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| Character | Actor |
| Dr. Dave Bowman | Keir Dullea |
| Dr. Frank Poole | Gary Lockwood |
| Dr. Heywood R. Floyd | William Sylvester |
| Moon-Watcher | Daniel Richter |
| Dr. Andrei Smyslov | Leonard Rossiter |
| Elena | Margaret Tyzack |
| Dr. Ralph Halvorsen | Robert Beatty |
| Dr. Bill Michaels | Sean Sullivan |
| HAL 9000 | Douglas Rain |
| Mission controller | Frank Miller |
| Astronaut | Bill Weston |
| Shuttle Captain | Edward Bishop |
| Astronaut | Glenn Beck |
| Poole's father | Alan Gifford |
| Poole's mother | Ann Gillis |
| Aries-1B stewardess | Edwina Carroll |
| Stewardess | Penny Brahms |
| Stewardess | Heather Downham |
| Astronaut | Mike Lovell |
| Ape | John Ashley |
| Ape | Jimmy Bell |
| Ape | David Charkham |
| Ape | Simon Davis |
| Ape | Jonathan Daw |
| Ape | Péter Delmár |
| Ape | Terry Duggan |
| Ape | David Fleetwood |
| Ape | Danny Grover |
| Ape | Brian Hawley |
| Ape | David Hines |
| Ape | Tony Jackson |
| Ape | John Jordan |
| Ape | Scott MacKee |
| Ape | Laurence Marchant |
| Ape | Darryl Paes |
| Ape | Joe Refalo |
| Ape | Andy Wallace |
| Ape | Bob Wilyman |
| Ape | Richard Wood |
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Written by Stanley Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke
Selling '2001' was odyssey for puzzled studio brass
Sunday, 4/13/08
By Hap Erstein
West Palm Beach, FL - Forty years ago this month, Stanley
Kubrick expanded moviegoers' minds and had them scratching their heads upon the
release of his visionary but perplexing science-fiction film, 2001: A Space
Odyssey. Viewers who weren't quite sure what to make of the widescreen journey
into outer space, set in motion by an encounter between prehistoric apes and a
tall black monolith, might find it comforting to know that neither did the
executives of MGM.
"I truly didn't understand it, didn't get the
significance of the movie, until I sat down with Stanley," said Mel Maron,
former head of distribution for MGM. "I had no idea what the symbolism was
with the apes and the monolith…and I had to go out and sell it to the
theater owners."
Maron, 76, worked at MGM from 1949 to 1969, climbing up from
messenger boy to vice president of the studio. As the picture's much-delayed
April 6 release date loomed in 1968, neither Maron nor the advertising and
marketing department, nor any of the MGM executives knew much about the film
beyond the fact that it was based on a novella by Arthur C. Clarke called The
Sentinel. Maron recalled going to studio head Robert O'Brien, pleading for more
information about this Space Odyssey.
"So," he said, " 'I'll find out, I'll call
Stanley.' It was still in production at Shepperton studios outside of London,
and we hadn't seen anything," Maron said from his office in Boca Raton,
where he runs an independent distribution firm. Kubrick, famously reclusive and
secretive, had by this point established an unusual, hands-off relationship with
the studio, having already made acclaimed movies such as Spartacus, Lolita and
Dr. Strangelove. "Stanley had carte blanche really, up to the budget they
had agreed on," Maron said. "And that budget kept going up. But this
was Stanley Kubrick, so they didn't argue. He needed another million here,
another million there."
In a conciliatory mood, Kubrick agreed to host a delegation
of MGM suits and show them what he had completed so far. "So 14 executives
go over, including myself. We each had a suite at, I think, the Kensington"
in London, Maron said. "We arrive; we want to go to the studio, but Stanley
says, 'Look, you guys are exhausted, why don't we set up a date for tomorrow.
You'll have lunch, and then we'll screen.' "
The next day, the MGM brass went to Shepperton. "We have
a lovely lunch in the commissary," Maron said, "and now we go into the
screening room. The screen comes on and we get 20 minutes of 'Dah-dah-dah,
dum-dum, dah-dum, dah-dum,' (Strauss' Blue Danube waltz). "That's it, the
spinning space station, that's all we saw," he recalled with a sigh.
"Just this thing going around and around to the music. Twenty minutes. So
now we still don't know what we're going to see in the movie." And then the
executives were dismissed, to fly home almost as mystified as they were when
they arrived. Still, theaters were booked throughout the United States and the
world, so an advertising campaign about "the ultimate experience" was
hastily devised, and a VIP premiere was scheduled at Washington's Cinerama movie
palace, the Uptown Theatre, for two days before the general release.
"But Stanley doesn't fly," Maron said, "so
he's coming over on the Queen Elizabeth II (cruise ship). We hired two floors
for him to edit, and he finished editing on the ship. He docked in New York and
carried off the wet print." The movie arrived on schedule, but the
Washington premiere was a disaster. Less than an hour before the screening,
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death in Memphis, Tenn. The audience of
dignitaries learned of the assassination at intermission. "The theater was
packed," Maron said. "Then at intermission, nobody came back."
Only a few hundred tickets had been sold for the next night's
screening at the Capitol Theatre in New York, so Maron decided to sell the
remaining seats to the general public. "And 20 minutes before the movie
started, it was like the subways of New York opened up, and people poured into
the theater. You have never seen in your life such a motley crew of people
coming to see it. It was the first time in my life I ever saw people demanding
to sit in the first rows."
Why? "They had heard about the psychedelic show,"
he said. "I didn't know what they were doing, but there were people with
strange pipes. I'd never seen anything like that in a movie theater."
Kubrick was never one to explain his films, but in a
discussion about the distribution strategy for 2001, Maron asked him for some
help. "I said, 'Stanley, I'm going out to sell it, and I really feel like a
jerk. What are you trying to say when you have the apes and the monolith?'
"He said, 'It's very simple, Mel. That's Nietzsche's
theory of superpower. They touched it, and they're repelled. It was a
superpower; they felt the power of the monolith, and they were afraid.' "
Oh. "And then, the end, where Keir Dullea is dying and
becomes a fetus?" Maron asked.
"That's the end of one generation and the beginning of
another generation," said Kubrick. "The beginning of the new century
2001."
Keeping alive the spirit of Kubrick's movie odyssey
Jim Schembri | The Age Australia 9/23/06
Staring straight-faced into each other's eyes as they
recreate the famous pre-intermission scene from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space
Odyssey, Gary Lockwood and Keir Dullea engage in banter that speaks volumes
about the 40-year friendship born on the set of the 1968 classic, in which they
played two deep-space astronauts.
As Dullea recites streams of technical dialogue verbatim,
Lockwood tries putting him off with sugar-coated curse words and one-liners.
"Mission Control, this is X-Ray Delta One. A one-niner two-zero on-board
fault predicted …" says Dullea. Replies Lockwood: "Did you get laid
this morning before work?" Neither breaks into a smile.
The film caused enormous controversy, with people arguing
over whether it was a crashing bore or a timeless masterpiece. Still enormously
proud of 2001, Lockwood and Dullea are firmly in the latter camp. They needed
little persuasion when approached by Kubrick, whom both regard as a genius
(another source of controversy).
"It's all about Darwin, about evolution," says
Lockwood of the film. Adds Dullea: "It's a film that expresses an almost
religious take on the cyclical nature of existence … Kubrick added important
elements to the vocabulary of cinema."
Since 2001, both have worked extensively on television,
though Dullea has maintained his acclaimed career on the New York stage, where
he still works. He is soon to appear in Robert De Niro's feature film The Good
Shepherd and rates his 1992 role as F. Scott Fitzgerald in the one-man
off-Broadway play The Other Side of Paradise as his proudest non- 2001 moment.
Lockwood openly jests about being the less eloquent of the
two and refers to Dullea as "a serious actor-actor", though his
seminal work in 2001, his role in the Star Trek pilot and his role as the
wise-cracking young gunslinger in the classic 1968 cowboy film Firecreek has
earned him a huge fan base.
Lockwood began attending sci-fi conventions in the mid-1990s,
but had to talk Dullea into joining him. "It smelled a little bit of 'has-beenism',"
says Dullea. "Then Gary began to describe how much money I could make on
the weekend! As I started doing them, I realised how much this film means to
people. When you get astronauts telling you they became astronauts because of
having seen 2001, there's something wonderful about being part of a film that
did that."
The film's enduring appeal, they agree, is due largely to its
meaning being different and personal to each viewer. This, Lockwood emphatically
points out, stands in stark contrast to the studio blockbusters of today and the
mind-set of the people who make them.
"They're all corporate guys. They assign somebody to run
a studio and the asshole doesn't know shit about it. The reality is that if you
want somebody to set a beautiful diamond and to cut it, are you going to go to a
guy who works for IBM? No. Well, that's what we have. Our studio industry is
totally screwed because it's corporate."
Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood will present and do Q&A at
the 2pm and 7.30pm screenings of 2001 tomorrow at the Astor Theatre, Windsor.
"2001" fundraiser for Rising Phoenix Theatre Company.
By Margaret A. Mcgurk 6/1/06
Dullea is an old friend of Rising Phoenix producing
director Herb DuVal. The two became friends when DuVal lived in Connecticut and
both were members of the Theater Arts Workshop, which Dullea described as
"an organization for actors, writers and directors to have, in a sense, a
gymnasium to work out in." Dullea, who also starred in the sequel
"2010," has become accustomed to answering questions about
"2001" in recent years, since he began attending science-fiction
conventions.
"My ("2001") co-star, Gary Lockwood, had been
trying to get me to do this for years, and I sort of pooh-poohed it,"
Dullea said. "Finally, he talked me into it, and now I've been to 15 or 20
conventions in the last six years. It's a lot of fun." He recently attended
a special event honoring "2001" at the Jules Verne Film Festival in
Paris, along with astronaut Buzz Aldrin. "I have a lot of stories to tell,
a lot of amusing things that happened," Dullea said. "These days, in
those kind of films all the special effects are computer-generated. In those
days, everything - everything - was a physical effect."
Star will discuss the art of film and making his most famous movie, '2001: A
Space Odyssey'
By Eric Robinette 6/1/06
Keir Dullea may have starred in "2001: A Space
Odyssey," but that doesn't necessarily mean he can unlock the secrets to
the film when he visits Middletown next week. At a recent meeting of the Art
Central foundation, attendees speculated that when the actor appears at a
special screening of "2001" at Sorg Opera House, he will
"explain" what the 1968 movie directed by Stanley Kubrick means. As
Dullea's nemesis in the film, the murderous supercomputer HAL might put it,
"I'm sorry. I'm afraid I can't do that."
"What makes '2001' is that Stanley didn't try to explain
anything if it was all about plot points, we wouldn't be talking about it
now," Dullea said. Even so, Dullea, a Cleveland native, will discuss making
his most famous film at the event, a fundraiser for the Rising Phoenix Theatre
Company. Its director, Herb DuVal, had known Dullea through theater workshops in
New England in the early 1980s and invited him here, Dullea said.
Even though 2001 was five years ago, Dullea said the film
still seems new, thanks to the genius of Kubrick, whose forte was challenging
films that often looked at the dark side of human nature. "Every Stanley
Kubrick film ever made could be a seminar in the art of film. He made so many
different kinds. It could be a different genius making each film."
Dullea had been shooting the 1965 movie "Bunny Lake is
Missing" when he got a call from his agent that he had been offered the
lead role in Kubrick's next film. Kubrick offered Dullea the part after viewing
"David and Lisa," for which Dullea won a Golden Globe, and the 1964
version of "The Thin Red Line."
Dullea jumped at the chance and found that Kubrick was
dedicated but not an impossible taskmaster, as his control-freak reputation
suggested. "It was such a privilege to work with this man. To paraphrase
Shakespeare, with Kubrick, the film was the thing. He ate and slept whatever
film he was doing," Dullea said.
One of the more amusing facets of shooting "2001"
was that the calm, cool voice of HAL was not heard on the set; it later was
dubbed by actor Douglas Rain. What the actors heard was "an assistant
director who sounded like Michael Caine," Dullea said. "That's amazing
about this particular film, that it seems to have become multi-generational, It
has incredible staying power," he said.
Also discussing the movie will be film professor T.J. Rivard
of Indiana University and astronomy professor Bradley Peterson, whom DuVal said
entered his field because of "2001."
'Space Odyssey' Composer Ligeti Dies
By William J. Kole Associated Press June 12, 2006
Vienna, Austria - Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who survived the
Holocaust and fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution, then won acclaim for his
opera "Le Grand Macabre" and his work on the soundtrack for
"2001: A Space Odyssey," died Monday. He was 83.
Ligeti, celebrated as one of the world's leading 20th century
musical pioneers, died in Vienna after a long illness, said Christiane
Krauscheid, a spokeswoman for his publisher, Germany-based Schott Music. Details
were unavailable, but Austrian media said he spent the last three years in a
wheelchair. Ligeti (pronounced lig'-ih-tee) was born in 1923 to Hungarian
parents in the predominantly ethnic Hungarian part of Romania's Transylvania
region. His father and brother later were murdered by the Nazis. He took
Austrian citizenship in 1967 after fleeing his ex-communist homeland.
He began studying music under Ferenc Farkas at the
conservatory in Cluj, Romania, in 1941, and continued his studies in Budapest.
But in 1943, he was arrested as a Jew and sentenced to forced labor for the rest
of World War II.
"My life in the Nazi era and under communist rule was
full of risks, and I believe I still reflect this feeling," he once told
the Austria Press Agency in an interview.
After the war, Ligeti resumed his studies with Farkas and
Sandor Veress at Budapest's Franz Liszt Academy. After graduation in 1949, he
did research on Romanian folk music and then returned to the academy as an
instructor in harmony, counterpoint and formal analysis. Ligeti attracted wide
attention for "Macabre," which he wrote in 1978.
Ligeti's early work was heavily censored by Hungary's
repressive regime, but his arrival in Vienna in 1956 opened up new
possibilities. In the Austrian capital, he met key players in Western Europe's
avant-garde music movement such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gottfried Michael
Koenig and Herbert Eimert, who invited him to join an electronic music studio at
West Germany's state radio in Cologne in 1957.
He won early critical acclaim for his 1958 electronic
composition "Artikulation" and the orchestral "Apparitions."
He gained notoriety for a technique he called "micropolyphony," which
wove together musical color and texture in ways that transcended the traditional
borders of melody, harmony and rhythm.
Ligeti spoke at least six languages, including his native
Hungarian, German, French, and English, said Stephen Ferguson, who worked as his
assistant and editor at Schott Music from 1992-96.
"He was one of the few avant-garde composers who
found his way into the modern program," Ferguson said. "He was
fascinated by patterns, but at the same time created wonderful atmospheres, such
as in the music used in '2001: A Space Odyssey,' or in 'Clocks and Clouds.' He
reintroduced techniques of polyphony out of the tradition of Bach and Palestrina
with a playful and innovative sense of sound. He developed a new sound --
cluster sound -- which fascinated director Stanley Kubrick and propelled Ligeti
to the top of the great composers of the second half of the 20th century."
Excerpts of his "Atmospheres," a requiem and 1966's
"Lux Aeterna" were used on the bestselling soundtrack for Kubrick's
"Space Odyssey." Although the music was not the film's well-known
fanfare, which was composed by Richard Strauss, it won Ligeti a global audience.
Kubrick returned to Ligeti in 1999, using the composer's Musica Ricercata II (Mesto,
rigido e cerimoniale), as the theme for what turned out to be his final film,
"Eyes Wide Shut."
Ligeti, who for a time also lived in Germany and San
Francisco and was a visiting professor at the Stockholm Academy of Music for
many years, was known for striking a playful note with his music, epitomized by
a piece he wrote for 100 metronomes.
Sir Simon Rattle was a fan of Ligeti and led many
performances of his works during his tenure at the City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra before taking over the Berlin Philharmonic. Austrian Chancellor
Wolfgang Schuessel hailed Ligeti on Monday as "the greatest Austrian in the
20th century music world," and the city of Vienna said it would offer a
special grave site in honor of its adopted composer. Ligeti is survived by his
wife, Vera, and a son, Lukas, a percussionist who lives in New York. Funeral
arrangements were incomplete.
From Skyrack late 1965 - Ron Bennett fanzine
The 23rd World Science Fiction Convention held in London in 1965. Arthur C.
Clarke followed, entitling his talk, "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love Stanley Kubrick." He had been commissioned to write a book about
space, for Time-Life and had met Kubrick in New York with the idea of an epic
space film on the lines of How The Solar System Was Won. Kubrick had bought five
of his short stories but had eventually settled upon only one, whereby Clarke
immediately bought back the remaining four at a thousand dollars apiece. The
provisional title of the film, "Journey Beyond the Stars" had now been
changed to "2001 - The Space Odyssey," with the screenplay by Kubrick
and Clarke, based upon a novel by Clarke and Kubrick. It is difficult showing
convincing extraterrestrials, said Clarke, and it was not true that Peter
Sellers was going to play them all. ''Though Peter was willing," he added.
The film will be shot in Cinerama and if a month's scheduled shooting takes
place as planned next spring, at which time will also appear the book (which is
not yet finished), then the film should. Be released around Christmas 1966.
Clarke said that he hoped it would become the contemporary space travel film,
the Destination Moon of the 1970's. In closing he held up a nail from the Bounty
and a piece of the heat shield from the Apollo spacecraft. These were, he
explained thoughtfully, two artifacts with less than 200 years between them.
Later during the convention, Dr Strangelove won the best dramatic presentation
Hugo and Peter George, the author of Red Alert on which the film was based, won
the drama Hugo. The Hugo is the SF community's equivalent of the Oscar.
In the theater Ligeti's Atmospheres plays to a black screen for 10 minutes before the movie begins and Strauss' The Blue Danube after the end credits to a black screen. This is not on home video versions.
The film originally premiered at 160 minutes and then Kubrick cut it down by 19 minutes.
Dan Richter on Playing the Ape in '2001', Life With John and Yoko
New York Magazine 4/22/08
How did you get the part of Moonwatcher?
Stanley had shot most of the picture already. They were trying to figure out how
to do the opening scenes. They had done tests on dancers, actors - even
comedians. He and Arthur C. Clarke were talking about it, and they said,
"You know, we haven't talked to a mime." It so happened I was teaching
private classes in mime in London at the time. Anyway, I was asked if I would go
out and let Stanley pick my brain. I said, "If you give me twenty minutes,
a stage, leotards, and some towels, I can show you how to do it." So he
hired me to choreograph it, and eventually talked me into playing the part of
Moonwatcher as well. I always thought of myself as a choreographer on that film.
But I saw it again the other day, and I realized I starred in the thing!
Were the other performers who played the man-apes also mimes?
In England, at that time, there were only two or three mimes at that level. You
really needed to be very, very skinny to do this, because of the padding of the
costume. We looked at tens of thousands of people. Once we got everybody
together, it turned into Parris Island. I had to make them forget everything
they had been trained to do and retrain them - break them and rebuild them. I
also had to build up their stamina, because it was going to be really difficult
to do all that movement in that costume, on a set where the temperature was over
100 degrees.
Kubrick was very fond of research. Did you do a lot of research into ape
behavior, too?
