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<p class="center-middle title fade-in">The Dawn <br>of Man

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<p class="center-middle big">Overnight, a visitor <br>from outer space has <br> planted a monolith

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<p class="center-middle big">near a tribe <br>of sleeping apes

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<p class="center-middle big">Kubrick does not explain <br>its “meaning”

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<p class="center-middle big fade-in">Essentially, it represents <br>a challenge

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<p class="center-middle big fade-out">Essentially, it represents <br>a challenge

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<p class="top-center big"><span class="gray">Species</span> <br>Australopithecus <br>afarensis

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<p class="top-center big"><span class="gray">Habitat</span> <br>East Africa

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<p class="top-center big"><span class="gray">Period</span> <br>4.0 million – <br>2.9 million BC

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<p class="top-center big"><span class="gray">Characteristics</span>

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<p class="top-center big"><span class="gray small">Characteristics</span> <br>Fear

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<p class="top-center big"><span class="gray">Characteristics</span>

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<p class="top-center big"><span class="gray">Characteristics</span> <br>Curiosity

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<p class="top-center big"><span class="gray">Characteristics</span>

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<p class="top-center big"><span class="gray">Characteristics</span> <br>Courage

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<p class="top-center big">These qualities, and not <br>the monolith itself

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<p class="top-center big">lead to the ape’s  <br>revolutionary invention:

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<p class="top-center big tool">the tool

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<p class="top-left big fade-in">Earthman is soaring <br>at the peak of his <br>evolution

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<p class="top-left big"><span class="gray">Species</span> <br>Homo <br>sapiens

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<p class="top-left big fade-in"><span class="gray">Characteristics</span>

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<p class="top-left big"><span class="gray">Characteristics</span> <br>Civilized

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<p class="top-left big"><span class="gray">Characteristics</span> <br>Civilized <br>Rational

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<p class="top-left big"><span class="gray">Characteristics</span> <br>Civilized <br>Rational <br>Scientific

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<p class="top-left big fade-in">But Kubrick subtly <br>suggests that  <br>something <br>is wrong

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<p class="top-left big">In space, <br>Man loses control <br>of his tools

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<p class="top-left big">Without gravity,  <br>he must learn <br>to walk again

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<p class="top-left big">He eats <br>“baby food”

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<p class="top-left big">and he needs <br>“toilet training”

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<p class="top-left big">Kubrick’s point: <br>The master of Earth <br>is just a child in space

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<p class="top-left big fade-in">Then, he presents <br>a sinister new <br>character

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<p class="top-left big fade-out">Then, he presents <br>a sinister new <br>character

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<p class="top-left big">Man’s tools are <br>taking a curiously <br>“human” form

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<p class="top-left big">Facing the monolith <br>on the Moon

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<p class="top-left big">he shows none <br>of the ape’s fear <br>and wonder

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<p class="center-middle big fade-in">Mankind still has <br>a lot to learn

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<p class="center-middle big">The monolith was left <br>as a sentinel, to see how far <br>Man had come

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<p class="center-middle big">See where Kubrick <br>is taking us in Part 3:  <br>‘Jupiter Mission’