Stanley Kubrick

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• Early in his life Stanley Kubrick realised: "We are capable of the greatest good and the greatest evil, and the problem is that we can't distinguish between them when it suits our purpose. " This was one of his major themes, a riff he played in all of his films. Good and evil. Love and hate. Sex and violence. Desire and fear. Fidelity and betrayal. Each of the centural characters in his movies wrestled with these forces within them, and their external circumstances (a war, an affair, a crime) helped to focus that struggle for the benefit of the audience. Kubrick reiterated this idea when he talked about his horror movie The Shining: "There's something inherently wrong with the human personality. There's an evil side to it. One of the things that horror stories can do is to show us the arc... (查看原文)

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• In 1980, Kubrick met Michael Herr through their mutual friend David Cornwell (a.k.a. novelist John le Carre). Herr was the author of Dispatches, a book of reportage about the Vietnam War, and had written Martin Sheen's narration for Apocalypse Now (1979, directed by Francis Ford Coppola). Kubrick and Herr were constantly on the phone in a period Herr described as a three-year phone call with interruptions. Then Kubrick found Gustav Hasford's Vietnam war novel The Short-Timers, a brutally honest, sometimes surreal story of grunts being trained as Marines and then sent to war. Like A Clockwork Orange, it was a short novel with its own specific jargon. Kubrick worked separately with Herr and Hasford on the script. Hasford, a Vietnam veteran, wrote to hif friend Bob Bayer on 11 December 1982: ... (查看原文)

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