{"id":3814,"date":"2019-01-25T12:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2019-01-25T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T19:58:45","slug":"kubricks-inspiration-for-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3814","title":{"rendered":"Kubrick&#8217;s inspiration for 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kubrick is hailed as a genius, but as Isaac Newton said in 1675, &#8220;If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1960, the National Film Board of Canada produced a film that followed the work of Ontario astronomer Donald MacRae.\u00a0<em>Universe<\/em>\u00a0introduced us to the planets and neighboring heavenly bodies as understood even before John Glenn&#8217;s first orbital flight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kubrick saw the film and was inspired to do a space movie, which became&nbsp;<em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>. He even used the narrator of the documentary, Douglas Rain, as the voice of HAL 9000.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give it a watch and see almost shot-for-shot where Kubrick got his camera ideas, pacing, and tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/48gIN4hGOdI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kubrick is hailed as a genius, but as Isaac Newton said in 1675, &#8220;If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.&#8221; In 1960, the National Film Board of Canada produced a film that followed the work of Ontario astronomer Donald MacRae.\u00a0Universe\u00a0introduced us to the planets and neighboring heavenly bodies as understood even before John Glenn&#8217;s first orbital flight. Kubrick saw the film and was inspired to do a space movie, which became&nbsp;2001: A Space&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3814\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-Zw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}