Stanley Kubrick's War
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- This video is a Dissection of Stanley Kubrick's three war films; Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, and Full Metal Jacket. From there, I explore the biggest messages that each of these films can teach us and evaluate what Stanley Kubrick was saying about war.
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Paths of Glory. Kubrick. United Artists, 1957.
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Kubrick. Columbia Pictures, 1964.
Full Metal Jacket. Kubrick. Warner Bros, 1987.
Major King Kong is wearing headphones not ear muffs.
You are totally right, I misspoke. Thank you for the correction!
You said muffs
I never even heard of Paths of Glory, but it looks like a great film that's right up my alley.
It really is fantastic, top 4 Kubrick behind 2001, The Shining, and Clockwork in my humble opinion.
Samuel Wallace it's really underrated and does not come up alot when people talk about Kubrick Films. Although it really should be.
I would recommend after seeing "Paths of Glory" watching the Tales from the Crypt episode "Yellow". It also stars Kirk Douglas and takes place during World War One and has an ending that is thematically similar, but with a twist.
It's an amazing, haunting film! I have never seen a movie portray hopelessness and desperation so well
It's a slow burn, but it's definitely worth your time. It raises certain questions, that no other war films have brought up before. It's well acted, and since it's one of Kubrick's early films, you can see how he's still discovering his personal style. I like to think that it's similar to Apocalypse Now, in that it's not really about war. It's message has a lot more to do with class struggles , and how no one's life is disposable. Apocalypse Now is about doing horrific things, and being treated like a hero for it. It's also about holding on to your sanity and humanity, when you are literally swallowed up by the Heart of Darkness. By the end of AN, there is no right or wrong anymore... Just the mission. Where Paths of Glory, by contrast, has a very clear message in the end, and there is no question about who's right and who's wrong.
Kubrick was a master of film.
Indeed!
Right?! Dear Ser, you are a Gentleman & a Scholar of film yourself! May i be so bold as to ask you to review one film by another Master (such as Kubrick) a Mr. Jim Jarmush, this particular film im referring to is: Only Lovers Left Alive.... Could you-would you, entertain this lowly subscriber?
Jose Penny Murillo
Very possibly, I don't have any immediate plans but am not opposed to covering it in the future.
Thats excellent to hear
Really stretching your neck out there with that comment aren't ya lol
I agree with Paths of Glory and Dr. Strangelove and I also agree with you in the first half of Full Metal Jacket there is no human bonding. However once they reach Hue City, Joker, Cowboy, Animal Mother, and everyone else bond together through the pursuit of battle. If you read the book that Full Metal Jacket is based on (The Short Timers), it talks about the friendships and split divide between the grunts in the field and the poges who are the men who aren't in the field. Great video! Keep doing what you're doing.
+Human Crew Thank's for the support! I'll make sure I add that to my readlist
it’s crazy to think that only through the war on their enemy and more human infighting, do the soldiers and US find friendship
Kubrick is the STAR CHILD
Paths of GLory is such a great film from beginning to end.
Yes it is. I watched it last night and thought it was the most human and emotional Kubrick movie I’ve seen. These people are being used like pawns and you feel the impact of it. When the three men die, I felt a sense of sorrow that I really haven’t felt in a movie before. And the last scene with the soldiers crying made me tear up. 10/10 movie.
`I think Full Metal Jacket is about the horror of what man can become. Constantly we're shown soldiers commit atrocity with justification. The finale with the sniper really sells it.
All of Kubrick's films are great, but Paths of Glory is one of the best films ever made. That's my opinion and I stand by it.
the duality of war
Exactly!
@@JacksMovieReviews That Jungian thing
"Troops are born to be killed." ~Napoleon
“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
I agree that Fear and Desire was an amateurish work and can understand why Kubrick disowned it, but it does have some elements that point to Kubrick's future greatness. The overall moral ambiguity of the film is certainly a Kubrick trademark. The scene in which the soldiers infiltrate an enemy base and kill the enemy soldiers was brilliantly shot and edited. Another well done part is the sequence where the sergeant sails the raft upstream to kill an enemy general, not for strategic or patriotic reasons, but for the most basic reason of all, if his attack is successful it'll give his life meaning. The search for meaning shows depth, transcendence, and is a very mature theme for a first time film maker.
