The theater shook when the woofers kicked in….and Strauss had no idea someday his creation would go to the stars.”
“It foretold the rise of concerns with AI, the HAL 9000 computer, and the discovery by man of extra-terrestrial entities older and greater than man, who put cautionary obelisks where we would find them as we evolved,” Ewart said. “Plus, I love the opening music, ‘ Also sprach Zarathustra.’ The music was written in 1896, which if you rearrange the numbers, are the year the movie was released (1968.) The theater shook when the woofers kicked in….and Strauss had no idea someday his creation would go to the stars.”