Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!plunkett From: plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (Scott Plunkett) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: 2001: A Space Enigma Message-ID: <1775@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 12:40:38 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1775 Posted: Wed Mar 7 12:40:38 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 08:43:06 EST Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 18 If A. Clarke's novel is so important for a "full understanding" of S. Kubrick's enigmatic movie, then I should have expected all advertising for it to carry the advisory: "No Person Shall Be Admitted Who Has Not Read `2001: A Space Odessey' by Arthur C. Clarke." Stanley's other films are similarly obscure, though usually a pleasure to watch, leading one critic to say of `2001', "there is less to it than meets the eye." Don't anguish over broken glasses, meaning/significance thereof, etc. It was most probably something tossed in by the director on a whim, for no particular reason. After all, so I have read, Stanley was seriously considering having the floating fetus observe with heavenly understanding the dropping of countless A-bombs onto good old Planet Earth. What would we have all made of *that*! -- ..{allegra,seismo}!rlgvax!plunkett