Stanley Kubrick’s first project was a bold movie war

Stanley Kubrick is often accused of being a prominent film director. His famous cinematic mastery and the famous reputation perfection led to wonderful films, but they are emotionally far, with heroes who are not people like dolls in psychological dramas in Kubrick.

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These are fair criticism, but one should immediately notice that they are usually applied to subsequent kubrick movies. The signing of the “cold” Cubic – which was characterized Even “2001: A Space Odyssey” In 1968, this film was not a single character as much as it was related to the entire humanity. Others noticed that his work on “The Shining” was surprised by all the inhumane characters. Before 1968, however, Kubrick was a completely elegant cinematic director (if not sarcastic), and his early films – including “Fear and Desire”, “Kiss of the killer”, “Killing”, “Glory Paths”, “Spartacus,” Spartacus Traditional “.

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I remember that Cubic was a photographer before becoming a way out, and the most common took pictures of daily life. Some may have seen his famous boxing photos from 1949. He did not put footage and arrangement of imagination. He was picking the real world.

This graphic in the real world is all over the first Kubrick feature, a friendly film called “Fear and Desire” released in United mentioned in the spring of 1953. Kubrick had already cut off his teeth with documentary brush, and decided that the time was appropriate to make a written feature. It was a small relationship. According to what was reported, the budget was less than 50,000 dollars, with many of the friends and family of the Kubrick.

Cober, we will learn later, we hated the result. Permanently try to destroy the original negativity.

“Fear and desire” was a modest relationship. She had a full crew of only 14 people, including Kubrick and members of the five actors team. The film was filmed in the St. Gabriel Mountains in California, where hundreds of low budget films and Hollywood films gather. It was also, compared to the experience of subsequent Kobrick films, a little inherited. Kubrick at first was aimed at filming the movie without sound to save money, but then decided that the sound was necessary, adding to the budget. He also made a mistake in continuing late in the movie – the character enters the frame from the wrong side – which forced him to the negative heart, which is additional expenses.

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Kubrick Dolly or a path to make a series of tracking, so put his camera in a stroller. The fog machine was just threwing a crop with some D. The trick, the low -budget filmmaking at its best.

The story of “fear and desire” follows four soldiers who collide with their plane several miles behind the enemy lines. The warring countries have never been named. The film follows their dark journey through the forest in an attempt to reach their battalion. They found some enemy soldiers in a house and killed them for their food. They found the peasant girl to meet with a dark fate at their hands. One of the soldiers, who plays him Future movie director Paul Mazurrsky (“Moscow on Hudson”)Get angry. The film ends with an infiltration of the enemy’s base and unification with his fellow citizens, followed by a dark conversation about the nature of the war. One of them says, “We all traveled away from our own borders,” one of them says. The other says: “I am all mixed.” “I hope I want what I wanted before.”

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Enjoyable trivialism: Actress Virginia Laith, the agricultural girl who is destroyed by the character of Mazursky, who played her headed head in the movie “The Brain” who will not die. “

“Fear and Desire” first appeared at the Venice Film Festival in the summer of 1952, and was released in the theaters the next spring. It was not a blow. He came and went without notice. Unfortunately, the film’s distributor, a man named Joseph Borsin, died in November 1953, leaving the fate of “fear and desire” unknown. Burstyn came out of the work, and the only known print remained with Kubrick. Film students can also tell you easily, the Kobrick tried to burn it. In fact, Cubrick had obtained his last assumption, as he sought to put all the publications he could find and destroy as well. He felt that the movie was amateurs.

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Fortunately for the masses, some plural enthusiasts kept several publications of “fear and desire”, and lived for a long time to revive them at the Film Forum in Greenwich Village. Specifically, pre -publications belonging to the home of George Eastman, a photography museum. Cubrick tried to close the film forum exhibition, but it could not have been since the copyright has passed and is now in the public sphere. Until 2010, complete, complete and original printing of “fear and desire” will not appear, after being found in the film laboratory in Puerto Rico. Since then it has been completely restored It can now be found on Blu-ray. Also, since it is in the public domain, you can simply Watch the entire movie on YouTube.

Kobrick reduced the quality of “fear and desire”. Dialogue is a little preaching and preaching, and low -border violence, but the foggy contemplative tone makes the movie unique. Perhaps Kubrick was known for his mastery of the cinematic letter, so it is a refreshing to see ambitious filmmakers that he also started in low -budget trenches.

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