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![THE LIFE OF STANLEY
KUBRICK
Kubrick was born on July 26, in the year of 1928 in Manhattan, New York. Kubrick died
at the age of 70 on March 7, 1999.
Kubrick's father taught him chess at age twelve, and the game remained a lifelong obsession.
He also bought his son a Graflex camera when he was thirteen, triggering a fascination with
still photography. As a teenager, Kubrick was interested in jazz, and briefly attempted a
career as a drummer.
Kubrick attended William Howard Taft High School from 1941–45. He was a poor student,
with a meager 67 grade average. He graduated from high school in 1945, but his poor grades,
combined with the demand for college admissions from soldiers returning from the Second
World War, eliminated any hopes of higher education. Later in life, Kubrick spoke
disdainfully of his education and of education in general, maintaining that nothing about
school interested him.His parents sent him to live with relatives for a year in Los Angeles in
the hopes that it would help his academic growth.
While still in high school, he was chosen as an official school photographer for a year. In
1946, since he wasn't able to gain admission to day session classes at colleges, he briefly
attended evening classes at the City College of New York and then left. Eventually, he sought
jobs as a freelance photographer, and by graduation, he had sold a photographic series to
Look magazine. Kubrick supplemented his income by playing chess "for quarters" in
Washington Square Park and various Manhattan chess clubs. He became an apprentice
photographer for Look in 1946, and later a full-time staff photographer. (Many early [1945–
50] photographs by Kubrick have been published in the book Drama and Shadows [2005,
Phaidon Press] and also appear as a special feature on the 2007 Special Edition DVD of 2001:
A Space Odyssey.)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/stanleykubrick-101212114526-phpapp02/85/Stanley-Kubrick-3-320.jpg)
Stanley Kubrick
- 1. Stanley Kubrick a filmdirector, film producer, screen writer, cinematographer and a film editor
- 2. “One of thethings that gave me the most confidence in trying to make a film was seeing all the lousy films that I saw. Because I sat there and thought, Well, I don't know a goddamn thing about movies, but I know I can make a film better than that”
- 3. THE LIFE OFSTANLEY KUBRICK Kubrick was born on July 26, in the year of 1928 in Manhattan, New York. Kubrick died at the age of 70 on March 7, 1999. Kubrick's father taught him chess at age twelve, and the game remained a lifelong obsession. He also bought his son a Graflex camera when he was thirteen, triggering a fascination with still photography. As a teenager, Kubrick was interested in jazz, and briefly attempted a career as a drummer. Kubrick attended William Howard Taft High School from 1941–45. He was a poor student, with a meager 67 grade average. He graduated from high school in 1945, but his poor grades, combined with the demand for college admissions from soldiers returning from the Second World War, eliminated any hopes of higher education. Later in life, Kubrick spoke disdainfully of his education and of education in general, maintaining that nothing about school interested him.His parents sent him to live with relatives for a year in Los Angeles in the hopes that it would help his academic growth. While still in high school, he was chosen as an official school photographer for a year. In 1946, since he wasn't able to gain admission to day session classes at colleges, he briefly attended evening classes at the City College of New York and then left. Eventually, he sought jobs as a freelance photographer, and by graduation, he had sold a photographic series to Look magazine. Kubrick supplemented his income by playing chess "for quarters" in Washington Square Park and various Manhattan chess clubs. He became an apprentice photographer for Look in 1946, and later a full-time staff photographer. (Many early [1945– 50] photographs by Kubrick have been published in the book Drama and Shadows [2005, Phaidon Press] and also appear as a special feature on the 2007 Special Edition DVD of 2001: A Space Odyssey.)
- 4. KUBRICK... Stanley Kubrick's filmshave several trademark characteristics. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his slow method of working, the variety of genres he worked in, his technical perfectionism, and his reclusiveness about his films and personal life. Kubrick is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished, innovative, and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. His films are characterised by a formal visual style and meticulous attention to detail. Many of his films had voice-over narration, sometimes taken verbatim from the novel. With or without narration, all of his films contain extensive character's-point-of-view footage.
