The animal used in the "Dawn of Man" sequence, the one that looks like a black pig with a trunk [...]
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Astronomer Carl Sagan wrote in his book The Cosmic Connection that Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Sta [...]
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There is no dialogue in the first 25 minutes of the movie (ending when a stewardess speaks at 2 [...]
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By the year 2001, some of the branding had become outdated. RCA Whirlpool, the maker of the zer [...]
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Having HAL read lips was Gary Lockwood's idea, when Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke were s [...]
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The odd clipped and over-pronounced way of speaking on the part of the mission controller was a [...]
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Of the stars Dullea, Lockwood and Sylvester, William Sylvester (Dr. Heywood Floyd) is the only [...]
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The stunt where Keir Dullea is propelled back into the spaceship was only done once.
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The main Discovery set was built by aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs inside a 12m-x-2m [...]
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Originally intended as a road-show release, with Overture, Intermission, and Exit music (all wi [...]
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Although the film leaves it mysterious, early script drafts made clear that HAL's breakdown is [...]
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The only Oscar won by the film was for special visual effects. It was awarded to Stanley Kubric [...]
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The silverware used at the station and in the Discovery was designed by renowned Danish archite [...]
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Was voted the 26th Greatest Film of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
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The Mad Magazine version of the movie was entitled: "201 Minutes of a Space Idiocy!"
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It is implied in the film and confirmed in the novel that space travel is common, but sending a [...]
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At the end of the film, the only space-suit that was never used is the blue one. In 2010 - L'an [...]
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Although all advertisements, as well as the soundtrack album and the movie's closing credits, c [...]
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February26, 2020: Heather Downham is the actress who played the stewardess who hands Dr. Heywoo [...]
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This was the first film to make extensive use of front projection to provide backgrounds agains [...]
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Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies. [...]
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Stanley Kubrick previewed the film for critics, but quickly regretted doing so. Among the mostl [...]
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Filming the special effects shots took 18 months at a cost of $6.5 million (the film's total bu [...]
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It's been noted that the extremely long production process at the MGM-British Studios in Boreha [...]
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The English psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd were at one point approached to perform music for [...]
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The four acts of the film, in sequential order, are named thus: 'The Dawn of Man', 'TMA-1', 'Ju [...]
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Frank Miller, who plays the mission control voice, was a member of the U.S. Air Force in realit [...]
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In the original storyboard sketches, the Discovery was to have deployable solar arrays near the [...]
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Incrementing each letter of "HAL" gives you "IBM". Writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke claimed this was [...]
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While the australopithecine make-up was being designed, computer technicians ran a program to d [...]
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Paimter and designer on documentaries for NASA ,Douglas collaborated on the film 'To the Moon a [...]
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HAL was able to kill Frank Poole by taking over control of the pod, yet didn't prevent Dave Bow [...]
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In 1977 Marvel Comics published an adaptation of the film by legendary artist-creator Jack Kirb [...]
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The reason why the Discovery and the pods are powdery white is due to Kubrick's research of NAS [...]
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Floyd and everyone else on the Moon walk around completely normally. The Apollo landings later [...]
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MGM took a four-page advertisement in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Washing [...]
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Both Tom Hanks and Gale Anne Hurd named this as their favourite film in an AFI poll.
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Released between the airing of Star Trek: Assignment: Earth (1968)(#2.26) & Star Trek: Spock's [...]
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The script went through many stages. In early 1965, when backing was secured for the film, Sir [...]
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The only movie directed by Stanley Kubrick that has a sequel, until Doctor Sleep (2019), Stephe [...]
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During the trip Bowman takes after leaving the Discovery, some of the images seen are tinted fo [...]
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Stanley Kubrick insisted that the artists paint the Earth very pale blue because its albedo (re [...]
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Canadian Shakespearean actor Douglas Rain was the voice of HAL the computer in this film. The l [...]
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HAL's first words are not to Dave Bowman, rather to Frank Poole--"Excuse me, Frank."
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According to Katharina Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick provided the breathing heard in the space-suits [...]
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The full text of the Zero Gravity Toilet Instructions: ZERO GRAVITY TOILET PASSENGERS ARE ADVIS [...]
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The only scene from the film not shot in the studio was the "skull-smashing" sequence in which [...]
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The film's depiction of the lunar landscape owes much to the craggy, mountainous terrain that w [...]
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Working titles for the film included Across the Sea of Stars, Universe, Tunnel to the Stars, Ea [...]
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Most of the effects shots were made during ten- to 12-hour workdays, with some takes lasting ho [...]
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (where HAL was created), was actually at the for [...]
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The date used in the movie script of January 12 1992 for the birth of the H.A.L. Computer is de [...]
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The film never actually tells us in what year it is set. The title leads us to assume it is set [...]
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When the space pod is first seen inside the hotel room, there is a diminishing hum noise. This [...]
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Foresaw the Apple iPad tablet design which looks amazingly similar to the portable tablet-like [...]
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The carry-on bags belonging to the Russian space scientists with whom Dr. Floyd shares a drink [...]
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Stanley Kubrick: [First Person Shot] HAL's perspective is shown in many shots.
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Due to its budget overruns, the film was $800,000 in the red after its initial release. It went [...]
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An early draft of the script had narration.
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On the DVD commentary, actor Keir Dullea stated that the characters Dave Bowman and Frank Poole [...]
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The "buttons" that Dave Bowman presses to arm the depressurization sequence of the pod are the [...]
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Frank Poole and Dave Bowman watch themselves in a television interview on "BBC 12". This was a [...]
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Favorite movie of Christopher Nolan, who directed "Interstellar (2014)," which has multiple sim [...]
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When both Frank and Dave were in the pod, Dave turned off the comms then asked HAL to rotate th [...]
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According to actor Keir Dullea (who plays "Dr. Dave Bowman"), he wore a wig during filming. Thi [...]
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At the premiere screening, 241 people walked out of the theater, including Rock Hudson, who sai [...]
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This is the only time that Stanley Kubrick was nominated for a Best Director Oscar in a non-Bes [...]
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Douglas Trumbull, then just twenty-three, was working under contract on pre-production research [...]
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The famous bone-throwing scene was parodied in the Genesis music video for "Land of Confusion" [...]
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When Floyd exits the Space Station V elevator, he is greeted by an attendant seated behind a sl [...]
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Voted as the second greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's 2012 directors poll.
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Bowman ejects the glass blocks for HAL's higher logic towards the end of the movie. There is a [...]
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George Lucas cited this film as a huge influence on Guerre stellari (1977).
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As Discovery nears Jupiter, its moon Europa is seen. This moon, which is covered in ice, has be [...]
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Early in its conception, Stanley Kubrick had in mind that the film be a largely non-verbal expe [...]
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In the segment where Bowman tries to rescue Poole, Keir Dullea had to do the airlock scene hims [...]
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The scene on board the spacecraft taking Dr. Floyd to the moon in which the flight attendant wa [...]
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At the beginning, the prehistorical African landscapes are just photographs, not actual clips. [...]
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The proto-hominids in the opening sequence are all about the same size, but current theories an [...]
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Stanley Kubrick: [Denial] HAL refuses to open the pod bay doors for Dave.
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Stanley Kubrick had several tons of sand imported, washed and painted for the moon surface scen [...]
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One of the only MGM films in which Leo the Lion does not roar at the beginning.
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Keir Dullea was always the first choice, but the Gary Lockwood role was considered for James Co [...]
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The end music credits do not list a conductor and orchestra for "Also Sprach Zarathustra." Stan [...]
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To create the space ride at the film's climax, Douglas Trumbull combined aerial footage of Monu [...]
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The National Film Archive of Japan showed the "unrestored" 70mm prints from the 2018 Cannes Fil [...]
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The first design for the monolith was a tetrahedron, but Stanley Kubrick thought that would mak [...]
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Film critic Andrew Sarris gave "2001" a negative review when it came out, and one of the things [...]
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The first words are spoken to Dr. Heywood Floyd ( William Sylvester ) and the last words are sp [...]
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After seeing the documentary "To the Moon and Beyond (1964)" at the 1964 New York World's Fair, [...]
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Keir Dullea (Dave Bowman) and Douglas Rain (HAL 9000) are the only actors to reprise their role [...]
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In the film, the two astronauts are shown from the side during HAL's observation of their secre [...]
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Stanley Kubrick rejected Martin Balsam's interpretation of HAL as he felt that too much emotion [...]
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This was the last movie made about men on the moon before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked [...]
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The film prominently uses two pieces of music by two composers who coincidentally share the sam [...]
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Kubrick and Clarke received Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay, even though the scr [...]
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Selected by the Vatican in the "art" category of its list of 45 "great films."
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William Sylvester & Stanley Kubrick passed away before 2001.
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Despite the unprecedented realism of the models, props and scenes of this film the space helmet [...]
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According to biographer Vincent Lobrutto, one of Stanley Kubrick's visual-and aural-inspiration [...]
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During its legal battles with Apple over the origin of the computer tablet, Samsung unsuccessfu [...]
