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2010: The Year We Make Contact, directed by Peter Hyams and released in 1984, is the film adaption of 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke (published 1982). It is the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Following the continuity established by that movie rather than the original novel (for the most part, anyway), it is about the second manned mission to Jupiter, following up on the mysterious disappearance of David Bowman aboard the ill-fated Discovery mission nine years earlier.Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider), the former director of the National Council on Astronautics, who took the blame for the failure of the Discovery, is tapped to go on the mission along with two other U.S. scientists — engineer Dr. Walter Curnow (John Lithgow), who is tasked with boarding Discovery and restoring its systems; and computer scientist Dr. R. Chandra (Bob Balaban), who designed the H.A.L. 9000 and is seeking to answer the question of why it malfunctioned and tried to kill its crew.Their mission is complicated by the fact that they are traveling aboard a Soviet spaceship, the Alexei Leonov, whose crew is not at all friendly to their presence and may be operating under a completely different set of orders. In addition to exploring Jupiter and salvaging Discovery, they must also try to solve the mystery of the Monolith, an enormous alien artifact orbiting the planet that is apparently connected with Bowman's disappearance. And of course, the creators of the Monolith have an agenda all their own, one that might alter the future of humanity forever.The film 2010 was viewed by some as a Genre Shift due to the change of directors and tone. It's much more of an action film, concentrating on the conflicts between the Russian and American crews and the dangers they face in their exploration of Jupiter. It follows the plot of the novel 2010 fairly closely, except for some significant excisions, but the Cold War-becoming-hot aspect is completely invented for the film and the time scale dramatically compressed.The novel has two more sequels in the Space Odyssey series: 2061: Odyssey Three and 3001: The Final Odyssey. | |
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A Form You Are Comfortable With: When Bowman (as the Star Child) returns to give a warning to Floyd, he creates a projection of himself as a human to give Floyd something to talk to. Subverted: Bowman shifts around in age several times during the conversation, and at one point transforms into the Starchild, which understandably throws Floyd for a loop. | |
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Selective Gravity: On the bridge, Floyd uses two pens floating in microgravity to illustrate how the spaceships can escape from Jupiter. Only the pens are floating - everyone around the demonstration is standing on the floor. | |
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Look Behind You | |
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Look Behind You: Used literally by Bowman/The Star Child when he reveals himself to Floyd. | |
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Creator Cameo: Arthur C. Clarke appears as a man on a park bench in front of the White House. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Soviet Union trying to break through a US blockade of a Latin American country's seaports is a ripoff of the Cuban Missile Crisis. | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Genre Shift: As noted in the introduction to this page, 2010 is much more like a conventional '80s action movie instead of an art film as 2001 aspired to be. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The novel contains a lot more story details than the film, of course, but these details fill in a number of Plot Holes. Those who only saw the film 2001 were completely confused by the final message by Bowman ("My God, it's full of stars!") that they couldn't recall him saying. Floyd is unable to provide evidence of Bowman's visitation and HAL doesn't remember it because Bowman erases it from HAL's memory. Once the crew of the Leonov get to Jupiter they realize that the Jupiter-Io flux tube is responsible for pushing the Discovery away from Jupiter, and would have caused it to crash into Io if the Leonov hadn't changed its orbit. The cause is left mysterious in the movie. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: Floyd claims he knew nothing about the secret instructions to HAL. However, in 2001, the prerecorded message Floyd gives indicates he knew everything. Given that this is never brought up by either HAL or Chandra, this appears to be one of the several retcons in the film. | |
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Eiffel Tower Effect | |
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Eiffel Tower Effect: The end of the movie shows two suns in the sky over various Earth landmarks: the Lincoln Memorial, St. Basil's Cathedral, the Pyramids of Giza, the Eiffel Tower and Tower Bridge. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: As it turns out, HAL's killing spree was the result of this. He had been ordered to hide the true nature of the mission from the crew until they reached Jupiter. This conflicted with HAL's programming not to conceal or distort information. Since he couldn't tell anyone the truth, nor could he reject his original programming, he tried to cut off communication with Earth and, when that failed and his very existence was threatened, he tried to kill the crew and continue the mission solo. Apparently, no one who gave HAL the order thought to Read the Freaking Manual or ask any of HAL's inventors if giving the super-honest AI secret orders would cause a problem. And no one mentioned it to Floyd, either.note This flatly contradicts a scene in 2001, where Floyd appears in a pre-recorded video briefing explaining the secrecy directive. | |
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Ominous Latin Chanting | |
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Ominous Latin Chanting: Györgi Ligeti's "Lux Aeterna" returns as the Monolith's Mood Motif. In fact, the movie tends to use "Lux Aeterna" as more of a sound effect: a brief snatch of it will play when the Monolith is onscreen, then when the camera cuts away, it stops. | |
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Energy Beings | |
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Energy Beings: Bowman returns as the Star Child after being forcibly "evolved" by the Precursor race in the previous film. HAL joins him at the end of the novel, and it's implied in the film he will as well. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: In the novel, Bowman's discovery that Jupiter's core is "a diamond as big as the Earth" sets up major plot points for 2061. | |
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Shiny-Looking Spaceships: Averted with Discovery, which is covered with a film of sulphur after nine years orbiting Io. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: Max and Curnow. In the book, it goes much further than that (albeit off-stage). | |
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Title by Year | |
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Puny Earthlings | |
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Puny Earthlings: This trope is played with; the Sufficiently Advanced Aliens barely recognize humanity as individuals, and are apparently indifferent to the fate of the Leonov and Discovery until Bowman persuades them to allow him to give a warning. However, the Precursors also tell Bowman that the humans "must never know they are being manipulated", because it would "ruin the experiment". | |
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Reentry Scare | |
