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In Reply to: Re: Leos Janácek posted by ephemere on April 05, 2004 at 14:46:02:
I am trying to imagine 2001 WITHOUT the music and I cannot. 2001 is one big silent movie and depends on its music to put it across. I have the Alex North score on CD (OK, it's only half the movie) and I can readily understsnd why Kubrick stuck with his working tracks. To call the use of the Blue Danube "jarring" is, I think, really stretching to make a point. Like the William Tell or the Barber of Seville overtures, I can no longer hear them without thinking of the Lone Ranger, Bugs Bunny, or 2001. If you agree to the Ligetti's for the discoveries, how can you dismiss the Strauss for the opening
and the learning/transition scenes? I think the best thing about 2001 IS its use of familar music (Ligetti excepted in 1968).
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The film music of " 2001 " was change at the last moment..Maybe always already told here, but ..In case not...
According to the liner notes of the Alex North "2001..." score on CD, Kubrick never intended to use an original score but went along with the business people at MGM to use an original score and to use North, who they pushed on him becuase of the rousing success of his "Spartacus" music. After North had composed about 40 minutes oif music Kunrick informed him that he was going to stick with just the music North had done up to then and use brething and other effects for the remainder of the film. This was in December of 1967. North was stunned at the premiere in April of 1968 to hear only the "temporray" tracks.
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I agree yours is a valid viewpoint, and I know I am in the minority.
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