Your Favorite Kube Joints (Kubrick films)... (1 Viewer)

[Yurn!]

I read recently about loads of subconscious visual stuff going on that blew my mind.

Link?

 

[Wilbert]

1. The Shining
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Eyes Wide Shut
5. The Killing
6. Lolita
7. Dr. Strangelove
8. 2001

 

[snakybus]

Link?

Here's one

I think I read it somewhere else too so it's not as contrived as it sounds - all about visual symmetry. Very nerdy stuff but I love that kind of crap.

 

[Yurn!]

Here's one

I think I read it somewhere else too so it's not as contrived as it sounds - all about visual symmetry. Very nerdy stuff but I love that kind of crap.

Me too dude. I once read a book called 'Kubrick and the Aesthetics of Contingency' which was without doubt the most proto-nerdlinger analysis of his work that could ever be humanly possible. It took like a year to finish it.

 

[Yurn!]

'The left to right movement can be seen as the traditional way a character processes information. In the case of Full Metal Jacket it is the traditional way of military training that Drill Sergeant Hartman forces upon Private Pyle. The right to left movement is representative of the non-traditional way that Private Joker embraces to train Private Pyle. The left to right/right to left positions and movements of the characters are all in relation to how the viewer sees them on screen as Kubrick "puts his audience through its own training course....'

Mmmmmm...

 

[Dixer]

Anybody else think that Shining is probably his worst film? Will never understand the love that it gets.
Also, if you don't think 2001 is his best yr probably a clown.

 

[Wilbert]

Also, if you don't think 2001 is his best yr probably a clown.

Explain?

 

[snakybus]

Anybody else think that Shining is probably his worst film? Will never understand the love that it gets.
Also, if you don't think 2001 is his best yr probably a clown.

I agree, I was a bit let down by the Shining. All that Stephen King spookiness - that would never happen.

Psycho computers and chimps gaining enlightenment from looking at a concrete wall, now - that would happen!

 

[snakybus]

'The left to right movement can be seen as the traditional way a character processes information. In the case of Full Metal Jacket it is the traditional way of military training that Drill Sergeant Hartman forces upon Private Pyle. The right to left movement is representative of the non-traditional way that Private Joker embraces to train Private Pyle. The left to right/right to left positions and movements of the characters are all in relation to how the viewer sees them on screen as Kubrick "puts his audience through its own training course....'

Mmmmmm...

over-analysis at its most delicously obscene

 

[Yurn!]

Explain?

I reckon it has something to do with it being one of the most original, prescient, unique and amazingly timeless masterpieces of all time that has never been bettered in it's genre, and one of the most defining moments in cinema history as well popular culture. Probably.

 

[evil bandit]

A.I. is the best film he never made

 

[Wilbert]

I reckon it has something to do with it being one of the most original, prescient, unique and amazingly timeless masterpieces of all time that has never been bettered in it's genre, and one of the most defining moments in cinema history as well popular culture. Probably.

It's alright, I suppose.


No, it's great. It's a bit cold, I find, but that's a criticism his films get a lot.

I just prefer a lot of his other films to 2001

 

[Charlie Bucket]

The Shining
2001

are just dry-runs for these:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118460/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/