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    "I would not think of quarreling with your interpretation nor offering any other‚ as I have found it always the best policy to allow the film to speak for itself." (Stanley Kubrick) As one of the most widely acclaimed and influential directors of the postwar era‚ Stanley Kubrick enjoyed a reputation and a standing unique among the filmmakers of his day. He had a brilliant career with relatively few films. An outsider‚ he worked beyond the confines of Hollywood‚ which he disliked‚ maintaining

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    quality thus exerting a personal creative vision and interjecting it into the his or her films. Kubrick made his first film in 1953 and has continued to make films till his death shortly after the film Eyes Wide Shut in 1999. With a film career spanning over four decades‚ he crafted consistent themes‚ and honed a highly personalized style which was woven into the films he made. Stanley Kubrick was a very stylistic film maker and paid great attention to detail in every aspect of his movies. One

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    directed by Stanley Kubrick‚ there’s a series of scenes that have frantic background music playing. The musician that composes the music would be a man that has the name of Krzysztof Penderecki. Penderecki is a composer from Poland that is born on the 23rd of November of 1933. I personally‚ would characterize his music as very loud to mild. I’m not really a fan of movies like The Shining because of the music it has that leaves a chill down my spine. Like previously mentioned‚ Stanley Kubrick is the director

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    Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 British-American war film coordinated and delivered by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay by Kubrick‚ Michael Herr‚ and Gustav Hasford depended on Hasford’s novel The Short-Timers (1979). The film stars Matthew Modine‚ Adam Baldwin‚ Vincent D’Onofrio‚ R. Lee Ermey‚ Dorian Harewood‚ Arliss Howard‚ Kevyn Major Howard‚ and Ed O’Ross. Its storyline takes after a detachment of U.S. Marines through theirtraining and the encounters of two of the detachment’s Marines in the Tet Offensive

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    2001: A Space Odyssey‚ directed by Stanley Kubrick released in April of 1968. Although the movie premiered almost 40 years ago‚ it still remains a phenomenon today. The film incorporates the evolution of humanity‚ technology‚ extraterrestrial life and a journey toward greater intelligence. The movie has scientific accuracy and unbelievable imagery‚ creating a visually pleasing movie with very little dialog. The music‚ visuals‚ structure and pace all play an important role in the film. The little

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    A View To The Work of Director Stanley Kubrick Only few Hollywood directors can distinguish themselves for bridging the gap of making purely entertaining films to creating pieces of art. Stanley Kubrick has placed himself in history as a true artist of the seventh art. Stanley Kubrick is known for reinventing himself in every film he makes. However‚ as every other artist‚ there are different things that connect every creation he made. His use of camera‚ photography‚ colors and extreme detailing

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    THE SHINING The key to a great movie is using cinematography to control the mood and tone of a piece in order to affect the viewers’ feelings. In Stanley Kubrick’s "The Shining"‚ the cinematographer manipulated the lighting to create a certain mood and cast of light onto the scenes. Since lighting is the key to cinematography‚ it can have a major impact on a films narrative. During the scene of The Shining‚ entitled "Great Party‚ Isn’t It?" the cinematographer used light to put emphasis

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    KUBRICK CONTRA NIHILISM: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Much critical ink has been spilled over the question of whether the world-view of archetypal auteur Stanley Kubrick is nihilistic or not‚ and appropriately so. To my mind‚ this is one of the most important questions we can ask about genuine artists and their oeuvres. If auteur criticism is to have any validity‚ from a philosophical perspective‚ it must address such issues. True cinematic geniuses (e.g.‚ Bergman‚ Antonioni‚ Wertmuller‚ Hitchcock

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    which is also a homecoming.” (Rowe‚ 56) Kubrick as a director and writer‚ does not convey meaning and emotion through the traditional senses‚ but rather uses allegory and metaphor within films to provide a baseline for meaning. This implicit nature is what sets Kubrick apart from many other directors‚ and can be considered as one of the many traditional Kubrickian styles. Throughout the career of Kubrick many societal influences shaped and moulded the Kubrick expectation‚ whether that regards to the

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    however‚ their credibility is questionable. When taking into consideration ghost‚ demons‚ angels‚ possession‚ etc‚ it is questioned on whether or not these things exist or are a cover for mental instability. In the movie The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick‚ Jack torrance accepts the responsibility of watching over the Overlook Hotel. Although a spacious and visually pleasing hotel‚ it is believed that the previous caretaker obtained “cabin fever” and killed his family and then committed suicide

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