![]() ![]() Stanley was dubious of all formal education. ![]() Throughout Kubrick’s life his intelligence was fed by his curiosity, and his fearless ability to self-learn. From Bowie’s Major Tom to Steve Jobs’ design aesthetic, every aspect of our world has and continues to be informed by this film - including the way we fetishize and fear the hive neural AI inside the one-eyed machines that rule our lives - a fact that makes many prone to view Stanley Kubrick as an actual prophet instead of a mere filmmaker. His level of imagination, execution and wholly original art, wielding never-before-seen tools - going so far as stealing scientists from NASA - is, as the one-sheet states, “A Real Trip.” Cinema and, dare I say, mankind took a monumental leap forward.Ĭulture took cues and clues from “2001” and drafted off it. Like Joyce’s “Ulysses,” Kubrick’s stylistic and technical innovations forever changed the form. Most importantly Kubrick’s “2001” allowed audiences and filmmakers alike to experience his Icarus-like view of a cinematic universe they had never before experienced. The critics returned to reappraise the film, and it went on to turn a huge profit. Once the debris field cleared, “2001” was all anyone was talking about. People were getting high in the theater and returning to see it again and again. After a few months “2001” took root in America’s burgeoning counterculture. Kubrick knew it demanded repeat viewings, and through sheer will managed to convince the MGM brass to keep it in theaters. Many critics had difficulty reading the film. Though now considered one of the major artistic works of the 20th century, in 1968 Stanley Kubrick’s “ 2001: A Space Odyssey” detonated on-screen - that is to say it bombed.Īt its New York premiere somewhere around 250 people walked out. This essay is one of several contributed by filmmakers and actors as part of Variety’s 100 Greatest Movies of All Time package. ![]()
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