2001: Space Odyssey 2001 Space Odyssey was a fascinating book because it really gave some perspective into the advancement of the human race. It is a story of human advancement that began with a mysterious object and by the time we get to the future it seems that the cold war is still ongoing between the United States and Russia. However, instead of using violence to get their way it seems as though humans have evolved even further to have peaceful talks with each other and that all out nuclear war is absolutely preventable. It is making the statement that the human race has advanced so much we can talk calmly with one another and avoid a war that would cost many lives. In my opinion this science fiction movie was good compared to the book …show more content…
Also, many movies based off of books tend to have a lot of missing details which is why people usually say the book is better than the movie. Movie makers are also limited to the resources they have, and since the movie was made in 1968 they were more limited than they are today especially when it comes to special effects. Many differences can be seen between the book and the movie. There were already a few differences in the beginning, one of them was the fact that the main ape in the movie is never given a name and in the book that ape’s name is Moonwatcher. It would be hard to name an ape in the movie when none of the apes speak English in the movie. Now at some point in the beginning of this story Moonwatcher find a strange rock that is described to be transparent in the book. However, in the movie the ape, who we assume is Moonwatcher, finds a slab of rock that is black. This was probably done for visual purposes as it is much larger in the movie and it may have been done for added dramatic effect. When this rock was discovered in the book Moonwatcher touches the rock and moves on, however, in the movie the apes danced