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Stanley Kubrick

March 31, 2005

Stanley Kubrick

This is one of the very few Kubrick blogs around. Although i must admit i haven’t looked much. If i ever get enough time i might actually make my own.

Kubrick is far and away my favourtie Director. Dark humour and an excellent satyrist. A Clockwork Orange changed tge way i looked at films and actually started my interest in the process of film making. Some people don’t like his style, but that’s cool.

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  1. Yes, without a doubt, Kubrick is unparallelled when it comes to filmmaking. The care with which he creates every scene is amazing. The amount of humanity he extracts from his actors, the knife-like way he cuts into our minds, the harsh mirror he holds up to ourselves so we can have a good look. It is at the same time delicate and unsettling.

    This is why he is so great, but also why there is such a division between people who love his work and people who hate it. He does cut deep. He cuts to the bone, exposing a few nerves along the way. Those of us who like a challenge will thrive in this edgy world he has created, but some will hate it. Some feel uncomfortable dealing with any film that makes them think.

    Just as Socrates was killed by the people he was trying to enlighten, it is inevitable that some will hate Kubrick’s work. Art is not there to please the masses but to convey a message, a story, an idea, and often these ideas were uncomfortable to hear, which is why some of us like it. We want to be challenged, we want to see what he had to say, we want Kubrick’s truth.

    Stanley was a master artist the likes of which we will never see again.

    Comment by nonstopdisco — June 1, 2005 @ 2:24 pm

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