Welcome to ODYSSEY ~ KEIR DULLEA ONLINE @keirdullea.org a site dedicated to the career of actor Keir Dullea. Best known for his role as Commander Dave Bowman in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. In a career that has spanned five decades, Keir has worked in film and television including Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Castle, Damages, The Hoodlum Priest, Bunny Lake Is Missing, The Fox, Paperback Hero, David & Lisa, Madame X, Isn't It Delicious, and the sequel to 2001, 2010: Odyssey Two. Keir's favourite medium is the stage where he's starred in such projects as the original production of Butterflies Are Free, On Golden Pond, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, Doubles, Dr. Cook's Garden, I Never Sang for My Father, The Shawshank Redemption, Tales from Hollywood, The Cherry Orchard and many other workshop productions.
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Along with the event images post before this one, I’ve added a new scan for the press section. This time it’s from the Australasia July 2016 edition of Empire magazine. Here they name their 50 greatest Sci-Fi moments. They chose as the number one greatest the HAL-9000 disconnection scene from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. I’d have to say I completely agree with them. Their top ten was pretty impressive including the chestburster scene from Alien where Kane (John Hurt) gave bith, the Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) dying scene from Blade Runner, both films directed by Ridley Scott. Number 5 was the final scene at the end of Franklin J. Schaffner’s Planet of the Apes where George Taylor (Charleton Heston) and Nova (Linda Harrison) find the ruined Statue of Liberty on the beach. They also named the Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) “Get away from her you bitch!” scene from James Cameron’s Aliens. Considering how great 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is as a whole, I’m pretty impressed they chose the disconnection scene considering the stargate sequence, as well as the Dawn of Man opening and it’s iconic moment of the three million year jumpcut from the bone to the weapons platform. I’m including the write up in this post, but to see the scans, please click on any of the links below.
[003] SCANS: JULY 2016 – AUSTRALASIA EDITION EMPIRE MAGAZINE
HAL SHUTS DOWN 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
There have been many other scary movie supercomputers: in 1965, just three years before Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville saw the titular city ruled by a data-bastard called Alpha 60. But none have ever been able to upgrade to the heights of the psychotic HAL 9000. There’s his eerie lone red peeper, staring out like a robotic version of the Eye of Sauron. There’s his mellow but menacing voice, provided by Canadian actor Douglas Rain. And then there’s his unforgettable demise, as astronaut David Bowman (Keir Dullea) races to shut him down after he’s pressed “Power Off” on his human shipmate. It could have played out as an action scene, with HAL issuing dark threats and hurling obstacles. Instead, there’s a strange poignancy as he suffers the computer equivalent of a mental breakdown. “I’m afraid, Dave… Dave, my mind is going… I can feel it… I can feel it… My mind is going,” he monotones, pitifully, voice slowing like a pitched-down 12-inch. Then he sings a song: Daisy Bell, the 19th-century children’s rhyme IBM selected for one of its computers to croon as a demonstration in 1961. Set to a background of hissing oxygen, it’s a raw, intimate and surprisingly emotional moment. Not bad for a scene involving a box talking to a man in a helmet. It’s easy to imagine that when the machines fi nally take over Earth for real, this will be their go-to weepie.
Keir’s series THE PATH has been renewed by Hulu. This is great news, now if only Keir were in it more. I think as Keir’s fans we should contact Hulu and tell them how much we love Keir and want to see him more. They have a gift in his talent and presence and I think we need to tell them we want to see more of him and to actually see him walking and talking. They’ve got Dave Bowman for crying out loud! So here are the addresses to write to get him on more and to keep him on. I think it just might help.
By Matt Porter Hulu has renewed The Path for a second season, and The Mindy Project for Season 5.
The Path, starring Aaron Paul, Hugh Dancy, and Michelle Monaghan, premiered in March this year. It focuses on a family who are involved in a fictional cult called Meyerism. The first season finale will air on May 25.
Hulu SVP and Head of Content Craig Erwich also announced today The Mindy Project will be getting a fifth season. FOX cancelled the show back in 2015, however Hulu picked it up for Season 4, which will end on July 5.
In addition, there will be a second election special from Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, after the first one came to Hulu in March. Robert Smigel will return as the voice actor, and the new special will air just in time for this year’s election.
I found this two part video on that bastion of video watching…. Yeah, you know. It’s a comparison between the Arthur C. Clarke book and Stanley Kubrick’s epic film. Enjoy.
Here are the screencaps from Keir’s small part in the second episode of THE PATH. His scene is mostly with star Hugh Dancy. Ironically the make up they are using for him reminds me very much of Keir from the final scenes in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY where Dave Bowman is beginning his ascension to Baby Bowman. I’d have to say Stanley Kubrick foretold Keir’s later years pretty good. I can’t say I liked Keir’s makeup in 2010: ODYSSEY TWO. It was too tick and gloppy. I liked the sleek nature of the makeup in the first film because it didn’t make him look so comical. If I recall correctly in the making of documentary from the BluRay of the second film, the makeup creator Michael Westmore said he got various parts of the makeup idea from his grandmother, and other sources. I think that’s ultimately where it failed. Not sure where Stuart Freeborn got his ideas from, but it make Keir look much more natural. Pretty much like he was looking into the future to THE PATH
[203] SCREENCAPS: THE PATH – E1X02 THE ERA OF THE LADDER
I just found this on that bastion of video…. And may I say it’s one of the best discussions I’ve had the pleasure to listen to on 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. The video was from a discussion held in England back in April of this year where Keir, Gary (Frank Poole), scientist and astrophysicist Dr. Brian Cox, film historian Christopher Frayling and moderator Matthew Sweet talked about the film for the BFI (British Film Institute) film series. A fascinating talk where we get a more tunneled look into the film and Stanley Kubrick’s motivations, plus some interesting insights about Arthur C. Clarke’s view on the film. We are once again treated to Keir’s favourite parts of the film in the scientific gobbeldy gook, as Keir calls it, he had to memorize for the one scene that was cut. Then his story of coming back into the Discovery via the air lock and the circus roustabout who had the rope, plus his cute way of imitating Derek Cracknell’s version of the HAL-9000’s voice as being a pseudo Michael Caine. I loved what they all said about the longevity of the film. My only wish is they’d gotten a little bit into Keir’s reprisal of the part of Dave Bowman for the Peter Hyams film 2010: ODYSSEY TWO where the symbiosis of HAL and Dave was at the core of the film.
