Steven Spielberg
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so he went and did what he did best, Stanley, which is needle drops.
But look who he went to.
He went to Aram Kachatorian.
He went to Penderecki.
He went to Gorgie Leggetti or Leggetti.
Yeah.
And he went to both Strauss composers.
And so you've got the Blue Danube playing.
When you suddenly go from a proto-human taking a bone and throwing it in the air, and the camera follows the bone into the air, and on its descent, the bone transitions into a space shuttle,
In the year 2001.
It's unbelievably audacious.
And then suddenly you hear the Blue Danube Walsh playing, and it completely relaxes you into accepting the possibility of a future like this one.
But didn't Planet of the Apes outgrows 2001?
Maybe not over time.
And the movie's already outlived some of the sponsors.
Pan American Airlines.
Airways no longer exists.
The other thing, Bell Telephone.
It no longer exists.
Howard Johnson's is still around.