1. Above: The apes and the monolith: "200 A Space Odyssey" (Stanley Kubrick, 19.

2. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

3. Stanley Kubrick ( July 26 , 1928 – March 7 , 1999 ) was an Academy Award winning American film director and producer .

4. The film is infamous for copycat behaviour, which many thought to be the reason that director Stanley Kubrick withdrew the film in the UK.

5. In Burgess's 1962 dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange, famously filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 19 the unruly youngster Alex is subjected to "the Ludovico Technique" by the crazed authorities.

6. Add to this the fact that Director Stanley Kubrick allowed him to ad lib about 50% of his lines, which Kubrick only allowed for one other actor in history, Peter Sellers.