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| 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| "I am putting myself to the fullest possible use; which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do." - HAL 9000, 2001 |
| In 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick ventures into the genre of Science-Fiction: the result is a film that takes a haunting and unforgettable look at man's place in an infinite universe. |
Trivia Alex North, who had composed the music for Kubrick's earlier Spartacus, composed an original score for the movie, which Kubrick rejected in favour of the classical music he had played on the set to create the right atmosphere. 2001 won only one Oscar - for Best Special Effects. The story of 2001 went through many revisions, with Kubrick working primarily on the screenplay while Clarke worked simultaneously on the novel version. The movie was released before the novel. 2001, famous for its lack of dialogue, originally had voice over narration. This was later cut. Most of Kubrick's movies do feature voice over narration of some description. The novel and the screenplay both gives Hal's birthday as January 12 1997, but in the film the year is 1992 - Rain misread the date. KUBRICK ON 2001: "You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophy and allegorical meaning of the film - and such speculation is an indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level - but I don't want to spell out a verbal roadmap for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point." CLARKE ON 2001: "If you understand 2001 completely, we failed. We wanted to raise more questions than we answered." |
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