> he only needed the story as a vehicle of meaning
Agreed and I wonder if the same could be said of 2001?
Agreed and I wonder if the same could be said of 2001?
The Sentinel provided the idea for the monolith on the moon being an alien 'intelligent life detector' (i.e. to detect when humans had achieved spaceflight). But it has no man-apes, no Jupiter mission, no HAL, no star-gate sequence. The bulk of the plot came from the Clarke-Kubrick collaboration, which had numerous other inputs [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey#Writing
> Clarke offered Kubrick six of his short stories, and by May 1964, Kubrick had chosen "The Sentinel" as the source material for the film