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The first film showing a completely revised (and very short-lived) version of the MGM lion logo [...]
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The HAL 9000 computer was inducted into the Robot Hall of Fame in 2003 (inaugural class).
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In Chicago, a group of hippies went to the film several times, sitting in the front row until t [...]
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Although HAL9000 is depicted in the film as an expert chess player, the actual on-set computer [...]
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This is the first film to receive an MPAA age rating while being in theaters for the first time [...]
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Stanley Kubrick's decision to use classical music for his score would cost him. Contemporary co [...]
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HAL sings "Daisy Bell" (or "A Bicycle Built for Two") as he is shut down. This vaudeville song [...]
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Filming resumed between the airing of Star Trek: Amok Time (1967)(#2.1) & Star Trek: The Apple [...]
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Although the memories of many Los Angeles residents insist that this opened at the famous Ciner [...]
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Due to overruns, original cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth had to leave. He was replaced by Jo [...]
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Throughout the shoot, Stanley Kubrick carried a Polaroid camera with him and would use it to ph [...]
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Douglas Trumbull cites avant-garde animator John Whitney as a direct inspiration for the 2001 s [...]
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Whereas in the film's ending David Bowman ages, in Arthur C. Clarke's novel, the reverse occurs [...]
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David Bowman is also the name of the protagonist in L'incredibile Hulk: Broken Image (1980)(#3. [...]
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Magazine "poll" places won by this movie: In 2002, named by "Positif" (France) as #1 in both cr [...]
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Though almost invisible when watching the film on a TV screen, the four satellites in the first [...]
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According to Stanley Kubrick biographer John Baxter, Kubrick decided to use the Sinar Front Pro [...]
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The initial idea for the device that would eventually become the black monolith involved a tran [...]
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Ed Bishop (lunar shuttle captain) and William Sylvester (Dr. Floyd) had both appeared the year [...]
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It is reported that Stanley Kubrick and Sir Arthur C. Clarke watched an enormous number of scie [...]
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In Clarke's novels, the dimensions of the monolith are always 9 x 4 x 1. These do appear to be [...]
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The entire centrifuge section of the Discovery spacecraft was constructed as a single set. It w [...]
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Stanley Kubrick and Sir Arthur C. Clarke expended enormous effort into making everything as rea [...]
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At mark 2:06:45, Bowman's journey through the stargate, there is a white ball covered in space [...]
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This story was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's 1948 short story, Sentinel of Eternity, which was [...]
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Filming began in December 1965. The actors finished filming their scenes just over 2 years late [...]
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The joke working title, "How the Solar System was Won", reflected the original idea for the fil [...]
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There is a mark difference in tone in which Dave and Frank interact with HAL. Whereas Dave is f [...]
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In both the book and film, HAL's creator, Dr. Chandra, has what is almost certainly a deliberat [...]
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The film took more than four years to develop and make. It cost more than $10 million, a formid [...]
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As best may be determined by the number of candles on Frank Poole's birthday cake, he is 28 yea [...]
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Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick disagreed on what HAL's birthday should be. Kubrick wa [...]
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In the sequence in which Bowman recovers Poole's body with the pod, the camera was running at f [...]
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The stargate sequence was accomplished by mounting colored transparencies to the back of a mech [...]
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Floyd's daughter (Vivian Kubrick) appears to be under five years old. Since she was born in 196 [...]
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The "Blue Danube Waltz" was not the first piece of classical music intended for the space stati [...]
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Stanley Kubrick was very well read. It is rumored that the image of the star-child came to him [...]
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When Tim Burton parodied "2001" in La fabbrica di cioccolato (2005)," he used the same recordin [...]
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Stanley Kubrick: [Bathroom] David Bowman explores the bathroom next to his celestial bedroom af [...]
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Among the model-makers was David Peterson, later Wales' foremost sculptor and a prominent natio [...]
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In the French language dub of the film, HAL sings the French folk song "Au Claire De La Lune" i [...]
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The beginning of the first act (The Dawn of Man) and the entire last act (Jupiter and Beyond th [...]
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When referencing the H.A.L. 9000 computer, the Mission Control voice speaks the digit "nine" as [...]
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Among its many innovations, "2001" was also the first sci-fi film to remove all engine and trav [...]
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Despite its G-rating, there are five on-screen murders: an australopithecine (the primate being [...]
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After watching the film, Federico Fellini sent Stanley Kubrick a congratulatory telegram, later [...]
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Most of the monitor screens used throughout the spacecraft sequences are rear-projection 16mm s [...]
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Just like in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Sentinel," the finding of the monolith on [...]
