Friends who love movies tell me about Kubrick, thank you.

This talented and versatile director has only directed thirteen films in his life, but they are all classics.

1On Sunday, March 7th, 999, Kubrick died of a heart attack in his sleep. Some people assert that Kubrick may end his life in some extreme way after his death, just because his films are full of violence, killing, illusion and absurdity.

From 195 1 year when he directed "A Day of Fighting", Kubrick's name was associated with a series of films full of Ku color in his intermittent film career for decades. Spartacus (1960), Lolita (1962), 200 1: A Space Roam (1: A Space Roam)

Kubrick was born in new york on 1928. He is the doctor's son. Encouraged by his father, Kubrick took photos as a hobby and devoted the same enthusiasm to playing chess in his youth.

From 65438 to 0940, Kubrick's father, who was a doctor, decided to send him to live with his uncle in California, hoping that the change of environment would make him improve his studies. 194 1 year, Kubrick returned to his parents from the Bronx and completed his last year of junior high school. His learning attitude and academic performance finally improved. In order to make Kubrick have some hobbies, his father taught him to play chess. As his father hoped, Kubrick became fascinated with chess and soon became a chess master. Chess played an extremely important role in Kubrick's later career. It is a tool he often uses to deal with uncooperative actors, and it is also a symbol of his elegant life in movies.

On Kubrick's 13 birthday, his father has now made a very wise decision-to give him a camera. Soon, Kubrick became a photographer. In order to take pictures, he ran all over the streets of new york and worked in a friend's darkroom. When he sold his first photo to Look magazine, he got to know the professional photographer in the magazine and got his first job as an intern photographer at the age of 17. In the next few years, Kubrick regularly published his works in Look magazine, and began to eagerly watch various movies, becoming a loyal fan.

Later, he planned to make his own film with his friend Hing Alessandro. 1950, Kubrick took out all his savings and invested in the documentary "Day of Battle". After that, he went on to shoot several other short documentaries (flight priest and sailor).

195 1 year, he made a documentary short film "The Day of Fighting". His film noir's lighting technique and the theme tendency involving violence have begun to appear in this debut novel. While buying this film, China Radio and Television sponsored him to shoot another short film. 1953, Kubrick directed Kiss of the Black Boy, which has long been in my mind. This is a film noir with boxing infighting as the background, which was bought by an American company. Kubrick has successively won the favor of iconic studios in eight major companies, and the 27-year-old Kubrick has been recognized by Hollywood, and the "take-off" is just around the corner.

From 65438 to 0956, Kubrick directed Killing, which pushed film noir's creative technique to the extreme. Kirk Douglas, a famous movie star, praised the film's "complicated and ingenious space-time structure". Kubrick added fuel to the flames by inviting a big star to star in the new film "The Road to Glory" (1957), and the latter readily accepted it. Kubrick is even better. The anti-war film "The Road to Glory" fascinated the audience with its geometric changes in lens movement and scene scheduling. Excited by the success of The Glorious Road, Douglas made a surprising move, announcing that Kubrick would replace anthony mann as executive producer and direct Spartacus (1960). Running-in and dealing with Douglas trained Kubrick to master the law of blockbuster shooting.

Kubrick then planned to shoot Lolita (196 1) adapted from the novel by Russian writer Nabakov. Kubrick decided to move to England only because the content involved the story of middle-aged professors infatuating with young girls, which caused the intervention of censors. Since then, he has appeared in public as an American artist who lived in Britain for the rest of his life. After the premiere of Lolita, there were constant criticisms, accusing the film of not turning a sexy girl into a mature young woman. . Lolita, based on the novel of the same name, is played by Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, a 45-year-old university professor who falls in love with his adopted daughter aged 65,438+04. The dramatic and grotesque narrative technique in the film has a new play in Kuyt's next film "Dr. Strange Love": the American general who suffered setbacks in marriage and love lost his inner balance and brazenly ordered the air force to bomb the Soviet Union with hydrogen bombs. Obviously, the director is laughing at Freud's theory that sexual repression leads to insanity and the fabled nuclear blackmail between superpowers.

Dr. Strange Love has achieved a sensational effect, and both inside and outside the film industry are eagerly looking forward to the publication of Kuyt's new work, while Kuyt lives in seclusion and keeps his creative plan secret. It was not until four years later that an epoch-making sci-fi masterpiece "200 1: A Space Odyssey" (1968) was greeted with surprise. The film takes the relationship between man and tools as the main line, and deduces the evolutionary history of human beings for hundreds of years. The film shocked the film industry with vivid philosophy and exquisite numerical control stunts. This masterpiece eclipses other works in the field of American science fiction 10 year. In this film, there is a set of scenes that critics especially relish: the only astronaut David dismembers his opponent's computer Hal and sets the course of the spacecraft correctly. At this time, countless fantastic images appeared on the screen, and this "colorful tide" almost led the audience to a dazzling and confusing state. Kubrick loves to take risks in playing chess, and he is also good at appearing suddenly in movies. But through colorful illusions, people can still strongly feel the director's doubts about the near future: the prosperity of science and technology will also bring negative effects.

Kubrick's doubts in "clockwork orange" (197 1) have escalated into a pessimistic prediction of the future society: juvenile delinquency will become a great scourge of tea poisoning organisms. In the film, the government's "fight poison with poison" received a temporary effect, but the perpetrators quickly relapsed. The violence in this film is outrageous, and a Beethoven IX completely softens the murderous thugs. This seems absurd, but it actually reveals his utopian ideal of solving social contradictions and conflicts.

On 1975, Kubrick moved "brush strokes" from the future to the past, returned to the world from space, and directed the historical blockbuster barry lyndon. Based on the Seven Years' War in Europe in the18th century, the film tells the story of an Irishman who wandered into the upper class and finally returned to poverty. The director turned Thackeray's original work into a film that made people reflect on enlightenment and pay attention to the living conditions of human beings. Barry lyndon is colorful and exquisitely composed, as if every painting is from 18 century famous artist's oil painting masterpiece. This aestheticism photography style also reflects the director's ironic intention: the romantic interior and the emphasis on light and shade just form a shocking binary opposition with this historical comedy and the hero's personal tragedy.

1980, Kubrick directed the horror film The Flash in different ways. He put the hero in a holiday villa in the cold winter. Self-isolated writers have experienced the purgatory of 200 1. The inner content of Kubrick's "dying with death" was once again expressed.

Kubrick is in a foreign land and never forgets his hometown. From 65438 to 0987, he directed The All-Metal Jacket, which reflected the Vietnam War. Of course, the story happened in Vietnam in name, but people can find traces of various characters at any time, place and historical stage in the film. Kubrick's warning and simile attitude is the same as before, and his indignation and pain at human madness are all on the screen.

Kubrick always pays attention to "exquisite carving", and his last film "Close Your Eyes" was shot in 1996 and 1998. Starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman feel that working with Kubrick is like taking a bath in the spring breeze. Nicole said with deep feelings, "Even if it's not for filming, I'd like to go to his office and sit next to him. He is a genius and I love him. "

Kubrick is a pessimistic prophet. His works are almost inseparable from the opposition and interaction between man and death. However, in the deep heart of pessimists, there will always be occasional flashes of hope for the future. Otherwise, Kubrick won't be in Dr. Strange Love, 200 1 year, clockwork orange: See you soon, Blue Blossom River and Singing in the Rain, which symbolize rebirth, love and success. Maybe this is the hope of a desperate person.