It is due to a political correct farce why Griffith's name has been stripped from the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award. Though in truth, Griffith himself probably wouldn't care less what 'modern' society thinks of him.
For some reason, "Lolita" is my all time favorite Kubrick film. It seems to reflect today's world, just like the past, in which it first was released.
Barry Lyndon was underrated because of the styling used by Kubrick and his creativity to tell the life of one person through narration. I don't think today's directors could pull off a film like Barry Lyndon (or any others that Kubrick made) for the matter.
Murdered. Sorry, but he knew too much. Great respect though for a great man. Spielberg has nothing on Kubrick...an innovator. One last thing, and I think I speak for Stanley Kubrick when I say: FUCK THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
@MrCrazyb23 You think the Illuminati killed him? In my professional opinion I believe he died from condition known as "Being a morbidly obese 77-year old man and dying from a heart attack".
I just saw "Barry Lyndon" and I know it's a great film, but if you cut 45 minutes out of it, I don't know that you'd know the difference. Best thing about the film was Kubrick's intent to make each shoot like a painting. Amazing.
"Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
@bobeagle007 - i lost respect for him when he used Tom [Scientology] Cruise in his film.
Griffith was a prolific film-maker, but at the same time he was racist, just like many people of his day.
Griffith, as Kubrick and others implied, set the benchmarks for film-making and also certain rules about film-making, namely racial ones whereby you couldn't use black people and chinese people in films. So they used sooted up actors for blacks and make-up to make the actor in Broken Blossoms chinese.
@YuwTuwb - Hollywood eventually allowed other races to act in films but they couldn't kiss white people! - crazy apartied rules! In fact there was a chinese silent actress, but her romantic scenes were very limited.
@costardnataniel - the whole society wasn't pro racist at the time. Griffith seemed to be pro racist and worse - he was inciting hatred and violence against an already oppressed people who suffered greatly in previous decades as well. Many people were trying to help black americans but they never had the powerful position of getting a message to the masses like Griffith did. Birth of a Nation was as bad as Mein Kampf really. It had a bad effect in the long run, i think.
@YuwTuwb you're absolutely right.I live in germany and it makes my theet hurt everytime I hear the "everyone was like that" or even the "nobody actually knew what was going on" argument. So yes, I don't even know why I wrote that first message in the first place.
@tikiedit have you ever watched "Birth of a Nation" Griffith depicts the KKK as the heroes of the movie. Also all the black characters in the movie are played by white people in black face, displaying every stereotype of black people there is. I don't know how one could make such a movie and not be a racist.
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I wonder about that. right before he died, out of all the films he's made, EWS was his favorite. He was known for being a perfectionist and maybe he felt that he final made the perfect film
More to the point, 'MegaMaverick1994', he sounds like Peter Sellers playing 'President Merkin Muffley' in Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" (1963). Sellers may have resembled Adlai Stevenson in that film, but I believe he found his 'voice' imitating Stanley K..
@GratefulVince I agree. Though I can see why most people avoid it, a 3 hour long period piece that ranks as probably one of the most depressing movies ever made isn't exactly something that sounds appealing. But it is nonetheless brilliant and one of the best looking movies I've ever seen.
In regards to your barry lyndon underrated thoughts...
First impression when it was released was that I didn't want Ryan O'neal in a film with such seasoned fascinated faces and actors. Later I thought he was great...my limitation.
However, the same year, a french film called The Wanderer came out, and had a much more powerful effect on me. The artifice of Barry Lyndon's perfection and it's narration and stateliness may have limited it's emotional power for me.
@GratefulVince Barry Lyndon isn't underrated at all. It is greatly appreciated by all movie conoisseurs. Fear and Desire is his most underrated movie, and there can be no doubt about that. Unless you're one of those people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonlanding was a Kubrick, in which case it was uncredited, and thus even more underrated. Barry Lyndon however is way mainstream, and properly rated as one of the greatest movies ever, by everyone who has seen it.
@GratefulVince You are absolutely right. I have seen it dozens of times, and it's realism, combined with extraordinary beauty must be considered one of the greatest films made.
@TheMurePolly Not sure if you were reading the same text, but it was my DIRECTING teacher and was I was referring to his teacher when he was in collage. But I did hear this about Kubrick in a few other places other then school.
@nukeadream alright, your DIRECTING teacher was wrong, and so were the other sources. If you click on "The Shining - Kubrick - The making of Shining" to your right, you'll see him directing the film in person
Love it. Yeah his voice definitely has a casual new york/new jersey twang. I recommend the audio interview on the 2001 Blu ray, which is rather lengthy, recorded while he was making 2001 and describing his career up to that point. He sounds happier in it. Here he is more serious.
