2010: The Year We Make Contact/Trivia: Difference between revisions

** Surprisingly more-or-less averted with the rest of the cast. With the glaring exception of Dana Elcar as Dimitri, most of the Soviets are in fact from the Soviet Union (if not Russia specifically), and any others are Czech. Tanya is a special case: she was played by [[Helen Mirren]], who while English is ethnically Russian (her grandfather was an emigre from the [[Red October]]) and can do a flawless Russian accent.

* [[Freeze Frame Bonus]]: In the very first interior shot of the ''Leonov'', the camera tilts down from a closeup of a computer monitor in the medical bay. Printed underneath the monitor is a paragraph of English text, beginning with "You may leave the lavatory if the green exit light is on over the door...." This is actually step 4 of the Zero Gravity Toilet instructions from ''2001''. Not only do you have to freeze-frame it, you need to watch the movie on Blu-Ray in order to make out the text! Additionally, the image on the monitor is captioned "KIRBUK" in Cyrillic (see [[Mildly Military]] on the Main page.)

** [[Jaws (Film)|Sheriff Brody]] as Heywood Floyd

** [[Harry and The Hendersons|Mr. Henderson]]/[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension|Lord John Whorfin]]/[[3rd Rock From the Sun|Dick Solomon]] as Curnow

** [[Spider-Man (Film)|Peter Parker's landlord]] as Max Brailovsky

** Not to mention [[2001: A Space Odyssey|Dave Bowman]] as...well, [[Department of Redundancy Department|Dave Bowman]].

* [[Prop Recycling]]: The blue ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey|2001]]''-style spacesuit hanging in the ''Discovery'' pod bay ended up in the hands of the crew of ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'' years later. (This is precisely the kind of thing that [[Stanley Kubrick]] wanted to avoid by destroying all of ''2001'''s sets and props.) They did their best to change what the could on it, "[[J Michael Straczynski (Creator)|though it was pretty much what it was regardless.]]" To make it further [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], the episodes the suit appeared in both involved time travel, a lost astronaut appearing and disappearing, and a mild degree of [[Mind Screw]].

** The space pod that appears in Watto's junkyard in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode I: [[The Phantom Menace]]'' may also have come from ''2010'''s ''Discovery'' pod bay, but this has not been confirmed.