>>213376395>>213376446Jun'ichi Yao : Well Japanese people love your films, especially [2001: A Space Odyssey]. But people are wondering what is the meaning of last scene., You know, the old man who [is] lying on the bed, in the house? Could you give us an answer?
Stanley Kubrick : Well I, I try to avoid doing this ever since the picture came out, because when you just say the ideas they sound foolish, whereas if they’re dramatized one feels it. But I’ll try, the idea was supposed to be that he is taken in by godlike entities; creatures of pure er energy and intelligence with no shape or form and they put him in what I suppose you could describe as a human zoo, to study him. He spends, his whole life from that point on in that room, and he has no sense of time, it just seems to happen, as it does in the film, And they choose this room which is a very inaccurate replica of French architecture, deliberately so. Inaccurate because one was suggesting that they had some idea of something that he might think was pretty but weren’t quite sure, just as we aren’t quite sure about what to do in zoos with animals, to give them what we think is their natural environment. And anyway, when they get finished with him, as happens in so many er myths of all cultures of the world, he is transformed into some kind of super being and sent back to um earth, transformed and made into some sort of superman. And we have to only guess what happens when he goes back. It is a pattern of a great deal of mythology. And that is what we were trying to um suggest.
