For 2001 is about life beyond this planet, beyond even the globular space-structures the film has imagined for itself, space-structures cobbled together by the machines of men.Ĭlarke wrote to Kubrick that the image of Bowman, ejected from the escape pod, was “crawling with Freudian symbols, as you are doubtless aware.” It is clear from this turn of phrase that the embryonic imagery suffused throughout 2001 was intentional on the parts of both screenwriters. If Malick’s film was an exercise in what life is not (Death? No life? After-life?), then perhaps Kubrick’s film is as well, though here it is unbound from the sort of “tree” imagery that tethered Malick’s film so closely to the terrestrial confines of this earth. The impact (and perhaps even lack of impact in some quarters) such discovery would have on Earth in the near future.The reasons for believing in the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life.Clarke about his desire to create 2001, Kubrick outlined the two key strains of his interest in the project: In a letter to the film’s future co-screenwriter Arthur C. Kubrick once said that the inspiration for 2001: A Space Odyssey came from a RAND Corporation report that deemed the universe as “crawling with life.” And so life comes to its first crawl in the outset of the film, these missing-link early hominids (often mistaken, somewhat erroneously, as apes) crouching, scrabbling, and, yes, crawling, around each other.

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