Louis CK on Stanley Kubrick

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[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

I'd pay to see a non-comedic stand up with Louis just taking about cinema.

[@werewolfconcerto193]

Ditto. He's the man. I love his description of THE PIANO TEACHER to Anthony Cumia.

[@Hauerization]

Id pay good money for Amy Schumers in-depth analysis of Apocalypse Now.

[@AOTS123]

Prove it. Fund a film.

[@howlin.wolf.murphy]

A non-com

[@bak4320]

I found Louie on FX to be amazing from a filmmaking perspective. There was a series of episodes where he was dating a non English speaker that was basically a 4 hour movie

[@consumedata4544]

There’s actually a quote from the Kubrick biography where Kubrick says that you shouldn’t try to adapt great books (he didn’t care for the Soviet adaptation of War and Peace for example), but rather you should take an average book and turn it into something great.

[@orpheus9037]

That's an interesting point. Few great novels typically translate well as great films. But pulpy bestseller novels like "The Godfather," "The Exorcist" and "Jaws" - well, they work perfectly.

[@snowballthepro2926]

​@orpheus9037 well what made the films work in my opinion is that the books' authors wrote the film adaptations. So I think that played a sizable part in making those films great

[@christiansather8438]

@@orpheus9037true and we have long form television shows now that are a much much suited medium for the novel

[@orpheus9037]

@@christiansather8438 That was my thought as well, though I neglected to add that to my previous comment. On that score, I'm surprised more novels aren't being adapted. I think pulpy, page turner-novels work exceptionally well for adaptation largely because they are plot-driven vehicles and that translates well regardless whether for movies or long form series. If I recall, Pauline Kael, the movie critic, described Coppola's adaptation of Puzo's The Godfather as an act of alchemy, turning dross into gold. She's absolutely right, too. It's a junk novel, but the film was a transcendent piece of cinema.

[@thelivingalchemist]

Which is why he adapted mediocre novels like A Clockwork Orange and Lolita.

[@odinson99m]

One of the best breakdowns of a master of his craft I've ever heard. Louis, you are the man!

[@ranfromtheherd2553]

I love when you can just hear what the guest has to say , without interruptions .

[@AnthonyColomboAppliedMath]

i absolutely love how they edit out all the responses so we can just hear Louie talk without interrupting. the guy interviewing him, just feels the need to respond without hestitation it is bad listening

[@spankywzl]

Louis CK is a treasure trove of cinematic knowledge, on top of being his generation's George Carlin. He is certainly one of the smartest folks to ever hold a mic in front of a brick wall for a living, and his writing betrays his intelligence. I just love the way he fires off themes, subplots, genres, story arcs, writers and directors with the mental dexterity of a 3rd year film student, but without the condescension, revealing an honest joy that is quite palpable and contagious. Every now and again, it is refreshing to hear someone who knows what they are talking about and has genuine passion for the subject.

[@eljeffrinho]

2:32 Louis stops himself from saying the word retarded

[@tokernizer]

As a huge fan of both Louise CK and Kubrick, this was so much fun to watch.

[@kfiralfiavideo]

The sheer audacity for Kubrick to attempt to visually express the most important moment in human history (when the ape man realizes the bone he’s playing with is a tool of salvation) and to succeed so dazzlingly, is something that maybe comes along once in a century.

[@Dutch1954]

Bingo!

[@Garyrag]

It is audacious as hell

[@N3ur0m4nc3r]

Also thank you for this edit: Manually skipping everytime top left talks was a pain.

[@mitchycool92]

Barry Lyndon is the one most people haven't seen - most beautiful film ever shot EVER!

[@Nifter71]

Absolutely brilliant. A genuinely overlooked and under-rated film. I think film critics at the time were confused by its pace, by its attention to historical detail, and by its presentation - in the tradition of a kind of moral fable, but one which left the protagonist's inner life utterly mysterious to us. We see that Barry is highly ambitious, ruthless, spiteful and even cruel, yet his affection for his own son, or for his first elder patron in the army, seems heartfelt and genuine. I'm guessing critics probably couldn't decide if they were being asked to root for Barry, or to condemn him. And while Ryan O'Neal's casting & performance was criticized, it's hard to think of many other actors who could have embodied that kind of sulky, impulsive entitlement, and yet kept us interested in his fate.

[@plasticweapon]

kubrick's best.

[@VIK_1903]

And no, I'm absolutely not comparing them.

