![]() ![]() In every person tested, a deep-seated xenophobia was revealed, which was unknowingly replicated in HAL's constructed personality. (This withholding is considered essential after the findings of a psychological experiment, "Project Barsoom", where humans were made to believe that there had been alien contact. The novel explains that HAL is unable to resolve a conflict between his general mission to relay information accurately, and orders specific to the mission requiring that he withhold from Bowman and Poole the true purpose of the mission. HAL speaks in a soothing male voice, always using a calm tone. HAL is capable of many functions, such as speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, lip-reading, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, and chess, in addition to maintaining all systems on Discovery. HAL is a HAL 9000 computer with a human personality. He is the hidden main antagonist of 2001 and returns as a-soon-to-be-redeemed villain in 2010. HAL 9000, more commonly called "HAL", became operational at the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1992. Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC.The HAL ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) 9000 computer is an artificial intelligence and the onboard computer on the spaceship Discovery One. Stanley Kubrick Explains the Mysterious Ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey in a Newly Unearthed Interview How Stanley Kubrick Made His Masterpieces: An Introduction to His Obsessive Approach to Filmmaking Universe will be added to our collection, 1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities.ġ966 Film Explores the Making of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (and Our High-Tech Future) ![]() Hear Rain’s cool, detached narration in Universe, above, and see why this extraordinary film-with the Richard Strauss-like pounding tympani of Eldon Rathburn’s score-would have inspired Kubrick to make what may rank as the most mesmerizingly cinematic, dramatically compelling, of science fiction space films to this day. Kubrick also hired Universe’s narrator, Douglas Rain, the Canadian actor who passed away this past November but who will live on indefinitely into the future as the chilling, affectless voice of the HAL 9000 computer, ancestor of Siri, Alexa, and the many voices of GPS systems everywhere. He did succeed in hiring Wally Gentleman, the special effects artist who brought Universe’s wizardry to Kubrick’s film. “After studying Universe for much of 1964,” writes Kubrick scholar Michael Benson, “early in the new year Kubrick decided to replicate the film’s techniques.” He tried to hire Low, who declined because of his work on “his own ambitious project: In the Labyrinth,” Lacey writes. The film was in black and white, not the eye-popping technicolor of Kubrick’s masterpiece, but he saw in it exactly what he would need when he began work on 2001. As the credits rolled, Kubrick studied the names of the magicians who created the images: Colin Low, Sidney Goldsmith, and Wally Gentleman. These images were not flawed by the shoddy matte work, obvious animation and poor miniatures typically found in science fiction films. Universe proved that the camera could be a telescope to the heavens. Kubrick watched the screen with rapt attention while a panorama of the galaxies swirled by, achieving the standard of dynamic visionary realism that he was looking for. ![]() Biographer Vincent Lobrutto describes the auteur’s first encounter with Universe: “Upon its release in 1960,” notes Liam Lacey at The Globe and Mail, “the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ordered 300 copies.”Īnother of the film’s admirers also happened to be Kubrick. Their short documentary, Universe, may not be much remembered now-and may have been far outshone by both real and computer-generated footage-but in 1961, it claimed a nomination at the 33rd Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short Subject. ![]()
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