5/24/2023 0 Comments Space Odyssey by Michael Benson![]() ![]() So Kubrick turned to the British writer Clarke and the two worked on a script that slowly swelled in scope and ambition. Clunky scripts, cardboard sets and crude cinematography marred most such films. Benson describes the movie “as an art film made with a Hollywood blockbuster budget that is more comparable to a musical composition than to the usual dialogue-based commercial cinema”.Īt the time, Kubrick had intended merely to make a science-fiction film that seemed credible. ![]() In addition, the film-maker and writer Michael Benson’s book Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece, is published this week. ![]() Other celebrations of the film’s release include a recreation of the set of the film’s strange bedroom finale, which has just opened at Washington DC’s Air and Space Museum. By putting its creators’ names on the map of Charon, at the edge of the solar system, astronomers are repaying a debt to two visionaries who reshaped our thinking about the cosmos and created a film rated by some as the greatest ever made. The two men’s great collaborative work, the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, was released 50 years ago this month. As a result Kubrick Mons and Clarke Montes are now two of Charon’s major mountains. ![]()
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