@aclark141 A lot of the things you've heard about him were made up. He was a recluse and therefore the press weren't able to write many stories about him. They even wrote a story once (not sure if it was serious or not) claiming that Stanley shot someone for being on his garden, then shot him again for bleeding on his grass.
@aclark141 Maybe so, but he was definitely an innovative genius. His films honestly are decades ahead of their time, and we never really knew much about his personal life, but he seriously seems like one of the smartest people ever to walk this Earth.
CHRISTIANE KUBRICK: He said, "You see, I just can't do it." The minute it wasn't official, he was fine. The minute someone stuck a mike in front of his mouth, he said: "My mind is blank and I say nothing, or the most stupid stuff." That's why he didn't want to give interviews. He said, "Why should I work very hard in the film and then make a fool of myself?"
@MonicaMihai88 Hey, those are great quotes and thanks for sharing them. I feel pretty much the same way most of the time, not that anyone will be interviewing me any time soon (or ever!). :-]
CHRISTIANE KUBRICK:His Griffith Award acceptance speech [in 1997] -- he was miserable and he left it to the last minute. And he did it so badly and he got into a really bad mood. He'd written it very well but he couldn't say it. We finally got it on tape and he said, "I'd better not see it, otherwise I'll never send it off." So he sent it off, and then he saw it and nearly choked with laughter -- rolling on the floor -- he couldn't believe it.
About Kubrick and the Oscar. I think he wouldn't have cared anyway. He was far beyond the glitz and glamor of Hollywood, as to have bothered with an ugly worthless statuette. This man was an icon himself, he didn't need one to be one. Above all though, with his passing he left us with a huge gap in cinema artistry in its purest form. He was in a way the Akira Kurosawa of the Western world and nobody will ever be able to either replace him or even come near him.
Sad he had to die at age 70. He would have made one more film. He could have finally reached his Oscar for directing that he never got. He was a misunderstood director and it took till after his death till people finally realized that he truely is one of the greatest directors of all time.
This speech is brilliant and meaningful. This is the Master talking to us. Every film maker in Hollywood should be made to watch this till they get the message. Lift your game, after Kubrick there is no excuse for bad movies. He has shown us the way.
@archangel385 Directors don't always write the scripts for their movies! They are there to bring their vision to life and to "direct" ever aspect of the movie.
@archangel385 Very few directors write their own scripts. Most screenplays are written or adapted by non-directors. That's pretty much been standard practice for the last 80 years.
@archangel385 The funny part is that he wrote the screenplay for what WOULD have been his magnum opus. He just never filmed it. Do a web search for "kubrick napoleon script." The article at Salon.com is especially interesting.
@archangel385 It'll do for me. I've read it. It's like reading a Bach score, say, The Art of Fuge, and enjoying it for what it is. And so it goes . . .
The unwashed masses didnt like Eyes Wide Shut because they didnt understand it. Personally, I rank that as my favorite because I could tell that the characters and events symbolized powerful political figures that kubrick knew in the 70's. Everyone else just thought it was a big porno. There was a lot more to that movie than you realize, and if you truely knew the subttext, you would not look at politics the same way again...
Wanna hear something funny guys? One reviewer said that Stanley Kubrick is a director that you'll "grow out of" once you see past the pretension. Some people are so fucking stupid.
I think Kubrick's the best,because i think he's made the best films of certain genre's.I thinkThe killing is the best heist film.Paths of glory the best WWl film,dr strangelove,the best satire,the shining the best horror film,full metal jacket,the best vietnam film.Those are masterpieces,endlessly entertaining and thought provoking at the same time,for me.His other films(lolita,2001,clockwork,Lyndon,eyes) i think are flawed masterpieces,because of pacing,but still powerful and memorable.
Film maker extroadinaire! Each film has unforgettable sequences and dialogue. His framing of the picture is impeccable - Kubrick knew how to eleicit powerful emotions from his actors and consequently his audience, and he demanded nothing less than perfection in each and every take. RIP
Look, Kubrick is my favorite filmmaker of all time, and I think Spielberg is a great blockbuster director but his more mature films lack substance. Let's face it, Steven is only it for the money. That being said, I feel a little bad for him when people say things like what you commented. Not only was taking on Kubrick's project a huge, stressful responsibility, but he actually ended it the way Kubrick had planned on ending and continuing it. The 'til the batteries run out ending never existed.
