Eyes Wide Shut feels so weird because all of the scenes that take place outdoors, on the streets of the city, are filmed on a soundstage. It gives it a dreamlike, artificial feel
projection behind Tom was used -- and - they squeezed the image that also made him taller. It's a surreal vibe that adds to the overall feeling of the outdoor scenes on the streets. Brilliant. Total Kubrick move. He even had someone looking for very specific spots to film outdoors and eventually made the decision to use rear projection - for likely several (nostalgia, look, why not?) reasons.
He's honestly extremely smart. Has excellent history takes too. There aren't many people I enjoy listening to as much as CK. Just about whatever topic he wants
What I have noticed in these montages of directors works, is that no matter how quickly you cut and edit between shots to give that impressive, all encompassing sweeping scope over an artist’s vision, the best director’s work, the Kubricks, the Kurosawas and so on, each and every shot is superbly composed. The effect is like running through an art gallery and glimpsing masterpieces for seconds at a time, before another work is rapidly unveiled.
Yep. Compare the recent oscars, killers of the flower moon compared to oppenheimer. Scorsese is masterful at shot composition and framing, it blows Nolan away. Yet Nolan got best director.
Yeah greatly appreciate this as well. The original is almost unbearable with that mouth breather constantly interrupting with his worthless opinions over and over.
OH THIS WAS EDITED?? No wonder it was great 😂 I literally thought the entire time "Wow, this guy's cool, he's just gonna let Louis rant, fuck yeah. Louis must be high on Adderall or some shit."
@@airevolt1 Pipe down Judy! I'm virtually bumping uglies with Sandra Bullock, which obviously is quite the challenge with Stallone cock blocking me, with one Stallonism after another. "You drew first blood, not me, you!" "Cut me Mick, cut me!" Dangnammitt!
@@Dude0000Even if he had just watched it he probably would have called them pigs. Because they do look like pigs, even though their closest living relatives are rhinos and equids.
@@barahng that's why I generally agreed, but I had to point the irony out. Just a throwaway I observation. I thought they were pigs, too, not really giving it much thought due to taking everything else in. Great director commented on by a great comedian.
i don't know if i've ever heard anyone else say that "the Shining" is told from the point of view of the hotel. i feel like i need to watch it again, with that in mind.
Kubricks shining is actually a story with several themes such as familial abuse, the genocide of Native Americans and the Federal Reserve bank. There are very good analysis videos on UA-cam that explain these theories , Collative Learning being one of the best , also check out Hammered Out for David lynch analysis
Louis C.K. had a lot to say about Kubrick. He interrupted everyone else. He didn’t dominate the conversation-He gave a speech. And I watched the whole thing and loved it.
I say - watch more movies ;) As somebody already said: Hitchcock -- and in their own environmens: Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, etc. etc. All the Spaghetti Western classics, etc. etc. :) Bladerunner. I could go on and on ;) Even JAWS.
I looked up notes on the Leopard attack scene in "2001 A Space Odyssey". Found this response on reddit. "It certainly was a real leopard. And it was a semi-controlled environment…at best? From the fascinating book “ “Space Odyssey:Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C Clarke, And The Making Of A Masterpiece”, animal trainer Terry Dugan had nearly a year to work with the leopard as the “Dawn Of Man” shooting schedule kept getting delayed. However, when it came to the day of shooting that scene, the leopard had never encountered Dugan in the man-ape suit before…let alone the studio lights and constant set commotion. Plus, the central man-ape actor (“Moonwatcher”) participated in the scene - despite having no prior exposure to the leopard. (Other actors were added to the scene in post-production.) So in short, it was a little chaotic. And only a few takes with the leopard attack were attempted. But they got what they needed…plus a happy accident: when reviewing the footage, they noticed that the lighting produced an eerie effect on the leopard’s eyes, making it even more menacing. Kubrick was ecstatic."
The big cat eye shine is a normal cat's eye light reflection. The light came from the huge front projectors, which were showing the background landscapes. This is how these amazing scenes were shot, in a studio, with amazing sets, acting, costumes, camera direction, and director. Amazing!
@@emitindustries8304 Yup. behind the actors and the rocks was Scotchlite material that only reflected light directly back to the light source. So, a two way mirror was in front of the cameras at a... let say, a 45 degree angle, that the background was being projected onto. The camera was then in the path of reflection from the Scotchlite behind the mirror, which was still transparent enough on the back side to let the whole thing reached the film. I bought a piece of it back in the 80's. I thought Id make a tie with it and do some crazy scene with it.
How is that even possible. Granted this was more of a conversation with a free flowing stream of ideas than a structured list but still… you’d think he’d at least mention it. The liberties Kubrick took making the movie vs. what was written in the book… guy did a lot over there.
Eyes Wide Shut is the Kubrick movie I watch the most. A couple times a year. Lucky enough yo catch it in a theater. Its like a dream in a haze of delirium.
I watched it too for many years like that. Seen eyes wide shut like 40 times in that last 15 years. The blues and oranges are just so good. I watch it on Christmas Day every year, it's a Christmas movie. Barry Lyndon is great too.
Lous ck or whatever I think deliberately down played eyes wide shut and as if Kubrick was loosing it. No Kubrick was killed during the final production of that movie. He was revealing to much information and then they had the worm Spielberg come in and finish editing it.
@@nineofive.2573I completely disagree. I watched it on 70mm a few years ago and it was still amazing even knowing that they were contortionists wearing suits. Still superior, visually, in many ways to those new CGI Planet of the Apes flicks. You just can't uncanny a valley or add weight to a computer primate. I can tell the team put a lot of time into training to mimic animalistic movements to meet Stanley's quality level.
stuff like this makes me realize that a guy like louie really needed a podcast. theres so much more that i want to hear from him that isnt just opie and anthony highlights
The scene with the monkeys shows the evolution of the use of tools and the fact that the monolith has been with us at all these important times in the human timeline.
Say what you want about his personal choices, Louis CK is also a great filmmaker. There are moments in his TV show that were as good as any of the best directing done today.
