Stanley+Kubrick

__**Stanley Kubrick's Style from Research**__ - First of all, it needs to be mentioned, that Stanley Kubrick played all the parts of film production. He was the producer, the director, the cinematographer, the light set-up manager, and the editor, sort of like a Jack-of-all-trades. For a couple of films he was even in charge of post-production, keeping control of how the film was to be marketed. So when people say he was a meticulous director, this is what they mean. Kubrick has also been known to be very controlling, but the reality is, Kubrick would be willing to try anything that anyone suggested. One time he was filming //Clockwork Orange//, he asked his assistant to provide everyone on set, or anyone who was watching the production of the film, with a copy of the script, including doormen. There are many times that Stanley Kubrick used other people's suggestions in his films. (// Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures // )

“If you think Kubrick believes people are trapped in symmetry, in technology, remember that Danny ESCAPES the maze! If you think he believes people can escape the jail cells of technology and culture, remember that Jack DOESN'T escape the maze. And remember that sometimes Kubrick tells the story of the animal and its keeper collaborating, as in "A Clockwork Orange" and "Dr. Strangelove." The results are usually terrifying. But the results of unbridled nature and stifling culture are equally terrifying. Kubrick refuses to pick a winner or lie to us that an easy, palatable truce is possible. (Marcus Geduld)
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__** Deductions **__ - The arguably the most sexual scene in all of Kubrick’s movies. It wasn’t human intercourse, but it was intercourse, very directly. It was machine intercourse. Like how people say that the machines are more human than the humans. Technology may be too advanced for humans to understand, not that humans are too advanced to make technology like humans. - There is always some sort of conflict that either is about a character verses Society, verses Politics, verses Machine, some sort of higher power. Lolita, Humbert Humbert was going against established society with his pedophilia. At one point of the movie he even said he could do "whatever" he wanted. - In Eyes Wide Shut, Bill Hartford was going against a socially accepted norm, fidelity with a partner, but at the end he never did break out, and it was the other, "more powerful" people that were doing this. He was even "randomly" attacked on the street with someone calling him a homosexual, an idea that had not been socially accepted yet. - Another example is in Dr.Strangelove, you have two of the world's super powers, trying to stop their own doomsday devices. The Americans had their Atomic bombs, and the Russians had a doomsday machine that would turn the world into an inhabitable place if provoked. The men were going against machine. - General Jack D. Ripper used the set rule that the U.S. Government had set and took it upon himself to start a nuclear war with the Russians. The rule he used was specifically targeted at subverting the President's power and give an officer the right to use nuclear weapons. - There is also a recurring sexual theme. In Dr.Stangelove, the doctors name referred to the act of love in a strange way. General Jack D. Ripper talked about his essence that would emerge during the act of love (sex). Major Kong rides the atomic bomb to oblivion, but from the audiences point of view, it looks like a giant phallus. - Eyes wide shut is a whole film about sexual encounters, it it also includes the theme of being faithful to a partner. Barry Lyndon includes content about Redmond being unfaithful to Lady Lyndon after the two get married, and it is seen that Redmond spends time with handmaids. In Clockwork Orange, the character Alex has no single partner at he. He is basically running amok, getting into fights and going into people's houses at night, raping women. He would sometimes be able to lure young girls to his home to have sex with them. Then he is captured by authority where he is to be brainwashed of violence and sex. - Redmond Barry in Barry Lyndon wished to be able to obtain the title of a Lord so that he would finally be a part of the upper class society. He started as a peasant and at the end went back to be a peasant even after all his work to try and get to the top.

- [|Marcus Geduld], Assisted a BBC director, son of a film historian - __http://www.quora.com/Stanley-Kubrick-director/What-is-the-definitive-style-of-Stanley-Kubrick__
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- //Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures//- A Warner Brothers Documentary on Stanley Kubrick

- //Stanley Kubrick// - http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/kubrick/