Even watching the clips from hes movies, even without sound you get strange feeling. I am less acceptive to sound and more to visual, so composition of frames in he's movies affect me to the sky.
Do a better job on the wings! That's the words of the master, right there. Youn want to fly higher, look at what is taking you there, do a better job on that. Amazing man, never made a bad film. I've watched everything from Strangelove to Eyes Wide Shut and they are all wonderful, ranging from extremely good to utterly brilliant. His comment about finally getting it right might explain his many, many takes, I think he had one aim, to get it right, always get it right.
His wife, Christiane on this video: 'The Griffith Award acceptance speech [in 1997] -- he was miserable and he left it to the last minute. And he did it so badly and he got into a really bad mood. He'd written it very well but he couldn't say it. We finally got it on tape and he said, "I'd better not see it, otherwise I'll never send it off." So he sent it off, and then he saw it and nearly choked with laughter -- rolling on the floor -- he couldn't believe it. '
@aclark141 But his films built on one another. He kept perfecting his technique. There are shots in Eyes Wide Shut that draw from 2001, shots in 2001 that draw from Paths of Glory....Dude was near-perfect practically to begin with, but he kept hammering on technique, movie after movie.
@AlanCanon2222 Well yes, of course his films built on one another, every good director does that, but that doesn't mean each subsequent film was better than the last. I for one believe Paths of Glory was his best film with Barry Lyndon a close second, but Eyes Wide Shut was probably his worst film (which was also his last film.)
@aclark141 I tend to agree with EWS being his least effective film. But truth be told, I'd rather watch Kubrick's worst film than most directors' best films.
When you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling. Yes, now we know why he did hundreds of takes, drove actors to breaking point and never let up. His enjoyment came from getting the film right. Not getting it finished, getting it made cheap, getting it on time, or making the cast happy and making sure they all loved him and he was popular. None of that crap mattered. He wanted it to be right and that's why he was best ever, he got it right.
i love the irony of this interview. D.W. Griffith was a total racist in his 'pioneering film' Birth of A Nation and Kubrick states at the beginning he is working on Eyes Wide Shut.
Stanley Kubrick is and will forever be the greatest filmmaker that ever lived and even that is an understatement.
It is due to a political correct farce why Griffith's name has been stripped from the DGA's Lifetime Achievement Award. Though in truth, Griffith himself probably wouldn't care less what 'modern' society thinks of him.
1234526610 2 days ago
For some reason, "Lolita" is my all time favorite Kubrick film. It seems to reflect today's world, just like the past, in which it first was released.
Barry Lyndon was underrated because of the styling used by Kubrick and his creativity to tell the life of one person through narration. I don't think today's directors could pull off a film like Barry Lyndon (or any others that Kubrick made) for the matter.
92680BOYD 3 days ago
Murdered. Sorry, but he knew too much. Great respect though for a great man. Spielberg has nothing on Kubrick...an innovator. One last thing, and I think I speak for Stanley Kubrick when I say: FUCK THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
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@MrCrazyb23 You think the Illuminati killed him? In my professional opinion I believe he died from condition known as "Being a morbidly obese 77-year old man and dying from a heart attack".
spacejesusadventure 1 week ago
@MrCrazyb23 You are a fantastically stupid person.
maddpiklz48 5 days ago
I am. Very poorly. Reading this speech. Of a. Teleprompter.
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Scaredmushrooms 1 week ago
I just saw "Barry Lyndon" and I know it's a great film, but if you cut 45 minutes out of it, I don't know that you'd know the difference. Best thing about the film was Kubrick's intent to make each shoot like a painting. Amazing.
buttcoat 3 weeks ago
Yes...Forget the wax and feathers and do a better job on the wings.
blephen 3 weeks ago
"...but I'm in London, making Eyes Wide Shut with Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman."
.. then he began to breathe heavily and weep.
RockoStylezFlyest 4 weeks ago
"Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
uploadvdos 1 month ago
ah back when America actully had A pop culture.
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what boreing man.
Everett345 1 month ago
@Everett345 Surely, you're talking about yourself. And don't bother feeling bad about misspelling the word "boring". It's a real brain buster.
codemonkeybrains 1 month ago
@Everett345 he may seem like a boring man but his films are great!
Eastwoodisboss 1 month ago
@Everett345 You clearly have no idea about who you're talking about.
StrawberryJungle 1 month ago
He should have received the 'Orson Welles' award instead of that racist DW griffith award.
tool619 2 months ago
Fuck D w GRIFFITHS..hE WAS A CUNT..
bobeagle007 2 months ago
@bobeagle007 - i lost respect for him when he used Tom [Scientology] Cruise in his film.
