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A '2001' connection?

posted 16 years ago by trimmerb1234
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There is a scene where a highly secret discussion takes place deliberately out of earshot. But not out of sight. Watching is an able lip-reader who thus is able to discover the biggest secret of the movie. The shot is framed so that the lip reader is out of focus in the centre of the frame and in close up is just the mouth and chin of one of the speakers to the right.

I had certainly seen this before but in another very very different movie. Only the lip reader was a tv camera and the brains behind it was a computer, HAL. The movie, 26 years later, was "2001".

Coincidence?

[–] kimpunkrock 15 years ago

I dont think there is any relation to the scene in the movie 2001. There are tons of films with lip reading scenes, including The Big Shot with Humphrey Bogart. Anyway i am sure Kubrick was just following the script rather than thinking about some obscure remake of Ladies They Talk About.

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