Blank Check — Patreon: 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free)

Published 2022-10-09; 2:38:06 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “Blank Check with Griffin & David (Patreon)” and the episode “2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free)”.

Hosts: Griffin Newman, David Sims, Ben Hosley. Guests: Jordan Hoffman.

Subject films: 2001: A Space Odyssey.

On the transcript: No speaker labels; many names and some words are badly garbled and the opening audio is a muddled intro. Speaker attributions are inferred and low confidence.

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what-if (what-if homage): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Jurassic World Dominion. A hypothetical Dominion opening with planet and Zarathustra would draw the answer that it is an homage to 2001.
“He was like, oh, it's an homage to 2000.”
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unmapped (cultural shadow): 2001: A Space Odyssey → The Shining. The Shining and 2001 are the two Kubrick films casting the largest cultural shadows.
“These are the 2 movies that cast the largest cultural shadows to this day.”
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lineage (sequel): 2001: A Space Odyssey → 2010: The Year We Make Contact. The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels.
“Obviously, the sequel exists.”
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unmapped (prefigures): The Sands of Mars (novel) → 2001: A Space Odyssey. In Sands of Mars the Clarke proxy is famous for a runaway bestseller much like 2001, written years earlier than the film.
“wrote a phenomenal runaway bestseller, much like 2001 of Space Odyssey, which came out in 68”
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industry (re-release): Christopher Nolan → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Nolan supervised an IMAX re-release off the 4K restoration, demastered to look like his childhood memory.
“Nolan supervised this IMAX re-release, large format re-release”
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unmapped (owns print): Steven Spielberg → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Spielberg owns a print and has a screening room but still went alone to see Nolan's version.
“he owns a print of 2001 and he's got a screening room”
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unmapped (parody): 2001: A Space Odyssey → History of the World, Part I. Monty Python and History of the World Part I did 2001 parodies.
“they did 2001 of Space Odyssey parodies. History of the World Part one.”
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unmapped (look and Hal voice): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Sleeper. Sleeper has the voice of HAL and a lot of the look of 2001.
“Sleeper, Woody Allen Sleeper, has, I mean, Hal, the voice of Hal is in Sleeper, and a lot of the look is 2001.”
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unmapped (intermission): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Spartacus. The third intermission movie covered that year, after Spartacus and Sweet Charity.
“this is now the 3rd movie we've covered with an intermission this year”
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contrast (contrast in pace): George Lucas → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Lucas's pioneering move in Star Wars was to make space move fast, against 2001's floaty slowness.
“the single most pioneering element of Star Wars was Lucas being like, we can move fucking fast here.”
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unmapped (wave of imitators): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Silent Running. After 2001 came a wave of slower sci-fi imitators, naming Silent Running and Capricorn One.
“But it is funny, like after this, there's a wave of imitators, right?”
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unmapped (post-Star Wars sci-fi resemblance): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. The post-Star Wars studio sci-fi boom resembles 2001 more than Star Wars.
“The post-Star Wars boom of sci-fi movies from the studios, bear more resemblance to this than to Star Wars.”
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lineage (influence): 2001: A Space Odyssey → 2069: A Sex Odyssey. The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001.
“actually is actually very influenced by this film.”
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unmapped (wave of imitators): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Capricorn One. Capricorn One is named among the slower sci-fi films that followed 2001.
“leading up to this, like silent running, Capricorn one and all these sorts of things.”
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what-if (what-if contrast): The Black Hole → 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Black Hole has the vibes but also face-bearing Disney robots, unimaginable in 2001.
“Like, imagine if those guys were in 2001.”
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theme (slowness comparison): Star Trek: The Motion Picture → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Star Trek TMP's slowness feels more self-indulgent than 2001's, ten years later.
“The slowness of that film feels more self-indulgent that this does, and that is 10 years after this.”
