Stanley said the multiple takes were due to the actors not adequately learning their lines but on the other hand, he did so many last minute script changes that actors couldn't thoroughly learn them in advance.
To be fair, think of the egos a lot of actors have. I could totally see working with an actor who's treated larger then life on a regular basis frustrating cause they aren't giving their best performance and think that because of who they are, that whatever they offer in a performance is good enough. Kubrick wasn't gonna settle in that aspect and his work proved why he shouldn't have to settle. I think a lot of the "bad" we hear about him is multiple egos clashing with Kubricks own ego. Its just Kubrick looks worse in the situation cause he's the one being demanding but sometimes you got to be harsh to get the best result cause at the end of the day i think if you work with someone like him you have to know that the art of filmmaking stands above all else and what are you willing to give or lose to be apart of it. I know some of the things he would demand were ridiculous but i truly believe if he wasn't the way he was about filmmaking we wouldn't be watching this video right now and those actors and people involved made money and got credited off his vision so they can wipe their tears with their hundred dollar bills and complain about Kubrick to the next production who gave them the gig from working in a Stanley Kubrick film.
have you ever written or done any work making something, you see each photo, each page you write, each scene you light, its all got a utilitarian purpose as a single cog that enlights the whole piece of work, you are making, if you look from the outside, you can focus on one thing and see the purpose in that, but if you want people coming back again and again, to look deeper and engage with the work, with all the text and sub text, then yes, sometimes pin-point perfection down to every tiny thing, is required. Kubrick knew that, and the actors which understood that, did 100s of takes if required the ones who didn't well, by repetition they finally got it. Its easy when you write research and spend hours and do it on paper, but in application poor management of people and everyone else not on the same page can really ruin the time energy and the money that's put into it.
16:15 Kubrick was first planning to make a biopic of Napoleon (with Jack Nicholson as Napoleon) and saying that it be “the best movie ever made. “ Kubrick even managed to get the Romanian army of 40,000 and 10,000 cavalrymen to play as battle extras. However, because of mostly financial uncertainty to create the film and Bondarchuk’s ever dominating War and Peace along with Waterloo convinced Kubrick to cancel Napoleon project. (His screenplay is still available online free.) nevertheless Kubrick still wanted a 17-18 century film because he studied and researched so hard on history and so decided to go 15 years earlier to 1789 where Barry Lyndon ended.
@nfdhje38743m wrong. Abel Gance’s Napoleon is a silent film and for that it’s already way outdated. Kubrick would’ve done something amazing with Napoleon.
To debunk misinformation. The stairs scene in the shinning was not over a hundred takes although your not wrong to think so. Its in the guiness book of wr so its not wrong to think however, According to an indie wire lee unkrick got his hands on the production notes it was closer to 66. While it can be exagerated in some cases the extremes he did go. Its important to remember stan did actually so some unecesarily cruel things to actors and while i could go into detail stanly regardless not really always the nicest person. His brain works in a particular but, mysyerious way.
True, his spectrum of genius is not only impressive in terms of scope as he did epics like paths of glory BUT also intimate portraits of character like Lolita. Yet, also was a master of range making Barry Lyndon a nuanced approach to a life during Napoleon's range, yet could also make a movie about nuclear Holocaust a comedy, let alone the choice of A clockwork Orange as a tour de force of music, direction and pushing the limits of holding up a mirror of violence to the State that complained, ironically, to the film's violence. Also, the range that allows him to seamlessly move into a horror film. That is so much more than blood and gore but is a a psychological thriller as well as a philosophical question about the nature of existence. Lastly, full metal jacket, a wonderful bookend to Paths of Glory which not only offered a more complex understanding of soldiers in a war setting that wasn't just black and white, War is good or war is evil BUT A complex understanding of the use of violence as a tool of diplomacy, its effects on not only the people it's used against but the people who wield it. So yeah, you're right, he's not just on the spectrum, he's completely off the spectrum of genius. Good call;)
Kubrick would’ve probably let Lewis do his own thing. Kubrick would push some of his actors to get the performances he wanted, but other times he would cast who he thought was right for the part and was pleased with the results. For instance, he let Nicholson go completely off the hook in the Shining.
I can somewhat understand where Kubrick comes from as I have an ocd for order and neatness and my partner thinks I’m bonkers for it but I see it as taking pride where you live. I can see kubrick ocd as well as his films… well the films post Spartacus were highly controlled, deliberate, meticulous, the shots and the frame are so neat and clean and there is so much attention to detail. I feel he felt that if you care then its got to be perfect. I imagine kubrick had a form of ocd
he was probably one of the first hollywood director whom i was facinated with. One day i somehwo stumbled on the trailer of 2001 a space dddysey, and i was shocked learning that it was from 1968. Then when i saw it, i knew he was some beast. Then the shining and A clockwork orange. Sad that he just made 13 films, but all of them are masterpieces. The greatest movie director of all time for me.
As a lifelong writer and English Major, I went to a Writer's Conference once and they told me, "You HAVE to have people-skills. If you have a toxic personality. You will not succeed no matter how good your writing is." I ignored this to my detriment. I was fired by two publishers and can barely get my book last published now. You HAVE to have people skills, no way around it. I heard the biggest actors in Hollywood like Tom Cruise they're at the top because they're nice. They stay nice and stay easy to work with, and that's why they stay on top.
There will never be another Kubrick. EWS was his magnum opus and he for sure was trying to tell a story that some very powerful people didn’t want him to tell
Stanley wasn't a control freak, he was an artist making his masterpiece with every little precisely fine nuance in every detail. Not only that, I heard that in Full Metal Jacket, Stanley let Matthew Modine choose if joker was going to die or not at the end. That doesn't sound much like a control freak to me....
