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Kubrick's use of classical in 2001 really set the stage for a lot of the modern directors. Especially how he used The Blue Danube during the docking sequence. Most Sci-Fi at that time showed everything whooshing through space with stars flying by and lots of mechanical noise. Kubrick showed how quiet, slow, and in a ballet sort of style, how beautiful movement in space really was.

von Trier shooting the opening of Melancholia in super slow motion with just the sounds of Wagner's piece almost echoed what Kubrick did with The Blue Danube.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”