SUE LYON IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S 'LOLITA' WITH JAMES MASON

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGUf3zkX7S6hWRTiVXI36Vv792O1AB3QO7XuNS20rC8zvtcimMd36j6OoX57qPLe12u1dEnzILK20anUmvirhUU-lKgPEb-Ri-hsQ8lWxWAA5aWeMgLAmYvdv5zxqprI83Okm-puM4WhLbnEOC18qbE8vfEHSVqRzssW-FBwF6UFCiPHzUy5BE2nVJ9fwe/s1616/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-22%20at%204.10.49%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="1616" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGUf3zkX7S6hWRTiVXI36Vv792O1AB3QO7XuNS20rC8zvtcimMd36j6OoX57qPLe12u1dEnzILK20anUmvirhUU-lKgPEb-Ri-hsQ8lWxWAA5aWeMgLAmYvdv5zxqprI83Okm-puM4WhLbnEOC18qbE8vfEHSVqRzssW-FBwF6UFCiPHzUy5BE2nVJ9fwe/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-06-22%20at%204.10.49%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peter Sellers with Marianne Stone and Sue Lyon in Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA Year: 1962 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between Stanley Kubrick's financial gig on Kirk Douglas's epic SPARTACUS and the immense Cold War dark comedy DR. STRANGELOVE is the subtle yet brilliant LOLITA, perhaps his most conventionally filmed and least visually offbeat since the storyline takes care of all that... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Middle-aged British college professor James Mason falls for the titular Sue Lyon, whose mom, Shelley Winters, bounces around a suburban East Coast dream house, stealing all the first act scenes in what feels like a short film in itself... </p><p><span></span></p>

dark comedy, exploitation, james mason, jazz score, jerry stovin, marianne stone, peter sellers, road movie, shelley winters, sixties, stanley kubrick, sue lyon

SUE LYON IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S 'LOLITA' WITH JAMES MASON

Peter Sellers with Marianne Stone and Sue Lyon in Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA Year: 1962 Rating: **** Between Stanley Kubrick's financi...

STANLEY KUBRICK'S NOIR 'THE KILLING' WITH STERLING HAYDEN

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYJ9oCKTJQYqzHTI2vpYzGijLUAWW7iQ9TwuWy0kBCREdMyv2ExusMVcm9BVXLGOUtzBfPS5fIznhAsD9NCruEIAnnY_c8EGu8Ry5-rCvLEyw4oDkS8vkmwbUGfxx63W4ur7aEqhyphenhyphenitUyJmCnTl-FYDnqvxlw_-RG7oOgKQ8T4aRHvCQoyFmvGR3uREvTn/s2008/649767142_1631825585130436_5272890901219944308_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="2008" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYJ9oCKTJQYqzHTI2vpYzGijLUAWW7iQ9TwuWy0kBCREdMyv2ExusMVcm9BVXLGOUtzBfPS5fIznhAsD9NCruEIAnnY_c8EGu8Ry5-rCvLEyw4oDkS8vkmwbUGfxx63W4ur7aEqhyphenhyphenitUyJmCnTl-FYDnqvxlw_-RG7oOgKQ8T4aRHvCQoyFmvGR3uREvTn/s16000/649767142_1631825585130436_5272890901219944308_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Timothy Carey and Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING Year: 1956 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Following what's more an art-house crime melodrama in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/03/KKiss.html">KILLER'S KISS</a>, young photographer turned director Stanley Kubrick created a more polished, genuine film noir that — using a then-rare, non-linear structure — is also far more complicated... so much that the studio forced one of those docudrama-style narrations throughout...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Working best to map-out the ensemble of criminals who are otherwise everyday workers at the targeted racetrack along with a crooked cop, a wrestler and last but not least, a bonafide hoodlum to shoot a running horse...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

coleen gray, elisha cook jr., film noir or melodrama, heist, joe sawyer, joe turkel, marie windsor, stanley kubrick, sterling hayden, ted decorsia, timothy carey, vince edwards

STANLEY KUBRICK'S NOIR 'THE KILLING' WITH STERLING HAYDEN

Timothy Carey and Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING Year: 1956 Rating: ****1/2 Following what's more an art-house crime melodrama in KILLER...

STANLEY KUBRICK'S RUDIMENTARY FILM NOIR OF 'KILLER'S KISS'

<p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxacvx1OGHKutZmjhLccTP7wJ4FHdYKn4EmGSkamaeK-rspzSl75vDfeJ08ajYU5AhhX-xYGFjrWiPGdvQY3SoAO0NLnnJw9VKPdkw2xxhvZ4RemsnIUzmt51N8VckiAWdVYP3lal7YRitFYFC4ZQyxPcjqNPz5_alIRVNtCbBM3Ta_Jce7GsTlnbEfGW/s2456/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-25%20at%209.35.08%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnxacvx1OGHKutZmjhLccTP7wJ4FHdYKn4EmGSkamaeK-rspzSl75vDfeJ08ajYU5AhhX-xYGFjrWiPGdvQY3SoAO0NLnnJw9VKPdkw2xxhvZ4RemsnIUzmt51N8VckiAWdVYP3lal7YRitFYFC4ZQyxPcjqNPz5_alIRVNtCbBM3Ta_Jce7GsTlnbEfGW/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-25%20at%209.35.08%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: Stanley Kubrick's KILLER'S KISS Year: 1955 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When it's not a primal, jazz piano, mamba-like rhythm as gangster/dance club owner Frank Silvera tries keeping his trophy girl from being romanced by someone truly deserving, the deepest, more soulful orchestration is very reminiscent of (years later) THE GODFATHER score...<br> <br> Despite director Stanley Kubrick referring to KILLER'S KISS as a student film, his rudimentary Noir is a beautiful, intentionally-simplistic tale with the auteur's metronomic, haunting rhythm intact, and, harboring such a flowing, naturally offbeat groove throughout, it's hard to fathom that, at this point, with only an even more low-budget (and unreleased) movie under his belt, he already possessed a vibe and structure all his own... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

boxing, felice orlandi, fifties, film noir or melodrama, frank silvera, irene kane, jamie smith, jazz-score, mobster, stanley kubrick, thriller

STANLEY KUBRICK'S RUDIMENTARY FILM NOIR OF 'KILLER'S KISS'

Title: Stanley Kubrick's KILLER'S KISS Year: 1955 Rating: **** When it's not a primal, jazz piano, mamba-like rhythm as gangste...

STANLEY KUBRICK'S CLASSIC SCOUNDREL EPIC OF 'BARRY LYNDON'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5XWRs4fqdGqjnSKPOAZr8xISDm8N478UswCFSOA-OH5k99LinAoyBVD9ZIk8kZF-AytzfAXGP-6AW4s_WNg9CTgiRU8FsxT61AC5Gup0OcSSF2vaexMsb2hrK0WnmFilgQjDOgUE5oAkYlbFomTBUSWJutT08ETYcEz8eyOLdRw9Ayj2Pk5EXYrzQJEy/s2026/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="2026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5XWRs4fqdGqjnSKPOAZr8xISDm8N478UswCFSOA-OH5k99LinAoyBVD9ZIk8kZF-AytzfAXGP-6AW4s_WNg9CTgiRU8FsxT61AC5Gup0OcSSF2vaexMsb2hrK0WnmFilgQjDOgUE5oAkYlbFomTBUSWJutT08ETYcEz8eyOLdRw9Ayj2Pk5EXYrzQJEy/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BARRY LYNDON Year: 1975 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the mid-to-late 1700's Europe, by the time Ryan O'Neal's BARRY LYNDON has fled from his small hometown village in Ireland... then becomes a soldier at war and then a war-deserter and then a captured-deserter throughout several countries... ninety-minutes have passed... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which is the length of an average film, and with so much literal ground covered, director Stanley Kubrick provides more an episodic journey than adventure since every location is its own thematic vignette with a beginning, middle and end...</p><p><span></span></p>

adventure, epic, godfrey quigley, hardy kruger, john bindon, lenoard rossiter, leon vitale, liam redmond, marisa berenson, melodrama, patrick magee, romance, ryan o'neal, seventies, stanley kubrick

STANLEY KUBRICK'S CLASSIC SCOUNDREL EPIC OF 'BARRY LYNDON'

Title: BARRY LYNDON Year: 1975 Rating: ****1/2 In the mid-to-late 1700's Europe, by the time Ryan O'Neal's BARRY LYNDON has fled...