He had a wife. Louie CK makes it sound like Kubrick died a recluse or a hermit. He lived in the country with his wife. He was a bit paranoid of people in general, the general public, because he got death threats, and the press blamed him for crime. when A clockwork orange came out. The British press blamed him for some specific crimes that may have been inspired by that movie. Kubrick pulled it from the theaters in Britain and bandit from being shown there ever. Kubrick was a genius and geniuses are supposed to go mad. He didn’t go mad, he died.
i like that movie because it seems to be a constant comparison between Tom Cruise and the environment/people around him. The whole movie is his series of choices and social interactions based on his sexual desires. It's great.
@@JohnSmith-oe5kx only a self aggrandizing narcissist weirdo feels the compulsion to not only re-comment the same thing over and over on a video…you just have to let everyone know what you think hey? Like a toddler lmao
CK calling Kubrick a weird man for Eyes Wide Shut is like the pot calling the kettle black. It's laughable knowing CK. Nothing weird about him. He was always a recluse who likes film and nothing else that comes with it. He would do whatever it took to make sure his film was perfect and according to his vision and if people thought he was weird for it, so be it. It was based on a 1926 German book called Traumnovelle. Lot of the elements of the film came directly from that book including all the secret society sex stuff. Lot of ignorant people try to correlate many aspects of the movie with current happenings, Kubrick's inner thoughts, Cruise/Kidman's personal lives and other mumbo jumbo. It has nothing to do with all that. Kubrick had it in mind to translate this book into film since the early 70's. He worked and obsessed with it so hard that he ended up dying from it and Cruise/Kidman subsequently divorced after the 15 months it took to make the film. It is a work of genius and like many of his films, it gets better with every viewing. There are lot of easter eggs he includes in all of his films and this one is no exception. People have their own interpretation of it and all of his other films and he does this deliberately. It's one of my favorite films of his and something I enjoy watching around Christmas.
Kubrick’s ability to continuously place the camera in the right spot is a God given talent. There is a such thing as setting up a shot incorrectly and Kubrick seldom did, if at all.
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"The building reaches out to Scatman Crothers and makes him come." I never considered the possibility that it isn't Danny who ultimately reaches out to Halloran and draws him to the hotel and his death. I don't think it's true, but it is an interesting idea.
It kills me how many people misunderstand the cut. The bone cut. That isn’t just any space ship. It’s a satellite carrying nuclear missiles. The cut is going from Weapon to Weapon.
Any blunt object can be a weapon. It's about the birth of the idea of using said weapon to dominate another group and advance your own agenda, aka power. The shot is simply a display of how elegant that power has become over time, and yet so much more deadly and ruthless. But it's still based on that old fundamental, power...
@@benelton10 That’s what the SCENE is about. The CUT is something different. The CUT is most people thinking “Look how far humans have come” and it is that but it’s also a much darker more sinister cut. This movie…man. Kubrick really was like no other. It kills me when people mention Nolan & Kubrick in the same breath as if they are equals. Kubrick was singular. A master.
Eyes Wide Shut became the only Kubrick movie I’d had a chance to view in its initial theatrical presentation; what added to the gravitas was, of course, his death that summer was still in the news…I’ve re watched eyes wide shut many times, as I’ve done for most of Kubrick’s work. I like the feeling of being immersed in the cavernous spaces, tight corridors and, yes, liminal spaces he fashioned which seemed to have risen from deep in his consciousness. The only re watch I have a hard time with is the second hour of Full Metal Jacket(the battle theater as opposed to the training camp) and Spartacus as a whole, perhaps Kubrick’s least Kubrickian film, for the fact that the film was never really his, he would never allow himself to be placed in such a position again. Other than those exceptions, Kubrick’s movies are constantly re playing in my mind
Great insight here. I disagree about the three act structure opinion as Full Metal Jacket definitely has three acts. Glad to see a longer video on your channel. Keep it up.
he's definitely wrong about that. 2001 was written with Arthur C Clark and is following a very deliberate structure, very close to what is known as the three act structure.
I mean, you could probably argue barry lyndon has 3 or 4 acts but aswell as the film specifying act 1 and act 2, I think it's pretty clear there are two very clear and different sections for FMJ, hell, alot of people would specifically say after boot camp the film becomes a different and worse film altogether(not moi, but its pretty common) So tho I get your point, if someone said they liked the 2nd act for than the 1st or vice versa you'd know what they'd mean and if you were to say "what about the 3rd act?" They'd be pretty confused.
@@DiotraxSecondlives- sort of. You could separate 3 distinct acts in that it follows different characters and stories 3 times, then again there are more distinct acts within that.... then again a 3 act structure could just be beginning-middle-end if you wanna be reductive, so pretty much anything could fit the mold.
@@masterofallgoons anything can fit the mold is pretty much the idea of the 3 act structure. Altogether it's just a rather new way of talking about old stuff. It's also another way of saying beginning/middle/end, as you found out by yourself. I think Louis didn't really knew what he was talking about. He just really like 2001 because it's trippy. And i don't blame him at all.
louie has an ingenious cinematic mind, but all the reasons he states for being confused by Eyes Wide Shut are exactly why it may be my favorite film to rewatch. There is such depth to its meaning i find myself radically rewriting my interpretation with each viewing.
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The FX in 2001 are still almost flawless. The apes don't exactly look real anymore and there is a scene where a flight attendant picks up a floating pen and you can see the glass the pen was attached to, and that's really it as far as non-flawless FX.
The idea of the ape throwing the bone in the air is that the bone was the first tool or technology then cutting to the present demonstrates our evolution from bone to spaceship.
Additionally - in '68 - not being to the moon yet - we knew very little about space - and the apes on earth were the tip of the iceberg of what might be out there (at the time - and now) - but those chimps were on Earth and in space, too. But, for all we knew/know - they were the most sophisticated beings - anywhere in the universe at the time.
WOw! I love Blade Runner and The Shining is my fave film of all-time. I've seen these films dozens of times, and watched them with scrutiny for film school. The bartender scene is one of my faves. I never made the connection that the bartender was the same actor as Tyrell in BR until Louis pointed this out. Mind blown!
Who knew Louis CK was such an excellent film critic? I didn't. If he never is able to get his comedy career back on track, he should consider doing this.