He was successful and people liked his work, “His” work. His vision, which he thought through and wanted to be shown correctly. Who is it for people to cry about him. It’s his work
Film making is a collaborative effort. For the groundbreaking special effects in 2001, he relied on the technical expertise of others. These people never really got their due and are entitled to an opinion
The Shining overrunning also impacted Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back which was filmed in the same studio. Even more so when one of the stages burned down
I give my props and applause to the actors and entertainers in the industry. There's NOO way I could EVER walk in those shoes , nor do I have any desire. However I have developed much respect and a new awe for our entertainers ... especially the actors good and bad...whew .
I commented suggesting to make a video about Kubrick when you brought the shining in your "hardest films to make" video. Thanks for accepting my suggestion. :)))
The 50mm 0.7 lens used in Barry Lyndon was not designed by NASA. It was designed by Zeiss in Germany. Only six copies were produced due to its, at the time, astronomical price of $25,000 per lens. Zeiss kept one for their archives, sold two to NASA and three to Kubrick.
You guys are gonna love me as a director because the products will all look and feel like Kubrick but at the same time everyone on set will say he was the most pleasant person I've ever worked for
He did a lot of takes to get clues in sets & props to line up with actors as they passed by the clues. E.g., so their nose would go over a clue as they walked by. He also did a lot of takes because it made sense: it's the cheapest thing to do, to simply do more takes and you might get a lot of good things to use from those takes. Setting everything up is expensive, so why not do more takes while it's all setup and there and going? Kubrick was like a military general, very wise.
Eyes Wide Shut was the longest continuous film shoot ever, yet the movie still came in cheaper than a Julia Roberts romantic comedy released that summer. Dude knew how to stretch a dollar.
Kirk Douglas called Kubrick a "talented shit." About ten years ago I was working at a movie theatre and we were holding a Q and A following the screening of 2001 with Kier Dullea. Getting to meet and speak to him one on one briefly was a true thrill. I wish I had thought to bring up.a theory that I had about why Kubrick did so many takes. I don't think it was "actors not knowing their lines" but an attempt to beat the acting out of the actors. The performances in his films are very stylized and oftentimes exaggerated and unrealistic. It works in most cases, although I think it didn't in Eyes Wide Shut where the characters have the mannerisms of automatons and are just dull. Even at their dumbest his characters are usually interesting to watch as they blunder along to their own destruction. But it seems like he encourages these eccentric performances and when he doesn't get them he will run them through these multiple takes until he has broken them down. Realism seems anathema to him. He once said that he's "looking for the reality under the reality" but he gives little detail or advice on how his actor should arrive at this point. It frustrated Mathew Modine during the filming of Full Metal Jacket and at one point said something that was verboten in the presence of Kubrick: This is stupid. It infuriated Kubrick and for a week Modine was frequently called a "c**t" as the British use the word. Kubrick disliked anything that stopped or impeded the creative process. For all the allegations of being a control freak he was actually very open to new ideas. When he was filming FMJ he had no concrete ending for the film in mind and was open to ideas from the cast. While filming Dr. Strangelove the idea of Slim Pickens riding the bomb like a cowboy was a last-minute flash of inspiration, which the production crew was now tasked to build functioning bomb bay doors where none existed before. His films were always in a state of evolution and the script was just a guide and not a holy text that had to be abided by faithfully. I recommend reading a biography of Kubrick by Vincent LoBrutto. It's one of the better ones I've read.
People who look up to Kubrick worry me. They seem like sociopaths vicariously living through Kubrick's strong-headed tacky actions. It's scary to think what these people would do with that amount of power if they think Kubrick was justified.
@@azv343 they glorify him because they are just seeing the art, not the artist. I do think if they were under the same roof, they would've had a different perspective
@@azv343 To be honest James Cameron is even worse than Kubrick, and the fact that people still worshipped him in the comments after psychologically torturing his actors and just being relentlessly unprofessional was all described in another video
Desde que estaba pequeño y vi con mi papá la de Dr. Strangelove, me encantó el estilo lento y atmosférico de Kubric. La que menos me gusta es la Naranja Mecánica, y mi favorita es Eyes Wide Shut. Es una leyenda.
People fought to be in his movies and most knew exactly what they were in for. Don't tell me to kick you in the nuts and then complain when I kick you in the nuts.
The few other directors in the same league as Kubrick: Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, and of course Takovsky were absolutely just as meticulous with their films. The fact that it is not the norm in film production probably has to do with the fact that it is also not the norm for films to be works of art, but most often template produced Hollywood factory use and throw away entertainment.
@@354Entertainmenttrue, and amazing ones at that BUT name a director with a wider range of films that were not only critically and loved by audiences for their subtleties as well as epic scenes, but also technically for creating many new looks and or ideas within filmmaking as a whole. Seriously, if there's someone who is better I'm super into it as I love movies!?!? Thanks
Can you do a video about the British Blonde Bombshell Diana Dors? She has a very interesting story and tragic ending, being the so called British answer to Marilyn Monroe, was friends with The Kray twins and hangman Albert Pierrepoint, made many amazing films, was the muse of many British musicians from The Beetles, Adam Ant to the Smiths and she almost made it on Hollywood.
2001 is the only movie I have never been able to watch all the way because it scared me too much. The sounds and visuals and they just keep going, it's a nightmare lol. I'm sure it's a good movie, but it freaks me the hell out.
Whenever we talk about film adaptations of written work, people always insist that sticking 100% to the source material but The Shining kind of shows that, sometimes, deviations make sense (because you're working with film, not a book). And we have 2 takes of that specific book to compare, but no one really talks about the 2nd version, despite having King himself involved in it.
