Posted on 08/09/2013 6:56:54 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
I've come across some youtube videos and some articles about how intricately made was The Shining, that it is filled with a hotel layout which doesn't make sense. And that there are clues within that supports the idea he filmed a fake moon landing. While I don't believe the lunar excursion was faked I'm convinced that Kubrick gave an awful lot of thought and effort in his movies. Are there any books or videos you might recommend about Kubrick?
I think that The Shining was an allegory about man’s inability to understand why you have to have more than one fork at a place setting.
She really is astonishingly ugly. Odd that she was able to have a career in the movies.
That is great!
I guess you ould take an antihistamine for it. Thanks though.
The Simpson’s parody of The Shining is quite funny....in a Homeresque way.
The book was scary. The movie wasn’t. Unless you consider a tedious move scary.
“Eyes Wide Shut” has to be seen to be believed. Proof positive that Kubrick is the most overrated director in cinema history.
Shelley Duvall was adorable. She made gawky sexy.
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Kubrick reminds me of Kurosawa with a touch of Bergman thrown in for fun.
Kubrick did such a masterful job with 2001, I guess if anyone believes the lunar landings were faked, then he would be a prime suspect. I read The Shining when it was published and I loved it and was disappointed with the movie, especially when the Scatman Cruthers character is killed by Jack Nicholson. Unnecessary, ant-climatic and not true to the book.
They had roomfuls of his work: photos, movie cels, props, scripts, etc. There might have been some sort of book created for this event that you could purchase.
Thank you. I appreciate that.
People try to find intelligent messages in his films but they aren't there.
An early movie about the robbery of a racetrack was one of his best. 2001 Space Odyssey was terrible and almost unwatchable. Only high school students who were totally stoned could bear to sit through it.
Full Metal Jacket was ok in parts but too long. I saw the Shining when it first came out. It wasn't scary or suspenseful. It was just long and boring. Shelley Duval was annoying. Barry Lyndon was actually pretty good. Eyes Wide Shut was ok. But none of his films were intellectual masterpieces as the have been portrayed.
Just watched a lot of that, and the one about the furniture.
Mr. Ager’s analysis is certainly enthusiastic, but in my opinion these are, in fact, simply continuity errors.
I am a fan of Kubrick. I find the imagery that he utilized in all of his films to be staggering and truly brilliant on an intellectual level that escapes most. The hotel layout always baffled me, as well. I find two or three plausible intentions.
1.) It carried the importance of the maze inside - a confusing inner battle.
2.) It was a visual image of the nonsensical battle in Jack’s mind.
3.) It visualized the battle between Danny’s willingness to confront and Jack’s inability to come to terms with what was taking place.
I have always wondered why Kubrick chose to kill Jack using ice rather than the fire that King chose in the novel. Why? It seemed to me that King’s inferno from the boiler explosion was a permanent end. Was Kubrick’s freezing scene merely to represent a potential ‘preservation’, like freezing a roast? I could spend hours talking about Kubrick and the Shining and Eyes Wide Shut in particular.
I’ve read ‘The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick’ and enjoyed doing so. My favorite read on Kubrick, to date has been ‘On Kubrick’ by James Naremore - it focused more on discussing his films rather than the man.
" Only high school students who were totally stoned could bear to sit through it."
I saw 2001 with 2 high school friends who were both stoned ( I was not). Their viewing experience consisted of running back and forth into the bathroom where their squeals of laughter rang throughout the theater.
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