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.
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.
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;)
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.
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 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 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
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
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 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
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
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.
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.
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. :)))
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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)?
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.
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.
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.
I love The shining. I really do. But it doesn't have the heart that the book did. The movie is more disturbing and unsettling with all different parts adding up together. While the book goes into details of this a dysfunctional family struggling to stay together until it's tragically broken apart by a paranormal presence. But pray one thing that the book and movie both got right the uneasiness of either. This is a bad case of Captain fever with all the characters are just delusional. Or they're actually ghosts and there's really a haunting. And I will say this making a sequel to this movie was the best decision if you could follow the book. Because that sequel both pleasing, Kubrick and King fans was amazing! It stayed true to the book and became a logical sequel for the movie to continue. Amazing! Just amazing!!!!!
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.
I absolutely refuse to believe this man put a giant baby in space and was called a fucking cinematic genius for it. I'm not too stupid to understand subtly or nuance, I'm not missing any hidden messages- the ending to 2001: A Space Odyssey was utter fucking nonsense that people SOMEHOW interpreted meaning from, and I will never understand how or why. But holy shit, Dr. Strangelove was so good, how the hell did we go from A to B like that, huh?
He clearly got off on controlling other people & flexing his authority. There’s no other explanation. When he had Harvey Keitel walk through a door 100 times it was clear it wasn’t about “memorizing the lines” it was about getting off on controlling others. Harvey rightfully told him to F himself & many others like Jack Nicholson vowed to never work with him again. I guarantee you Jack Nicholson memorized his lines & gave Kubrick great takes right out of the gate. So Kubrick’s excuses for tormenting his crew are B.S. Also claiming that he was merely “uncompromising on his artistic vision” is B.S. evidenced by the fact he was so indecisive on his “vision”, he continually rewrote his scenes & had several different versions of films like the Shining even releasing a different version initially then changing his mind & having the different parts destroyed to change the story so less people would know about it so he could protect his public image as a genius. People prop up & worship film-makers like Kubrick way too much.
Dumb bullshit misinformation. There is no "different version" of the shining, the European cut is slightly different but that cut is the one most people know today. ALL films are edited and changed throughout production that doesn't mean they don't have a vision.
@@tonywords6713 Yes there were different cuts. He also had multiple different angles for the story. He didn't make a final decision until after the film had already been released.
@@Frosted_Moontips Except for that the TF franchise would either be better off or worse under a different company if Transformers wasn't owned by ParaMount
@@Frosted_Moontips How would the TF film series be different if the Transformers films were directed by a different directer and someone else instead of Michael Bay
Kubrick was a mad man known by repeating take by take, think of all he tortured Shelley Duvall, while shooting on the set of The Shining. Nevertheless, now everything is different as anyone could be recording from Instagram or X, therefore it's hard to unfake chemistry with someone on a set, so Stanley Kubrick would be probably cancelled today. By the way, he was close to work with Marlon Brando in a Western film, which the own Brando had to direct.
Kubrick may have been a control freak, but it was not without purpose. As stated in the video, he pushed Shelly Duvall (RIP) to her limit so her performance in the final film would look extremely convincing, and in retrospect, she has praised Kubrick for going that extra mile. So it seemed clear that she hasn't held a grudge with him ever since. All in all, Kubrick may sound like he's difficult to work with, he's not trying to be mean, he's trying to get his actors to give their most convincing performances, unlike other directors who act like total jerks for no good reason and don't even care what people say about them (I'm looking at you David O. Russell!)
It must be tough trying to live up to being the "master" that everyone has you made out to be. You have to come up with films that try way too hard to impress theatergoers instead of making quiet, organic films like Ozu.
Kubrick may have had Autism and OCD (obssesive compulsive disorder), OCD is not just strictly about keeping your room neat to perfection but it translated onto other branches of life: Relationships, work and speech.
Kubrick was a genius but I can't imagine what he saw in such two such colossally untalented actors as Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. They are a joke. I suppose even geniuses make foolish decisions.
While I love the shining, and the first half of full metal jacket is amazing, I do think he is overrated. 2001 a space odyssey is boring and makes no sense. Visually it's stunning, but it feels like it's trying to be smart and just isn't.
I love Kubrick's style, but I don't think any of it was worth the detriment of others who worked with him I'd rather just cancel the movie if it meant everyone remained physically, emotionally, and mentally sound
The Shining was not a box office success. A film needs to earn 2.5 times it budget to break even. 19 million budget, the film needed to earn about 47 million just ti break even. Worldwide, it earned a little over 46 million. Critics disliked it and audiences were not thrilled either. If it did not Kubrick's name attached, it would be a forgotten film.
Being a genius does not give you the right to mistreat, publicly humiliate and psychologically abuse other people. Justifying that in the name of genius is having very bad moral and human values.
Virtue signaling so hard. Please show me these tortured actors lawsuits against him? Or speaking out against him? That’s what I thought. They are literally in documentaries of Kubrick’s life talking about him LMAO
@@zechy09 Fear paralyzed actors in those times. It meant to be labelled as 'difficult' and be out of work. Tippi Hedren appeared praising Hitchock in the docu about the making of the birds, but later on she got the courage and denounced his rape attempt. It is very difficult for actors to make this kind of allegations and accusations. Mention how many actresses denounced Harvey Weinstein in his heyday? Bill Cosby? Josh Whedon? Brian Singer? That's what I thought.
