Kubrickian Irony: The Dark Humor of Stanley Kubrick

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  • Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024

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  • @NewGoldStandard
    @NewGoldStandard 6 лет назад +93

    it's very rare that I find myself wishing a RUclips video was longer.
    this was great; I'd really like to hear this topic explored in more depth.

  • @1qwasz12
    @1qwasz12 4 года назад +27

    The death scene of Brian in Barry Lyndon was very moving and touched deeply on the audience. I cried.

    • @heisenberg3259
      @heisenberg3259 4 года назад

      1qwasz12 thanks for The Spoiler

    • @heisenberg3259
      @heisenberg3259 4 года назад

      I didnt saw The Movie

    • @1qwasz12
      @1qwasz12 4 года назад +5

      @@heisenberg3259 The movie's narrator tells us in advance so I didn't really spoil it. Go see the movie. It's my fave.

  • @watermelonlalala
    @watermelonlalala 6 лет назад +210

    Nobody even knows what ironic means, now we have post-ironic. Oh, great.

    • @erikosilacius
      @erikosilacius 6 лет назад +31

      how Ironic? Hahahaha :)

    • @999titu
      @999titu 6 лет назад +3

      Brendan Hall ,lol

    • @ultron-5600
      @ultron-5600 5 лет назад +9

      Brendan Hall There’s 3 main types of irony; dramatic, verbal, and situational. Verbal is basically sarcasm, situational is like when you decided not to smoke when you were younger but ended up dying of lung cancer at a younger age than your friends that did smoke, and finally dramatic is an exaggeration of situations like when a twelve year old thinks his teacher is a Nazi because he gave him a mean look.

    • @Jesusandbible
      @Jesusandbible 4 года назад +1

      irony - a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result.
      "the irony is that I thought he could help me" · [more]. I think post-irony is taking the humour part seriously

    • @koreanculturelovers377
      @koreanculturelovers377 2 года назад

      Nope 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @jacobs-h398
    @jacobs-h398 6 лет назад +33

    "But the song is German and these are french soldiers" I'm dead XD

  • @johnhein2539
    @johnhein2539 6 лет назад +115

    Excellent reading. The Eyes Wide Shut aspect was very true. The internet was on its way up in the late 90s, and Kubrick may have foreseen some of that world of facelessness, hyper-judgement, hyper sexualization, and gatekeeping.

    • @ULYSSES-31
      @ULYSSES-31 6 лет назад +24

      I think that's more how the internet generation interpreted Kubrick's film rather than what Kubrick might have foreseen.

    • @joequiruga405
      @joequiruga405 6 лет назад +9

      Or that people have always been judgemental and that wasn't just invented with the Internet

    • @JohnSmith-cv5pj
      @JohnSmith-cv5pj 5 лет назад +3

      Masks and internet was farfetched.

    • @JohnSmith-cv5pj
      @JohnSmith-cv5pj 5 лет назад +1

      @Inge Fossen Interesting. Can you give example of double irony?

  • @linkfan160
    @linkfan160 6 лет назад +5

    My favourite Director. Nicely done!

  • @rollacoastaride1937
    @rollacoastaride1937 6 лет назад +15

    Kubrick is the undefeated king of the Oxymoron

  • @johnhagariii9771
    @johnhagariii9771 5 лет назад +3

    hey guys, i’ve ran out of video essay ideas so i’m gonna make a video about KUBRICKIAN IRONY!!!!¡¡¡¡!!!

  • @renel8964
    @renel8964 6 лет назад +10

    Robot morty voice *
    "Haha, Alex just died in the sphagett-"

  • @JackJames2612
    @JackJames2612 6 лет назад +12

    Ermm. The masks in Eyes Wide Shut represent social media..? I thought of it representating the dark human nature revealed by anonymity, something that is prevalent on the internet, but the way it's said in this video just seems crass..

  • @deckofcards87
    @deckofcards87 4 года назад +2

    Bill asking the gay hotel clerk in Eyes Wide Shut about his pianist friend's whereabouts is one of my all time favorite Kubrick scenes. Alan Cumming plays it so tongue in cheek.

  • @abexoxo
    @abexoxo 3 года назад +2

    fresh insight intepreting Kurick's! Thanks

  • @MPTSurprise
    @MPTSurprise 6 лет назад +14

    An absolutely accurate reading of Kubrick. Thorough, concise and refined.

  • @Jesusandbible
    @Jesusandbible 4 года назад +3

    irony - a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result.
    "the irony is that I thought he could help me" · [more]. I think post-irony is taking the humour part seriously

  • @ArameoDios
    @ArameoDios 6 лет назад +7

    The greatest! And still so contemporary! Timeless

  • @CaptTerrific
    @CaptTerrific 6 лет назад +70

    An excellent essay as a primer, though I'd love a 15 minute followup with far more examples and specific analyses. Think you could make that happen eventually? :D

    • @vudielen
      @vudielen 6 лет назад +3

      I support your request!

