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From: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian)
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Subject: Re: another 2010 mistake (and more mistakes)
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Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 22:42:25 EST
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*********************Warning!  Slight spoiler!!!*************************






















On the mysterious "returning" pod:

According to the book, Bowman went EVA and retrieved the
pod he left by the manual entry door.  (That means the
one in the movie SHOULD have had the door missing.  Did
anyone catch that?  I can't remember.)  Also according to
the book, the rescue team used this pod by remote control
to examine the monolith.  This unmanned pod was the one
that got destroyed when Bowman returned.  I guess the director
thought that wasn't dramatic enough.  (Let's kill someone off!)
I think Bowman's suit when he disconnected Hal was red, with
a blue helmet.  That makes the headless blue suit in the launch
bay the other half.  (I may have the colors mixed up.)

I thought the Discovery sets looked cheap.  The perspective
was wrong in some cases, like Schnider's first glimpse of
Bowman in the carousel.  I heard a rumor that they had to
rebuild the sets from footage of 2001, as the plans and original
sets were destroyed.  Can anyone confirm this?

They really screwed up the zero gravity scenes.  There is gravity
only in the carousel (in Discovery) or the spinning section of
the Russian ship.  Yet you couldn't tell by the way people moved,
objects rested, etc. which part of the ships they were in.
Zero gravity depictation is probably an area where movies like Star
Wars have actually done damage.

Why was the method used to stop the Discovery's spin passed over?
Probably because the director didn't understand it himself.  See
above.

The control room of the Russian ship didn't look believable to
me, either.  No headrests on the chairs.  Lots of protrusions
to bang your head against in (supposedly) zero gravity.  Low
resolution graphics on most of the displays.  (In 2010???)

I *did* like the Russian launch bay.  Aside from the fact that
everyone was standing around, (AAAARRGH!!!) the set *looked*
functional.

I didn't hear anyone else complain about the complete axing of
the Chinese expedition part in 2010 the movie.  Like cutting
out half the book.  The whole point of the movie was the emergance
of life on Europa, and this point was almost completely passed over.

Hey, did anyone notice the resurgance of 1984 clothing styles
in the year 2010?  The apparent fad of wearing antique wrist
watches?  How about thirty-five year old calculators?  Bah!  The
director should be shot.
-- 

	Ron Christian  (Watkins-Johnson Co.  San Jose, Calif.)
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