A Christmas note: when Bill is being followed, we see the bald guy near a stop sign where somebody has written CMB beneath the STOP. Somebody else suggested it means Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, the Three Kings of Catholic tradition and the Nativity story. It could mean something else, but I think this explanation is very funny.
Man this was great. I love this movie but it's unsettling, I saw it in theaters when it came out and I couldn't stop thinking about it for months afterward. Thanks for the vid I'll give this movie a rewatch asap
@JeffreyStonerVideo and you can see that while tom and Nicole are talking in that last scene, she is seen in the background possibly leaving with a group of men
I think it’s powerful that he strips the imagery of any Christian imagery and we only see the modern christmas artifice. It showing the event as a modern capitalist ritual and making parallels with the masked ball. When things operate subconsciously it’s hard to see their sinister and destructive force.
Ritual is what happens at Somerton. And those probably are capitalists under the cloaks and the hoods. Lights and wreaths and trees are decorations, which are part of customs and traditions. They aren't shown very impressively in EWS. Mostly look like junk. Any candles you see in EWS could be interpreted as part of a ritual, though.
Alice's hair in the last scene is SO MESSY. I photograph people for a living, and it must have taken effort to get it to look that frazzled while still somewhat styled. She looks crazy. It really adds to the tone.
He was not a saint I hate how he treated Shelly Duvall on the set of The Shining Nevertheless I’d be lying if I said he wasn’t brilliant; it’s become popular to reflect on films like Clockwork Orange and lambast it but I just can’t buy it. It’s one of the greatest movies ever made and it handles its message/perfectly and plays off of one’s empathy, even for a monster like Alex DeLarge
In return for putting up with a great director for a year, Duvall's fantastic performance will live on now she has passed. A small price to pay I think.
It's the tone and matsery of foreboding mystery that creates a feeling unlike any film before or since, as only Kubrick could have made. That's what the best for of art do: invite interpretation. Yet the film feels incomplete at times, intentionally off kilter and rough and Cruise's performance is ctually pretty bad at times. Was this intended? it doesn't matter. With the 1% gaining more and more wealth each day, the movie has become as prescient as ever. I don't agree with your analysis this being a christmas movie, the setting is not quite a plot point, that revisionism is a matter of opinion. One more thought: there's a conspirancy theory suggesting the film has a plot-point ithat casts the film's ending in another light. False. Those figures do not appear. Furthermore, Jan Harlan the films' executive producer nails the editing rumors to rest: ua-cam.com/video/YWxJqaIFi3w/v-deo.htmlsi=0AVitXihDQhyauJm
Good observation. Where is Christmas present & absent? I think you are onto something with Saturnalia. Apparently, roles were often reversed, servants being waited upon my masters of the house. Inverted rules. Permissiveness & promiscuity even. There was also an element of scape-goating. The sins of the village were somehow attached to a goat, that was taken out of town and stoned to death or otherwise sacrificed, thereby releasing the people from their sins or peccadilloes.
The Christmas lights are always present in those scenes of sexual desire, often even framing the characters entirely. For Example the kiss at the girls flat, or at the first party in the beginning of the movie. Also the two girls there want to "go where the rainbow ends" which for me is similar to those kind of rainbow coloured Christmas lights as well.
Most people would say Kubrick's movies are boring, not interesting. And not at all real. They only become interesting when you get hooked and think Kubrick is sending coded messages or you start rewriting the script to make everything you see happening on screen not what really happened.
Never have I ever heard anyone say any Kubrick film is boring, you really shouldn't make generalizations and slander just because you personally don't enjoy an artist's work.
A Christmas note: when Bill is being followed, we see the bald guy near a stop sign where somebody has written CMB beneath the STOP. Somebody else suggested it means Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, the Three Kings of Catholic tradition and the Nativity story. It could mean something else, but I think this explanation is very funny.
Ah yes, Stanley Kubricks death from "heart.... attack"
Man this was great. I love this movie but it's unsettling, I saw it in theaters when it came out and I couldn't stop thinking about it for months afterward. Thanks for the vid I'll give this movie a rewatch asap
@@cloudbloom thank you mate! I hope you enjoy your rewatch
@wheredyougomatt merry Christmas by the way!
@@cloudbloom Merry Christmas to you as well!
my good man, the apartment was a FULL SCALE replica of the apartment Stan & his wife lived in before he defected from the US
In the original cut of the movie they allow their daughter to be taken by the cult. That's what Kubrick didn't want them to edit out.
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Peculiar, because their daughter is featured prominently in the last scenes.