    • @pjbrubak
      @pjbrubak 6 лет назад +7

      I'm flattered you liked it that much. I did have to fit to a certain time constraint. But what I wish I could include as further examples are, of course the end line of Eyes Wide Shut and the "Surfin Bird" music cue in Full Metal Jacket to support the post-ironic thesis.

    • @georgecombii5680
      @georgecombii5680 6 лет назад +1

      Gentleman! You can fight in here, THIS IS THE WAR ROOM!" - this is the best example of Kurick's irony.

    • @brandonleiner4495
      @brandonleiner4495 6 лет назад

      my thoughts exactly

  • @GelberStuhl
    @GelberStuhl 6 лет назад +1

    That "prediction of social media" line made me say fuck off out loud

  • @jenn1738
    @jenn1738 7 месяцев назад

    i wish this was longer

  • @darrellhall9561
    @darrellhall9561 4 года назад +1

    It's still real crazy that he died on March 7th of 1999 and 666 Days Later was the first day of 2001. You can ask Google home or Alexa how many days are there between March 7th of 1999 and January 1st of 2001 and it gives you that answer

  • @Bobbychristopher
    @Bobbychristopher 6 лет назад +8

    Work of a Genius, very high IQ reportedly.

  • @fannybrasse
    @fannybrasse 6 лет назад +1

    the opening always gets me

  • @АртГуффович-б1й
    @АртГуффович-б1й 6 лет назад +20

    When friends don't laugh at my jokes, they don't get my post-irony

    • @DamoresFl
      @DamoresFl 4 года назад +3

      If you are doing it right then half the time you shouldn't get it either

    • @АртГуффович-б1й
      @АртГуффович-б1й 4 года назад +1

      @@DamoresFl got it

    • @Darkit
      @Darkit 4 года назад

      Неплохо бы, чтобы у тебе подобных не было друзей

    • @АртГуффович-б1й
      @АртГуффович-б1й 4 года назад

      @@Darkit но... я так хотел подружиться с тобой!

  • @closcer3950
    @closcer3950 6 лет назад +2

    kubrickian is the most pseud term I've ever seen.

  • @EubulusKane3259
    @EubulusKane3259 2 года назад

    Great video, Kubrick is at his best as a ironist and satirist. Why Strangelove, Barry Lyndon and Full Metal Jacket are the films I have most affection for. Would have loved more analysis of The Shining. An attempt I think to almost satirize the horror genre. But one, I think, that failed miserably. Tonally so off

  • @Darkit
    @Darkit 4 года назад

    In what font are movies' titles written?

  • @h.ar.2937
    @h.ar.2937 3 года назад

    I was thinking "damn no shot from Eyes Wide Sh- Oh okay perfect"

  • @pyrotechnick420
    @pyrotechnick420 6 лет назад +8

    no Kubrick did not predict social media when he made Eyes Wide Shut. That was a massive reach there

    • @TeaDrinker3000
      @TeaDrinker3000 6 лет назад +4

      I think what he meant is that there's always the willingness to be an anonymous voyeur in society. EWS reflects it whereas social media facilitates it.

    • @pyrotechnick420
      @pyrotechnick420 6 лет назад

      No it was not...social media started around 2004. I was on the internet during the late 90's. The late 90's had Yahoo! chat rooms, Yahoo! Games, and Newgrounds.com and Geocities if you wanted to make your own website.

    • @giovannefuoriclasseplazaca9043
      @giovannefuoriclasseplazaca9043 5 лет назад

      pyrotechnick It was about secret societies, period. And main cast paint it just like that. Tom scientology and Nicole whose father was satan worshiper.

  • @JoshBurcham104
    @JoshBurcham104 2 года назад

    I find my self laughing out loud during every Kubrick movie. People characterize him purely as a cold genius but that's ridiculous and just makes me think they aren't engaging with the films in good faith whatsoever

  • @mackychloe
    @mackychloe 6 лет назад +2

    "Thank god for the sickle cell"

  • @JamesBoss
    @JamesBoss 5 лет назад

    I can't think of any other writer or director who captures humor quite like Kubrick. Can you guys name anyone?

    • @Thespeedrap
      @Thespeedrap 4 года назад

      Maybe Tim Burton both are both autistic artists like me.

    • @abdiridwan7605
      @abdiridwan7605 4 года назад

      Marcel Zachary was just about to say that both brilliant and unique 👊🏾

    • @mdm9389
      @mdm9389 2 года назад

      Coen Brothers

  • @prudhvirajukangu4684
    @prudhvirajukangu4684 4 года назад

    Laughed for this tiny.... jumping into the bigger now...

