2010: the year we contact you

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Movie
German title 2010: the year we contact you
Original title 2010: The Year We Make Contact
Country of production United States
original language English , Russian
Publishing year 1984
length 111 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Peter Hyams
script Peter Hyams,
book: Arthur C. Clarke
production Peter Hyams
music David Shire ,
György Ligeti ,
Richard Strauss
camera Peter Hyams
cut James Mitchell ,
Mia Goldman
occupation
synchronization
chronology

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2001: A Space Odyssey

2010: The Year We Make Contact (original title 2010: The Year We Make Contact ) is a science fiction film from 1984 . It is the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey from 1968 by Stanley Kubrick . With the author of the novel, Arthur C. Clarke , Peter Hyams wrote the screenplay and took over the direction, production and camera. It was released in theaters in Germany on February 22, 1985.

action

Nine years after Earth lost contact with the Discovery spacecraft , the United States and the Soviet Union are each preparing manned flights to Jupiter to explore the monolith located there and to fathom the events on Discovery . Dr. Heywood Floyd is warned by a Soviet official that Discovery's orbit around Jupiter's moon Io is unstable and that Discovery 2 cannot be completed in time to reach it before it crashes. It is then decided to carry out a joint mission with a Soviet spaceship named after the cosmonaut Alexei Leonov , which can reach Jupiter a whole year earlier. The US part of the team is made up of Dr. Heywood Floyd, who was in charge of the Discovery's original mission , Dr. Walter Curnow, an expert on Discovery's systems , and Dr. R. Chandra, who developed her HAL 9000 on-board computer .

Against the background of a cold war escalating on earth, the relationship between the two teams is initially very tense, but this changes as the cooperation progresses. Arriving near Jupiter, the Leonov sends an unmanned probe to the moon Europa , in whose ice the crew of the Leonov had previously found traces of chlorophyll . Before the probe can land there, however, an energy discharge occurs, which destroys both the probe and the records on the Leonov about this discovery.

After the Leonov has arrived near the abandoned but undamaged Discovery in the orbit of Io after an atmospheric braking while flying past Jupiter , Dr. Curnow and Maxim Brajlovsky the uncontrolled drifting ship. You can reactivate the ship's systems and both starships will move close to the monolith at one of the Lagrangian points of Jupiter and Io. Then Maxim sets off there with a manned probe. When he came within a few meters of the monolith, there was another discharge of energy, which hit Max's probe and made him disappear.

In the meantime, Chandra is working to reactivate HAL 9000. The on-board computer has extensive control over the spaceship, which is not functional without it. Until it was shut down by David Bowman, who then left the ship in the direction of the Monolith, HAL had gradually killed the original crew except for David Bowman. Therefore, Dr. Floyd, prepare for an emergency. He has Curnow secretly install a mechanism with which he can cut off HAL's power supply by remote control. However, HAL behaves inconspicuously, and Dr. Chandra soon finds the cause of its malfunction. At the direction of the National Security Council , HAL had been instructed to keep the real purpose of the original Jupiter mission secret from the crew. He should lie to her about the monolith too. This had led to a conflict with HAL's basic programming, the open, precise and unadulterated processing and rendering of information. His actions are explained by Chandra as a kind of " nervous breakdown " which ultimately drove him to eliminate the occupation as the only achievable cause of the conflict so as not to have to lie to them.

The political situation on earth has meanwhile escalated further. The joint mission is declared over, and the members of the two teams are asked to return to their respective ships of the Soviet Union and the USA. On the Discovery , Dr. Shortly thereafter, Floyd from HAL sent a message that the spaceships would have to leave the Jupiter system within 48 hours (in the book: two weeks). When asked about the sender, HAL states that they identified themselves with the words "I was David Bowman" in its communication system. When Floyd demands proof of this claim, the figure of Bowman appears and repeats the request. When asked what will happen, the Bowman apparition simply replies: "Something wonderful."

Convinced of the seriousness of this warning, Floyd embarks on the Leonov to discuss an escape start with her commander Tanya Kirbuk long before the launch windows of the two spaceships for the return flight to Earth. He suggests coupling the two spaceships to each other in order to initially accelerate both with the Discovery's engines . As soon as its fuel is completely used up, it is to be dropped like a burnt-out rocket stage , and both teams would then continue their home flight in the Leonov . At first Tanya is very skeptical, but when the monolith suddenly disappears during their discussion, she too is ready to take the warning seriously.

While the two crews prepare for the joint escape, they discover that the monolith is multiplying exponentially in the atmosphere of Jupiter . Since it is unclear whether HAL will carry out an order that may lead to its own destruction, the reason for the sudden departure has been hidden from it. When HAL finally wants to interrupt the launch preparations to study the phenomenon, Chandra reveals to him the real reasons for the early launch and the risk of his own destruction. HAL understands that he will be sacrificed and continues the countdown to save the Leonov and their crew.

