When Stanley Kubrick was a teenager living in New York, he saw all the movies on the RKO circuit. He later said that he didn't know anything about making movies, but *knew* he could do better than that. Bad films gave him the confidence to make his own. He went on to become one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Maybe the next Kubrick was in the audience watching "Battlefield Earth."
Yes, it's true. It was the only serious accident that occured during the filming of 2001. The set of HAL's "Logic Memory Center" was 3 stories high. A workman (I think he was trying to catch a falling light) fell and broke his back. The incident is mentioned in "The Making of Kubrick's 2001" by Jerome Agel.
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When Stanley Kubrick was a teenager living in New York, he saw all the movies on the RKO circuit. He later said that he didn't know anything about making movies, but *knew* he could do better than that. Bad films gave him the confidence to make his own. He went on to become one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Maybe the next Kubrick was in the audience watching "Battlefield Earth."
Yes, it's true. It was the only serious accident that occured during the filming of 2001. The set of HAL's "Logic Memory Center" was 3 stories high. A workman (I think he was trying to catch a falling light) fell and broke his back. The incident is mentioned in "The Making of Kubrick's 2001" by Jerome Agel.