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Noveniber 25, 1968 N. C. ESSAY Page 3 2001: ANOTHER VIEWPOINT oy Buddy Link Movies, at least the Hollywood variety, have traditionally been made, viewed and evaluated essent ially as filmed theater. Their dra matic elements, dialogue, plot and characterization, having central im portance and pretty much determining critical success or failure. Director Stanley Kubrick ("Lol ita," "Dr. Strangelove"), in his latest film "2001" "A Space Odyssey" has produced a work so overwhelming ly visual that the conventional cri teria of movie (Drama) criticism be come simply inapplicable. Light, movement and design are central and determinant. Th actors' business is mostly to stay out of the way. Plot is minimal; dialogue, humdrum and everyday. The bedroom sequence, near the end of the film in which the astronaut, representing the fin al development of technological man is reborn as a sort of Nietzschean Superman, is significant in contain- in no dialogue at all and only the most rudimentary sort of acting. The film's photgraphic effects are the principal action and the ve hicle for Kubrick's metaphysics. They are stunningly beautiful throughout. The by now famous Psy chedelic scenes in which the astro naut experiences the evolution of the Universe from Creation are vis- ual to the point that verbal des- FEIFFER cription is meaningless. The other special effects, while less specta cular, are not less remarkable. The various space vehicles have the strangely severe beauty of function ally complex objects. They are carefully designed sculptures in their own right and beautifully man aged design elements in the scenes they compose. Second in importance only to photography is music. None of it was written specifically for the film and it represents works ranging from Strauss' "On The Beautiful Blue Danube" to Ligeti's "Atmospheres" (heard during the psychedelia near the film's end.) The most important music thema tically is the opening section of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zara- thustra," which is heard at the be ginning of the film, during the scene in which the scavenging ape man makes his first cultural dis covery, and in the final scene. Its use completes the thematic analogy between Kubrick's astronaut and Nietzsche's Zarathustra. Kubrick, however, views man's development in basically Marxian terms. The new superman, as well as the bone wield ing old one, is essentially the re sult of technology. The film postu lates that the change from terrestr ial to cosmic environment (a techno logical phenomenon) wil have ef fects on human life styles as from biology to culture. It is not coin- cidential that "2001" will be first year of the new Yeatsian Gyre. From: "The Carolinean" publication of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Arts Crafts Finishes THRUWAY SHOPPING CENTER LOWER MALL Mipeep ien MORUiioe, 60P. SHetrr THe KIPi. sue ten A me. IT? ML OI/£R muieeu os,5op. jvejm TO 6e^ A 600P HUSBMP AW STAV PA9S/W5, 60P. W-S Symphony Concert On Tuesday, November 26, the Winston-Salem Symphony will present the second concert of its 1968-69 season in the Reynolds Auditorium. A wholly orchestral program of an exciting and varied nature will be presented under the baton of John luele. Opening the concert, Mr. luele has chosen the sprightly overture to the opera Don Pasquale by Donizetti. Don Pasquale is Donizetti's most popular comic opera, and the over ture is filled with vitality and operatic mglodies- Second on the program is the dynamic "Seventh Symphony" of Bee thoven. Written in 1812, this sym phony is considered by many to be Beethoven's greatest symphoic work. After intermission, Mr. luele and the orchestra will present Mau rice Ravel;s orchestration of Modest Moussorgsky's Pictures At an Exhibi tion, One of the most popular pieces in the orchestral repertoire. A challenging and colorful work, which calls for a variety of unusual in struments including saxophone, rat chet, and whip. The original music, composed for piano by Moussorgsky in 1874, depicts the composers impres sions of ten pictures on exhibition by the nineteenth-century, artist- architect, Victor Hartmann. Performing in the concert will be members of the faculty and stu dents of the School of the Arts. One-hundred-fifty tickets are avail able to interested student, free of charge, in the Student Activities Office. iw r^BP TO Be A 600P FAWeR OBeV MV CHlLPRm 3op. v\/e'mso A V nV6R M9 l\t, OOP. 'A m sw%m, Hump itus H6 IV6 FAll^P OF im usm HARPElUfP- m TO srm „ AuaieR hem, 60V. rultlikhctk-Hall Symitcau; # f
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