50 years 2001: A Space Odyssey

It seems that there is a common misconception here.

Clarke wrote the novel WHILE Kubrick was making the movie - (to accompany the movie).
The novel was released after the movie.

What Kubrick started off with was a short story (written in 1948 and published in 1951) by Clarke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_(short_story), along with others (this for one, published in 1953: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounter_in_the_Dawn) - then he got with Clarke to develop the story further (and in the process changing a lot of the details of The Sentinel and Encounter, taking things in a different direction).

This (despite being Wiki) gives a pretty good synopsis of the development of both movie and novel (which matches what has been known in the Sci-Fi community since the 1970s & 80s, when Clarke would speak on the subject at Sci-Fi conventions):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)#Production
 
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siegecrossbow said:
The novel actually explains everything in a very meticulous, detailed manner which is to be expected since Clarke is a hard sci-fi writer. A lot of the people I know who loathes the film really liked the book.
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I would like a miniseries based on his book.
I would take some liberties.

Show the crystal monolith playing videos….seeing it toppled and smashed during the burning at Alexandria.

The Great Daylight Fireball recovered by Shuttle, with Shuttle-C lunar mission in 2001…but everything set in huge lunar caves…no Jupiter.
 
What's depressing is that we are now in the second decade of the 21st century and the maximum number of people orbiting the planet simultaneously is under 20.
 
siegecrossbow said:
What's depressing is that we are now in the second decade of the 21st century and the maximum number of people orbiting the planet simultaneously is under 20.
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Ascending in a Russian rocket, not being able to wash or wear clean clothes for months, living among bags of excrement and cancerous radiation, returning to earth with half muscle and bone mass and a completely altered circulatory system ... Who would want to live up there more than necessary?

How a year in space affected Scott Kelly's health

Nearly a year in space changed Scott Kelly’s genes, brain function and more, NASA’s Twin Study shows.
www.snexplores.org www.snexplores.org
 
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Great series of books, too. Got my handle from the anomaly. Clarke was a brilliant guy, though very odd. Highly suggest all four novels in the series and one or two of his other books. Not all hold up imo.

Movie is obviously very good. Always struck by how little dialogue is in it for it's length. Still get chills down my spine when right before intermission you get fpv of HAL reading the lips back and forth between the two crew members. Many memorable scenes.
 
TMA1 said:
Great series of books, too. Got my handle from the anomaly. Clarke was a brilliant guy, though very odd. Highly suggest all four novels in the series and one or two of his other books. Not all hold up imo.

Movie is obviously very good. Always struck by how little dialogue is in it for it's length. Still get chills down my spine when right before intermission you get fpv of HAL reading the lips back and forth between the two crew members. Many memorable scenes.
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Silence is golden. Compare though that Discovery pod scene to the pre-fight Coliseum conversation scene of Spartacus - same setup and outcome; one lives, one dies (I haven't done a deliberate comparison of whether the survivors were on the same side of the screen in either pic, but I wouldn't be surprised if the victims were on the same [wrong] side in both). Kubrick sure had his idiosyncracies, and I dearly miss him.
 
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Michel Van said:
On 2 april, 1968 premier Stanley Kubrick masterpiece

4 years earlier he decided to make The "Perfect" Movie and he succeeded
50 years later 2001: A Space Odyssey has nothing lost of its Magic, its mysteries
Its Space Hardware still looks realistic, even timeless

Allot of Sci-Fi Movies made after 2001 were caught up by reality
Not for 2001: A Space Odyssey, its seems timeless

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHjIqQBsPjk




If you want more how Kubrick made this Masterpiece
look the seven Part Series by Cinema Tyler on You Tube (highly recommended)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgNyCluIRhA&list=PLGciYgiR4atGcBOIuOmLQBXUj692TV6R0

More on Stanley Kubrick way to work, here (highly recommended)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45dcNbKztMM&list=PLGciYgiR4atFDGlCa-peL7gzx7jZU4LIT
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An interesting article about the technical credibility of that site; probably posted elsewhere (?)

)http://spaceflighthistory.blogspot....ges in the Film and Novel 2001 Really Happen?
 

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