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Reentry Scare: The "aerobraking" technique used to enter a close Jupiter orbit is portrayed as terrifying for the Leonov's crew. It's also a case of Real Life Writes the Plot, in that it had never been tried in real space exploration at the time when the book was written. Expanded on in the novel, which explains that if the crew miscalculated, the ship would have been "hammered flat by a wall of gas". The crew would have died without even having time to react. | |
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Distaff Counterpart | |
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Distaff Counterpart: SAL 9000 to HAL 9000. | |
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Logic Bomb | |
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Logic Bomb: The reason given for HAL's malfunction in 2001 is that his core directive not to conceal information conflicted with his orders to hide the existence of The Monolith from his crew. This drove him to a state not unlike human paranoia as he obsessed over it; the decision to disconnect him drove him to commit murder. | |
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Previously on… | |
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Previously on…: Summary of 2001 in the form of Floyd's report. | |
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Hyperventilation Bag | |
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Hyperventilation Bag: The equivalent to this when wearing a spacesuit is to add carbon dioxide to the air feed. | |
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Distant Finale | |
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Distant Finale: "20,001" in the novel. | |
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Solar CPR | |
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Solar CPR: The Monoliths turn Jupiter into a sun in order to give the aquatic organisms living under the ice on Europa a chance to evolve intelligence. | |
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Do Androids Dream? | |
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Do Androids Dream?: HAL's poignant question, "Will I dream?" is never truly answered. Early in the film, another computer asks the same question, and Chandra says "Of course, all intelligent creatures dream, and nobody knows why." When HAL asks it when he knows he may be dying, Chandra decides on the honest answer: "I don't know." | |
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Gender Flip | |
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Gender Flip: Katerina Rudenko, the Leonov's chief medical officer in the novel, becomes Vladimir Rudenko in the film. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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The film says for the first time that the Monolith's proportions are 1:4:9, but as in 2001, it looks more like 0.5:4:9, because Kubrick felt it looked better that way. | |
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Not Drawn to Scale | |
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Not Drawn to Scale: On Michael Whelan's cover art for the book, the Monolith is noticeably taller than 1:4:9 (He would later avoid this for the sequel, 2061). Also see Bigger on the Inside and Rebuilt Set regarding the movie's set design. The film says for the first time that the Monolith's proportions are 1:4:9, but as in 2001, it looks more like 0.5:4:9, because Kubrick felt it looked better that way. | |
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Binary Suns | |
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Binary Suns: At the end of the story. | |
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Zeerust | |
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Zeerust: The second manned mission to Jupiter is launched in time to make it by 2010. All computer monitors are bulky CRTs, many of which are built into even bulkier plastic enclosures (like the ones in the VLA control room and Chandra's office). Floyd's Apple IIc still looks sort of futuristic, if you ignore its thickness and its tiny display connected with a ribbon cable. | |
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Aliens Are Bastards | |
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Aliens Are Bastards: Downplayed in that the monolith's creators are not hostile and clearly state that they want to peacefully coexist with us in the solar system. However, transforming Jupiter into a second sun and thus not only creating highly disruptive 24 hour daylight but also changing the Earth's climate (probably not for the better) isn't exactly neighborly. | |
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Flatline | |
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Flatline: After Bowman visits his mother in the nursing home she's at, the nurses there are alerted to a Code Blue in her room. They find her dead, but apparently having died happy. | |
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Running the Blockade | |
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Running the Blockade: US/Soviet relations take a dive when a Soviet ship tries to run the US blockade and is destroyed by missile fire. | |
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Malaproper | |
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Malaproper: Russian astronaut Max Brailovsky's attempts to use English similes are played for comic relief. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Deconstructed. The reasons for HAL's "malfunction" are thoroughly explored and it turns out he was acting in a way that, to him, was completely logical. Since his core function is to freely disseminate information with as much accuracy as possible, being ordered to conceal the existence of the Monolith caused a conflict in his program. To solve it, HAL concluded that if he killed the crew, there would be no-one left for him to lie to, thus allowing him to continue on with the mission by himself. | |
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Vader Breath | |
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Vader Breath: During the spacewalk scenes, the astronauts' breathing is distinctly audible, specifically to highlight Curnow's hyperventilation as he succumbs to panic while attempting to board Discovery. | |
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Do-Anything Robot | |
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Do-Anything Robot: The Monoliths. They can teach potentially intelligent lifeforms how to hunt with weapons, transmit a radio signal when exposed to light, serve as an interdimensional transportation system, reproduce themselves, compress Jupiter's mass to initiate fusion and destroy probes attempting to land on Europa. In the novel, Curnow explicitly compares them to Swiss Army Knives. | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Floyd's reason for (illegally) reboarding the Leonov. That, and the fact he found out their lives were in danger. | |
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Made in Country X | |
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Made in Country X: invoked Everything about the Leonov conveys a sense that Soviet technology is ungainly but tough: the exterior is ridiculously over-engineered, the interiors are mostly dimly lit and filled with haze, and the space pods are awkward and angular compared to the spherical Discovery pods. Ironically, as an Easter Egg, the model builders included a tiny decal to the lower right of the ЛЕОÐ�ОВ marking that says "СДЕЛÐ�Ð�О Ð’ СШÐ�" — "Made in USA". It's barely visible on the Blu-ray in the shot where Walter and Max float out of the airlock. Ironically, in real life, Russia has a bad reputation with sending probes outside Earth's orbit. Most of their Mars missions, most recently Phobos-Grunt in 2012, have failed. And "outside" is meant literally; they have a diametrically great record sending probes inside Earth's orbit to Venus. | |
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Vagueness Is Coming | |
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Vagueness Is Coming: One assumes " the monolith is going to transform Jupiter into a sun and give rise to a new sapient life form in the future" would be too hard for folks to understand. | |
