Wes Anderson’s 2001: A Space Odyssey marries the work of two filmmakers
Few filmmakers are as known for their meticulous shot planning, editing, and mise en scène as Wes Anderson and Stanley Kubrick. Both also use or used music to great effect in their works, creating evocative scenes forever tied to a particular song for decades after. So what happens when someone decides to recut Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey to be more like a funny yet melancholic Wes Anderson film? One film lover decided to find out.
Nathan Hartman took the original 2001 and recut it to musical cues from Anderson’s films, injecting the whole affair with a bit more whimsy and emotion than the original incarnation of the sci-fi epic. On his website, Hartman describes his motives and also his technique: