Imagine 2001: A Space Odyssey redone as a bombastic 3-D Hollywood hell-raiser, directed by Michael Bay.
A new parody trailer, put together by mashup maestro ChugsTheMonkey for Film School Rejects, does just that, envisioning what Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece would have looked like as an action movie, with a pumping, beat-heavy soundtrack and ultra-fast cuts for the short-attention-span generation.
"As brilliant as Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi contemplation on everything is, it would be a nightmare to advertise today," says the Film School Rejects blog. "Far from high concept, it doesn't fit neatly into the quadrants that movie marketing teams salivate over winning. So how would they do it?"
Kubrick, who would have turned 84 on Wednesday, maintained a high degree of creative control over his films, including the trailers. The actual 2001: A Space Odyssey trailer favored silence and stillness as much as it did action and movement. The grandiose symphonic strains of "Also Sprach Zarathustra," as heard in the film and its original trailer, seem subtle and restrained in comparison to modern Hollywood soundtracks.
See the beautiful original trailer for 2001: A Space Odyssey below.