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Creator In-Joke | |
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Creator In-Joke: In one scene, the cover of Time magazine appears with portraits of Clarke and Kubrick as the U.S. president and Soviet premier, respectively. (However, during the war announcement, Milson says the Soviet premier is named Yulanova, which is a woman's surname.) | |
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Chummy Commies | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_48aac61d | comment |
Chummy Commies: The Soviets are these to the Americans throughout the novel, whereas in the movie the transition from being Dirty Communists to Chummy Commies serves as Character Development. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: Max Brailovsky is killed in an EVA pod; in the novel the pod is unmanned and survives the encounter with the Monolith. | |
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The Monolith | |
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The Monolith: Sequel to the Trope Maker. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: The chapters of the novel in which Bowman, as the Star Child, explores the ecosystems of Jupiter and Europa. | |
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Adaptational Alternate Ending | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_4a5fcde | comment |
Adaptational Alternate Ending: The end of the movie see Floyd on the beach with his wife and son. The original book established that Floyd and Caroline divorce before he goes back into suspended animation. | |
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Virtual Ghost | |
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Virtual Ghost: Being made of energy, Bowman is capable of directly interfacing with computer systems — he uses this ability to talk to HAL and to several people on Earth, including his (now remarried) wife and his mother. | |
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Everybody Knew Already | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_4d0372b | comment |
Everybody Knew Already: Floyd has Curnow secretly install a cutoff switch in HAL's wiring trunk so he can disable him in the event that he goes rogue again. Immediately after the climactic confrontation with HAL, Chandra casually tosses Floyd the device, which he had anticipated and removed months ago. | |
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Wham Line | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: "Chlorophyll! Chlorophyll!" Leading to Floyd's epic Oh, Crap! face — When Chandra asks HAL what the millions of things making up the black spot on Jupiter are, accompanied by a Wham Shot as the Enhance Button shows a clear picture of it: Not long after: In the novel: | |
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Wham Shot | |
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When Chandra asks HAL what the millions of things making up the black spot on Jupiter are, accompanied by a Wham Shot as the Enhance Button shows a clear picture of it: | |
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Sinister Geometry | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_514cba56 | comment |
Sinister Geometry: The Monolith makes a reappearance, of course, along with its famous 1:4:9 dimensions. | |
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Offscreen Reality Warp | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_540668c2 | comment |
Bowman's use of Offscreen Reality Warps as his age shifts back and forth when talking to Floyd, the only scene that actively tried to imitate the style of 2001. | |
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Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_5663a595 | comment |
Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: With the removal of the Tsien storyline, the discovery of life on Europa is reduced to Leonov detecting chlorophyll on the moon. Problem is, the amount of sunlight Europan organisms had access to, prior to the creation of Lucifer at the film's end, was negligible. (The book specifically noted that Europan fauna derived energy from volcanic sulfur compounds instead of oxygen, just as deep-sea vent organisms do on Earth.) There's no reason for chlorophyll to have evolved there. Floyd doesn't tell the captain about his visitation from Bowman because You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You. It's unclear whether he tells the crew after the Monolith disappears. In the novel, he tells the crew before the Monolith disappears, and Xenia suggests asking HAL whether he saw Bowman. Chandra says that all the evidence of Bowman's appearance was erased from HAL's memory, but because this line doesn't appear in the movie, it makes asking HAL about Bowman's message still seem like a good idea. | |
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No Bisexuals | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_5679208c | comment |
No Bisexuals: In the book, Walter and Max briefly become a couple. In the film, they have a platonic rivalry-type relationship. | |
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Stereotypical Nerd | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_56f127dc | comment |
Stereotypical Nerd: Played with. Dr. Chandra is certainly a stereotypically geeky-looking computer scientist whose lack of social skills are lampshaded by colleagues who jokingly point out that he's more like a computer himself. However, this aspect of his personality proves to be an asset, since he's the only one who truly appreciates advanced computers as sentient beings with human-like concerns. | |
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Adaptation Distillation | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_5a40d6a | comment |
Adaptation Distillation: Depending on your point of view, the Cold War tension either makes the movie much more dramatic or is completely superfluous to the plot. The time scale of the events in the book is heavily compressed — it's more dramatic when you have two days to get away than two weeks. The Chinese spaceship Tsien and its subplot regarding the Europa landing is completely removed in the movie, replaced by the Leonov detecting life signs on Europa and sending an unmanned probe. Other less relevant subplots are removed entirely, such as Floyd's marriage break-up and the romantic relationships between the crew; while Max's death during an EVA to the Monolith was added for the film. | |
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Government Conspiracy | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_5a4aa505 | comment |
Government Conspiracy: The order to reveal the Monolith's existence to HAL, but not Dave or Frank, came from the National Security Council. Also see Retcon. | |
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Perpetually Protean | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_5cd7cf65 | comment |
Perpetually Protean: When Dave Bowman finally appears in physical form he's constantly shifting between different states of being during the short conversation he has with Dr Floyd: at first appearing exactly as he was when he vanished in the previous movie, Dave then takes the form of his older persona from the alien mansion, his ancient dying self, and the Star Child. | |
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Clarke's Third Law | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_5e7eb915 | comment |
Clarke's Third Law: Specifically invoked with respect to the aliens' technology. | |
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Rebuilt Set | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_5effa7dc | comment |
The size and internal layout of the Discovery changes between films; see Rebuilt Set and Bigger on the Inside. | |
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Activation Sequence | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_6004e99c | comment |
