9/16/2023 0 Comments 2001 space odyssey helmetI think morally he was a little bit weaker.”Īnother leading film-maker, Martin Scorsese, has endorsed the book. Weston, who went on to perform in numerous James Bond films, says: “One of the great things about Stanley was he had an incredible, tremendous artistic integrity. Tempers were soothed after the stuntman was given a swish dressing room with a fridge full of beer and a large raise in his fee. The director did not return for two or three days, Weston recalls. Having recovered from the oxygen deprivation, Weston was so outraged that he decided to confront Kubrick, only to find that he had fled the scene. So it simply built up inside, incrementally causing a heightened heart rate, rapid breathing, fatigue, clumsiness, and eventually, unconsciousness.” Even when the tank was feeding air into the suit, there was no place for the carbon dioxide Weston exhaled to go. In his book, Benson writes: “Given the complexity of the shots, and the amount of time it took simply to remove the platform used to prepare the stuntman’s wires and suspend him, 10 minutes wasn’t enough. More seriously, a small tank within Weston’s backpack contained only 10 minutes’ worth of compressed air. He insisted that Weston wore a wig that made his hermetically sealed spacesuit become all the more overheated. Photograph: Doug Trumbullīut Kubrick did not make things easy. Stuntman Bill Weston recovering from oxygen deprivation after the stunt. His stunts involved being suspended horizontally from wires connected to a drill motor against a black abyss of outer space recreated by vast curtains of black velvet. Yet the most complex shots of his film included Weston playing the dead astronaut Frank Poole, spinning lifelessly. 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. See the other files that I have uploaded that complete the entire suit.Stanley Kubrick on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The construction of this suit can be found on here. This was recreated from Movie stills and as close to the movie props possible. The only known suit used in the movie was recently sold in 2020 for over $330,000. The actual suits from the movie were destroyed and only one or two are known to exist. See how I did made the entire suit and helmets at the link below. I also supply the word file for making your own decals on Hobby Decal sheets you run through a printer. The DISCOVERY Suit set is different from the CLAVIUS Suit set in the helmets (rear modules are different) and in the Body Environment packs / Chest boxes. Again follow my instructable to see how to sew the suit. Refer to the instructables link below for how to put it all together. The photos are actual props made from all the files here for purchase. I give you all the files for all the parts - you have to take it from there. Meaning you buy this file set, you 3d Print out the parts, and YOU assemble it. This kit contains all files for making the Helmet, Chest box, Jet Pack, and Suit connections (only, not the sewn suit) for replicating a space suit in the likeness of the movie props. This is a digital file set in *.STL code for 3D printing. UPDATED VETRSION FOR NEW HELMET RING SET !įrom the 1968 SyFy classic 2001- A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. THIS IS A DIGITAL FILE - NOT AN ACTUAL SPACE SUIT.
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