CRUISING THROUGH STANLEY KUBRICK'S '2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEBDxvr0msbeCDp6p-n0p36s_pWmL8TfSdAbnfZAaLdVWlkUG6Tx_Orn7yPHao2YYaHMWTlBqD69GD-r4pIgyKXDPsjWcbstMAlyQSNOqd7suXorfC74lIGH1Q_MrrxDH4IOxrI9jHnAO5Duz36OvdUDmwWgF60Wo9g7RR6_pejfUYht34AiNrn1clwcxH/s2728/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-07%20at%207.53.04%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1318" data-original-width="2728" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEBDxvr0msbeCDp6p-n0p36s_pWmL8TfSdAbnfZAaLdVWlkUG6Tx_Orn7yPHao2YYaHMWTlBqD69GD-r4pIgyKXDPsjWcbstMAlyQSNOqd7suXorfC74lIGH1Q_MrrxDH4IOxrI9jHnAO5Duz36OvdUDmwWgF60Wo9g7RR6_pejfUYht34AiNrn1clwcxH/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-12-07%20at%207.53.04%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Year: 1968 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The greatest cinema epics (from LAWRENCE OF ARABIA before to GOODFELLAS after) have various sequences that feel like their own separate short films that ultimately connect as a whole...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And in that, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is a perfectly multi-tiered vehicle, showcasing both the advanced pioneering of space exploration through orbital technology with the formidable perils of its mere existence... </p><span></span>

adventure, epic, fantasy, gary lockwood, keir dullea, robert beatty, science-fiction, sean sullivan, sixties, stanley kubrick, thriller, william sylvester

CRUISING THROUGH STANLEY KUBRICK'S '2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY'

Title: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Year: 1968 Rating: ***** The greatest cinema epics (from LAWRENCE OF ARABIA before to GOODFELLAS after) have va...

MOTIVATION OF JACK NICHOLSON GONE CRAZY FOR 'THE SHINING'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqWZLCrTV8q4714BBVXoYeb6YVgtgFYojhc1VoCDgqWMqy7yMFC3aAaAas-Vkp_5ocYdNRMQILzo5aGsuCJde2Y-N9wPIjsI496qgH_GWwJ7SZWEQtzKmUXVZrwCpO0RtWzP6PGBePTOJPvdNN_RSwyr3_DrZIriKEDjhKYFkgbTBWBSuD9B7BYXNFHRAV/s1600/6.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqWZLCrTV8q4714BBVXoYeb6YVgtgFYojhc1VoCDgqWMqy7yMFC3aAaAas-Vkp_5ocYdNRMQILzo5aGsuCJde2Y-N9wPIjsI496qgH_GWwJ7SZWEQtzKmUXVZrwCpO0RtWzP6PGBePTOJPvdNN_RSwyr3_DrZIriKEDjhKYFkgbTBWBSuD9B7BYXNFHRAV/s16000/6.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Article on the madness of King Jack Nicholson and Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING from 1980</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Thanks to the famous image of a grimacing madman's head through a slashed door, it seems THE SHINING would be nothing more than a fiendish axe-wielding Jack Nicholson running amok. The sinister “Here’s Johnny!” line is as overrated as the TAXI DRIVER “You talkin’ to me?” scene — yet there’s more going on here than a crazy antagonist.<br> <br> It's unfortunate that young horror fans anticipating scare-a-minute thrills are often misled into a deliberately slow-paced cerebral-surreal journey that takes time to encompass the film’s true villain — The Overlook Hotel... <br> </p>

adaptation, anne jackson, article, barry dennen, barry nelson, eighties, essay, horror, jack nicholson, joe turkel, philip stone, scatman crothers, shelley duvall, stanley kubrick, stephen king, thriller

MOTIVATION OF JACK NICHOLSON GONE CRAZY FOR 'THE SHINING'

Article on the madness of King Jack Nicholson and Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING from 1980 Thanks to the famous image o...