I still think there's some hidden reveal in that movie... like how did the woman know who he was at the ball??? he had a mask on! Something majorly important got left on the cutting room floor. And we'll never know because he died right after making it.
just on face value alone his films are visually striking, but what i really enjoy about kubrick's films are the easter eggs. the hints of a deeper meaning, a story within the story that most of us are totally oblivious to and probably too dumb to even begin to understand.
I never knew much of Kubrick but me and my dad watched “The Killing” on one of those late night film noir tv channels and I loved it. It was so weird and exciting for its time, especially the scene filmed in first person view. I watched some of his later movies afterwards, it’s cool to see how he progressed. I wonder if there will be anyone even close to Kubricks ability to captivate people for half a century anytime soon
Wow. I didn't think I'd hear Louis C.K. do an insightful film breakdown. Like a filmmaker basics class, so cool to hear the intricacies of the film styling explained.
Stephen King actually said that to Kubrick over the phone. It's why Kubrick downplayed the novel's importance in the movie. It is why a great director can take a mediocre novel and turn it into a timeless classic.
I don't think the naked woman painting was a "bent" idea; it effectively communicates Scatman's full character including informing his position within the symbolic narrative of the film. Until that shot, all we knew is this mysterious man knows about this mysterious power that Danny has, but with that one shot we find out Scatman's heritage and that he represents the slain natives in the hotel's past.
Great editing, sight and sound. For sight, the images match perfectly with what he's saying. For sound, I imagine Louis in a room full of 2001-style monkey-men who are bouncing up and down in front of microphones and trying to screech something but Louis keeps talking over them.
@@Wizzy678no director is loved by a majority of people and as the giants go, Kubrick is among the more polarizing. Louis CK just didn't seem like the Kubrick type to me, which tends to be a boomer that likes things unsentimental, challenging, and dark.
A lot of great takes, except for everything said about Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick: “The idea that a movie should be seen only once is an extension of our traditional conception of film as entertainment rather than art.” - this applies the most to his last film, where the film works by itself but is significantly enhanced by A) repeated viewings, and B) and understanding of the circumstances of how the film came about and everything that happened behind the scenes. That film is so broad - about a bourgeoise marriage and its vapidity, yes, but also about the nature of fantasy vs reality, the blurring of the two, the unimaginative male fantasy, the fragility of the male ego. The fact that it's set in New York but it doesn't look like New York at all I believe is completely intentional. Same with that scene where Cruise is walking on a sidewalk - he's actually walking on a treadmill with a background projected behind him. They could have EASILY filmed that scene conventionally, one has to wonder why if not to enhance the feeling of illusion, which is felt in the relationship between Cruise and Kidman's on-screen relationship (interestingly paralleled with their 'real world' off screen relationship and subsequent collapse - one also has to wonder how real that ever was, a Hollywood power-couple). As I get older and older I think my appreciation and respect for that film only deepens.
EYES WIDE SHUT is based on a old (1926) novella called "Dream Story" (German: Traumnovelle) by Arthur Schnitzler. The story's original setting was early twentieth-century Vienna. That might contribute to the dreamlike quality of the movie.
Referring to audiences, at the start he says they “are sophisticated” and “enjoy being confused” but later says today “audiences have demands and say ‘I want it to be clear and I want to know what’s happening’”. Those statements contradict one another. 🤔
Audiences most prefer it when you let them discover things for themselves. They love being confused, as long as it's something that they can cohesively piece together.
I've watched a couple of these videos now, and I had no idea Louis could've had another career as a film critic, his analysis of film is fuckin great, like better than anyone else I know(which is kind of mind blowing), but I have to ask, does the other guy ever get a fuckin word in? You might as well edit out all his "but", "yeah", "and", "well", etc
I didn t read hundreds of comments , maybe someone answered it already, but a "Bush Baby " was a popular toy in the 60s , (a puppet for lil girls to play)
You can hear the passion in Louie’s voice. He was really contributing to film and tv but he got in trouble for playing with himself. Now we’re not allowed to enjoy him. Awesome…..
Kubrick was one of the few (if not the only one) who could do a film that would make sense narratively for the less educated and at the same time a trip for the more educated. True vertically integrated films, a master of the craft. The way he did it by adding dimensions to EVERY SINGLE THING that shows up in that rectangle is fascinating and inspiring, no wonder he took a decade to make a film. I say he was probably the only one, because he did it consistently in all his films after the studio "period". Also the way he directed actors was always a bit robotic in his own style not based on reality, or natural acting, but a way to enforce whatever idea he had for it. Truly original and missed.
I recognize I’m late to the party but listening to Louis describe anything, however mundane is such a treat. He’s someone I’ve long considered the normal person of our time, and it’s always enjoyable hearing his take on anything
Apparently a bunch of "Eyes Wide Shut" ended up on the cutting room floor, and Kubrick never watched it, considering his death four months before the opening of the movie
Did Louie know that Kubrick was reportedly so taken by the damn spill scene in PARALLAX VIEW it gave him the idea for the blood coming out of the elevator in THE SHINING?
5:13 louis doesnt seem to be aware that the chorus is actually from a piece by classical composer Ligeti. It was a great idea by Kubrick to use that for the film in that scene, but i think Ligeti deserves a namedrop.
Louis speaks with an authority I imagine you can only do from writing a stupid amount. He doesn't just break down what is presented he appreciates what was created like a fellow craftsman. He knows people constantly try to take others work and attempt to make it more consumable which sucks. Rise to the material don't try to lower it to some made up acceptable standard.
One of the many things I love about 2001 is how you see in the Dawn of Man sequence, the monolith “ inspires” the hominid to use the bone as a tool and of course the scene explodes with homicidal ecstasy. Those hominids evolve into men. Those men create artificial intelligence HAL9000. And of course, HAL becomes homicidal. You can’t get any bleaker than that.
So I think it's clear Louis didn't understand Eyes Wide Shut when he recorded this. Definitely an opus film. Kubrick saw filmmaking as on par with classical painting and wanted to raise the bar of the entire medium in general. Many of his movies work on multiple levels beyond just themes.
