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    THE FIRST TAKE CLUB

    Oct 25, 2020 3 minutes

    THIS MONTH

    JAMIE McKELVIE, COMIC BOOK WRITER/ ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE, BREAKS HIS 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEYDUCK…

    I’M A HUGE fan of science-fiction, so I can’t really explain why I’ve never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey . Maybe because it’s so ubiquitous and has been referenced and parodied so many times, I felt like I already knew it.

    That’s a stumbling block from the very start. I’m so used to variations on the opening sequence — the— being played for laughs that it is hard to take it seriously. Even attempting to view it on its own merits, it seems heavy-handed. It’s an issue which pops up more than once in the rest of the film. A shot of dawn over a prehistoric African landscape is titled “The Dawn Of Man”. A bone thrown into the air smash-cuts to a similarly shaped spaceship. An interview with the crew of a mission to Jupiter spells out their characters, motivations and plot relevance. I get it, Stanley. I get it.

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