Well a lot of that you can chalk up to kubrick and his iconography as well as memorable scenes and lines. Quite frankly I look at it as a kubrick film than as a king adaptation. However I love the book The remake from the 90s is accurate yes but it’s not memorable, mick garris is not a very iconographic director and the steven Weber doesn’t have nicholsons gravitas. Do I like it for sticking to the book? Yes I do it took time to tell the story whereas kubrick rushed through it basically giving us the shining condensed Personally I think the shining is a great film but a lousy adaptation, it’s similar about how I feel about Batman returns. It’s a great Tim Burton film but a lousy comic book movie.
David Prowse asked Kubrick if he was to take cut the Kubrick Way during filming A Clockwork Orange. But still the theater release shows him struggling to keep Mc Dowell in his arms.
How people can still say that Kubrick was a control freak. He wasn't even a perfactionist, he was always changing his mind in movies and how to film them. He only liked great job nothing else. You can clearly see in many of the documentaries that sometimes even not knowing how to film a scene like in Shining. Thats not a control freak. He made many mistakes in his movies. He was doing too many dollyshots and putting the camera far from the characters.
Just because he changed his mind a lot doesn’t mean he isn’t a control freak. Every director changes their mind. He totally was a control freak. He hated having studio regulations, he pushed his actors to give the exact performance he wanted. He couldn’t stand the idea of someone else having influence on his films.
Ironically his last known words, allegedly, were him refusing to give up control. Crazy world we live in. Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise were terrified after Stanley's passing, you can see it in interviews on RUclips from 97'.
@@Tolstoy111 If you think conspiring to have somebody silenced is beneath the execs "at" Warner Brothers, you're a fool. Historically speaking the world is built on blackmail, and extortion. Edited: "at"
Why didn't you talk about Kubrick's unrealized projects, like "Napoleon" and "Aryan Papers", and how some of those unfinished projects have caused long gaps between movies like between "Full Metal Jacket" and "Eyes Wide Shut", which were 12 year apart with nothing in between? Or how The Beatles approached Kubrick to direct them in a "Lord Of The Rings" film adaptation (not kidding)?
I have a theory that Kubrick only made Eyes Wide Shut so he could cast and then torture Tom Cruise because he hated Scientology. Nicole Kidman might've been in on it.
@zechy09 Completely agree. No one here spitting accusations has done an ounce of research on Kubrick. They've just seen the Dr. Phil hit-piece. By contrast, I personally witnessed Malcom McDowell verbally-humiliating an autistic fan last year in front of people. But Kubrick is the monster, so sayeth the keyboard warriors.
"Too Controlling" that doesn't even make any sense, he is THE DIRECTOR its like saying that your drill instructor is too controlling, well THIS IS HIS JOB there are many careers and money at the stake, he have to make it count.
It’s sad how many people such as yourself fail to understand the role of a director. Being a director does not grant you power over anyone else. If you go into directing for having the power and control, you are setting yourself up for failure. The directors job is to fully realize a vision of the film to find an audience. Not about this whole “my vision” bullcrap. Kubrick was harsh, but he never treated himself as a superior. He utilized tools that he felt would bring out a fully realized film. He was a talented director but he was a control freak.
The shining is Wendy. Without Shelley Duvall as Wendy the shining would have sucked; she is the thread or the fabric of the movie that keeps the flow going. My kids are obsessed with her and think she was the sweetest, nicest character in any movie they have seen. I loved her character, and she's the only true hero of the entire film, with maybe Danny getting a sidekick nod. How she reacts to Jack's abuse is very genuine, and I see a lot of my mom in her role. Wendy is a typical housewife, making the best she can while looking at the brighter side of her crap life. If you notice in the film, she and Danny are the only ones seen ever leaving the overlook hotel, to either go for walks and also learn the maze while Jack sits in his angry delusion of a failed writer and also somehow sees himself as above everyone else. Jack interacts with the bartendar and later with Grady snobbishly, in my opinion. After they collide in the bar, he tells Grady that he may have gotten some Advocaat on himself while proceeding to slap a big wet handprint on Grady's tuxedo. Jack is an asshole and Wendy is the hero, while poor Danny is the medium that ties in the paranormal bit. The Overlook hotel is where Jack thinks he can finally be the man he has always wanted to be-admired, responsible, and also believing he will be achieving greatness even if it means destroying his life. But it is Wendy who comes out in the end looking like the true model of character
The ironic thing is that Kubrick put his actors through all that work and yet, despite the great work he made, he never won an Oscar for best director.
You make MY FILM you make it MY WAY!!! Sorry, no participation trophies here lil Finklestein Sht Kids! There's a reason he was THE GOAT FILM-SMITH!!! 🤗💕
The comment on the stairs scene in The Shining is flat out wrong. The most takes done on any scene in the film was 66 and it wasn't that one. If you get the new Taschen book on The Shining the author had access to the script supervisors notes. Almost all the stuff that's written about him is innuendo and bunk especially regarding The Shining. He just refused to ramble on in the press refuting most of this nonsense. And for someone who was supposedly so mean, it's amazing how many famous actors lined up to work for him. For what it's worth: "the shot with the most takes is the dolly shot when the hotel’s manager shows Jack and Wendy around and they go into the Gold Ballroom." In the end all that matters is the films and they speak for themselves.
He was one of the best directors of all time, but the way he achieved his masterpieces was fucked up. I especially find the treatment of Shelly Duvall on the set of the Shining to be particularly abhorrent.
