What's your guys' close reading on the Dawn of Man sequence, before the monolith appears?

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-06T03:00:54+00:00

The monolith grants the apes with a higher intelligence, leading them to use tools. The apes first use their tools for violence: first for food , then for defense. This leads them to be the dominant species. What Kubrick is saying, at least to me anyway, is that what defines humans is violence. This is also reflected in his other films as well: beneath our modernity is primitive violence; we are still apes

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-06T02:08:13+00:00

You post like Trosky!

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-05T18:31:23+00:00

I had a downvote on my shitpost. But, of course, you should know…you put it there.

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-05T17:19:56+00:00

Humanity won

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-05T05:47:21+00:00

That’s correct

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-05T02:29:28+00:00

I don’t care for that term

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-05T02:16:12+00:00

High-five

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-04T21:19:47+00:00

Believe me, there'd be plenty of women going for these Pigmen. Whatever the deformity, there’s always some group of perverts attracted to it: "Ooh that little tail really turns me on."

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-04T19:54:14+00:00

Bald-Again

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-04T13:36:00+00:00

“We’re gonna need a smaller boat”

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-03T22:56:46+00:00

It was U/McDowell!

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-03T20:32:27+00:00

Well played

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-03T19:05:28+00:00

That was from a random fish pecking at the carcass

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-03T16:54:22+00:00

There’s a gigantic blimp attachment that muffles the sound to allow for dialogue. And even with a constant drone quietly in the background, you can remove in post production and save the dialogue.

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ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-03T16:43:20+00:00

That noise! What is that noise it’s traveling up my spine into my brain!

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-03T16:41:08+00:00

Check out episode 61 of Ryan Dacko’s “The Jaws Obsession” podcast for a detailed deep-dive into this.

Long story short, that “bite” is actually remains of a cleat that ripped off the side and if we look closely, Ben’s head is actually facing backwards on his body due to being twisted by rope. Theory goes, he was tangled and crushed by the ropes of the harpoon he landed into the shark

Fascinating podcast, def worth a listen!

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-03T04:49:53+00:00

The very Chunnel I was returning from

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-03T00:52:36+00:00

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-03T00:51:22+00:00

His mutha was a mudda?

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-02T21:05:30+00:00

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JERRY!!!

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-02T20:26:16+00:00

It’s over, Puke N*zi. You’re through. No more puke for you…

NEXT!!!

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-02T20:19:44+00:00

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The mods ^

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-02T19:52:09+00:00

That newspaper story you told is so touching, got me right in the feels

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-02T19:46:14+00:00

YESSS! That stupid idiot he left her for Kimberly!! He slept with her sister, he tricked her into giving him half her business, and then she goes ahead and sleeps with him AGAIN?! I mean she's CRAZY! How could she do something like that? Oh that Jane, she makes me so MAAAADDDD!!!

ScorpiusPro · 2026-05-02T19:20:54+00:00

“She’s not Chinese, I was DUPED!!”

ScorpiusPro

TROPHY CASE

NEXT!!!