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Film Formalism. Stanley Kubrick as a Formalist Filmmaker. Table of Contents. 1) Stanley Kubrick 2) 2001: A Space Odyssey 3) Barry Lyndon. Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick as Auteur (who stamps unmistakable personality and vision on his/her films) Kubrick as formalist. Stanley Kubrick. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Film Formalism
Stanley Kubrick as a Formalist Filmmaker
Table of Contents
1) Stanley Kubrick2) 2001: A Space Odyssey3) Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick
• Kubrick as Auteur (who stamps unmistakable personality and vision on his/her films)
• Kubrick as formalist
Stanley Kubrick
• At the age of 16 his photos were published in the Look magazine. Employed as a photographer and contributed 600 photos to the magazine.
• His formative years
• Nurturing and demonstrating keen visual sense
Stanley Kubrick
• Kubrick’s first film• Self-financed short documentary,
Day of the Fight (1951)• Documentary on prizefighters • Look magazine photojournalism = documen
tary film • Capturing mood and atmosphere - the prim
ary aim of his documentary films
Stanley Kubrick
• Three documentary films (1951-2)• 13 feature films (1953-1999)• Fear and Desire (1953) the first feature - about
four soldiers trapped behind the enemy line and their escape is sidetracked by a woman and an enemy general.
Stanley Kubrick
• Killer’s Kiss (1955) - a prizefighter intervenes when a girl is assaulted by her employer/lover. This incident brings the two together and the fighter is threatened to be killed.
• The Killer (1956) getting out of prison, a man masterminds a race track heist but the scheme is complicated by various people.
Stanley Kubrick • Paths of Glory (1957) - the bureaucracy of the French army execute three of its soldiers on charges of cowardice.
• Though the narrative and the theme are simple, Kubrick manages to create powerful images by frequently using telephoto lenses.
• Spartacus (1960)
Stanley Kubrick
• Kubrick’s self-exile to England• Lolita (1962) - the first work of an auteur. C
ontroversial motif and his camera captures the danger and allure of lust. Kubrick discovered in this film Peter Sellers.
Stanley Kubrick
• Highly aesthetic composition• Eloquent photography• Powerful acting• Creative and masterful editing• Thought-provoking themes
• The deciding factor
Stanley Kubrick
• Dr. Strangelove: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (1964) - Satire on the Cold War and the nuclear crisis
• Peter Sellers
Stanley Kubrick
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - SF film
Stanley Kubrick
• Clockwork Orange (1971) - Adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ novel; satire on violence (personal and public)
Stanley Kubrick
• Barry Lyndon (1974) - a history film or costume drama
Stanley Kubrick
• Shining (1980) - Horror film
Stanley Kubrick
• Full Metal Jacket (1987) - the training of Vietnam recruits and the corruption of the narrator in the war.
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999) -
2001: A Space Odyssey
• Made in 1968, a year after Bonnie and Clyde
• Took two and a half year and cost $10.5 million.
2001: A Space Odyssey
• Mythic vision of the relationship between man and machine
• Philosophical contemplation
2001: A Space Odyssey
• Audacious visual design and use of colours• Bold use of music, Richard Strauss’ Also Spr
ach Zaratustra
2001: A Space Odyssey
• Very bold Associative cut (graphic match)
• Ellipsis of several million years from the prehistoric age to 2001
2001: A Space Odyssey
• Simplified and geometrical set design and composition
• Juxtaposition of Johan Strauss’ Blue Danube and the floating space station
2001: A Space Odyssey
• Ridley Scott’s The Alien (1974)• Maze of corridors and cluttered lived-in spac
e of the spacecraft, Nostromo
2001: A Space Odyssey• In Section II a monolith
similar to the one which appeared in Section I is found.
• In Section III a battle between astronauts and the super computer, HAL.
• State of art composition and editing
2001: A Space Odyssey
• Section IV:
• The surviving astronaut’s hallucinatory trip through space and time
2001: A Space Odyssey
• The astronaut arrives as an old man in a white bedroom furnished in Louis XVI style.
• The final frame - his rebirth as embryonic Star-Child.
2001: A Space Odyssey
• Being enigmatic, mystical and sensuous, what is 2001: A Space Odyssey about?
• It resists interpretation.• The film is ‘… essentially a nonverbal ex
perience … It attempts to communicate more to the subconscious and the feelings than it does to the intellect.’ Stanley Kubrick
Barry Lyndon
• The film almost equal to 2001 in historical importance
• Historical drama made in 1975 and based on William Thackeray’s novel in the 19th century
Barry Lyndon
• Expressively lit and photographed• Most sensuous photography• Photographed by John Alcott, (Clockwork Orange
and Shining)