Only if you don’t know any other directors from before 1980. Compared to Roman Polanski, Sam Peckinpah, John Casavettes, Samuel Fuller, Michael Cimino, Herschel Gordon Lewis, and Otto Preminger, to name a few, he was a picture of stability and sanity.
The premise of your vid is false--he did not go too far, and he was not too controlling. The actors knew he was meticulous going into it and they chose to work with him because he was the best. Assumed risk. They could have quit and walked off the set at any moment.
Stanley said the multiple takes were due to the actors not adequately learning their lines but on the other hand, he did so many last minute script changes that actors couldn't thoroughly learn them in advance.
someone watches a 24 minute video and suddenly they are an expert
Man, I love his movies but he sounds like a real piece of work.
To be fair, think of the egos a lot of actors have. I could totally see working with an actor who's treated larger then life on a regular basis frustrating cause they aren't giving their best performance and think that because of who they are, that whatever they offer in a performance is good enough. Kubrick wasn't gonna settle in that aspect and his work proved why he shouldn't have to settle. I think a lot of the "bad" we hear about him is multiple egos clashing with Kubricks own ego. Its just Kubrick looks worse in the situation cause he's the one being demanding but sometimes you got to be harsh to get the best result cause at the end of the day i think if you work with someone like him you have to know that the art of filmmaking stands above all else and what are you willing to give or lose to be apart of it. I know some of the things he would demand were ridiculous but i truly believe if he wasn't the way he was about filmmaking we wouldn't be watching this video right now and those actors and people involved made money and got credited off his vision so they can wipe their tears with their hundred dollar bills and complain about Kubrick to the next production who gave them the gig from working in a Stanley Kubrick film.
He did what it took to realise the vision to perfection. That is why his films are more than movies.
He was a cu## to work for
Not a single actor or crew member ever complained about Kubrick. Crew people worked for him for decades.
@@Tolstoy111 they were killed off with boredom after 243 takes of a man opening a door
Finally, someone explains this. Doesn't matter how good you are. How well you work with people in this collaborative art form matters greatly.
I’d sacrifice a thousand Shelly duvalls for the shining.
have you ever written or done any work making something, you see each photo, each page you write, each scene you light, its all got a utilitarian purpose as a single cog that enlights the whole piece of work, you are making, if you look from the outside, you can focus on one thing and see the purpose in that, but if you want people coming back again and again, to look deeper and engage with the work, with all the text and sub text, then yes, sometimes pin-point perfection down to every tiny thing, is required. Kubrick knew that, and the actors which understood that, did 100s of takes if required the ones who didn't well, by repetition they finally got it. Its easy when you write research and spend hours and do it on paper, but in application poor management of people and everyone else not on the same page can really ruin the time energy and the money that's put into it.
@@douglasdoyle8944 and the day you end up alone will be the funniest day ever
@@douglasdoyle8944It's not even her best movie. Check out Altman's "3 Women" to see Duvall's greatest on-screen performance.
That’s why you won’t even be able to direct an episode of Postman Pat
I am 21 and i just finished watching his whole filmography. I am grateful
It took me 50 years, but I started in 1969.
@@aliensoup2420 😲🙌🏻
I finished and im only 14,i saw more complex things like Satantango,
@@susomovil2416bela tart’s film
@@midnightacapellasandinstru7695 yes
Imagining Kubrick being a gym instructor: can you make 127 push up please ??? . The whole gym will fall part
Ur mom hater
😂😂😂😂😂😂
he was the steve jobs of the movie industry. perfection and high almost impossible standards.
@@Gamzor and kinda racist.
You a little confused but you got the spirit
16:15
Kubrick was first planning to make a biopic of Napoleon (with Jack Nicholson as Napoleon) and saying that it be “the best movie ever made. “
Kubrick even managed to get the Romanian army of 40,000 and 10,000 cavalrymen to play as battle extras.
However, because of mostly financial uncertainty to create the film and Bondarchuk’s ever dominating War and Peace along with Waterloo convinced Kubrick to cancel Napoleon project. (His screenplay is still available online free.) nevertheless Kubrick still wanted a 17-18 century film because he studied and researched so hard on history and so decided to go 15 years earlier to 1789 where Barry Lyndon ended.
Loved Barry Lyndon, but damn that Napoleon movie would’ve been incredible.
@@Buskeeeeeeeenah we already have abel gance's napoleon, a genius kubrick could never measure up to.
@nfdhje38743m wrong. Abel Gance’s Napoleon is a silent film and for that it’s already way outdated. Kubrick would’ve done something amazing with Napoleon.
@@Buskeeeeeeee silent films aren't intrinsically outdated, you just don't like them.
@nfdhje38743m uh, yes they are outdated. Modern films have sound, silent films do not. Not very hard to understand😂😂😂
2:48 - "to save money, Kubrick used a baby stroller for a tracking shot" - I keep hearing people SAY this, but they never say WHICH shot
The side perspective along side the river
Directing only 13 films? That's a shit-load of high quality films!
The first two were student films in all but name. Spartacus was almost half directed by someone else. So really 10 films!
Don't forget the moon landing too!!
@@bandjolyn Never gets his dues for that!
Nah all his films are kinda bad. 13 duds.
@@RoachDoggJr2112 yeah, Dr Strangelove, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon,,,, total garbage
When youre such a visionary director and visual perfectionist, you produce some of the most iconic images and movies ever put to screen
That's one of the reasons why his films are masterpieces.
Geniuses are usually somewhere between oddity and madman.
