THE UNDERVIEW: YEAR #14, MILLENNIUM #2 Your Thoughts <=> Their Control Your Dreams <=> Their Current Project

Threshold   Stay a moment, and dream. 2001 is still there, untouched, unchanged, just as Kubrick left it for us to revisit any time we like. It's where there is still a thing called Future, and our old friends Time and Space are in sync again. Like before, you can care about things worth caring about, yet remain at liberty. Care about whatever you may still find there, after so much has been stolen. So stay a moment, remember, and dream. While you can. "This universe. It is a strange brew, Holmes." "It is indeed, Watson. It is indeed."   Extras

THE FAMOUS ORIGINAL "UNDERMAN'S 2001"

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ORIGINAL PAPERS    HAL's Real Legacy, and other HAL Papers   A Taste of Blue Food   Simon Atkinson's Drawing the Future   Cinema's Defining Moment   Len Wheat's Fresh Insights Into 2001  Stanislaw Lem's Solaris   THE FAMOUS ORIGINAL "UNDERMAN'S 2001" PAGES   People Arts and Collectibles  Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke  Collectibles  Cast and Crew  Recordings   Reunions   Souvenir Book Resources   Early Studio Artwork   The Hal Transcripts   Robert McCall's Sketches   The Dawn of Man Story   Simon Atkinson's Artwork   The Dawn of Man Reunion   Ed Nesteruk's Monolith   Lifestyle 2001   Robert Sabbia's T.M.A.-1  Frequently Asked Questions Communications   How Was It Done?   Showcase   Fun bits   Viewpoints   Happy Birthday, Frank   Interchange   The Intelligent Helmet   2001 in 2001   Unusual Pictures   Links   From the Underview Archives   Read the Guestbooks  Featured graphic (below)  Email The Underview

Be a 2001 Expert Click here Dan Richter Moonwatcher's Memoir   Make your cell more comfortable Click here C. S. Lewis Out of the Silent Planet   Get that brain working Click here James Howard Stanley Kubrick Companion   Back to 1970 They became the generation that sold their civilisation for a fancy S.U.V. Music of the Underview Association P. C. Morrissey Mullen

ABOUT THE UNDERVIEW The Underview first broke through the surface on 1st March 1996. Its purpose was to celebrate a vision of a future of promise and optimism, inspired as long ago as 1968: "2001: A Space Odyssey". But instead, the future has seen evolution plumbing new depths, with a mass of humanettes wired to the control word "me". Way back in 1968, there was still an outside chance that the world could have been made a better place. Instead, all that turned up for anyone capable of thinking beyond "me" was a sense of disenchantment, and a yearning for a place long gone that may have never existed, save in the imagination, where morals still count and people still care. The Underview today continues to be the most comprehensive celebration of "2001: A Space Odyssey" ever created, so even as civilisation gurgles away down the cosmic sewers, here are a few of the many interesting places you could once go to. Yesterday. Today? The darkness creeps on. Tomorrow? Who knows?   "Kubrick's "Zero Gravity Toilet" joke always went down well." "No 9000 computer's ever been disconnected." "That farrago of nonsense called "evolution"." "You can eat with the same cutlery as Dave and Frank." "Yours very truly, Stanley Kubrick, MGM Studios." "V. impressive! Best wishes from Arthur C. Clarke." "You have to keep squinting to remind yourself that the picture is flat." "Natalya Bondarchuk is the most seductive other- worlder." "What do you see?" whispers the aeons-old instinct. "But it's all... light!" "Piers and I were in an Aladdin's cave and Harry Lange loved every minute of it." "How things might have been..."   And you have hardly started.

"Don't ever tell anybody that they're not free... they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em." (From Easy Rider)     Keep those SUVs rolling off the line. Make that gurgle sound good. After all, it's only a film. Only another instant. It's...

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