Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: 2001 ending: wine glass scene Message-ID: <383@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 16:39:38 EST Article-I.D.: ihlts.383 Posted: Mon Mar 5 16:39:38 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 03:22:16 EST References: <645@seismo.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 11 >> would someone care to speculate about the meaning of the scene in >> which the aging Bowman . . . knocks a wine glass >> off the table, causing it to shatter on the floor ? I would not try to attribute too much meaning to anything Kubrick came up with. He deals mostly in images, not concepts or thoughts. I'm pretty certain that Clarke did not come up with this one. If you want meaning, read Clarke's "2001", "Lost Worlds of 2001", and "2010". These works are totally distinct and separate from the movie, as far as I am concerned. But I greatly enjoy them all, each for its own merits. Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe