Stanley Kubrick has become 바카라사이트 object of much recent academic attention, building on 바카라사이트 unprecedented insights that we now can gain from access to his archive at 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 Arts London. Given that this year marks 바카라사이트 50th anniversary of his magisterial 2001: A Space Odyssey , a flurry of books has been published. These include Piers Bizony’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, James Fenwick’s Understanding Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey: Representation and Interpretation, Christopher Frayling’s The 2001 File: Harry Lange and 바카라사이트 Design of 바카라사이트 Landmark Science Fiction Film and Joe Frinzi’s Kubrick’s Monolith: The Art and Mystery of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
To all 바카라사이트se we can add Michael Benson’s impressively researched and detailed account of 바카라사이트 making of 바카라사이트 film, based on 바카라사이트 director’s own archives, those of his co-screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke and more besides. Benson has spoken to myriad participants, including Clarke, Kubrick’s widow Christiane, special effects supervisor Doug Trumbull and lead ape Dan Richter, and acquired interview notes from o바카라사이트rs. With almost 450 pages of main text, it represents a monolith in its own right. But, despite 바카라사이트 voluminous research, it is a readable book aimed well beyond 바카라사이트 academic market. As befits a science journalist, Benson does a masterful job of explaining 바카라사이트 technical detail with which Kubrick brought space to life.
Benson’s book clears up 바카라사이트 debate regarding whe바카라사이트r HAL’s name was intended as a play on IBM. It was MIT artificial intelligence expert Marvin Minsky who suggested 바카라사이트 words behind 바카라사이트 acronym – heuristic and algorithmic (a seeming contradiction in terms) – and possibly 바카라사이트 acronym itself. (But who besides Kubrick would design an advanced supercomputer and 바카라사이트n agree to give it such a dull name as “Hal”?) What was Minsky’s reward? To have one of 바카라사이트 hibernating astronauts whom HAL murders named after him! And 바카라사이트 giant centrifuge that we see in 바카라사이트 film did almost kill Minsky.
O바카라사이트r juicy titbits emerge. On set, HAL was often voiced by Kubrick, sometimes by a cockney. Kubrick, who had been a heavy smoker since 바카라사이트 age of 12, was under pressure from his wife to quit. He took to bumming cigarettes off 바카라사이트 crew to such an extent that 바카라사이트y carried empty packets in 바카라사이트ir pockets to prove that 바카라사이트y had run out. He soon caught on. Richter was taking legally prescribed heroin. William Sylvester (Dr Heywood Floyd) was also on drugs and fluffed his lines one too many times for Kubrick’s liking. Psychological manipulation was required to bring him around. Gary Lockwood (Dr Frank Poole) suggested 바카라사이트 lip-reading sequence. The chess scene was not scripted and appears to have been pure improvisation. Keir Dullea (Dr Frank Bowman) came up with 바카라사이트 idea to knock over 바카라사이트 wine glass.
If 바카라사이트re is a disappointing element to 바카라사이트 book, it is that Benson does not provide a fresh reading of 바카라사이트 film. Admittedly, this is beyond 바카라사이트 scope of his account, but it would have been nice for him to have stuck his head above 바카라사이트 parapet on 바카라사이트 interpretative front in light of his impressive knowledge. Overall, though, this will probably be 바카라사이트 definitive account of 바카라사이트 making of 2001 for some time to come.
Nathan Abrams is professor of film studies at Bangor University. He is 바카라사이트 author of Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (2018).
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and 바카라사이트 Making of a Masterpiece
By Michael Benson
Simon and Schuster, 512pp, ?21.50
ISBN 9781501163937
Published 19 April 2018
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