[@stevensnyder7079]

Excellent movie

[@MacSmithvox]

​@@plasticweaponlol no.

[@patrickfitzoot]

Louis showing depth, List in the shallow end

[@MahkyVmedia1]

He was a film maker. He didn't crank out movies. It was art not a business.

[@marccram6584]

Holy crap .. the phone is the monolith ...

[@EddieMartson]

Thanks for load this part of the podcast.

[@Hauerization]

When Tom Cruise got invited into Kubriks house in england for Eyes wide shut-discussions, he spot a glimpse of an editing room were Kubrik still was editing 2001.

[@davidswanson5669]

That match cut, from the bone to the spaceship, was intended to compress the entire timeline of man’s progress, from cavemen to star travelers. It was done for dramatic effect, to impress, and to show the importance of the obelisk giving mankind the spark of the divine - enabling him to achieve the infinite. Jurassic Park has one of the best time compression match cuts (in this case we are sent backwards in time rather than forwards). After the SUV is thrown off the cliff, at the T-Rex paddock, and tumbled down the tree looking like absolute hell, there’s a cut to the second SUV; beautifully pristine and with refreshing dewed glass (like a sweating can of cold coke), reminding us how the first SUV looked only moments earlier, and helping to emphasize the terror and destruction of what we just got done viewing.

[@alanvonweltin6820]

Actually, there is a deeper nuance in the match cut as its not "bone to spacecraft", it is "crude weapon to massively advanced weapon" - as its not showing a spaceship, it is showing an oribital nucelar bombing system capable of deploying a thermonuclear weapon anywhere on earth. Kubrick did not make this obvious in the movie but that is the point he was looking to get across (going from one weapon to kill one person to a single advanced weapon now capable of ending all life on earch). Either way it works in a spectacular way and will likely remain one of the most iconic cuts in all of film history.

[@davidswanson5669]

@@alanvonweltin6820 I did not realize that the spaceship was a weapon. I guess I haven’t seen the film in a long time, or perhaps it’s a detail from the book?

[@badinfluence3814]

​@@davidswanson5669It is not stated that it is a weapon in the film. It was originally conceived to be so but that idea was eventually dropped.

[@user-qt4qp6bj1q]

I like the idea, but it's 'match cut' that doesn't match. the bone thrown becomes a different bone that didn't fly far enough, so he cuts to a different faster throw, where the bone leaves the top of the frame, and it's not tilted the same angle as the satellite as it drops, and the two of them are travelling on different vectors. It's rather sloppy.

[@Skrenja]

Speaking of Jurassic Park, I love the cut in "The Lost World" where the lady screams and then it cuts to Dr. Malcom standing in the screeching subway. So seamless.

[@N1njaZ3n]

I was listening just to the audio of this without watching the video while I was working and the whole time it sounded like Louis was just interrupting the guys and never letting them talk because he knew his stuff and just wanted to tell somebody.

[@mastaaceexclusive]

He jus said in words. So many things i feel watching kubrick movies

[@LukasMatejka-du5hb]

Kubrick's biggest brilliance was not giving a fuck about "happy endings"...... a true art is an immitation of real life and real life sometimes(or many times) doesn't have happy ending...... and Kubrick was more than willing to end movie in a way, where there would be million unanswered questions or it would be downright sad or tragic...... because that's how reality is

[@CipherSerpico]

4:35 - _Is nobody gonna talk about how absolutely_ *INSANE* _that is?_ The Monolith in 2001-absolutely *epitomizes* the ‘modern Cellphone’, in virtually every possible way; The way we “worship” them, the “evolution” of technology, the way that-cellphones are the culmination of all other technological advancements-and the way they perpetuate further innovation; The way they’ve had good _and_ bad consequences… Even the definition of the term _Monolith…_ _”a massive, uniform, unmovable, impersonal, cultural-social organization or structure”._ *That is literally, a perfect description of what the Internet has become,* via modern cellphone use; i.e. ‘social media’. Lmfao that is so fucking crazy.

[@victoryak86]

And you rarely turn em off. They’re just sitting there absorbing information 24/7 across the globe and billions of human beings. It’s sort of depressing when I think of pre-internet and the relative simplicity of life then, though now I can’t imagine life w/out the internet (which is primarily sourced by most people on these “phones!”). I agree with you on the phone being like the monolith but might broaden it to say it’s the modern personal computer in whatever form, ie. Phone, tablet, laptop etc.

[@fast1nakus]

You can replace cellphone with a book and it will make as much sense.

[@CipherSerpico]

@@fast1nakus Modern society “worships books”? A ‘Book’ is comparable to “a massive, uniform, unmovable, impersonal cultural social organization or structure”?

[@fast1nakus]

@@CipherSerpico Bible? quaran? mein kampf? use ur imagination, bro.

[@CipherSerpico]

@@fast1nakus Yeah, but I wouldn’t describe _Charlotte’s Web_ as a “Monolith”.

[@PooBah]

I love the editing of this so we only hear louis ck's wonderful insights and skip all the inane shouty bluster of the interviewer. Good job.

[@HorySmokes]

12:30 It's not the Overlook that reaches out to Scatman, it's Danny.

[@victoryak86]

True, I think the same, tho it is also true that he was met with instant death when he got there. Almost as if it was both? As usual with the Shining (maybe my favorite film), there are more questions than answers.

[@MrTickleBean]

I didn’t know Louis was so knowledgeable about films. Pretty cool.

[@stu9000]

I love how the other two on the podcast are cut out. I don't want to hear them either.

[@robertpoen5383]

They would just blah, blah

[@NecronomThe4th]

I’d love to know what Brendan Schaubs opinion on Werner Herzog is.

[@FlyhighLittleDrone]

I really appreciate that these guys just let Louie go off about Kubrick uninterrupted…I appreciate that

[@N3ur0m4nc3r]

So...I'll assume you saw the uncut version 😂. Top Left ☠️🤦

[@ericmiller5603]

I’ve only seen Kubrick’s most acclaimed or best known films (I will watch “Path to Glory” and “The Killing). I’m always brought back to the visuals and the color and composition of his shots. I think Louis really summed up Kubrick’s ethos at the end by saying he’s “showing” us these possibilities.

[@timheavyable]

Paths Of glory.

[@stevemcnary7963]

Dr Strangelove is my favorite Kubrick movie. Still makes me laugh. The Shining is #2, A Clockwork Orange is #3. The Killing is #4. Èyes Wide Shut is #5.

[@cinegabweb]

Hard to pick a favorite, but Strangelove, the Shining and 2001, are always my top 3, in any order.

[@garyolshan4177]

@@cinegabweb Clockwork Orange, Strangelove, 2001

[@therainman7777]

The fact that eyes wide shut makes your top five but 2001 doesn’t is baffling to me.

[@scifiwriter98]

Clockwork Orange affected me the most, so it's my #1, followed by Strangelove, The Shining, 2001 and Spartacus. His movies stay with you long after you see them.

[@filmbuff4]

Kubrick's 70s films: A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon are my favorites.

[@Mattdotnfo]

Louis explaining a beautiful scene from a film and this guy’s reply is just “I’ve seen that movie”

[@N3ur0m4nc3r]

Louis reveals such deep real insight and understanding of Kubrick. Funny how it provides as much, if not more, insight into Him. I might love Louis C.K. even more than his stand-up 🤟

[@geofftayloruk]

Really? He's clearly never looked up some of the basic facts about the making of 2001....

[@justgivemethetruth]

Spartacus, Paths of Glory, 2001: A Space Odyssey Never saw The Killing

[@JacksonHinton]

It’s nice not hearing Joe list

[@alexanderdumas-]

The shining the book was incredible. Never been terrified by a book before. But I just watched the movie for the first time and it was a triumph in its own right. Maybe the first time I appreciated a movie more than I book I loved.

[@RataStuey]

I think the book and the film are incredible and brilliant but in completely different ways. Like entirely different ways. I love both of them but they both do such wildly different things

[@ingvarhallstrom2306]

I think the book and the film are two completely different things. And it's pety that Stephen King doesn't acknowledge that. He's always been pissed that Kubrick took his book and ran with it. But it's also the single best filmatization of a King novel ever, even including Shawshank Redemption. King could've said "This film is the shit. It's so Wow! I don't even have words for it. But it's not the story I wrote. I wrote a different story and Kubrick took that story in another direction, and that story isn't my story anymore. But wow what a f***ing good film it is!" But he didn't.

[@JJourdenaisART]

I love how different they are, both are terrifying in such a different way. Two totally separate experiences.

