![]() Of course CGI didn't exist when 2001 was first created, so how did they get the pen to drift so smoothly in that classic floating pen scene? They used a brand new technology: double-sided tape. The floating pen scene relied on a brand new technology But I guess he had insights that I don't have."īut he wasn't entirely surprised. Several years earlier a palm reader at a fair had told Dullea there was a rocket ship in his future. ![]() "And looking at my previous work - The Hoodlum Priest, David and Lisa - I don't know how he got the idea from the characters I was portraying that I was right for the part. "I'd never met Kubrick before getting hired," he said in an interview earlier this month. spaceship Discovery mission commander David Bowman, landed the part without even having to audition - and even now he's amazed. The lead actor who plays mission commander David Bowman got hired without an auditionĪctor Keir Dullea, who played U.S. Make sure to check out the sequence starting at 5:50, because if you're a 2001 fan, it will look very familiar. Those names included special effects artist Wally Gentleman, who went on to work on 2001, and voiceover artist Rain, who went on to play HAL. As the credits rolled, Kubrick studied the names of the magicians who created the images." Universe proved that the camera could be a telescope to the heavens. "These images were not flawed by the shoddy matte work, obvious animation and poor miniatures typically found in science fiction films. "As the film unspooled, Kubrick watched the screen with rapt attention while a panorama of the galaxies swirled by, achieving the standard of dynamic visionary realism that he was looking for," remembered biographer Vincent Labrutto. Director Stanley Kubrick reportedly watched as many space films as he could find, but the Canadian film - which was nominated for an Oscar in 1961 - had an especially strong impact. Todd Field is the director of “Tár,” “Little Children” and “In the Bedroom.But HAL wasn't the film's only Canadian connectionĢ001: A Space Odyssey is very much an American film, but it was inspired at least in part by a Canadian National Film Board short called Universe. How lucky we all are that he never turned pro. In this way, he was a pure amateur, and able to make his art with the unreasonable enthusiasms of an amateur. That included the supposed know-how of people working in the industry. Stanley was dubious of all formal education. Throughout Kubrick’s life his intelligence was fed by his curiosity, and his fearless ability to self-learn. ![]() From Bowie’s Major Tom to Steve Jobs’ design aesthetic, every aspect of our world has and continues to be informed by this film - including the way we fetishize and fear the hive neural AI inside the one-eyed machines that rule our lives - a fact that makes many prone to view Stanley Kubrick as an actual prophet instead of a mere filmmaker. His level of imagination, execution and wholly original art, wielding never-before-seen tools - going so far as stealing scientists from NASA - is, as the one-sheet states, “A Real Trip.” Cinema and, dare I say, mankind took a monumental leap forward.Ĭulture took cues and clues from “2001” and drafted off it. Like Joyce’s “Ulysses,” Kubrick’s stylistic and technical innovations forever changed the form. Most importantly Kubrick’s “2001” allowed audiences and filmmakers alike to experience his Icarus-like view of a cinematic universe they had never before experienced. The critics returned to reappraise the film, and it went on to turn a huge profit. Once the debris field cleared, “2001” was all anyone was talking about. ![]() People were getting high in the theater and returning to see it again and again. After a few months “2001” took root in America’s burgeoning counterculture. Kubrick knew it demanded repeat viewings, and through sheer will managed to convince the MGM brass to keep it in theaters. Many critics had difficulty reading the film. ![]() Though now considered one of the major artistic works of the 20th century, in 1968 Stanley Kubrick’s “ 2001: A Space Odyssey” detonated on-screen - that is to say it bombed.Īt its New York premiere somewhere around 250 people walked out. This essay is one of several contributed by filmmakers and actors as part of Variety’s 100 Greatest Movies of All Time package. ![]()
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