The Original Sully on 11/26/07 at 1:42 AM

I Love The Film But I Need Someone To Explain That Ending. I'm Still Confused.
Please I'm Begging You To Reply.
My Grounds Are At
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?journalid=475961&view=public
Thanking You.
Michael.
PLEASE!

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Juggernaut on 10/9/04 at 10:06 PM

What was the first Kubrick film you ever saw? Did you like it at first, if not tell why. Did you like it better a second time around?

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wertham on 10/6/04 at 12:57 AM

Though Kubrick became accustomed to living in the eye of critical hurricanes, his early background was hardly tempestuous. He was born in the Bronx in 1928, the son of a doctor. Kubrick's adolescent ambition to become a jazz drummer was sidetracked at the age of 13, when his father gave him his first camera -- a Graflex. Habitually quiet and introspective, young Kubrick made few friends, but his photographic talent blossomed rapidly. In 1945, two months before he graduated from Taft High School in the Bronx (with a lukewarm 67 average), he snapped a picture of a weeping news dealer surrounded by papers announcing F.D.R.'s death, submitted the photo to Look and received $25 for his first published work. Shortly thereafter, Look also gave Kubrick his first job; he became one of the youngest photographers in the magazine's history.

Kubrick stayed with the magazine until 1950, supplementing his modest income by playing chess in Washington Square Park at 25 cents a game; but he was becoming increasingly intrigued with cinema. His first film, Day of the Fight, was a short documentary about prizefighter Walter Cartier. It cost all of $3900 to make, but Kubrick soon found he couldn't retrieve even this investment. Finally he sold the work to RKO-Pathè at a $100 loss. After one more unheralded documentary, Kubrick decided to try his hand -- and his luck -- at a feature-length film. He quit his job at Look, raised $20,000 -- mostly from his father and his uncle -- and began shooting Fear and Desire, the story of four soldiers, isolated behind enemy lines during World War II, who gain insights about themselves in their struggle to rejoin their outfit. Kubrick now regards the film as pretentious and amateurish, but many critics welcomed it as a remarkably sensitive first effort. Though rejected by all major distributors, Fear and Desire toured the art-house circuit and eventually broke even.

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wertham on 10/3/04 at 12:12 AM

"In 2001 the message is the medium. I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with its emotional and philosophical content."

"Within 200 years we will have reached a stage of genetic engineering where another race could transmit its genetic code to us by radio and we could then duplicate one of their species in our laboratories."

"All the attributes assigned to God could be the characteristics of biological entities who have evolved into something as remote from man as man is remote from the primordial ooze from which he first emerged."

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wertham on 10/2/04 at 9:49 AM

This book looks DAMN good, eh?


"I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel." -Stanley Kubrick

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