In 1962 MGM (Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Films) released “How The West Was Won”, projected in a movie theater with three panels that needed to be projected by three different movie projectors at the same time. In a time where the classic western genre was about to be extinct. This ambitious project filmed by three different directors ended in a huge success, and it made investors believe that the movie industry could compete with the TV.
Kubrick was obsessed, around the 1950’s, with Sci-Fi hits one after the other, it helped this genre evolve into something bigger. Kubrick believed that this genre had the future of being something else and the spectators have never seen before. He wanted to change the way we watch movies all together. Kubrick started talking about a new project, that when it became to a reality, he placed a temporary title of “The Conquest of Space”. As always, he started to read all types of Sci-Fi books that he could come across with, to find interesting stories. Someone had recommended him to speak with Arthur C. Clarke.
Kubrick wanted to accomplish a Sci-Fi film with colossal scientific proportions. His ambition was to believe reasons to believe in life outside the planet, and the impact that it would have to the human race. He learned from the books, “Childhood’s End” and “the
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The trip Bowman (a blank Keir Dullea), work of the great Douglas Trumbull, was a result of using the slit-Can camera, an optical printer, photographing a cylinder moved slowly, decorated with pop-art designs and architecture . Actually, it recalcitrant than those who are never interested in forms of abstract expression feel deluded (in both directions), these images that today do not impress, and become unbearably
The story of the American West is still being told today even though most of historic events of the Wild West happened over more than a century ago. In movies, novels, television, and more ways stories of the old west are still being retold, reenacted, and replayed to relive the events of the once so wild and untamed land of the west that so many now fantasize about. After reading about the old west and watching early westerns it is amazing how much Hollywood still glorifies the history and myth of the old west. It may not be directly obvious to every one, but if you look closely there is always a hint of the Western mentality such as honor, justice, romance, drama, and violence. The most interesting thing about the Old West is the fact that history and myth have a very close relationship together in telling the story of the West.
Stanley Kubrick was one of the first people to make great use of the extreme wide-angle lenses so tremendous that the lenses cause some sort of barrel distortion. For Example, in the A Clockwork Orange, is a great example of how Kubrick uses the wide-angle lenses. The lenses were used in both dolly handheld shots. The wide-angle lenses were very consistent and steady with the tone of the movie all together. His camerawork was something people should really resemble off of. The camerawork really makes a big
Dr. Strangelove is in itself one of the most interesting pieces of cinema in the history of the medium. It captures a moment in world history, and the fear and hysteria that was associated with it, and translates it into the darkest of comedies. Kubrick came of age after World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, and like many others during this time period, he suffered immense anxiety about the potential for nuclear war, fearing that his hometown of New York could be a likely target, and even considered moving to Australia. He began consulting with others about the possibility of making the subject of nuclear conflict into a movie.
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I was charmed by this film the first time I saw it, and every time since. It was the synthesis of the journey of mankind into the future and an argument for space as mankind’s ultimate destination. It was the best science fiction film I had ever seen, as it presented several different possibilities and scenarios of what could happen as well as what might happen to man in his quest to conquer space. The introduction of the computer as an artificial intelligence was an added plus. The idea of a machine making the same mistakes as any human being proved out in its own statement: that any glitches in its operating parameters had to be due to human error. Given that machines are incapable of emotions like guile, hatred, fear and sorrow, HAL was nearly as emotional as any organic being. This in itself was a glorious foil for man’s ambitions to discover the wonders of deep space.
Modernism was a movement that in one way or another affected every sphere of art from such traditional spheres of art as painting that have been around for thousands of years to the newly discovered cinematography. The notion of films and filmmaking was a new concept in the beginning of twenties century; therefore, George Méliès and Wladyslaw Starewicz’s works were innovative just because they existed. Respectively, innovation, progress, new techniques, and the rejection of traditions were the essence of modernism. Undoubtedly, both directors incorporated new techniques in their films: George Méliès realistically enough portrays how moon aliens disappear after scientist attacks them and Wladyslaw Starewicz resourcefully uses dead
...lm. With the director’s use of special effects, this proves that he had an artistic way of showing the film, as well as his use of ambiguous scenes and sequences that were provided in the film. By making it a classical cinema film, the Kubrick did a good job in proving the realism of space and all, as well as using the film order to make the movie in order. By making the film both art and classical cinema, this just makes the movie even better and the director more smarter for being able to do this in one movie.
The following paper will analyze the movie, “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick” and “The Centinel” by Arthur C. Clarke. Although there are many themes present between the story and the film, the following are the most dominant. I will be discussing Scientific themes, Religious and Moral Themes, and Clarke’s development of the short story into a full-length film.
After watching the film "Ivory Tower," I became aware of how difficult it is to obtain a college education today. This film highlights a number of the problems relating to higher education. We are living in a time where college tuition prices continue to rise to outrageous costs, student loan debt is higher than credit card debt, exceeding over one trillion dollars and many are concerned whether or not college is worth the cost anymore. Rather than promoting quality learning, colleges seem to be promoting newly updated, fancier facilities. Receiving a college degree is becoming much harder to obtain due to the expense of college tuition. The continuous rise in college tuition prices is also making it more difficult for families to put their
The first Western film ever made was called ‘The Great Train Robbery‘. It was made by ‘The Lumiere Brothers’ in 1903.This film was a high quality film, because they used some panning with the camera. This was unusual in its time because the cameras that they had, had to be put on a fixed point because they were too heavy to lift. This meant that they couldn’t move in for close-ups. Consequently it made it harder for the audience to understand the characters feelings and to understand the storyline. If the camera can move in on the villain when he is plotting something or pulling a gun out ready for a fight it is much easier for the audience to follow. ’The Great Train Robbery’ was a simple one-reeler action picture, about 10 minutes long, with...
After Kubrick bought the rights to Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining and hired novelist Diane Johnson to help write the screenplay, both Johnson and Kubrick read Freud's essay on "The Uncanny" and Bruno Bettelheim's book about fairy tales, The Uses of Enchantment.2 Kubrick obviously wanted to surpass the intellectual depth of contemporary horror films such as The Exorcist and Omen. He said he was attracted to Stephen King's novel because "there's something inherently wrong with the human personality. There's an evil side to it. One of the things that horror stories can do is to show us the archetypes of the unconscious: we can see the dark side without having to confront it directly." 2
...e black comedy, Dr. Strangelove, incorporates Kubrick’s political beliefs through the film’s distinctive style, utilization of motifs, and the suggested affiliations between war and sex. Stanley Kubrick emotionally distances the viewer from this terrifying issue by illustrating the absurdity of the war. By implying sexual frustration and suppression as a reason for war tension, Kubrick displays a worst-case scenario of the Cold War in comical fashion. Dr. Strangelove is an anti-war satire that implicitly conveys the importance of sexual expression while humorously portraying the worthlessness of war and violence that ravaged the sanity of the 1960s American public.
this essay I am going to set to prove that Stanley Kubrick is trying to prove that violence can
The film I have chosen to watch and write about between 1940 to 1970 was Once UpOn a Time in the West directed by Sergio Leone. The genre of this film is Western.The setting of this film is around Flagstone which it is a fictional town in the old west. It is the period of bombing business of the railroad industry, and in this film it is one of the main conflicts. Moreover, the other part of the conflict comes from the main character seeking vengeance against a cold blooded killer. This film have these characteristics such as; vengeance, traitor, mystery, and death. Which it makes the film interesting that you want to watch the film to the end to find out what happened. I like this technique because that is the only way to be able to watch this
In today’s day and age, we take even the simple things, like photography and film, for granted. Everything has become more user friendly, simpler, and faster by changing over to the digital realm. Photographers and film makers from the 20th century had it a lot harder than we do today. They basically had to do everything manually; even including something as small as flash photography. Both pictorialism and film play an important role in documenting events in the world around which we live, though have very different meanings when it comes to their expressions of art styles. This paper will examine the works of D.W. Griffith and Alfred Stieglitz, and cover how pictorialism and film changed how we as a society view the photography and film industries today.