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Filmguide to 2001: A Space Odyssey CA ROLYN GEDULD rG·l $1.71 INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS FILMGUIDE SERIES Harry Geduld and Ronald Gottesman, General Editors PllmpIU 10 2001: A Space Odyssey CAROLYN GEDULD INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS BloomiDatoD LoadOD u• ......, rr.. Cott7riIbt 0 1m ., lalla. . riIIata ,. .. All No part of dIiI book ma, be reproduced or utiU_ ill form 8D)' or by any mana, olectroalc or meclaaak:a', lacIudia. pbokIIc)op'y"iq aD, and recordIq. or by iaformadoa ..... aDd retrieval ne witbDuI penniaioIllll wdtlq from tIae pub1itbcr. AlIOdatioD of AInericaD Ualwnily Pre.el RaoIutioD on Permillioaa CODIdtuta .... aaJy excepdoa 10 dais probibkiae. Publitbed ill Canada by Pit,henry a WbitaWe Llmiled. DoD "iUs. ODtario eoaan- Ubrary of cataloi card aUIII.r: 72-1"35 ISBN: 0-253-39305-1 d. D-25J-39306-X pa. saata MaauI.:tured iD the United of America To my parents Thanks are due to Royal BrowD. ROD Gottesman, Wmiam Johoson, Scott SaDders, and, as always, Harry. contents 1 Credits 3 2 0ut1iDe: 2001: A SptICt 5 Odyu~y 3 The Director: Previous Odysseys 9 4 The Production: A CaleDdar 21 5 ADalysis 29 6 Summary Critique 73 A Kubrick Fdmo. ...p hy 81 BibUoarapby 81 Rental Source 87 Filmguide to 200 I: A Spac~ Od)'ss~y I · credits 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr, Films, Inc .• 1968. Super Panavision, T echnicolor and Metrocolor. Dir~ctor and Produc~r Stanley Kubrick Screenpla)' Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Oarke Production Company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sl"cial ED~c's Dir~ctor Stanley Kubrick Wally Veevers, DougJas S~cial EO~cls S'lp~r,!isors Trumbull, Con Pederson, Tom Howard Special Effects Photographic Unit Colin J. Cantwell, Bruce Logan. Bryan Loftus. David Osborne. Frederick Martin t John J. Malick Production Designers Tony Masters. Harry Lange, Ernest Archer Editor Ray Lovejoy Hardy Amies Wa;drob~ Dir~c'or 01 Photography Geoffrey Unsworth D.S.C. A dditional Photography John Alcott First A -fs;stanl Director Derek Cracknell Art Director John Hoesli Sound Editor Winston Ryder Scientific C(Jnsullant Frederick I. Ordway ill 3 " to 2001: A Odysuy Film,,,;d~ Spac~ Music Aram Kbatchaturian. Gytirgy Used, JoIwul Strauss Richard Strauss y Time: 141 minutcs (venion in general release) Filmin. began on December 29. 1965 in M.G.M.'s SbeppertOD and Boreham Wood Studios in England. Fint public Ibow inl in New York on April 3. 1968. Dall~ BowntIUI KeirDuUea Frank Pool~ Gary Lockwood Dr. Heywood Floyd William Sylvester Moon-Watelle, Daniel Richter Smysloll (1M Russian sc;~nlist) Leonard Rossiter Elellll Margaret Tyzack HlIlllorsen Robert Beauy MichMb Sean Sullivan HAL's Douglas Rain lIoic~ Mission Comrol Frank Miller Stewardess Penny Brahms FatMr PooI~'s Alan Gifford outline: 2001: A Space Odyss~y A gigantic pockfaced moon. glorified by Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zaratluutra. drifts down the cavernous Cinerama screen. Sunrise is seen on the Earth-crescenl banging above in the sky. So begins the cinematic purple-prose of 2001: A Sp«e Odyssey, a film in four episodes: ( 1) uThe Dawn of Man." This title. appearing after the view of sunrise beyond the moon and after the credits, brings us directly to Earth. In silence, we continue with shots taking us from sunrise to sunset on a forbidding primordial half desert, where a tribe of apes live a kind of minimal existence among a herd of gentle tapirs. One ape (Daniel Richter), called Moon-Watcher in the script. singles bimseU out as the leader when the mock ferocity of his screams discourages a rival tribe from using the territorial waterhole. After an ominous night, the awakening apes ftnd that an unnatural object has appeared in their den. It is an outsized black rectangular made more mysterious by Gy6rgy monoli~ Ugeti's unearthly requiem slowly swelling in the bac:qround. After Moon-Watcher cautiously fingers the mooolith, the whole tribe, speUbound, pthen around to caress it as the sun "magically" over its roof. ~ Some time after, we find Moon-Watcher foraginl as usual near the broken skeleton of some large. homed animal when an interruptiDg shot of the monolith suggests a new idea CDters his c:oosc:iousness. Tentatively. be picks up one of the larger boDes and tries to use it as a cudgel. His efforts become more and more vigorous. and while Strauss' triumphant music
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