Agreed, if anyone tells me that they think Eyes Wide Shut is Kubrick's single best film I wouldn't argue with them. It's his most obtuse, layered film by far, his most open to interpretation. The more you think about that film that more it both makes and doesn't make sense. It's a work of art, that's for sure.
It's so nice that celebrities are finally realizing that we don't mind them yapping, just make it about YOUR art, and leave the politics yapping to the yapping mainstream media presstitutes.
Kind of strange people acting like saying Kubrick is a uniquely talented film maker is, somehow, news...Or acting like he is like some obscure, underrated, band and only you get it. He's widely regarded as one of the best filmmakers in the world, alongside Akira Kurosawa, and has been seen as such for decades!
I like to think of that first monolith scene in reflection to the cell phone. The shape on obvious parallel, but the sound as the proliferation of information. And, of course, the leap in evolution it represents... The whole world in our pocket.
They use tablet like devices for news as well eh? They say the military has tech far beyond what’s available to the public. Hard not to consider that for me.
Eyes Wide Shut feels so weird because all of the scenes that take place outdoors, on the streets of the city, are filmed on a soundstage. It gives it a dreamlike, artificial feel
It's meant to give that Hopper-esque quality: refracted memories of what might be 'New York'.
There were a few outdoors scenes too - dressing London streets as New York
It's my favourite film and I didn't know that! Thanks for sharing 👍
And it also has one of the scariest sound track themes I've ever heard in a film.
projection behind Tom was used -- and - they squeezed the image that also made him taller. It's a surreal vibe that adds to the overall feeling of the outdoor scenes on the streets. Brilliant. Total Kubrick move. He even had someone looking for very specific spots to film outdoors and eventually made the decision to use rear projection - for likely several (nostalgia, look, why not?) reasons.
The depth and refinement of Louis' film insight is impressive. What a great artist in his own right.
He's honestly extremely smart. Has excellent history takes too. There aren't many people I enjoy listening to as much as CK. Just about whatever topic he wants
Oh gawd
What? This is like listening to Steve-O talk about Kubrick. Louis is funny but he's just a dude.
Eeeyeah, ok @@Harrier_DuBois
I feel he could use a deep dive on what EYES WIDE SHUT is actually about. Pretty insightful on the others.
What I have noticed in these montages of directors works, is that no matter how quickly you cut and edit between shots to give that impressive, all encompassing sweeping scope over an artist’s vision, the best director’s work, the Kubricks, the Kurosawas and so on, each and every shot is superbly composed. The effect is like running through an art gallery and glimpsing masterpieces for seconds at a time, before another work is rapidly unveiled.
Well SAID and I agree
Agreed
Yep. Compare the recent oscars, killers of the flower moon compared to oppenheimer. Scorsese is masterful at shot composition and framing, it blows Nolan away. Yet Nolan got best director.
A running montage is appealing in its own right and tends to make things look interesting. Thats why trailers are so successful.
Let's not forget to give the creator of this video some credit
i love that you show no mercy towards the other speakers and just let Louis CK flow without interruption.
Yeah greatly appreciate this as well. The original is almost unbearable with that mouth breather constantly interrupting with his worthless opinions over and over.
This page just reposts clips from other interviews. This clip is from “Joe and Ramadan Talk movies
@@thtswhtshesai6d9 I'm aware
Those other guys are idiots. Even when they agree with him its for the wrong reasons.
OH THIS WAS EDITED?? No wonder it was great 😂 I literally thought the entire time "Wow, this guy's cool, he's just gonna let Louis rant, fuck yeah. Louis must be high on Adderall or some shit."
Louie's insight is cool but also, props to the editor who cut this video to help us understand it
"Do me a favor, Dorothy: get the fuck awa--get in the other room." lmao exactly how I imagine Kubrick
Nonsense. Kubrick was very loving to his family.
Probably. Did you know his daughter joined Scientology after making the doc about the making of Eyes Wide Shut ?
@@raleighsmalls4653proof?
The word Louis was looking for about The Shining was "dread". 😀
I think you’re spot on! But it is weird seeing the word “dread” next to a smiley emoji. Cheers!
Yes. Dread is the perfect word to describe that movie
Don't juddge.
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Just helping out😀
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Pipe down Judy! I'm virtually bumping uglies with Sandra Bullock, which obviously is quite the challenge with Stallone cock blocking me, with one Stallonism after another. "You drew first blood, not me, you!" "Cut me Mick, cut me!" Dangnammitt!
Did Louie just rewatch all of those before the interview? Amazing memory
He mistook tapirs for pigs, but I generally agree.
@@Dude0000Even if he had just watched it he probably would have called them pigs. Because they do look like pigs, even though their closest living relatives are rhinos and equids.
@@barahng that's why I generally agreed, but I had to point the irony out. Just a throwaway I observation.
I thought they were pigs, too, not really giving it much thought due to taking everything else in.
Great director commented on by a great comedian.
Right? I just saw that he also did a Wes Anderson one - I'm about to watch that one - so... I think he must have slightly prepared these ;)
@@Dude0000what an odd comment
i don't know if i've ever heard anyone else say that "the Shining" is told from the point of view of the hotel. i feel like i need to watch it again, with that in mind.
No. You dont. Louis's wrong. If true, what movie couldnt be told from the setting's pov?
@@sup8857lol that’s a good point
@@sup8857The Hotel is the main character tho. Kubrick has talked about this. Any movie could but he intended to do it.
@@sup8857He actually clarified and said it was from the point of view of 'the shining'.
Kubricks shining is actually a story with several themes such as familial abuse, the genocide of Native Americans and the Federal Reserve bank. There are very good analysis videos on UA-cam that explain these theories , Collative Learning being one of the best , also check out Hammered Out for David lynch analysis
Louis C.K. had a lot to say about Kubrick. He interrupted everyone else. He didn’t dominate the conversation-He gave a speech. And I watched the whole thing and loved it.
No director has ever used music and lighting to such amazing effect as Kubrick
Well, Vertigo.....
When harvest moon kicks in during a quiet place was fantastic
The lighting in Barry Lyndon is incredible.
I say - watch more movies ;) As somebody already said: Hitchcock -- and in their own environmens: Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, etc. etc. All the Spaghetti Western classics, etc. etc. :) Bladerunner. I could go on and on ;) Even JAWS.
