plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (Scott Plunkett) (03/07/84)
If A. Clarke's novel is so important for a "full understanding"
of S. Kubrick's enigmatic movie, then I should have expected all
advertising for it to carry the advisory: "No Person Shall Be Admitted
Who Has Not Read `2001: A Space Odessey' by Arthur C. Clarke."
Stanley's other films are similarly obscure, though usually a
pleasure to watch, leading one critic to say of `2001', "there is
less to it than meets the eye." Don't anguish over broken glasses,
meaning/significance thereof, etc. It was most probably something
tossed in by the director on a whim, for no particular reason. After
all, so I have read, Stanley was seriously considering having the
floating fetus observe with heavenly understanding the dropping of
countless A-bombs onto good old Planet Earth. What would we have
all made of *that*!
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