Dr. R. Chandra presses Dr. Floyd handed the explosive device he found from the HAL power supply. He had found it and dismantled it because he trusted HAL.

While the crew on the fleeing Leonov is watching Jupiter shrink under the influence of the monoliths and finally imploding into a new star , HAL receives the order from David Bowman to send one last message to Earth:

“All these worlds are yours - except Europe. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace. "

“All of these worlds are yours - except Europe . Don't try to land there. Use them together. Use them in peace. "

Under the influence of these events, the great powers on earth end their conflicts. Under the warmth of the newly formed sun, the icy surface of Europe begins to thaw, and in the course of time, life forms on the former Jupiter moon. The film ends with a view of a swampy landscape, in the middle of which a new black monolith can be seen, as a premonition of the possibility that intelligent life will one day develop in Europe - similar to Earth.

background

After the success of 2001 both as a book and as a film, Arthur C. Clarke wrote the sequel 2010: Odyssey Two (German Odyssey 2010: the year in which we contact ) in 1982 . This novel was made into a film by Peter Hyams in 1984, where he took some things out and put a moral message in the foreground. Further sequels of Clarke from 1988 ( 2061 - Odyssey III ) and 1997 ( 3001 - The Last Odyssey ) have not yet been made into a film.

Reviews

According to all the reviews, the film does not come close to its predecessor. In contrast to the mystical 2001 , 2010 is considered to be a solid science fiction film, in which more interpersonal and political conflicts are considered - such as the contrast between the USA and the Soviet Union , from whose continued existence the film still assumed. Roy Scheider and Helen Mirren are praised for their performance .

Awards

In 1985 there were five nominations for an Oscar in the categories of Best Production Design ( Albert Brenner , Rick Simpson), Best Costume Design ( Patricia Norris ), Best Visual Effects ( Richard Edlund , Neil Krepela, George Jenson, Mark Stetson), Best Make-up ( Michael Westmore ) and Best Sound (Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Carlos Delarios, Gene S. Cantamessa ).

The film won the Hugo Award ( Best Dramatic Presentation ).

Differences to the novel version

  • In the book there is a competing Chinese mission to Jupiter, whose spaceship Tsien is destroyed by a life form after landing on the moon Europa , which - attracted by the light of the spaceship - emerges through a hole made in the moon's ice armor to refuel the ship grows up the ship.
  • There is no manned mission to the monolith, so Maxim does not die in the novel.
  • In the film, the relationship between Russians and Americans is much more distant than in the novel and corresponds more to the Cold War climate of the time .

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Dr. Heywood Floyd Roy Scheider Hellmut Lange
Dr. Walter Curnow John Lithgow Jürgen Kluckert
Tanya Kirbuk Helen Mirren Sonja German
Dr. R. Chandra Bob Balaban Lutz Mackensy
Maxim Brajlovsky Elya Baskin Detlef Bierstedt
Caroline Floyd Madolyn Smith
David Bowman Keir Dullea Herbert Stass
Dimitri Moisevitch Dana Elcar Wolfgang Völz
HAL's voice Douglas Rain Peter Schiff

Trivia

  • Similar to 2001 , Arthur C. Clarke worked closely with Peter Hyams during the creation of the film project - though not as closely as before with Kubrick. Since Clarke no longer wanted to face the arduous journey and a longer stay in the United States, the two authors used a forerunner of modern e-mail systems by accessing each other's computer asynchronously via remote data transmission via modem and so between Colombo and Los Angeles communicated. Clarke used a Kaypro computer for this . An edited version of this dialogue has been published under the title The Odyssey File .
  • The shot in Bowman's mother's nursing home briefly features the cover of Time Magazine with a picture of the American and Soviet heads of state. Portraits of Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick were used for this.
  • Arthur C. Clarke makes a cameo in the widescreen version of the film . In the shot in front of the White House, he can be seen at the edge as an old man feeding pigeons.
  • The design of the Leonov comes from the industrial designer Syd Mead .
  • The last name of the commander of the Leonov (Kirbuk) is, spoken backwards, Kubrick .
  • In the German dubbed version, the length of the Discovery is incorrectly stated as 2 kilometers. In the original it is 800 feet, so about 243 meters.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Arthur C. Clarke chapter from The Silicon Jungle . David Rothman. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  2. ↑ Arthur C. Clarke et al. Peter Hyams: The Odyssey File . Ballantine Books, New York 1984, ISBN 0-345-32108-1 .