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."
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.
@@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!
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
They were not pigs, they were peccaries. I'm glad you like Kubrick as much as I do. BY the way, both of my parents were from Hungary, just to give you some idea of how bad it can get. You are attentive, which makes you such a wonderful comedienne. The concept of Kubrick not offering easy answers, makes his films far more realistic, even my 8-year-old son loved 2001, as it isn't a solution to anything, and he lays no claim to any solutions. What he makes clear is that life in uncertain, and we must meet new challenges, Kubrick is not an instructor, merely am attentive creative guy who I miss.
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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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…..
I liked Eyes Wide Shut. I immediately understood it to be a morality play. Morality plays are a long-standing tradition in the West. They're typically allegorical, with concepts such as charity, lust, greed, etc. being personified to engage the audience on a deeper level about their own moral choices. The main character, Bill, is tempted often and has to deal with the consequences of his choices. He's a moral man, and he survives because of it, but he nearly effs up a few times. Other people's responses to temptation are crashing into him as well. The nearer they are to him, the more directly he's impacted. There's a lot of visual and thematic callbacks to classic morality plays throughout in the movie. It's perfectly obvious but people don't read classics literature anymore, so maybe the concept isn't familiar to folks nowadays.
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.
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.
The tumbling Australopithecine bone doesn’t merely do a jump-cut to a 21st-century spaceship. More specifically, the ship is an orbiting particle-beam weapon, a la Reagan’s Star Wars. The other spaceships are various death rays and nukes. Thus, it’s a jump-cut from weapon to weapons. If you worked for Bell Labs or read Arthur C. Clarke’s novel, that connection would be apparent. Kubrick (with his don’t-show, don’t-tell approach) kept that opaque for everybody else.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Great great insight from Louis! Wonderful share, this interview. Love Kubrick and there's lots of fun stuff in his movies and there's absolutely ZERO question on why his flicks are so great - he took those chances - he trusted himself - he understood film and that it was an experience - especially on a BIG SCREEN - taking time out to escape from the rest of what's going on in your and everyone's life. You get immersed in it - it's exactly what you want from a great film. It's so so sad that there's very few great films that the masses see :( It's so horrible that so much money gets spent on mediocre, easy to swallow films. We should have a handful of really great films each year that people worldwide all enjoy. On an artistic level. Get a good story - get a great director and make a GOOD fkng movie!!! Please. Anyway, thanks for this.
The pre MGM logo “something” is the monolith in the horizontal position. Kubrick equates the screen with it. Interesting how today we watch a movie about black rectangles on a hand held rectangle and when we touch its smooth surface, it sends signals.📱 🚀 🌖
I just love this channel. Every movie lover should come here watch. Fist time i saw 2001: A Space Odyssey a was on magic mushrooms. It was the best thing ever.
I missed the premiere of 2001 because I was in utero (dammit) but on my way to see Eyes Wide Shut someone offered me acid at random and so I did wind up tripping at a Kubrick premiere.
There’s no other director who was also the best cinematographer ever. Yes he has help with that. But it’s all his idea. You can watch a scene from Clockwork, or FMJ or EWS. And you can tell it’s Kubrick. the long shots the symmetry the lighting the camera focus. They’re the most beautiful films of all time just to look at with the sound off even. I’ve never seen a director or cinematographer who had such impeccable style and such a signature look. You can tell it’s a Kubirck film right Away.
The fact the Louis CK thinks we went to the moon is the funniest thing he has ever said. Saying that I really like hearing his take on Kubrick films. His film IQ is off the charts.
Kubrick was a mad man and beyond his talent, he represented lack of humanity when it comes to work on a set, think of what he did to Shelley Duvall during the shooting of The Shining, he tortured her in order to make her feel actually scared. Obviously, it's difficult to unfake chemistry, while working on a movie's set with social media, so Stanley Kubrick would be probably cancelled today.
@@zhangyuandyou Like I said before, he would be probably cancelled today in this current culture if he were doing things like this. Think also of Klaus Kinski, he was a shitt* person, but a talented actor, poor people who worked with him in the movie "Paganini"
I'm such a big fan of Louis, especially his later TV work like "Louie" and most of all "Horace & Pete". And I was so happy to learn today that he also appreciate Kubrick, one of my favorite directors of all times. Btw, regarding the leopard scene. It looked so real because it was! They actually let a leopard attack a guy in a freakin' ape costume and let it maul him for a couple of minutes! Working with Kubrick must have been insane at times! ^^
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!
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 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.
Kubrick succeeded spectacularly in what he was trying to do. He failed miserably in what the audience expected him to do. People like Kubrick, Herzog, and Malik understand that film is an artform and it can be done without regard to conventional restraints. Beyond just being original though, Kubrick was just impressive. It would be as if Captain Beefheart was somehow easy to listen to in addition to eschewing every conceivable musical convention.
The wide shots of Africa in 2001 where aquired by a young man directly at Kubricks request, none where taken in U.S.A. everything else in the Dawn of man Sequence was shot on a sound stage in England.
When an actor is crying or frustrated or tired or angry in a Kubrick film.... they're not acting. They really are those things. And he sticks the biggest cameras and brightest lights on them just to have those moments burnt into film.
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."
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.
"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 ?
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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!
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
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.
Louie's insight is cool but also, props to the editor who cut this video to help us understand it
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
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
Best part about this video is every time Ranaan speaks, the video cuts. Thank you!
Man, congrats on the channel. Famous people from movies talking about movies and directors they like. Love it ❤
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.
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
Dr. Strangelove is a masterpiece!
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 ;)
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.
Louis should do a movie review/analysation podcast series, he's really great.
He's good. I'd watch it.
Attention Sydney Kubrick fans. The Randwick Ritz is showing all his films, one a week, April to July 2024.
Those "Weird Pigs" are Tapirs. Very docile and gentle creatures.
PLEASE!!! MORE LONG FORM VIDEOS LIKE THIS ONE!!!
Yes…They are incredible
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
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.
I like Jim Norton's "YEAH" contribution. Really helped contextualize the insight
Yeah
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
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.
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.
Eyes Wide Shut was changed by the executives, they rejected Kubrick's version, and then he was dead.
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.
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
“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
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.
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).
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.
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 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.
This is fucking genius - I want more of his perspective on other genius level art - this is tremendous!
They were not pigs, they were peccaries. I'm glad you like Kubrick as much as I do. BY the way, both of my parents were from Hungary, just to give you some idea of how bad it can get. You are attentive, which makes you such a wonderful comedienne. The concept of Kubrick not offering easy answers, makes his films far more realistic, even my 8-year-old son loved 2001, as it isn't a solution to anything, and he lays no claim to any solutions. What he makes clear is that life in uncertain, and we must meet new challenges, Kubrick is not an instructor, merely am attentive creative guy who I miss.
"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.
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 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.
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.
THE SHINING; truly shows Kubrick’s mastery of shot composition more than anything else
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…..
I liked Eyes Wide Shut. I immediately understood it to be a morality play. Morality plays are a long-standing tradition in the West. They're typically allegorical, with concepts such as charity, lust, greed, etc. being personified to engage the audience on a deeper level about their own moral choices. The main character, Bill, is tempted often and has to deal with the consequences of his choices. He's a moral man, and he survives because of it, but he nearly effs up a few times. Other people's responses to temptation are crashing into him as well. The nearer they are to him, the more directly he's impacted. There's a lot of visual and thematic callbacks to classic morality plays throughout in the movie. It's perfectly obvious but people don't read classics literature anymore, so maybe the concept isn't familiar to folks nowadays.
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.
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.
i love Tom’s early line, “what the name of the babysitter?”
There is something about a Kubrick film...especially Eyes Wide Shut...that movie has some interesting symbolism to it
“Apes & Space” was the original name of The Joe Rogan Experience
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.
The tumbling Australopithecine bone doesn’t merely do a jump-cut to a 21st-century spaceship. More specifically, the ship is an orbiting particle-beam weapon, a la Reagan’s Star Wars. The other spaceships are various death rays and nukes. Thus, it’s a jump-cut from weapon to weapons. If you worked for Bell Labs or read Arthur C. Clarke’s novel, that connection would be apparent. Kubrick (with his don’t-show, don’t-tell approach) kept that opaque for everybody else.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Everyone has to see The Killing at least once- it's the beginning of the modern heist movies
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
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.
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
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.
Great great insight from Louis! Wonderful share, this interview. Love Kubrick and there's lots of fun stuff in his movies and there's absolutely ZERO question on why his flicks are so great - he took those chances - he trusted himself - he understood film and that it was an experience - especially on a BIG SCREEN - taking time out to escape from the rest of what's going on in your and everyone's life. You get immersed in it - it's exactly what you want from a great film. It's so so sad that there's very few great films that the masses see :( It's so horrible that so much money gets spent on mediocre, easy to swallow films. We should have a handful of really great films each year that people worldwide all enjoy. On an artistic level. Get a good story - get a great director and make a GOOD fkng movie!!! Please. Anyway, thanks for this.