That may have been the hardest part. I spent a lot of time at the zoo, in front
of the chimp cage and the gorillas. I got all the footage of Jane Goodall's work
and watched it over and over again. I met with anthropologists. My goal was to
take this group of twenty man-apes, drop them in a parking lot without telling
them what to do, and they would just look right. We even put milk bladders in
the female apes' breasts, because we had two real baby chimps, and we hoped that
they would actually drink from the breasts. But they never did.
All this led to one of the greatest Oscar disses in history, where Planet
of the Apes was given an Honorary Oscar for Best Makeup, and Stuart Freeborn's
makeup for 2001 was completely overlooked.
It's very hard for me to comment on that, because I see everything - I see the
seams in the costumes that aren't quite right, all the mistakes. But we did nail
the behavior. And … come on! Planet of the Apes? It was so below what we were
doing! Also, I'll tell you something else: We had stuff stolen. I can't say it
was Planet of the Apes, but they were the only other movie shooting at the same
time and same place we were. Stanley and I even had someone steal a mask and
some ape hands right out from under our noses on the backlot, where someone had
hid in a drainage ditch. We were in lockdown all the time.
There are two famous bone scenes in the film: One where you discover the
bone as a weapon and the other where you throw the bone up in the air and it
cuts to a spaceship. Was all that bone-tossing planned?
Not really. Stanley planned everything in great detail, but he was also the kind
of great artist who could capitalize on things when they just happened. I got
there and I sort of just dropped a bone down casually, and it hit a rib bone in
such a way that it spun up in the air. At first, I said, "I'm sorry,
Stanley." And he said, "No, that's great." So, I hit it once, a
bone flips, and then I hit it a bit harder, and another bone flips. And it
builds and builds, and finally, it all led up to Stanley saying, "Throw the
bones in the air!" But that first accidental flipping was what gave us the
idea.
You did keep in touch with Arthur C. Clarke over the years. Did you keep
in touch with Kubrick?
I lost touch with him after A Clockwork Orange. I had designed an editing table
for John and Yoko, because we were shooting concert footage. Stanley had heard
about it, and he called and asked if he could borrow the table. And John and
Yoko were going off to L.A. to have their heads shrunk, so John said,
"Yeah, that's cool, let Stanley borrow it." So I spent a day with
Stanley, and that was the last time I saw him. Just before he died, I was
realizing I had wanted to write about Moonwatcher, so I was hoping to see him
again.
110 references
| 2001: A Space Road Odyssey (2001) | Canadian paranormal TV show. |
| 2001: A Space Travesty (2000) | Leslie Nielson film which eventually attempts to parody 2001. Probably the worst film ever made and is totally unwatchable. |
| 2001: HAL's Legacy (2001) | Documentary on computers and how close we are to building a real HAL. |
| 2002: A Sex Odyssey (1985) | Sci-fi porno |
| 2004: A Light Knight's Odyssey (2004) | Made for Sci-fi Channel movie. |
| 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) | There's a Kubrick/Arthur C Clarke Time Magazine cover in mission control with them as the Cold War leaders. |
| 5-25-77 (2003) | "Trailer" is full of references - movie poster, kid throwing a bone up in the air, "Thus Spake" music, Darth Vader on the Moonwatcher set with the monolith, multiple monolith shots, a guy in Bowman's space suit and someone playing SK!? It ends with the line "Never f-ck with a Kubrick fan." |
| AFI's 10 Top 10 (6/17/08) | 2001 is the #1 sci-fi film of all time. |
| AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains (2003) | HAL 9000 #13 Villain. |
| AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (1998) | #22 of all time. |
| AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies 10th Anniversary (6/20/07) | #7 of all time, moving up 15. |
| AFI's 100 Years...100 Quotes (6/05) | #78 - "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." |
| AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills (2001) | 2001 is #40 |
| Alien (1979/2001) | Ridley Scott's DVD commentary mentions 2001's influence. |
| At the Movies (2001) | Roger Ebert in one show plays Ridley Scott's Alien DVD commentary where he mentions 2001. |
| Bank of America (2001) | ATM Ad - ATM machines are all around like monoliths and "Thus Spake" plays. |
| Belle Stars (1986) | The "World Domination" music video has pictures of astronauts from 2001. |
| Boffo! Tinseltown’s Bombs & Blockbusters (2006) | Variety special with a w/2001 clip |
| Bottom 2001: An Arse Oddity (2001) | Live comedy show. |
| British Airways (2001) | Made a Concorde space station docking style ad. |
| Chips Ahoy (8/05) | Softbaked Chunky Ad - Monolith/Thus Spake 2001 Parody |
| Clueless (1995) | There is cologne on table in the parents bedroom like a monolith to Thus Spake. |
| The Critic (1994) | In "A Little Deb Will Do You" and "Dr. Jay" during the opening a monkey bangs on a rock monolith shaped vending machine with a bone and a can of "Pensa Cola" drops out. |
