8 Jan
2013
8 Jan
'13
5:30 p.m.
On 1/8/2013 2:48 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
If you like to see behind-the-scenes of movies and
don't mind having
the cinematic fantasy tainted a little, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1r5dOwUS6Y
Go to 7:20. That's Kubrick and another fellow standing inside HAL.
(I'm not convinced by the guy's argument about IBM and HAL. The
connections he makes are a little pained and presumptive.)
I totally agree. The
production musical score for instance was an
accident, though later the use of all the classical music in the sound
track was claimed to be visionary by those around the film. In truth the
composer was having a hard time with his task, and didn't deliver in
time to get the music recorded and added to the film, so they recorded
and left in the tracks used for editing and timing.
I suspect also that there were deals in place with IBM as well as
obviously with ATT / Bell (honestly don't recall what it was then) and
IBM found out that it's big scene was that its sponsored character was
to murder the crew and pulled out. Too much primary photography would
have had to be reshot to pull that.
Hopefully someone will eventually complete the archival and organization
of what Kubrick left behind and can study that. He was a huge packrat
like a lot of us are, and hopefully didn't succeed in purging all traces
of what went on from his boxes of stuff.
This guy is clearly looking for mystical connections that might exists
in other parts of the movie, but probably has a simpler explanation.
It is more probably that the IBM that is claimed to possibly claimed to
be projected onto the face of one of the astronauts when he is trying to
raise HAL from the pod is actually more of an early version of something
like the tricks that the Disney people used to jazz up some frames of
Jessica Rabbit than a vailed reference to IBM for some plot effect.
jim