Christiane Kubrick

"The most important parts of a film are the mysterious parts - beyond the reach of reason and language" - Stanley Kubrick Kubricks distinguished movie making was made out of experimentation. Everything is centered around re-invention. It's hard to talk about Kubricks work without overly analysing it, but that should be done because he is one of the most celebrated directors of our time. His film making techniques are striking, but the most important things within his films are exploring the…

Stoddard, Valance, and Doniphon making up a visual triangle is something that I hadn’t noticed before you mentioned it Meredith. Interestingly enough, I think your analysis of how Stoddard is unable to understand western ideals in contrast to both Doniphon and Valance extends the usage of triangles in this film representatively within these characters. On the one hand I agree with what both of you have said. Like Hunter, I found the majority of scenes in the film to be lacking aesthetically as…

They are trapped by the snow, and when cabin fever catches up to the man, Jack, things get out of hand. People worldwide love the novel and the movie, but Mr. King has spoken out against the movie version due to changes made by the director, Stanley Kubrick. The variations between the novel and movie include: Jack Torrance’s battle…

selflessly endures the monstrous ghosts and ghouls, who are all white, of the Overlook hotel in order to save Danny and Wendy Torrance. He emerges victorious, and even helps the mother and son overcome their grief. However, in the film version, Stanley Kubrick frames Hallorann as a weak, insignificant individual in comparison to the whites around him. Hallorann is murdered almost immediately upon arrival to the hotel, and his efforts are not acknowledged. Whereas King illustrates that…

Anthony Burgess via Alex DeLarge Psychoanalysis is based on the idea that literature is an extension of the conscious and subconscious mind. In a novel, the emotions of an author are manifested as a story of a protagonist and his world. The protagonist is created as the author’s persona, and the setting of the story parallels events from the author’s past. In Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, the protagonist Alex DeLarge is a direct projection of Burgess’s psyche. Analysis of…

sociopathic behavior. Jack Torrance slowly loses his mind when he is stuck with his family inside a hotel in the winter months and Private Joker is systematically conditioned to become a killer within the military hierarchy. Clearly in each of his films, Kubrick was stating that violence does not solve violence. After a close analysis of his filmography, it becomes more understandable how the process of setting out to do a serious Cold War film could turn into a black…

In Act 2 Scene 3 of William Shakespeare’s play Othello, we hear a soliloquy of Iago. Soliloquies are essential in a play as it is the only time the actor is able to explain their thought process to the audience. In typical soliloquies, the character is not acting for someone else. The character, in essence, is able to portray his/her true self. Through Iago’s soliloquy, the audience is able to hear his malicious intentions. The audience is introduced to his evil mind though his appalling tone,…

The philosophical question of if we, as individuals, have free will is one that does not produce a concrete answer. But in 1971, Stanley Kubrick brought that question to life in a film called A Clockwork Orange. This film portrays a young man named Alex, who is a criminal gang leader, and participates in the Ultra-Violence. Does Alex have the free will to choose his fate as a dangerous, drug-induced criminal in society or is has his fate been predetermined since birth? Could the environment in…

The Native American Genocide that swept America “The Shining” is a classic horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, released on May 23, 1980. The movie takes place in the home of the three main characters Jack Torrance, Wendy Torrance and Danny Torrence aka Doc. Jack goes for an Interview and ends up getting the job during the winter as the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. The Overlook Hotel is known to have many Native American patterns on the floor and curtains even on Wendy’s clothes.…

Psycho Article Summary With over a hundred years of watching movies, audiences have come to expect a certain formula their films should follow, and when they don’t there can be some unseen outcomes. One film that is famously known for breaking this formula is Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. When Psycho first released film goers and movie critics alike were shocked and (for many cases) appalled by the twist shower scene in Hitchcock’s movie. Although it is no argument that Psycho’s shower scene, and…