Keir Dullea on 2001: A Space Odyssey | Full Q&A [HD] | Coolidge Corner Theatre

[@TomTimeTraveler]

I always thought Keir Dullea bore some resemblance to Neil Armstrong. Dullea even showed some of the cool-headed qualities that were demonstrated by Armstrong during Gemini 8 and Apollo 11 missions.

[@GentlemanAmerican]

I was surprised to learn Mr. Dullea was offered the role in 2001 out of the blue. He was perfectly cast in this movie. He was fascinating and delightful in this interview.

[@shigsho]

Mr. Dullea is terrific. Many associated with this film are gone and it is great that he is with us. He has had a long varied career but will be remembered for this film. Thanks for posting. I have been ill and was unable to attend.

[@200wattstudio8]

I've met Keir a few times at conventions. One of the warmest and personable guys. He was great to talk to.

[@Bulldog1653]

A few years ago, I was lucky enough to meet Gary Lockwood (Frank Poole in 2001) and he was absolutely amazing to chat with. I really enjoyed having that opportunity to spend some time with him.

[@Song-Stories-and-Stars]

This has been and is one of my all time favourite movies since I first saw it at the age of 13. I've often wondered about the charismatic handsome actor who played Dr Bowman, and this is wonderful to see him so animated and enthusiastic about his experience working with Stanley Kubrick. Thank you! Cassie, England.

[@beyond_the_infinite2098]

I was 13 and experienced the ultimate trip. 2001 imprinted the future in my mind.

[@dibsen9946]

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[@malibustacy3606]

Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL - passed away Sunday, November 11, 2018, at the age of 90, he was born in Winnipeg, Canada.

[@crweewrc1388]

Same as me! RIP...

[@allenjones3130]

Rest in peace, Doug.

[@jamkikiki]

27:04 I love the actor's interpretation of his performance in this iconic scene. Dave Bowman has always seemed like such a stoic, emotionally restrained character. The film did not much to focus on what he was going through on the inside. The background reference Mr. Dullea mentioned made Bowman's personality more compelling. I see how deeply he felt compassion and pity as he powered down HAL 9000. Feels like a genuine human. I'm glad I learned this trivia.

[@paulzendo6079]

Keir Duella ? A gorgeous fine person and a wonderful conversation ! Thanks to all who made this event possible! 😂 I am German, by the way . Well done, Chapeau :-) 😋

[@targetedindividual7931]

Would have thought that Mr. Dullea would be laconic, uncommunicative. He's so forthcoming, really generous.

[@hyacinthlynch843]

I think Dave Bowman would have been laconic and uncommunicative.

[@strangerthanfiction4014]

Hes highly intelligent and very bright for his age. Listen to him...

[@XMattingly]

Keir was very charming, witty and engaged for this interview! What a great guy, I appreciate him sharing his insights into playing one of the greatest roles in cinematic history. 😎👍

[@GentlemanAmerican]

9:50 Wow. I had also thought this was filmed in a simulated zero gravity environment, but it was actually a free fall with ropes. Amazing how convincing this scene was.

[@EricIrl]

How can you simulate Zero Gravity - especially back in 1965/66 when those scenes were shot and there was no such thing as CGI.

[@reddevil9554]

@@EricIrl They could have filmed it on the vomit comet, or on a similar adapted large freefall jet with a stage built inside. They found a much cheaper way to do it. Those large freefall jets have been used in lots of space films.

[@EricIrl]

@@reddevil9554 Not back in 1965/66 they weren't. In those years, NASA was working flat out on training its astronauts for both Gemini and Apollo missions so they would not have made their KC-135 available to a film company for a movie. NASA only had one KC-135 adapted as a Zero G trainer. In the mid 1960s that was the only one available anywhere outside the Soviet Union. And, of course, the Soviets would not have been letting Western commercial companies have access to their Zero G trainer - which was a Tupolev Tu-104 by the way, which would have been too small for fitting a film crew and all the gear needed. In more recent times, a number of Zero G training aircraft have appeared on the scene - and some of them are available for hire for fun or non-training purposes. But the situation in the mid 1960s was very different to today.

[@jeff6660]

Still my favorite film ever made...and I saw the original release in Hollywood, Ca. Mind blowing...and Keir was right on about those funny cigs. And I can't imagine anyone else playing his role. Perfect casting.

[@lizanomura6430]

I love Keir

[@srb99100]

This guy never ages!

[@titidiz6343]

Amazing person. Amazing movie, amazing director,amazing everything

[@richardrose2606]

Saw it in 1968 when it first came out in a Cinerama theatre in Denver. I was 16. Many people don't like 2001 because they think it's too slow. My bet is that almost 100% of them have only seen on TV or even a computer screen. Fact is, they've never really seen it so we can't blame their ignorance.