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unmapped (making-of book): Arthur C. Clarke → 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Clarke wrote The Odyssey File about making 2010, including email correspondence with director Peter Hyams.
“wrote a really fun book called a 2010 Odyssey File, about the making of 2010”
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unmapped (preceded): Dr. Strangelove → 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2001 came after Dr. Strangelove, as sci-fi was heating up.
“Um, post Dr. Strangelove.”
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programming (recommendation): Artie Shaw → Arthur C. Clarke. Artie Shaw told Kubrick to read Clarke's books, after which Kubrick read Childhood's End.
“Why don't you read Arthur C. Clark's books?”
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lineage (admired source): Stanley Kubrick → Childhood's End (novel). Kubrick read and liked Clarke's Childhood's End but someone else had the rights.
“he reads childhood's end, he likes it”
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programming (recommendation): Roger Caras → Arthur C. Clarke. Roger Caras at Columbia told Kubrick to skip lesser novelists and work with the best, Clarke.
“Just do the work with the best, Arthur C. Clark.”
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people (collaboration): Stanley Kubrick → Arthur C. Clarke. Kubrick opened by letter asking Clarke about doing the proverbial really good science fiction movie together.
“His letter is, I've wanted to discuss with you the possibility of doing the proverbial really good science fiction movie.”
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unmapped (admired film): Stanley Kubrick → Ikarie XB-1. Kubrick admired the Czech film Ikarie XB-1 among the science fiction films he screened.
“He admired the Czech film Ickery XB1, which people have got to see.”
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lineage (source story): The Sentinel (short story) → 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film and companion novel drafted off Clarke's short story The Sentinel, which had the germ of the monolith idea.
“So it's going off drafting off of the Sentinel.”
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programming (companion novel): 2001: A Space Odyssey → 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel). Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage.
“But the 2 of them were being done in tandem.”
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unmapped (similar ending): 2001: A Space Odyssey → A.I. Artificial Intelligence. The ending of A.I. is so similar to 2001's: a familiar room built by far-future beings.
“the ending of AI is so similar to the ending of 2001”
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craft (shot echo): 2001: A Space Odyssey → The Shining. Bowman about to kill HAL is shot from below, handheld, like a Shining shot.
“He's about to kill Hal, and it's a shining shot.”
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unmapped (led to Kubrick mythology): 2001: A Space Odyssey → The Shining. 2001 is the reason for Kubrick's godlike mythology, without which people would invest less in The Shining.
“I don't think people would invest as much into The Shining if this movie didn't exist.”
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unmapped (production process): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Mission: Impossible (modern films). The chaotic making of 2001 is compared to modern Mission Impossible, which writes scenes around locations.
“It's like one of the fucking modern Mission Impossible movies.”
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theme (comparison): Stanley Kubrick → Wes Anderson. Kubrick's chaotic dinner parties are contrasted with lavish Wes Anderson restaurant dinners.
“but they weren't these like sort of lavish like Wes Anderson eating at the finest restaurant dinner parties.”
Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:03:04 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
people (casting source): David and Lisa → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Keir Dullea's break was David and Lisa, a small indie, before being cast in 2001.
“I mean, cure delay, like, yeah, breaks on David and Lisa, which is this like small sort of like searing relationship trauma.”
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unmapped (shared voice): Universe (short film) → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Douglas Rain had been in a short film called Universe before voicing HAL.
“had apparently done a voice or had been in a short film called Universe.”
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theme (robot and plot echo): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Interstellar. Interstellar contains a go-into-a-crazy-thing sequence and the offhand robot Tars, compared with HAL.
“Obviously, Interstellar, which is a supreme masterpiece and also contains a sequence where someone goes into a crazy thing and then a bunch of crazy stuff happens.”
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unmapped (in conversation): The Tree of Life → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Tree of Life is called a movie very much in conversation with 2001.
“that was a movie that's very much in conversation with this film”
Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:23:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (inverse sequence): Terrence Malick → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Malick's raptor scene in Tree of Life does a 2001-style sequence but as the first act of mercy rather than violence.
“Malik always described that as like the 1st act of kindness or the 1st act of mercy.”
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lineage (unmade adaptation): David Fincher → Rendezvous with Rama (unmade film). Fincher tried for about 20 years to make Rendezvous with Rama.
“Fincher tried to make for like 20 years.”
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unmapped (rights holder brought him in): Morgan Freeman → David Fincher. Freeman held the Rama rights and got Fincher involved.
“Freeman had the rights got Fincher involved.”
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theme (plot comparison): 3001: The Final Odyssey (novel) → Ready Player One. 3001's brain-implanted virtual reality is compared to Ready Player One.
“They screw in what's basically, it's like Ready player one.”
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craft (effects technique): Forrest Gump → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Forrest Gump's leg-removal effects and the 2001 pen shot both keep the audience guessing how it was done.
“And the pen shot is just like, even for such an early point, they're doing that”
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craft (effects constraint led to music choice): Douglas Trumbull → Stanley Kubrick. Because Trumbull's effects needed slow movement, Kubrick fell for the waltz pace of The Blue Danube.
“So that's why Stanley Kubrick starts falling in love with the blue Danube”
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contrast (score contrast): Forbidden Planet → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick did not want futuristic-sounding music like Forbidden Planet's electronic score.
“Yeah, like forbidden Planet had the Fheramins and he...”
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unmapped (cover version used): Eumir Deodato → Being There. The Zarathustra cover in Being There is the Deodato version.
“They do the cover of the version by Emir Diodado that was in being there, your seller.”
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people (director): Hal Ashby → Being There. Being There is Hal Ashby's final film and a favorite of the speaker.
“so being there, Hal Ashby's final film, one of my favorite movies of all time.”
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people (collaborator): Peter Sellers → Stanley Kubrick. Sellers is called a Kubrick collaborator and tied to Being There.
“Sellers, of course, has a tremendous Kuber connection.”
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theme (theme reused): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Being There. Being There used a funky version of 2001's Zarathustra theme for its big moment.
“they were going to play the also Sprack Zarathustra, but they did the funky version instead”
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craft (music borrowed): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Elvis Presley. Elvis took the Zarathustra overture from the film almost immediately and opened his concerts with it.
“Almost immediately after the movie took this took the music.”
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unmapped (cribbing): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Ad Astra. Ad Astra is called the one other film that feels realistic about space travel, and it cribs from 2001.
“is cribbing from it so much where like the way at Astra depicts space travel”
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craft (rejected score): Alex North → 2001: A Space Odyssey. North wrote a full commissioned score that Kubrick did not like and dropped.
“Stanley Kubrick didn't like it.”
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craft (music discovery): György Ligeti → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick's wife heard Ligeti's scary music on BBC radio, and Kubrick tracked it down for the film.
“Kubrick's wife was had the BBC radio on and it was their like new music hour and she heard this scary music”
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craft (music cue): Aram Khachaturian → 2001: A Space Odyssey. The speaker's favorite music cue in the film is the Khachaturian piece over Bowman and Poole exercising.
“Then the other thing, and it's my favorite piece of music in the film is Aram Cachutarians sad when you 1st see Bowman and Poole and they're exercising.”
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unmapped (intermission cut): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Lawrence of Arabia. Lawrence of Arabia is said to have a good cut to intermission, versus 2001's at peak tension.
“I feel like Lawrence of Arabia has a good cut to intermission.”
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theme (joke comparison): Men in Black → 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film's ending aliens are compared to the cigarette-smoking aliens of Men in Black.
“it's the cigarette smoking aliens from Men in Black, who are like, we created everything.”
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unmapped (dated look): Tron → 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Stargate diamond shapes feel a little Tron and date the film to its moment.
“It's a little tron.”
