the "boring" parts of the film. I must have watched it over a thousand times when I was younger, infact, this trailer might have been the reason I discovered the loop button on youtube.
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