Kubrick nervously shuttled between his seat in the front row and the projection booth, where he tweaked the sound and the focus. Arthur C. David Bowie took a few drops of cannabis tincture before watching, and countless others dropped acid.
These movies, though cheesy, found a new use for editing and special effects: to mimic psychedelic visions. The power of the movie has always been unusually bound up with the story of how it was made. He had one advantage over reality: the film could present the marvels of the universe in lavish color and sound, on an enormous canvas.
If Kubrick could make the movie he imagined, the grainy images from the lunar surface shown on dinky TV screens would seem comparatively unreal. In Clarke, Kubrick found a willing accomplice. Clarke had served as a radar instructor in the R. His reputation as perhaps the most rigorous of living sci-fi writers, the author of several critically acclaimed novels, was widespread.
Kubrick needed somebody who had knowledge and imagination in equal parts. Kubrick liked to work from books, and since a suitable one did not yet exist they would write it.
They studied the scientific literature on extraterrestrial life. Slowed down to normal speed, the oozing shades and textures looked like galaxies and nebulae. Spacecraft were designed with the expert help of Harry Lange and Frederick Ordway, who ran a prominent space consultancy. Movie Info.
An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci-fi author Arthur C.
When Dr. Dave Bowman Keir Dullea and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time. Stanley Kubrick. Arthur C. Clarke , Stanley Kubrick. Oct 23, Magnetic Stereo 6 Track, Mono, Stereo. Keir Dullea Dr. Dave Bowman. Gary Lockwood Dr. Frank Poole. William Sylvester Dr. Haywood R.
Daniel Richter Moonwatcher. Leonard Rossiter Dr. Andrei Smyslov. Margaret Tyzack Elena. Robert Beatty Dr. Ralph Halvorsen. Stanley Kubrick Director. Clarke Writer. Stanley Kubrick Writer. Stanley Kubrick Producer. Geoffrey Unsworth Cinematographer. Ray Lovejoy Film Editor. James Liggat Casting. Ernest Archer Production Design. Keir Dullea as Dr. You can trace the linear progression from apes to Sylvester to Bowman.
Man loses his animalistic and emotional instincts and is on the path to evolution, the next step. This pays off in the ending. On the other hand, when man loses his humanity, HAL, the super computer, becomes more human than him.
It resembles the journey through the ages like The Foundation series, by Isaac Asimov. Modern films like Star Wars force characters to live through multiple films in the series in some form for continuity.
Different ways of storytelling. Overall, A Space Odyssey is a story wrapped as an experience. It demands some education and affinity to science and space. Every film asks you to assume something. This is what Kubrick meant when he said about trimming the long shots.
Is it re-watchable? I can watch it again and again, which is how I score a film on entertainment. It stands on its own and has aged well. The story is our future, if people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are to be believed.
It remains the gold standard of science fiction film in space, even after half a century. This is why A Space Odyssey is one of the greatest films ever made, and is third on my list of films to see before you die :.
Close Menu learn filmmaking. Filmmaking For Beginners. Filmmaking Video Essays and Case Studies. Master Camera Angles and Camera Movement. Cinematography for Beginners. Master Camera Settings and Exposure. Master Composition and Lenses. Color Grading for Cinematographers. Learn Film Lighting. Fifty years after "Space Odyssey" I'm more inclined to share Kubrick's pessimistic view of human horrors.
What would he have made of today's tribalism; Jack D. Ripper from "Dr. Strangelove" could be secretary of state. Still, after going back to its first showing at the Somerville Theatre, this time with just one friend and a shared pilsner as my inebriant, it's "Space Odyssey" that leaves me in awe of Kubrick as an artist and of "" as filmmaking's highest achievement.
As much as I love being an arts critic, I'm kind of happy that part of his legacy is, historically, having the last laugh on such hallowed critics as Andrew Sarris my hero , Pauline Kael, Renata Adler and Stanley Kauffmann, who all hated the film.
It should be humbling to see fellow critics proved so wrong in the end Media maven Marshall McLuhan and filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who also damned the film, don't look so hot either. No one since has so deftly matched form and function while telling such a sophisticated and complicated story. Or told such an eventually optimistic story without a hint of sentimentality. In fact, Kubrick's dark side is evident throughout.
All this is on such glorious display with the Somerville's pristine handling of Nolan's "un-restoration" of the film, bringing back all the analog glory of the original pre-CGI film.
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