R.I.P. Arthur C Clarke

http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/cnames-nf/Clarke+Arthur+C http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

Inspiration for many a Simpsons gag via 2001: A Space Odyssey.

On Mar 19, 11:17 am, Armillaria caligata wrote:

Which was directed by Stanley Kubrick. And there have been so many OFF references to Kubrick movies.

Mr. Museum

I think you're right. The things we see in the Simpsons are movie things, and those are likely Kubrick's concepts rather than Arthur C. Clarke's.

"So we start with some apes and we see them advanced technologically, and then they see the monolith, and we move forward". That's surely Clarke.

But "how about we throw a bone into the air, and then it turns into a satellite...", that's got to be Kubrick, and it is very much the look of the movie that we remember, rather than the conceptual ideas behind it, or even the alleged story line.

I saw it when it came out, I'd been clipping articles about the making of it since they had been printing them and put them in my scrapbook along with clippings from the space program; at the time the two were pretty synonymous to me. But other than the middle (ie after the apes and before things completely break down) it never really made sense to me.

But if the movie is on TV, or now that I have it on video, I'll watch the sequence after the apes dissapear, and it's just such a visual thing that it has to be Kubrick's making.

Michael

Michael Black schrieb:

I remember that simpsons did a spoof of the 'Lightshow'-Sequence(the end)... and that was an idea by Clarke.... Kubrik admitted to have no clue what that sequence was about...... I heard that Kubrik and Clarke worked quite close together on 2001....

Frankie

The message from [email] (Michael Black) contains these words:

It was. In fact the "bone throwing was done by Kubrick himself using a handycam in (afair) Hyde Park. It's all in the book, "The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey" (or a similarly named publication by AC Clark).

"Michael Black" wrote

The French made a TV documentary called 'Dark Side of the Moon' (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344160/) which suggested that in return for Kubrick lending his specially built low-lux lens (used in filming 'Barry Lyndon' by candlelight) to NASA, they gave him the job of directing the alleged fake moon landings in a studio. It all looked very convincing, until you realise that the show was aired on April Fool's Day in Europe. Towards the end, the participants(including some real surprises, look at the list!) started hamming it up, and you wondered how you could have been sucked in for the first 45 minutes.

Somehow I think Arthur C Clarke would have got a real laugh out of this...

Paul

On Mar 19, 9:17 am, Armillaria caligata wrote:

As far as Sci-Fi writers go, he was up there with Asimov and Bester.

On Mar 19, 12:43 pm, [email] wrote:

This guy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fester_Bestertester

Mr. Museum

No, Alfred Bester. He had a surprisingly limited output, the only two books that come to mind are "The Demolished Man" and "The Stars My Destination", though I think I must have a third one.

I think the "Stars" book especially, has such a memorable character that Bester is remembered even though other authors had a lot more output.

I wouldn't place him up there with Clarke and Asimov and Heinlein, he jsut didn't have as much output.

Michael

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This guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fester_Bestertester

Is he the original Uncle Fester?

Paul

On Mar 20, 2:00 am, "Paul Bartram" <p.bartram AT OR NEAR mysoul.com.au> wrote:

No. A character from "Mad Magazine".

Mr. Museum

[email] wrote:

Ahh Don Martin... when I was a kid I used to love his stuff so much I used to draw cartoons in the same style :)