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
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
Imagining Kubrick being a gym instructor: can you make 127 push up please ??? . The whole gym will fall part
Ur mom hater
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
Kubrick was the director who made me love cinema
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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
“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".
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
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
Kubrick was definitely an absolute genius.
I truly believe that, from the 60s on, Kubrick elevated the art form of filmmaking with every new movie he completed and released
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.
Imagine having Daniel Day-Lewis in a Kubrick movie. I would've paid anything to see the making of documentary.
He’s the full metal jacket drill sergeant of movies
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?
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
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
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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.
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
Uhhhhhh, greatest director of our time. Seriously.
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 .
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. :)))
0:17 You say it like that’s not enough! 😂 Meanwhile James cameron hasn’t even made 10 yet. 🎬
Quality over quantity.
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.
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
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.
When Kubrick and John Alcott were together was when the real magic happened.
Greatness is best in numbers.
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.
This is a great video! I suggest doing a Alfred Hitchcock video next
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!
One of the greatest directors taken to early
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)?
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.
Douglas and Kubrick even went therapy together 😂 man he was a menace
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😉
Never been a big fan. Oddly I love Fincher who mimics Kubricks technique
Imagine not even being 40 and making 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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.
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.
I dropped a like and subscribed because of this
Paths of Glory is still relevant today, if not even more.
Kubrick was the greatest to ever do it and he will never be equalled. EVER.
The Shining is still phenomenal
I love The shining. I really do. But it doesn't have the heart that the book did. The movie is more disturbing and unsettling with all different parts adding up together. While the book goes into details of this a dysfunctional family struggling to stay together until it's tragically broken apart by a paranormal presence.
But pray one thing that the book and movie both got right the uneasiness of either. This is a bad case of Captain fever with all the characters are just delusional. Or they're actually ghosts and there's really a haunting.
And I will say this making a sequel to this movie was the best decision if you could follow the book. Because that sequel both pleasing, Kubrick and King fans was amazing! It stayed true to the book and became a logical sequel for the movie to continue. Amazing! Just amazing!!!!!
Sorry to be that guy but do you mean Cabin fever instead of Cabinet fever?
@@AydenGiba You're really going to be that guy? 🤨
@@The4pacheRebel Yeah sorry. Great mini piece though, and I completely agree with it!
9:02 Nothing like an actor and director going to counseling to try and repair their working relationship.
I saw Fear and Desire at an art museum during a film fest. I bet he would have hated that!
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.
That $750,000 centrifuge set would, inexplicably, cost ten times as much with CGI...
Umm. You didnt say the P word, in regards to Lolita.
Didnt even hint to it. You should have 1 million subs soon.
"Only 13" You're lucky if you're able to direct 1 film
Great Filmmaker but shitty treatment of his co workers
IT IS NOT FOR PERFECTION BUT TO ACHIEVE TRUTH IN THE LENS OF THE CAMERA.
THIS IS SOMETHING YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT KUBRICK.
So basically.
Kubrick: *releases film*
Critics: lmao what is this...
*some time passes*
Critics: waaaaiiitttttt lmaoooo actuallyyyy???
The most spectrummy director.
Make a video on Martin Scorsese's journey
Can you do a video on Steven Seagal or Mickey Rourke?
Oh good god. The virtue signaling is on another level here.
I absolutely refuse to believe this man put a giant baby in space and was called a fucking cinematic genius for it. I'm not too stupid to understand subtly or nuance, I'm not missing any hidden messages- the ending to 2001: A Space Odyssey was utter fucking nonsense that people SOMEHOW interpreted meaning from, and I will never understand how or why.
But holy shit, Dr. Strangelove was so good, how the hell did we go from A to B like that, huh?
You're an idiot
He clearly got off on controlling other people & flexing his authority. There’s no other explanation. When he had Harvey Keitel walk through a door 100 times it was clear it wasn’t about “memorizing the lines” it was about getting off on controlling others. Harvey rightfully told him to F himself & many others like Jack Nicholson vowed to never work with him again. I guarantee you Jack Nicholson memorized his lines & gave Kubrick great takes right out of the gate. So Kubrick’s excuses for tormenting his crew are B.S. Also claiming that he was merely “uncompromising on his artistic vision” is B.S. evidenced by the fact he was so indecisive on his “vision”, he continually rewrote his scenes & had several different versions of films like the Shining even releasing a different version initially then changing his mind & having the different parts destroyed to change the story so less people would know about it so he could protect his public image as a genius. People prop up & worship film-makers like Kubrick way too much.
Dumb bullshit misinformation. There is no "different version" of the shining, the European cut is slightly different but that cut is the one most people know today. ALL films are edited and changed throughout production that doesn't mean they don't have a vision.
@@tonywords6713 Yes there were different cuts. He also had multiple different angles for the story. He didn't make a final decision until after the film had already been released.
