Book Vs Movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Book Vs Movie </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Acclaimed Work by Arthur C. Clarke & Stanley Kubrick Examined (and Demystified?) by the Margos</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/60822/2001_movie_poster.jpg" alt="" width="184" height="273" /></strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Margos attempt to decipher one of the most lauded (and examined) films of the 20th century--</span><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">2001: A Space Odyssey</span></em></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">that is the combined effort of two geniuses--</span><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke"><strong>Arthur C. Clarke</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick"><strong>Stanely Kubrick</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The film released in 1968 and the 1951 short story (titled</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sentinel</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">) have been a subject of thousands of thesis papers and movie nerd YouTube tutorials, but what does it all mean? </span></p> <p><a href= "https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2017/01/28/sentinel-of-eternity-1951-by-arthur-c-clarke/"> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sentinel of Eternity</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(as it was first known) was written by Clarke in 1948 for a BBC competition--which he lost. It’s about the discovery of an artifact on the Earth’s moon left by aliens and transmitting signals into deep space. This “sentinel’ was a “warning beacon’ on the possibility of intelligent life outside our solar system.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 1964, Stanely Kubrick contacted Clarke (a now revered science fiction writer) to ask him if he wa