Steven Spielberg

The eye that Peter Jackson, I understand, has in his archive.

What?

Yeah, I hear that Peter Jackson has the prop eye.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

And I think that's my favorite scene of the movie because I didn't see it coming.

I must say, like Bowman and Poole, I did not see that coming.

But here's what also happens.

He strategically places that scene just before the intermission.

So you go black and it says intermission on the screen.

No, I love that.

That's been... Yeah, that's... The reason I go for the... I'd love... Because I love Cal so much as a character, my favorite moment in the movie is a character moment.

But my favorite visual effect in the film is the slit scanner they used that Doug Trumbull created with Stanley Kubrick

who conceived this amazing idea to do this Stargate effect.

No.

That's his conceptual audacity, Stanley Kubrick's.

You go from the high-pitched emission of a sound that makes everyone hold their space helmets because it's going right through their suits into their ears, and you go right from that, which is hurting the audience's ears, at least in the pantasius theater it was, with the stereo sound system they had in those days.

It hurt the ears.

And then it goes into complete silence.

And then suddenly it's quiet and you see, you know, Jupiter mission 18 months later.