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Re: My Space Theme Wish for 2001
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:51:28 GMT
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In lugnet.year.2001, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Quite. In _The Making of 2001_ by Clarke, he relates how the book and the
> movie were written essentially at the same time by both of them, with Kubrick
> focusing more on script and Clarke more on prose. The book is by "Arthur C
> Clarke and Stanley Kubrick" and the movie screenplay is by "Stanley Kubrick
> and Arthur C Clarke", deliberately, in order to acknowledge that.
That's really cool! I knew about the screenplay, but not the book's byline.
> If you are as big a fan of 2001 as I am ('tis the best SF ever, IMHO) you
> should get _making_ it's quite informative. It has _The Sentinel_ and some
> fascinating aborted tries for rewrites as well as good narrative about how
> things got accomplished.
Is that a book or video or both? I'd love to see it.
It's amazing, but even decades later it still remains a standard by which
the realism of other scifi ventures are judged. I'm a Kubrick fan in any
case, but that film in particular is fantastic!
Dave!
Thanks for redirecting the thread--I'd meant to FUT -fun but forgot in my
previous post.
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