Kubrick was the director who made me love cinema
You need to watch different movies. 🙄
@@dewilew2137 Just stick with the Marvel Universe, buddy
To debunk misinformation. The stairs scene in the shinning was not over a hundred takes although your not wrong to think so. Its in the guiness book of wr so its not wrong to think however, According to an indie wire lee unkrick got his hands on the production notes it was closer to 66.
While it can be exagerated in some cases the extremes he did go. Its important to remember stan did actually so some unecesarily cruel things to actors and while i could go into detail stanly regardless not really always the nicest person. His brain works in a particular but, mysyerious way.
There's being a control freak and then there's full on obsessiveness. Kubrick was on the spectrum and you can't convince me otherwise.
True, his spectrum of genius is not only impressive in terms of scope as he did epics like paths of glory BUT also intimate portraits of character like Lolita. Yet, also was a master of range making Barry Lyndon a nuanced approach to a life during Napoleon's range, yet could also make a movie about nuclear Holocaust a comedy, let alone the choice of A clockwork Orange as a tour de force of music, direction and pushing the limits of holding up a mirror of violence to the State that complained, ironically, to the film's violence.
Also, the range that allows him to seamlessly move into a horror film. That is so much more than blood and gore but is a a psychological thriller as well as a philosophical question about the nature of existence.
Lastly, full metal jacket, a wonderful bookend to Paths of Glory which not only offered a more complex understanding of soldiers in a war setting that wasn't just black and white, War is good or war is evil BUT A complex understanding of the use of violence as a tool of diplomacy, its effects on not only the people it's used against but the people who wield it.
So yeah, you're right, he's not just on the spectrum, he's completely off the spectrum of genius.
Good call;)
Yeah, Kubrick was definitely autistic. You can't have that level of obsessiveness and attention to detail unless you're on the autism spectrum.
stop diagnosing people online. it only harms the neurodivergent community.
As an aspiring filmmaker who is on the spectrum, yeah probably
@@tomnorton4277 you definitely can and let's stop diagnosing people we've never met.
Imagine having Daniel Day-Lewis in a Kubrick movie. I would've paid anything to see the making of documentary.
Kubrick would’ve probably let Lewis do his own thing. Kubrick would push some of his actors to get the performances he wanted, but other times he would cast who he thought was right for the part and was pleased with the results. For instance, he let Nicholson go completely off the hook in the Shining.
I can somewhat understand where Kubrick comes from as I have an ocd for order and neatness and my partner thinks I’m bonkers for it but I see it as taking pride where you live.
I can see kubrick ocd as well as his films… well the films post Spartacus were highly controlled, deliberate, meticulous, the shots and the frame are so neat and clean and there is so much attention to detail. I feel he felt that if you care then its got to be perfect.
I imagine kubrick had a form of ocd
Either that or he was on the spectrum.
Peace to all🙏🤍
Imagine making a space film look soo good that people start to think the moon landing was faked 😅
in the 1960s!
Hey, he definitely could have been the Plan B if the Apollo program failed at delivering back in the 1960's. Now we will never know.
legitimately 2001 looks better than pretty much any sci fi movie that came after it.
fr😂
But the landing was faked
he was probably one of the first hollywood director whom i was facinated with.
One day i somehwo stumbled on the trailer of 2001 a space dddysey, and i was shocked learning that it was from 1968.
Then when i saw it, i knew he was some beast.
Then the shining and A clockwork orange.
Sad that he just made 13 films, but all of them are masterpieces.
The greatest movie director of all time for me.
“I don’t do a lot of takes when it’s good”
Fair enough Mr.Kubrick
Also, "I may not know what I want, but I do know what I don't want".
🩵𝐼 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑌𝑜𝑢🩵🩵𝐼 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑌𝑜𝑢🩵
My mount everest of Great filmmakers: Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg & Cecil B. DeMille.
Who’s your favourite out of those?
@@FilmStack mine would be Kubrick and Hitchcock.
Basic and vanilla. Good job
@@nalday2534 thanks.
@@nalday2534 DeMille's pretty out of the ordinary, you gotta admit.
As a lifelong writer and English Major, I went to a Writer's Conference once and they told me, "You HAVE to have people-skills. If you have a toxic personality. You will not succeed no matter how good your writing is." I ignored this to my detriment. I was fired by two publishers and can barely get my book last published now. You HAVE to have people skills, no way around it. I heard the biggest actors in Hollywood like Tom Cruise they're at the top because they're nice. They stay nice and stay easy to work with, and that's why they stay on top.
Creating tensions between a Couple to make the emotions appear real. Was he really a Beast 😨
There will never be another Kubrick. EWS was his magnum opus and he for sure was trying to tell a story that some very powerful people didn’t want him to tell
Didn’t know he only directed 13 films. Quality over quantity
He wasn't someone who chased after projects. Very exclusive on which projects he works on.
And of those 13, the first two were basically student films and a third of Spartacus was directed by someone else. So really 10 films.
Kubrick was definitely an absolute genius.
I like how the narrator says Douglas, "Vowed never to work with him again." As if Kubrick were likely to want to work with Douglas again. lol
Stanley wasn't a control freak, he was an artist making his masterpiece with every little precisely fine nuance in every detail.
Not only that, I heard that in Full Metal Jacket, Stanley let Matthew Modine choose if joker was going to die or not at the end.
That doesn't sound much like a control freak to me....
You don’t need 100 takes and doing mess with people apparence to make a masterpiece
I truly believe that, from the 60s on, Kubrick elevated the art form of filmmaking with every new movie he completed and released
He was successful and people liked his work, “His” work. His vision, which he thought through and wanted to be shown correctly. Who is it for people to cry about him. It’s his work
Film making is a collaborative effort. For the groundbreaking special effects in 2001, he relied on the technical expertise of others. These people never really got their due and are entitled to an opinion
He was just another control freak who happened to be lucky and stumble upon talented and patient people.
