The other was Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C.
#A SPACE ODYSSEY FULL#
Serialized from 1918 to 1920, it was published in full in 1922. In Ulysses, the role of Ithaca’s wily king was played by a commoner, Leopold Bloom-a peaceable Jewish cuckold with an uncommonly fascinating inner life, one the author effectively allowed us to hear. The first was James Joyce’s Ulysses, which collapsed Odysseus’s decade of wandering down to a single city, Dublin, and a seemingly arbitrary day, June 16, 1904. The twentieth century produced two great latter-day iterations of Homer’s Odyssey. The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meanings.
Space Odyssey CHAPTER ONE PROLOGUE: THE ODYSSEY “At last! The dense, intense, detailed, and authoritative saga of the making of the greatest motion picture I’ve ever seen …Michael Benson has done the Cosmos a great service” (Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks). And it features dozens of photos from the making of the film, most never previously published. Drawing also from other previously unpublished interviews, Space Odyssey provides a 360-degree view of the film from its genesis to its legacy, including many previously untold stories. He has had the cooperation of Kubrick’s widow, Christiane, and interviewed most of the key people still alive who worked on the film. In Space Odyssey, author, artist, and award-winning filmmaker Michael Benson “delivers expert inside stuff” ( San Francisco Chronicle) from his extensive research of Kubrick’s and Clarke’s archives. Drawing from Clarke’s ideas and with one of the author’s short stories as the initial inspiration, their bold vision benefited from pioneering special effects that still look extraordinary today, even in an age of computer-generated images. Strangelove, Kubrick wanted to make the first truly first-rate science fiction film. Fresh off the success of his cold war satire Dr.
#A SPACE ODYSSEY MOVIE#
The movie was the product of a singular collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and science fiction visionary Arthur C. Still acclaimed as one of the most remarkable and important motion pictures ever made, 2001: A Space Odyssey depicted the first contacts between humanity and extraterrestrial intelligence. Clarke- “a tremendous explication of a tremendous film….Breathtaking” ( The Washington Post).įifty years ago a strikingly original film had its premiere. The definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, and of director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C.
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