2001 : A Space Odyssey continue one of the most scientifically ground picture of all time , despite the trippy end . But originally , it would have have a prologue in which 20 veridical - life astronomers talked about the hypothesis of see alien life .
According tothe Guardian , director Stanley Kubrick felt such a debt to the scientists of the later 1960s , he require to have them talking about their work in the film :
The creator of theJodrell Bank Observatory , Bernard Lovell , influenced the manager Stanley Kubrick ’s conception of the picture . Kubrick wanted the movie grounded in fact and originally planned for it to have a prologue in which Lovell and 20 other scientists would talk about their thoughts about aliens , organic evolution and blank space travel . But 2001 : A Space Odyssey turn out to be an unusually long cinema , even without the prologue , and so the 1966 footage was never used and is now lost . Fortunately , the transcripthas exist and makes fascinating reading .
And on the face of it , in the prologue , Lovell enunciate that the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( SETI ) should not be allowed to disorder us from the real task of astronomy — something it ’s fascinating to conceive of scientists debating in a science fiction movie in 1968 .
Also in the Guardian ’s clause : Lovell ’s eldritch account of the Russians trying to give him radiation poisoning by using a scope to pelt him with possibly lethal radiation , when he was spying on their Sputnik planet . And also , their hypothecate attempt to erase his psyche after he visited their blank communications center . [ The Guardian ]
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