NP: Kubrick Bio Rec

[David Morris]

For me the interesting take on MS's outline is her overlay of morality on
the alien-assisted evolution schema of 2001, apes or humans somehow failing
a test posed by the monoliths. Black isn't evil, nor death. It is enigma.
It sparks the crossing of new concious thresholds before unimagined, and
each one is a huge leap forward' clearly illustrated by the Segway if the
sinning airborne bone-weapon into a spinning space-station, a genius
transition. And, obviously the star-child birth at the end is the next step
forward.  2001 is about evolutionary "uplift," IMHO.  I'm sure this is a
common understanding of 2001 today.

David Morris

On Tuesday, December 1, 2015, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> You were right, Johnny: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0009.html.
>
> Thank you.
>
> 2015-12-01 22:20 GMT+01:00 Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','marrja at gmail.com');>>:
>
>> It's by Margaret Stackhouse. I'm struggling to send links (or to type
>> competently for that matter) on this phone, but a bit of Googling will dig
>> it up soon enough for anybody interested.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 1, 2015, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','marrja at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think Eyes Wide Shut is major Kubrick - it's his defining statement on
>>> sexual identity, societal secrecy and individual reputation. Always find
>>> something new in that film.
>>>
>>> David Thomson claims that Kubrick locked Tom Cruise out of Nicole
>>> Kidman's cuckolding scene, demanding a strictly closed set, that the actor
>>> credited with playing the cicisbeo has no other recognised film or acting
>>> credits, and that Kubrick spent an entire day filming them copulate, only
>>> to use about five seconds worth of footage in the final cut.
>>>
>>> I do have a loose theory that the final scene in 2001 is something of a
>>> collation of mankind's greatest achievements throughout history gathered
>>> together in a space-time continuum warp, as a final testament to mankind as
>>> he (we?) begin to die out and find ourselves replaced (much like the apes
>>> at the start of the film) by 'superior' beings.
>>>
>>> Kubrick said the best and most intellectually rigorous analysis of 2001
>>> he had ever read was from a 15 year old girl who wrote to him privately
>>> with his theories. I've read that letter and from distant memory it is very
>>> impressive - I'll try to dig it out soon.
>>>
>>> On Sunday, November 29, 2015, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the recommendations, Mark. Agreed on all counts, really.
>>>> Spent yesterday trying to find car floor mats in the pattern of the carpet
>>>> from *The Shining *but no luck. The blog is very cool--I'm glad people
>>>> like you are out there, keeping blogs like these.
>>>>
>>>> And John, yes, *Eyes Wide Shut *has grown on me lately as well, even
>>>> if it's not, what, Major Kubrick? The whole thing's fascinating, anyway.
>>>> All of it elevated by what became of Cruise in the years after that movie
>>>> (which you almost sense Kubrick playing with, ahead of time, way
>>>> prescient).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sis loved it, was deeply absorbed/moved. She's moderately-to-severely
>>>>> bipolar, and so had a really rough teenagerhood. Dropped out of high
>>>>> school, few hospital stays, etc. She is very, very smart but is so
>>>>> sensitive and has spent much of her life in so emotionally precarious a
>>>>> state that she has spent a lot of time shying away from art that is at all
>>>>> high-stakes. She's been a voracious reader, but much of that has been,
>>>>> like, harlequins.
>>>>>
>>>>> But lately she's been stable enough that I've been able to recommend
>>>>> things to her, and she's been able to follow through. I'm sort of her
>>>>> cultural gatekeeper so I'm basically trying my best to give her a
>>>>> trajectory that probably apexes with her being able to appreciate something
>>>>> like *GR*, to extract some of its wonders, etc. She can probably
>>>>> handle it from there.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> what did Sis think about it?☺
>>>>>>
>>>>>> P
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Steven Koteff <
>>>>>> steviekoteff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yesterday I got my sister very stoned and took her to see 2001. It
>>>>>>> was playing at the Logan Theatre here in Chicago. Her first time seeing it
>>>>>>> (she's 21) and the first time I'd seen it in theaters.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm sure the movie and the director have been talked about ad mortem
>>>>>>> on here but if anybody had anything to say about it I am all ears. I will
>>>>>>> personally confess that I consider it an important part of my life, a work
>>>>>>> of art that elicits genuine awe from me. Sometimes I put the scene of Hal's
>>>>>>> deactivation on in the background on a loop while I work.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Realized I've never actually read a Kubrick bio. Or anything about
>>>>>>> him/his movies. Anybody have any recommendations? -
>>>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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