Peace to all🙏🤍
The Shining overrunning also impacted Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back which was filmed in the same studio. Even more so when one of the stages burned down
I give my props and applause to the actors and entertainers in the industry. There's NOO way I could EVER walk in those shoes , nor do I have any desire. However I have developed much respect and a new awe for our entertainers ... especially the actors good and bad...whew .
I commented suggesting to make a video about Kubrick when you brought the shining in your "hardest films to make" video. Thanks for accepting my suggestion. :)))
The 50mm 0.7 lens used in Barry Lyndon was not designed by NASA. It was designed by Zeiss in Germany. Only six copies were produced due to its, at the time, astronomical price of $25,000 per lens. Zeiss kept one for their archives, sold two to NASA and three to Kubrick.
Thank you for dropping some truth into this thinly-veiled hit-piece.
Uhhhhhh, greatest director of our time. Seriously.
You guys are gonna love me as a director because the products will all look and feel like Kubrick but at the same time everyone on set will say he was the most pleasant person I've ever worked for
He did a lot of takes to get clues in sets & props to line up with actors as they passed by the clues. E.g., so their nose would go over a clue as they walked by. He also did a lot of takes because it made sense: it's the cheapest thing to do, to simply do more takes and you might get a lot of good things to use from those takes. Setting everything up is expensive, so why not do more takes while it's all setup and there and going? Kubrick was like a military general, very wise.
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He’s the full metal jacket drill sergeant of movies
Nope. He was nothing like that.
@ shhh, crawl back into your little cave
Eyes Wide Shut was the longest continuous film shoot ever, yet the movie still came in cheaper than a Julia Roberts romantic comedy released that summer. Dude knew how to stretch a dollar.
He is actually the GOAT of cinema.
I mean how can you make 2001 a space Odyssey in 1968, must require extreme insanity and talent to do .
Kirk Douglas called Kubrick a "talented shit."
About ten years ago I was working at a movie theatre and we were holding a Q and A following the screening of 2001 with Kier Dullea. Getting to meet and speak to him one on one briefly was a true thrill. I wish I had thought to bring up.a theory that I had about why Kubrick did so many takes. I don't think it was "actors not knowing their lines" but an attempt to beat the acting out of the actors. The performances in his films are very stylized and oftentimes exaggerated and unrealistic. It works in most cases, although I think it didn't in Eyes Wide Shut where the characters have the mannerisms of automatons and are just dull. Even at their dumbest his characters are usually interesting to watch as they blunder along to their own destruction. But it seems like he encourages these eccentric performances and when he doesn't get them he will run them through these multiple takes until he has broken them down. Realism seems anathema to him. He once said that he's "looking for the reality under the reality" but he gives little detail or advice on how his actor should arrive at this point. It frustrated Mathew Modine during the filming of Full Metal Jacket and at one point said something that was verboten in the presence of Kubrick: This is stupid. It infuriated Kubrick and for a week Modine was frequently called a "c**t" as the British use the word. Kubrick disliked anything that stopped or impeded the creative process. For all the allegations of being a control freak he was actually very open to new ideas. When he was filming FMJ he had no concrete ending for the film in mind and was open to ideas from the cast. While filming Dr. Strangelove the idea of Slim Pickens riding the bomb like a cowboy was a last-minute flash of inspiration, which the production crew was now tasked to build functioning bomb bay doors where none existed before. His films were always in a state of evolution and the script was just a guide and not a holy text that had to be abided by faithfully. I recommend reading a biography of Kubrick by Vincent LoBrutto. It's one of the better ones I've read.
You can achieve greatness without doing thousands of takes or doing stupid to mess with someone's head for a scene
People who look up to Kubrick worry me. They seem like sociopaths vicariously living through Kubrick's strong-headed tacky actions.
It's scary to think what these people would do with that amount of power if they think Kubrick was justified.
@@azv343 they glorify him because they are just seeing the art, not the artist. I do think if they were under the same roof, they would've had a different perspective
@@azv343 You can add Hitchcock to Directors whom are set in their ways.
you know absolutely nothing about it.
@@azv343 To be honest James Cameron is even worse than Kubrick, and the fact that people still worshipped him in the comments after psychologically torturing his actors and just being relentlessly unprofessional was all described in another video
0:17 You say it like that’s not enough! 😂 Meanwhile James cameron hasn’t even made 10 yet. 🎬
Quality over quantity.
But still kubrick over Cameron anyday
Good info but i feel like Cameron and kubrick should not be in the conversation and kubrick is miles better and miles ahead than Cameron
When Kubrick and John Alcott were together was when the real magic happened.
Greatness is best in numbers.
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Desde que estaba pequeño y vi con mi papá la de Dr. Strangelove, me encantó el estilo lento y atmosférico de Kubric. La que menos me gusta es la Naranja Mecánica, y mi favorita es Eyes Wide Shut. Es una leyenda.
Stanley Kubrick was one of the greatest director
People fought to be in his movies and most knew exactly what they were in for. Don't tell me to kick you in the nuts and then complain when I kick you in the nuts.
Let me view the birth of my child please!
Kubrick: no! Nothing in your world is more important than me
The few other directors in the same league as Kubrick: Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, and of course Takovsky were absolutely just as meticulous with their films. The fact that it is not the norm in film production probably has to do with the fact that it is also not the norm for films to be works of art, but most often template produced Hollywood factory use and throw away entertainment.
Kubrick has one of the highest masterpiece to failure ratios in film history. There isn't a single picture he did that isn't worth a watch!
