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Director Stanley Kubrick launched the sci-fi blockbuster 2001: A Space odyssey in 1968, and there are still a lot of details worth studying nearly 50 years ago, whether it's modern video communication technology or the high technology of space adventures, which are like the infinite imagination of "back to the future" before humans first landed on the moon , all of which are jaw-dropping with precision.
The film itself also throws out many interesting questions, from technology and human nature to religion and philosophy, which make the audience still immersed in the film after watching the film. Standard Collections is about to launch a digital restoration of the film, and also released the behind-the-scenes footage of the ld (laserdisk) version of that year, today, I want to take you to see, this breathtaking work, there are some interesting cold knowledge that you may not know.
1. The film and novel of 2001: A Space Odyssey were released almost at the same time, but at that time Stanley Kubrick wanted to invite the author, Arthur C. Clarke, to work with him, but it was rumored that Arthur was living alone in Sri Lanka, and he was worried that this excellent writer would not agree that his work would be remade into a movie, so he first asked the crew to send a telegram to Arthur, but Arthur agreed and sent back the following text telegram.
"I desperately want to work with this talented director, but why does Kubrick think I'm a hermit?"
2. A total of 241 spectators left the show at the premiere of the film, including Rock Hudson, the actor of "Giants," who said in an interview, "Can anyone tell me what this is all about?" Arthur, the author of the novel, also said in a later interview: "If you fully understand '2001: A Space Odyssey', then it means that we have failed, and we hope to cause more problems than the answers we give in the movie." 」
3. The first 25 minutes of "2001: A Space Odyssey" do not have a single line, until 25 minutes and 38 seconds, someone does not say the first sentence, and the last 23 minutes of the movie do not have a single line, and there are always 88 minutes of no dialogue in the whole movie. However, the film's theme song uses Richard Strauss's "also sprach zarathustra", which is also reused in many films.
4. After calculations, all the spaceflight object sets that appear in the film, if one person were to draw them, would take a total of 13 years to complete, And Stanley Kubrick hired 12 people to do this part, which took a year to complete.
5. The box office when the film was released was very dismal, MGM Pictures originally wanted to remove him from the theaters, but the theater owner observed that the number of viewers who came to see "2001 Space Odyssey" slowly increased, and everyone wanted to see the final classic "star gate" scene, because it could be used with some psychotropic drugs, although the initial response was very poor, but "2001: A Space Odyssey" finally achieved a beautiful box office result for this reason.
6. The English title of 2001: A Space odyssey would have had more options, including Journey Beyond the Stars, Universe, Tunnel to the Stars, Planetfall... Etc., the reason why "how the solar system was won" is because "2001: A Space Odyssey" and the Western film "How the West was won" were shot on panavision 70 cm negatives.
7. The computer in the film, Hal 9000, was originally set as a woman named sal 9000, and the female computer character appeared in the sequel 2010: the year we make contact, which is not related to 2001: The Year We Make Contact.
8. In the original setting of the movie, Stanley and Arthur were supposed to join the humanoid aliens and the fragments of the aliens' lives, but after the astronomer Carl Sagan heard such an idea, he told them that the real appearance and life of the alien creatures were far from humans, and if this bridge was included in this movie, the authenticity would be greatly reduced, so Stanley and Arthur gave up this idea.
9. In order to make the effect of space weightless, Stanley Kubrick spent several months studying how to make the pen float in the air, and after trying many different methods and failing, Stanley decided to glue the pen to a piece of glass and hang it in the air, so in the clip you can even see the astronauts "pick up" the pen.
10. "2001: A Space Odyssey" was released in 1968, and the Armstrong landing on the moon as we know it occurred in 1969, and many people insisted that armstrong's landing was filmed in these seemingly coincidental events, and used the scene made by Stanley Kubrick, especially when there were many confusing details in the image of the landing on the moon, and the collected objects were also mysteriously disappeared, but Armstrong himself said on the show that the landing was completely real. It also makes more people embrace the conspiracy theory that Stanley was involved in the lunar program.
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