Posted on 12/16/2010 5:09:59 PM PST by KevinDavis
In the process of producing their now-canceled documentary on Stanley Kubrick's landmark film, Douglas Trumbull and David Larson have uncovered 17 minutes that Kubrick cut from 2001 just after release—in perfect condition.
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That what happen to Metropolis Fritz Lang sci fi classic they did restoration year later they found 25 more minute of lost footage that fully explain whole storyline MORE
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That come from 2010 I remember that
That come from 2010 I remember that
followed by “Dave’s not here man”
I want see the footage I think you are right dude going through the time warp
duh. I was bored with the original, so 17 more minutes will only make it more boring.
Of course, I was one of the few folks in the theatre who wasn’t high on pot...
Read the book Long before the movie came out .. Made even less sense but that’s just me.
Well, ANY change had to be an improvement; it would not have been possible to make The Motionless Picture worse than it was....
We see the monkeys (humans) struggling and on the verge of dieing off. The obelisk appears and suddenly the apes discover tools. (the obelisk is placed there be a superior race or being) skip forward 3 million years. Think of it as a 3 million year evolution timer, when your apes can get to the moon they are ready to make contact with. Man goes to the moon and finds another obelisk. When it is dug up a loud shriek is heard, it is a signal that is directed out toward Jupiter.
The mount a mission to find where that signal was sent to. and go to Jupiter where a third obelisk is found. It is a portal of some kind. Bowman goes in and is transported somewhere. He spends some time in what look like a hotel room where he is transformed, and returns to earth as a baby. But as a baby of the advnaced beings. Sent back to earth to watch over it.
Deleted scenes
Painting school class scene, deleted from the film.Kubrick filmed several scenes that were deleted from the final film. These include a schoolroom on the moon base—a painting class that included Kubrick's daughters, additional scenes of life on the base, Floyd buying a bush baby from a department store via videophone for his daughter, details about the daily life on Discovery, additional space walks, astronaut Bowman retrieving a spare part from an octagonal corridor, a number of cuts from the Poole murder sequence including the entire space walk preparation and shots of HAL turning off radio contact with Poole—explaining the non sequitur of HAL's response to Bowman's question, and notably a close-up shot of Bowman picking up a slipper during his walk in the alien room—the slipper can still be seen behind him in what was then the next shot[85]. The most notable cut was a 10-minute black-and-white opening sequence featuring interviews with actual scientists, including Freeman Dyson,[86] discussing extraterrestrial life, which Kubrick removed after an early screening for MGM executives. The actual text survives in the book The Making of Kubrick's 2001 by Jerome Agel[87]. If the music intro and outro are included, 29 minutes of film have been excised from the theatrical version.[88] Kubrick's rationale for editing the film was to tighten the narrative; reviews suggested the film suffered too much by the radical departure from traditional cinema story telling conventions. Regarding the cuts, Kubrick stated; "I didn't believe that the trims made a critical difference. [...] The people who like it, like it no matter what its length, and the same holds true for the people who hate it".
In 2010 Bowman was the baby
Did you know that Arthur C Clarke before he died made 3001 where Dave Bowman come back to earth 1,000 year later he was found some century old NASA talk about how he save the earth from Europa or something like that
It was good book
I hear it contains more dewback lizards and AT-ATs than the original version.... /sarc
I read 3001 and liked it. Kind of interesting that most people lived in the ring and only a few lived on the surface of earth.
Har!
Seeing that movie was the first date I ever had in high school.......the movie never made sense nor did the date. LOL!
Agree. Book explains it pretty well. The movie is a great compliment to the book, especially the way it opens.
Tragic to see the ‘Pan Am’ logos. Made in a day when companies were thought to be ‘too big to fail’.
I just saw that program on Metropolis as well, and the restoration of the missing footage. I’d like to see it again... because it seemed to me that it turned the film around 180 degrees. It turned from an anti-capitalist premise to an anti-communist premise.
Or was it just me?
It available on DVD I got DVD copy this month in my mail I pre order it I think you might be right
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