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Tag: Stanley Kubrick
Gnosis or Hipgnosis?
Guest Post by Cpt_Obviuos
Recently I saw Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey” again, as I have revisited it many times before in my life trying to figure out the damn thing (as, I suspect, others have also). “2001” is one of those rare films which no matter how often you watch it, you see something in it you had missed before, and you marvel at its brilliance; mind you, none of these movies have been made recently, I might add. (“Where have all the great filmmakers gone?” is a valid question. Surely, there are none alive currently who could even polish the shoes, much less wear them, of all-time legends like Kubrick, the reasoning of which I will talk about later.)
IF YOU BELIEVE
If you believed they put a man on the moon
Man on the moon
If you believe there’s nothing up his sleeve
Then nothing is cool
REM – Man on the Moon
The REM song Man on the Moon, released in 1992, is a haunting melancholy tune, with Andy Kaufmann and his life and death as the focal point. For me, the lyrics always bring me back to the simpler time of my youth, when our antenna TV could get about eight channels, we had one rotary phone, one old used station wagon, lived in a row home, and a family of five could be raised on a truck driver’s income, with a stay-at-home mom.
It’s the references to the Game of Life, Risk, Monopoly, Twister, checkers, and chess, which invoke what we did for fun when we weren’t out riding bikes, playing stick-ball, roller hockey, or touch football in the streets. Were bad things going on in the world? Sure. The Vietnam War, Watergate, gasoline shortages and rationing, stagflation, and a myriad of other damaging challenges confronted the country, just as they always have throughout history.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Stanley Kubrick dies – 1999
On March 7, 1999, American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick dies in Hertfordshire, England, at the age of 70. One of the most acclaimed film directors of the 20th century, Kubrick’s 13 feature films explored the dark side of human nature.
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A Clockwork Orange: Waiting for the Sun
By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
Society should not do the wrong thing for the right reason, even though it frequently does the right thing for the wrong reason.
History has shown us what happens when you try to make society too civilized, or do too good a job of eliminating undesirable elements. It also shows the tragic fallacy in the belief that the destruction of democratic institutions will cause better ones to arise in their place.
– Stanley Kubrick on “A Clockwork Orange”, an interview with film critic Michel Ciment
An obscure Texas political consultant named Bill Miller once said “politics is show business for ugly people”. It’s true for the most part, aside from the consequences. This is because the theatrics of politicians result in policies that affect the lives of others; often against the will of the governed. In books and movies, however, the characters are much ado about nothing. Until, that is, life imitates art.
So it is with the futuristic dystopian story of “A Clockwork Orange”. Both the book, by the author Anthony Burgess, and the film by director Stanley Kubrick, serve as moral dilemmas and cautionary tales plumbing such considerations as free will, the duality of mankind, societal anarchy, and the ascendancy of an all-powerful state.
2001: A Space Odyssey of Transcendent, or Transcendental, Evolution?
By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
The screen is dark. Eerie and oddly dissonant music begins to play. The screen remains black. At two-minutes and fifty seconds the music stops, followed by six seconds of silence over the blank nothingness before the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM logo fills the screen as the symphonically ascending chords and drumbeats of Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra increase in volume. In a view from the moon, the sun rises behind and then above the blue sphere of the earth.
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NOBODY F*CKS WITH STANLEY KUBRICK
My kind of guy.