The pre MGM logo “something” is the monolith in the horizontal position. Kubrick equates the screen with it. Interesting how today we watch a movie about black rectangles on a hand held rectangle and when we touch its smooth surface, it sends signals.📱 🚀 🌖
Floyd, not Joyce. And the monolith was not hot. The apes had never touched anything smooth before.
I just love this channel. Every movie lover should come here watch. Fist time i saw 2001: A Space Odyssey a was on magic mushrooms. It was the best thing ever.
I missed the premiere of 2001 because I was in utero (dammit) but on my way to see Eyes Wide Shut someone offered me acid at random and so I did wind up tripping at a Kubrick premiere.
@@AlanCanon2222- so you were the space fetus?
@@masterofallgoons How would I know?! It all is a little fuzzy from back then. I do remember being less planet sized though.
I wish I could go back in time and watch for the first time on mushrooms
The picture of the naked black lady behind Scatman scares me so much 😂😂😂
The best explanation of Kubrick films I've ever heard.
My favorite Kubrick movie? All of them!!
There’s no other director who was also the best cinematographer ever. Yes he has help with that. But it’s all his idea. You can watch a scene from Clockwork, or FMJ or EWS. And you can tell it’s Kubrick. the long shots the symmetry the lighting the camera focus. They’re the most beautiful films of all time just to look at with the sound off even. I’ve never seen a director or cinematographer who had such impeccable style and such a signature look. You can tell it’s a Kubirck film right Away.
The Killing is what inspired Tarantino to create non-linear storytelling. Such a great heist movie also.
The fact the Louis CK thinks we went to the moon is the funniest thing he has ever said. Saying that I really like hearing his take on Kubrick films. His film IQ is off the charts.
I love this!
Kubrick was a mad man and beyond his talent, he represented lack of humanity when it comes to work on a set, think of what he did to Shelley Duvall during the shooting of The Shining, he tortured her in order to make her feel actually scared. Obviously, it's difficult to unfake chemistry, while working on a movie's set with social media, so Stanley Kubrick would be probably cancelled today.
No kidding. Not to mention the hundreds of takes he grinded the actors through. He was an insane perfectionist.
@@zhangyuandyou Like I said before, he would be probably cancelled today in this current culture if he were doing things like this. Think also of Klaus Kinski, he was a shitt* person, but a talented actor, poor people who worked with him in the movie "Paganini"
@@zhangyuandyou The shelley duval thing was regrettable but is the "100 takes" thing really a big deal? Like it's not a coal mine
Meanwhile, Polanski drugged and sodomised a thirteen year old, and he's treated like a minor deity.
Didnt Duvall openly state that he didnt do anything wrong and she wasnt traumatized? Too juicy of gossip i suppose
I'm such a big fan of Louis, especially his later TV work like "Louie" and most of all "Horace & Pete".
And I was so happy to learn today that he also appreciate Kubrick, one of my favorite directors of all times.
Btw, regarding the leopard scene. It looked so real because it was! They actually let a leopard attack a guy in a freakin' ape costume and let it maul him for a couple of minutes! Working with Kubrick must have been insane at times! ^^
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.
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!
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 could see Louis C K in a Kubrick film.
I think Kubrick died in 2020 or something from covid
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.
Kubrick, like Louis, was a photographer. So every frame of his movies can be a print that can be put in a gallery.
We’ve never seen Stanley Kubricks eyes wide shut, 20 minutes was cut the day he died
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Really get the sense of Louie's deep intelligence through this. Thanks
This is really a very good discussion on Kubrick. I never caught that cockroach scene in PoG, until now. Thanks!
Kubrick succeeded spectacularly in what he was trying to do. He failed miserably in what the audience expected him to do. People like Kubrick, Herzog, and Malik understand that film is an artform and it can be done without regard to conventional restraints. Beyond just being original though, Kubrick was just impressive. It would be as if Captain Beefheart was somehow easy to listen to in addition to eschewing every conceivable musical convention.
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
Wonderful analysis
The wide shots of Africa in 2001 where aquired by a young man directly at Kubricks request, none where taken in U.S.A. everything else in the Dawn of man Sequence was shot on a sound stage in England.
I still havent seen Paths of Glory. Shit like this really hypes me up to watch stuff I've been putting off watching for 2+ decades.
Ohhhh killer UA-cam channel title❤
When an actor is crying or frustrated or tired or angry in a Kubrick film.... they're not acting. They really are those things. And he sticks the biggest cameras and brightest lights on them just to have those moments burnt into film.