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2001: A Space Odyssey, By Stanley Kubrick

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Stanley Kubrick (1928 - 1999) was a multitalented American film director, best known for films that sparks the imagination, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the obligatory, A Clockwork Orange (1971), the horror, The Shining (1980), and the polarizing, Full Metal Jacket (1987). Highly influential, a true auteur of his generation, much like the popular French New Wave that included famous directors Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Kubrick was famously part of those other experimental filmmakers across the Atlantic Ocean known as the American New Wave (New Hollywood) during the same era. Kubrick was no ordinary director; he was also a producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and photographer.

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Kubrick also utilized the talented cinematography of Geoffrey Unsworth. The Oscar nominated screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey was written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - 2008), inspired by Clarke’s short story The Sentinel (1951). Later, Clarke wrote the full novel 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Some of Clarke’s best sci-fi books are Childhood's End (1953), A Fall of Moondust (1961), Rendezvous With Rama (1973), The Fountains of Paradise (1979), 2010: Odyssey Two (1982), The Songs of Distant Earth (1986), and 3001: The Final Odyssey …show more content…

At first, as a teenager, I thought like most people, it’s rather long, slow paced, highly imaginative, and somewhat confusing. Later, as I studied art and drafting, and still later pursued my interested in filmmaking and writing, I became more appreciative of the film’s groundbreaking cinematography techniques and beautiful visuals. The special effects of 2001 was created before the invention of computer-generated imagery (CGI), and even today, the film looks more realistic than current films employing CGI or

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