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Movies, Critiqued

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Steve's favorite films, analyzed. He is a huge Stanley Kubrick fan, so that's the focus.

How Tough is Your Jacket?  

2/3/2015

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In my opinion this is Kubrick's most misunderstood work. Critics at its release were put off by the lack of emotional drama and perceived sterility, especially when compared to Platoon. Today's critics call it a masterpiece (it gets a 94% at Rotten Tomatoes) for its "innocence lost" and human duality themes 

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2001: A Space Odyssey

12/18/2014

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Production on 2001: A Space Odyssey began in 1965 when Stanley Kubrick contacted author (and legitimate scientist) Arthur C. Clarke with the idea of collaborating to create "the proverbial good science fiction movie". Using Clarke's short story "The Sentinel" as a foundation, the idea was to release film and a novelization in tandem. The collaboration went well at first,  but Kubrick soon grew impatient with Clarke's need to flesh out concepts in detail while Clarke complained about Kubrick's endless revisions and outward disorganization,  commenting that Stanley used a black hole for a filing system. In the end,  the story is mainly Kubrick's even though the credits list also Clarke. The novel differs from the film in a couple
major ways.


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