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The species that built the Monoliths is never described in detail, but some knowledge of its existence is given to Dave Bowman after he is transported by the star-gate to the "cosmic zoo", as detailed in the 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey and its 1982 sequel, 2010: Odyssey Two.
Itself an icon of science fiction filmmaking, the monolith of 2001: A Space Odyssey is a towering black column, rudimental in its design and groundbreaking in its symbolic connotations.
A monolith is a mysterious black slab, discovered throughout the Solar System in various sizes, but all of them maintaining a 1:4:9 dimensional ratio in Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey series. The monoliths were created by an unseen alien race, known only as the "Firstborn."
The monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey is a huge black cuboid structure that seems to appear at the key moments of human evolution. It’s present when pre-historic apes discover the use of tools at the beginning of the film and also shows up during humanity’s most vital spacefaring missions.
Distilled into a one-sentence logline, 2001: A Space Odyssey follows the journey of astronauts, scientists, and HAL, a sentient supercomputer, as they journey to Jupiter...
Good parables explain themselves. After you have read the story of Lazarus in the Bible, you don’t need anyone to explain it to you. The same is true, I believe, of Stanley Kubrick‘s parable “2001: A Space Odyssey.” It contains the answers to all the questions it advances.
The Jovian Monolith, better known as Jupiter Monolith (also Star Gate monolith; Big Brother; and designated TMA-2), is a larger monolith that was found in the Jovian system in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and its film adaption.
Tycho Monolith, designated TMA-1 (Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One), is a large black crystalline monolith found on Earth's moon in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and its film adaption. TMA-1 is fashioned to the exact proportions of 1:4:9, and is dated to about four million years old. Its...
In Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, a massive black slab, the monolith, stands at the center of the film. In this new reading of 2001, the monolith is used as a touchstone for considering a dozen tangents into iconoclastic cinema, the human and simian response to enigma, and the mind-bending idea that a film can actually be what it ...
The monolith, or monoliths, symbolize humanity’s evolutionary journey. Arriving at key moments in human history, the monoliths offer humanity a guiding hand, first saving the man-apes from extinction by teaching them the use of tools, then creating the Star-Child to save humanity from nuclear destruction. (In the novel’s present, scientists ...