Scorsese? But I'm sure he learned a lot from watching Kubrick's movies.
I looked up notes on the Leopard attack scene in "2001 A Space Odyssey". Found this response on reddit.
"It certainly was a real leopard. And it was a semi-controlled environment…at best? From the fascinating book “ “Space Odyssey:Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C Clarke, And The Making Of A Masterpiece”, animal trainer Terry Dugan had nearly a year to work with the leopard as the “Dawn Of Man” shooting schedule kept getting delayed. However, when it came to the day of shooting that scene, the leopard had never encountered Dugan in the man-ape suit before…let alone the studio lights and constant set commotion. Plus, the central man-ape actor (“Moonwatcher”) participated in the scene - despite having no prior exposure to the leopard. (Other actors were added to the scene in post-production.)
So in short, it was a little chaotic. And only a few takes with the leopard attack were attempted. But they got what they needed…plus a happy accident: when reviewing the footage, they noticed that the lighting produced an eerie effect on the leopard’s eyes, making it even more menacing. Kubrick was ecstatic."
Awesome to know that the freaky eye shine was accidental.
The big cat eye shine is a normal cat's eye light reflection. The light came from the huge front projectors, which were showing the background landscapes. This is how these amazing scenes were shot, in a studio, with amazing sets, acting, costumes, camera direction, and director. Amazing!
@@emitindustries8304 Yup. behind the actors and the rocks was Scotchlite material that only reflected light directly back to the light source. So, a two way mirror was in front of the cameras at a... let say, a 45 degree angle, that the background was being projected onto. The camera was then in the path of reflection from the Scotchlite behind the mirror, which was still transparent enough on the back side to let the whole thing reached the film. I bought a piece of it back in the 80's. I thought Id make a tie with it and do some crazy scene with it.
Dude rad
That may be the best 'read more' I've ever expanded. Thanks for posting that
Best part about this video is every time Ranaan speaks, the video cuts. Thank you!
No mention of Clockwork Orange…?
How is that even possible. Granted this was more of a conversation with a free flowing stream of ideas than a structured list but still… you’d think he’d at least mention it. The liberties Kubrick took making the movie vs. what was written in the book… guy did a lot over there.
Movie was hot garbage of boring and pretension. Anybody who likes that movie shows me what kind of person they actually are …. And it ain’t good !
@@Mynipplesmychoice well i think it’s a great film.
Isn’t it good i showed you what kind of person I am? 😘
@@swissnikk8412 you disgust me and I’m glad that there are tthousands of miles between us so you can never try mentally gaslight me?!. CC v V.
Likely due to how much time they had - but they could have shortened the 2001 stuff to add 1 of my favorite movies of all time ;)
Eyes Wide Shut was changed by the executives, they rejected Kubrick's version, and then he was dead.
Eyes Wide Shut is the Kubrick movie I watch the most. A couple times a year. Lucky enough yo catch it in a theater. Its like a dream in a haze of delirium.
I watched it too for many years like that. Seen eyes wide shut like 40 times in that last 15 years. The blues and oranges are just so good. I watch it on Christmas Day every year, it's a Christmas movie. Barry Lyndon is great too.
@@gravelpit5680 thats cool. Just glad to hear there are others that find it fascinating. I need to watch Barry Lyndon
It's an amazing movie with lots of hidden messages.
Lous ck or whatever I think deliberately down played eyes wide shut and as if Kubrick was loosing it. No Kubrick was killed during the final production of that movie. He was revealing to much information and then they had the worm Spielberg come in and finish editing it.
Didn't know that about Spielberg. So weird .. Anyway, Kubrick was genius.@@Halszka90
There’s a compilation of all best vfx winners. The jump up for 2001 and the absolute plummet after is nuts.
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The ape scenes and some in space ship parts aged like milk but everything else is just Kubricks fucking transcendent vision for visuals. Genius.
naw the apes still work for me. Which spaceship parts are you talking about?@@nineofive.2573
@@nineofive.2573I completely disagree. I watched it on 70mm a few years ago and it was still amazing even knowing that they were contortionists wearing suits. Still superior, visually, in many ways to those new CGI Planet of the Apes flicks. You just can't uncanny a valley or add weight to a computer primate. I can tell the team put a lot of time into training to mimic animalistic movements to meet Stanley's quality level.
@@nineofive.2573 Apes part is sturdy IMO
Pretty sure those are tapirs
I think you spelled it wrong…
@@MrJackal43he’s right. Both in identification and spelling.
true, I know that from the Far Cry games
@@MrJackal43oh you’re DUMB dumb 😂 🙄
Yeah, they're pretty chill around other animals, including humans.
Attention Sydney Kubrick fans. The Randwick Ritz is showing all his films, one a week, April to July 2024.
I like that the clips from Eyes Wide Shut are shown in open matte (4:3), which is how he shot it (protected for widescreen). Great edit, thanks.
stuff like this makes me realize that a guy like louie really needed a podcast. theres so much more that i want to hear from him that isnt just opie and anthony highlights
how many podcasts do you fucking need??
“Off beat” with Louis C K
"Watch this" with Louis CK
The scene with the monkeys shows the evolution of the use of tools and the fact that the monolith has been with us at all these important times in the human timeline.
The black screen before the music score starts, before the MGM logo, is us the audience looking into to black monolith, only tilted sideways
@@Projectdarke There is a theory that the monolith is a representation of the screen it self and screens in general.
Yeah, that was what I was refering to, iirc it was Collective Learning that came up with it.
@@Projectdarke Collative Learning
The monolith represents alien life
Dr. Strangelove is a masterpiece!
Man, congrats on the channel. Famous people from movies talking about movies and directors they like. Love it ❤
The Black Screen and Sound before the MGM Logo in 2001 is a Monolith for the viewer. Today we carry round little monoliths in our pockets all day.
I like Jim Norton's "YEAH" contribution. Really helped contextualize the insight
Yeah
Say what you want about his personal choices, Louis CK is also a great filmmaker. There are moments in his TV show that were as good as any of the best directing done today.
Louis should do a movie review/analysation podcast series, he's really great.
