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  1. contrast (contrast): 2010: The Year We Make Contact → 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2010 tries to answer Kubrick's questions and is more loyal to Arthur C. Clarke's ideas.
    “it's much more... As I remember loyal to Arthur C. Clark's science fiction ideas”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:26:18 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (early commercial reference): David Fincher → 2001: A Space Odyssey. At 24 Fincher used a baby smoking, a 2001 reference, in an American Cancer Society ad.
    “a baby smoking a cigarette as a, as a, as a reference to 2001 is incredibly powerful iconography”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:17:15 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Saving Private Ryan → 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Normandy sequence is compared to the longest virtuoso stretches in film, like the openings of 2001 and There Will Be Blood.
    “The opening of 2001, the opening of there will be blood.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:11:16 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. craft (structural echo): Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 → 2001: A Space Odyssey. The abstract atomic-origin sequence is likened to 2001 for television, and the speakers note 2001 also comes after two hours of conventional narrative.
    “you're like, oh, we're watching something that is 2001, a Space Odyssey for television.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff · 1:22:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Silent Running. 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running.
    “2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. lineage (lineage): 2010: The Year We Make Contact → 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to.
    “Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (over-read): 2001: A Space Odyssey → The Shining. Like 2001, Kubrick's films prompt people to ask what they mean.
    “2001, obviously, is one of those like, wait, what's the meaning of that?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:57:06 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (sequel): 2001: A Space Odyssey → 2010: The Year We Make Contact. 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout.
    “And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. craft (borrowed music): 2010: The Year We Make Contact → 2001: A Space Odyssey. The only thing 2010 borrows from 2001, apart from plotting, is the music, including the Zarathustra drop at the end.
    “Yeah, is the music.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:07:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. career (career arc): Fear and Desire → 2001: A Space Odyssey. An artist can make Fear and Desire and later make 2001.
    “So I just think as like a filmmaker. It's just invaluable to be like, you can make fear and desire.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:29:41 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. theme (location myth): 2001: A Space Odyssey → Full Metal Jacket. Kubrick's later sets-bound movies rewrote the memory of the earlier location-shot ones.
    “it just sort of changed the perception of the earlier works”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:34:28 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (trilogy claim): Dr. Strangelove → 2001: A Space Odyssey. Ciment suggests a future trilogy; Kubrick, as quoted, rejects any deliberate pattern.
    “There is no deliberate pattern to the stories I have chosen to make into films.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:44:51 · Alex Ross Perry (0.70 sure it was them)
  13. theme (theme: Ludovico as 2001): 2001: A Space Odyssey → A Clockwork Orange. The Ludovico technique takes the technology theme and makes it the main course.
    “And the Ludovico technique in this movie is just that writ large, which is why I love this movie so much”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:48:11 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. theme (theme: human error): 2001: A Space Odyssey → A Clockwork Orange. HAL's human error is read alongside the Ludovico technique as the flaw that is always there.
    “What's the human error in the Ludovico technique.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 0:50:39 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them)
  15. career (career sequence): 2001: A Space Odyssey → A Clockwork Orange. After the grandest film he moves to a punk movie within two years.
    “It just feels so exciting to be like, you just made 2001.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:06:45 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. contrast (Oscars contrast): A Clockwork Orange → 2001: A Space Odyssey. This film was nominated for best picture while 2001 was not.
    “Wild that a clock recording was nominated for best picture in 2001 wasn't.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:07:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. unmapped (self-reference): 2001: A Space Odyssey → A Clockwork Orange. The record store scene shows the 2001 soundtrack, which the speakers read as Kubrick nodding at his own movie.
    “but he's kind of like being like, guys, I made that movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:44:54 · Alex Ross Perry (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. lineage (sequel): 2001: A Space Odyssey → 2010. Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books.
    “But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:02:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  20. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:08:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  21. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
  22. 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”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:13:24 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70 sure it was them)
  23. 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”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:16:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  24. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:17:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:19:15 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  26. 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”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:20:47 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  27. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:28:00 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  28. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:28:10 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  29. 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”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:38:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  30. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:40:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  31. 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?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:42:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  32. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:42:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  33. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30 sure it was them)
  34. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:42:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  35. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:43:33 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  36. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:43:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  37. unmapped (preceded): Dr. Strangelove → 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2001 came after Dr. Strangelove, as sci-fi was heating up.
    “Um, post Dr. Strangelove.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:49:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  38. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:52:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  39. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  40. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:55:24 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  41. 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”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:55:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  42. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:56:54 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:57:45 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:58:48 · Jordan Hoffman (0.60 sure it was them)
  45. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  46. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:02:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  47. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:11:11 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  48. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:14:03 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  49. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:17:39 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  50. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:19:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  51. 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)
  52. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:23:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  53. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:26:25 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  54. 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”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:34:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  55. 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...”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:35:37 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  56. 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”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:37:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50 sure it was them)
  57. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:38:21 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them)
  58. 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”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:41:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  59. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:44:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  60. 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”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:45:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  61. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:45:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  62. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:57:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  63. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:05:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  64. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:06:00 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  65. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:06:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  66. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:12:31 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  67. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:12:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  68. 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.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 2:14:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)