"[93] Weston said Kubrick was warned "we've got to get him back" but reportedly replied, "Damn it, we just started. [25] Kubrick hinted at the nature of the mysterious unseen alien race in 2001 by suggesting that given millions of years of evolution, they progressed from biological beings to "immortal machine entities" and then into "beings of pure energy and spirit" with "limitless capabilities and ungraspable intelligence".[38]. [42][43] Other changes include a different monolith for the "Dawn of Man" sequence, discarded when early prototypes did not photograph well; the use of Saturn as the final destination of the Discovery mission rather than Jupiter, discarded when the special effects team could not develop a convincing rendition of Saturn's rings; and the finale of the Star Child exploding nuclear weapons carried by Earth-orbiting satellites,[43] which Kubrick discarded for its similarity to his previous film, Dr. The film is noted for its scientifically accurate depiction of space flight, pioneering special effects, and ambiguous imagery. Floyd refuses to discuss rumours of an epidemic at the base. Expressing his high expectations for the thematic importance which he associated with the film, in April 1965, eleven months after they began working on the project, Kubrick selected 2001: A Space Odyssey; Clarke said the title was "entirely" Kubrick's idea. by nicky from panama city beach florida on Thu Nov 06 2014 I bought a 2002 used Mazda Tribute DX 5 speed manual transmission in 2004 with app. An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist of fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. [32] He ordered the special-effects technicians to use the painstaking process of creating all visual effects seen in the film "in camera", avoiding degraded picture quality from the use of blue screen and travelling matte techniques. ... Arthur took all the existing material, plus an impression of some of the rushes, and wrote the novel. Mission Control advises the astronauts that results from their own HAL 9000 computer indicate that HAL is in error about the device's imminent failure. While acknowledging Kubrick's desire to use actors to portray humanoid aliens for convenience's sake, Sagan argued that alien life forms were unlikely to bear any resemblance to terrestrial life, and that to do so would introduce "at least an element of falseness" to the film. During a stopover at Space Station 5, he meets Russian scientists who are concerned that Clavius seems to be incommunicado. The actors' bodies blocked the camera's view of the wires and appeared to float. Clarke wrote three sequel novels: 2010: Odyssey Two (1982), 2061: Odyssey Three (1987), and 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997). It is the pattern of a great deal of mythology, and that is what we were trying to suggest. [13] Graphic Films' Con Pederson, Lester Novros, and background artist Douglas Trumbull airmailed research-based concept sketches and notes covering the mechanics and physics of space travel, and created storyboards for the space flight sequences in 2001. "[63] In December 2010, Douglas Trumbull announced that Warner Bros. had found 17 minutes of lost footage from the post-premiere cuts, "perfectly preserved", in a Kansas salt mine vault used by Warner for storage. [130][131][132] By June 1974, the film had rentals from the United States and Canada of $20.3 million (gross of $58 million)[130] and international rentals of $7.5 million. [43], Kubrick made further changes to make the film more nonverbal, to communicate on a visual and visceral level rather than through conventional narrative. [16][17] Universe's narrator, actor Douglas Rain, was cast as the voice of HAL. "[95], The coloured lights in the Star Gate sequence were accomplished by slit-scan photography of thousands of high-contrast images on film, including Op art paintings, architectural drawings, Moiré patterns, printed circuits, and electron-microscope photographs of molecular and crystal structures. [191], Multiple allegorical interpretations of 2001 have been proposed. During the film's "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" sequence, Bowman takes a trip through the "Star Gate" that involves the innovative use of slit-scan photography to create the visual effects and disturbing sequences of him stunned and then terrified at what he is experiencing. But they felt it would be disloyal to accept Kubrick's offer. He attended the premiere and was "pleased to see that I had been of some help. The instructions are generally legible on Blu-ray editions but not DVD editions of the film. [202] In 2010, it was named the greatest film of all time by The Moving Arts Film Journal. It is the kind of experience that makes you want to go back and reread the whole thing in the light of the emphases that Jackson has brought to the story. The most notable case is when Bowman enters the centrifuge from the central hub on a ladder, and joins Poole, who is eating on the other side of the centrifuge. As additional "bonus tracks" at the end, the CD includes the versions of "Zarathustra" and Lux Aeterna on the old MGM soundtrack album, an unaltered performance of "Aventures", and a nine-minute compilation of all of HAL's dialogue. [65] By the end of May, the film had opened in 22 cities in the United States and Canada and opened in another 36 in June. Elements of the scene were recorded on same piece of film in separate passes to combine the lit model, stars, planets, or other spacecraft in the same shot. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? They put him in what I suppose you could describe as a human zoo to study him, and his whole life passes from that point on in that room.