Resumen de 2001 - Odisseia semiótica
João Filipe Santos Silva Fernandes
2001 - A Space Odyssey is a legendary movie, which can - and should - be examined in the light of the argument,belonging to two authors - a scientist/writer and a director/filmmaker.However, the subject of this work is focused on the intention of Stanley Kubrick in the making of the film. This holds,in our opinion, mythical speech of the director, where images, icons, symbols, sequences, and other signs denotingthe elements that join and, after appropriate processing, form the connotative sense of meaning(s), holistic, complex,very rich in semiotic language, where the symbolic dimension is embedded in a in-depth personality endowed withextraordinary complexity and talent and also exacerbated by perfectionism.The analysis is carried out by the narrative’s logic blocks, trying to deepen the semiotic constructs’ meaning(s) of thedirector. Following a methodology framework of Roland Barthes (denotative and connotative meaning framework),the blocks are analyzed in their denotative aspects (details of the painting), and also at the end in an holisticmeaning(s), connotative, which reflects the scenario of the whole painting.So, first, the semiotic-anthropological sense of the transition hominy-humanity; secondly the anthropological quantumleap bone/spacecraft; thirdly, the meaning of the semiotic spheres’ alignment, as a precursor of the paradigm shift;fourthly, monolith’s totemism, the central character and, lastly, HAL 9000, the eye of the monolith’s revelation.Conclusions will be drawn.