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unmapped (sequence length): The Tree of Life → 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Stargate sequence is shorter than Tree of Life's creation sequence.
“It's shorter than the creation sequence in Tree of Life.”
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unmapped (led to Fourth World): Jack Kirby → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kirby's Fourth World is said to come out of his 2001 work.
“Yeah, and I think like 4th world essentially comes out of it.”
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lineage (comic adaptation): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Jack Kirby. Kirby's Marvel series began by adapting the movie in its first three issues, then went its own way.
“Like, the 1st 3 issues are the movie... and he went bananas with it.”
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industry (Oscar credit): Stanley Kubrick → Douglas Trumbull. The special-effects Oscar went to Kubrick rather than Trumbull.
“The Oscars weirdly given to Kubrick and not to Trumbull.”
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unmapped (hiring): Stanley Kubrick → Douglas Trumbull. Kubrick found Trumbull because of his work at the World's Fair.
“And Kubrick found Trumbull, I believe, because he had done stuff at the World's Fair.”
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people (later directed): Douglas Trumbull → Brainstorm. Trumbull later made Brainstorm.
“And then he made brainstorm, which is a great movie.”
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unmapped (Rosetta Stone): The Graduate → Rushmore. People told the speaker The Graduate is the Rosetta Stone of Rushmore.
“That's the Rosetta Stone of this movie.”
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people (Kubrick collaborator): Peter Sellers → The Party. Number five at the box office was The Party, starring Kubrick collaborator Peter Sellers.
“Starring a Kubrick collaborator.”
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fun, about Arthur C. Clarke: Clarke's first novel, The Sands of Mars, stars a Clarke proxy famous for a bestseller like 2001, written years before 2001 existed.
“So Arthur C. Clark is writing ostensibly about himself.”
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fun, about Arthur C. Clarke: Clarke beamed into the Oscars near the end of his life from Sri Lanka and looked like Dr. Evil.
“He just beamed into the Oscars late and very near his death.”
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fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: Nolan's IMAX re-release was deliberately demastered to look yellowed and imperfect, how he remembered seeing it as a child.
“He didn't want it to be like perfectly smooth.”
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fun, about Leon Vitali: Vitali had to dodge whether the 4K Blu-ray would look like the Nolan version without stepping on Nolan's toes.
“And he like couldn't say, good heavens, no.”
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fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: A focus problem at a 70mm screening made the monolith shudder, the best Jordan has ever seen the film.
“It was like the monolist was freaking out, man.”
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fun, about Steven Spielberg: At the Village East Nolan screening, Jordan watched Spielberg arrive alone by town car, despite owning a print.
“he owns a print of 2001 and he's got a screening room, but he was like, you know what?”
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fun, about Jordan Hoffman: Jordan's first panic attack came at age eight, watching the ending of 2001 on VHS.
“and then it got to the ending and I had my baby's 1st panic attack.”
Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:26:55 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Arthur C. Clarke: The 2010 Odyssey File opens with Clarke explaining email to readers, including pages of a forwarded chain letter.
“1st I will explain to you, email.”
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fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: The ending room is actually meant by the aliens to be a hotel room for Bowman.
“The van, the aliens created it for him thinking that it was supposed to be a hotel room.”
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fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: The film is documentary-handheld for 90 seconds when the astronauts walk down to the monolith on the moon, breaking Kubrick's locked-off rules.
“Everything is locked off, square, very symmetrical, you know, hyperstylized, and then it's documentary style for like 90 seconds, and then that weird sound happens.”
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fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: The Dawn of Man to space cut: those first orbiting objects are nuclear weapons, with flags on them, a detail Jordan learned decades later.
“But specifically, those 1st images you see in space, those are nuclear weapons.”
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fun, about Jordan Hoffman: Jordan believes the secrets of life are locked in the film, wackos from Room 237 notwithstanding.
“Like, I believe the secrets of life are locked in this film.”
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fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick's daughter says her father wanted to be a short-order cook, which fits his chaotic hosted dinners.