Griffith was a prolific film-maker, but at the same time he was racist, just like many people of his day.
Griffith, as Kubrick and others implied, set the benchmarks for film-making and also certain rules about film-making, namely racial ones whereby you couldn't use black people and chinese people in films. So they used sooted up actors for blacks and make-up to make the actor in Broken Blossoms chinese.
YuwTuwb 2 months ago
@YuwTuwb - Hollywood eventually allowed other races to act in films but they couldn't kiss white people! - crazy apartied rules! In fact there was a chinese silent actress, but her romantic scenes were very limited.
YuwTuwb 2 months ago
@YuwTuwb but that was not Griffit, that was the whole society at the time. Doesn't makes it any better, but is not a small difference either.
costardnataniel 2 months ago
@costardnataniel - the whole society wasn't pro racist at the time. Griffith seemed to be pro racist and worse - he was inciting hatred and violence against an already oppressed people who suffered greatly in previous decades as well. Many people were trying to help black americans but they never had the powerful position of getting a message to the masses like Griffith did. Birth of a Nation was as bad as Mein Kampf really. It had a bad effect in the long run, i think.
YuwTuwb 2 months ago
@YuwTuwb you're absolutely right.I live in germany and it makes my theet hurt everytime I hear the "everyone was like that" or even the "nobody actually knew what was going on" argument. So yes, I don't even know why I wrote that first message in the first place.
costardnataniel 1 month ago
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slasherdude100 2 months ago
I wonder how many takes it took him to make this video
sjcalcote 2 months ago
It's a shame that he didn't win any Oscar for directing. He was I believe one of the most greatest Director!
029Mhelz 2 months ago 5
D. W. Griffith - Outrageous racist. Everybody skips that part.
timwise1960 2 months ago
@timwise1960 Grow up.
tikiedit 2 months ago
@tikiedit have you ever watched "Birth of a Nation" Griffith depicts the KKK as the heroes of the movie. Also all the black characters in the movie are played by white people in black face, displaying every stereotype of black people there is. I don't know how one could make such a movie and not be a racist.
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peopledick 2 months ago
ugh, Eyes wide shut was a nasty movie. he should've gone to the award ceremony instead.
Influx27 3 months ago
@Influx27 I wish he hadn't died then he could have actually edited it.
222Miller 3 months ago
@222Miller yeah. If he'd lived to edit it (in addition to it likely coming out significantly later) the film probably wouldn't've been so nasty
Influx27 3 months ago
ohhh 10 p we meet again ...... just kidding ^^
reedeema 3 months ago
legend....sorely missed.
clonard 3 months ago
I love that Stanley's accent had become a bit Anglicised by this time in his life.
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allouTV 3 months ago
Eyes Wide Shut` i love that movie and many more! thanks a lot Stanley.
Jetcforce424 3 months ago
What a shame.. I wonder if he were still alive today what his next movie after EWS woulda been.
BoredOfFakeTalents 3 months ago
@BoredOfFakeTalents I'm pretty sure he planned for EWS to be his last film...
tornadomaster96 3 months ago
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I wonder about that. right before he died, out of all the films he's made, EWS was his favorite. He was known for being a perfectionist and maybe he felt that he final made the perfect film
QuietGiantProduction 3 months ago
this is the REAL kings speech
TheEpicMunchies 3 months ago 45
Come on Firebirds, let's work on those wings ;) ~
ghostofdayinperson 3 months ago
This speech is as warm and human as his films. Kubrickbot2000 thanks you!
Armakk 3 months ago
More to the point, 'MegaMaverick1994', he sounds like Peter Sellers playing 'President Merkin Muffley' in Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" (1963). Sellers may have resembled Adlai Stevenson in that film, but I believe he found his 'voice' imitating Stanley K..
scorpiowatertiger 3 months ago
Kubrick is a movie
Eneru89 3 months ago
He sounds like Steven Hawking
MegaMaverick1994 3 months ago
Does anyone else think Barry Lyndon is his most underrated movie? true cinephiles love this film but it is not widely seen
GratefulVince 4 months ago 125
@GratefulVince I agree. Though I can see why most people avoid it, a 3 hour long period piece that ranks as probably one of the most depressing movies ever made isn't exactly something that sounds appealing. But it is nonetheless brilliant and one of the best looking movies I've ever seen.
