r/2001aspaceodyssey

We don’t see the actual pod assault… only the aftermath.

I used to hold the assumption (possibly suggested by Kubrick’s jump cut direction) that Hal just simply rammed Frank, and that was enough to send him tumbling away.

Now I’m starting to imagine a much more violent struggle, with Hal grabbing at Frank with the pod arms, ripping at his O2 supply, Frank fighting back , and then HAL hitting the thrusters to really accelerate Frank away from Discovery, in the process inducing an uncontrollable tumble in both Frank and the pod.

How do you see it happening?

Watching this movie now and it's been an hour still nothing happening, had to watch apes for first 15 minutes

I was wondering if there are any close adaptations(fan-films, fan videos, things like that) of the dawn of man sequence in the novel. Because in the movie it's almost nothing alike, it has some similarities but we barely see anything about New Rock in the movie, there's generally a lot less content than in the novels, and I could probably list more things. The dawn of man sequence in the novel was honestly one of (if not THE) greatest parts of the novel personally, so I wanted to know if there are any visual adaptations of it

I'm reading the book now, and I feel like it would be the perfect time to adapt it into a film. I don't know if Gary Lockwood would want to reprise Poole (his age could easily be explained away as a by-product of the extreme circumstances his body went through). But I'm sure Keir Dullea would be happy to play Halman at any rate.

I know there are people who don't like the book, and I'm sure some changes could be made to make it more... I don't know, grand? More mystical and in tune with the tone of the earlier films.

The story behind the sci-fi book and movie by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1972.