: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.
:46:04
In the early 1 960s, space exploration
began when both Russia and the U.S. . .
:46:09
. . .sent men outside the Earth's
atmosphere.
:46:12
As the space race came to dominate
the popular imagination. . .
:46:16
. . .Kubrick captured the spirit of the
times by collaborating on a film. . .
:46:20
. . .with the science fiction writer
Arthur C. Clarke.
:46:24
Behind everyone alive today
stand 30 ghosts. . .
:46:29
. . .for that is the ratio by which
the dead outnumber the living.
:46:34
Since the dawn of time, about
a hundred billion human beings. . .
:46:39
. . .have walked on this planet.
:46:41
Now, a hundred billion
is about the number of stars. . .
:46:46
. . .in our Milky Way galaxy.
:46:49
So this means that for everyone
who has ever lived. . .
:46:51
. . .there could be a star.
:46:53
And of course, stars are suns,
with planets circling around them.
:46:58
So isn't it an interesting thought
that there's enough land in the sky. . .