Samuel L. Jackson says he was a perfectionist in that if it didn't look right he didn't use it hence the 201 ratio for shots. The lighting i saw somewhere that the lighting was really unusual here so many of those scenes did not have normal film lighting and they were all being lit by the set itself. Between takes like the actors are walking around with sunglasses because there's a lot of over exposed shots with these bright lights and those lights were hot. He also said Shelley Duvall had a seem to have a really bad experience working with him but most actors don't say anything other than "he made me do this 200 times"
We welcome Sam Harris back to the show for a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick’s confounding 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey." How long is the Dawn of Man? What does the second monolith do exactly? Why are the humans so banal and expressionless? What are HAL’S motivations? Has he planned his mutiny from the start, or does the Council’s deception make him manlfunction? Or something else? Who is the Council anyway? Was HAL meant to go through the stargate? What is the final leap forward in consciousness? The hotel room, the starchild, all the rectangles, rectangles everywhere, the music – what does it all mean????
Plus Sam has some thoughts about our Rorty episode and David tries to rile Tamler up about Kanye’s antisemitism.
note: there's a bit of an abrupt transition between our brief opening and Sam telling a story about Rorty in around the 9 minute mark... couldn't be helped.
Special Guest: Sam Harris.
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