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Stanley Kubrick Bio
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Stanley Kubrick
As a child, Stanley Kubrick was known to be highly intelligent, but could never completely please his parents, always receiving low grades. This problem seemed to transfer into his career, as his peers were often not happy with the work he was doing on their films, no matter how successful they were.
Kubrick was born July 26, 1928 to Jacques and Gertrude Kubrick. Because he failed to live up to their expectations, he was sent from the family home in the Bronx to live with his uncle in California. When he returned, Jacques tried inspiring his son to use his intelligence creatively by teaching him to play chess and by buying him a camera. Both were met with success. The young Kubrick became a lifetime chess player, and as a teen sold one of his photographs to Look magazine. Kubrick skipped out on college, but was offered a job as an apprentice photographer with the magazine.
Transferring his talents from still photography to film, Kubrick began making documentaries. His first full feature movie, Fear and Desire, was financed through investors and hustled chess games. While beginning to be successful in his career, Kubrick’s private life suffered, as he was divorcing his first wife during the making of this movie. Picking up notice in Hollywood, he went on to film Killer’s Kiss and The Killing.
Kubrick moved on to directing Paths of Glory, a World War I flick, with Kirk Douglas. Apparently Douglas had respect for Kubrick’s work, as when he was starring in Spartacus, he asked Kubrick to take over directing the movie about a rebellious slave, as Douglas was unhappy with the original direction of the movie. The movie also starred Sir Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, and Charles Laughton. Ironically, cinematographer Russell Metty had complained that Kubrick wasn’t allowing him to do his job, yet it was Metty that went on to win an Academy Award for the film.
Kubrick moved to London, disenchanted with life in the States after another failed marriage. His first project there was Lolita, about a novelist that falls for a sixteen year old. The movie starred James Mason and Shelley Winters, and had to be carefully done so as not to upset the censors with the film’s heavy sexual tones. His next film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was meant to be a drama, but Kubrick decided it worked better as a comedy, and filmed it that way instead. Starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, the film was a huge success and earned multiple Academy Award nominations.
The futuristic 2001: A Space Odyssey was next for Kubrick, and was enormously successful for him. This film set the pace for other science fiction films, with one of the most unique parts being that the music was a major focus instead of just remaining in the background. After such a huge undertaking, Kubrick looked for a movie he could make quickly and cheaply, and found A Clockwork Orange. Malcolm MacDowell starred as a man who is rehabilitated in prison to cure him from his violent impulses. Until controversy changed it to an R rating, it was one of the few non-pornographic movies with an X rating.
Blockbusters seemed to follow Kubrick around. He directed Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall in hundreds of retakes in his perfectionism to make The Shining. The movie was based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, and King was so unhappy with the direction Kubrick took with it, that years later he filmed his own version. After this, it was back to war movies for Kubrick as he made Full Metal Jacket, a movie about the Vietnam War that starred Matthew Modine and Adam Baldwin.
Kubrick’s last completed movie starred Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, who at the time were still married to one another. Eyes Wide Shut had Cruise starring as a doctor that gets upset in finding out that his wife (Kidman) has secret fantasies about strangers, and he sets out to fulfill his own wild fantasies. Kubrick died before the movie’s release of a heart attack at age 70.
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