# Stanley Kubrick - help! (dialogue, mostly) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082 "2017-12-22T21:43:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mavic\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mavic\_Chen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavic_Chen)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/1 "2017-12-22T21:43:07Z")
Hello brain-gains šŸ™‚ I have a few favourite directors: Wilder, Polanski (yes, I know), Kubrick, Peckinpah, Gilliam, Scorsese, Hickox (who?), Edwards - basically anyone who puts more thought into their films than usual. Now Kubrick made some very odd films, superficially rather straight forward stories but with some _crazy_ deep meanings bubbling underneath. Iā€™m still not convinced by the Native American thing in the Shining by the way, seems too obviousā€¦ 2001 being a timeless masterpiece obviouslyā€¦ But the one thing I _really_ donā€™t get is the way he filmed his dialogue. Now in most of his films there is hardly any dialogue of note. Going for the man is meaningless bit I guess. The film 2001 I mentioned is all like ā€œwant dinner with thatā€ while alien monoliths play God outside, but what was the reasoning behind: Dr Bill Yes, Dr Bill Youā€™re Dr Bill? _Iā€™m_ Dr Bill? Doctor Bill, Doctor Billā€¦ Well, _Doctor_ Billā€¦ Doctor. Bill. Doctor. Bill. DoctorBill Iā€™m Doctor Bill. Etc. All delivered in monotone and as slowly as possible. What was he going for? I feel like thereā€™s six levels of understanding Kubrick films and Iā€™m at level 4: 1. WTF? Idiotic film 2. OK film but I donā€™t understand it 3. I get the overall point but the finer detail is lost on me 4. Oh, I see, thereā€™s some really cool stuff underlying all the trivial bits 5. Look at that, man, deep deep meaning 6. Nirvana Please help me though, why was the dialogue delivered in such a way? And any other thoughts you have on the great directors are very welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/2 "2017-12-22T22:03:10Z")
> [@Mavic\_Chen](#): > > And any other thoughts you have on the great directors are very welcome. Check out the Archers; the partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. They made a series of great films in the forties and fifties. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/3 "2017-12-22T22:52:39Z")
Re: 2001 > **[Kubrick 2001: The space odyssey explained](https://www.kubrick2001.com/)** > > Award-winning video analysis of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: a space odyssey', in English, Deutsch, EspaƱol, ŁŲ§Ų±Ų³ŪŒ , FranƧais, Hrvatski, Italiano, ę—„ęœ¬čŖž, PortuguĆŖs, Š ŃƒŃŃŠŗŠøŠ¹, TĆ¼rkƧe, äø­ę–‡ Re: Great directors Every director - including all ā€œgreatā€ directors - has made some number of bad films. Some directors have made nothing but bad films. A smaller number of less than ā€œgreatā€ directors managed to make some number of very good films, an even smaller number of which might arguably be called ā€œgreat,ā€ depending on oneā€™s definition of the term. I think the lesson here is that it makes more sense to express reverence for and/or devotion to a film(s) rather than to a director, ā€œgreatā€ or otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/4 "2017-12-23T00:15:06Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Re: 2001 > > [http://www.kubrick2001.com/](http://www.kubrick2001.com/) > Re: Great directors > > Every director - including all ā€œgreatā€ directors - has made some number of bad films. Some directors have made nothing but bad films. A smaller number of less than ā€œgreatā€ directors managed to make some number of very good films, an even smaller number of which might arguably be called ā€œgreat,ā€ depending on oneā€™s definition of the term. I think the lesson here is that it makes more sense to express reverence for and/or devotion to a film(s) rather than to a director, ā€œgreatā€ or otherwise. This is an interesting question. I am a huge fan for a variety of reasons. The Shining is one of my favorite films because Iā€™m a professional Steadicam operator. I donā€™t think itā€™s his finest film, but I have a lot of those scenes memorized. One thing to consider with The Shining is that he was not working for an original material. As far as the dialogue in some of his films feeling stilted or not entirely human, I would direct you to a film like Doctor Strangelove. The scenes are incredible. Satirical witty subtle layered etc. Something else to consider is that it has always seemed to me the dialogue was not paramount. It is one element of many in a scene or an entire movie. If the dialogue seems stilted perhaps try focusing more on the photography, lighting, body movement and placement of people in the frame and so on. Everything is incredibly well-considered and nothing is done in a random manner. Perhaps some of the dialogue that seems false is really written that way to force the audience to focus in on other elements of the Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/5 "2017-12-23T00:22:00Z")