[@alexanderdumas-]

@@ingvarhallstrom2306 I think it’s more so because he only agreed to sell the script to a studio if they allowed him input on keeping it the way he wanted. I think it’s more so about them tricking him out of his story than pure pettiness. Plus he wanted Jack to be a man transformed by alchohol but overall rose above it to find redemption to save his family but not himself. There’s probably a personal reason why he’s stated so often he was upset that Jack shows up as a physical and sexual deviant instead of the building causing him to be a monster. And in the end there is no redemption for Kubricks Jack. They told a great story but they did cut the central theme out of his story pretty radically in that regard, I loved both I just wanted to explain why it wasn’t just him not liking the movie

[@davedecker1725]

@@ingvarhallstrom2306 King redid the movie himself. It's true to the book

[@user-rp3bx8ok5y]

They're not pigs they are called Tapirs.

[@orpheus9037]

Louis CK does a terrific job pulling Kubrick apart - I'm fascinated with what he has to say. Really curious insights, but then, he's a genius as well. Brilliant guy. And by the way, it's time to let CK out of the "Me Too" lock up. He may have some fucked up issues when it comes to sex, but I don't think he ever hurt or coerced anyone, not like some of the other fuckers like Spacey or Weinstein or Rose. I don't think there's any cruelty - certainly not sexual cruelty in CK - it's not who he is. Only people who take themselves very, very seriously are capable of that kind of cruelty. And again, that's not CK. He's too smart for that.

[@Nifter71]

I love Louis's work, especially his stand-up... but I couldn't ever say what kind of person he actually is based on his work, cos I don't know him. And being smart is no barrier to being cruel. So maybe you're right? I hope so. Either way, he makes some interesting points here. 😃

[@lobsterwhisperer7932]

Pulling apart yes.

[@nosouponhead]

I first read A Clockwork Orange and then watched the movie, and the movie looked exactly like I imagined the book.

[@Bionicjoe]

Heh! I was just thinking that 2001 looked like the book as I imagined it. Although I would say that Kubrick under-explained the monolith. The movie doesn't show that it killed the old & weak and gave the strong ape the idea for tools or weapons.

[@Brascofarian]

The lengths Kubrick went to in his career to improve his film making, the leaps he made ahead of everyone in the field, to say "I think The Killing is his best movie" just blows my mind.

[@dariohenriquez7773]

yeah thats just stupid

[@therainman7777]

Just because he made leaps to attempt to improve doesn’t mean everyone agrees that those leaps were successful.

[@Brascofarian]

@@therainman7777 just because some people don’t think he made any successful improvements in film making after The Killing doesn’t stop my mind being blown by that opinion.

[@dashiellowen4905]

what do u think is the best? i think its paths of glory. i think the asphalt jungle is better than the killing.

[@Brascofarian]

@@dashiellowen4905 difficult to say, it depends on my mood. I like the dark humor in Full Metal Jacket, I love the depth of 2001 and I love the cinematography of Barry Lyndon… but more importantly I love that these films seemed impossible. How do you make a Vietnam war in London? How can you make a realistic science fiction in the 60’s before CGI was even a thing? How do you film shots using only candle light? It took a technical and creative genius.

[@sanfordsanford295]

I love how the host keeps trying to chime in with banal nonsense and Louis just steamrolls over him with actual thoughts

[@jon8004]

If you don't think "Eyes Wide Shut" is perfect, you simply haven't seen it yet.

[@paulberry2884]

Kubrick and Lynch are both artists who let you experience their art.

[@glovere2]

I understand that movie now better than I ever have and I have a deeper appreciation for Kubrick’s genius. It demonstrates Louie’s genius of observation and what makes him such a great comedian. He sees things and understands what’s important about them and what that says about us.

[@cn2490]

Always fun to learn something new, how different people view the same piece.

[@williambarringer6513]

They actually built a giant Ferris wheel style rotating set, they had to run it for a week empty to get all the extra nails and screws and debris from the construction out of it cuz they were bouncing around in there when they’d turn it on

[@matthewwhitehead2102]

The score in the Shining is paramount in making it creepy and tense.

[@musicalBurr]

One thing I believe Kubrick said about adapting a book to a film, is that he constantly questions “is what I’m doing here getting at the feeling I had when reading the book?” or something like that. I forget where I read that.

[@joeking6972]

This is spooky I had literally the exact same conversation regarding how the iphone looks like the Monolith.

[@sadclown7340]

I felt an obscure vibe watching "Horace and pete". I think he was taking some inspiration from his joy of cinema when creating it..

[@RipleysReasons]

I’m ready for my monolith, Mr. Kubrick

[@0ooTheMAXXoo0]

Louie CK is a master filmmaker. His show that he wrote and directed was amazing. Like a modern Woody Allen but better.