He's good. I'd watch it.
He had a wife. Louie CK makes it sound like Kubrick died a recluse or a hermit. He lived in the country with his wife. He was a bit paranoid of people in general, the general public, because he got death threats, and the press blamed him for crime. when A clockwork orange came out. The British press blamed him for some specific crimes that may have been inspired by that movie. Kubrick pulled it from the theaters in Britain and bandit from being shown there ever. Kubrick was a genius and geniuses are supposed to go mad. He didn’t go mad, he died.
The girl singing at the end of paths of glory is kubricks wife.
Yes, and he had kids and he was a family man with a healthy social life.
Those "Weird Pigs" are Tapirs. Very docile and gentle creatures.
2001 opens with the orchestra tuneup and the black screen because the black screen is the monlith. the entire movie is it.
The audience never gets to know what the monolith really is and I think that is what Kubrick was trying to accomplish. The unknown
The Sentinels' purpose is pretty clear
Spartacus is one of Kubrick's lesser films, and it's still so quality, entertaining, and enjoyable to watch.
I agree. It’s as satisfying as any David Lean movie from the sixties.
every kubrick film is a maserpiece. i wouldnt hesitate to say he has the greatest oeuvre of any artist of any medium.
A third of Spartacus was directed by Anthony Mann. The first hour basically.
That's because it wasn't really one of his works in its entirety and later on basically disowned it.
@@LordConstrobuz The first two feature films certainly aren’t. But they are basically student films.
Eyes Wide Shut is a great movie. I've watched it many times and never get tired of it.
i like that movie because it seems to be a constant comparison between Tom Cruise and the environment/people around him. The whole movie is his series of choices and social interactions based on his sexual desires. It's great.
How many of the interactions were set up though? A man that looks a lot like Kubrick stares in as nightingale tells bill about the party, for example.
I cannot imagine what is great about it. I was bored out of my mind
@@JohnSmith-oe5kx only a self aggrandizing narcissist weirdo feels the compulsion to not only re-comment the same thing over and over on a video…you just have to let everyone know what you think hey? Like a toddler lmao
I watched it a few times for Nicole kidman’s keester and firebush
CK calling Kubrick a weird man for Eyes Wide Shut is like the pot calling the kettle black. It's laughable knowing CK.
Nothing weird about him. He was always a recluse who likes film and nothing else that comes with it. He would do whatever it took to make sure his film was perfect and according to his vision and if people thought he was weird for it, so be it.
It was based on a 1926 German book called Traumnovelle. Lot of the elements of the film came directly from that book including all the secret society sex stuff. Lot of ignorant people try to correlate many aspects of the movie with current happenings, Kubrick's inner thoughts, Cruise/Kidman's personal lives and other mumbo jumbo. It has nothing to do with all that.
Kubrick had it in mind to translate this book into film since the early 70's. He worked and obsessed with it so hard that he ended up dying from it and Cruise/Kidman subsequently divorced after the 15 months it took to make the film.
It is a work of genius and like many of his films, it gets better with every viewing. There are lot of easter eggs he includes in all of his films and this one is no exception. People have their own interpretation of it and all of his other films and he does this deliberately. It's one of my favorite films of his and something I enjoy watching around Christmas.
Kubrick’s ability to continuously place the camera in the right spot is a God given talent. There is a such thing as setting up a shot incorrectly and Kubrick seldom did, if at all.
"The building reaches out to Scatman Crothers and makes him come."
I never considered the possibility that it isn't Danny who ultimately reaches out to Halloran and draws him to the hotel and his death. I don't think it's true, but it is an interesting idea.
PLEASE!!! MORE LONG FORM VIDEOS LIKE THIS ONE!!!
Yes…They are incredible
It kills me how many people misunderstand the cut. The bone cut. That isn’t just any space ship. It’s a satellite carrying nuclear missiles. The cut is going from Weapon to Weapon.
Agree. About how the first tool shortly became a weapon
Any blunt object can be a weapon. It's about the birth of the idea of using said weapon to dominate another group and advance your own agenda, aka power. The shot is simply a display of how elegant that power has become over time, and yet so much more deadly and ruthless. But it's still based on that old fundamental, power...
Respect.
But also its the moment that that monkey understood that he can hurt with that, he evolved
@@benelton10 That’s what the SCENE is about. The CUT is something different. The CUT is most people thinking “Look how far humans have come” and it is that but it’s also a much darker more sinister cut. This movie…man. Kubrick really was like no other.
It kills me when people mention Nolan & Kubrick in the same breath as if they are equals. Kubrick was singular. A master.
Eyes Wide Shut became the only Kubrick movie I’d had a chance to view in its initial theatrical presentation; what added to the gravitas was, of course, his death that summer was still in the news…I’ve re watched eyes wide shut many times, as I’ve done for most of Kubrick’s work. I like the feeling of being immersed in the cavernous spaces, tight corridors and, yes, liminal spaces he fashioned which seemed to have risen from deep in his consciousness. The only re watch I have a hard time with is the second hour of Full Metal Jacket(the battle theater as opposed to the training camp) and Spartacus as a whole, perhaps Kubrick’s least Kubrickian film, for the fact that the film was never really his, he would never allow himself to be placed in such a position again. Other than those exceptions, Kubrick’s movies are constantly re playing in my mind
The picture of the naked black lady behind Scatman scares me so much 😂😂😂
We’ve never seen Stanley Kubricks eyes wide shut, 20 minutes was cut the day he died
source?
I love how he can’t stop talking Kubric , and the interviewer dosnt have a chance in hell to squeeze a sentence in for more then 20 minutes
Great insight here. I disagree about the three act structure opinion as Full Metal Jacket definitely has three acts. Glad to see a longer video on your channel. Keep it up.
he's definitely wrong about that. 2001 was written with Arthur C Clark and is following a very deliberate structure, very close to what is known as the three act structure.
I mean, you could probably argue barry lyndon has 3 or 4 acts but aswell as the film specifying act 1 and act 2, I think it's pretty clear there are two very clear and different sections for FMJ, hell, alot of people would specifically say after boot camp the film becomes a different and worse film altogether(not moi, but its pretty common)
So tho I get your point, if someone said they liked the 2nd act for than the 1st or vice versa you'd know what they'd mean and if you were to say "what about the 3rd act?"
