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Mr Whaite made this animated image of Stanley Kubrick and his films patterned after a Rubik’s cube.
Kubrick’s films are meticulously pieced together like intricate puzzles, so this seems like an appropriate way to portray the great director – hidden within his own work. Also, Kubrick rhymes with Rubik and I’m a sucker for wordplay.
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Remember the scene in The Shining where Jack Nicholson chopped down the door with an axe and saying "Heeere’s Johnny"? Turns out it was inspired by a scene in the 1921 film The Phantom Carriage:
Filmed in 1921, The Phantom Carriage ranks with Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as one of the most important silent horror films in cinematic history. A primary influence for countless filmmakers, especially Ingmar Bergman who supposedly watched it once every year, The Phantom Carriage pioneered the use of certain special effects and narrative flashbacks. In one scene, a man named David Holm is visited by his dead friend Georges, cursed to drive the phantom carriage ushering the dead to the afterlife for an entire year. In order to spare his friend from the same fate, Georges forces David to confront the sins of his past, including one incident when he was infected with tuberculosis and locked in a small room by his wife so he wouldn’t infect their family. In a drunken rage, he took an axe to the door, smashing it to pieces. The film inspired Stanley Kubrick to recreate the scene for his film The Shining.
TopTenz has 9 more famous scenes in the movies and their original inspirations: Link
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This is a fun example of how the marketing of movies was done in the decade I was born. Media sent the interviewees questions that they would ask, and the actor would give responses while being filmed in split-screen style; the interviewer would then splice their questions onto the other side of the screen, record it, and voila! A live interview for their televised show.
George C. Scott and Peter Sellers chose to do their faux interview on set and in character. But you never know what you’re going to get with Sellers…
As if I needed another reason to love this film.
Let Hollywood Saloon take you back to a time before Stanley Kubrick was "Stanley Kubrick", before Spielberg was "Spielberg" and Scorsese was "Scorsese".
The folks at Hollywood Saloon have gathered together the early directorial efforts of some of cinema’s biggest and most acclaimed names, ranging from Stanley Kubrick and James Cameron to Paul Thomas Anderson.
These early works, consisting of 16mm student productions, Super 8 and VHS films, give us a glimpse of the youthful talent that would go on to produce some of the most important films of the 20th century.
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