[@doodooswaggy3825]

Literally every movie he's made is awful, though

[@License2Bust]

@@doodooswaggy3825 shut up dork Pootie Tang was better than anything your gay ass will ever do

[@pygmalioninvenus6057]

lol

[@drstrangelove09]

I'd like to see him talk about my favorite movie, Dr. Strangelove.

[@ballpointpress]

“I actually haven’t seen the killing, but I think it’s great”… Classic Ranan contribution there.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

"but I HEAR it's great"

[@JoeLigmama]

Its like he just watched kubrick for the first time 😂

[@0ooTheMAXXoo0]

Kubrick was fond of the idea that films should have seven "moments" that are important, that stand out.

[@dredhead117]

3:03 they're not pigs at the beginning of 2001, they're tapirs Listening to Louis talk about the them briefly, it seems to me that using tapirs was a deliberate by Kubrick. Tapirs are similar in shape and size to pigs, but different and prehistoric looking, and less familiar to most western movie audiences as evidenced here by Louis calling them "weird pigs". A textbook example of Kubrick using visuals that are both recognizable but off-putting

[@fgoindarkg]

While pretty obvious at the time, people today don't get the Goldwater/Johnson reference, and how it unlocks the true meaning of the film.

[@doughbafett]

8:25 I would disagree that Kubrick never did a 3-act story. A Clockwork Orange had that.

[@boreopithecus]

3:03 Tapirs, not pigs.

[@9cross]

weird pigs

[@h.hholmes.492]

Holy fuck i love comedians describing movies

[@crazyralph6386]

He was brilliant. Too bad he got too close to the sun after filming EWS, cause he likely would’ve directed a couple of more films?

[@cloudzundersky]

11:54 what he's saying about all the characters being weird in Shining, I find it's literally every Kubrick movie where that's the case. Every character sort of has this demented smile they're trying to hide (Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut) Even in 2001, all the random astronauts and Nasa people seem like they're slightly psychotic haha

[@mentalitydesignvideo]

Amazing analysis

[@micahadrian8486]

I love this video.

[@srTraseroRojo]

i love louie even more now

[@gravedanc3r317]

Dang! LCK is a movie nut! He could write a book on Kubrick from the sound of it

[@sonofaguppy6708]

I’m just noticing that Louie C.K. sounds exactly like Stanley Kubrick..

[@edcedera]

I long for the days when we weren't bludgeoned by the director...

[@Nifter71]

Barry Lyndon has a pretty traditional structure. 😀Although we're not clear if Barry has grown or learned anything at all by the time of his downfall...

[@geofftayloruk]

Those were Tapirs, not pigs...

[@RyMovieGuy]

Love the idea of films “inviting” us to a new world, or an entirely different way of thinking.

[@gwaand]

I encourage those who haven't yet to listen to Joe and Ranaans podcast. Excellent takes on film

[@Guedingen]

Astonishing.

[@benf1111]

The monolith analogy was perfect. Sounds like his GF is on his level.😊

[@AnthonyColomboAppliedMath]

the fact that he didn't win an oscar shows that cinema was dead way before the MCU arrived

[@Ashutt92]

Louis got so ripped off he was just about to start making films for real.

[@bigpictureguys8415]

I feel like Louie must love A24

[@PIANOPLAYJAZZ]

In today's corporate Hollywood, Kubrick wouldn't be given a dime to create sad

[@tonygibson5171]

Love the killing and it became such a good foundation for other great films to come like Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs or the Coen Brothers Fargo. Of course in our day n age we don’t necessarily need the narrator- basically I wish it was more ambiguous.

[@twanger644]

Tapirs

[@williampatrick2971]

He’s got great taste in movies

[@naftalibendavid]

The Killing is awesome.

[@akhileshk1584]

What a perspective?

[@PlayNiceFolks]

Redbar is watching. #RedbarRadio

[@ronteazy]

7:49 Louis explains neon genesis evangelion

[@justgivemethetruth]

I think that beautiful music in 2001 is artifice ... it's fake, like hipocrisy, like there is no beauty in our agression, but there is something in the human spirit, but it is broken, and the monolith recognizes that.

[@cmw7]

The Killing rules

[@0ooTheMAXXoo0]

Kubrick's The Shining is very much like the book and it feels very much like a Stephen King story... Not sure why King used to not like it.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Kubrick left out King's mawkish ending and all the arbitrary soap opera backstory. King is a typist and proud of his typing.

