Kubrick - Paths of Glory - trenche warfare scene

[onezkyrideRO]

this is the way to film a war fighting sequence, not the shitty shaky camera used in saving private ryan . Stanley Kubrick is still the best director ever in my opinion.

[rabbitsandcarrots]

that countdown kills me!



[tricorn1776]

This is the Greatest War/Anti War Film of All Time

[Mr555www2]

00:07 a soldier is hit in the head by a lump of mud-wow

[picklerwoof]

The best war film ever made in my opinion.

[flembag32]

@picklerwoof

I am very close to agreement with you Pick, The Paths of Glory & Das Boot are my Favz.

If you ever come across the book called "The Price Of Glory" by Alastair Horne. Buy it.

It's all about the Battle of Verdun, basiclly Kubrick's movie, the Path's of Glory.

[phxsns1]

DAMN! 2:38 must have been brutal for the 50s!

[leesherman100]

Incredible tactics that got nowhere. An entire generation of soldiers sacrificed. This may look incredible, but it actually happened this way. It had'nt changed much by WWII as the Japanese frequently stormed machine guns much as the french did in WWI. War is hell, in fact hell may be an improvement!! Kubrick did his homework here. Quite a tale for 1957!! Oh, so very sad. War is a last ditch decision, it means everything else failed. Some wars must be fought, others must not!! Support the NRA.

[niflap]

@leesherman100 It's a hard call to make either way. There was (& probably still is) a lot of corruption in the chain of command, but sometimes if you don't fight the enemy under the umbrella of authority, you'll be left to do so on your own. It seems WWI was a big time future shock-trying to fight a "historical" war w/ modern weaponry. Hitec weapons & very little mobility, ending in a paper victory that WWII had to resolve. WWII was costlier, but wwi was "dirtier". from a soldior's standpoint.

[matthewinnj08]

is this movie worth 2 buy?

[cha5]

@matthewinnj08 Yes! go get the Criterion Blu-Ray DVD already!

[worldpolicenow]

at least we will have the ant hill

[Maryjaneslave]

Kubrick is a genius on a technical level. No filmmaker, not even Kurosawa, Hitchcock, or Bergman can match his craft. The man doesn't have a huge list of films he directed, but each one should be shown to film classes on how to invoke a scene from a technical viewpoint.

[baruavice]

This is pretty fuckin amazing for a film shot in 1957

[rzwilli]

that's THE camera....

[cm2dude]

Best world war one pic available.

[GigaShotStudios]

I love Kubrick`s filming style, when he would simply follow one or two people with a camera. No tracks, just a camera guy running behind or beside somebody else. Awesome.

[gangstasmurf06]

I love the way the soldiers just drudge forward methodically with the camera following them at an even pace. It's like watching the tide come in the beach in slow motion. Except the tide is soldiers and the beach is a battlefield. In my opinion, it is much better than the Saving Private Ryan scene. The SPR scene had a lot of shock for the sake of being shocking. Mutilated bodies and such that, while accurate, were a kind of cheap way to bring gravitas to the scene. Kubrick reigns supreme.

[StonewallJackson26]

@gangstasmurf06 I believe it is hard to compare the two. Both are great. What's amazing about this is that it was made in 19-fucking-57!

[raherecolston]

The late great Stan was indeed a master of the cinema.If this was shot in '57, approx 40 yrs before SPR , how much better might it have been with the CGI and prosthetics available to Spielberg.

Not that it needed to be a lot better, it was brilliant anyway!

[ordowski]

An absolutely stunning sequence on a technical level.

[Mortarion12]

looking at this now, this is a very VERY expertly shot scene for 1957 and no computer graphics.

[1RainKitsune1]

agreed

[blygox129]

In some ways i think this is better than the saving private ryan scene