| Daily Show (1997) | Craig Kilborn asks a 2001 question to William Shatner. |
| David Bowie (1999) | 1. Channel 13 Interview mentions 2001. 2. On the show VH1 Legends he explains how his song "Space Oddity" was inspired by 2001. |
| Demolition Man (1993) | Simon Phoenix goes through the computer and yells at it, "C'mon HAL where are the goddamn guns?" |
| Dennis Miller (2004) | Said "the first two weeks of doing his talk show are like the end of 2001 going into the lights, it's confusing." |
| Diagnosis Murder (2000) | In "Murder By Remote" 2/00 Dan wires a laptop computer into his house he calls HAL and it looks and talks like HAL. |
| Dilbert (1999) | In one episode Dilbert installs a computer to regulate his shower that is voice activated and it talks like HAL. |
| Drew Carey (1997) | One episode had his pool table like the monolith. |
| Elvis Presley (1970s) | After 2001 he started using "Thus Spake" to open up his concerts. |
| EPSN (2001) | Chris Berman's Plays of the Week near the end of the year had the line "2001 was to be a Space Odyssey". |
| Fruit Drink (2003) | Commercial with a guy making smoothies in multiple blenders using the fruit drink. His wife yells for him to come out of the kitchen, but he his transfixed by his blenders, and he keeps punching different buttons on them to make different types of smoothies. The sound of the blenders as he keeps changing the turns to "Thus Spake Zarathustra". The tag line was "Don't Wait To Discover This Fruit Drink Makes A Great Smoothie". |
| Futurama (2000-03) | 1. A Bicyclops Built for Two (2000) Thus Spake
plays as the crew enters the Internet. 2. Put Your Head On My Shoulder (2/00) Fry and Amy took a cruise out to Europa to "spit watermelon seeds at Jupiter." As Europa came into view, their space car passed a big black monolith with an "out of order" sign. 3. Love and Rocket (2/02) the ships' computer looks and sounds like a female HAL "I'm sorry Leela, I'm afraid I can't do that" and tries to kill them so they go in and dismantle her. Bender, spins in space to "Thus Spake" and he swims through space to the 'Blue Danube'. Bender also sings "Daisy". 4. The Sting (6/03) Fry's coffin is shot into space and lines up with the planets with "Thus Spake Zarathustra" playing. Leela also looks into a stargate and ends in a bedroom like the end of the film. |
| Gary the Rat (2003) | "Spring of Love" 7/03 has a dream where Gary is on the moon and the Earth is coming into view while 'Thus Spake' plays. |
| Grammy Awards (2001) | An ad has *Nsync walking around upside down like the stewardess in the film. |
| The Groove Tube (1974) | Has an ape intro with a TV instead of a monolith. |
| HBO (2001) | An ad has apes making the HBO logo with "Thus Spake". |
| History of the World Part 1 (1981) | The intro of the film parodies the apes in 2001 replacing the monolith with a TV |
| Howard Stern (1995-02) | 1. In 1995's "Miss America" he tells
how he overdosed on LSD in college and went to see "2001" with
his loser friends. 2. 5/02 Greg the Bunny did a HAL parody. |
| The Jerk (1979) | A man throws his glasses to Navin like the ape threw the bone to 'Thus Spake'. |
| Kellogg's Cornflakes Ad (2001) | Uses 'Thus Spake Zarathrustra' and shows a monolith. A man wakes up and moves like an ape. After he has his cornflakes he puts on his suit and is starts to evolve. |
| King of the Hill (4/16/00) | In "Meet the Propaniacs" the band uses the Thus Spake intro. |
| Knight Rider (1983) | 1. In "Knightmare" there's a
villain named Frank Poole and an officer Bowman. KITT also says "I'm
afraid I can't do that, Michael." 2. In "Speed Demons" there's a Roger Floyd. |
| Knight Rider 2000 (1991) | There is a 2001 poster in the movie theater. |
| Lenny Kravitz (1993) | The "Believe" music video has a complete 2001 theme with Lenny in an orange space suit traveling through space and the white rooms. |
| Lensman (1984) | One character goes through a stargate of lights. |
| Lightpath (2001) | 1. HAL narrates and he travels around in one ad. 2. Same commercial, just longer. |
| Lionpower from MGM (1967) | This short features a teaser of the film, the first time footage was seen. |
| Manhattan (1979) | Has the line "Like the computer in 2001". |
| Married With Children (1990s) | One episode has a delivery man bringing a microwave oven to Peggy for being the best Home Shopping Network customer. Peggy and Kelly put it on the coffee table and begin to circle around it like around the monolith, tentatively touching it, while "Thus Spake Zarathustra" plays in the background. |
| McLaughlin Group (2001) | One show mentioned "Tito's 2001 Space Odyssey". |
| Monster Rancher (1999) | Has a monolith shaped character called Mono. |
| Monty Python (11/3/70) | In "School Prizes" Dibley: "Oh yes, well, I mean, there were some people who said my film '2001 - A Space Odyssey', was similar to Stanley Kubrick's. I mean, that's the sort of petty critical niggling that's dogged my career. It makes me sick." |
| Movies That Shook the World (2005) | 2001: A Space Odyssey - the sci-fi classic's influence on the space race, popularity with the 1960s counterculture and reinvention of the sci-fi genre. Included: clips from the film; interviews with scientists, Christianne Kubrick. |