[@robertjameson6600]

Agreed. It was a totally different experience watching it in 70mm Cinerama. The large curved screen and enveloping stereo sound track was like nothing since.

[@davewanamaker3690]

Well said! I agree.

[@atlantaguy6793]

Thank you for posting this awesome interview with Keir Dullea!

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

I was fortunate to see keir and gary at the dallas fam expo but couldnt muster the courage to get near their booth.

[@AdamSolomon]

Thanks for posting this! Seeing 2001 on the BIG screen at the Coolidge was amazing. An uplifting experience.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

FWIW: I saw *2OO1* in IMAX in July of 2018. Previously, I saw it twice in theaters in the late 1960s and/or very early 1970s. After that, it was always on TV {broadcast or DVD}. This film SHOULD be seen on a big screen. I wanted to watch it a SECOND TIME on the evening I saw it in IMAX, but the theater was rather cool, and by the end of my first viewing I was COLD. UNFORTUNATELY, I did NOT have a jacket with me. I usually carried one in my pickup, but UNFORTUNATELY I did not have it with me that particular evening.

[@ladyvincenza]

That was funny when Dullea said he was hopeless with computers and technology. I'm sure he gets jokes all the time like, "At least Siri isn't trying to kill you. Yet." BTW about 15 years ago I went to a special screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Coolidge and the speaker was an MIT prof (I forget his name, but he was about 90 years old at the time) who had been a consultant to the film.

[@fw1421]

In Cinerama it was AMAZING!

[@mannyespinola9228]

Thank you for this video. Big Keir Dullea fan.

[@vintageb8]

the man deserves to go to space !

[@MrDannyArroyo]

Amazing interview for an epic masterpiece of a film.

[@sphinxtheeminx]

I gave birth to the Universe whilst watching this back in 1972. Acid was purer back then.

[@KnightOnBaldMountain]

Well done. It’s a pleasure to watch a video from this sort of venue where good audio is a detail given consideration and properly executed. One can clearly hear not only the host and guest, but the questions from members of the audience.

[@SatelliteLily]

This is so good! I'm sad that KZbin redacted the 2001 audio. Doesn't make sense. I love the parts About HAL.

[@FatElmoCanoo]

Yes.. you have to see it on the big screen with a big sound system. I saw it in '68 six times.

[@killerdoritoWA]

I credit both the 2001 movie and book for getting me hooked on science fiction.

[@romanclay1913]

Kirk Douglas': I met the director, Stanley Kubrick. He said he had a script called PATHS OF GLORY. I read the script and fell in love with it. "Stanley, I don't think this picture will ever make a nickel, but we HAVE to make it." I got financing. It wasn't easy. When I arrived in Munich, I was greeted with a completely rewritten script. "Stanley, why would you do that?"

[@romanclay1913]

Kubrick said, "To make it commercial. I want to make money." I hit the ceiling. "You come to me with a script. I love THAT script. I got the money, based on THAT script. Not this shit!" I threw the script across the room. "We're going back to the original script, or we're not making the picture."

[@dawg065]

my first reaction to seeing this movie was; Wtf did i just see? Well, that has changed over the years with frequent viewings.

[@jarituben]

Ligeti as composer gave the movie its iternal sense!

[@nicholasjanke3476]

Some 2001 fans have a fan theory that A Clockwork Orange is what's happening on Earth, while Bowman and crew are in space. The dialog from Clockwork Orange supports this:"men on the Moon and men spinning around the Earth." "The Moon with men on it." Both of those films I think of as more of alternate realities than visions of the future (well the futures depicted in both those films is now in the past.)

[@rsvp9146]

He aged better than in the film.

[@sunrajah]

you're not a film, or humanity, student are you? ...........

[@virginiapicker]

@@sunrajah Whoa - chill. It was a correct statement.

[@sunrajah]

@@virginiapicker apologies for the personal review - will self-edit. However, Keir Dullea may have aged well but as for the film, those that got it, got it right away and those who didn't badmouthed the film upon its release and continue to, to this day - So, in my humble opinion how you view the film has little to do with the passage of time (which only happens inside a universe, hence life evolves only there) ..............

[@rsvp9146]

Not a student, nor a filmmaker. I fix German cars. No disrespect intended. If anything, a compliment to Mr. Dullea. 2001 is my favorite film. I first saw it as a kid... my first exposure to art and glorious ambiguity.

[@whyyyyou]

That's all very well that there are lots of interviews of Keir Dullea talking about 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY but I wish he would talk about BLACK CHRISTMAS. Is it because Dullea doesn't like that film? If so he shouldn't feel that way because he was quite good in it. I love the idea of Dullea playing a Jeckyll & Hyde type of character.

[@vicsaul5459]

Thankyou, this video interview is Cinema 🎥 history 🙌👏💙

[@tonym994]

saw it there once. in fact ,not the best print ,but enjoyed it, of course. but that was before the place looked like this. haven't been to Brookline in a long time.saw it at the Wang center subsequently ,and WOW! 60 FT. wide screen.restored. I dragged most of my family out to that one.

