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In message , Daniel60
writes:
On 23/03/2017 1:22 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 03/22/2017 08:40 AM, Wolf K wrote:
[snip]


Movies aren't novels.

I recall a review of 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Saturday Review. The
reviewer just didn't get it. He thought of "film" as literature in
another medium: that he was watching a novel instead of reading it. One
of the things that annoyed him was that the dialogue was banal. Of
course it was, it was the kind of purely functional talk real people say

I agree totally.

in real life. But long stretches of the movie had no dialogue at all,
which I think is one reason the reviewer didn't understand the movie.
Nobody was explaining it to him.

Though to be fair, it _is_ a film that is very odd! I wouldn't say
that's a reason to knock it, though.

Have a good day,
There were also a lot of breathing sounds (what you'd expect to hear
in a spacesuit).

And about the only film, before or since, that acknowledges that sound
doesn't travel in a vacuum!
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(catching up on old posts, here!!)

Indeed; why?

In 1983 or 84, I paid $75 (a sizable crunch of my weekly pay) or so for
a Beta (yes, Beta!!) Video of "2001, A Space Odyssey". That tape
probably would have been viewed two or three times a year until the
Beta Player finally died in 2004. Fortunately, before that I had
brought a DVD of the film, which I still have and still watch about
twice a year! (so much other stuff to watch!!)

Blu-ray at least, should be. I've never seen it in a cinema, but I'm
told that for example the detail of the space-station (cartwheel shape)
is amazing. I think it might have been one of the first films to be made
in 70mm.

Some of the Classic Revival type Cinemas still show it, usually, late
on a Friday!

Daniel

(I know it says OT anyway, but how _did_ this get into the Windows 7
newsgroup?)
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