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rockfenris2005 04:55 am UTC 10/02/10 |
| In reply to: | Stanley Kubrick - steven_stuart 09:21 pm UTC 10/01/10 |
| > > If anyone's interested in Movie Posters, then you should > > definitely check out this site. > > Welcome back Ryan! Where have you been? I hope that you > will keep posting. The board is a bit quiet at the > moment. Just working, and working on my novel for DC which I'm now half way through. I'm also submitting an entry into a local writing competition which I've just completed the second draft for. And, Adam and I have gone for an arts grant to finally get our musical put on after all these years. I started work on DC about 9 years ago now while I was still in high school. Back then, it was supposed to have been done as an end of term performance and I told Adam about it so he offered to write the music. That never happened but Adam composed the first tune for it all the way back then. 2 years ago, we reunited to work on the piece and, to put it bluntly, we went through ABSOLUTE HELL trying to get it produced. I wound up posting a thread on a popular Australian theatre forum asking for advice and it got an unprecedented 100 responses, everybody advising me just to produce it ourselves, and that this is how new theatre is done Down Under. I really agreed with a lot of what those people had to say but Adam and I didn't have the experience or the know-how to produce it ourselves, and we don't think anybody would have come. Adam was playing at a Senior's Festival last year, on his Stratocaster with orchestral accompaniment, playing "Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band", and one of the musicians told him about Rob when he started talking about the musical. We finally met with Rob in February this year because we'd been emailing him back & forth and he's been helping us since then, helping us to fill in the forms for an arts grant that will cover six months of reading & workshop development and then another six months devoted to the production itself, leading to an opening that SHOULD take place round Halloween 2011 IF WE GET THE MONEY. It will play at Robert's venue. We should find out sometime this month if we have indeed been successful... And this whole time I've been writing, whether it's the latest draft for the show, or the novel I've been working on all of this year, or something else, or just working flat-out. So yeah...! > > The Movie Posters site is cool. Is there a site with > posters for Kubrick films? > I'm not sure, but they all should be available on the Movie Posters website. Just go to the link and look through the database of all the years. > Since you just arrived back, you may have missed the huge > discussion about films further down the page. AndrewG has > made me want to watch Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" again. *Avoids flying objects* I haven't watched much Kubrick, aside from "Dr Strangelove", but I did happen to catch "2001: A Space Odyssey" about 6 or 7 years ago now and I thought it was one of the strangest films I had ever seen. I couldn't watch it. I was just too repelled by it at the time. I will try again though. > > Did you know about Kubrick's fascination with the "Eye of > Providence" symbol? AndrewG wrote: > > "If you watch it again then look out for all the triangles > in almost each of the scenes (mostly the very bright > Christmas trees). > > Apparently Kubrick had a fascination with the Eye of > Providence symbol and I think those Christmas tree > triangles are an example of that too. It is also seen in > one of the masks much more clearly. It could be considered > a link to the Illuminati (the triangle is their symbol > according to conspiracy theories), as if to say the > underground cult is related to that/or is that or the > triangles could have a simpler meaning I think perhaps > just someone is always watching you; and in the case of > Eyes Wide Shut, perhaps not a person but maybe Tom > Cruise's conscious, hence he admits his wrong doing in the > end? > > Kubrick's films are deeper than what he gets credit for I > reckon. > > See the link for more info on the Eye of Providence > examples in some of his other films and the Eyes Wide Shut > mask example. It's engrossing stuff in my opinion." > > I have been looking out for "Eyes Wide Shut" in the Sky > listings. I found and watched Kubrick's "Paths Of Glory", > a brilliant early film from the master. I will probably > have to get "Eyes Wide Shut" from Amazon. I would also > like to see "Barry Lyndon" again. I love the way Kubrick > mixes music and photography in that film. I am not > surprised that Kubrick was the first director to have an > official fan club. What is your favourite Kubrick film? I > think mine is "2001: A Space Odyssey". Perhaps it will become a favourite if I try watching it again? I think I was too young at the time and not willing to keep an open mind. I think it was either "2001" or "Clockwork Orange" btw that was originally going to contain some Pink Floyd music, "Echoes" and/or "Atom Heart Mother". This is very interesting. And what a shame that it didn't work out. | |
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