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Space Opera | Jupiter
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Best Dramatic Presentation | 1985 | Arthur C.
Best Effects Visual Effects | 1985 | Richard
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration | 1985 | Albert
Best Costume Design | 1985 | Patricia
Best Sound | 1985
Best Makeup | 1985 | Michael
Best Science Fiction Film | 1985
Best Costumes | 1985 | Patricia
Best Special Effects | 1985 | Richard
Budget 28,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 40,400,000 USD
During the planning stage of this movie, an e-mail connection was provided for writer, producer, and director Peter Hyams (in Hollywood) and Sir Arthur C. Clarke (in Colombo, Sri Lanka) so that Hyams could regularly consult with Clarke about how to adapt the novel to the movie screen. In 1983/4, such an e-mail correspondence was practically unheard of outside the academic community, and it was certainly the first for the movie world. Edited highlights of the e-mails were published as a book, "The Odyssey File", in 1984.
Stanley Kubrick notoriously had all models and sets from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) destroyed to prevent their reuse (which was common at the time). The model and interior of the spaceship Discovery had to be constructed by painstakingly scrutinizing blown-up frames from the original movie. The reconstructed ship was not a complete copy: the corridors are just a bit wider and lit with a more naturalistic blue/white tone when compared to its '2001' counterpart.
(at around 21 mins) When Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider) stands in the doorway of his sleeping son's room, on the wall, to the left of his bed is a poster of an Olympic runner, with the text "Beijing 08" on the bottom. Considering that this movie was made in 1984 and the Olympic Committee did not choose Beijing for the Olympics until July 2001, this is an example of life imitating art and background details which came true. Later Dr. Floyd starts to tell Curnow about a marathon runner.
When writer, producer and director Stanley Kubrick was not interested in creating a sequel to his own 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Peter Hyams was approached to direct on the strength of his sci-fi movie Outland (1981). Hyams was initially reluctant (fearing unfavorable comparisons with Kubrick's film) but eventually agreed to direct. He contacted both the author, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, and Kubrick for their approval. The telephone conversation with Kubrick reportedly lasted three hours, because Kubrick was keenly interested in how Hyams had filmed certain shots of his previous movies. At the end of the conversation, Hyams asked: "'Mr. Kubrick, I would like to know if you approve me doing 2010.' He said, 'Sure, of course.'"
The nurse at the old people's home is reading a Time Magazine with a cover story about the impending war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The leaders on that cover are stylized depictions of Sir Arthur C. Clarke (USA) and Stanley Kubrick (USSR).
"Heywood Floyd: My response is, we don't have enough fuel for an earlier departure. HAL 9000: The answer is, "I am aware of these facts. Nevertheless you must leave within two days." Heywood Floyd: HAL, who the hell is sending this? HAL 9000: I'm sorry, Dr. Floyd, I don't know. Heywood Floyd: Well, tell whoever it is that I can't take any of this seriously unless I know who I'm talking to. HAL 9000: Dr. Floyd? Heywood Floyd: Yes? HAL 9000: The response is, "I was David Bowman.""
"Dr. Vasili Orlov: What was that all about? Chandra: I've erased all of HAL's memory from the moment the trouble started. Dr. Vasili Orlov: The 9000 series uses holographic memories, so chronological erasures would not work. Chandra: I made a tapeworm. Walter Curnow: You made a what? Chandra: It's a program that's fed into a system that will hunt down and destroy any desired memories. Dr. Heywood Floyd: Wait... do you know why HAL did what he did? Chandra: Yes. It wasn't his fault. Dr. Heywood Floyd: Whose fault was it? Chandra: Yours. Dr. Heywood Floyd: Mine? Chandra: Yours. In going through HAL's memory banks, I discovered his original orders. You wrote those orders. Discovery's mission to Jupiter was already in the advanced planning stages when the first small Monolith was found on the Moon, and sent its signal towards Jupiter. By direct presidential order, the existence of that Monolith was kept secret. Dr. Heywood Floyd: So? Chandra: So, as the function of the command crew - Bowman and Poole - was to get Discovery to its destination, it was decided that they should not be informed. The investigative team was trained separately, and placed in hibernation before the voyage began. Since HAL was capable of operating Discovery without human assistance, it was decided that he should be programmed to complete the mission autonomously in the event the crew was incapacitated or killed. He was given full knowledge of the true objective... and instructed not to reveal anything to Bowman or Poole. He was instructed to lie. Dr. Heywood Floyd: What are you talking about? I didn't authorize anyone to tell HAL about the Monolith! Chandra: Directive is NSC 342/23, top secret, January 30, 2001. Dr. Heywood Floyd: NSC... National Security Council, the White House. Chandra: I don't care who it is. The situation was in conflict with the basic purpose of HAL's design: The accurate processing of information without distortion or concealment. He became trapped. The technical term is an H. Moebius loop, which can happen in advanced computers with autonomous goal-seeking programs. Walter Curnow: The goddamn White House. Dr. Heywood Floyd: I don't believe it. Chandra: HAL was told to lie... by people who find it easy to lie. HAL doesn't know how, so he couldn't function. He became paranoid. Dr. Heywood Floyd: Those sons of bitches. I didn't know. I didn't know!"
