STANLEY KUBRICK
Stanley Kubrick was born
in New York City in 1928, Stanley Kubrick grew up in one of the more prosperous
families of his Bronx neighborhood. Yet his childhood was rather bleak and
unhappy. His father, a doctor, tried his best to stimulate his son's interest
in learning. He made books from his library readily available, for example, and
also taught the boy to play chess. But Kubrick was a poor student throughout
his school years; nothing his teachers presented in class seemed to be able to
hold his attention. "I never learned anything at all in school and didn't
read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old" he is quoted as saying
in The Making of Kubrick's 2001. When he turned 13, however, his father bought
him a still camera as a birthday present. As time would tell, it was probably
the most significant gift he ever received
Although young Kubrick took a dim view of school, he
was an avid moviegoer with a keen sense of what worked and what didn't.
"One of the important things about seeing run-of-the-mill Hollywood films
eight times a week was that many of them were so bad, " biographer Vincent
LoBrutto reports Kubrick told a writer for the New York Times. "Without
even beginning to understand what the problems of making films were, I was
taken with the impression that I could not do a film any worse than
the ones I
was seeing. I also felt I could, in fact, do them a lot better
During
his long and distinguished career as a filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick has earned a
reputation as a control-obsessed perfectionist who often re-shoots scenes
hundreds of times, driving actors and actresses to distraction. Yet a number of
his films are considered classics of postwar American cinema, including the one
critics most often point to as his masterpiece, the black comedy Dr. Strange love,
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Kubrick himself for the
most part ignores what people have to say about both him and his movies,
believing that his
work speaks for itself.
And here are some facts about Stanley Kubrick:
- he banned his own movie:
When his family received death threats after the release of A Clockwork
Orange, the director pulled the movie from circulation in Britain. It wasn’t
re-released in the United Kingdom until 2000—after his death.
2- His daughter is in four of his movies
Even though no professional actor has ever appeared in more than three
of Kubrick’s movies, his daughter has cameos in 2001 as Heywood Floyd’s
daughter, in Barry Lyndon as a young party guest, in The Shining as a ghost and
in Full Metal Jacket as a TV reporter.
3- He had a favorite tree:
Not just a specific kind of tree, but an actual tree in Childwickbury
Manor in Hertfordshire. He’s buried beside it.
4- He wanted to be a drummer
Specifically a jazz drummer, but he joined the staff of Look magazine at
the tender age of 17.
5- You’ve been pronouncing his name wrong:
It’s pronounced Cue-brick, not Koo-brick.
: Reference
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/stanley-kubrick
http://www.sundance.tv/blog/2014/10/top-10-things-to-know-about-stanley-kubrick
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