Ichiboy900 3 months ago
@GratefulVince
MASTERPIECE OF A FILM. I JUST SAW IT RECENTLY AND WOW. NOT ONE BAD SHOT THE ENTIRE FILM. STANLEY WAS A TRUE, TRUE GENIUS. RIP.
pein05 3 months ago 2
@GratefulVince Beautifull film , barry lyndon! :D
JippaLippa 2 months ago
@GratefulVince
In regards to your barry lyndon underrated thoughts...
First impression when it was released was that I didn't want Ryan O'neal in a film with such seasoned fascinated faces and actors. Later I thought he was great...my limitation.
However, the same year, a french film called The Wanderer came out, and had a much more powerful effect on me. The artifice of Barry Lyndon's perfection and it's narration and stateliness may have limited it's emotional power for me.
sclogse1 1 month ago
@GratefulVince Barry Lyndon is a MASTERPIECE !!!
torturetilldeath 4 weeks ago
@GratefulVince
I love that movie!
Robin4ever1970 3 weeks ago
@GratefulVince
I agree, Lyndon is definitely his best photographed film.
bennyvega100 3 weeks ago
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cdubmeyer 2 weeks ago
@GratefulVince Barry Lyndon isn't underrated at all. It is greatly appreciated by all movie conoisseurs. Fear and Desire is his most underrated movie, and there can be no doubt about that. Unless you're one of those people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonlanding was a Kubrick, in which case it was uncredited, and thus even more underrated. Barry Lyndon however is way mainstream, and properly rated as one of the greatest movies ever, by everyone who has seen it.
Ramsez 2 weeks ago
@GratefulVince Those who have not seen it have not received satisfaction..that is for sure.
cinavenom1 2 weeks ago
@GratefulVince You are absolutely right. I have seen it dozens of times, and it's realism, combined with extraordinary beauty must be considered one of the greatest films made.
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jaggerlags 1 day ago
Nope. My directing instructor had a class that focused on Kubricks life. This is what I was taught day after day.
nukeadream 4 months ago
@nukeadream well, your acting teacher was wrong
TheMurePolly 3 months ago
@TheMurePolly Not sure if you were reading the same text, but it was my DIRECTING teacher and was I was referring to his teacher when he was in collage. But I did hear this about Kubrick in a few other places other then school.
nukeadream 3 months ago
@nukeadream alright, your DIRECTING teacher was wrong, and so were the other sources. If you click on "The Shining - Kubrick - The making of Shining" to your right, you'll see him directing the film in person
TheMurePolly 3 months ago
@nukeadream
"when he was in..." college*
"places other..." than* school.
double check your grammar before making accusations about a cinematic genius. your directing teacher is misinformed.
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AlessandroCellai 4 months ago
thank you for everything, mr.kubrick
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AlessandroCellai 4 months ago
Kubrick never left his house for a film. The shining was shot through satellite.
nukeadream 4 months ago
@nukeadream i hope your being sarcastic
Struckworld 4 months ago
@jlpicardUSS1701e actually he didn't go to the US as a policy. Thats why he filmed his work in England where he lived
PtAltmVansanTarr 4 months ago
Love it. Yeah his voice definitely has a casual new york/new jersey twang. I recommend the audio interview on the 2001 Blu ray, which is rather lengthy, recorded while he was making 2001 and describing his career up to that point. He sounds happier in it. Here he is more serious.
avantisprod 4 months ago
I'm a fan of his work, but I've never heard his voice before watching this video.
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DegenerateTimes 4 months ago
people realy understandnthis bullshit.why don't you recognize what a peace of shit you are
nomiclas 4 months ago
Sir Salman Rushdie has never looked better!
plutobrandy1 4 months ago
@plutobrandy1 - lol
MannySteinerBIeeky 4 months ago
@plutobrandy1 - lol..
MannySteinerBIeeky 4 months ago
This guy was a weirdo, totally strange and bizarre.
aclark141 5 months ago
@aclark141 Indeed he was, but a genius at that
tylerf13ful 4 months ago
@aclark141 Which innovative genius wasn't?
coercingcoexistence 4 months ago
@aclark141 Don't believe everything you read, a lot of that was absoloute bullshit. Trust me.
jazz4 4 months ago
@aclark141 A lot of the things you've heard about him were made up. He was a recluse and therefore the press weren't able to write many stories about him. They even wrote a story once (not sure if it was serious or not) claiming that Stanley shot someone for being on his garden, then shot him again for bleeding on his grass.
weeryan2008 4 months ago
@aclark141 Maybe so, but he was definitely an innovative genius. His films honestly are decades ahead of their time, and we never really knew much about his personal life, but he seriously seems like one of the smartest people ever to walk this Earth.
