Anecdotes about Stanley Kubrick

1. "Eyes Wide Shut" is Kubrick's work after twelve years of silence since "Full Metal Jacket", and it is also the last film he shot.

2. Kubrick paid attention to every aspect during filming. From lighting, photography to scenery and makeup, he has very strict requirements for every technical detail. However, the consequence of this is usually that the shooting plan cannot be completed on time, and the shooting time is often doubled.

3. The actors were the only part of the entire film crew that Kubrick did not exert pressure on. Kubrick gave the actors very little direction and left the rest up to them. He once said that 75% of the director's work is done by the actors.

4. Kubrick died of a heart attack in his London apartment in March 1999 at the age of 71.

5. Kubrick was born in the Bronx, New York.

6. Kubrick never won the Best Director, Best Picture and Best Screenplay awards. "Barry Lyndon", "A Clockwork Orange" and "Doctor Strangelove" have earned him three nominations. "A Space Odyssey" (2001: A Space Odyssey) brought him nominations for best director and best screenplay, and "Full Metal Jacket" also got him a nomination for best screenplay, but he was The only Oscar award was for "A Space Odyssey: 2001" for Best Visual Effects.

7. Kubrick’s 13 films cover various stages from historical wars to future world adventures, but the themes expressed are basically the same, that is, the consequences of human nature in a rule-based society. of oppression. Whether it is human society or alien society, it is the same.

8. Kubrick decided to devote himself to the film career after watching a film demonstration at the Museum of Modern Art. At that time, he was working as a photographer for "Look" magazine, and then he shot Several documentaries.

9. The filming costs for Kubrick's first feature film, "Fear and Desire," were borrowed from friends and relatives. He produced, directed, photographed and edited it himself. His dislike of the film was well known and he bought all the copies himself in order to prevent everyone from seeing it.

10. "Spartacus" was a huge success, but Kubrick did not consider it a successful work.

11. After the success of "Spartacus", Kubrick vowed that if he could not have overall control, he would never make another film. His next film was originally scheduled to be "One-Eyed Jack", a collaboration with Marlon Brando, but negotiations broke down before production, and Marlon Brando ended up directing it alone.

12. "Lolita" was filmed in the UK. This was partly because of censorship issues, and partly because of his antipathy toward Hollywood. To this end, he even filmed a Vietnam War-themed film "Full Metal Jacket" in the UK.

13. When the film "Barry Lyndon" was being prepared in Ireland, Kubrick heard rumors that the Irish Army had targeted him. Since there are many British actors participating in the performance of this film, in order to ensure their personal safety and allow the film to be filmed normally, the entire film crew moved out of here.

14. A few years ago, Kubrick once refused to be interviewed by reporters, so that the media consistently called him a recluse and a mad genius.

15. Kubrick communicated with his colleagues in the same three ways: telephone, fax and email.

16. As a perfectionist, Kubrick made changes to at least two of his released films, namely "A Space Odyssey: 2001" and "The Shining" 》.

17. After a series of cases similar to the storyline of the film "A Clockwork Orange", "A Clockwork Orange" was banned in the UK, and the ban has not been lifted to this day.

18. When "A Clockwork Orange" was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures in 1972, it was rated X, but it was later changed to an R rating.

19. Kubrick disliked the ending of "The Exorcist" so much that he directed his own horror film "The Shining".

20. Stephen King dislikes Kubrick’s adaptation of “The Shining” very much. In 1997, he rewrote "The Shining" and published a series of books.

21. Kubrick also left an unfinished project, including the science fiction film "Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)", which he came into contact with again. The film depicts a future world where the icebergs at the poles are melting. , people live in an underwater world, and there is a story about a 5-year-old robot. Later, for some reasons, Kubrick decided to start filming "Eyes Wide Shut."

22. Kubrick was a chess master and he often used chess in his movies.

23. Kubrick loved animals so much that he did not allow gardeners to poison his garden to catch moles. Animal blood is also not allowed to be used in film sets.

24. Kubrick was married three times and had three daughters.

25. Kubrick was very keen on collecting movies, including collecting high-quality videotapes of his own movies.

26. Kubrick got a camera from his father on his 13th birthday. He placed his camera in a paper bag with a hole dug into it and secretly photographed pedestrians on the street. Most of the photos he took were from very low angles, which influenced his film style.