Stanley Kubrick: The Prophecy of 2001 Part 2

This is a spacial feature of the 2001 dvd/bluray

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Entertainment

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• Stanley
• Kubrick
• Space
• Odyssey
• Arthur
• C.
• Clarke

[boriato]

@madman778 Agree. If they want to talk about Kubrick, they should focus on the artsy, Fellini sort of aspects of the film. But they're talking about the sci fi aspects of it. Clarke should get full credit for those.

BTW, sci fi (like prophecy) doesn't predict ACTUAL futures; it envisions & warns about POSSIBLE futures. These talking heads seem to be keeping a score card on accuracy of predictions. That's not the essence of good sci fi.

[madman778]

Why do they celebrate Kubrick for the content, It was Arthur C Clark who wrote the book which realms much deeper into the message of technology, and was also part of the team of engineers to design the lunar landing module. They sound so stupid.

Hasnt anyone noticed this?

[malows1234]

@boriato SHUT UP, just shut up. kubrick is the true genius, clarke is some writer who wrote some shit, and is riding on kubrick's talents. kubrick's film is a better feel of the atmosphere. kubrick's film is masterful because it immerses you in space. and if clarke had his say, the movie would have ended right when they found the monolith on the moon. so stfu with all the clarke dicksucking. he is a great writer, but he ain't no Stanley Kubrick.

[malows1234]

@madman778 SHUT UP, just shut up. kubrick is the true genius, clarke is some writer who wrote some shit, and is riding on kubrick's talents. kubrick's film is a better feel of the atmosphere. kubrick's film is masterful because it immerses you in space. and if clarke had his say, the movie would have ended right when they found the monolith on the moon. so stfu with all the clarke dicksucking. he is a great writer, but he ain't no Stanley Kubrick.

[cliklab]

Did you notice Clarke's novel was finally published 3 months after the film's release? Clarke completed 1st draft of the novel by the end of 1964. Why wasn't it published for another 4 years? I think Clarke's thorough explanations of "cause and effect" for the events in the novel, were informed/inspired by film production dailies.

[cliklab]

@madman778. Kubrick invited Clarke to collaborate on a Sci-Fi film project. The film was to be loosely based on Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", written in 1948. The novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke got sole credit) even though Kubrick co-wrote. Clarke recollects, "Novel and screenplay were being written simultaneously, with feedback in both directions. Thus I rewrote some sections after seeing the movie rushes -- a rather expensive method of literary creation".

[cliklab]

a couple of tablet personal computers @3:27. 

[straker2]

The thing people seem to miss is the untold story of Kubrick, how he worked day in, day out, for four years on this movie, like a full time job for four years, and how he decided to get real engineers from Nasa to design the model ships, how he asked Clarke for stories to adapt, how he shot scenes and shot test footage over and over and printed them and watched them and considered how to reshoot them more realistically and kept plugging away till he got a GREAT movie!

[LeLimeLine]

As someone whose favorite director is Stanley Kubrick and whose favorite hard sci-fi writer is Arthur C. Clarke, I find this squabble over who should get credit absurd. The credit is deserved to exactly who receives the credit, which is both of them. It was a pure collaboration if ever there was one.

[LeLimeLine]

@madman778 Kubrick and Clarke worked on the story together. Clarke then wrote the book to accompany the film.

[JohnWesleyDowney]

@vladrvladr You need to read the biography of Kubrick by Vincent LoBrutto and that way you'll have a better idea of what you're talking about.