MinamuTV 3 months ago 3
CHRISTIANE KUBRICK: He said, "You see, I just can't do it." The minute it wasn't official, he was fine. The minute someone stuck a mike in front of his mouth, he said: "My mind is blank and I say nothing, or the most stupid stuff." That's why he didn't want to give interviews. He said, "Why should I work very hard in the film and then make a fool of myself?"
MonicaMihai88 5 months ago 21
@MonicaMihai88 Hey, those are great quotes and thanks for sharing them. I feel pretty much the same way most of the time, not that anyone will be interviewing me any time soon (or ever!). :-]
TheSnowballEarth 4 months ago
@TheSnowballEarth My pleasure, I love the man and I've been reading a lot about him, he's fascinating to me :).
MonicaMihai88 4 months ago
CHRISTIANE KUBRICK:His Griffith Award acceptance speech [in 1997] -- he was miserable and he left it to the last minute. And he did it so badly and he got into a really bad mood. He'd written it very well but he couldn't say it. We finally got it on tape and he said, "I'd better not see it, otherwise I'll never send it off." So he sent it off, and then he saw it and nearly choked with laughter -- rolling on the floor -- he couldn't believe it.
MonicaMihai88 5 months ago 3
Terry Gilliam must be pissed Kubrick was a friend of Spielberg and not his.
ElTuco84 5 months ago 4
About Kubrick and the Oscar. I think he wouldn't have cared anyway. He was far beyond the glitz and glamor of Hollywood, as to have bothered with an ugly worthless statuette. This man was an icon himself, he didn't need one to be one. Above all though, with his passing he left us with a huge gap in cinema artistry in its purest form. He was in a way the Akira Kurosawa of the Western world and nobody will ever be able to either replace him or even come near him.
jlpicardUSS1701e 5 months ago
Forget the wax and feathers, already. Do a better job on the wings. You can't trump that.
MEDIANAVE 5 months ago
Sad he had to die at age 70. He would have made one more film. He could have finally reached his Oscar for directing that he never got. He was a misunderstood director and it took till after his death till people finally realized that he truely is one of the greatest directors of all time.
mrtotheextreme 5 months ago
This speech is brilliant and meaningful. This is the Master talking to us. Every film maker in Hollywood should be made to watch this till they get the message. Lift your game, after Kubrick there is no excuse for bad movies. He has shown us the way.
straker2 5 months ago 4
Who is this guy?
TheMeikalainen 6 months ago
@TheMeikalainen Someone you could learn a great deal from.
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mhz888 6 months ago 16
@mhz888 explain to a noob please?
TaffyRaphie 3 months ago
@TaffyRaphie
is the prison number given to alex in clockwork orange
coopasan9 3 months ago
@coopasan9 oh thanks. still haven't seen that yet
TaffyRaphie 3 months ago
@TaffyRaphie np
coopasan9 3 months ago
@TaffyRaphie a room in clockwork orange
mhz888 2 months ago
This is clearly a man who takes great pride in his work.
Joelaroc7 6 months ago
Stanley later added, "Y'all bitches ain't even on my level. Peace."
scottysmo88 6 months ago 127
@scottysmo88
His ghost added that later. Now that's skill.
blahblahbleebleeblah 6 months ago
@scottysmo88 him, martin scorcese, francis ford coppola and quentin tarantino shouldve all sang that together in a barbershop quartet!
peacesellsstevebuyin 4 months ago
@scottysmo88 Soooo true
kenen112 3 months ago
@Hoppus217 Hey you. Stanley was Jewish.
iwantoldschool 6 months ago
In this speech, he sorta sounds like HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey
jungujchoi 6 months ago
I love how he only gave this footage out to promote his next movie. "I'm making Eyes Wide Shut..."
A man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost for him, in this town.
opinioninflicting 6 months ago
One small issue i have with Stanley is that most of his films were based on novels or were written by someone else.
archangel385 6 months ago
@archangel385 Directors don't always write the scripts for their movies! They are there to bring their vision to life and to "direct" ever aspect of the movie.
PranayPratijit 6 months ago
@archangel385 Very few directors write their own scripts. Most screenplays are written or adapted by non-directors. That's pretty much been standard practice for the last 80 years.
TheStockwell 5 months ago
@TheStockwell Yeah but it still kinda saddens me that Stanley never wrote his own masterpiece.
archangel385 5 months ago
@archangel385 The funny part is that he wrote the screenplay for what WOULD have been his magnum opus. He just never filmed it. Do a web search for "kubrick napoleon script." The article at Salon.com is especially interesting.
