Why I love Kubrick (and you should too)

Tyson · « **on:** 26 Jul 2010, 09:13 am »

To those who understand, no explanation is necessary, to those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

Tyson · « **Reply #1 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 09:14 am »

Omnipotent, or Impotent?

Tyson · « **Reply #2 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 09:15 am »

Homosexual, or hypersexual?

Tyson · « **Reply #3 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 09:19 am »

Oh man, too much scotch while watching "The Shining" and "Clockwork Orange" back to back. Excuse my excess .....

Tyson · « **Reply #4 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 09:27 am »

I'm not sober yet, and I still don't understand my own posts.....

Tyson · « **Reply #5 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 09:38 am »

Ophelia was pregnant (because Hamlet had sex with her). And they were 16, not 30.

Tyson · « **Reply #6 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 09:39 am »

She committed suicide because she was disgraced, and the prince abandoned her (and murdered her father). What would you do?

Tyson · « **Reply #7 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 10:28 am »

What hast that to do with Kubrick? Not much, except the sex and the desire (or not) to have sex with your mother.

I don't buy it. I think Hamlet wanted Ophelia, not Gertrude. But Clockwork Orange clearly has a visual dichotomy of bun-haired ladies representing the mother of Alex (even in the Mulova Bar), and coquettish brown haired girls representing girlfriends. This Madonna/Whore dichotomy is rather common throughout Western history, no?

Tyson · « **Reply #8 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 10:32 am »

And to carry it further, in Eyes Wide Shut, the whore that accosts Cruise has red hair, just like his (seemingly chaste) wife. As do several other women that proposition him throughout the movie. Kubrick told stories in a visual manner, not a literary manner. So, wife, whore, daughter, they are all linked visually (via red hair) in the EWS world. No wonder poor Bill is so confused the whole time....

ctviggen · « **Reply #9 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 10:55 am »

Step away from the scotch!

Personally, I found Eyes Wide Shut to be one of the worst movies ever created, but then my taste in movies tends toward Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story than it does toward movies requiring me to think.

Tyson · « **Reply #10 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 11:08 am »

Haha, I rate EWS as the best movie that I've ever seen. But then again, I realize that Kubrick had a lifelong obsession with the unreliable narrator, and EWS was the ultimate expression of that - a movie with an unreliable narrator, but without any narration at all!

PhilNYC · « **Reply #11 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 11:18 am »

*sigh*...I am generally with you on Kubrick, but damn, Eyes Wide Shut was horrible...

Wind Chaser · « **Reply #12 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 11:53 am »

It was worse than horrible.

macrojack · « **Reply #13 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 12:42 pm »

Put me in the idiot column on this one.

HAITIMAN · « **Reply #14 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 12:51 pm »

Quote from: Tyson on 26 Jul 2010, 09:13 am

To those who understand, no explanation is necessary, to those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

There is more to cinema than simply "American" movies, "American" actors, and (Jewish) "American" culture.

"Get off the scotch, learn another language, and do some travelling".

bpape · « **Reply #15 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 01:37 pm »

Even without Scotch, I have to vote in the column of loving Kubrik - though EWS is not IMO one of his better films.

2001
Spartacus
Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Dr. Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket

were all far better films though maybe not everyone's cup of tea certainly.

Bryan

TheChairGuy · « **Reply #16 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 03:03 pm »

Awesome Tyson, you musta' been plowed yesterday....with 'your tweeter on your forehead/single drivers suck' and I eat the hearts of my enemies to gain strength' posts and now these

Tho I've always found your posts interesting when you're sober...they strike and entirely new and interesting note while polluted with drink.

Too bad it's a weekday and we've gotta' work - I need the laughs much more now

John

Construct · « **Reply #17 on:** 26 Jul 2010, 04:31 pm »

There is not enough scotch---at any age--- for me to declare EWS a good movie or make me sit through it again. It was so overrated (and kissed up to) by critics it made me want to hurl.
P.S. "Dr Strangelove" or "2001" it ain't.

wushuliu · « **Reply #18 on:** 31 Jul 2010, 10:41 am »

The Shining on Blu-Ray is a revelation.

I'm partial to Barry Lyndon.

wushuliu · « **Reply #19 on:** 31 Jul 2010, 10:45 am »

Quote from: Tyson on 26 Jul 2010, 09:38 am

Ophelia was pregnant (because Hamlet had sex with her). And they were 16, not 30.

She was pregnant? I don't remember that part. Is this one of those confessions, like "I have a 'friend' named 'Hamlet', got this girl pregnant, killed her dad, no not me my 'friend', 'Hamlet'...."