STANLEY KUBRICK'S PARANOIAC FILM NOIR OF 'EYES WIDE SHUT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggKbgavRlx8RIsE4_bzFwb1l0stWYK0261BW1EUz6g5W4_CxtQnQ7h5ko6p1bgTvyWSpkEke1EGkz3L3HxnB_Qbmu-dpkIuZWv8SBswpCSdaTfXaDbmDFHf-3F7j-PXN5AwrMR2axWt0fwAXgH7BvvJ0MBPGLSlV9o0ur9vlFU2iBp3xSzirvRR4Vp2w=s1043" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="1043" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggKbgavRlx8RIsE4_bzFwb1l0stWYK0261BW1EUz6g5W4_CxtQnQ7h5ko6p1bgTvyWSpkEke1EGkz3L3HxnB_Qbmu-dpkIuZWv8SBswpCSdaTfXaDbmDFHf-3F7j-PXN5AwrMR2axWt0fwAXgH7BvvJ0MBPGLSlV9o0ur9vlFU2iBp3xSzirvRR4Vp2w=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tom Cruise in Stanley Kubrick's EYES WIDE SHUT Year: 1999 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Some films seem created to be despised and misunderstood... <i>Misunderspised</i> is not a word but fits the subliminally insane, intensely mellow and tortuously strange EYES WIDE SHUT that, too slow for a thriller and too tame for sheer outright sexual exploitation, is the final feature of legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and stars Tom Cruise as a seemingly perfect Manhattan doctor with a seemingly contented wife in Nicole Kidman...<br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> Beginning with a plush (yet secretly lush) party thrown by Cruise's millionaire "house calls" patient Sydney Pollock, who later partakes in a terrific finale monologue, both men playing a game of fancy red-velvet pool while discussing an earlier upscale, mansion-set, masquerade orgy that Cruise's Dr. William Harford character should <i>not</i> have attended...</p><span></span>

christmas, epic, marie richardson, melodrama, neo noir, nicole kidman, nineties, stanley kubrick, sydney pollock, todd field, tom cruise

STANLEY KUBRICK'S PARANOIAC FILM NOIR OF 'EYES WIDE SHUT'

Tom Cruise in Stanley Kubrick's EYES WIDE SHUT Year: 1999 Rating: ***1/2 Some films seem created to be despised and misunderstood... Mis...

