"appearance on the cover of ""The Whole Earth Catalog"". Noting that images of the entire planet recur several times in ""A Space Odyssey"", Jacobs writes: In August 2011, in response to Apple Inc.'s patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung, the latter argued that Apple's iPad was effectively modeled on the visual tablets that appear aboard spaceship ""Discovery"" in the ""Space Odyssey"" film, which constitute prior art. ""Siri"", Apple's natural language voice control system for the iPhone 4S, features a reference to the film: it responds ""I'm sorry I can't do that"" when asked to ""open the pod bay doors"". When asked"
"had been with Kubrick's film, although he did appear in a cameo role in the finished film, sitting on a park bench feeding birds outside the White House. 2001: A Space Odyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey is the 1968 science fiction written by Arthur C. Clarke and the directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is a part of Clarke's ""Space Odyssey"" series. Both the novel and the film are partially based on Clarke's 1948 short story ""The Sentinel"", an entry in a BBC short story competition, and ""Encounter in the Dawn"", published in 1953 in the magazine ""Amazing Stories"". After deciding"
"2001: A Space Odyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey is the 1968 science fiction written by Arthur C. Clarke and the directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is a part of Clarke's ""Space Odyssey"" series. Both the novel and the film are partially based on Clarke's 1948 short story ""The Sentinel"", an entry in a BBC short story competition, and ""Encounter in the Dawn"", published in 1953 in the magazine ""Amazing Stories"". After deciding on Clarke's 1948 short story ""The Sentinel"" as the starting point, and with the themes of man's relationship with the universe in mind, Clarke sold Kubrick five more"
"Technologies in 2001: A Space Odyssey The 1968 science fiction film """" featured numerous fictional future technologies, which have proven prescient in light of subsequent developments around the world. Before the film's production began, director Stanley Kubrick sought technical advice from over fifty organizations, and a number of them submitted their ideas to Kubrick of what kind of products might be seen in a movie set in the year 2001. The film is also praised for its accurate portrayal of spaceflight and vacuum. ""2001"" is, according to four NASA engineers who based their nuclear-propulsion spacecraft design in part on the"
"and Space Museum. The exhibit features a fully realized, full-scale reflection of the neo-classical hotel room from the film's penultimate scene. Director Christopher Nolan presented a mastered 70mm print of ""2001"" for the film's 50th anniversary at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival on May 12. The new 70mm print is a photochemical recreation made from the original camera negative, for the first time since the film's original theatrical run. 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C."
"Despite mixed reviews from critics at that time, ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" gradually gained popularity and earned $31 million worldwide by the end of 1972. Today, it is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, and is a staple on All Time Top 10 lists. Baxter describes the film as ""one of the most admired and discussed creations in the history of cinema"", and Steven Spielberg has referred to it as ""the big bang of his film making generation"". For biographer Vincent LoBrutto it ""positioned Stanley Kubrick as a pure artist ranked among"
"two astronauts are eating at a table with what appear to be tablet computers as an argument against Apple's claim to the original abstract design of tablet computers. Common 21st-century computer technology not depicted in the film include keyboards, mice, mobile phones, touch screens, interfaces with windows/menus/icons. Although there are devices that resemble tablet computers, they are only used in the film as portable video screens. All of the vehicles in ""2001"" were designed with extreme care in order for the small-scale models as well as full-scale interiors to appear realistic. The modeling team was led by Kubrick's two hirees"
"of an anti-monopoly lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department). The Bell System logo seen in the film was modified in 1969 and dropped entirely in 1983. Technologies in 2001: A Space Odyssey The 1968 science fiction film """" featured numerous fictional future technologies, which have proven prescient in light of subsequent developments around the world. Before the film's production began, director Stanley Kubrick sought technical advice from over fifty organizations, and a number of them submitted their ideas to Kubrick of what kind of products might be seen in a movie set in the year 2001. The film is"
"Discovery One The United States Spacecraft ""Discovery One"" is a fictional spaceship featured in the first two novels of the ""Space Odyssey"" series, and in the movies """" and ""2010: The Year We Make Contact"". The ship is a nuclear-powered interplanetary spaceship, crewed by two men and controlled by the AI onboard computer HAL 9000. This spaceship is founded on solidly conceived, yet unrealized science. Its novelized and filmed appearances differ. One major concession in its filmed appearance, for the purpose of reducing confusion, was to eliminate the huge cooling ""wings"" which would be needed to radiate the heat produced"