TheStockwell 5 months ago
@TheStockwell Yeah, but that's not enough.
archangel385 5 months ago
@archangel385 It'll do for me. I've read it. It's like reading a Bach score, say, The Art of Fuge, and enjoying it for what it is. And so it goes . . .
TheStockwell 5 months ago
The unwashed masses didnt like Eyes Wide Shut because they didnt understand it. Personally, I rank that as my favorite because I could tell that the characters and events symbolized powerful political figures that kubrick knew in the 70's. Everyone else just thought it was a big porno. There was a lot more to that movie than you realize, and if you truely knew the subttext, you would not look at politics the same way again...
ExploringProphecy 7 months ago 2
I miss you stanley. RIP
jimmynorton1001 7 months ago
Wanna hear something funny guys? One reviewer said that Stanley Kubrick is a director that you'll "grow out of" once you see past the pretension. Some people are so fucking stupid.
thelatestttplague 7 months ago
I think Kubrick's the best,because i think he's made the best films of certain genre's.I thinkThe killing is the best heist film.Paths of glory the best WWl film,dr strangelove,the best satire,the shining the best horror film,full metal jacket,the best vietnam film.Those are masterpieces,endlessly entertaining and thought provoking at the same time,for me.His other films(lolita,2001,clockwork,Lyndon,eyes) i think are flawed masterpieces,because of pacing,but still powerful and memorable.
TheGatorfan93 7 months ago
Film maker extroadinaire! Each film has unforgettable sequences and dialogue. His framing of the picture is impeccable - Kubrick knew how to eleicit powerful emotions from his actors and consequently his audience, and he demanded nothing less than perfection in each and every take. RIP
LiteracyLabyrinth 7 months ago
Spielberg wrecked AI: Artificial Intelligence
SleepingLighthouse 7 months ago 3
Look, Kubrick is my favorite filmmaker of all time, and I think Spielberg is a great blockbuster director but his more mature films lack substance. Let's face it, Steven is only it for the money. That being said, I feel a little bad for him when people say things like what you commented. Not only was taking on Kubrick's project a huge, stressful responsibility, but he actually ended it the way Kubrick had planned on ending and continuing it. The 'til the batteries run out ending never existed.
blablaidontcarewhour 6 months ago
@SleepingLighthouse Sure....but I hated the ending...and the ending was Kubrick's idea.
KayWildcat 6 months ago
spielberg bows down to kubrick
TheShakiebreaks 7 months ago
Simply a film God!!
oquaion8 7 months ago
I've often wondered if he had Aspergers. I wonder the same thing about Larry David.
StanleyKu 7 months ago
Even watching the clips from hes movies, even without sound you get strange feeling. I am less acceptive to sound and more to visual, so composition of frames in he's movies affect me to the sky.
rycka1983 7 months ago
fack you stanley is a dog
fanaticoxbox 8 months ago
fuckin' genius. i miss you
JWolfgango 8 months ago 4
fullscreen, hold times throughout the face with your hand and look only at his right eye ;_;
NewChaosOrder 8 months ago
wow soo insparational....
nicobrown 8 months ago
Do a better job on the wings! That's the words of the master, right there. Youn want to fly higher, look at what is taking you there, do a better job on that. Amazing man, never made a bad film. I've watched everything from Strangelove to Eyes Wide Shut and they are all wonderful, ranging from extremely good to utterly brilliant. His comment about finally getting it right might explain his many, many takes, I think he had one aim, to get it right, always get it right.
straker2 8 months ago
i get a sneaking suspicion that kubrick meant this to be a humorous and subtle left-handed compliment of DWG especially 1:42
RainmanCT 8 months ago
"Forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings"
broccolifan1 8 months ago 6
His wife, Christiane on this video: 'The Griffith Award acceptance speech [in 1997] -- he was miserable and he left it to the last minute. And he did it so badly and he got into a really bad mood. He'd written it very well but he couldn't say it. We finally got it on tape and he said, "I'd better not see it, otherwise I'll never send it off." So he sent it off, and then he saw it and nearly choked with laughter -- rolling on the floor -- he couldn't believe it. '
God bless you, Stanley
kanesays 9 months ago 7
@kanesays Thank you for sharing this story.
