American Icons: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ — Part One

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

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4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A half century later, Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” is still shaping our future. With no help from CGI, the movie predicted private space travel, artificial intelligence and half of Apple’s product line. It showed the promise and perils of technology and explored life’s biggest mystery: Are we alone in the universe? In Part One, we look at the movie’s origins in 1960s New York and how it went from opening night bomb to counterculture icon. We’ll hear from effects wizard Doug Trumbull, actor Keir Dullea and superfan Tom Hanks, who has seen the movie more than 200 times.

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0:00.0	It's so familiar we can all hum the theme from memory.
0:12.0	Duh.
0:13.0	Duh.
0:15.0	Duh.
0:16.0	Duh.
0:17.0	Duh.
0:19.0	Duh. Hello, I'm Tom Hanks, and I have seen it over 200 times.
0:28.3	It's a movie that changed movies.
0:31.2	I mean, there was nothing like it before, and there really has been very little since, and conjured the future.
0:36.8	Open the garage door, please, Alexa. Open the garage door, please, Alexa. Open the
0:39.8	garage door, please, Alexa. I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. 50 years later, we're still
0:46.7	trying to sort out what it means. We don't know. We still don't know. We're still looking for
0:52.2	answers. I don't even know what adjective had to use.
0:55.8	Today on Studio 360's American icons, it's The Ultimate Trip,
0:59.6	the first in our two-part exploration of 2001, a space odyssey.
1:08.5	This is Studio 360.
1:10.3	I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I'm Kurt Annes.
1:11.0	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.4	This first level of garden.
1:14.7	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
1:16.6	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
1:18.2	Very well done.
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