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Poole (Gary Lockwood) was filmed wearing a helmet on the bridge of Discovery because Stanley Ku [...]
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Evidence of Stanley Kubrick's attention to detail: there are visible replacement instructions f [...]
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The film was originally to have ended just as it had in the book, with Bowman discovering the t [...]
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The estimated film budget ranges from $10,000,000 to $16,000,000.
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As the Discovery mission was launched one year after the monolith had sent its signal and the s [...]
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The actors hired to play the australopithecines in the "Dawn of Man" sequence were mostly mimes [...]
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Some of the "Dawn of Man" African sequences used the sounds of wild cats, gorillas and chimpanz [...]
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According to Douglas Trumbull, the total footage shot was some 200 times the final length of th [...]
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Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, & Douglas Rain were all still alive 33 years later in the actual ye [...]
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During Dr. Floyd's meeting with the Russians, the three women all have sweaters, two of which ( [...]
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The film's title card is set in Gill Sans, one of the classic sans-serif fonts. The zeroes in " [...]
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Floyd's daughter (Vivian Kubrick) has a British accent (apart from the word "party", which she [...]
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At the end of the birthday message Frank Poole's father says, "See You Next Wednesday." Directo [...]
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The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.
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The band M83's song "Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun" was written to be synced with the [...]
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The Dawn of Man sequence was shot after all the scenes with Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood.
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The film originally opened with a ten-minute black-and-white opening sequence featuring intervi [...]
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Stanley Kubrick: [Insanity] HAL's distortion from lying.
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It has been claimed that one of the australopithecines in the Dawn of Man sequence was the Brit [...]
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According to the book "The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey", John Lennon was quoted as saying t [...]
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In honor of the book and movie, NASA named a Mars orbiter: 2001 Mars Odyssey. This was not the [...]
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The film's spaceships were models made from wood, fiberglass, Plexiglas, steel, brass and alumi [...]
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The spherical moon lander somewhat resembles the description of the creatures in Ezekiel 1:6-9. [...]
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Keir Dullea (Dave Bowman) spent 12 hours in make-up for his on-screen scenes as an old man.
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The film inspired David Bowie's 1969 breakthrough single "Space Oddity" (hence the title), whic [...]
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TMA-1 stands for Tycho Magnetic Anomaly-1. The monolith was originally to have been a black tet [...]
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The television interviewer explains that gaps of seven minutes each were edited out of the broa [...]
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According to Rolling Stone magazine, during one screening a young man rose as if in a trance at [...]
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This film was selected into the National Film Registry in 1991 for being "culturally, historica [...]
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Stanley Kubrick involved himself in every aspect of production, even choosing the fabric for hi [...]
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Gary Lockwood starred in not one, but two groundbreaking science fiction productions. In 1966, [...]
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Before his role as C-3PO in the Star Wars movies, this was the only science fiction movie seen [...]
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All of the special effects footage had to be printed on the original negatives. Stanley Kubrick [...]
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When the film was finally completed it was $4.5 million over its original $6 million budget and [...]
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The proportions of the monolith, as stated in the book, are 1 x 4 x 9 (1 unit deep by 4 units w [...]
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The documentary film Doroga k zvezdam (1957) is believed to have significantly influenced Stanl [...]
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When HAL sings towards the end of the movie he calls the song "Daisy", the name is actually "Da [...]
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Shortly before the film was released, Stanley Kubrick's scientific advisor, Frederick Ordway II [...]
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The film developed a celebrity cult whose members included Mike Nichols, Mick Jagger, John Lenn [...]
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The sun and the crescent moon aligned with each other (in the opening shot) is a symbol of Zoro [...]
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Stanley Kubrick was initially forced by MGM to have Alex North (who had written the score for K [...]
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Is considered by many to be the greatest science-fiction film of all time.
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Released in the USA on April 4, 1968, Anthony Perkins's 36th birthday and also the same day tha [...]
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The entire film contains only 205 special effects shots, compared to 350 in "Guerre stellari (1 [...]
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According to Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick wanted to get an insurance policy from Lloyd [...]
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Although it is not explicitly stated, the crew of the Pan Am shuttle wear Velcro slippers in or [...]
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Apart from hiring and firing Frank Cordell and Alex North, Kubrick also called in Edwin Astley [...]
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Stanley Kubrick kept the costume of Moonwatcher.
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Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding Ameri [...]
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The movie was not a financial success at first. MGM was planning to pull it back from theaters, [...]
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The soundtrack includes quotations from four pieces by György Ligeti ("Aventures", "Requiem" [...]
