![]() HAL: My instructor was Mr Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. Today’s 'lyric quotation' is actually the tagline for another of the 2001: A Space Odyssey posters (see montage), but it could easily be a description of Bowie’s own career.įOOTNOTE: The image of Dave at the top of our montage is from a scene where he is disabling the all-controlling and murderous on-board computer, HAL, by removing his memory banks.Īs HAL shuts down one of the final piece of dialogue goes thus: ![]() The film’s influence was also apparent in the videos for Jump They Say and Blackstar. The song introduced the character of Major Tom, revisited in Ashes To Ashes and the David Bowie featuring Pet Shop Boys version of Hallo Spaceboy. Obviously some BBC official said, “Oh, right then, that space song, Major Tom, blah blah blah, that’ll be great.” “Um, but he gets stranded in space, sir.” Nobody had the heart to tell the producer that (laughs). Of course, I was overjoyed that they did. It wasn’t a pleasant thing to juxtapose against a moon landing. I’m sure they really weren’t listening to the lyric at all (laughs). It was picked up by the British television and used as the background music for the landing itself. I was out of my gourd anyway, I was very stoned when I went to see it, several times, and it was really a revelation to me. It was written because of going to see the film 2001, which I found amazing. Here Bowie explains to Bill DeMain of Performing Songwriter in 2003 that his own viewing experience may have been tweaked somewhat.īOWIE: In England, it was always presumed that it was written about the space landing, because it kind of came to prominence around the same time. Suggestions of mind-altering substances taken to enhance viewer appreciation of some of the more psychedelic scenes, weren’t exactly discouraged by one of the myriad posters produced to promote the film, running with the tagline: “the ultimate trip”. It is noted for its scientifically accurate depiction of spaceflight, pioneering special effects, and ambiguous imagery.Ī 21-year-old David Bowie was so impressed by it that it became the inspiration for his first hit single the following year, Space Oddity. The film, which follows a voyage to Jupiter with the sentient computer HAL after the discovery of a mysterious black monolith affecting human evolution, deals with themes of existentialism, human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and the existence of extraterrestrial life. Clarke, and was inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel". The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - + - +Ģ001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Here’s an edited excerpt from Wikipedia for those unfamiliar with the plot: Stanley Kubrick’s remarkable 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in the UK on May 10, 1968. Who's that girl? (actress-spotting in '2001: a spa.“An epic drama of adventure and exploration”.E' uscita la rivista Sci-Fi Gate n.2 (con un mio a.Judy Keirn confirms she played 'passport girl' in. ![]() Judy Keirn mi conferma di essere stata la ragazza. ![]() The closeups were shot by Kubrick in Borehamwood. Thanks to for the screenshot.Īs you can see from the image I took from the Douglas Trumbull website, there is the actress or, more probably, a stand-in, some of the crew involved in one of the shots, which was made in Detroit with the prototype car. ![]() That makes the grand total to fifteen unknown actresses. :-) The girl in the movie playing on the 'Orion' TV seat. It means that at least eight names are still missing, even if those 6 (Hawyard, Pearl 1 & 2, Bormann, Neil and Francis) played every character already pictured above and not someone else cut from the picure.Īny help in improving this list is more than welcome.
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