Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Aruntraveller on April 04, 2018, 03:32:49 PM
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Article on the well known film here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/snYy5LHkHZjjtKpfB0v5cJ/yesterdays-tomorrow-the-art-of-2001-a-space-odyssey-at-50
A film I return to sporadically mainly to wonder at the achievements of the special effects team in that pre-digital era.
It also retains a quality of quiet unreality that I still find unsettling.
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I prefer Silent Running.
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A few years later iirc. I enjoyed that also. Although in terms of influence they share the honours I think with both films contributing to the way the look of sci-fi films have developed, if not sadly, to the intelligence on display in some of those later films.
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In many ways, Silent Running is reaction to the grandness of 2001. I find 2001, as with lots of Kubrick (or his near namesake Kurbrick ;)), cold. More interested in technique than anything else. On the subject of more recent sci fi - I tried Altered Carbon but it seemed like a retread
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I prefer Silent Running.
You me and Mark Kermode. I find 2001 really quite sterile.
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In many ways, Silent Running is reaction to the grandness of 2001. I find 2001, as with lots of Kubrick (or his near namesake Kurbrick ;)), cold. More interested in technique than anything else. On the subject of more recent sci fi - I tried Altered Carbon but it seemed like a retread
The director of Silent Running, Doug Trumbull (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Trumbull) worked on the special effects on 2001. I think he has explicitly stated exactly what you wrote.
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The director of Silent Running, Doug Trumbull (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Trumbull) worked on the special effects on 2001. I think he has explicitly stated exactly what you wrote.
Thanks for the link, I knew quite a lot of it but fascinating that his father worked on the effects for the Wizard of Oz and worked on Silent Running