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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.
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 ... “
Stanley Kubrick made some excellent films and my favorite is “The Killing” (1956) about a race track robbery starring Sterling Hayden and just about every scary mug in Hollywood at the time.
I have an altar in my basement to Stanley Kubrick. Not really, but pretty close.
Lifelong scientific/fantastic fiction nerd - book and film.
I saw 2001 in a spectacular Century Dome theater when it was first released. I thought even then as a boy that it was a gussied-up mash note to Evolution.
Kind of like a backcover blurb of a Carl Sagan book stretched out to two hours.