On Tue, 20 July 1999, drose wrote:
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> David B and MoQers, greetings.
>
> For the most part, movies and are anti-intellectual. Having slept
> through 2001: A Space Odyssey many times (waking up only for Also Sprach
> Zarathustra) and comparing the experience with reading the book, the
> images imposed by Kubrick on the material lessened the impact of
> Clarke's book for me. My own impressions and mental images have long
> since been replaced by Kubrick's. Burgess' Clockwork Orange was
> similarly hijacked by Kubrick, IMO. Movies made from various parts of
> the Bible have the same numbing effect. I couldn't for the life of me
> imagine ZAMM at the local Bijou. I would probably refuse to view it.
I was under the impression that 2001 was written originally as a screenplay, and that the book came later. Is that not the way it was?
Cheers,
Val
>
> The problem is that the director's vision obscures one's own.
>
>
> drose
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