![]() ![]() asked “What do you need to make this happen?” I said I need to build this giant machine, 30 feet by 30 feet and 10 feet tall, and it will require a lot of glass, electronics, machines. I had an idea for how to adapt some of the early photography techniques that had been developed by John Whitney for To the Moon and Beyond, the movie that Kubrick saw at the 1964 New York World’s Fair that I worked on. It was the hardest problem for him and other people to get their head around because he was trying to depict the transit of the human being through time and space to another dimension. I think the Star Gate was maybe my most important contribution to the movie. I never had a problem with that and I got along great with Stanley. ![]() So the rejection rate for shots was very high, which became frustrating for many people on the crew. Stanley was definitely a critical taskmaster and was searching for ultimate perfection. The movie only has 40 minutes of dialogue in almost two and a half hours. Once everyone got their head around it and was able to kind of digest what Kubrick was trying to do, the movie got new legs and found a new younger audience that was very eager to go into this new territory of experiential, almost a virtual reality kind of nonverbal experience. ![]() Until enough time passed for them to understand that Kubrick was on the track of a first-person, subjective trip for the audience. ![]() Pauline Kael and many other people gave it extremely bad reviews. In the initial release of the movie, there was a lot of complete disturbance and rejection and people left the theatre in disgust. Kubrick specifically did not want 2001 to be melodramatic. What 2001 did that was so spectacularly different was that Kubrick’s directorial style was very much a first-person subjective, nonverbal, visual spectacle in exchange for diminishing conventional cinematic language of plot structure, character development, tension and all the kind of trappings of melodrama. He was really thinking very deep and heavy thoughts about life and spirituality and God. Stanley Kubrick had an incredible genius mentality. Working with Kubrick on 2001 was one of the most amazing creative experiences of my life. So very few people even today understand the epic nature of how the movie was originally distributed in Cinerama, Super Panavision 70mm. Sadly there are no screens like the original, deeply curved, 90-, 100-foot-wide cinema screens of the day when the movie was first released. Second of all, I think it’s a very sad state of affairs that in 50 years, no one has been able to replicate the experience of 2001. Speaking with THR’s Carolyn Giardina from his Massachusetts studio, Trumbull remembers working with Kubrick and inventing VFX techniques for 2001, laments the “very sad” state of cinema and explains his latest development.įirst of all, it feels great to see 2001: A Space Odyssey back in theaters. Passionate about making cinema an event that viewers can’t get at home, he’s recently developed a theatrical exhibition system dubbed MAGI that offers a giant curved screen and images projected in 3D and at high frame rates. And the space walk is actually still one of my favorite moments in cinema history! The performances by the actors are good, and the tension and relation between the Americans and Russians is done very well.William Friedkin, Acclaimed Director of 'The French Connection' and 'The Exorcist,' Dies at 87 luckily HAL is still scary even though his role is smaller in this one. And I even think that this movie is pleasant to watch even if you haven't seen "2001: A Space Odyssey". The story is easier to follow and therefor the movie is more better to watch for a wider range of people then "2001: A space Odyssey" was. The sets look beautiful and the special effects also have improved a lot. While "2001: A Space Odyssey" was more a visual movie, "2010" actually has many dialog but that doesn't mean that the movie isn't visually spectacular. I believe that "2010" was made to tie up the loose ends and answer some of the questions that "2001: A Space Odyssey" left. Of course it comes nowhere close to the brilliance of "2001: A Space Odyssey", but I don't think that ever was the makers intension. ![]()
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