[@jasonvalenzuela6896]

When u have nasa funding the odyssey and letting u use their camera then u get staggering results . Front screen projection for the ape scenes

[@jacksobrooks]

Upper left hand guy has trouble with listening just to respond. No hate. I've got the same problem. But when someone is saying something with passion, just try to absorb it.

[@spikeep6141]

Yeah, back then, people didn’t even KNOW this yet, so he was Teachin’ Us, and yet NOW, People need to be •reminded• of the fact - it takes THREE DAYS to Fly to The Moon; and you don’t even notice that he’s drilling you on that, because there’s a trans-orbital SpacePort at the Lagrange Point with a Holiday Inn, so you can transfer between flights and break your journey if you are still adjusting to the low-Gravity conditions, and conduct low-key Cold War espionage and intelligence-gathering over cafe-au-lait whilst trading innuendos with Leonard Rossiter. Of course, he is so •successful• in educating you as The Audience of the fact that’s it takes 3 Days to fly to The Dark Side of The Moon to witness the second monolith, TMA-1, being excavated from 20m down in the surface Moon Dust, embedded in SOLID Rock, that you completely fail to notice that the journey up to Clavius DIDN’T take 3 Days to get there, it actually took Us approx. 250,000,000,000 YEARS to find it and get up there…

[@smackdaddy9802]

Imagine Louis CK and Patton Oswalt just talking cinema for 3 hours!

[@plissken2156]

Gotta throw in Bill Hader and Bill Burr into that mix as well. Make it kind of like an on-line episode of Round Table: Comedians Talking Movies.

[@paulies5407]

@@plissken2156 That sounds fucking gay edit: and your username is even gayer

[@DamTheKid]

Now imagine louis ck talking movies with his pants down pulling on his pud asking if he can finish Buncha film ferries

[@TeatroGrotesco]

They both need to join a panel show for Red Letter Media.

[@plissken2156]

@@TeatroGrotesco Patton Oswald already did that. It proved to be quite funny. Louis CK may not. He strikes me as the type of being "too cool for school" and to sit down with a bunch of film nerds to discuss silly B-grade movies may be a bit beneath him. He also runs the risk of not being the funniest person in the room with that Red Letter Media group.

[@williambarringer6513]

There’s 45 mins missing from ews

[@kdizzle901]

Kubrick is the greatest director of all time

[@jj7546]

No

[@cinegabweb]

@@jj7546 yes

[@gregbors8364]

Akira Kurosawa

[@Mine4062]

Louie def got high before this interview.

[@stewartmoore5158]

Louis and Kubrick are artists of equal genius in their own fields. It's not surprising he loves Kubrick.

[@Wallyworld30]

5:07 Louis is close when the ape throws the bone in the air and it tumbles around and morphs into a Spaceship. What he missed was that spaceship is carrying Nuclear Bombs pointed at the planet. So it sequence shows man's first apex weapon his club is morphed into the futuristic version of mans apex weapon of a Nuclear Bomb. Louis has impressive knowledge of Kubricks work though. I suppose he studied quite a bit for his own movies.

[@crazyralph6386]

It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it, but why was the space shuttle carrying nukes again? Were they going to destroy the planet that the monolith was discovered on, if it turned out to be foe?

[@Wallyworld30]

@@crazyralph6386 It's never explicitly talked about in the movie only reason I even know it's a Nuke is it say's so in the book.

[@crazyralph6386]

@@Wallyworld30 I see. So in the novel, the bone/nuke juxtaposition is explained in the prologue?

[@stevef.5269]

@@Wallyworld30 The book was Arthur C. Clarke taking liberties with Kubrick's screenplay and clearly explaining things that Kubrick never wanted to explain. They had almost no interaction on Clarke's novelization. So whatever conclusions or explanations the book has are entirely Clarke's own and not Kubrick's.

[@Wallyworld30]

@@stevef.5269 Kubricks screenplay also described it as nukes though. They are 100% Nukes.

[@sebastianhernandez7434]

Louis doesn’t know what a tapir is. I am dissapoint

[@shortfuze5685]

The overlays of the movies are annoying. Looks like a jumbled mess

[@brys.3131]

I must have unconventional tastes in women lol. I always thought Shelly Duval was one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen in my life. She has the most attractive eyes and smile. Anyway I think I fell in love with her as a kid watching movies. But to each their own lol.

[@adrianbarac3063]

Louis sold Kubrick in 15 minutes better than anyone I've ever heard or read. Hats off.