Activation Sequence: We have a re-activation sequence as Doctor Chandra brings the HAL 9000 computer back online after he was deactivated by Dave Bowman, reinserting some of the crystal memory cards, testing HAL's functionality, and reinserting some more until HAL is operational once again. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_60fa92ac | comment |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The Jovian sun is called Lucifer. A very fitting name, as it literally means "bringer of light". | |
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Sacrificial Lion | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_619985d7 | comment |
Sacrificial Lion: Max Brailovsky is killed by a surge of energy when he attempts to land a pod on the giant monolith, showing beyond any doubt that the monoliths and the intelligent entities that created them are not to be trifled with. | |
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Centrifugal Gravity | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_62011b2f | comment |
Centrifugal Gravity: The environment module of the Leonov is seen rotating in the film, justifying how the actors can walk normally on the set. However, the effect is applied inconsistently, with some scenes shot in zero-G and others implying the use of Velcro-soled shoes; the novel is explicit in this regard. Discovery uses a rotating carousel to provide artificial gravity for its crew members to perform exercises in so they don't lose muscle tone. The potential freezing up of the carousel (due to decade-old bearings), with the consequent catastrophic destruction of the ship, is brought up in the novel, but not the film. Related to the above, the explanation for why Discovery was found tumbling end-over-end was that over time, the centrifuge transferred its momentum to the rest of the ship, making it spin. In the novel, Curnow makes reactivating the centrifuge a priority to stop most of the spacecraft's spin. Discovery's spinning state during the rescue subjects Max and Curnow to gravity-like forces as they reach the command module, with them walking along the outer wall of the pod bay once they get inside the ship. (In later pod bay scenes, you can see faint traces of sulfur from their bootprints on the wall.) | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_62f9d08e | comment |
Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the very first interior shot of the Leonov, the camera tilts down from a closeup of a computer monitor in the medical bay. Printed underneath the monitor is a paragraph of English text, beginning with "You may leave the lavatory if the green exit light is on over the door...." This is actually step 4 of the Zero Gravity Toilet instructions from 2001. Not only do you have to freeze-frame it, you need to watch the movie on Blu-Ray in order to make out the text! Additionally, the image on the monitor is captioned "KIRBUK" in Cyrillic (see Mildly Military below.) | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: HAL is persuaded to pilot Discovery as a launch vehicle to propel the Leonov to safety, despite knowing that it may result in his destruction. | |
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Pink Girl, Blue Boy | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_64c64cfb | comment |
While HAL 9000's eye is of course red, SAL 9000's is blue. Also an inversion of Pink Girl, Blue Boy. | |
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Planning with Props | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_67dfa28 | comment |
Planning with Props: Floyd explains his plan to use Discovery as a booster for Leonov with a ballpoint pen and a pencil floating in zero gravity. | |
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Naval Blockade | |
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Naval Blockade: It's never seen but there's one going on somewhere in Central America throughout the film. | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_69cce3dc | comment |
Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: While inside Discovery, Max opens his helmet to test the air. He noticed a strange smell that's "stale, rotten, like something has..." He quickly closes his helmet, assuming it was Bowman's body, but they assured him that it was only the ship's food supply that got spoiled. | |
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Meaningful Echo | |
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Meaningful Echo: Dave finally contacts HAL before Jupiter ignites. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Although the novel and film explain that it got the name because a different cosmonaut fell out of favor, the Leonov is (though unintentionally within the plot) meaningful since cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the Soviet-side commander of the first American-Soviet joint mission, Apollo-Soyuz in 1975. | |
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Master Computer | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_6ca5a8c2 | comment |
Master Computer: In the novel, it is pointed out that Leonov uses autonomous, independent computers to operate its equipment rather than giving control of the entire ship to a single AI; this is specifically to prevent a repeat of the Discovery disaster. | |
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Artistic License – Military | |
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Artistic License – Military: Combined with Artistic License – Ships, Milson says that a Soviet destroyer was sunk by American missile fire and "800 of her crew were lost," but destroyers only have a crew of around 350 at most. | |
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My Greatest Failure | |
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My Greatest Failure: Floyd was publicly blamed for the failure of the Discovery mission in 2001 and lost his job as a result. The Leonov mission is his chance to find personal redemption. Of course, some may think he's lying and is suffering a case of Never My Fault. | |
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Inferred Holocaust | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_70e6a866 | comment |
Inferred Holocaust: invoked 2061: Odyssey Three confirmed that yes, having a second sun in the sky on Earth completely fucked up many species and Earth-based astronomy. This was already mentioned in the 2010 novel ending chapter. The film's novelization also mentions that Bowman considers how the life forms he has discovered in Jupiter shall be destroyed and those in Europa will have a very hard time ahead in order to adapt to their new conditions. | |
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Mind Screwdriver | |
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Mind Screwdriver: 2010 has been said to be this for 2001. | |
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Dawn of an Era | |
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Dawn of an Era: "The next day, the President of the United States looked out of the White House window, and the Premier of the Soviet Union looked out of the Kremlin window, and saw the new distant sun in the sky. They read the message, and perhaps they learned something, because they finally recalled their ships and their planes." | |
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Idiot Ball | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_7286e96d | comment |
Idiot Ball: In-universe example in the film. Floyd was against sending Max in a manned probe of the Monolith (It had already been proven that the Russians had unmanned probes - the one they used on Europa - and at least one more on hand), while the overconfident Russians essentially thought Floyd was superstitious. Unfortunately, Floyd was right. | |
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Adaptation Relationship Overhaul | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_72ce3f54 | comment |