That said, Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, and Full Metal Jacket are all much, much better movies.
War is what i'd call "an obscene necessity".
Aggression is wrong. Being able but unwilling to defend yourself or others is even worse.
I disagree with your analysis of Major Kong. The orders he received at the beginning of the film are specifically tailored for a situation where the US has already been nuked, so Kong's not looking to start a war. As far as he knows, he's responding to the aggression of the Soviet Union.
I'll grant that he's shortsighted in his actions, such as climbing onto the nuke, but this could be understood as him thinking that he doesn't have a future. As far as he knows, his entire family and everyone he knew, outside of his crew, is gone.
Also, he's not wearing earmuffs, those are headphones to facilitate communication, not inhibit it.
Yeah what Major Kong was just following the delusional orders of General Ripper. I think the main point of the movie was to show the absurdity of the cold war. Breadsword did a great analysis on the movie.
titanicww2345 He would NOT have agreed with the Communist Fluid Theorem, I’ll tell you that.
You can’t fight in here, this is this war room
Kind of a misfire on Sergeant Hartman and Leonard, I think. It wasn't that he was pushing them apart, he was giving them a common enemy. The problem lies in the dehumanization that is considered essential to producing modern soldiers in the numbers and time demanded. The only camaraderie they have is their common hatred and/or aggression- towards Hartman, towards Leonard, and later towards the Vietnamese. They're not allowed to exist as individuals, and Leonard is cast out from the group- both setting himself apart with his poor performance, and being set apart by Hartman humiliating him and later turning the other men against him. With no sense of personal identity, no inclusion into the group identity, and constant abuse and humiliation, Leonard crumbles. Hartman turned the men against him, but with the intention of them working together to hold him to a higher standard. He wanted to make Leonard, a soft, fat, clumsy fool, into a bloodthirsty Marine. Whether he knew or believed that it would lead to the kind of physical abuse Leonard suffered isn't necessarily known, but he does seem to imply that they should act out some form of retribution against him with, "He has failed because you have not HELPED me!" In any case, this is the kind of abuse Hartman felt was necessary to turn the men into soldiers. And there is plenty of proof that he is right, in both real life and the film. Animal Mother is the kind of Marine Hartman would have been proud to produce, a gung-ho warrior with balls of steel. Not only does he survive, but he manages to stay himself to the end of the film, although he's clearly affected by the death of his friend 8-Ball. Joker, on the other hand, is a changed man by the time the credits roll. I think the point is that most of the time, what Hartman does works well to turn men into soldiers- but not much else.
All 3 movies are great. But the people who should learn from it, don't!
Unfortunately this movie's lesson was not taken to heart.
Great dissection as always but I disagree with your perception of Major Kong as a man who loves war..I think that as a military man tasked with a hazardous mission, he was simply doing what he had trained his entire adult life to do, ie fly a B52 and deliver its payload when and where ordered and, if possible, get his crew back home safely.. Whether it be conventional or nuclear bombs mattered not, even if it could potentially mean literally the end of the world. People in certain military MOS have much closer contact to the nastier aspects of war. Infantrymen, for example. Training hard day and night for years drives home the fact that you will do whatever you are ordered to do, no matter the stakes..In fact, the higher the stakes the harder you must train and the more seriously you must take your mission..This is demonstrated in the FMJ film..I will address that in another comment..I'm sure youve seen Wargames.. *Spoilers* In the beginning of the film, one of the launch control officers suddenly realizes what is actually happening and refuses to turn his launch key.. This is obviously unacceptable, even for something as mad as nuclear war..As a career bomber pilot, Maj. Kong no doubt understood what they were doing and what it would mean but his sense of duty propelled him to do what most would consider unthinkable..In the military, mission accomplishment is priority 1 and safety of the crew is secondary, including the guy in charge so he fixed the bomb bay issues and rode the bomb into film glory.. haha.. Enjoy all the film dissections so please continue to crank them out..
Paths of Glory was one of my fav war movies but no one ever heard of it.
Those three movies really wrecked any ideas of a military carrer for me. But Kubrik is my fav director.
Paths of Glory was Kubrik's most emotional film. I love his films but this one in particular evokes so much frustration and sympathy for the troops.
