2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY DECODED: TRIVIA, CURIOUS FACTS AND BEHIND THE SCENES SECRETS – OF THE FILM DIRECTED BY STANLEY KUBRICK

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Do you think you know everything about 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY?

Do you want to know more than 100 curious facts and secrets of Stanley Kubrick 's film?

This eBook is full of information about one of the best movies of 1968. You will find and REALLY LOVE abundant behind the scenes secrets. You can test your knowledge about this movie here.

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HERE SOME EXAMPLES:

- According to Douglas Trumbull, the total footage shot was some 200 times the final length of the film.

- According to Katharina Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick provided the breathing heard in the space-suits.

- Stanley Kubrick calculated that it would take one person 13 years to hand draw and paint all the mattes needed to insert the assorted spacecraft into the starry backgrounds. Kubrick hired 12 other people, and did the job in one year.

- There is no dialogue in the first 25 minutes of the movie (ending when a stewardess speaks at 25:38), nor in the last 23 minutes (excluding end credits). With these two lengthy sections and other shorter ones, there are around 88 dialogue-free minutes in the movie.

- Stanley Kubrick cut 19 minutes from the film's original 158-minute running time after its New York premiere, mostly to speed up the pacing.

- Stanley Kubrick had several tons of sand imported, washed and painted for the moon surface scenes.

- An early draft of the script had narration.

AND MUCH MORE!

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