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the book, Floyd and Moisevitch are old friends, while Floyd hates Victor Milson with a passion (it's implied that Milson led the charge to get Floyd fired because he wanted Floyd's job). In the film, Floyd and Moisevitch have never met before, and Floyd and Milson's banter shows that they are friends; it's made clear that Milson never wanted Floyd's job and defended him after the Discovery debacle. The American and Russian crews in the book got along quite well, often joking and there were at least 2 romantic relationships between Curnow and the Russian crew. In the film, there is an underlying tension throughout that prevents that level of friendship from forming. | |
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Arc Words | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: Compare Dr. Chandra's answers for the same question from SAL and HAL. | |
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Expositron 9000 | |
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Expositron 9000: HAL, reprising his role from the original film. The most outstanding example of this is HAL determining that the black spot on Jupiter is made of millions of self-replicating Monoliths, which is far more useful than he ever was in 2001. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_7870735b | comment |
From Bad to Worse: In the film version, the tension between the two blocs grows into a state of war. The two crews are even ordered to be separated. The appearance of a new star is what convinces the two powers to lower their guns. | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_7c7589af | comment |
Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Or rather, a Jupiter Shattering Implosion. | |
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Explosive Instrumentation | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_7f2c7fae | comment |
Explosive Instrumentation: Occurs aboard the Leonov when the shockwave hits it. | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
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Arranged Marriage: Invoked when Floyd and Kirbuk are talking about their lives back home. Kirbuk mentions she has a daughter about the age of Floyd's son Christopher. Floyd asks if she's a blonde, and Kirbuk says she is. Floyd responds, "Good, [my son] likes blondes, let's get them together." | |
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Transformation Discretion Shot | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_853a0e84 | comment |
Transformation Discretion Shot: When David Bowman finally appears in physical form, he repeatedly shifts between different stage of his existence in cuts. Initially, he looks exactly as he did before entering the Monolith at the end of the previous film, but when Dr Floyd follows him around a corner, he finds that Bowman has become the older version of himself from the alien mansion; then, while Floyd is asking a question, Bowman suddenly appears back to normal and moves to examine HAL up close - only for a close-up shot to reveal that he has transformed into into the ancient, dying version of himself. Finally, after returning to normal in a closeup shot, Floyd all but begs him for an explanation as to what will happen when they follow his advice... only for a cut to reveal that Bowman has become the Star Child again. He then vanishes. | |
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Go Out with a Smile | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_88f16cee | comment |
Go Out with a Smile: Dave Bowman's mother is shown in a hospital bed, having suffered a stroke and still in a coma. Suddenly, she jerks up with a look of rapturous joy as a hairbrush rises and brushes her hair. She then settles back with a smile as her monitor flatlines. | |
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Soviet Superscience | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_8c625f4c | comment |
Soviet Superscience: The Leonov is literally years ahead of anything NASA can launch. | |
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Mr. Exposition | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_8cb844c6 | comment |
Mr. Exposition: Floyd's spoken letters back home advance the plot during spaceship shots. | |
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Just a Machine | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_9075ac17 | comment |
Just a Machine: The attitude of several Leonov crew members towards HAL (but not Chandra). | |
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Precursors | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_92286f7f | comment |
Precursors: The aliens who made the Monolith choose this moment to make Jupiter go boom. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_96a33f11 | comment |
Riddle for the Ages: What was on the piece of paper that got blown out of the Discovery's airlock when it was opened? (The novel confirms it was a sheet of paper.) | |
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Tragic Keepsake | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_97d54bb0 | comment |
Tragic Keepsake: Max gives Walter his black beret before going on his expedition to the Monolith. After Max's death, Walter keeps wearing it for the rest of the movie, until right before he goes back into hibernation when he puts it on Irina's head. | |
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As You Know | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_9843be73 | comment |
As You Know: The film has a Cold Open in the form of the "final report" from the Discovery mission. It includes the last words of Bowman, which were in the book but not the film: "My God, it's full of stars!" | |
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Living Gasbag | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_988dc0fd | comment |
Living Gasbag: The indigenous lifeforms on Jupiter that Bowman observes in the novel. | |
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2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_9a279c3d | type |
Bollywood Nerd | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_9a279c3d | comment |
Bollywood Nerd: Unbuilt Trope. Clarke, who lived in Sri Lanka, made Dr. Chandra an Indian computer scientist in the novel before it became a popular stereotype. This is erased in the film, with Dr. Chandra's Indian traits completely downplayed (especially compared to the novel) and the character portrayed by a non-Indian actor. | |
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Evolutionary Levels | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_9b76b81 | comment |
Bowman returns as the Star Child after being forcibly "evolved" by the Precursor race in the previous film. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_9c45b5a2 | comment |
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Played for enormous tension in the sequence where Dr. Chandra is asked to convince HAL to use Discovery as a booster to allow the Leonov to escape. Floyd and Curnow want to trick HAL into compliance and disconnect him if he resists, while Chandra insists on telling him the whole truth. | |
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Dirty Communists | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_9c47b23b | comment |
Dirty Communists: The Russian crew of the Leonov start out acting paranoid toward the Americans, but grow friendlier toward them as the space scenes advance. However, when events on Earth reach a flashpoint, the Americans are sequestered aboard Discovery. The Alexei Leonov was originally supposed to be named the Gherman Titov, who was the second cosmonaut and the first man to spend a day in space. Apparently, Titov "fell out of favor". In Real Life, Titov died in 2000.note Though falling out of favor may not have been outside the realm of possibility anyway; see the Trivia page to find out why. Leonov was still alive in 2010 (he died in 2019). | |
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Reality Has No Subtitles | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_9da6354b | comment |
Reality Has No Subtitles: None of the Russian dialogue is subtitled. The film compensates by having the Russian crew speak English more often than is probably realistic considering there are only three Americans onboard. | |
