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Topic: Kubrick

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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Currently has on their coffee table:Entertainment Weekly
Favorite author(s):Alice Walker
Favorite era(s):The future
Favorite TV show(s):The Craft
Favorite activity(s):Going to the movies
Favorite actor(s):Mike Myers,  Humphrey Bogart,  Leonardo Dicaprio
Favorite composer(s):Richard Strauss
Interest(s):Greek mythology
Favorite great thinker(s):Arthur C Clarke
Favorite movie(s):Full Metal Jacket,  A Clockwork Orange,  Dr Strangelove
Favorite quote(s):"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - H. M. Warner (1881-1958)
 
 
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Kubrick's unrelenting perfectionism was evident when it came to designing the mysterious alien monolith, which appears at various points throughout the film.
Kubrick's long space shots establish tone and realism for a film shot before the Apollo moon walks.
Sam Hayden,
Gothic Nightclub Owner

Its fans love it but most people hate it because of Kubrick's style of storytelling.
Rob Bruff,
Nightclub Bouncer

Kubrick's powerful use of the dolly shot leapt into cinematic parlance as a "Kubrick dolly shot" defining the technique of moving the camera either forward or back while shooting straight on to maintain a pristinely center-framed composition.
Todd Porter,
Gym Attendent

I remembered that I was not allowed to enter the cinema with them to see Kubrick's Mechanical Orange because I looked too young, but Torrano managed to enter even though we had the same age.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

Kubrick's "no compromise" reputation was burgeoning at the same time as mythology was developing around his personality traits and work methods.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

But Kubrick's film, whatever its other faults, captured that ambivalence and communicated it to the audience; it got you to feel sorry for a pathetic monster but never urged you to applaud his cruelty.
STANLEY KUBRICK'S 1962 film about a sexually precocious young girl who becomes involved with a mature professor.
Steven Spielberg took over friend, mentor, and legend Stanley Kubrick's pet project after his death which is the story of a robot boy who was made to love and his journey back to his owner.
Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran

Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick's excellent WW I film about three men that are chosen at random to be executed as punishment for their regiment's inability to successfully carry out a stupid and suicidal attack.
Stanley Kubrick's 1987, penultimate film seemed to a lot of people to be contrived and out of touch with the '80s vogue for such intensely realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War as Platoon and The Deer Hunter.
Mark Harris,
Priest

Kubrick's challenge was to maneuver Nabokov's erotic and verboten sexual matter past the Code Seal censors and the all-mighty and omniscient Catholic church.
 
 
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