Friday, 5 June 2020

Stanley Kubrick’s Rejected Monolith

quote [ The iconic Monolith from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was originally not a mysterious black slab. The director wanted it to be transparent. To that end, Kubrick commissioned a local plastics firm, Stanley Plastics to cast the monolith out of a solid block of transparent acrylic. ]

They pale before the monolith that towers over
[SFW] [tv & movies] [+5]
[by ScoobySnacks]
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Marcel said @ 6:04pm GMT on 5th June
Yoy're thinking of the novellization of the screenplay. I just looked up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_(short_story) and found out it was a tetrahedron.

Marcel said @ 6:11pm GMT on 5th June
You're thinking of the novelization of the screenplay. I just looked up The Sentinel and found out it was a tetrahedron.


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Marcel said @ 6:04pm GMT on 5th June
You're thinking of the novelization of the screenplay. I just looked up The Sentinel and found out it was a tetrahedron.



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