“I think my father always had this secret dream of being like a short order cook.”
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fun, about Stanley Kubrick: Kubrick on why he did not want drugs to be the source of the film, as read from the dossier.
“I think that the illusion of oneness with the universe and absorption with the significance of every object in your environment and the pervasive aura of peace and contentment is not the ideal state for an artist.”
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fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: MGM marketing found the hippies; a Christian Science Monitor review called it the ultimate trip, and the poster used it.
“referred to it as the ultimate trip, but didn't mean it in a psychedelic way.”
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fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: The watering-hole reading: Americans and Russians in orbit gather in a circle with drinks like the apes at the pond, same instincts with new technology.
“The Kubrick thing of like, we evolved to a point where we think we've evolved.”
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fun, about 2061: Odyssey Three (novel): Third Clarke book: monolith site on Ganymede yields diamonds and the diamond market collapses.
“2061 is they discover a cache of diamonds, they have to keep it secret, but then it leaks and the diamond market collapses.”
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fun, about 3001: The Final Odyssey (novel): In 3001 Poole is resurrected and learns life with brain-installed VR.
“So 3001, the final Odyssey, is just a story about like what would life be like with really good VR.”
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fun, about HAL 9000: See the chess scene: HAL claims mate in three and does not describe his moves properly, the first sign something is up.
“And by the way, Hal cheats at chess.”
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fun, about Douglas Rain: The two 'just a moment' lines may be the same take spliced, per the speaker.
“Kubrick recorded Douglas Raines saying just a moment once and they spliced it”
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fun, about Arthur C. Clarke: Clarke quote read from the dossier that Kubrick said hit him: both possibilities are terrifying.
“Either we are alone in the universe or we are not.”
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fun, about 2001: A Space Odyssey: Kubrick's premiere reaction was misery after 240 walkouts; he cut about 12 minutes.
“apparently 240 people walked out.”
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fun, about Douglas Trumbull: Kubrick got the film's only Oscar, for effects, while Trumbull got no statue.
“The Oscars weirdly given to Kubrick and not to Trumbull.”
Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:15:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Super 7: Kubrick protected his merchandise, but now Super 7 makes the first American 2001 figures: Moon-Watcher with monolith, Bowman with HAL.
“has made a series of figures that are 1st American toys based on 2001.”
Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:26:04 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Jordan Hoffman (guest): A self-described scholar of sci-fi and a devoted Clarke reader who has read the sequels. Loves hard science fiction, 70mm screenings, and the film's mystery, and claims to be sober and a fish fanatic. A sucker for trivia about the making of the film and for the Michael Benson book.
Griffin Newman (host): A Kubrick-series host who rewatched the films in order and found the 2001 rewatch surprisingly brisk. Loves the slow-sci-fi tradition including Star Trek The Motion Picture, and is moved by the ending's dread. A sucker for production lore from the dossier.
David Sims (host): Reads the film as a perfect alignment of hard sci-fi, psychedelia and Apollo timing. Respects but is cool on The Graduate, likes the box-office history, and enjoys the production design. Evidence for his lines is low confidence since the transcript has no speaker labels.
Ben Hosley (host): The producer in the room, a fan of the Simpsons and a hard sci-fi dad's kid who first saw the film young. Gets teased about Ned Flanders's parents and about getting into the funk Zarathustra. Attribution to him is low confidence.

The show's recurring bits

Names the transcriber got wrong

Kure delay / Cure delay → Keir Dullea
Emir Diodado / Aomir → Eumir Deodato
Ickery XB1 / Ickry XB1 → Ikarie XB-1
Cachutarian / Caccaturian / Cachitarian → Aram Khachaturian
Leghetti / Legeti → Gyorgy Ligeti
Roger Carris → Roger Caras
Ozzy Davis → Ossie Davis
Motelli Savalas → Telly Savalas
Bay of Richards → Beah Richards
Macquarie → Christopher McQuarrie
Andrew Saras → Andrew Sarris
Judith, Christ → Judith Crist
Jack Smite → Jack Smight
Prundiv Bashki / Bakshi → Hrundi V. Bakshi
Leslie Manville → Lesley Manville
Trevor (or whoever) → Colin Trevorrow
Cooper (cut after first showing) → Kubrick
Santa Time / stands of time / Saints of Mars → The Sands of Mars
Hell / Howell → HAL
Crow Magnan → Cro-Magnon
Jordan Holland (sign-off) → Jordan Hoffman
Damian Hearst (the 2018 release) → unclear, a joke about a print in a jar

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Names the transcriber got wrong