:44:01
The word on the street was,
"It's great. "
:44:04
I had a kind of a giddy exhilaration
at the end.
:44:07
When she was singing,
"We'll meet again, don 't know where"
:44:12
And he's riding the bomb, I thought:
:44:16
"Man, what kind of an imagination
came up with this?"
:44:21
Dr. Strangelove caused uproar.
:44:24
Younger audiences loved its
irreverence and anarchic humor. . .
:44:27
. . .but many people saw it
as dangerously subversive.
:44:30
I remember reading a review in,
I think, a Beverly Hills paper. . .
:44:35
. . .where the critic said that Stanley
should be physically harmed. . .
:44:39
. . .for having made that film.
:44:41
Now, that's a pretty bad review,
I must say.
:44:44
I can't remember
any Stanley Kubrick movie. . .
:44:47
. . .that was released
where there wasn't controversy.
:44:50
200 1 I remember very well.
:44:53
I remember Pauline Kael's
review of 200 1.
:44:56
They were not good reviews.
:44:58
And then ten years go by,
and they're all classics.
:45:02
By that time I knew
that Kubrick was the one.
:45:07
Yes, all these extraordinary directors
around the world were making films. . .
:45:12
. . .but there was something, after you
saw Lolita and Dr. Strangelove...
:45:17
I knew that Kubrick...
We had to wait for a Kubrick film.
:45:21
We knew that when we went to see it. . .
:45:24
. . .that it was extremely special.
:45:27
We expected a lot from him, quite
honestly, and in 200 1 we got it.
:45:32
By 1 963, Kubrick had established
so high a reputation. . .
:45:35
. . .that he could pick his next project
without bowing to Hollywood dictates.
:45:40
As a director whose films were
popular and critically acclaimed. . .
:45:44
. . .he had won an astonishing degree
of creative independence.
:45:49
Stanley Kubrick now began work
on a film. . .
:45:51
. . .which would establish him
as one of the great film directors.
:45:55
With 200 1: A Space Odyssey...
:45:59
. . .the boy from the Bronx would write
a new chapter in cinema history.