5 Fav Kubrick Scenes/Lines

[Richard Romeo]

pynchon-l at waste.org
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>         On a purely visual level, EWS disappoints as well. The black and
>white dream sequences, supposedly suggesting Harford's sexual jealousy and
>paranoia, play like lame outtakes from the Playboy channel. In this film
>Kubrick's usual machine tooled precision and olympian distance really does
>become the cold empty mannerism that his detractors accused him of.  The
>masked orgy seemed like a satanic ritual in a Hammer horror film. A big
>disappointment.
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granted, it is coming from the mind of a upper middle class guy with certain 
predilections:  the Playboy channel fantasy seems an apt way of portraying 
such a charcacter's inner life.

As for the orgy and the hammer film connection, maybe that's why I liked 
it--hammer was corny, as so is EWS to a certain extent, but it's still 
creepy.

It is sad that Kubrick, unless he kept a diary or something, last work will 
be shrouded in such controversy. Well, the big guy upstairs said, we need 
you know Stanley, and probably for once in his life, he couldn't say no.

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