Is the alleged conversation scene in the OP from **Eyes Wide Shut** (which I havenā€™t seen since it came out)? Because it doesnā€™t bear any relationship to any other Kubrick film I knowā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/6 "2017-12-23T01:27:13Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > If the dialogue seems stilted perhaps try focusing more on the photography, lighting, body movement and placement of people in the frame and so on. Everything is incredibly well-considered and nothing is done in a random manner. > > Perhaps some of the dialogue that seems false is really written that way to force the audience to focus in on other elements of the This is true. One thing I love about The Shining _is_ the dialogue. Specifically, the pauses. (Remembering, not altogether accurately) Like Jack and Grady in the menā€™s room. I love how Jack pauses when he says, ā€œYouā€¦wereā€¦the caretaker here.ā€ It works in other times, and I think other Kubrick films too, when characters simply look at each other for seconds at a time before speaking. It creeps me out in a way that I like (as far as being an audience member ā€“ if that happened in real life, Iā€™d be seriously creeped out.) ---
**Author:** ![Arizona\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Arizona\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arizona_Mike)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/7 "2017-12-23T01:49:24Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > This is an interesting question. > > I am a huge fan for a variety of reasons. The Shining is one of my favorite films because Iā€™m a professional Steadicam operator. I donā€™t think itā€™s his finest film, but I have a lot of those scenes memorized. > > One thing to consider with The Shining is that he was not working for an original material. > > As far as the dialogue in some of his films feeling stilted or not entirely human, I would direct you to a film like Doctor Strangelove. The scenes are incredible. Satirical witty subtle layered etc. > > Something else to consider is that it has always seemed to me the dialogue was not paramount. It is one element of many in a scene or an entire movie. > > If the dialogue seems stilted perhaps try focusing more on the photography, lighting, body movement and placement of people in the frame and so on. Everything is incredibly well-considered and nothing is done in a random manner. > > Perhaps some of the dialogue that seems false is really written that way to force the audience to focus in on other elements of the > > Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk I think a lot of the dialog sparkles in Strangelove because of Terry Southern. Actually, most of Kubrickā€™s later films were adaptations of novels, sometimes working with the original author, sometimes not. Clockwork Orange, in which Anthony Burgess was not involved, nonetheless would not have been as fascinating without Burgessā€™s linguistic portmanteau lingo of ā€œNadsatā€ and the over-the-top satire of British mores. But 2001 relied on the more coolly cerebral work of Arthur C. Clarke, which focused on ideas and images. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/8 "2017-12-23T02:49:54Z")
> [@Leo\_Krupe](#): > > This is true. One thing I love about The Shining _is_ the dialogue. Specifically, the pauses. (Remembering, not altogether accurately) Like Jack and Grady in the menā€™s room. I love how Jack pauses when he says, ā€œYouā€¦wereā€¦the caretaker here.ā€ > > It works in other times, and I think other Kubrick films too, when characters simply look at each other for seconds at a time before speaking. It creeps me out in a way that I like (as far as being an audience member ā€“ if that happened in real life, Iā€™d be seriously creeped out.) I love Nicholsons non-verbal acting in The Shining; I love the way that Jack Torrances disintegration is shown through body language and facial expressions. Remember the scene where Jack is asleep at his writing table while Danny is in room 237? Wendy runs in to wake him up and Jack falls off his chair, lost and confused on the floor. The Shining is even more brilliant because its born from the same trunk as the novel but branches off in a different direction. Kubrick removed much of the brutality while keeping the suspense and the horror. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/9 "2017-12-23T10:36:07Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Check out the Archers; the partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. They made a series of great films in the forties and fifties. I second Powell and Pressburger. I recently watched _The Red Shoes_ and _The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp_ and was blown away by both of them. Hereā€™s [Martin Scorsese introducing _Colonel Blimp_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zx8UHUuZsE). Scorsese tells how much it inspired him. He says other directors who have a very high opinion of this movie include Bernado Bertolucci, David Mamet and Wes Anderson, and he still watches it again regularly. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/10 "2017-12-24T03:28:13Z")
