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From: Mackey.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: 2001: A Space Odyssey. . .
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Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 14:05:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 13 14:05:33 1983
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To: Cowden.Wbst

Clarke didn't just "make up a story after seeing a movie." He worked
with Kubrick on the film, sharing ideas and outlining the movie. Then he
wrote the novel based on those ideas and scenes. It came out after the
movie (by how much?) since it takes time to publish a novel. Also,
notice that the novel contains pictures from the movie, and the cover
refers to the movie. The studio timed it so that people who saw the
movie could go out and buy the novel. I could quote Clarke from "The
Lost Worlds of 2001," but it seems to have disappeared from the Bayhill
S.F. library. . .

To: Denber.WBST

I think the most confusion in the movie is found at the ending, from the
moment Bowman takes his journey. My interpretation is that Kubrick is a
film maker, an artist, and as such he tried to express Clarke and his
ideas without dialogue; just with film. The movie visually expresses the
ideas contained in the novel. If it's confusing, then it joins several
other movies, and works of art, which are not easily understood, though
are visually pleasing. Once you know the ideas being expressed, then the
film becomes enjoyable in a different way.

To: Suk

Clarke denies the "trick" of the choice of HAL's name. He used it to
mean "Heuristic and ALgorithmic." But it's still an interesting
coincidence.

~Kevin