Stanley Kubrick explains the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey

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Yep, we know.

Paging @orenwolf cleanup on aisle B.

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I thought this whole narrative was… obvious? :alien:

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We have to only guess what happens when he goes back.

Or, you know, read the books…

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Arthur C. Clarke didn’t write the follow-up novel until 1982 (and had a slightly different vision of the story than Kubrick anyway) so at the time of this interview it was indeed left to the viewers’ imagination.

except to my memory, that’s pretty much what Clarke had happen in the books too? Maybe more fleshed out, but Dave-as-space-baby/evolved human feels like it was just taking what Kubrick described and saying it with more words.

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