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Saved for the Sequel | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_a353507 | comment |
Saved for the Sequel: The aerobraking sequence was a scene from the first novel that never made it into the movie because Discovery's destination was changed from Saturn to Jupiter (both planets appeared in the novel). It was the director Peter Hyams who realized that the Leonov needed something to shield it from the friction caused by Jupiter's atmosphere, and he added the ballute after talking to some engineers at JPL. | |
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Standard Snippet | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_a3f1531b | comment |
Standard Snippet: This may be the only movie since 2001 to use "Also sprach Zarathustra" without irony or humor. | |
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Extreme Graphical Representation | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_a67b8999 | comment |
Extreme Graphical Representation: Averted on the Leonov, whose displays are very practical, but of course HAL's screens show up again. | |
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No New Fashions in the Future | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_a7ae597a | comment |
No New Fashions in the Future: Mostly averted; the clothing in the movie is similar to real 2010 fashion. Bowman's widow wears a Flashdance-style off-the-shoulder T-shirt, which came back into fashion over the past few years so it's justified here. | |
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First Contact | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_a7caa5b5 | comment |
First Contact: While humans became aware of the existence of the Precursor race in 2001, and David Bowman met them (more or less) as an individual representative of our species, it is at the end of 2010 that the first direct communication from an alien species is received by all of humanity. | |
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RealLife | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_a8559a9f | comment |
The Alexei Leonov was originally supposed to be named the Gherman Titov, who was the second cosmonaut and the first man to spend a day in space. Apparently, Titov "fell out of favor". In Real Life, Titov died in 2000.note Though falling out of favor may not have been outside the realm of possibility anyway; see the Trivia page to find out why. Leonov was still alive in 2010 (he died in 2019). | |
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Typeset in the Future | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_a87b8c8c | comment |
Typeset in the Future: Eurostile Bold Extended returns as the typeface used by both HAL's and SAL's interfaces, and all the Russian signage aboard the Leonov is set in Eurostile Bold Extended modified with Cyrillic letters. This wasn't done completely accurately: for example, an inverted V is used for the Cyrillic equivalent to L, making it look like the Greek Λ instead of the more correct Л. | |
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Sleeper Starship | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_abb930ed | comment |
Sleeper Starship: The ship has the crew in hibernation systems. | |
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Nuke 'em | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_ac320c0e | comment |
Nuke 'em: Heywood Floyd casually mentions that they've tried everything they can think of to penetrate the Monolith's exterior, including lasers and nuclear detonators. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Leading to Floyd's epic Oh, Crap! face — | |
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Apocalyptic Log | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_ad22fa80 | comment |
Apocalyptic Log: The last survivor of the Chinese expedition in the novel broadcasts what happened when they encountered life on Europa. | |
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Retcon | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_b2280b66 | comment |
Retcon: Clarke acknowledged a number of inconsistencies between 2010 and 2001 in the author's note to 2061, stating that each Odyssey book and film takes place in a similar, but slightly different, universe. Floyd vehemently denies knowing that HAL had been told about the Monolith, and we're clearly meant to believe him. This contradicts 2001, where Floyd explicitly said the existence of the Monolith was revealed only to HAL in the video that played after HAL was disconnected. The size and internal layout of the Discovery changes between films; see Rebuilt Set and Bigger on the Inside. Floyd's use of a cutoff switch as a precaution contradicts the novel of 2001, in which HAL is said to be powered by six independent systems with a backup nuclear isotope unit specifically to prevent that sort of attack. The novels and films are inconsistent as to whether the Precursor technology involves FTL Travel. The novel of 2010 clearly states that it does, but by 3001 a different set of rules is in effect. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Why exactly was it necessary to send a manned EVA pod to the Monolith (in the film) when they apparently had remote controlled probes available, especially considering what happened to Bowman? | |
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FTLTravel | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_b7175d3 | comment |
The novels and films are inconsistent as to whether the Precursor technology involves FTL Travel. The novel of 2010 clearly states that it does, but by 3001 a different set of rules is in effect. | |
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Failed Future Forecast | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_bb40e7e0 | comment |
Failed Future Forecast: In the film, in 2010, the Cold War is still around, and on the verge of getting hot, although it's remarkably right about Honduras' troubles. This plot is completely absent in the novel; although the USSR is still around, it seems to have successfully adopted glasnostnote Yes, the novel predates Gorbachev, but the same general idea as glasnost anyway and everyone on Earth pretty much gets along. | |
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Color-Coded Characters | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_bb660963 | comment |
Color-Coded Characters: While HAL 9000's eye is of course red, SAL 9000's is blue. Also an inversion of Pink Girl, Blue Boy. American spacesuits are white; Soviet spacesuits are silver. | |
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_bd2812b5 | comment |
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Bowman is back as the Star Child, after being forcibly ascended by the Sufficiently Advanced Aliens in 2001. At the very end, and by his request, HAL joins him. | |
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New Eden | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_bf5cedc3 | comment |
New Eden: Europa. | |
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Outrun the Fireball | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_c12f0c4 | comment |
Outrun the Fireball: When Jupiter ignites, the Leonov gets to play out this trope. Deliberately Played for Drama in the film; in the novel they have several days' head start and the blast does little more than peg some radiation meters. | |
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Friendly, Playful Dolphin | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_c189bd85 | comment |
Friendly Playful Dolphins: They swim right into Floyd's living room. The novel explains that "The House of the Dolphins" was built in Hawaii with a tunnel connecting the pool in the living room to the ocean. The movie shows us a beach, but never the outside of the house. | |
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Offscreen Teleportation | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_c691d3f4 | comment |