They'd be pretty confused.
Louis CK loves to think of himself as an intellectual who knows it all. So he talks out of his ass a lot.
@@DiotraxSecondlives- sort of. You could separate 3 distinct acts in that it follows different characters and stories 3 times, then again there are more distinct acts within that.... then again a 3 act structure could just be beginning-middle-end if you wanna be reductive, so pretty much anything could fit the mold.
@@masterofallgoons anything can fit the mold is pretty much the idea of the 3 act structure. Altogether it's just a rather new way of talking about old stuff. It's also another way of saying beginning/middle/end, as you found out by yourself. I think Louis didn't really knew what he was talking about. He just really like 2001 because it's trippy. And i don't blame him at all.
THE SHINING; truly shows Kubrick’s mastery of shot composition more than anything else
louie has an ingenious cinematic mind, but all the reasons he states for being confused by Eyes Wide Shut are exactly why it may be my favorite film to rewatch. There is such depth to its meaning i find myself radically rewriting my interpretation with each viewing.
The FX in 2001 are still almost flawless. The apes don't exactly look real anymore and there is a scene where a flight attendant picks up a floating pen and you can see the glass the pen was attached to, and that's really it as far as non-flawless FX.
Kubrick, like Louis, was a photographer. So every frame of his movies can be a print that can be put in a gallery.
The idea of the ape throwing the bone in the air is that the bone was the first tool or technology then cutting to the present demonstrates our evolution from bone to spaceship.
And also making the point that 4 million years of evolution, on a cosmic scale, is not worth bothering about.
Additionally - in '68 - not being to the moon yet - we knew very little about space - and the apes on earth were the tip of the iceberg of what might be out there (at the time - and now) - but those chimps were on Earth and in space, too. But, for all we knew/know - they were the most sophisticated beings - anywhere in the universe at the time.
WOw! I love Blade Runner and The Shining is my fave film of all-time. I've seen these films dozens of times, and watched them with scrutiny for film school. The bartender scene is one of my faves. I never made the connection that the bartender was the same actor as Tyrell in BR until Louis pointed this out. Mind blown!
“Now you got the edge on him.”
I kept thinking of the other person who Louie was talking to, other than not saying anything there's nothing to add
Who knew Louis CK was such an excellent film critic? I didn't. If he never is able to get his comedy career back on track, he should consider doing this.
i love Tom’s early line, “what the name of the babysitter?”
Great clip & insights. Would have loved Louis's take on A Clockwork Orange (my favorite--though it trades places w/ The Shining now n' again).
“Apes & Space” was the original name of The Joe Rogan Experience
This is fucking genius - I want more of his perspective on other genius level art - this is tremendous!
The Killing is what inspired Tarantino to create non-linear storytelling. Such a great heist movie also.
I have heard that there are several minutes of EWS that were cut from the movie, I ask myself how it would be with thr original director cut
Imagine Stanley Kubrick's sex life. And we thought Louis' was odd.
I still think there's some hidden reveal in that movie... like how did the woman know who he was at the ball??? he had a mask on! Something majorly important got left on the cutting room floor. And we'll never know because he died right after making it.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat What
@@mattmoves5920 What indeed.
A lot of bills encounters seem set up once you think about it. He was likely brought there on purpose but didn’t get into the action I think.
just on face value alone his films are visually striking, but what i really enjoy about kubrick's films are the easter eggs. the hints of a deeper meaning, a story within the story that most of us are totally oblivious to and probably too dumb to even begin to understand.
I never knew much of Kubrick but me and my dad watched “The Killing” on one of those late night film noir tv channels and I loved it. It was so weird and exciting for its time, especially the scene filmed in first person view. I watched some of his later movies afterwards, it’s cool to see how he progressed. I wonder if there will be anyone even close to Kubricks ability to captivate people for half a century anytime soon
Wow. I didn't think I'd hear Louis C.K. do an insightful film breakdown. Like a filmmaker basics class, so cool to hear the intricacies of the film styling explained.
Stephen King actually said that to Kubrick over the phone. It's why Kubrick downplayed the novel's importance in the movie. It is why a great director can take a mediocre novel and turn it into a timeless classic.
Dang, I never would have imagined Louis CK would give me the best insight I've known on 2001.
I don't think the naked woman painting was a "bent" idea; it effectively communicates Scatman's full character including informing his position within the symbolic narrative of the film. Until that shot, all we knew is this mysterious man knows about this mysterious power that Danny has, but with that one shot we find out Scatman's heritage and that he represents the slain natives in the hotel's past.
Great editing, sight and sound. For sight, the images match perfectly with what he's saying. For sound, I imagine Louis in a room full of 2001-style monkey-men who are bouncing up and down in front of microphones and trying to screech something but Louis keeps talking over them.
would have never expected Louis CK to be a Kubrick fan, let alone to have such a thoughtful take on him.
How, kubrick is alot of ppl favourites its not like he said kenneth anger or someone obscure
@@Wizzy678no director is loved by a majority of people and as the giants go, Kubrick is among the more polarizing. Louis CK just didn't seem like the Kubrick type to me, which tends to be a boomer that likes things unsentimental, challenging, and dark.
Everyone has to see The Killing at least once- it's the beginning of the modern heist movies
A lot of great takes, except for everything said about Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick: “The idea that a movie should be seen only once is an extension of our traditional conception of film as entertainment rather than art.” - this applies the most to his last film, where the film works by itself but is significantly enhanced by A) repeated viewings, and B) and understanding of the circumstances of how the film came about and everything that happened behind the scenes.
That film is so broad - about a bourgeoise marriage and its vapidity, yes, but also about the nature of fantasy vs reality, the blurring of the two, the unimaginative male fantasy, the fragility of the male ego. The fact that it's set in New York but it doesn't look like New York at all I believe is completely intentional. Same with that scene where Cruise is walking on a sidewalk - he's actually walking on a treadmill with a background projected behind him. They could have EASILY filmed that scene conventionally, one has to wonder why if not to enhance the feeling of illusion, which is felt in the relationship between Cruise and Kidman's on-screen relationship (interestingly paralleled with their 'real world' off screen relationship and subsequent collapse - one also has to wonder how real that ever was, a Hollywood power-couple).