"2001: A Space Odyssey in popular culture In popular culture, Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction film """" has had a significant impact in such diverse cultural forms and media as film, literature, music and technology. The influence of ""2001"" on subsequent filmmakers is considerable. Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and others, including many special effects technicians, discuss the impact the film has had on them in a featurette titled ""Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001"", included in the 2007 DVD release of the film. Spielberg calls it his film generation's ""big bang"", while Lucas says it was"
"and aimed upwards or downwards at any angle between 0 and 285 degrees. Discovery One The United States Spacecraft ""Discovery One"" is a fictional spaceship featured in the first two novels of the ""Space Odyssey"" series, and in the movies """" and ""2010: The Year We Make Contact"". The ship is a nuclear-powered interplanetary spaceship, crewed by two men and controlled by the AI onboard computer HAL 9000. This spaceship is founded on solidly conceived, yet unrealized science. Its novelized and filmed appearances differ. One major concession in its filmed appearance, for the purpose of reducing confusion, was to eliminate"
"its initial release. ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" is now considered one of the major artistic works of the 20th century, with many critics and filmmakers considering it Kubrick's masterpiece. Director Martin Scorsese has listed it as one of his favourite films of all time. In the 1980s, critic David Denby compared Kubrick to the monolith from ""2001: A Space Odyssey"", calling him ""a force of supernatural intelligence, appearing at great intervals amid high-pitched shrieks, who gives the world a violent kick up the next rung of the evolutionary ladder"". Poet and critic Dan Schneider wrote that ""2001: A Space Odyssey"""
"2001: A Space Odyssey (score) The ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" score is an unused film score composed by Alex North for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, ""."" In the early stages of production, Kubrick had commissioned noted Hollywood composer Alex North, who had written the score for ""Spartacus"" and also worked on ""Dr. Strangelove"", to write the score of his upcoming film """". However, during post-production, Kubrick chose to abandon North's music in favor of the now-familiar classical music pieces he had earlier chosen as ""guide pieces"" for the soundtrack. North did not know of the abandonment of the score until"
"March 1966, MGM became concerned about ""2001""'s progress and Kubrick put together a show reel of footage to the ad hoc soundtrack of classical recordings. The studio bosses were delighted with the results and Kubrick decided to use these ""guide pieces"" as the final musical soundtrack, and he abandoned North's score. In an interview with Michel Ciment, Kubrick explained: 2001: A Space Odyssey (soundtrack) 2001: A Space Odyssey is a soundtrack album to the , released in 1968. The soundtrack is known for its use of many classical and orchestral pieces, and credited for giving many classical pieces resurgences in"
"Kubrick, notoriously reluctant to provide any explanation of his work, never publicly stated the intended functions of the orbiting satellites, preferring instead to let the viewer surmise what their purpose might be. Interpretations of 2001: A Space Odyssey Since its premiere in 1968, the film """" has been analysed and interpreted by numerous people, ranging from professional movie critics to amateur writers and science fiction fans. The director of the film, Stanley Kubrick, and the writer, Arthur C. Clarke, wanted to leave the film open to philosophical and allegorical interpretation, purposely presenting the final sequences of the film without the"
"adopted its name as a reference to HAL 9000; however, according to Satoru Iwata in 2012, the name was chosen because each letter precedes the letters of ""IBM"" in the alphabet. HAL 9000 HAL 9000 is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's ""Space Odyssey"" series. First appearing in """", HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a sentient computer (or artificial general intelligence) that controls the systems of the ""Discovery One"" spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew. Part of HAL's hardware is shown towards the end of the film, but he is mostly depicted"
"named after the fictional supercomputer Hal 9000, featured in both Arthur C. Clarke's novel and Stanley Kubrick's movie """" (1968). HAL stands for ""Heuristically programmed Algorithmic computer"". It is one of the best-known artificial intelligence characters in modern movies. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 May 1999 (). The asteroid 4923 Clarke and 10221 Kubrick were named after the writer and movie director, respectively. 9000 Hal 9000 Hal, provisional designation , is a stony background asteroid and slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered"
"top sellers with 300,000 hardcover copies and 1.75 million first paperback editions printed. 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's and published after the release of the film. Clarke and Kubrick worked on the book together, but eventually only Clarke ended up as the official author. The story is based in part on various short stories by Clarke, including ""The Sentinel"" (written in 1948 for a BBC competition, but first published in 1951 under the title ""Sentinel of Eternity"")."