| MTV2 (2001) | 1. New Year's 01 ad w/HAL, Monolith and planets
aligning. 2. Ad with HAL talking |
| NBC Studios (2001) | Had a promo of an apeman throwing a bone up that turns into the space shuttle. |
| NFL Primetime (12/01) | The New Year's Eve 01 show ended with "Have your own personal best space odyssey". |
| Pinky & The Brain (1993) | In "Pinky & The Fog" the opening shot of Brain floating up to the light parodies 2001 with the 'Blue Danube Waltz.' |
| ONE: A Space Odyssey (2001) | Cartoon |
| The Osbournes (2003) | In "Flea's a Crowd" 7/03 Sharon brings home a giant hand shaped sculpture and Ozzy stares at it in amazement while 'Thus Spake' plays. |
| Pepsi (2001) | Had an ad with a Monolith and a HAL Pepsi machine getting even with guy. |
| Phineas and Ferb (2009) | The Chronicles of Meap, Parts I & II - in the credits Ferb is lowered into the computer like Dave. 4/18/09 Scan |
| The PJs (1999) | One episode has the Master Flush, a HAL style toilet. |
| Precious Images (1986) | Features clips from the film. |
| Priceline.com (12/00) | Had a commercial with "We'll See you in 2001" with 'Thus Spake' playing on electric guitar. |
| Rewards2K (2001) | Made a commercial with apes, a monolith & 'Thus Spake'. |
| Rodger Hodgson (1984) | In the music video "Had a Dream" there is a Star Child. |
| Safe (1995) | The DVD commentary mentions the film was influenced by 2001. |
| Saturday Night Fever (1977) | Has a disco club called "2001 Space Odyssey". |
| Sci Fi Boys (2/7/07) | Dennis Muren, George Lucas & Phil Tippet comment on the film |
| Sette uomini d'oro nello spazio (1978) | Italian sci-fi garbage renamed Space Odyssey on VHS. |
| Sierra Mist (2001) | Did a commercial with catapulting monkeys to 'Thus Spake'. |
| Simon (1980) | Alan Arkin does Moonwatcher and bone motions. |
| The Simpsons (1991-01) | 1. "Lisa's Pony" 11/91 has Homer as a lazy ape-man
reclining against a monolith with Also Sprake. 2. "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes" 8/92 Homer's eye is like HALs'. 3. "Deep Space Homer" 2/94 Itchy attacks Scratchy with the space-pod. Homer eats chips to "Blue Danube" spinning like in the docking sequence. Bart throws a marker which becomes a satellite. Homer the star-child. 4. "Treehouse of Horror VII" 10/96 Homer sinks into a recliner so comfortable that he starts to travel through a stargate. Bodies of Dole and Clinton drift into space like the body of Frank Poole. 5. "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" 5/97 Grandpa the Love Tester sings "Daisy" as it is shut down. 6. "Maximum Homerdrive" 3/99 the navigating computer in Homer's 18 wheeler sounds like HAL and says, "I'm afraid I can't do that". 7. "Simpsons Bible Stories" 4/99 Marge makes tools like Moonwatcher. 8. "Treehouse Of Horror XII" 11/01 features a computer that runs the house very efficiently - until it falls in love with Marge and tries to kill Homer. The computer is voiced by Pierce Brosnan in his best HAL-like tone, and the computer has the HAL-like red eyes all over the house, with the red fish-eye POV shots of the Simpsons as they talk to the computer. It tells Marge take a stress pill and their front door is round. Homer disables computer by pulling out its circuit cards. 9. "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" 3/04 'Thus Spake' plays when Homer's stomach eclipses his legs at dinner. |
| Sleeper (1973) | There is a HAL robot voice in the operating room. |
| Smartmoney.com (2001) | 1. Commercial with a man arguing with a computer
and it says "I feel a great jealousy Bob" and then he shuts HAL
down. 2. Commercial with "What are you doing Bob?" from the HAL style computer. |
| South Park (1999) | One episode has Kyle as the Star Child. |
| Spaceballs (1987) | The timpanist plays 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' on the ship. |
| Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1996) | One episode has Zorak as the Star Child. |
| A Species' Odyssey (2003) | Documentary on the origins of Mankind from the moment the first primate stood up on their hind legs and set off to conquer the African Savanna, to modern Man, setting off to conquer space. |
| Speed (1994) | A theater plays 2001. |
| Star Wars Episode I (1999) | In Watto's junkyard there is a pod from the Discovery. |
| Team Knight Rider 2000 (1997) | 1. In "Spy Girls" there is a
character Frank Poole 2. In "Et Tu, Dante?" there is a character Bowman. |
| Thompson Twins (1983) | Music video "Lies" has a monolith in a bedroom and all the action takes place around it. |
| The Tonight Show (1999) | On one show Jay Leno called a model ship "a 2001 Monolith". |
| The Tragedy of the Delivery Boy | Is a 2001 parody. |
| Verizon Super Pages (2001) | Had a commercial with apes and 'Thus Spake' and the Yellow Pages floating in space like a monolith. |
| Visions of Light (1992) | Documentary features 2001. |
| Zenith (2001) | Had a Starsite commercial with 2001 style apes. |
| Zoolander (2001) | Derek and Hansel beat on an Imac trying to turn it on like the apes with 'Thus Spake' playing. |
10/13/08
Malcolm McDowell appeared at the Jules Verne 2001 event with Vivian Kubrick. Go here for pictures and info.