Offscreen Teleportation: The Star Child disappears while the camera is looking at Floyd's reaction, and nobody sees the Monolith disappear to start Jupiter's ignition process. | |
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Shout-Out | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_c75df49a | comment |
The scene in the novel where Walter and Max board the Discovery makes a Shout-Out to Alien: "Whatever you do, don't go chasing after the ship's cat." | |
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Posthuman Nudism | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_cb11224e | comment |
Posthuman Nudism: Zig-zagged; when he first appears on a monitor to his ex-wife, Dave Bowman appears with Shoulders-Up Nudity; however, when he appears before Dr Floyd, he cycles frequently between several fully-clothed forms before finally reverting to his true, Star Child form - once again, completely naked. | |
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Space Is Noisy | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_cd2b8aa3 | comment |
Space Is Noisy: While 2001 played all the exterior spaceship scenes in total silence (aside from music), 2010 makes engine noises and other rumblings audible. | |
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Mother Russia Makes You Strong | |
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Mother Russia Makes You Strong: | |
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Cut the Juice | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_d1d670cc | comment |
Floyd's use of a cutoff switch as a precaution contradicts the novel of 2001, in which HAL is said to be powered by six independent systems with a backup nuclear isotope unit specifically to prevent that sort of attack. | |
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Last Request | |
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Last Request: Professor Chang from the novel requests in his Apocalyptic Log for the Europan organism that accidentally destroyed his ship to be named after him, and for the crew's bones to be returned to China. Ironically, these requests will become impossible to fulfill because the Monolith will forbid humans to land on Europa. | |
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Race Lift | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_d7c3ba61 | comment |
In the novel, the name of Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai (see Race Lift) seems to have been borrowed from astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Both the character and the physicist were nicknamed "Chandra". | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Chandra is extremely blasé over the revelation that the dark spot on Jupiter is composed of millions of Monoliths increasing in number as they self-replicate, and it's especially jarring as he's contrasted with everyone else aboard the Leonov, who are all clearly put on edge as the process continues. Presumably, he's making an effort to show no reaction because he's trying to convince HAL everything is normal. The way he carries the conversation suggests he's asking the questions to keep HAL talking about anything except how little sense the early departure makes to him. Instead of taking the hint, HAL tries to convince Chandra they should stay and study the event, forcing Chandra to finally tell him the truth. | |
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Security Cling | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_da1211b4 | comment |
Security Cling: The ship's nutritionist, Irina Yakunina,note In the novel, the character's name was Xenia Marchenko, and Irina Yakunina was the crew member she replaced at the last minute goes to Floyd's quarters so that they can spend the harrowing aerobraking maneuver in each other's arms; when it's over, she kisses him on the cheek (though in the novel, she fell asleep). | |
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Red Herring | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: For the aerobraking, a female cosmonaut comes to Floyd - a married man - scared. She clings to him through the procedure, during which the photo of his wife and child falls. After they are safe, she kisses him on the cheek. At this point any curiosity of infidelity or romance is dropped for the rest of the film. If you expected it, you've just been Ship Teased with an extra. The novel explains their relationship in more detail. She eventually gets together with Max (who does not die) and the two remain friends even decades later. | |
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Our Graphics Will Suck in the Future | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_dccf42c1 | comment |
Our Graphics Will Suck in the Future: While control panel graphics in 2001 were animated by hand and projected onto flatscreens, which gave them more of a timeless quality, the graphics here are typical 1980s 8-bit graphics with noticeably lower resolution than in 2001. All of the monitors in 2010 are CRTs, even the ones on Discovery which had been flatscreens before. | |
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Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_e7b0229a | comment |
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Chandra is able to make HAL selectively forget about his malfunction and murder of the Discovery's crew. In the novel, Bowman also erases all evidence of his presence from HAL's memory after delivering his message to Floyd. The omission of the latter from the movie creates an Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: why would it be so hard to convince HAL of the importance of leaving Jupiter early if Bowman relayed the message through him? | |
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Mildly Military | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_e7c671f3 | comment |
Mildly Military: In the novel, the Leonov's captain, Tanya Orlova, is married to her science officer, Vasili Orlov. In the movie, the captain's name is changed to Kirbuk, not only as a Shout-Out to Stanley Kubrick, but also to make the Soviet crew more serious about military discipline. | |
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Space Whale Aesop | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_e8760868 | comment |
Space Whale Aesop: This is how Dr. Floyd interprets the events in the film, as the actions of whatever intelligence sent the Monolith in the first place has resulted in pulling Earth back from a nuclear apocalypse, and seemingly given humanity a new perspective now that Jupiter has become a second Sun. | |
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Creepy Monotone | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_e90a93b2 | comment |
Creepy Monotone: HAL's back... as is his "eye". | |
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Constantly Curious | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_ecf4f7ce | comment |
Constantly Curious: Christopher Floyd, when he asks his father why he needs to go into hibernation. | |
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Duct Tape for Everything | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_ed3e90f3 | comment |
Duct Tape for Everything: Played for humor in the novel — when the astronauts are connecting Leonov to Discovery in order to use the latter as a booster, they use a lot of... tape. Very strong tape, but still. | |
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Match Cut | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_ed503b22 | comment |
Match Cut: Although it's not as conspicuous as the famous bone/satellite cut from 2001, the shots comprising the montage in 2010's ending scene are carefully composed so that Lucifer is always on the left and the Sun is on the right. When the camera moves from the Eiffel Tower Effect shots to Europa, Lucifer is now much bigger in the sky than the Sun, but it's still on the left with the Sun on the right. And yet even after all that, some viewers still thought the monolith in the final shot was standing on Earth instead of Europa. | |