- 5. Stanley Kubrick Filmmaking Techniques Stanley Kubrick’s Filmmaking Technique “Social Surrealism” is the conscious manifestation of a subconscious form of forces taking place beneath the mind’s eye. Kubrick is more concerned with psychic forces; philosophical and surreal beyond the shadow of a doubt, than he is with the emotional life of his characters or the discontent of his audience. Kubrick’s films are not fictions but psychic depictions of real life. Their setting is the mind itself and how one will relate to it. Kubrick’s work deals with history’s dreams. His films are political, dealing with creation and the destruction of our moral codes. Most significantly, the core is mystical. Kubrick was one of the few filmmakers, which believes the motion picture camera can extract a space and time and create a reality that attaches to the historical moments of life captured on film. “SOCIAL SURREALISM” “PHYSICAL AND THEMATIC SYMMETRY” “PAINTED FACE OF THE EYE” “SYMPHONIC LONG TRACKING SHOTS” “GRAPHIC MATCHED MEANINGS” “STILL PAINTINGS IN ESTABLISHING SHOTS” “PARALLEL MISE-EN-SCENE” “OBJECTIVITY OF SUBJECTIVITY” “TEXTUAL RECURRENCES”
- 6. FILMOGRAPHY 1953 - Fearand Desire 1955 - Killer's Kiss 1956 - The Killing 1957 - Paths of Glory 1960 - Spartacus 1962 - Lolita 1964 - Dr. Strangelove 1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey 1971 - A Clockwork Orange 1975- Barry Lyndon 1980 - The Shining 1987 - Full Metal Jacket 1999 - Eyes Wide Shut
- 7. 2001: A Space A Clockwork Orange The Shining (1980) Full Metal Jacket Odyssey (1968) (1971) (1987) A family heads to an isolated A pragmatic U.S. Marine Mankind finds a mysterious, In future Britain, charismatic hotel for the winter where an observes the dehumanizing obviously artificial, artefact delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed evil and spiritual presence effects the Vietnam War has on buried on the moon and, with and volunteers for an influences the father into his fellow Marine recruits from the intelligent computer HAL, experimental aversion therapy violence, while his psychic son their brutal basic training to the sets off on a quest. developed by the government in sees horrific forebodings from bloody street fighting set in 1968 an effort to solve society's crime the past and of the future. Hue, Vietnam. problem... but not all goes to plan. FILMOGRAPHY...
- 8. 1980’s THE SHINING Thepace of Kubrick's work slowed considerably after Barry Lyndon, and he did not make another film for five years. The Shining, released in 1980, was adapted from the novel of the same name by bestselling horror writer Stephen King. The film starred Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, a failed writer who takes a job as an off-season caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, a high-class resort deep in the Colorado mountains. The job requires spending the winter in the isolated hotel with his wife, Wendy (played by Shelley Duvall) and their young son, Danny, who is gifted with a form of telepathy—the "shining" of the film's title. As winter takes hold, the family's isolation deepens, and the demons and ghosts of the Overlook Hotel's dark past begin to awake, displaying horrible, phantasmagoric images to Danny, and driving his father Jack into a homicidal psychosis. The film was shot entirely on London soundstages, with the exception of second-unit exterior footage, which was filmed in Colorado, Montana, and Oregon. In order to convey the claustrophobic oppression of the haunted hotel, Kubrick made extensive use of the newly invented Steadicam, a weight-balanced camera support, which allowed for smooth camera movement in enclosed spaces. More than any of his other films, The Shining gave rise to the legend of Kubrick as a megalomaniac perfectionist. Reportedly, he demanded hundreds of takes of certain scenes (approximately 1.3 million feet of film was shot) Kubrick's film was the second to make notably innovative use of the Steadicam, which can track motion smoothly without a dolly track
- 9. Kubrick’s Academy Awards Year Award Film Result 1964 Best Picture Dr. Strangelove Nominated Best Director Nominated Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) Nominated 1968 Best Director 2001: A Space Odyssey Nominated Best Story and Screenplay (Written Directly for the Screen) Nominated Best Special Visual Effects Won 1971 Best Picture A Clockwork Orange Nominated Best Director Nominated Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) Nominated 1975 Best Picture Barry Lyndon Nominated Best Director Nominated Best Writing (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material) Nominated 1987 Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) Full Metal Jacket Nominated
- 10. INFLUENCES He was influencedby: Max Ophuls Fritz Lang G.W. Pabst Vsevolod Pudovkin Jean Renoir Vittorio De Sica.
- 11. And he hasinfluenced so many more: Martin Scorsese David Lynch Steven Spielberg Lars Von Trier James Cameron Richard Linklater Woody Allen Sam Mendes Terry Gilliam Joel Schumacher Ridley Scott Taylor Ackford Christopher Nolan Michael Mann David Fincher George A. Romero Guillermo del Toro Quentin Tarantino
- 12. STANLEY KUBRICK 1928 - 1999