Also, Sgt. Hartman didn't put everyone against Pyle for any old reason. In the military everyone has to work together as a cohesive unit because if you don't, people can die. Pyle was a simpleton who wasn't thinking of anybody but himself and in doing so, the entire platoon is punished as a single unit. Yes, this does create animosity but it also forces everyone to either help the defective soldier or shun them and in turn it will hopefully force the soldier to step up their game, not let their fellow soldiers down, and will prevent the entire unit from being punished.
The problem here is that Pyle had some mental issue that was never recognized before he was enlisted nor while he was in boot camp and so he didn’t have the mental faculties that would allow himself to be better until he was beaten by his fellow soldiers, worked through his pain, fears, and anger. But think of the alternative; Pile goes to war and gets his entire squad killed because he never takes his duties seriously.
If anything, this is a commentary about how people unfit to serve are accepted because it is a time of war and those who shouldn't be there are beaten into compliance and in doing so, may lose some of their humanity.
“People are people” this man quoted the Room in a Kubrick commentary. Subscribed.
In the three films actually Kubrick shows in total only one alive enemy soldier. Very interesting.
Very observant.The strain on Jokers face is heartrending.
In Barry Lyndon we get shown multiple enemy regiments yet never once see an enemy die, rather instead seeing wholesale slaughter of Barry's comrades. It's not lost on the viewer that Barry's only way out of war is carrying officers off the battlefield and by luck the 2nd time works - hence the hypocritical heirarchy of those armies.
3:55
“People are people, they just can’t see their own faults”.
- Psychologist in The Room.
I think you need to change your channel name to Every Frame A Jack.
+RiseTheHorizon I'll seriously consider a rebrand...
Great thoughts as always! Seen "Full Metal Jacket" a few times. I do agree with many: the first part is fantastic, showing the exact techniques used to turn (re-format) draftees (?) as fast as possible into obedient killing machines/cannon fodder. Great fresh insight regarding the second part! I have a feeling that it only feels "uneven" until one fully understands it. Need to watch "Paths Of Glory" ASAP. Thanks and keep 'em coming!
Will do, and you should see Paths of Glory, it is one of his top 3 films in my opinion.
It's a strange world where a man like Kirk Douglas (1916) portrayed a role in the United States military, the "high ranking officer who commonly are the first to die in the post-war world" but he's still alive at 102. While R. Lee Ermey (1944) portrayed a role that is typical fair in the military, a drill sergeant, yet he died at the age of 72.
Would love to see your take on 2001 or The Shining, or even Clockwork. Definitely some of my favorites! I have yet to see Paths of Glory but I will make a point to see it now. Loved this breakdown!
Thank you! It's funny when I first started out, I felt like I could comfortably talk Kubrick, the more I kind of fear talking about him. Anyway, there is at least one I am planning in the next couple of months!
Spot on with your analysis on these three. NTS must watch Paths of Glory
just watched Strangelove for the first time in my life
i was really surprised with the finale reveal of Strangelove being an nazi, a type of wolf amongst sheep kind of thing, dude was right there in the war room all along
There is actually another actor made up like Strangelove in background of some of the scenes where Sellers is playing President Muffley. Look at 5:50 and 6:04, just to the left of General Turgidson.
Thicc Boss 47 At the end of WW2 we brought over several of the German scientists who had worked on the V2 rocket and also the first attempt at a jet fighter, the Me-262 jet. The Germans developed the jet fighter too late to change the outcome of the war. This was done because the cold war was going to begin and the U.S. felt the German scientists and spies could be of use against the Soviets. There are many articles on this on the web. It is not a reveal actually because Sellers was clearly doing a German accent and two other characters whisper in conversation he had changed his name to a non German sounding name.
I graduated high school in 2006, I was a fourth generation marine. I pretty much had my heart and mind set on joining the Marines upon graduating high school but since the fifth grade, we had a pilot come into our school I think, in the fourth grade and talk about his career, and what not so that being said, being a pilot, and a marine was 2 main goals in my life, which I was able to accomplish! That said it amazed me in boot camp “Paris island “ definitely glad I wasent a Hollywood marine! But with in the 2nd week sh0cked that there was fellow recruits that had not seen the movie! Um, how Do you sign up and not have seen the movie at least the beginning boot camp scene! I mean did you want to know how boot camp was going to be like!
