We’re within five years of that moment now. The film is completely contemporary in its idea that AI could destroy us. The people building those interfaces use films like 2001 as guides and influences. HAL is really the first mass understanding that artificial intelligence could exist. And now I’m at Magic Leap, working on augmented reality. They told me to find the form that allows a concept to resonate, which led to Bullet Time. The Wachowskis acted very much for me like Kubrick acted with him. And that led to startling breakthroughs and a level of immersion we haven’t seen before. Kubrick allowed Douglas Trumbull to explore and envision things by any means necessary. I could dot-connect where I am today back to being a young man watching 2001. John Gaeta John Gaeta, visual effects supervisor, The Matrix And the question of whether this AI is good or evil, coming to the conclusion that it’s only as good as the person who inputted it. And 2001 was a huge influence on Transcendence – I was attracted to the script because of the parallels: AI, becoming a godlike being. That last room where Pete Postlethwaite is dying is definitely reminiscent of the end of 2001 – there’s a little homage there. I rewatched 2001 around the time we did Inception, and there are some similarities in the sets and the style. When I met Christopher Nolan in 1998, I was really chuffed to find Kubrick was one of the things we had in common. It took 40 years for visual effects to catch up with what they did. Then it was wonderfully influential as I got into film, and started appreciating it technically.
I’m sure we had a “deep” conversation afterwards. Ten years later, in high school, I dropped acid to watch an anniversary screening. So I was totally blown away, and it became my favourite film for years I made my own little Super-8 space movies with models on wires.
I was a real space buff, partly because dad produced coverage of the space flights for ABC News. 2001: A Space Odyssey affected my life in three different phases: my dad took me to see the film the year it opened at the Ziegfeld theatre in New York.
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