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Great Directors

Film Studies 120. Great Directors. STANLEY KUBRICK. Kubrick’s Style of Filmmaking. Controversy surrounded many of Kubrick’s films:

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Great Directors

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  1. Film Studies 120 Great Directors

  2. STANLEY KUBRICK Kubrick’s Style of Filmmaking Controversy surrounded many of Kubrick’s films: • “On a surface level, Kubrick seemed willing to alienate the audience for his desired effects. Yet the constant control and manipulation of all things surrounding his work also freed it up to interpretation. One knows, for the most part, that one is watching a Kubrick movie – its authorship is clear.”

  3. STANLEY KUBRICK Kubrick’s Films • Day of the Fight(1951) – short documentary • Flying Padre(1951) – short documentary • The Seafarers(1952) – short documentary • Fear and Desire(1953) • Killer’s Kiss(1955) • The Killing(1956) • Paths of Glory(1957) • Spartacus(1960) • Lolita(1962) • Dr. Strangelove (1964) • 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968) • A Clockwork Orange (1971) • Barry Lyndon(1975) • The Shining (1980) • Full Metal Jacket (1987) • Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

  4. STANLEY KUBRICK Dr. Strangelove (1964) • Dr. Strangelove (1964) is producer/director Stanley Kubrick's satirical, provocative black comedy/fantasy regarding Cold War politics that features an accidental, pre-emptive nuclear attack. • The first commercially-successful political satire about nuclear war, Dr. Strangelove is a cynically objective, humorous response to the apocalyptic fears of the 1950s.

  5. STANLEY KUBRICK Dr. Strangelove (1964) • The screenplay, co-authored by the director (with Terry Southern), was based on Peter George's novel Red Alert . • The film's apocalyptic theme was about how technology had gone haywire and had dominated humanity. • The film's anti-war fears actually became a plausible scenario, with the heated-up intensification of the Cold War and nuclear arms race.

  6. STANLEY KUBRICK Dr. Strangelove (1964) • There were a total of four Academy Award nominations (with no wins) for the film: Best Picture, Best Actor (Peter Sellers), Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay: • It lost the first three Oscars to the popular My Fair Lady (1964), and the Screenplay award to Becket (1964).

  7. STANLEY KUBRICK Dr. Strangelove (1964) • Dr. Strangelove is most memorable for Peter Sellers' Oscar-nominated, masterful performances in three distinct roles in two of the three set locales: • Dr. Strangelove: an eccentric, wheel-chair bound German scientist, a Presidential advisor, who has an uncontrollable mechanical hand that involuntarily makes Nazi salutes. • Mr. MerkinMuffley: an egg-headed President of the US with a bland American accent. • Group Captain Lionel Mandrake:a stuffy British Exchange Programme liaison officer with a crisp English accent.

  8. STANLEY KUBRICK Dr. Strangelove (1964) • The funny, dark film cuts back and forth from three main set locations, each with their own distinctive camera styles: • A locked office in a sealed-off Air Force command base of a psychotic, impotent bomb-group commander who is zealously convinced that the Russians have devised water fluoridation to weaken American men - filmed with a cinema verite, documentary style.

  9. STANLEY KUBRICK Dr. Strangelove (1964) • The funny, dark film cuts back and forth from three main set locations, each with their own distinctive camera styles: • The cramped, flight deck interior of the B-52 bomber sent to destroy the Soviets with a preemptive strike - led by a Southern-accented, gung-ho major - mainly filmed using close-up shots.

  10. STANLEY KUBRICK Dr. Strangelove (1964) • The funny, dark film cuts back and forth from three main set locations, each with their own distinctive camera styles: • The Pentagon's huge underground War Room where an inept US President has convened an advisory staff - including a saber-rattling general, a Soviet ambassador, and a crazed German nuclear scientist speaking to each other over considerable distances - usually seen in long, static camera shots.

  11. STANLEY KUBRICK Kubrick’s Style of Filmmaking CLIP: Dr. Strangelove (1964) • Chapters 15-16-17-18

  12. STANLEY KUBRICK A Clockwork Orange (1971) • A Clockwork Orange (1971) is a dark, satirical science fiction film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. • The film’s protagonist is Alex De Large (played by Malcolm McDowell), a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are Beethoven, rape, and ultra-violence.

  13. STANLEY KUBRICK A Clockwork Orange (1971) • Alex leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian друг, “friend”, “buddy”). • The film tells the horrific crime spree of his gang, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via a controversial psychological conditioning technique.

  14. STANLEY KUBRICK A Clockwork Orange (1971) • Alex narrates most of the film in “Nadsat”, a secret language comprising Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang. • The film features disturbing, violent images, to comment about contemporary social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian, future Britain.

  15. STANLEY KUBRICK A Clockwork Orange (1971) • The film’s central moral question is the definition of “Goodness.” • Kubrick: the film is a social satire dealing with the question of whether behavioral psychology and psychological conditioning are dangerous new weapons for a totalitarian government to use to impose vast controls on its citizens and turn them into little more than robots.

  16. STANLEY KUBRICK A Clockwork Orange (1971) • Academy Awards • nominated Best Director - Stanley Kubrick • nominated Best Film Editing - Bill Butler • nominated Best Picture • nominated Best Adapted Screenplay - Stanley Kubrick

  17. STANLEY KUBRICK A Clockwork Orange (1971) • To convey the fantastic, dream-like quality of the story, Kubrick filmed with extreme wide-angle lenses and used fast- and slow motion to convey the mechanical nature of its bedroom sex scene or stylize the violence.

  18. STANLEY KUBRICK Kubrick’s Style of Filmmaking CLIP: A Clockwork Orange (1971) • Chapters 9-10-11-12

  19. STANLEY KUBRICK Eyes Wide Shut (1999) • Eyes Wide Shut is a neo-noir psychological thriller film based on the 1926 novel Traumnovelle (Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler. The novel is set during the carnival season (during which it is common for people to wear masks to parties). The film, however, is set during the Christmas season. • It was Kubrick's last film before his death.

  20. STANLEY KUBRICK Eyes Wide Shut (1999) • Set in New York City, the story follows the surreal adventures of Dr. Bill Harford, who is shocked by his wife revelation that she had contemplated an affair a year earlier. • He embarks on a night-long, eventful sexual adventure, during which he infiltrates a massive masked orgy of an underground cult.

  21. STANLEY KUBRICK Eyes Wide Shut (1999) • Kidman on Kubrick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94WL6F_YNh8&feature=related • Cruise on Kubrick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzWhj6CtGYk&feature=related

  22. STANLEY KUBRICK Kubrick’s Style of Filmmaking • Spielberg on Kubrick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62f1gQliLY&feature=related

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