"2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's and published after the release of the film. Clarke and Kubrick worked on the book together, but eventually only Clarke ended up as the official author. The story is based in part on various short stories by Clarke, including ""The Sentinel"" (written in 1948 for a BBC competition, but first published in 1951 under the title ""Sentinel of Eternity""). By 1992, the novel had sold three million copies worldwide. An elaboration of"
"15. Each track is specially chosen, often by their families, and usually has a special meaning to an individual member of the crew, or is applicable to their daily activities. STS-98 was the designation for the fictional NASA mission to destroy an asteroid in ""Armageddon"" (1998 film) STS-98 STS-98 was a 2001 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle "" Atlantis"". It was the first human spaceflight launch of the 21st century. STS-98 delivered to the station the Destiny Laboratory Module. All mission objectives were completed and the shuttle reentered and landed safely at"
"landings during the filming of ""2001: A Space Odyssey"", and ""Colour Me Kubrick"" (2005), starring John Malkovich as Alan Conway, a con artist who had assumed Kubrick's identity in the 1990s. Both films were authorized by Kubrick's family. In the 2004 film ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"", Kubrick was portrayed by Stanley Tucci, and documents their filming of ""Dr. Strangelove"", rather than ""Lolita"". In April 2018, the month that marked the 50th anniversary of ""2001: A Space Odyssey"", the International Astronomical Union named the largest mountain of Pluto's moon Charon after Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick (; July"
"HAL 9000 HAL 9000 is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's ""Space Odyssey"" series. First appearing in """", HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is a sentient computer (or artificial general intelligence) that controls the systems of the ""Discovery One"" spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew. Part of HAL's hardware is shown towards the end of the film, but he is mostly depicted as a camera lens containing a red or yellow dot, instances of which are located throughout the ship. HAL 9000 is voiced by Douglas Rain in the two feature film adaptations"
"by its hypothetical thermonuclear propulsion system. The movie's producer/director Stanley Kubrick thought that the audience might interpret the wings as meaning that the spacecraft was intended to fly through an atmosphere. Early in the development of the movie, Clarke and Kubrick considered having the ""Discovery"" be powered by an Orion type nuclear pulse propulsion system, but Kubrick quickly decided against it, both because showing the ship accelerate by a 'putt-putt' method might be ""too comic"" for film, and because it might be seen as him having embraced nuclear weapons after his prior film, ""Dr. Strangelove"". The ""Discovery One"" was named"
"about everything were necessary in order to undermine your built-in resistance to the poetical concept"". Upon release in 1968, ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" was not an immediate hit among critics, who faulted its lack of dialog, slow pacing, and seemingly impenetrable storyline. The film appeared to defy genre convention, much unlike any science-fiction movie before it, and clearly different from any of Kubrick's earlier films or stories. Kubrick was particularly outraged by a scathing review from Pauline Kael, who called it ""the biggest amateur movie of them all"", with Kubrick doing ""really every dumb thing he ever wanted to do""."
"2001 Mars Odyssey 2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars. The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US$297 million. Its mission is to use spectrometers and a thermal imager to detect evidence of past or present water and ice, as well as study the planet's geology and radiation environment. It is hoped that the data ""Odyssey"" obtains will help answer the question of whether life existed on Mars and create a risk-assessment of the radiation that future astronauts on Mars might experience."
