I don’t think that’s an iconic shot, because what’s it an icon of? It shows up all over the place, but it’s never been tied to one specific film. I think it’s more along the lines of a cinematic cliche, rather than an homage to a famous shot from a specific movie.
Not quite the rotating bone shot, but Clueless has a parody of the low view of the monolith just before it (with a cordless phone shown instead, to the strains of Also Sprach Zarathustra). Can’t find a clip though, sorry.
I think the OP is confused about that anyway. It’s not the bone morphing into a satellite which is the most parodied, it’s the monolith/bone scene taken as a whole which is truly famous and often referenced. Like the South Park clip I posted in post #23 - it’s all about the one ape who decides to use the bone as a tool, and that tool happens to be a weapon. That is the pivotal moment.
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And speaking of Also Sprach Zarathustra, when we went to the movies this morning not one but two of the trailers used this music. I’m not sure of the bone is the most parodied scene, but this must be one of the most copied themes - right up there with the theme from Jaws.
And people say Hollywood isn’t original.
I can’t name a film that has parodied the opening of 2001, but I’d like to nominate the shower scene in **Psycho **as being mani-parodied, although the only one that comes to mind immediately is National Lampoon’s Vacation where Clark (mock) attacks Ellen with a rubber banana.
The video game Spore uses it every time your species evolves.
A craptastic game btw. Don’t waste your money.
Mel Brooks did it in High Anxiety.
Nothing to do with 2001, but one of the most parodied and joked about shots has to be Linda Blair’s pea-soup barfing scene in The Exorcist.
As to frequency of reference, I give my vote to the hero walk. Oddly enough, it The Right Stuff the shot is not slow motion, yet it seems always to be in the countless parodies/ripoffs/homages I’ve seen.
I’ve also seen the final scene in The Godfather quite a bit - where the door (and the entire shot) slowly closes on Kate.
“O Fortuna” might be even more used than those two. It seems to be used in the trailer for almost every third film and turns up in tons of films, commercials, parodies, etc.
Whichever movie first had an overhead shot of a person in anguish because someone just died, reaching towards the sky screaming “NO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O!!!”
Another much parodied shot…the final scene of Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid. Just caught a re-run of a That 70s Show episode that had Eric and Donna doing the freeze-frame thing.
For what its worth, the bone being hurled and then becoming a satellite was Kubrick apparently referencing an earlier (wonderful) movie, A Canterbury Tale, in which a nobleman’s falcon is thrown upwards and then time moves forward centuries to see the bird become a WWII aeroplane.
You can see the shot at 3.14 here: Youtube fragment
Never saw the film(SoIdont know the name of it) but have seen numerous parodies,the woman sitting opposite a bloke in a resteraunt who very loudly and very publicly fakes an orgasm.
When Harry Met Sally.