Stanley Kubrick

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves” ― Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII A lot of things go across your cerebral mass between your ears, when watching an Indian movie. Usually the thing that crosses my mind when I see an Indian movie is confusion. This is since I only understand a very small part of it. Although when I was watching one particular movie, called Mardaani, which happened to be on the day that we were supposed to find a topic for this…

From movie to movie, Tim Burton expresses a grotesque sensibility, while characterizing a socially awkward difference. He uses many techniques to torment the detail of his characters and their differentiated personality from their setting. To take into consideration, there are the movies Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, along with Big Fish to show the wide variety of techniques and their desired effect. Burton’s desired effect is to alter the audience’s emotions and builds…

Photography is the key element of mise en scene that determines how an audience will interpret the visual information in film. Orson Welles used the photography of his 1941 film Citizen Kane to emphasize aspects of the film he wanted viewers to focus on, and to remove non-essential information from the frame. This was accomplished through various camera tequniques including manipulation of angles and proxemity. Approaching the end of the film there is a scene just after Susan (played by Dorothy…

All of the evil of the hotel, which is possessing Jack, eventually fights with Danny. The Overlook is working through Jack to make Danny be obedient, and to not run away; Danny has to be "chastised" (Kubrick 1980). The young boy, however, has known that the hotel has been trying to know what he 's thinking, and he has been able to resist it 's attempts. Instead of referring to the hotel 's illusions as "pictures," as he formally did, Danny now calls them "false faces," which are fictitious. In…

The cinematic style of a director is his or her fingerprint. It is wholly unique to that specific director, and even the best attempts to mimic another director’s style are not entirely successful. The esteemed director Tim Burton uses his own unique style to enrich his films with meaning and complexity. However, his use of styles is not equal and balanced, for he draws heavily upon grayscale and dark imagery. He uses these colors as a polarizing agent to enhance the movement of the plot without…

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…

Geoffrey Cocks deals with the reasons that The Shining dwells on history so heavily in his essay “Death by Typewriter: Stanley Kubrick, the Holocaust, and The Shining” and in his book The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust. He deals primarily with how tragedies of the century in which Kubrick grew up affected him, especially the Holocaust given Kubrick’s Jewish roots. The film of The Shining indeed holds various visual, auditory, and thematic references the ties it to…

Choi Jin-won directs and pens ‘’Mister Socrates’’, not a typical gangster film, but a movie that combines comedy, crime, drama and social commentary. The main character is Ku Dong-Hyeok (Kim Rae-won), who is a high-school drop-out and low-level thug. He shows no respect for other people, he has no ethics and he just loves to beat people. One night, while he reports the accidental murder of a friend of his, by another friend, he gets kidnapped by a gang. He is kept in an abandoned school and,…

The Movie “The Shining” was one of the best mysteries horror movies of all time. It’s about a family that stayed over the winter in a hotel in Colorado called “The OverLook Hotel”. A man named Jack wanted to write about staying there over the winter and how it will be a good vacation until things got to him and he went psycho. This film has a lot of allusions in most of the scenes, also towards the middle of the time being there Jack did a lot of violent things to Wendy and Danny. When unusual…

Every part of this movie is as crucial as the next. The sound effects of the all the different animals, are non – synchronous to make it more a natural environment, plants and the Avatars’ language which they speak. All of these sound effect are an important role to this movie as it creates a more lifelike environment for the audience. Whereas you come to the Human Base upon the planet there are synchronous sound effects of the machines. There is always a constant animal sound throughout all the…