A lot of good moments in that movie. My fave is when that scientist has to tell Hal to stay behind, and Hal’s like hol up, what’ll happen to me? Then for a couple seconds the movie just pauses while Hal decides whether to go along with it or not.
So, when they were preparing for the first movie, the monolith was supposed to be a shiny diamond. Nothing the effects people could come up with looked right, so in the story boards they replaced the diamond with a black box. Then someone said that the black box looked cool, so they went with the monolith.
For years, fans speculated about what the monolith meant. Clarke and Kubrick kept mum. Finally, Clarke was at an event and some kid said he had the anwer.
The ratio of the monolith was 1 : 4 : 9, the squares of the first three numbers.
Unusual or less known movies I’ve watched a quite a few times:
Leaves of Grass
A Scanner Darkly
Red Lights
Where the Buffalo Roam
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
-2010: The Year We Make Contract
My mind is blanking on the others
When the young cosmonaut races to Roy Scheider’s cabin and hugs him because she is terrified of dying alone.
Lithgow having a nervous breakdown on his first space walk, then helping the cosmonaut when he freaks out.
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Number is far left. (Probably because it’s md enumeration list.)
A lot of good moments in that movie. My fave is when that scientist has to tell Hal to stay behind, and Hal’s like hol up, what’ll happen to me? Then for a couple seconds the movie just pauses while Hal decides whether to go along with it or not.
So, when they were preparing for the first movie, the monolith was supposed to be a shiny diamond. Nothing the effects people could come up with looked right, so in the story boards they replaced the diamond with a black box. Then someone said that the black box looked cool, so they went with the monolith.
For years, fans speculated about what the monolith meant. Clarke and Kubrick kept mum. Finally, Clarke was at an event and some kid said he had the anwer.
The ratio of the monolith was 1 : 4 : 9, the squares of the first three numbers.
Clarke liked it so much he put it in the sequel.
And yes, that actor is very underrated.