Because Kubrick had a phobia of flying in airplanes, despite having a pilot’s license, he directed the second unit on what to capture via the telephone. The establishing landscape shots were actually still photographs done by a second unit in Africa. The Dawn of Man sequence was shot after all the other scenes were wrapped. We start at the beginning of the film, but in fact, this was the end of production. So that’s about a, a thousand to one, isn’t it?”
I’d say that’s a good, uh, twenty-four hundred hours spent on, call it two hours and forty minutes of story. That’s twenty-four hours a week times, uh, maybe a hundred weeks. But let’s just say that it averaged four hours a day for two years. Much more than that because in the real solid writing period it was like eight hours a day. And really keep distilling and distilling and distilling and distilling and distilling, uh, I would say that, um, if you count the time that’s spent during the shooting day, also working on the story- in rehearsal and rewriting it and so forth- I would say that an average of at least four hours a day has been spent on this story. Stanley Kubrick: “The thing that uh, does take all the time is to extract say, two hours and fifteen minutes of a story. In an interview with physics professor Jeremy Bernstein, Kubrick estimates just how much time was spent writing the screenplay. The screenplay was inspired by Clarke’s short story titled The Sentinel, which is similar to the Floyd section of the film. As an aspiring filmmaker, I’ve sought an answer to the question: How did Kubrick make this film?Īfter a month of research, I managed to peel back the curtain just a bit to peek at the genius of its construction.Ģ001 A Space Odyssey was directed by Stanley Kubrick and written by Kubrick and British science fiction writer Arthur C. There is 2001 and then there are all other movies.
EXPLAIN 2001 SPACE ODYSSEY MOVIE
To me, this movie sits comfortably in a category of its own. Why? Because I’ve found it to be the most thought provoking movie I’ve ever seen and despite inspiring a vast collection of filmmakers and their projects, it remains the most unique movie I’ve ever seen.
For a long time now, 2001 has been at the top of my list of all time favorite movies.
EXPLAIN 2001 SPACE ODYSSEY SERIES
You are watching part one of a series where I analyze and uncover the production of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey. I spent over a month compiling all the available information I could get my hands on to better understand the construction of this masterpiece. Ever wonder how Kubrick made his sci-fi masterpiece, 2OO1: A Space Odyssey? In Part 1, we take an in-depth look into the production of ‘The Dawn of Man’ sequence.
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