> [@Arizona\_Mike](#): > > I think a lot of the dialog sparkles in Strangelove because of Terry Southern. > > Actually, most of Kubrickā€™s later films were adaptations of novels, sometimes working with the original author, sometimes not. Clockwork Orange, in which Anthony Burgess was not involved, nonetheless would not have been as fascinating without Burgessā€™s linguistic portmanteau lingo of ā€œNadsatā€ and the over-the-top satire of British mores. But 2001 relied on the more coolly cerebral work of Arthur C. Clarke, which focused on ideas and images. The movie was Kubrick though, in the places where they disagreed. Floyd was not nearly so much of a tool in the book, and note that Clarke made him the hero of 2010. The reason for the stilted dialog in 2001 was to show how inadequate man at our stage of evolution was to appreciate the wonders we had encountered. Moonwatcher and his crew were far more excited than Floyd and his crew. Floyd expressed some wonder, and then posed for a picture. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/11 "2017-12-24T05:35:28Z")
Thereā€™s a bit about Kubrickā€™s technique in directing _2001: A Space Odyssey_ in my first post here: [I met Keir Dullea tonight! - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=616628) ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/12 "2017-12-24T10:11:11Z")
He was very good at making empty space seem threatening. Maybe that has something to do with the peculiar dialogue. ---
**Author:** ![filmstar-en](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@filmstar-en](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmstar-en)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/13 "2017-12-24T11:10:15Z")
Another vote for Powell and Pressburger films. Some films were made under wartime censorship rules and ā€˜A Matter of Life and Death.ā€™ is a fantastical story that has a strong underlying political theme exploring Anglo-American relations, which were very sensitive at the time. ā€˜The Life and Times of Colonel Blimpā€™ is also a favourite which is a criticism of outmoded military values in the face of a ruthless war. ā€˜Black Narcissusā€™ is what you might call an erotic nun movie. Directors and writers have to be very subtle and the dialogue cleverly contrived when skirting around censors. For dialogue, Stanley Kubricks ā€˜Dr Strangeloveā€™ is brilliant with some great character acting. Peter Sellers is at his best. I love the scene where his the US president exchanging politie chit chat with the Soviet president, who may be drunk, while delicately bring up the matter of the bombers heading towards Russia. George C Scott doing a Gen Curtiss LeMay impression and Sterling Hayden as the crazy base commander are given some fine material by the writers. They managed to capture the paranoia of Cold War and the seriousnous of nuclear conflict at a time when it was a very real threat and expose its absurdities. Satire. DeSadeski: Govorit DeSadeski. continues in Russian, thenā€¦ Iā€™ve done as you asked. Be careful Mr. President. I think heā€™s drunk. Muffley: Hello? Hello, Dimitri? Listen, I canā€™t hear too well, do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? Oh, thatā€™s much better. Yes. Fine, I can hear you now, Dimitri. Clear and plain and coming through fine. Iā€™m coming through fine too, eh? Good, then. Well then as you say weā€™re both coming through fine. Good. Well itā€™s good that youā€™re fine and Iā€™m fine. I agree with you. Itā€™s great to be fine. laughs Now then Dimitri. You know how weā€™ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb. Well now what happened is, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of, well he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a littleā€¦ funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing. Well, Iā€™ll tell you what he did, he ordered his planesā€¦ to attack your country. Well let me finish, Dimitri. Let me finish, Dimitri. Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it? Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dimitri? Why do you think Iā€™m calling you? Just to say hello? Of course I like to speak to you. Of course I like to say hello. Not now, but any time, Dimitri. Iā€™m just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened. Itā€™s a friendly call. Of course itā€™s a friendly call. Listen, if it wasnā€™t friendly, ā€¦ you probably wouldnā€™t have even got it. They will not reach their targets for at least another hour. I amā€¦ I am positive, Dimitri. Listen, Iā€™ve been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick. Well Iā€™ll tell you. Weā€™d like to give your air staff a complete run down on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes. Yes! I mean, if weā€™re unable to recall the planes, then Iā€™d say that, uh, well, weā€™re just going to have to help you destroy them, Dimitri. I know theyā€™re our boys. Alright, well, listenā€¦ who should we call? Who should we call, Dimitri? The peopleā€¦? Sorry, you faded away there. The Peopleā€™s Central Air Defense Headquarters. Where is that, Dimitri? In Omsk. Right. Yes. Oh, youā€™ll call them first, will you? Uh huh. Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dimitri? What? I see, just ask for Omsk Information. Iā€™m sorry too, Dimitri. Iā€™m very sorry. Alright! Youā€™re sorrier than I am! But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are, Dimitri. Donā€™t say that you are more sorry than I am, because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So weā€™re both sorry, alright? Alright. Yes heā€™s right here. Yes, he wants to talk to you. Just a second. DeSadeski: Continues in Russian. Gradually becomes alarmed, thenā€¦ Das voydaniyaā€¦ Rests phone on the table before him. Muffley: Whatā€¦ what is it, what? DeSadeski: The foolsā€¦ the mad fools. Muffley: Whatā€™s happened? DeSadeski: The doomsday machine. Muffley: The doomsday machine? What is that? DeSadeski: A device which will destroy all human and animal life on earth. Muffley: ## All human and animal life? This is one of my favourite bits of the script and it not really a dialogue, Sellers timing is everything. It is world away from the annoying ambiguity that Kubrick sought in 2001. I hated the ending though the film itself was a visually arresting. The best bit in it was HAL computer who was wonderfully articulate and quite insane. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/14 "2017-12-24T12:44:25Z")
> [@filmstar-en](#): > > ā€˜The Life and Times of Colonel Blimpā€™ is also a favourite which is a criticism of outmoded military values in the face of a ruthless war. Itā€™s the Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, not Life and Times - although he is not a colonel and doesnā€™t in fact die. And no, thatā€™s not at all what itā€™s about. Itā€™s about youth and old age, itā€™s about the young becoming old, and how the young and old judge one another. Itā€™s about changing times and culture. Itā€™s about an unshakably good, decent, generous and kind man living through it all. Itā€™s about how mistaken first impressions can be. The great achievement of this movie is that it takes a character who appears at first sight to be a pompous old fool (a ā€˜Colonel Blimpā€™), and over the course of the movie completely transforms him into a real person the viewer deeply likes and cares about. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/15 "2017-12-24T16:51:51Z")
Terrific performance from Roger Livesey in **Colonel Blimp.**. He was also wonderful in **A Matter of Life and Death** and **She Knew What She Wanted** , the latter being one of the lesser-known Archer films. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/16 "2017-12-24T17:40:07Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > **She Knew What She Wanted** , the latter being one of the lesser-known Archer films. Do you mean _ **I Know Where Iā€™m Going** _? šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/17 "2017-12-24T18:25:05Z")
Yeah, thatā€™s what I get for not looking it up. I KNEW it was a stupid titleā€¦I just picked an alternative stupid title. Fine flick, though. (I also sometimes mix up **Black Narcissus** with **Black Orpheus**. Two of my favorite movies, with nothing whatsoever in common. One has sexy nuns, the other has sexy salsa dancers.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/18 "2017-12-24T22:35:25Z")
> [@filmstar-en](#): > > ā€¦You know how weā€™ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bombā€¦ This is quite possibly my favorite bit in the entire movie. I love the emphasis he places on the word ā€œhydrogen.ā€ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VEB-OoUrNuk/maxresdefault.jpg "Dr. Strangelove (3/8) Movie CLIP - Hello Dimitri (1964) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEB-OoUrNuk) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/19 "2017-12-25T01:12:28Z")
I donā€™t mean this as a thread shit, but I donā€™t get the reverence for Kubes. I like The Shining enough but I absolutely donā€™t get (or like) 2001. Iā€™ve watched it a couple of times but it just doesnā€™t make sense to me. Molasses. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082/20 "2017-12-25T01:32:52Z")
Iā€™m not a huge fan of _2001_ either. But thereā€™s more to his filmography than that, and his veneration is influenced by all of it, not just the one movie that you might happen to dislike. _Full Metal Jacket_ alone has a huge cult following among veterans and military people and has provided an endless supply of pop culture references. _A Clockwork Orange_ is peerless in terms of its unique world-building and proprietary aesthetic, even leaving aside the plot. _The Shining_ is rightly considered one of the best horror movies of all time. _Barry Lyndon_ is aesthetically beautiful and represents the absolute pinnacle of cinematography in ambient light. _Eyes Wide Shut_ - while perhaps lacking the critical acclaim of most of his other work - I find to be a masterpiece of creepy and surreal atmosphere. Kubrick was simply an amazing director from all objective standards of cinematography. It will be a very long time, if ever, before thereā€™s another director who comes close. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubrick-help-dialogue-mostly/805082.md?page=2)