As I get older and older I think my appreciation and respect for that film only deepens.
EYES WIDE SHUT is based on a old (1926) novella called "Dream Story" (German: Traumnovelle) by Arthur Schnitzler. The story's original setting was early twentieth-century Vienna. That might contribute to the dreamlike quality of the movie.
Referring to audiences, at the start he says they “are sophisticated” and “enjoy being confused” but later says today “audiences have demands and say ‘I want it to be clear and I want to know what’s happening’”. Those statements contradict one another. 🤔
Audiences most prefer it when you let them discover things for themselves. They love being confused, as long as it's something that they can cohesively piece together.
I've watched a couple of these videos now, and I had no idea Louis could've had another career as a film critic, his analysis of film is fuckin great, like better than anyone else I know(which is kind of mind blowing), but I have to ask, does the other guy ever get a fuckin word in? You might as well edit out all his "but", "yeah", "and", "well", etc
I didn t read hundreds of comments , maybe someone answered it already, but a "Bush Baby " was a popular toy in the 60s , (a puppet for lil girls to play)
2001 -- I had to read A. C. Clarke's book to make sense of the movie. There were details you can't get just from watching the movie.
I wanna listen to Louis talk film forever
You can hear the passion in Louie’s voice. He was really contributing to film and tv but he got in trouble for playing with himself. Now we’re not allowed to enjoy him. Awesome…..
Kubrick was one of the few (if not the only one) who could do a film that would make sense narratively for the less educated and at the same time a trip for the more educated. True vertically integrated films, a master of the craft. The way he did it by adding dimensions to EVERY SINGLE THING that shows up in that rectangle is fascinating and inspiring, no wonder he took a decade to make a film. I say he was probably the only one, because he did it consistently in all his films after the studio "period". Also the way he directed actors was always a bit robotic in his own style not based on reality, or natural acting, but a way to enforce whatever idea he had for it. Truly original and missed.
The best explanation of Kubrick films I've ever heard.
I recognize I’m late to the party but listening to Louis describe anything, however mundane is such a treat. He’s someone I’ve long considered the normal person of our time, and it’s always enjoyable hearing his take on anything
I agree. I am obsessed with Kubrick" films especially "Eyes Wide Shut" What an awesome interpretation.
The cut from the bone to the spaceship is meant to imply one primitive weapon to a modern weapon.
Imagine if C.Ks monologue on Kubrick ended with him saying "So anyway, can I order a large pepperoni..."
Apparently a bunch of "Eyes Wide Shut" ended up on the cutting room floor, and Kubrick never watched it, considering his death four months before the opening of the movie
Did Louie know that Kubrick was reportedly so taken by the damn spill scene in PARALLAX VIEW it gave him the idea for the blood coming out of the elevator in THE SHINING?
Tarentino never talks about Kubrick. Thinks he's overrated. I need that conversation.
5:13 louis doesnt seem to be aware that the chorus is actually from a piece by classical composer Ligeti. It was a great idea by Kubrick to use that for the film in that scene, but i think Ligeti deserves a namedrop.
At 12:53, you can clearly see that the TV is ON, but there is NO electrical cord powering it. What does that mean?
Rob Ager will now make five videos on that oddity.
Floyd, not Joyce. And the monolith was not hot. The apes had never touched anything smooth before.
burp! yeah... i wish i could collect and express my thoughts like mr. LCK does. Barry Lyndon, though, one of my favorite movies.
Louis speaks with an authority I imagine you can only do from writing a stupid amount. He doesn't just break down what is presented he appreciates what was created like a fellow craftsman. He knows people constantly try to take others work and attempt to make it more consumable which sucks. Rise to the material don't try to lower it to some made up acceptable standard.
Louie understands and appreciates film so well, and makes it funny 👑🔥🔥🔥
Just saw a film print of Barry Lyndon, which I'd only seen once before. Seen all the others many times. It's now categorically my favourite Kubrick.
One of the many things I love about 2001 is how you see in the Dawn of Man sequence, the monolith “ inspires” the hominid to use the bone as a tool and of course the scene explodes with homicidal ecstasy. Those hominids evolve into men. Those men create artificial intelligence HAL9000. And of course, HAL becomes homicidal. You can’t get any bleaker than that.
Really get the sense of Louie's deep intelligence through this. Thanks
Louis CK is very good with cinema. He's a director and a writer.
So, basically, Louie ate a BUNCH of thc edibles, rewatched Kubrick's entire catalog, and just started talking. Cool.
I could see Louis C K in a Kubrick film.
I think Kubrick died in 2020 or something from covid
My favorite Kubrick movie? All of them!!
So I think it's clear Louis didn't understand Eyes Wide Shut when he recorded this. Definitely an opus film. Kubrick saw filmmaking as on par with classical painting and wanted to raise the bar of the entire medium in general. Many of his movies work on multiple levels beyond just themes.
Agreed, if anyone tells me that they think Eyes Wide Shut is Kubrick's single best film I wouldn't argue with them. It's his most obtuse, layered film by far, his most open to interpretation. The more you think about that film that more it both makes and doesn't make sense. It's a work of art, that's for sure.
It's so nice that celebrities are finally realizing that we don't mind them yapping, just make it about YOUR art, and leave the politics yapping to the yapping mainstream media presstitutes.
Kind of strange people acting like saying Kubrick is a uniquely talented film maker is, somehow, news...Or acting like he is like some obscure, underrated, band and only you get it.
He's widely regarded as one of the best filmmakers in the world, alongside Akira Kurosawa, and has been seen as such for decades!
I like to think of that first monolith scene in reflection to the cell phone. The shape on obvious parallel, but the sound as the proliferation of information. And, of course, the leap in evolution it represents... The whole world in our pocket.
They use tablet like devices for news as well eh? They say the military has tech far beyond what’s available to the public. Hard not to consider that for me.
You nailed it on Stephen king! He's a great writer but Kubrick just made him look like Salieri compared to Mozart 🔥