Not bad. But. You should probably dig a bit more into USMC boot camp and how real comraderi is formed. FMJ exposes that quite well.
Playing “The Bomb Run” through drove me as mad as Pvt. Pyle after the blanket party
Great video. That recommend algorithm works wonders
Is war good or bad
Stanley Kubrick- *yes*
A true master......The enemy of learning is........KNOWING.
Kubrick never seemed to take a moral stand, if you watch each of his movies it seemed to me the original source material may have done so and his genius was his ability not to comment. All his movies leave it up to the audience to judge.
@6:35 you're slightly wrong here, the pilot is not wearing ear muffs, he's wearing a headset to communicate with the rest of the crew. I see and agree with your point for the rest, but this specifically is simply not true.
i agreed with a lot in your analysis here, but not the idea that dr. strangelove loses its impact just because it is a comedy. On the contrary. I grew up in the 1980s, and was absolutely convinced that the world was going to end in fire because some general ripper or turgidson out there was going to push the button or cause the button to be pushed. Although it is a comedy, EVERYTHING in there was american military doctrine from the 1960s to the 1980s including the logic, the countermoves, and the lack of seriousness amongst top brass wrt nuclear war. The one element that WASN'T considered serious at the time was the doomsday machine - but that retroactively turned out to be accurate - detonate that many weapons and the debris shields the sun basically causing photosynthesis to halt and everybody left after those dying of radiation or heat, to starve instead.
In any case, it being a comedy in my mind heightened its impact, and given how fail-safe (the serious version of dr strangelove) fell to the wayside I think the public agreed with me. The only other movie dealing with nuclear war that I think had anywhere near the impact on me is threads which goes into graphic detail of the after-effects of such a nuclear war. Watching dr strangelove and threads in a back-to-back marathon is a harrowing experience.
Major Kong wasn't wearing ear muffs, they were earphones which actually make communication possible.
I remember enjoying Fear and Desire
One of the interesting things is that unlike the movie the novel Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb doesn't just implicate officers in the injustice of the events but implicates everyone from generals to privates in it. The book tells us the very fact of hierarchical organizations make it possible, even convenient, for us to act in an inhuman manner. The colonels, captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates are just as capable of brutality and self-interest as generals, if that is sanctioned by "orders."
Re the higher-level officers living in nice houses while the foot soldiers were living in the trenches, in World War I, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was called the “front-line general” because he refused to do that and lived in the trenches with his men.
I thought Full Metal Jacket was about Joker's journey through human evil. First, Joker discovers the evil within himself as he is systematically dehumanized by his military indoctrination and organizes the barracks beating that breaks Pyle's mind and ends in evil deeds. Then Joker sees the paradox of America in Vietnam, let us do evil that good may come. In the end, Joker's trained killer instinct takes over as he shoots the female sniper, and Joker takes his place in the ranks, just another cog in Mother Green's Killing Machine.
Still Apocalypse now tops
"As long as there are classes or a hierarchy of some sort, there will be war." Not as precise as it should be. War is the upper classes using the lower to expand their empires. Many in the American upper class, such as the Dulles Brothers, had clients and friends in Germany who became Nazis, and continued to work with them before America entered the war until after victory was declared and they helped their friends escape to South America.
War has a role also in Barry Lyndon and in the beginning of 2001.
Thanks for the videos, keep them coming :)
+Aurora Carolina Barajas I will do! I'm working on the finishing touches of my next video which will be out this Saturday
Slim Pickens apparently thought it wasn't a comedy . . . .
Hi Jack, what's the name of the music starting at 0:08?
Nope. Your conclusions are mostly wrong. Probably because you missed many details and therefore misspoke. This is how wars are started.
you keep getting the doctor strangelove title wrong man
Nice video !! just discovered this channel ima subscribe now
+Michael Mikolowski Thank's Michael! I'm hoping to have even more great content out in the future!
Your welcome ! i'm really enjoying your channel and i look forward to more.
Michael Mikolowski
Well I'm looking forward to making it!
full metal jacket in my opinion its the best kubrick movie
He's made so many great ones, I can totally see why you would put it there, but I prefer 2001, Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Paths of Glory, and Eyes Wide Shut, but I still love Full Metal Jacket
G-dois David In my opinion I would say Dr. Strangelove. But that's not to say Full Metal Jacket is bad. It is a great film. Kubrick made several great films so it's hard to choose at times.