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Originally, Stanley Kubrick had Stuart Freeborn create a primitive but more human-like make-up [...]
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Final film of Ann Gillis.
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Voted as the sixth greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound's 2012 critics poll.
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To create convincing images of nebular movement and starbursts, the crew photographed drops of [...]
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The actual "Space Station 5" model, which was about seven feet across, was found a few years af [...]
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Sir Arthur C. Clarke first became aware of the project when the following cable from Roger Cara [...]
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One of Stanley Kubricks additions to the screenplay which Sir Arthur C. Clarke did not like was [...]
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Just before the monolith disappears and Bowman enters the stargate, two of the solar system pla [...]
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Early drafts included a prologue containing interviews with scientists about off-Earth life, vo [...]
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Originally Stanley Kubrick had planned to shoot the film in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1. After c [...]
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Stanley Kubrick initially approached Sir Arthur C. Clarke by saying that he wanted to make "the [...]
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To create the facial make-up for the australopithecines, technicians first made a plastic skull [...]
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Steven Spielberg has said that for his generation, this movie was the "big bang" that got them [...]
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This film was shot at MGM's Borehamwood Studios next door to where the TV series Il prigioniero [...]
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It should be noted that by the time the film was released, the Gemini two-man missions had been [...]
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In this film, the song "Happy Birthday" is sung (to Frank Poole by his parents). The song would [...]
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Stanley Kubrick calculated that it would take one person 13 years to hand draw and paint all th [...]
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Despite his work earning a BAFTA for Best Cinematography, Geoffrey Unsworth did not enjoy the e [...]
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In Roger Ebert's personal top 10.
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Shortly after the release of the film the TV series Camera Three seem on Sunday mornings in the [...]
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Although it's commonly believed that the famous "jump cut" is from the bone being tossed in the [...]
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According to Arthur C. Clarke, the Tycho crater was chosen as the location of the monolith beca [...]
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The British rock band New Order sampled the lines, "I wouldn't do that, Dave/I'm afraid, Dave/M [...]
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Stanley Kubrick: [zoom] as Dr. Floyd reads the zero-g toilet instructions.
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Deleted scenes include details about the daily life on Discovery, additional space walks, astro [...]
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Although a narrator was in original drafts of the screenplay, this ended up being the first of [...]
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The first science fiction movie shot on 65mm film.
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Vivian Kubrick: the daughter of Stanley Kubrick plays Dr. Floyd's daughter.
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Heywood Floyd asks his daughter what she would like for her birthday and she replies, "A bush b [...]
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62% of the film's budget went on special effects.
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If you consider the relative positions of Bowman when he first arrives in the suite, when he is [...]
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This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.
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The opening musical theme of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra [...]
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Stanley Kubrick cut 19 minutes from the film's original 158-minute running time after its New Y [...]
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The chess position and moves that we see are from a game played in 1910 in Hamburg, Germany, be [...]
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Stanley Kubrick worked for several months with effects technicians to come up with a convincing [...]
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The scene following the ape-man hurling the bone shifts to outer space. what's shown is not a s [...]
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Stanley Kubrick hired a company that made artificial limbs to produce a long-fingered, narrow m [...]
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Stanley Kubrick had all the sets, special effects models and design notes destroyed after shoot [...]
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Intending to set the film apart from the "monsters and sex" type of science fiction films of th [...]
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According to the film's sequel 2010 - L'anno del contatto (1984), the last received communicati [...]
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In the French version, Dr. Heywood Floyd's middle name is Richard.
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For shots of the spaceships that show people moving through the ships' windows, technicians pho [...]
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Federico Fellini considered HAL's death to be particularly sad.
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Originally Stanley Kubrick wanted legendary manga creator Osamu Tezuka to do some of the art di [...]
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When filming Dave and Frank's private conversation in the pod, Stanley Kubrick found the scene [...]
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Early drafts had the ship powered by an Orion Drive.
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In the original theatrical release, the film's Intermission was placed just when Bowman and Poo [...]
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Originally, HAL was to be called Athena and have a female voice. According to Keir Dullea (Dave [...]
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Marvin Minsky, one of the pioneers of neural networks who was also an advisor to the film-maker [...]
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"The Sentinel," the short story that formed the seed of the idea for the film "2001," concludes [...]
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The song 'Daisy' was used by Clarke and Kubrick as it was the first instance of a 'computer voi [...]
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In interviews at the time of the film's release, Stanley Kubrick said the "Zero Gravity Toilet" [...]
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At the time of the making of this movie, Pan American World Airways was maintaining a waiting list f [...]
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