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This is probably in the posted video at some point, but George C. Scott was a serious actor who Kubrick talked into starting a scene with a few silly and ridicu

by bmitc 4y ago

This is probably in the posted video at some point, but George C. Scott was a serious actor who Kubrick talked into starting a scene with a few silly and ridiculous takes to warm up and that the real takes would be the later ones. In typical Kubrick fashion, he used the silly takes in the final edit. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB110055719231074627 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB110055719231074627 Kubrick is one of the most manipulative directors I have ever read about. He's a genius for sure, but I can't imagine he was much fun to work for as an actor.

scaredginger 4y ago
Yeah, I feel really bad for what Shelley Duvall went through, Kubrick was a maniac by the sounds of it. The Shining is a masterpiece all the same though
Someone 4y ago
From that WSJ article: “Stanley was unfailingly polite and even-tempered on the set. After every take that didn't work, even the 100th, he would say nothing more than "Let's try that again." Of course, it was also true that Stanley was a control freak of the highest order and ran his set more like a dictator than a director. He treated actors as if they were technical elements in his design, not as creative professionals like himself.” Another glimpse of how working with Kubrick was: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/stanley-kubrick-a-director-who-didn-t-care-how-many-takes-it-took-8277931.html https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/featu... (“If you did a film with Stanley, you were married to him. There was nothing else in your life.”) I don’t think anybody could direct a movie the way Kubrick did today. They would be canceled before the shoot (which would be long. That reference to the 100th take above may not have been an exaggeration. Kubrick is in the Guinness book of world records for doing 148 takes of a scene in “the Shining”. See https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/74583-most-retakes-for-one-scene-with-dialogue https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/74583-mos...) was over. On the other hand, Elon Musk seems to get away with being very manipulative and demanding of his personnel.
- watwut 4y ago
  I dont know about directors being cancelled for taking too many takes. The cancellation issues tend to center around sexual abuse and it took many accusers over years for anything to happen. And they typically bounced back quickly anyway.
denton-scratch 4y ago
> He's a genius for sure, but I can't imagine he was much fun to work for as an actor. Malcolm McDowell would comfirm that working with Kubrick was punishing. My fave Kubrick movie is 2001; happily for the cast, there's not very much acting in that movie.

by bmitc 4y ago

scaredginger 4y ago

Yeah, I feel really bad for what Shelley Duvall went through, Kubrick was a maniac by the sounds of it. The Shining is a masterpiece all the same though

Someone 4y ago

From that WSJ article: “Stanley was unfailingly polite and even-tempered on the set. After every take that didn't work, even the 100th, he would say nothing more than "Let's try that again." Of course, it was also true that Stanley was a control freak of the highest order and ran his set more like a dictator than a director. He treated actors as if they were technical elements in his design, not as creative professionals like himself.” Another glimpse of how working with Kubrick was: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/stanley-kubrick-a-director-who-didn-t-care-how-many-takes-it-took-8277931.html https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/featu... (“If you did a film with Stanley, you were married to him. There was nothing else in your life.”) I don’t think anybody could direct a movie the way Kubrick did today. They would be canceled before the shoot (which would be long. That reference to the 100th take above may not have been an exaggeration. Kubrick is in the Guinness book of world records for doing 148 takes of a scene in “the Shining”. See https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/74583-most-retakes-for-one-scene-with-dialogue https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/74583-mos...) was over. On the other hand, Elon Musk seems to get away with being very manipulative and demanding of his personnel.

watwut 4y ago
I dont know about directors being cancelled for taking too many takes. The cancellation issues tend to center around sexual abuse and it took many accusers over years for anything to happen. And they typically bounced back quickly anyway.

denton-scratch 4y ago

> He's a genius for sure, but I can't imagine he was much fun to work for as an actor. Malcolm McDowell would comfirm that working with Kubrick was punishing. My fave Kubrick movie is 2001; happily for the cast, there's not very much acting in that movie.