[@bokehintheussr5033]

I'd love to hear the cockney Hal 9000. His version of Daisy Bell must've actually sounded like Blur's version of the song.

[@nicholasjanke3476]

A 2001 fan once rang up Stanley Kubrick and came out and asked him what the ending of the film was about? Stanley Kubrick:"Bowman has been in an alien zoo. These aliens-having only a rudimentary knowledge of human civilization-designed this 18th French hotel room for Bowman to make him feel at home. Time passes differently in the hotel for Bowman (thus explaining his rapid ageing, seeing himself as an older man etc). When Bowman dies the aliens have transformed him into a super being and sent him back to Earth. (the subtext being that the altered Bowman-Space baby-will save the Earth from World War 3. (That plot happens in the sequel 2010).

[@Rhodochrone]

It's explained in Clarke's book of the same name

[@MrDavidschloss]

the german was on Point!

[@ernestolombardo5811]

Keir delivering his line of technical jargon at kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqOTlGN8est3obOo=35m05s is exactly like Mark Hamill's anecdote about a line in the original Star Wars, here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep7QZYifqLusqtU

[@andrenewcomb3708]

The dawn of man is "I want to see you crawl."

[@KarlHamilton]

Amazing

[@hauntedhose]

I would’ve asked Keir what his top 3 fave movies are….

[@ulfingvar1]

Pretty small screen for such a widescreen film. I saw it on a 120 feet screen, Scandinavia's then biggest,

[@andrenewcomb3708]

Saw "Koyaanisqatsi" there. Wish they wouldn't have abandoned the balcony.

[@sclogse1]

Don't forget short films. Many of them have mysterious meanings. 2001 is very much like a short film. But isn't. Remember, terms like Star Child came from the book, not the movie.

[@mgc839]

29:51 boy was he right

[@goshlikkrudbahr5109]

Wow...and Keir was in his 80s here. Geez, seems the same.

[@andrenewcomb3708]

I found a vase of the Fragonard painting in an Oriental shop . . . I got it for my Mom.

[@andrenewcomb3708]

It was like giving my Mom's flower vase/her ability to 'walk' BACK to her. My grandmother's name was Daisy.

[@alienfrograbbit5310]

26:50

[@LorraineMcFly]

The one guy on his phone at 0:53 😑

[@MarquisDeSang]

Why is no one talking about Arthur C. Clark? He is the creator behind this movie. And his books are much better than the movies.

[@ARWest-bp4yb]

Kubrick based the movie on two of Clarke's short stories and they wrote the screenplay together, then Clarke wrote the book as they progressed I'm not trying to take anything away from him as a writer, but Kubrick was the creator of the movie and it was his vision that guided the direction that 2001 took.

[@MarquisDeSang]

@@ARWest-bp4yb Buy why not mentioning him?

[@ARWest-bp4yb]

@@MarquisDeSang 'm not disagreeing with you there, he totally deserves to be recognized for his contributions to the movie. He put together a book with all his unused ideas, it's called the 'lost worlds of 2001'. You should check it out if you can find a copy. It was really interesting, but totally different from the finished story. ✌

[@richardrose2606]

They're not talking about Clarke because the movie is much, much better than the book. Clarke is always compelled to explain everything. Kubrick trusts the audience and allows them to make their own interpretations.

[@andreavoigtlander1087]

i saw it in cinema and it wasnt better than on laptop because the quality was shit and it was 30 mm but it was still ok

[@rcpilot9963]

30:50 this man is very tired or not interested at all:)

[@michaelpurvis2247]

he's 82 here! born in 1936....

[@allenjones3130]

"2001"is a very family-friendly film. It doesn't have the sex, nudity, vulgar language and graphic violence that pollute so many of today's films.

[@losmosquitos1108]

It was created by two real old school gentlemen…

[@roquefortfiles]

Why is it that watching things like this can still put the hair up on my arms and the films today make me go.............."meh".

[@andrenewcomb3708]

'Hal' is like the 'State vs. defendant'. All kinds of people (State) collaborating on jacking someone around. They get to do 'anything' to the defendant and they wait for the defendant reaction. They like their country. They like being both sides simultaneously. They're getting paid. And the defendant finds even the parents singing harmony.

[@viborgvee8399]

Eh?? What?

[@DeepfriedBaby]

HAL was the sole downvote.

[@DavidErdody]

A bit of a ham but damn interesting stories.

[@manuelmanolini6756]

kubrick was just a cinematographer. Had no idea about acting

[@plasticweapon]

then why was the acting in his films so distinctive, and why did he do so many takes? you're full of it.

[@felixcat4346]

Everything in this is so redundant and safe, not too informative.

[@virginiapicker]

Really? I learned a lot from this.