From: psperson1@ix.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 10:03:04 -0700 (PDT), Jack Bohn   
    wrote:   
      
   >Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha wrote:   
   >> Your Name  wrote in   
   >> news:sjl4ql$lob$1...@gioia.aioe.org:   
   >> >> On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 9:15:42 AM UTC-6, Paul S   
   >> >> Person wrote:   
   >> >>> And /2001/ did it better as well.   
   >> >   
   >> > The only thing "2001" did 'well' was put people to sleep ...   
   >> > it's a great cure for insomnia. :-\   
   >> That's not the *only* thing it did. The ending also confused the   
   >> hell out of me. Even after reading the book, I have no idea what   
   >> was supposed to be happening. Best I can figure, it was a film   
   >> representation of an acid trip.   
   >   
   >The story of my second try at watching 2001:   
   >A college dorm committee had decided to spend its funds to show it in their   
   lounge one night.   
   >The first thing I should mention is that the movie was anamorphic: the   
   widescreen image had been squeezed left-to-right to fit in the full frame of   
   the standard film, but the projector didn't have the anamorphic lens necessary   
   to unsqueeze the image on    
   projection, so everyone looked tall and thin, but after a while you get used   
   to it.  We weren't quite Mystery Science Theater 3000, because that hadn't   
   been invented yet, but it was a relaxed crowd.  We enjoyed the antics of the   
   monkeys, and the suck-ups    
   to the Space Executive, debated the visibility of rocket exhaust in space and   
   how much moondust would accumulate on a landing pad, and cheered everyone's   
   hero, HAL, who, having decided to kill all the humans for the good of the   
   mission, suggested Dave    
   needed a stress pill to rationally discuss the situation.  It was a bit into   
   the stargate sequence that someone suggested that maybe Dave shouldn't have   
   taken that stress pill after the conversation with HAL.   
      
   As to the anomorphism: at least they had an excuse! I have twice seen   
   films that started out that way because nobody had the sense to set up   
   the lens. Which they demonstrated conclusively by setting it up while   
   the film was running.   
      
   And only one of them was in an Army theater in the early 70s. The   
   other was in a civilian theatre in the 2010s.   
      
   >(As I said, we had gotten used to everyone looking tall and thin, so it was a   
   bigger change in one of the last scenes with Dave lying in the hotel bed.    
   Horizontally, his face was now smushed forehead-to-chin, and pushed forward.    
   He looked like... well,   
    "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" had been in theaters the summer before.  Now   
   here's the brilliance of Kubrick as a film director: 15 years before, he had   
   calculated the time it would take some wag to say, "Eee tee, phooone hooome,"   
   to get everybody on the    
   same page; THEN Dave points up to the monolith  -because he's pointing up-    
   with a very long, thin, finger!)   
   --   
   "I begin to envy Petronius."   
   "I have envied him long since."   
      
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