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And, just like everything Kubrick, I don't understand the ending. What did being fussy about boxes, and only having them available to people inside the house, h

And, just like everything Kubrick, I don't understand the ending. What did being fussy about boxes, and only having them available to people inside the house, have to do with finding what he was looking for?

spikels 13y ago
That's how you used to have to do research - boxes of files. Today he would have had everything scanned and indexed multiple ways in a database. But there is something special about the less satisfying about this than a room containing every book ever written about Napolean.
anuragramdasan 13y ago
The article at some point says that the movies are Stanley. I believe they mean that the best way to know stanley i to know his work. The boxes wer, in such a sense, what Stanley Kubrick was about. I think what the author means in that no one outside the Kubrick house ever saw the real Stanley Kubrick.
swang 13y ago
My interpretation is that the author wrote this article to find something about Kubrick that defines who he was. Kubrick is known to have demanded perfection, jotting down tons and tons of notes and details. But the public only seems this side of Kubrick in the movies he makes. One can be a perfectionist about a trade, but carefree in other aspects of their life. But the boxes were the author's "Rosebud" in that even though no one outside of the estate would see/use these boxes, and by the looks of it would have rarely been opened, Kubrick still took the time to get boxes that were incredibly well-designed. So in essence, the boxes embodied Kubrick's true self, a perfectionists.
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corford 13y ago
swang (above) puts it better than I could but I thought the story of the boxes was to show that Tony was right when he said "It's all there, those films are Stanley." The point being he put the same level of work in to the boxes and his many unfinished projects as he did with the films that saw release. In essence, boxes or films, he's doing it for himself and our enjoyment of his work is incidental to the process. The films and the boxes are Stanley Kubrick. The films just happen to be the bit we get to see.

spikels 13y ago

That's how you used to have to do research - boxes of files. Today he would have had everything scanned and indexed multiple ways in a database. But there is something special about the less satisfying about this than a room containing every book ever written about Napolean.

anuragramdasan 13y ago

The article at some point says that the movies are Stanley. I believe they mean that the best way to know stanley i to know his work. The boxes wer, in such a sense, what Stanley Kubrick was about. I think what the author means in that no one outside the Kubrick house ever saw the real Stanley Kubrick.

swang 13y ago

My interpretation is that the author wrote this article to find something about Kubrick that defines who he was. Kubrick is known to have demanded perfection, jotting down tons and tons of notes and details. But the public only seems this side of Kubrick in the movies he makes. One can be a perfectionist about a trade, but carefree in other aspects of their life. But the boxes were the author's "Rosebud" in that even though no one outside of the estate would see/use these boxes, and by the looks of it would have rarely been opened, Kubrick still took the time to get boxes that were incredibly well-designed. So in essence, the boxes embodied Kubrick's true self, a perfectionists.

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corford 13y ago

swang (above) puts it better than I could but I thought the story of the boxes was to show that Tony was right when he said "It's all there, those films are Stanley." The point being he put the same level of work in to the boxes and his many unfinished projects as he did with the films that saw release. In essence, boxes or films, he's doing it for himself and our enjoyment of his work is incidental to the process. The films and the boxes are Stanley Kubrick. The films just happen to be the bit we get to see.