Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
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Fifty years ago a strikingly original film had its premiere. 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. The movie was the product of a singular collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and science fiction visionary Arthur C. Clarke. Fresh off the success of his cold war satire Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick wanted to make the first truly first-rate science fiction film. 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.
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. He has had the cooperation of Kubrick's widow, Christiane, and interviewed most of the key people still alive who worked on the film. Drawing also from other previously unpublished interviews, Space Odyssey provides a 360-degree view of the film from its genesis to its legacy, including many previously untold stories. And it features dozens of photos from the making of the film, most never previously published.
"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).
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Michael Benson. (2018). Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece. Simon & Schuster.
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- Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film's release, this is the definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, including the inside account of how director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke created this cinematic masterpiece.
Regarded as a masterpiece today, 2001: A Space Odyssey received mixed reviews on its 1968 release. Despite the success of Dr. Strangelove, director Stanley Kubrick wasn't yet recognized as a great filmmaker, and 2001 was radically innovative, with little dialogue and no strong central character. Although some leading critics slammed the film as incomprehensible and self-indulgent, the public lined up to see it. 2001's resounding commercial success launched the genre of big-budget science fiction spectaculars. Such directors as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, and James Cameron have acknowledged its profound influence.
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A fascinating, detail-rich account of the long slog to make the science-fiction masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey.Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), writes Benson (Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time, 2014, etc.), was a slayer of genres. He reinvented film noir, the costume drama, the horror film, and the war movie. With 2001, over the course of seven years of hard work, he aimed to put his mark on science fiction, with his own unmistakable twist: "Kubrick's method was to find an existing novel or source concept and adapt it for the screen, always stamping it with his own bleak--but not necessarily despairing--assessment of the human condition." He found his sources in two places: the work of British science-fiction writer and technologist Arthur C. Clarke and the Homeric Odyssey. In the end, as Benson capably demonstrates, both those sources faded into the background. The Odyssey is perhaps best echoed by the deaths of all the crew members of Discovery, prompting Clarke to write in his journal, "after all, Odysseus was the sole survivor." A couple of years after the film was released, Clarke recalled that it reflected 90 percent Kubrick's genius, 5 percent the work of the special effects crew, and 5 percent his own contribution. That assessment was too modest, but Benson runs with the notion that this was Kubrick's film through and through, and each minute of screen time reflected weeks of work and thought as well as many missteps and rethinkings (voice-over narration throughout, anyone?). The author turns in some memorable phrases--for instance, in his telling, the space between the known and the unknown is "that place science is always probing like a tongue exploring a broken tooth." More importantly, it is the often fraught episodes of interaction between Kubrick and a phalanx of collaborators and contributors, most of them now forgotten, that drive this endlessly interesting narrative.Essential for students of film history, to say nothing of Kubrick's most successful movie.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Benson (Otherworlds) celebrates the 50th anniversary of the classic SF film 2001: A Space Odyssey with this wide-ranging, if somewhat lopsided, chronicle of the collaboration between director Stanley Kubrick and novelist-turned-screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke. It plays out as a straightforward production history but one set apart by the project’s massive scale and extended gestation period, from Kubrick making first contact with Clarke in 1964, with a two-page letter proposing “doing the proverbial ‘really good’ science fiction movie,” to the film’s 1968 release. Unfortunately, Benson struggles to cover his protracted story, which is alternately sketchy and repetitive. Key figures, such as special effects expert Douglas Trumbull and actor Keir Dullea, are introduced quickly only to disappear for long stretches (helpfully, Benson does includes a list of major characters). In the end, this is very much Clarke’s story. Even after 500 pages, the reserved, controlling Kubrick feels like a distant figure. Clarke emerges far more vividly, with Benson, who befriended Clarke near the end of his life, offering a uniquely privileged glimpse of the author’s personality—“an earnest manner leavened by his quick wit”—and day-to-day life as a British expat in Sri Lanka. But readers will be disappointed to expend this much time on 2001 and still come away knowing only part of the story.
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Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is widely regarded as a significant, era-defining work of art and one of the most influential films ever made. Writer/photographer/filmmaker Benson provides a highly detailed, comprehensive account of the 1968 film, noting Kubrick's early directing experiences; describing the first meeting between Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001, the novel on which the movie is based; chronicling the years spent on film production, special effects, and set construction; and situating the final work within the context of film history. Benson interviewed Clarke, Kubrick's widow, Christiane, and many others connected to the film, all of which lends a richness to the narrative and helps shade in the details of the director's interactions during the film's conception phase and while on set. Benson starts out with a comparison to Homer's Odyssey and James Joyce's Ulysses, and methodically documents how Kubrick drew inspiration from a range of sources to adapt for the screen. By the end, the author makes a compelling case that 2001: A Space Odyssey is both uniquely Kubrick's film and utterly original. VERDICT Essential for sf fans, Kubrick enthusiasts, and film history buffs.--Meredith Powers, York Coll., Brooklyn
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