FILM MAKER: STANLEY KUBRICK

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1. Musical Loan: "Thus spoke Zarathustra", composed by Richard Strauss: This music is based on another play with the same name writen by the philosopher  Friedrich Nietzsche where he exposes his theory about the "Übermensch" as a higher being (the human as a higher being). 

2. Non diegetic: it's a kind of back-ground music to reinforce the importance of the moment.

3. Integrated music: it's justified in the plot. The moment in the history of the humankind, when an animal starts to use a a bone as a tool, it is a first step in the human evolution. The use of tool entails to begin to behave as a biped being that uses both hands to manage things and onlyt two feet for walking (and not the four limbs as an animal). 

4.  Convergent music: it reinforces the importance of this big step for the humankind according to this moment, when the monkey use the bone as a tool. The slow rhythm of the action coincides with the music; pay attention to the moment at the end of musical fragment when the monkey crashes the bones at the same time the strongest timpani beats are heard.

5.  Sequence music: it coincides with the development of the sequence

6.  Music in a first plane: it sounds in a higher volume and stands out.

7. A curiosity: at the end of this scene, you can see the biggest flash-forward of the history of the cinema. Pay attention to the temporal ellipsis: from the thrown bone to the air, in the edition the filmaker passes to a spaceship. How many millions of years have passed between both moments?

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