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How's it goin', everybody?
Sebastian here, bringing you an unboxing, or at least a quick look at the brand new edition of Taschen's
Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Piers Bizony-- hope I haven't butchered his name--
with help from the Kubrick Estate and Warner Bros. This book is massive, though not as massive as the
thousand-dollar edition that came out several months ago. This retails for 70 dollars but it's 47 right now
on amazon.com and I'll throw a link down below in the description for ya.
This book has got: set photos, cast photos, production designs, anecdotes about the making of the film.
This is a comprehensive book and it's, at least from the look of the packaging, gorgeous.
So let's open this up together and take a look quickly at what's inside.
Alrighty, guys. Here we have the gorgeous front of the slipcase for this awesome book, Taschen's
The Making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. I absolutely love the painted artwork here.
We have Dr. Poole floating in space, HAL's eye, the space station under construction and the Monolith
with the early hominids on a new dawn. This EASILY became my favorite Stanley Kubrick movie.
I didn't understand it a lot as a kid but I loved looking at the visuals and this film, easily, in my top ten.
It's--it's a mind-blowing movie and just something that I can rewatch anytime; I can leave it on in the background,
I can sit down and rewatch it. And it's a movie that, not only does the storytelling hold up, but the visuals
hold up after so long. This is a beautiful, beautiful cover to this book. Let's take a look at the back.
We've got some copy here: "Fifty years after the film's conception, this truly exhaustive book includes hundreds
of unique concept artworks and superb behind-the-scenes photographs from the Kubrick archives,
with personal testimony from co-screenwriter Arthur C. Clarke as well as extensive interviews with principal
actors, special effects experts, make-up artists, and production designers.
The book is by Piers Bizony. Again, I hope I have not butchered his name. And we have the artist here.
This artwork is absolutely gorgeous. The cover was painted by Wayne Haag after original designs by
M/M (Paris). Let's get this slipcover off and take a look at the contents of the book.
Alrighty, guys. The first thing I want to show off to you are these gorgeous embossed logos on the cover
of the book against the black, essentially Monolith, of the book. The book's dimensions are very close to the
Monolith itself. These are really, really nice and very representative of the themes in the movie.
There's symbols of Earth, the Jupiter Mission, Europa, everything important to the film.
And Earth and the solar system right on the cover. Very, very beautiful stuff.
Alrighty, guys. The first thing we have here is the cover of the book; it opens out completely from the spine,
which is really, really unique. Most, if not all, books generally don't do this, and the book pages are
separately bound and then attached to the rear cover. That's really, really interesting.
Let's get to the first few pages here. "The Making of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Piers Bizony, Taschen Books."
This is a very, very fascinating format to do this book in. And here we have nine chapters: The Journey Beyond
the Stars all the way through the film synopsis. Gorgeous, gorgeous typography. This is really, really
beautiful work. The design on this book alone is absolutely gorgeous. We have a beautiful introduction
here; many, many pages. I'm absolutely fascinated by the design and I have a couple Taschen books;
I've got the James Bond Archives, I also have the 75 Years of DC Comics oversized hardcover so I'm
no stranger to their oversized books. But this is certainly the most fascinating out of all them.
Concept art here of the pod and the Discovery. I'm gonna jump ahead a few more pages.
We've got Gary Lockwood, by the look of it, in his suit in the Discovery.
Gorgeous photo of the pod. Artwork of the space station, we've got the Pan Am shuttle from the film.
We have storyboards for the landing on the moon and, on the inside, we have photos of the model
of the discovery. Then, on the reverse, a cutaway of the internals of the discovery.
Keir Dullea, and production photos, more stills of the filming of the movie.
We're gonna hop even further. Modern day, and we have the Virgin Galactic ship here. Talking about the
inspiration of space flight. And their tablet computers.
Thank you very much for watching, guys. I hope you enjoyed this really brief look at the inside of
The Making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. This book is incredibly dense and it chronicles
the entire production from start to finish. Has beautiful, beautiful dense text portions that talk about the history
of the film, great anecdotes from guys like Arthur C. Clarke, not only the co-screenwriter but the writer
of the novels for 2001. This has great production stills, great production design work, great production art.
This has it all, especially if you're a Kubrick fan or a film fan. There's photos in here that I've never even seen
before and that says something because this is one of my favorite films. So, please, I implore you,
at least check out the book--find someone you know who will have the book and take a look at it
for yourself, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Thank you very much for watching again, guys. And if you liked this video and want to see more, gimme a like,
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What is your favorite Stanley Kubrick movie?
Thank you very much, you guys.