Dr. Chandra - Differences Between The Novel and The Film

Differences Between The Novel and The Film

Dr. Chandra is played by Bob Balaban in the film 2010. The film version of the novel drops his Indian heritage and changes his institutional affiliation to the University of Chicago but retains his emotional ties with HAL. Balaban's performance is mostly cold and unemotional, as in the novel, although Chandra's more abrasive character traits are not explored.


The Space Odyssey series
The Original Project of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Films
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • 2010 (1984)
Books
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • 2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
  • 2061: Odyssey Three (1987)
  • 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
  • The Lost Worlds of 2001 (1972)
Comics
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1976)
Short stories
  • "The Sentinel" (written 1948, first published 1951 as "Sentinel of Eternity")
  • "Encounter in the Dawn" (first published 1953)
Characters
  • HAL 9000
  • David Bowman
  • Dr. Chandra
  • Walter Curnow
  • Heywood Floyd
  • Frank Poole
Vehicles
  • Discovery One
  • List of spacecraft
Locations
  • Earth
  • Moon
  • Clavius Base
  • Tycho
  • Jupiter
  • Europa
  • Io
  • Ganymede
  • Ganymede City
  • Saturn
  • Iapetus
Related
  • Interpretations of 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Technologies in 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack
  • Alex North's 2001: A Space Odyssey score
  • Monoliths
  • Poole – HAL 9000
  • Machine Man

Read more about this topic:  Dr. Chandra

Famous quotes containing the words differences between, differences, the and/or film:

    What strikes many twin researchers now is not how much identical twins are alike, but rather how different they are, given the same genetic makeup....Multiples don’t walk around in lockstep, talking in unison, thinking identical thoughts. The bond for normal twins, whether they are identical or fraternal, is based on how they, as individuals who are keenly aware of the differences between them, learn to relate to one another.
    Pamela Patrick Novotny (20th century)

    Generally there is no consistent evidence of significant differences in school achievement between children of working and nonworking mothers, but differences that do appear are often related to maternal satisfaction with her chosen role, and the quality of substitute care.
    Ruth E. Zambrana, U.S. researcher, M. Hurst, and R.L. Hite. “The Working Mother in Contemporary Perspectives: A Review of Literature,” Pediatrics (December 1979)

    The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The reader is nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
    Katharine Hepburn (b. 1909)