DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick
BOTTOM LINE: HAL 9000, the psychotic gay computer aboard the Discovery One Spaceship bound for Jupiter, loves mission pilot and scientist Dr. David “Dave” Bowman, played by Keir Dullea. HAL quickly eliminates Dave’s copilot, Dr. Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood), and the other three astronauts who are making the journey in suspended animation.
From then on, it’s just HAL and Dave.
From the opening shot of our human ancestors encountering an alien monolith on the prehistoric African veldt to Dave at various ages facing the same monolith in his large neoclassical bedroom, “2001” is quite the trip. For this reason, any ancillary substances we consume to enhance our appreciation of Mr. Kubrick’s genius are suitable for me. They may be essential for the whole “2001” EXPERIENCE!
Cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth.
Kubrick scrapped the original score by Alex North in favor of various classical pieces, most notably Richard Strauss’s “Thus Spake Zarathustra” and Johann Strauss II’s “The Blue Danube.”
Its plot was inspired by several short stories by Arthur C. Clarke, most notably “The Sentinel” (1951). For this reason, although the book and the screenplay for “2001” were written simultaneously, the latter is considered to be ADAPTED as opposed to ORIGINAL.
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