I have a working knowledge of lots of Kubrick trivia.
But good trivia has to have that "Oh, that's interesting", factor.
Well, at least for me anyway.
For example, the actor that played Julian, the muscle-man bodyguard for the
crippled author in Kubrick's
A Clockwork Orange, is the same
actor that wore the Darth Vader costume and helmet in the
Star Wars movies.
However, as everyone knows, the voice of Darth Vader was voice-acted
by James Earl Jones.
Now James Earl Jones happens to appear in Kubrick's
Dr Strangelove
as bombardier Lt Lothar Zoggs onboard the B-52.
When the B-52 has been hit by a missile, the bomb-bay doors have been
rendered inoperative. When the aircraft's captain, Major Kong, orders
to "fire the explosive bolts", James Earl Jones reports "all the operating
circuits are dead, sir".
We then see explosive bolts used in
2001. When the pod door closes
in the pod bay, we see on the exterior of the door the warning and
maintenance instructions for the explosive bolts that Bowman will
later fire.
In
Dr. Strangelove, messages to the aircraft have to be prefixed
with the right three-letter code and they are filtered by a piece of
equipment we see and that is referred to as the CRM-114 Discriminator.
In
A Clockwork Orange, we see a closeup of the vial of the
behaviour conditioning drug Alex is being injected with. It is
Serum 114.