Kubrick challenged the special effects crew to find a way to do theĮffects shots without using automatic matting. Kubrick wasĭetermined to make every effects shot look extremely realistic, something previous science fiction films rarely bothered to do. Million (the film's total budget was $10.5 million). They tried a Lucite slab, but that didn't look convincing.įinally, they settled on the black slab shown in the film.įilming the special effects shots took 18 months at a cost of $6.5 Transparent cube, but it was too hard to keep it from reflecting the cameraĬrew's lights. Thought that would make people think of pyramids. The first design for the monolith was a tetrahedron, but Kubrick Kubrick walked back to the studio tossing bones into the air and filming The final shot of the sequence was finally achieved when This allowed for a low-angled shot with a vastĮxpanse of sky in the background, though it also required a halt in That was shot in a field a few hundred yards from the "skull-smashing" sequence in which Moonwatcher realizes that he can use aīone as a weapon. The only scene from the film not shot in the studio was the Only the actors' eyes were visible, and the masks were made up right The actors to use their tongues to operate remote controls that moved the Using false teeth and tongues to hide the actors' real mouths. The makeup men applied rubber skin to their faces and added hair one strandĪt a time, as if they were making a wig. To create the facial makeup, technicians first made a plastic skull Long-figured, narrow apelike hand to be operated by remote controls placed Kubrick hired a company that made artificial limbs to produce a When the program said it would take nine years, they simplified To determine how long it would take to make the number of ape costumes they While the makeup was being designed, computer technicians ran a program Kubrick's fear was that the body fur might make them look like actors in B-movie gorilla suits. Hips so that the fur added to make them look like apes wouldn't appear They chose actors with thin arms and legs and narrow Mostly mimes and dancers, though they also used two baby chimpanzees as the The actors hired to play the apes in the "Dawn of Man" sequence were As he reaches toward it, he is perhaps reborn, perhaps evolved, perhaps transcended, into a new "child of the universe," a fetus floating above the Earth. A witness to the final stages of his life, the withered Bowman looks up from his deathbed at the giant black monolith standing in the center of the room. At last coming to rest in a pale green bedroom, Bowman emerges from the nonfunctioning space capsule. Suddenly hurtled into a new dimension of time and space, he is swept into a maelstrom of swirling colors, erupting landscapes, and exploding galaxies. Now alone, Bowman continues his flight until he encounters a third monolith among Jupiter's moons. Forced to abandon Poole, who is already dead, Bowman reenters the Discovery through the emergency hatch and reduces Hal to manual control by performing a mechanical lobotomy on the computer's logic and memory circuits. Bowman goes to rescue him, but Hal closes the pod entry doors and terminates the life functions of the three hibernating astronauts. Bowman leaves the ship in a one-man space pod to replace the crucial part the prediction proves incorrect, however, and when Poole ventures out to replace the original part, Hal severs his lifeline. During the voyage, Hal predicts the failure of a component on one of the spacecraft's antennae. Aboard are astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole, plus three others in frozen hibernation, and a computer called Hal. Knowing only that the slab emits a deafening sound directed toward the planet Jupiter, the United States sends a huge spaceship, the Discovery, on a 9-month, half billion-mile journey to the distant planet. Heywood Floyd, an American scientist, travels to the moon to investigate a monolith that has been discovered below the lunar surface. Four million years later, in the year 2001, Dr. After tentatively reaching out to touch the mysterious object, the apes become carnivores, with enough intelligence to employ bones for weapons and tools. At the dawn of mankind, a colony of peaceful vegetarian apes awaken to find a glowing black monolith standing in their midst.
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