  • @ysilvacdam
    @ysilvacdam 3 года назад

    How could you even dare not put a single word on Dr Strangelove

  • @fahdiaf
    @fahdiaf 6 лет назад +3

    all work and no play makes jack a dull boy 😂

  • @FirstPlace97
    @FirstPlace97 6 лет назад

    How did you find footage of Fear and Desire?

    • @FirstPlace97
      @FirstPlace97 6 лет назад

      How did it get on Netflix? Pretty sure most prints of it were destroyed.

    • @FuzzyDlop
      @FuzzyDlop 6 лет назад

      Destroyed? What? lol. Fear and Desire was released on blu ray in 2012.

    • @FirstPlace97
      @FirstPlace97 6 лет назад

      Well, Kubrick went out of his way to keep it out of circulation during his life.

  • @iulia1690
    @iulia1690 6 лет назад +1

    I,venever seen a review of spartacus..why is that?

    • @krautgazer
      @krautgazer 6 лет назад +1

      It's way more of a product of the classical Hollywood system than it is a Kubrick film. Even so, I agree it's underrated. If you compare it to other Hollywood historical epics from that time (Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments, for instance), Spartacus holds up as the best, in my opinion. Now, if you compare it to other Kubrick films, it's one of the worst.

  • @plasticweapon
    @plasticweapon 2 года назад

    his films have plenty of it. they're not "cold" like people say.

  • @DiotraxSecondlives
    @DiotraxSecondlives 6 лет назад +1

    good viideo, i've watched it twice

  • @Noirpill
    @Noirpill 5 лет назад

    Brillant.

  • @watermelonlalala
    @watermelonlalala 6 лет назад

    The Mickey Mouse Club tune is rather similar to the "G.I. Song" sung by "Dick and his buddies" in the 1946 movie "Janie Gets Married."

  • @shivamwasp
    @shivamwasp 6 лет назад

    I ended up just watching the clips

  • @jamescunningham4418
    @jamescunningham4418 6 лет назад +3

    Hail Kubrick

  • @123G-r4d
    @123G-r4d 6 лет назад

    Please tell me what film is at 3:00 minutes

  • @Itay_Gever
    @Itay_Gever Год назад

    Kubrick loved war

  • @ineednochannelyoutube5384
    @ineednochannelyoutube5384 6 лет назад

    So, Strugeaon's law?

  • @davidgray2805
    @davidgray2805 6 лет назад

    The shining and 2001

  • @cartown406
    @cartown406 6 лет назад

    nice

  • @MrDurcon
    @MrDurcon 6 лет назад

    Kubrick, Has never been near a war.

  • @evergarden8592
    @evergarden8592 Год назад

    Five whoppers and five
    More whoppers!

  • @johnmonk9167
    @johnmonk9167 6 лет назад

    longer

  • @generalobiwankenobi8265
    @generalobiwankenobi8265 4 года назад

    Is this supposed to be funny, or ironic? He says this while showing showing from the shining. Why would a scene from the shining be funny?

    • @MJGianesello
      @MJGianesello 3 года назад +1

      The shining is fucking hilarious, you take horror off the list, black comedy is the genre it has the most affinity to

  • @hello11197
    @hello11197 6 лет назад +2

    This video is a great example of how you can speak for 5 minutes without actually saying anything.

  • @phillipglass
    @phillipglass 3 года назад +1

    your Kubrick takes are terrible.. like awful. You are not reading him well at all, just positioning him to support your pre views of the world.

  • @ap6160
    @ap6160 4 года назад +1

    I love Kubrick, but his fans are insufferable

    • @aliensoup2420
      @aliensoup2420 3 года назад

      there are fans, and then there are lunatics. They have turned film analysis into a religion.

  • @KovacsZoltan12
    @KovacsZoltan12 6 лет назад +2

    what is described here as post-irony, simply a term for explaining kubric's artistic failures, certain scenes are simply badly written, but fans always try to defend him, as if he was an infallible genius, always right, never made any mistake. bullshit.

    • @HagbardCeline23
      @HagbardCeline23 6 лет назад +7

      Only by making mistakes can you ever hope to move forward. I'm sure SK was fully aware of this. He was certainly fallible but that goes for any genius, Einstein, for example, still believed in God even though his theories suggested differently.

    • @GunjerSpinners
      @GunjerSpinners 6 лет назад

      Agree with your statement...but your example about Einstein is wrong. I can explain but i'll just refer to wikipedia.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_philosophical_views_of_Albert_Einstein#Personal_God

    • @epichal4883
      @epichal4883 6 лет назад +1

      Blessed be ignorance.