Stanley Kubrick must have been the greatest filmmaker of all time. His films are more than just movies.
Like many directors before and after him
@@MonsieurJqc God damn right.
There is not only Kubrick who made good movies... There are a lot more...
@@354Entertainmenttrue, and amazing ones at that BUT name a director with a wider range of films that were not only critically and loved by audiences for their subtleties as well as epic scenes, but also technically for creating many new looks and or ideas within filmmaking as a whole. Seriously, if there's someone who is better I'm super into it as I love movies!?!? Thanks
@@traviscutler9912 Steven Spielberg
This is a great video! I suggest doing a Alfred Hitchcock video next
Can you do a video about the British Blonde Bombshell Diana Dors? She has a very interesting story and tragic ending, being the so called British answer to Marilyn Monroe, was friends with The Kray twins and hangman Albert Pierrepoint, made many amazing films, was the muse of many British musicians from The Beetles, Adam Ant to the Smiths and she almost made it on Hollywood.
2001 is the only movie I have never been able to watch all the way because it scared me too much. The sounds and visuals and they just keep going, it's a nightmare lol. I'm sure it's a good movie, but it freaks me the hell out.
Is Singularity by Stephen Bodzin playing at a completely unrecognisably quiet volume throughout The shining segment?
greatest director of all time. Most other movies pale compare to his. And to this a day a lot of people don't really grasp the genius of his work
You only watch American films, right?
Another extraordinary director is Roy Andersson.
19:12 i wouldn't be surprised if a film like megalopolis would be considered a masterpiece in the future lol
Whenever we talk about film adaptations of written work, people always insist that sticking 100% to the source material but The Shining kind of shows that, sometimes, deviations make sense (because you're working with film, not a book). And we have 2 takes of that specific book to compare, but no one really talks about the 2nd version, despite having King himself involved in it.
Well a lot of that you can chalk up to kubrick and his iconography as well as memorable scenes and lines. Quite frankly I look at it as a kubrick film than as a king adaptation. However I love the book
The remake from the 90s is accurate yes but it’s not memorable, mick garris is not a very iconographic director and the steven Weber doesn’t have nicholsons gravitas. Do I like it for sticking to the book? Yes I do it took time to tell the story whereas kubrick rushed through it basically giving us the shining condensed
Personally I think the shining is a great film but a lousy adaptation, it’s similar about how I feel about Batman returns. It’s a great Tim Burton film but a lousy comic book movie.
American Psycho and Fight Club both turned out far better than their respective books for the same reason.
3:26 I like Killers Kiss. It gets intense towards the end.
David Prowse asked Kubrick if he was to take cut the Kubrick Way during filming A Clockwork Orange. But still the theater release shows him struggling to keep Mc Dowell in his arms.
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One of the greatest directors taken to early
I dropped a like and subscribed because of this
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Douglas and Kubrick even went therapy together 😂 man he was a menace
9:02 Nothing like an actor and director going to counseling to try and repair their working relationship.
Kubrick is the GOAT. It speaks for itself how the Academy doesn’t worth a penny since he never got an award for his masterpieces.
2001 won for best screenplay I think. I could be wrong.😑
@@MostopinionatedmanofalltimeIt won a special award for best visual effects,which he created. It was the only Oscar he won.
@@12Cooper That's your opinion
@@joshuaj.chinda9873 exactly my man, thats why I wrote it here😉
Oh boy another poorly researched video about Kubrick.
Make your own video about him then
@@trapchurches555 why bother?
people who care enough already know everything they need about him.
or just read a book
Oh boy another Kubrick incel who meatrides him without actually knowing him personally.
Umm. You didnt say the P word, in regards to Lolita.
Didnt even hint to it. You should have 1 million subs soon.
Imagine not even being 40 and making 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Paths of Glory is still relevant today, if not even more.
This is good!!!!
Never been a big fan. Oddly I love Fincher who mimics Kubricks technique
Did you know that Dr. Strangelove was James Earl Jones' first ever film?
How people can still say that Kubrick was a control freak. He wasn't even a perfactionist, he was always changing his mind in movies and how to film them. He only liked great job nothing else. You can clearly see in many of the documentaries that sometimes even not knowing how to film a scene like in Shining. Thats not a control freak. He made many mistakes in his movies. He was doing too many dollyshots and putting the camera far from the characters.
He didn’t let one of his lead actors leave set to view the birth of his child until he threatened to cut off his own hand. Kubrick was an asshole
Just because he changed his mind a lot doesn’t mean he isn’t a control freak. Every director changes their mind. He totally was a control freak. He hated having studio regulations, he pushed his actors to give the exact performance he wanted. He couldn’t stand the idea of someone else having influence on his films.
Ironically his last known words, allegedly, were him refusing to give up control.
Crazy world we live in. Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise were terrified after Stanley's passing, you can see it in interviews on RUclips from 97'.
He died in 1999…in bed and was reaching for a respirator.
@Tolstoy111 Thx, I misremembered the year, he actually died in 99'. So the interviews I was referencing were actually from 99' or 2000
@@danschultz999 my larger point was that the conspiracies about his death are ridiculous
@@Tolstoy111 Given the tenure of all involved, I'd have to patently disagree.
@@Tolstoy111 If you think conspiring to have somebody silenced is beneath the execs "at" Warner Brothers, you're a fool.
Historically speaking the world is built on blackmail, and extortion.
Edited: "at"
Can you do a video on Steven Seagal or Mickey Rourke?
62 takes of a couple of GIs mopping a latrine floor?! Man-oh-man.
