Posted on 07/16/2018 10:50:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
His first world war classic, Paths of Glory, is one of cinema’s most powerful anti-war movies, widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, as was his Roman epic, Spartacus, both of which starred Kirk Douglas. Now a “lost” screenplay by director Stanley Kubrick has been discovered – and it is so close to completion that it could be developed by film-makers.
Entitled Burning Secret, the script is an adaptation of the 1913 novella by the Viennese writer Stefan Zweig. In Kubrick’s adaptation of the story of adultery and passion set in a spa resort, a suave and predatory man befriends a 10-year-old boy, using him to seduce the child’s married mother.
He wrote it in 1956 with the novelist Calder Willingham, with whom he went on to collaborate on Paths of Glory the following year.
The screenplay was found by Nathan Abrams, professor in film at Bangor University and a leading Kubrick expert, who said: “I couldn’t believe it. It’s so exciting. It was believed to have been lost.”
He added: “Kubrick aficionados know he wanted to do it, [but] no one ever thought it was completed. We now have a copy and this proves that he had done a full screenplay.”
Kubrick made only 13 feature films, but he is revered as a master film-maker and supreme visual stylist with a painstaking approach to meticulous detail. His sci-fi epic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, pushed the boundaries of special effects and was at No 6 in the most recent Sight and Sound critics poll of the greatest films of all time.
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His Burning Secret screenplay bears the stamp of the script department of MGM. It is dated 24 October 1956, when Kubrick was still relatively unknown, having just made his crime heist film, The Killing.
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It's "Dr. Strangelove" for me.
(Loved HAL though.)
Gee, another Hollywood movie about sexual perversion.
How original.
Except that if Hollyweird films it today, the predatory man will befriend the mother in order to seduce the 10-year old boy. /s
I just watched Paths to Glory and didn’t think it was anti-war.
More it showed how military leaders in WW1 didn’t know what they were doing and they were unable to deal with modern warfare.
His first world war classic, Paths of Glory, is one of cinema’s most powerful anti-war movies, widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, as was his Roman epic, Spartacus, both of which starred Kirk Douglas.
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From Wiki:
Douglas, whose Bryna Productions company was producing the film, removed original director Anthony Mann after the first week of shooting. Kubrick, with whom Douglas had worked before, was brought on board to take over direction. It is the only film directed by Kubrick where he did not have complete artistic control.
Entitled Burning Secret, the script is an adaptation of the 1913 novella by the Viennese writer Stefan Zweig. In Kubrick’s adaptation of the story of adultery and passion set in a spa resort, a suave and predatory man befriends a 10-year-old boy, using him to seduce the child’s married mother.
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If Kubrick didn’t make it, he probably didn’t think it was any good.
>>Except that if Hollyweird films it today, the predatory man will befriend the mother in order to seduce the 10-year old boy. /s <<
No /s needed. You are 100% correct. Not only that but they will portray the mother who, upon finding out and taking the child away from the relationship, is an evil narrow-minded insane Jesus-freak like the mom in “Carrie.”
At the end the kid kills said mom and, now 12, he and the hero of the story leave town hand in hand into the sunset.
And Hollwierd will applaud.
At the end of the movie the captured German woman singing was Kubrick’s wife.
Kubrick only made 9 films (inclusive) between Spartacus (1957) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999) — over 40 years.
2 of them — “Borey Lyndon” and “Eyes Wide Shut” sucked.
If it’s anything like his other films I’m sure people are reading it and saying “Hey, this is a good story and ... whoa! what the heck is that doing in here!? Oh, back to the story ... “
It was well known which movies he wanted to make, such as AI.
It was amazing how he managed to make a boot camp experience, which normally would be a short scene, into half a movie in "Full Metal Jacket"..
I did watch Lolita and it was a good movie. Peter Sellers part, although not large, was great and of course I thought Shelly Winters played a really good lonely widow.
He did a great job recognizing the abilities of R. Lee Ermey. Ermey was only supposed to be a technical advisor.
I thought Barry Lyndon was a masterpiece. It is slow-moving, but is still a beautiful recreation of the 18th century. I agree about Eyes Wide Shut. I don't think all of Kubrick's films are masterpieces, but I thought Eyes Wide Shut was an outright dog.
From the sound of it, I think the unfilmed screenplay probably was dropped in favor of Lolita, which he filmed in 1962 (and which is a creepy and disturbing story IMO).
>>I thought Barry Lyndon was a masterpiece. It is slow-moving, but is still a beautiful recreation of the 18th century. <<
Too bad he decided to film the entire century in real time.
You have better stamina than most I suppose.
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