Dr. Strangelove because it was the best acted, hilarious and very relevant to current events. A very human movie and very quotable.
I totally disagree about FMJ. There is plenty of bonding between characters - Joker is Pyle's friend in the first half, the DI is tough but genuinely wants his boys to survive and the group of marines in the second half have a close bond. Also, there is no evidence in the film that the US or its soldiers in any way forced the Vietnamese to become prostitutes or thieves or give up Tet. Simply it's people being people and doing immoral things on both sides.
how can you not talk about the end of paths of glory at all?
Great thoughts! Loved this video.
+Kp Cinema thanks dude I really appreciate that!
Well, in Paths Of Glory, the BC did his job by refusing to service a target he can't clear.
it would be great if you center your efforts towards Ridley Scott`s films, great reviews and analyses (dissection) btw, keep it up :D
+Zinematic81 Thank you! Right now his movies aren't on my shortlist, but I'll try and squeeze one in as soon as possible!
cool
Zinematic81
Do you have a specific movie in mind?
+Jacks Movie Reviews Sure, "The Counselor"
Legend 1985
Stanley Kubrick one of the top 3 directors he great at war movies! Steven Spilberg, George Lucus. Qeinton Tarriteno (hope I spell name right) he tuff too even though he a lil weird. Why are the old school directors or far better then the new generation,that's crazy
If you consider lucas better than Tarantino, your taste in film is odd.
War sucks that's the message all his movies are saying.
Have you ever seen the film series The Human Condition, and if so, what is your opinion on it?
I have not, it's on my IMDb watchlist, but there are a lot of movies ahead of it.
If you have the 8 hours, I would highly suggest it, its the Japanese war masterpiece. The arc of the stories and the literary significance of every scene in the film is tied so well together. I'm personally a huge fan of Kurosawa, so I'm not a stranger in Japanese cinema, and I can honestly say that movie is art. It has a statement that it screams at the top of its lungs, without saying a word.
Ethan Pollard
That sounds really interesting, I'll make sure to check it out soon!
You really need to do a little bit more research.
Great video 👏
+Teepee12 Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed!
You say that there is no reason for fighting this war? I say that France was fighting to save Her country and to maintain Her freedom and way of life. No reasons to fight?...seriously?...
it would be like if somebody did an analysis on shakespear and focused entirely on the fart jokes
Fuckn cool
Barry Landon is war
good job :)
+ImpartialDawn Thank you!
Not war, but Kubrick, what about "2001"?
Definitely on my shortlist of movies I need to cover!
You mean 9/11 Kubrick kicked the bucket before maybe he knew something we didn't know.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
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Kubrick always like to reconstitute a meaning of violence; it's spread (unconsciously) all over his works. And.... I still regret why Kubrick can't realize his Napoleon Project and Aryan Papers. Maybe we would see more different perspective of war (one more time) from him.
So-one-year-late to watch this nice video, Jack. lol.
Didn't he also direct All Quiet on the Western Front?
Oh wait wrong movie, nvm.
Well, lets take a breath here....American civilians undergoing military training doesn't symbolize becoming "less than human" but rather it symbolizes a unity of effort (Joker is actually promoted to squad leader for maintaining his core beliefs in front of the drill instructor). Nor did America going into Vietnam "destroying the country and ruining the lives of the women" and women were not "forced into the sex trade." It could just as easily be said that the depravity of Vietnamese ethics and sexual morals acquiesced to the needs of American servicemen during the war.
Darling137 wew lad
Oh yeah god bless the never guilty or evil united states...
Wow, there is absolutely nothing to do with this comment here but laugh.
Your analysis of all three films is cliched and amateurish. You should analyze your scripts before you hit the upload button.
I think eyes wide shut is his worst film. The acting is a major problem for me.
The marine corps murdered pvt Pyle. Change my mind.
his father murdered him by enlisting him.
Kubrick was always bent on making 'the' classic film. Everyone of his films was over the top in its self importance and everyone of his films was a near miss for classic status.
Basically Kubrick was a self absorbed pompous ass, a brilliant film maker for sure , but his narcissism got in the way and it reflected in his creations.
Nonsense