This is what seeing someone's eccentric brain working at 100% capacity
Why didn't you talk about Kubrick's unrealized projects, like "Napoleon" and "Aryan Papers", and how some of those unfinished projects have caused long gaps between movies like between "Full Metal Jacket" and "Eyes Wide Shut", which were 12 year apart with nothing in between? Or how The Beatles approached Kubrick to direct them in a "Lord Of The Rings" film adaptation (not kidding)?
He succeeded what he set out to do, cry
Great Filmmaker but shitty treatment of his co workers
That $750,000 centrifuge set would, inexplicably, cost ten times as much with CGI...
I have a theory that Kubrick only made Eyes Wide Shut so he could cast and then torture Tom Cruise because he hated Scientology. Nicole Kidman might've been in on it.
The Shining is still phenomenal
Oh good god. The virtue signaling is on another level here.
@zechy09 Completely agree. No one here spitting accusations has done an ounce of research on Kubrick. They've just seen the Dr. Phil hit-piece.
By contrast, I personally witnessed Malcom McDowell verbally-humiliating an autistic fan last year in front of people. But Kubrick is the monster, so sayeth the keyboard warriors.
Honestly, Full Metal Jacket was the best of Kubrick's Films.
"Too Controlling"
that doesn't even make any sense, he is THE DIRECTOR
its like saying that your drill instructor is too controlling, well THIS IS HIS JOB
there are many careers and money at the stake, he have to make it count.
Exactly. Running a film set is a huge responsibility, and if it isn’t done right, you have a mediocre movie. He knew how to make it all happen.
It’s sad how many people such as yourself fail to understand the role of a director. Being a director does not grant you power over anyone else. If you go into directing for having the power and control, you are setting yourself up for failure. The directors job is to fully realize a vision of the film to find an audience. Not about this whole “my vision” bullcrap. Kubrick was harsh, but he never treated himself as a superior. He utilized tools that he felt would bring out a fully realized film. He was a talented director but he was a control freak.
@@Buskeeeeeeee its literally called "directing" lmao
I saw Fear and Desire at an art museum during a film fest. I bet he would have hated that!
The shining is Wendy. Without Shelley Duvall as Wendy the shining would have sucked; she is the thread or the fabric of the movie that keeps the flow going. My kids are obsessed with her and think she was the sweetest, nicest character in any movie they have seen. I loved her character, and she's the only true hero of the entire film, with maybe Danny getting a sidekick nod. How she reacts to Jack's abuse is very genuine, and I see a lot of my mom in her role. Wendy is a typical housewife, making the best she can while looking at the brighter side of her crap life. If you notice in the film, she and Danny are the only ones seen ever leaving the overlook hotel, to either go for walks and also learn the maze while Jack sits in his angry delusion of a failed writer and also somehow sees himself as above everyone else. Jack interacts with the bartendar and later with Grady snobbishly, in my opinion. After they collide in the bar, he tells Grady that he may have gotten some Advocaat on himself while proceeding to slap a big wet handprint on Grady's tuxedo. Jack is an asshole and Wendy is the hero, while poor Danny is the medium that ties in the paranormal bit. The Overlook hotel is where Jack thinks he can finally be the man he has always wanted to be-admired, responsible, and also believing he will be achieving greatness even if it means destroying his life. But it is Wendy who comes out in the end looking like the true model of character
The ironic thing is that Kubrick put his actors through all that work and yet, despite the great work he made, he never won an Oscar for best director.
He didn't win a DGA award either
@@reptongeek They gave him the D.W. Griffith award before the end of Eyes Wide Shut.
Awards are for people who work for awards........ not art.
"Only 13" You're lucky if you're able to direct 1 film
You make MY FILM you make it MY WAY!!! Sorry, no participation trophies here lil Finklestein Sht Kids!
There's a reason he was THE GOAT FILM-SMITH!!!
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The comment on the stairs scene in The Shining is flat out wrong. The most takes done on any scene in the film was 66 and it wasn't that one. If you get the new Taschen book on The Shining the author had access to the script supervisors notes. Almost all the stuff that's written about him is innuendo and bunk especially regarding The Shining. He just refused to ramble on in the press refuting most of this nonsense. And for someone who was supposedly so mean, it's amazing how many famous actors lined up to work for him. For what it's worth: "the shot with the most takes is the dolly shot when the hotel’s manager shows Jack and Wendy around and they go into the Gold Ballroom." In the end all that matters is the films and they speak for themselves.
IT IS NOT FOR PERFECTION BUT TO ACHIEVE TRUTH IN THE LENS OF THE CAMERA.
THIS IS SOMETHING YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT KUBRICK.
He was one of the best directors of all time, but the way he achieved his masterpieces was fucked up. I especially find the treatment of Shelly Duvall on the set of the Shining to be particularly abhorrent.
The most spectrummy director.
Only if you don’t know any other directors from before 1980. Compared to Roman Polanski, Sam Peckinpah, John Casavettes, Samuel Fuller, Michael Cimino, Herschel Gordon Lewis, and Otto Preminger, to name a few, he was a picture of stability and sanity.
@@bobcobb3654 "Spectrum" implies layered oblique and cryptic readings , not instability.
@@ivanconnolly7332 no, “spectrummy” was your allusion that Kubrick was an Ass Burger.
he made some of the best films most of which are in the national film agency he had to be vigorous and have standards.
The premise of your vid is false--he did not go too far, and he was not too controlling. The actors knew he was meticulous going into it and they chose to work with him because he was the best. Assumed risk. They could have quit and walked off the set at any moment.
Make a video on Martin Scorsese's journey
FMJ was about the Marines, not the Army.
2:49 So... a literal dolly?
great movies but how and why did he not get put on the shuttle….?