Las sombras de Nietzsche en los trazos audiovisuales de Stanley Kubrick y Ridley Scott. 2001

Abstract

In the present work, we propose to dwell on how some powerful and central ideas of Nietzsche’s ideas influenced great iconic audiovisual productions in the history of cinema and art. For this investigation, we will focus on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. We will see how some of Nietzsche’s notions are embodied in these films and we will reflect and establish the “conversations in absence” that exist between the Nietzschean writings and the audiovisual discourses of Kubrick and Scott. It moves us to be able to reflect on the relationship between one of the most important thinkers in history and two of the most important audiovisual productions in cinema. Nietzsche with his tuning fork has moved or moved-with them and they with his productions have hit other directors and will hit the people who are to come.