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Kubrick, like his lead actors Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, was afraid of flying.

Kubrick was a supreme visual stylist with a perfectionist’s attention to detail.Ģ001 was so realistic that the Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, who became the world’s first spacewalker in 1965, said after seeing the film in 1968: “Now I feel I’ve been in space twice.”īenson says that, decades before digital effects, the 2001 stunts “constitute an extraordinary, largely unsung moment in film history”. It starred Kirk Douglas, who also played the hero in Kubrick’s Roman classic Spartacus. Kubrick’s masterpieces include Paths of Glory, one of the most powerful anti-war movies. Its author, Michael Benson, included in depth interviews with Weston and the visual effects supervisor Doug Trumbull, who photographed the daredevil stunts, among others. Stanley Kubrick on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey.