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2010: The Year We Make Contact
(1984)
In Peter Hyam's sequel to Kubrick's classic:
- Dave Bowman's (Keir Dullea) last words: "My
God, it's full of stars!"
- the rough slingshot around Jupiter
- HAL 9000's (voice of Douglas Rain) reactivation
- Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider) and Dr. Walter Kurnow's
(John Lithgow) discussion of ball park hot dogs: ("...Yankee
Stadium. September. The hot dogs have been broiling since opening
day in April. Now that's a hot dog")
- the scene on Earth, in which the ghost (an incorporeal
being) of astronaut David Bowman visited his former wife Betty Fernandez
(Mary Jo Deschanel) - now remarried; he appeared on her television
screen to check on her and say good-bye for one last time: ("I
remember Dave Bowman and everything about him...All Dave Bowman really
was is still a part of me...Something's gonna happen and I wanted
to say goodbye...something wonderful")
- Bowman's ethereal appearances, and his conversation
with Floyd about "Something wonderful"
- Dr. Chandra (Bob Balaban) telling HAL 9000 that it
must be sacrificed to save the crew (and HAL's quiet, dignified acceptance
of his fate and thanks: "I understand now, Dr. Chandra...Thank
you for telling me the truth" - and Chandra's response and farewell:
"You deserve it...Thank you, HAL")
- HAL 9000's final conversation with Bowman before
Jupiter imploded and the Discovery was destroyed (HAL: "I'm
afraid" - Dave: "Don't be. We'll be together")
- HAL's final transmission ("ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER.
USE THEM IN PEACE")
- Floyd's final speech about the second star in the
sky and his dreams of interplanetary friendship ("Someday, the
children of the new sun will meet the children of the old. I think
they will be our friends")
- the final evocative shot of the Monolith in a primordial
jungle on Europa as Richard Strauss' Thus Spake Zarasthustra played
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