"It's not binary. You can be decent and gifted at the same time."
FMJ was about the Marines, not the Army.
This is what seeing someone's eccentric brain working at 100% capacity
he made some of the best films most of which are in the national film agency he had to be vigorous and have standards.
I guess that's when the films are too good as well
2:49 So... a literal dolly?
What If ParaMount never had the film rights to Transformers and the TF brand (franchise/series) was owned by a different movie & TV company instead
Ok
Nothing would change lmao
@@Frosted_Moontips Except for that the TF franchise would either be better off or worse under a different company if Transformers wasn't owned by ParaMount
@@benjaminparker671 All I'll say is don't rely on corporations to do your beloved franchises justice lol
@@Frosted_Moontips How would the TF film series be different if the Transformers films were directed by a different directer and someone else instead of Michael Bay
Kubrick was a mad man known by repeating take by take, think of all he tortured Shelley Duvall, while shooting on the set of The Shining. Nevertheless, now everything is different as anyone could be recording from Instagram or X, therefore it's hard to unfake chemistry with someone on a set, so Stanley Kubrick would be probably cancelled today. By the way, he was close to work with Marlon Brando in a Western film, which the own Brando had to direct.
That’s right: Kubrick set up the film One eyed Jack and Brando had to direct it. It was the first and only film Brando ever made as a director.
@@allys744 What did you think of that Western film?
Kubrick left Brando for unresolvable creative differences. The two were like oil in water; never going to mix
what if when 2001 a space odyssey never released
stanley kubrick is my favourite director
Ok
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Kubrick may have been a control freak, but it was not without purpose. As stated in the video, he pushed Shelly Duvall (RIP) to her limit so her performance in the final film would look extremely convincing, and in retrospect, she has praised Kubrick for going that extra mile. So it seemed clear that she hasn't held a grudge with him ever since. All in all, Kubrick may sound like he's difficult to work with, he's not trying to be mean, he's trying to get his actors to give their most convincing performances, unlike other directors who act like total jerks for no good reason and don't even care what people say about them (I'm looking at you David O. Russell!)
It must be tough trying to live up to being the "master" that everyone has you made out to be. You have to come up with films that try way too hard to impress theatergoers instead of making quiet, organic films like Ozu.
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Kubrick may have had Autism and OCD (obssesive compulsive disorder), OCD is not just strictly about keeping your room neat to perfection but it translated onto other branches of life: Relationships, work and speech.
Kubrick was a genius but I can't imagine what he saw in such two such colossally untalented actors as Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. They are a joke. I suppose even geniuses make foolish decisions.
Yeah it sounds terrible but he achieved the goal.
While I love the shining, and the first half of full metal jacket is amazing, I do think he is overrated. 2001 a space odyssey is boring and makes no sense. Visually it's stunning, but it feels like it's trying to be smart and just isn't.
Your mentality and intelligence is something.... questionable
Or perhaps its just you.
I don't even like 2001, and i disagree with your take in it.
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He was an amazing director, and unfortunately Kubrick knew that.
His movies are only the way they are because he was like that a true perfectionist who cares about that stuff anymore he’s dead
His nickname isn't "one-take Kubrick"
I love Kubrick's style, but I don't think any of it was worth the detriment of others who worked with him
I'd rather just cancel the movie if it meant everyone remained physically, emotionally, and mentally sound
Everyone who worked with him raved about him
Is that video made for people who never heard of Kubrick before and are to tired to read any Wikipedia synapses?
Actors have easy jobs and love to complain. "Waaaaa I'm rich and famous and only work a few weeks a year :("
When you don't understand what actors actually do
@@ethansprague2005 what are you a failed actor or something?
1999 me loved Dogma way more than Magnolia. I recently rewatched both and Magnolia is an excellent film -- i turned off Dogma half way through.
Always loved both and still love both 🤟
Ι wonder... If Kubrick could survive in this woke era.
And u don't think he was?
The Shining was not a box office success. A film needs to earn 2.5 times it budget to break even. 19 million budget, the film needed to earn about 47 million just ti break even. Worldwide, it earned a little over 46 million. Critics disliked it and audiences were not thrilled either. If it did not Kubrick's name attached, it would be a forgotten film.
When I think of stories of a director being too strict when filming, I tend to think of Michael Cimino directing Heaven’s Gate.
Being a genius does not give you the right to mistreat, publicly humiliate and psychologically abuse other people. Justifying that in the name of genius is having very bad moral and human values.
Virtue signaling so hard. Please show me these tortured actors lawsuits against him? Or speaking out against him? That’s what I thought. They are literally in documentaries of Kubrick’s life talking about him LMAO
@@zechy09 Fear paralyzed actors in those times. It meant to be labelled as 'difficult' and be out of work. Tippi Hedren appeared praising Hitchock in the docu about the making of the birds, but later on she got the courage and denounced his rape attempt. It is very difficult for actors to make this kind of allegations and accusations.
Mention how many actresses denounced Harvey Weinstein in his heyday?
Bill Cosby?
Josh Whedon?
Brian Singer?
That's what I thought.