You laugh, but Kubrick's daughter left the family for Scientology about halfway through the filming
@@JeffreyStonerVideoword round the campfire is there were 22 minutes missing after SK died.
@JeffreyStonerVideo and you can see that while tom and Nicole are talking in that last scene, she is seen in the background possibly leaving with a group of men
I think it’s powerful that he strips the imagery of any Christian imagery and we only see the modern christmas artifice. It showing the event as a modern capitalist ritual and making parallels with the masked ball. When things operate subconsciously it’s hard to see their sinister and destructive force.
Ritual is what happens at Somerton. And those probably are capitalists under the cloaks and the hoods. Lights and wreaths and trees are decorations, which are part of customs and traditions. They aren't shown very impressively in EWS. Mostly look like junk. Any candles you see in EWS could be interpreted as part of a ritual, though.
Just watched it again a few days ago. More prescient than ever.
Alice's hair in the last scene is SO MESSY. I photograph people for a living, and it must have taken effort to get it to look that frazzled while still somewhat styled. She looks crazy. It really adds to the tone.
Her hair looks pretty much like it looked in the middle of the night when she had had a nightmare.
@hermanhale9258 Maybe. If so, that has meaning.
There are so few videos about this masterwork by Kubrick, but every single one is thoughtful and well-produced. Thank you for this, Matt!
Appreciate that thank you!
Incredible channel, keep it up!
My favorite Christmas movie
I prefer "It's a Wonderful Life"
Greatest alternative Christmas movies:
Die Hard
Rocky
Rocky IV
First Blood
Lethal Weapon
Batman Returns
Eyes Wide Shut
not kidnapped more like sells ;)
He was not a saint
I hate how he treated Shelly Duvall on the set of The Shining
Nevertheless I’d be lying if I said he wasn’t brilliant; it’s become popular to reflect on films like Clockwork Orange and lambast it but I just can’t buy it. It’s one of the greatest movies ever made and it handles its message/perfectly and plays off of one’s empathy, even for a monster like Alex DeLarge
In return for putting up with a great director for a year, Duvall's fantastic performance will live on now she has passed. A small price to pay I think.
It's the tone and matsery of foreboding mystery that creates a feeling unlike any film before or since, as only Kubrick could have made. That's what the best for of art do: invite interpretation. Yet the film feels incomplete at times, intentionally off kilter and rough and Cruise's performance is ctually pretty bad at times. Was this intended? it doesn't matter. With the 1% gaining more and more wealth each day, the movie has become as prescient as ever. I don't agree with your analysis this being a christmas movie, the setting is not quite a plot point, that revisionism is a matter of opinion.
One more thought: there's a conspirancy theory suggesting the film has a plot-point ithat casts the film's ending in another light. False. Those figures do not appear. Furthermore, Jan Harlan the films' executive producer nails the editing rumors to rest: ua-cam.com/video/YWxJqaIFi3w/v-deo.htmlsi=0AVitXihDQhyauJm
Jan Harlan is Mr. Ullman. The movie is a Halloween carnival movie, not a Christmas movie.
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Good observation. Where is Christmas present & absent?
I think you are onto something with Saturnalia.
Apparently, roles were often reversed, servants being waited upon my masters of the house. Inverted rules. Permissiveness & promiscuity even. There was also an element of scape-goating. The sins of the village were somehow attached to a goat, that was taken out of town and stoned to death or otherwise sacrificed, thereby releasing the people from their sins or peccadilloes.
The Christmas lights are always present in those scenes of sexual desire, often even framing the characters entirely. For Example the kiss at the girls flat, or at the first party in the beginning of the movie. Also the two girls there want to "go where the rainbow ends" which for me is similar to those kind of rainbow coloured Christmas lights as well.
The scape goat wasn't in Saturnalia. The Greeks had a holiday with a scape goat, but I forget what it was called or what time of year.
Most people would say Kubrick's movies are boring, not interesting. And not at all real. They only become interesting when you get hooked and think Kubrick is sending coded messages or you start rewriting the script to make everything you see happening on screen not what really happened.
Never have I ever heard anyone say any Kubrick film is boring, you really shouldn't make generalizations and slander just because you personally don't enjoy an artist's work.
Most people today might say that because most people today have no attention span as a result of rotting their brains on Tiktok videos.
@@chaosmos24 what do you mean people have lost their atten..oh look, a cat!
@@chaosmos24 No, seriously. "I saw it. Boring." probably was the most common review he ever got.
@hermanhale9258 Most people probably find Dostoyevsky novels boring. That doesn't mean they aren't interesting or high art.