In his The Guardian blog, Andrew Pulver discusses "Making 2001: A Space Odyssey":
"'He's a recluse, a nut who lives in a tree in India or someplace.' So said Stanley Kubrick, according to his biographer Vincent LoBrutto, when the suggestion was made to him that Arthur C Clarke should be his collaborator on a science-fiction film. Kubrick got over his reservations, fortunately, after they met for lunch in April 1964, and the pair set out to 'make a movie about man's relation to the rest of the universe — something that had never been attempted, much less achieved, in the history of motion pictures.'
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Arthur C. Clarke, the author of the story that inspired Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, died yesterday at his home in Sri Lanka. He was 90.
Now, 2001: A Space Odyssey an example of "mass culture"? Perhaps, "mass high culture"??
And here are a couple of good Arthur C. Clarke quotes, via quotationspage.com:
- "A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible — indeed, inevitable — the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody." First on the Moon, 1970 [Note the date.]
- The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
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