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From: plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (Scott Plunkett)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: 2001: A Space Enigma
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Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 12:40:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  7 12:40:38 1984
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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*!

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