AlanCanon2222 7 months ago
i think it was 1996 or 97
MrDarkcatify 9 months ago
the man
patOomoXo5150 9 months ago
2001: A Space Odyssey is his best film.
safify32 9 months ago 4
He never made a sequel nor a remake, every film was a labor of love.
aclark141 9 months ago 113
@aclark141 im sorry to differ
qbrikc 9 months ago
@qbrikc You're wrong.
aclark141 8 months ago
@aclark141 But his films built on one another. He kept perfecting his technique. There are shots in Eyes Wide Shut that draw from 2001, shots in 2001 that draw from Paths of Glory....Dude was near-perfect practically to begin with, but he kept hammering on technique, movie after movie.
AlanCanon2222 7 months ago
@AlanCanon2222 Well yes, of course his films built on one another, every good director does that, but that doesn't mean each subsequent film was better than the last. I for one believe Paths of Glory was his best film with Barry Lyndon a close second, but Eyes Wide Shut was probably his worst film (which was also his last film.)
aclark141 7 months ago
@aclark141 I tend to agree with EWS being his least effective film. But truth be told, I'd rather watch Kubrick's worst film than most directors' best films.
SequentiallyCompact 7 months ago 3
@aclark141 But almost all his films are adaptations.
Jedisunscreen 5 months ago
@Jedisunscreen - Yet they're among the most original, provocative and most important films the medium of film has ever known.
JesusCristo2002 5 months ago
@aclark141 yeah, nor an adaptation. OH WAIT 2001, A Clockwork Orange, and the Shining.
SockMonkey007 5 months ago
@SockMonkey007 You got a good point, but Kubrick had just as much to do with the 2001 book as Aurthur Clarke.
TheRabb0t 5 months ago
@SockMonkey007 Don't forget Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, and Barry Lyndon.
FetaCheese222 4 months ago
@forester9415 I don't think we'll ever see the likes of him again, he was a genius, unflinching, uncompromising and always controversial.
aclark141 9 months ago
At first I wondered if this was legit but that's definitely his voice. What year was this?
jwill5587 10 months ago
Is this the last recorded footage of Kubrick?
sinmantky 10 months ago
Kubrick is Kubrick no one else
saqibk1 10 months ago
He has the coolest voice ever.
rockyfan94 10 months ago
@rockyfan94
He sounds like microsoft robot voice.
daneatmyflotz 10 months ago
@daneatmyflotz microsoft sam? lmao
dumaramutsi 10 months ago
Seems like he was an ass to all the people he worked with, but he made some great movies.
L00CIF3R 10 months ago
When you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling. Yes, now we know why he did hundreds of takes, drove actors to breaking point and never let up. His enjoyment came from getting the film right. Not getting it finished, getting it made cheap, getting it on time, or making the cast happy and making sure they all loved him and he was popular. None of that crap mattered. He wanted it to be right and that's why he was best ever, he got it right.
straker2 10 months ago 4
this is the true kings speech
FranklinHenryBluth 11 months ago 4
他にも素晴らしい作品は確かにある。
でも、キューブリックの作品を見た後、他の作品を見ると、
どうしても子供だましに見えてしまう。
他とは次元が違う。まさにこれこそが本物だという気がする。
面白い、とか、感動した、とかじゃない。
ただ、ただ、凄いとしか言いようが無い。
bom7650 11 months ago
emotional subjectivity throws itself in front of objectivity sometimes.
film23790 11 months ago
i love the irony of this interview. D.W. Griffith was a total racist in his 'pioneering film' Birth of A Nation and Kubrick states at the beginning he is working on Eyes Wide Shut.
Stanley Kubrick is and will forever be the greatest filmmaker that ever lived and even that is an understatement.
film23790 11 months ago 2
@film23790 Griffith a racist? Yes. And a brilliant artist. Ethics and aesthetics are separate things.
S2Cents 11 months ago
@S2Cents Very true but very unsettling.
film23790 11 months ago
@film23790
It shouldn't cause cognitive dissonance for a mind well versed in history interlaced with the knowledge that almost all humans are a paradox.
Bondianwolf 11 months ago
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@Bondianwolf emotional subjectivity throws itself in front of objectivity sometimes.
film23790 11 months ago
CUT! Do it again Stanley!!
- Legend
Willferox 11 months ago
lol. trolls be trollin... but really, visionary artist. greatest director in the history of film, :).
flylotusfly 11 months ago
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Kubrick was a piece of shit who never had an original thought or idea in his entire life.
He was no more than a strong willed manipulator with mob backing.
2001 was a phony pretentious overrated pile of steaming shit. Juat as it's director was! Why don't you suck asses just get a life!
Therealtaxidriver 11 months ago
@Therealtaxidriver wow. you can suck my dick if you want fag
BionicleTV21 11 months ago
@Therealtaxidriver name your favorite director's
TheSaltireproduction 11 months ago