How to become "Stanley Kubrick" - Cracking the Kube Ep. 3, part 2
Why do we think about Stanley Kubrick the way we do? What’s behind his mythological image of an all-knowing, all-powerful filmmaker?
This is the second part of the episode, in which I chronicle the birth and evolution of Kubrick’s public image, and discover its true nature. Watch the first part here: • How to become "Stanley Kubrick" - Cracking...
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:31 - Recap of the Kubrick Mythology
1:35 - Examining the characterisations
1:52 - The years at Look: focus, expertise, self-assurance
2:52 - About to start: determination, self-confidence, experience
3:34 - Debut: wunderkind, expertise, modesty
4:05 - In the business: elusiveness, ability, uniqueness
4:44 - In Hollywood: determination, aplomb, defiance
5:55 - Independence: bellicosity, perfectionism
6:36 - 2001: the origin of the Mythology
9:30 - The originator of the Mythology, A Clockwork Orange
10:35 - Propagating the Mythology
12:19 - The birth of Kubrick's image, in 1950
14:10 - Kubrick manipulating his image
16:51 - The benefits of the Mythology
17:49 - The purposes of the Mythology
18:29 - Other filmmakers and their mythologies
19:17 - What makes Kubrick an exception
20:30 - The value of mystery
21:56 - Why Kubrick is a cult figure
The presentation is an updated version of a talk that I gave at a conference in 2017, later published in a French journal:
Filippo Ulivieri, “From ‘boy genius’ to “barking loon’: an analysis of Stanley Kubrick’s persona in American and English media,” @ Stanley Kubrick: Nouveaux Horizons, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, Bordeaux (FR), 16-17 May 2017.
Filippo Ulivieri, “From ‘boy genius’ to ‘barking loon:’ an analysis of Stanley Kubrick’s mythology,” Essais Hors Series #4, 2017, https://journals.openedition.org/essa...
It also incorporates some ideas from another lecture of mine:
Filippo Ulivieri, “Dr. Mabuse No. 2: An investigation into Stanley Kubrick’s mythological image,” Internationales Kubrick symposium, Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, 21-22 July 2018, • Kubrick Symposium // Filippo Ulivieri: Dr....