Friday, July 6, 2012

Question 1418

The following is a short parody of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem Kubla Khan. The poem, written by X takes pot-shots at Y and describes X's experiences of co-scripting one of the greatest films of Y's career.

For MGM did Y, ____
A stately astrodome decree
While Art, the s.f. writer, ran
Through plots incredible to man,
In search of solvency....
So twice five miles of Elstree ground
With sets and props were girdled round...
A savage place! as eerie and enchanted
As ere beneath a flickering arc was haunted
By child-star wailing for her demon mother...
For months meandering with a mazy motion
Through stacks of scripts the desperate writer ran
Then reached that plot incredible to man
And sank, enSCUBA'd in the Indian Ocean.
And midst the tumult Y heard from far
Accountants' voices, prophesying war!

Identify X and Y.
Answer: X: Arthur C. Clarke Y: Stanley Kubrick. (The film is 2001: A Space Odyssey)

6 Answers:

Anonymous said...

Y-Stanley Kubrick
X-Arthur Clarke

-Evika

raghav said...

X-Arthur C.Clarke
Y-Stanley Kubrick
Both worked on the film 2001:A Space Odyssey

Soumya said...

X - Arthur Clarke Y - Stan Kubrick during Space Odyssey

Nithin K A said...

Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick

green_grass said...

Art, the s.f writer is arthur clarke, the science fiction writer
This famous rebuke ws in response to kubrick calling him a nut who lived in a tree, or something similar
So X is arthur c clarke, Y is stanley kubrick and the movie in question is 2001: A Space Odyssey

vibhav said...

Arthur C clarke

2001