"film's ""Discovery One"", ""perhaps the most thoroughly and accurately researched film in screen history with respect to aerospace engineering"". Several technical advisers were hired for ""2001"", some of whom were recommended by co-screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke, who himself had a background in aerospace. Advisors included Marshall Spaceflight Center engineer Frederick I. Ordway III, who worked on the film for two years, and I. J. Good, whom Kubrick consulted on supercomputers because of Good's authorship of treatises such as ""Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine"" and ""Logic of Man and Machine"". Dr. Marvin Minsky, of MIT, was the main artificial intelligence"
"and events including: ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" had an exclusive run locally at Seattle Cinerama for nearly years following its original release in the fall of 1968. In 2001, Warner Brothers chose the Seattle Cinerama as the theater in which to premiere the newly restored 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick's ""2001: A Space Odyssey."" The film opened on October 5, 2001, and eventually opened in other cities around North America the following month. In 2012, Paul Allen himself paid for a new 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick's ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" to be produced for the first annual Cinerama Science"
"but Saturn. 2001: A Space Odyssey was the name of an oversized comic book adaptation of the 1968 film of the same name and a 10-issue monthly series ""expanding"" on the ideas presented in the film and the eponymous Arthur C. Clarke novel. Jack Kirby wrote and pencilled both the adaptation and the series, which were published by Marvel Comics beginning in 1976. The ""Space Odyssey"" series is a science fiction series of four novels, primarily written by the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, and two films, released from 1968 to 1997. Stanley Kubrick directed the first film,"" "" (1968)."
"German fighters. Clips from both films were included in Lucas's temporary dogfight footage version of the sequence. The opening shot of ""Star Wars"", in which a detailed spaceship fills the screen overhead, is a reference to the scene introducing the interplanetary spacecraft ""Discovery One"" in Stanley Kubrick's seminal 1968 film """". The earlier big-budget science fiction film influenced the look of ""Star Wars"" in many other ways, including the use of EVA pods and hexagonal corridors. The Death Star has a docking bay reminiscent of the one on the orbiting space station in ""2001"". Although golden and male, C-3PO was"
"also treats the film throughout as effectively a collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg. Other scholarly treatments of Kubrick largely ignore the film. All of Stanley Kubrick's films from ""Paths of Glory"" until the end of his career, except for ""The Shining"", were nominated for Academy Awards or Golden Globe Awards, in various categories. ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" received numerous technical awards, including a BAFTA Award for cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth and an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, which Kubrick (as director of special effects on the film) received. This was Kubrick's only personal Academy Award win among 13"
"for its scientifically accurate depiction of spaceflight, pioneering special effects, and ambiguous imagery. Sound and dialogue are used sparingly and often in place of traditional cinematic and narrative techniques. The soundtrack incorporates a number of pieces of classical music, among them ""Also sprach Zarathustra"" by Richard Strauss, ""The Blue Danube"" by Johann Strauss II, and works by Aram Khachaturian and György Ligeti. ""2001: A Space Odyssey"" was financed and distributed by American studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but filmed and edited almost entirely in England, where Kubrick lived, using the facilities of MGM-British Studios and Shepperton Studios. Production was subcontracted to Kubrick's production"
"new existence, each step shepherded by an enigmatic alien intelligence seen only in its artifacts: a series of seemingly indestructible eons-old black monoliths. In space, the enemy is a supercomputer known as HAL who runs the spaceship, a character which novelist Clancy Sigal described as being ""far, far more human, more humorous and conceivably decent than anything else that may emerge from this far-seeing enterprise"". Kubrick spent a great deal of time researching the film, paying particular attention to accuracy and detail in what the future might look like. He was granted permission by NASA to observe the spacecraft being"
"essay ""Odyssey of Stanley Kubrick"" wrote, ""Kubrick has conceived a film which in one stroke has made the whole science fiction cinema obsolete."" Others credit ""2001"" with opening up a market for films such as ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"", ""Alien"", ""Blade Runner"", ""Contact"", and ""Interstellar"", proving that big-budget ""serious"" science-fiction films can be commercially successful, and establishing the ""sci-fi blockbuster"" as a Hollywood staple. Science magazine ""Discover""s blogger Stephen Cass, discussing the film's considerable impact on subsequent science fiction, writes that ""the balletic spacecraft scenes set to sweeping classical music, the tarantula-soft tones of HAL 9000, and the"