Stanley Kubrick

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Gustavo Perez

@gpgustavoperez · 28 Jun 2021

Stanley Kubrick

#expertise Perhaps at the beginning of their lives many would have thought it would be a failure to become an adult, but the important thing is not how you start but how you end up being a very recognized Director, although full of some controversy because of his peculiar way of getting into plots that people were not used to. So for starters we'll talk a little about him.

Stanley wasn't a brilliant student at school. Although he possessed great intellectual abilities, his grades were quite low, and seeking to motivate his intelligence, his father enrolled him to play chess, eventually Kubrick became amateur, as well as a good player. But more successful was the decision to give him a camera when Kubrick turned 13. He started taking photos all over New York, and ended up working for Look magazine on a regular basis. After this stage, he is interested in cinema and began filming his first works that would be documentaries and short films at the beginning of the 50s.

In 1953, he directed his first film, although unfortunately the pressure caused problems in his marriage and divorces. His next two films open the doors of Hollywood and allow him to direct no less than Kirk Douglas on Pathways of Gloria; and
For his next film he has Douglas, who was already being a considerable part of his team. Then it would become the blockbuster Spartacus, a classic of cinema. Soon after, he would divorce again, and move his residence to the United Kingdom. His first feature film “English” was Lolita, the adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's classic. Six years later, he collaborates with Arthur C. Clarke to adapt a novel by Clarke himself. 2001, A Space Odyssey marked an era in science fiction cinema, and is considered one of the masterpieces of the history of cinema.

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2001: A Space Odyssey offers not only a phenomenal production with incredible special effects, but from the content point of view, it is presented as a philosophical and moral epic that pretends to be the adult version of the stories of children's monsters: the parable of a humanity under the danger of technological cancer, will of man to travel to the origin, beginning and end of civilization united in a single image. The grandeur of the film is that it presents, as rarely, the unique visual talent of its director and its complex and certainly megalomaniac sensitivity as an artist. Undoubtedly Kubrick gave him that original touch of his own ideas to present a film full of many elements.

Kubrick is now introduced into a new project that would complete and premiere three years later: The Clockwork Orange (1971), a blatant reflection on individual and collective violence that started from Anthony Burgess's novel. A film that would be censored for a long time in several countries, The Clockwork Orange is situated in a dystopian future, in a desolate and violence-filled England. Alex, member of a violent youth gang, is arrested for rape and murder. In exchange for the time that his sentence would be established, he is proposed to participate in a government-designed experimental reintegration plan: Ludovic Treatment, which turns out to be fully an experiment to manage an individual's behavior, a combination of behavioral psychology and brainwashing. When Alex is finally returned to society, completely cured of his violent impulses, or rather unable to have them, he finds an even greater buried violence abroad, which will manifest itself in the revenge that will be exercised on him by some of his former victims and former fellow correrías, now turned into his executioners.

He would also direct 'The Shining (1980) 'which we already know, from a book by the best writers of the horror genre, the great Stephen King. Kubrick would bring a film full of good psychological elements and truly amazing scenes that revolutionizes the psychological-behavioral aspect of people again. It is known that sometimes very cold places tend to have effects on people's behaviors and this amazing story mixes the inospite and the dark.

After the aforementioned The Shining (1980) and The Metal Jacket (1987), Kubrick started filming Eyes wide shut (1999) in 1997, an erotic-conjugal drama about the intimities of a seemingly perfect couple. The protagonist characters, Bill and Alice Harford, seem to be the ideal marriage: young people, well resembles and triumphants, the shadow of infidelity, which appears everywhere in their personal environment, does not disturb the harmony of their relationship. However, after returning from a party where both have received innuendo from third parties, Alice confesses to her husband an event that happened a few years ago that breaks the idyllic image. Bill, deeply affected and resentful of his wife, leaves the house and starts a strange night journey during which a series of life experiences, increasingly dreamlike and threatening, forces him to rethink his own moral convictions.

While Kubrick worked many times with a producer, he sometimes kept his ideas even though the producer did not agree. One thing that brought trouble to his marriages was that he was congested from work because he wanted to do everything, he often directed and was a producer too. A rather stubborn director, but despite that, his delivery was what made him so good in the field of directing, because he brought new and innovative ideas for cinema, in addition to interfering with projects with “controversial” plots, I took risks that made him what it is in the history of cinema.

Data and dates: sensacine.com
Image: Edited by me on canvas

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