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Shaft (1971 film) Shaft is an 1971 American blaxploitation action-crime film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black. The film revolves around a private detective named John Shaft who is hired by a Harlem mobster to rescue his daughter from the Italian mobsters who kidnapped her. The film stars Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Vic Androzzi, and Christopher St. John as Ben Buford. The major themes present in Shaft are the Black Power
2001: A Space Odyssey began as an idea by director Stanley Kubrick [1928-1999] to create the proverbial good science fiction movie.. He developed the screenplay in collaboration with British science fiction author Sir Arthur C. Clarke [1917-2008] based on Clarke's 1950 short story 'The Sentinel'.larke, who was decidedly influenced by H.G. Wells and Olaf Stapleton, wrote and published Childhood's End in the mid 1950s. In Clarke's logs of his collaboration, he wrote that Kubrick had once gotten very interested in using the devils idea from Childhood's End for portraying 2001 's aliens.