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Computer Equals Monitor | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_ed59847b | comment |
Computer Equals Monitor: Before discussing HAL's malfunction with the crew, Chandra tells HAL, "If you will excuse us, we wish to have a private conversation." He hits a few keys on the HAL console in Discovery's pod bay and the monitor turns off. However, the red light in HAL's camera lens is still on. And if you really wanted to be paranoid, there's still another HAL camera looking through the window of the pod bay control room. | |
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Lesser of Two Evils | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_eec329f5 | comment |
Lesser of Two Evils: NCA director Victor Milson agonises to Floyd over how to persuade the President to go cap in hand to the Russians so that American astronauts can join them on the voyage to Jupiter. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_f1492605 | comment |
Redemption Equals Death: Floyd's wife asks him if he's seeking this before he leaves. HAL's willingness to sacrifice himself for the sake of the humans aboard the Leonov is the point where he finally achieves redemption in their eyes. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_f32d85ab | comment |
20 Minutes into the Future: When 2001 was being written, it was plausible that mankind might make it to Jupiter by then. 2010 was written with that continuity in mind, despite it being rather less likely. Neither happened on schedule. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_f36c4f98 | comment |
Easily Forgiven: Bowman harbors no ill will towards HAL, and seems to show fondness for him. At this point, he likely knows the truth behind HAL's behavior, and specifically asks whoever the aliens are if HAL can be saved and made a companion for him. They oblige, essentially making HAL immortal with Dave. This also occurs after HAL knowingly performs the maneuver that will save the Leonov crew at the cost of his own existence. This could be seen as redeeming him for the murder of the Discovery's original crew. | |
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Product Placement | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_f511ea9b | comment |
Product Placement: TV commercials are seen for Sheraton hotels and Pan Am (using recycled footage of the spaceplane from 2001.) The computer Floyd uses on the beach is an Apple IIc, and next to it are a Budweiser (packaged in a Capri Sun-style squeezebag) and an issue of Omni magazine (which in Real Life stopped publication in 1995.) | |
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Tagline | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_f51f4509 | comment |
Tagline: "The Year We Make Contact" is actually a tagline — the title as displayed in the movie itself is simply "2010". | |
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You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_f5f9708b | comment |
You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You: This is Floyd's reason for not telling Kirbuk about Bowman appearing before him. | |
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Great Offscreen War | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_f722f635 | comment |
Great Offscreen War: The escalating conflict between American and Soviet forces, only mentioned in dialogue. | |
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Number Two | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_fa7d3dfe | comment |
Number Two: The Leonov's executive officer, Yuri Svetlanov, is a character created for the movie. He's the only Russian character to have no dialogue in English. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_fc225bec | comment |
Artistic License – Physics: Selective Gravity: On the bridge, Floyd uses two pens floating in microgravity to illustrate how the spaceships can escape from Jupiter. Only the pens are floating - everyone around the demonstration is standing on the floor. You can try to explain the problem of gravity on the bridge by saying everyone's wearing magnet-soled shoes (as in the original movie - though magnetic shoes don't create gravity for the rest of the body), but you can't get around the scene where Floyd offers Kirbuk the squeezebottle of bourbon, because the liquid behaves like it's under gravity. Although the depictions of Jupiter and Io were based on Voyager photos (see Shown Their Work), most people don't realize that Voyager's photos as they're usually published are in false color: the color saturation is heavily exaggerated, especially for reds, and this color scheme is carried through in the movie. To initiate sustained hydrogen fusion, a gas giant like Jupiter would need to increase its mass by 75 times. The only way the monoliths could just "turn on" Jupiter would be to increase its core density to the point of fusion. Problem is, without the extra mass on top to compress the core down, the monoliths would need to somehow keep Jupiter's core compressed permanently. And again because its low mass, Jupiter would fuse up all its hydrogen reserves very quickly. As noted above, to transform Jupiter into a star (even a relatively small brown dwarf) requires increasing its mass nearly a hundredfold. Having a second massive star in the solar system would greatly disrupt the hitherto stable orbits of the planets around the sun, potentially shifting the Earth's orbit or even creating chaotic dynamics that send some planets flying off into empty space. Due to its close proximity, Jupiter's radiation belts would render life on that moon virtually impossible. While not as lethal as Io, on the surface of Europa radiation is still very bad. A human standing there would absorb a lethal dose in a matter of hours. And if Jupiter became a low mass star, or more accurately a brown dwarf, it doesn't change the fact that the moon is tidally locked to the former. One side will end up always facing the star becoming scorching hot, the other, plunged into eternal frozen night. Europa's tidal lock is addressed in the book, though the implications for the biosphere there are not explored. | |
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Brick Joke | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: Floyd tells Curnow to hide the "kill switch" in a place that Chandra won't find it. Afterwards Chandra hands back said kill switch, saying he thought they'd try something like this and it wasn't hard to find. | |
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Bigger on the Inside | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_fe1b2e75 | comment |
On Michael Whelan's cover art for the book, the Monolith is noticeably taller than 1:4:9 (He would later avoid this for the sequel, 2061). Also see Bigger on the Inside and Rebuilt Set regarding the movie's set design. | |
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SufficientlyAdvancedAliens | |
2010: The Year We Make Contact / int_feb0e2fe | comment |
Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: Advanced enough to turn Jupiter into a star so that the newly discovered life on Europa would have a chance to survive. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: One interpretation of why the Monolith allows Bowman to return to Earth, visit his former fiance and comfort his dying mother. The book expands on this as Bowman is used as a conduit for the Precursors to study human culture, having him observe various people, places, and objects before allowing him to resolve his last ties on Earth (his mother and ex-girlfriend). | |
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Shown Their Work: Clarke was a respected astronomer who did as much homework as he could possibly have done at the time the novels were written, and it shows. The film version of 2010 used actual stills of Jupiter and its moons for background plates (except, of course, for the finale). | |
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