9/5/08
On 9/13 & 14 in association with The Junction and the Institute of Astronomy, the 28th Cambridge Film Festival presents a spectacular screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 at the Institute of Astronomy after dusk. For the first time in the UK, Kubrick’s sublime journey into space will be shown outdoors in 70mm to highlight its stunning cinematography and renowned soundtrack. The evenings will be complemented by special talks and additional screenings at the Institute’s lecture theatre (limited availability). Seating is on the lawn, please bring your own picnic rug. The event will take place whatever the weather. Tickets are available from The Junction Box Office, call 01223 511 511.
11/06
In 1966, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke commissioned
a variety of companies to imagine and design futuristic products for the year
2001-and to be featured in their film 2001: A Space Odyssey. They hired
Hamilton, a U.S. watchmaker, and John Bergey, a Hamilton developer known for
helping to invent the digital watch, created a digital clock and analog/digital
wristwatch. (See the movie prop watch here). At the same time, it inspired
Bergey's work inventing the Pulsar Time Computer LED digital watch in 1970. In
1968, the movie was released and Hamilton released an entirely different but
beautiful watch to the public, the "Odyssee 2001," spelled differently
for apparent copyright issues.
Forty years later, Hamilton is now issuing the X-01 a limited
edition reinterpretation of the original movie watch for $1195. Only 2001 will
be made, cast from Titanium, fitted with four quartz movements, sapphire crystal
and three sideview registers for Home Time, Dream Time, and GMT. Unfortunately
they are now analog, unlike the digital display from the original. But that is
remedied by an old-school trick-the small registers are set using a magnet
that's hidden in the clasp, a feature of the first Pulsar LEDs.
The 14th Raindance Film Festival in London, England will celebrate the work of Stanley Kubrick playing 2001 Thurs 10/5/06 - 6:30pm.
NASA dubs space shuttle replacement 'Orion'
David Shiga | NewScientist.com 8/23/06
Orion is the new name for the spaceship NASA is developing to replace the space shuttle and carry astronauts to the Moon, NASA confirms. The new name echoes that of a spacecraft in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and of a cancelled US nuclear propulsion project.
Original titles were "Journey Beyond the Stars" and "2001 - The Space Odyssey".
Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), now owned by Warner Bros.
148 minutes, rated G
HAL's birthday is 1/12/92
Location where MGM studios used to be - where 2001 was filmed
Oddesey Road sign in honor of 2001
someone needs to spellcheck
Exclusive
- 2001
in 2001: Marquee in Times Square NYC 12/23/01
Entertainment Weekly ad from 2001 on TCM on 9/25/05
Entertainment Weekly Quiz from 9/16/05 with 2001 question & picture
The Original Score - Label: Intrada Special Collection Volume 38
World premiere of original performance for Alex North score to legendary Stanley Kubrick sci-fi masterpiece, authored by Arthur C. Clarke, starring Keir Dullea & Gary Lockwood. Presented through combined efforts of Stanley Kubrick estate, Alex North family, restoration authority Nick Redman, other persons related to project. Judiciously assembled from sole surviving mono mixdown safety master made for composer by engineer Ken Cameron during recording sessions at Anvil. Relatively recent discovery of long lost jewel allows original performance of vibrant, complex work to shine. Stunning orchestral textures; hugely expanded brass section; incredible array of timpani all get the spotlight. In balance are reflective ideas, moments for intimate solo voice against vibraphone, harp, other subtle textures. Packaging includes definitive notes about legendary rejected score, researched in depth by writer Jon Burlingame, historian Nick Redman with additional comments from conductor Henry Brant, estate members plus musical score examples, more! Complete score as recorded by composer under baton of Henry Brant. Special Collection release limited to 3000 copies!
01. The Foraging 3:11
02. The Bluff 2:38
03. Night Terrors 1:47
04. Bones 1:41
05. Eat Meat and Kill 4:00
06. Space Station Docking 5:22
07. Space Talk 3:47
08. Trip to Moon 3:04
09. Moon Rocket Bus 5:19
10. The Foraging (alternate version) AKA The Dawn of Man 3:08
Bonus Tracks
11. Eat Meat and Kill (take 7-wild) 1:03
12. Space Station (take 4-partial) 2:11
13. Docking (take 2) 1:15
Date: 1968
Time - 39:02
Original Soundtrack
1971 - Stanley Kubrick & Margaret Tyzack worked on ACO.
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