STRATEGIC SIDE-CHARACTERS OF KUBRICK'S 'FULL METAL JACKET'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlgUW8Ua4tKGNPoRkuh4L6VxPgS51y4eoWXLT91UOUwPw_Txl6uuGz0Wpk7R757r5VXp2Fzz52QigV0bL8oB4IW8_gPWrrXXrknCTKqtUVc6FDfEClGXt3w5sNIz437neTxKVA2Clh4bFa/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-11-25+at+3.38.15+AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1130" data-original-width="1600" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlgUW8Ua4tKGNPoRkuh4L6VxPgS51y4eoWXLT91UOUwPw_Txl6uuGz0Wpk7R757r5VXp2Fzz52QigV0bL8oB4IW8_gPWrrXXrknCTKqtUVc6FDfEClGXt3w5sNIz437neTxKVA2Clh4bFa/s400/Screen+Shot+2018-11-25+at+3.38.15+AM.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Expendable Unsung Heroes of FULL METAL JACKET</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> The irony of the helmet sharing BORN TO KILL with a peace symbol represents more than Pvt. Joker’s theory behind donning such a blatant contradiction in the middle of a raging war…<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyxZ7RCwfh8gbyIpJDdaf1gHsClYBoJ4S_jLAL8P5J4CN_Ps8TwTbhiTdRMRrQWXmJatowfE2ynfA7IFauOFEyTegIZNxfX3R9lq3O61qlfp9fx0I31mLDEXCUYUfWuctK_y8JLz7nu1M/s1600/11.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyxZ7RCwfh8gbyIpJDdaf1gHsClYBoJ4S_jLAL8P5J4CN_Ps8TwTbhiTdRMRrQWXmJatowfE2ynfA7IFauOFEyTegIZNxfX3R9lq3O61qlfp9fx0I31mLDEXCUYUfWuctK_y8JLz7nu1M/s320/11.png" width="181" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peace Helmet began with...</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> FULL METAL JACKET, the second to last feature directed by the legendary Stanley Kubrick, though hypnotic and powerful, isn’t always sure what it is, exactly, or where it’s going; especially in the middle after progressing awkwardly into Vietnam while all but forgetting the incredible first act at Boot Camp...<br /> <br /> Not only the best part of the film, but a kind of short film... with a beginning, middle and end... starring Drill Sergeant Hartman, played by R. Lee Ermey who, in real life was an ex soldier discovered for APOCALYPSE NOW while living in the Philippines. He provides a more realistic and helpful yet still tough Drill Sergeant in the 1978 Vietnam flick THE BOYS IN COMPANY C,  the first movie to use the peace sign on the helmet. But peace doesn’t sell to everyone…<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVFFMKfiqfpHhxSKwbkr75CMyBy5nRJ7pMnFtvBZg3Hc0J-H8zTaudV7mZ0MBhzFaa5nrdhTLqSMsgnpCoHKF-fwBukFlJ5z8mCEKDXusT55-S4Q2lYhrMWAEb0MGWbgqU2SWGFb3vFPk/s1600/12.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVFFMKfiqfpHhxSKwbkr75CMyBy5nRJ7pMnFtvBZg3Hc0J-H8zTaudV7mZ0MBhzFaa5nrdhTLqSMsgnpCoHKF-fwBukFlJ5z8mCEKDXusT55-S4Q2lYhrMWAEb0MGWbgqU2SWGFb3vFPk/s1600/12.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Boys in Company C</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Living up to the FULL METAL title, Adam Baldwin steals the second half as Animal Mother, a hardcore grunt who takes the war seriously, never giving in to the message that war is not only hell, but altogether pointless... And he has a purpose: to kill or be killed...<br /> <br /> Instead let’s center more on a few obscure, underrated performances… obviously not including Vincent D’Onofrio’s Private Pyle, mesmerizing as Kubrick’s lost soul Boot Camp character, nearly equal with the monopolizing Ermy… These particular (originally blogged during Memorial Day) JACKET vets hardly get mentioned, or recognized, for their input that drives the story forward…<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBG8iMUJegy0N6w47RklX-wjOvrEGSUwq2_4ThQWVoQnC_tk6q_AgUWCciAFtUIgZDKz-Ck7lBDOSACX0ilFxj_5vUwa_0Zppe60ELRmmF5prL4-9CgZ7spxzzax4hL25bmho5PnnYL9M/s1600/13.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBG8iMUJegy0N6w47RklX-wjOvrEGSUwq2_4ThQWVoQnC_tk6q_AgUWCciAFtUIgZDKz-Ck7lBDOSACX0ilFxj_5vUwa_0Zppe60ELRmmF5prL4-9CgZ7spxzzax4hL25bmho5PnnYL9M/s1600/13.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Terry as Lockhart</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <u>John Terry</u> might look like one of those standard/stock handsome actors that come and go, which he is, usually, but as Lt. Lockhart, head of the Journalist unit during the start of the Vietnam sequence, he’s beyond effective doing what makes up most of the Kubrick war epic (or any Stanley film): that being, long monologues, which probably took a million takes to get "just right." One gets the feeling that Terry's kind of professional actor's actor didn't annoy Kubrick too much... but who knows, only God, about the infamously picky director... <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi725N40oTunFdug3qdjHv_PgENhnmjT6Rx7pZxcMIUyIxr5QwpLrKTjhV-haxpIOgE9-rcdVdoNvZV-t5wEk6mAFz18QYJIjrm8GIEgjaKIEYlEJYGSdfIe3wv7D8PPsqpcEx-Yr-_voGh/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-11-25+at+4.03.16+AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1162" data-original-width="707" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi725N40oTunFdug3qdjHv_PgENhnmjT6Rx7pZxcMIUyIxr5QwpLrKTjhV-haxpIOgE9-rcdVdoNvZV-t5wEk6mAFz18QYJIjrm8GIEgjaKIEYlEJYGSdfIe3wv7D8PPsqpcEx-Yr-_voGh/s320/Screen+Shot+2018-11-25+at+4.03.16+AM.jpeg" width="194" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Terry on LOST</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Either way, in JACKET, through Terry we learn the rules of covering the war, from the inside – what’s right and not right to print so that this unpopular “police action” seems legitimate: not an easy task. When Matthew Modine’s Private Joker questions the rather subdued Lockhart about his safe position, the lieutenant points out the fact he had his ass in the grass, and doesn’t want to go back there. Like Adam Baldwin but in reverse, Terry’s Lockhart sticks firmly to his guns… or in this case, typewriter. As chief of propaganda, and a character probably created to be disliked, he stretches beyond a cardboard cliché and really holds his own in a Kubrick vehicle.<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXl1XkiDH5ThfV9Otp3eEv1lGP5qY7ygyg8JCchmV6esryNtISCz-mWXkzZWKrLbpV-VsE2QI0bli98h2noAAx_EbhPNr4hnBZGpvAyYUZA1Q0KNdiianG5ZtwoiyzsLoQLScxjaTUFgo/s1600/14.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXl1XkiDH5ThfV9Otp3eEv1lGP5qY7ygyg8JCchmV6esryNtISCz-mWXkzZWKrLbpV-VsE2QI0bli98h2noAAx_EbhPNr4hnBZGpvAyYUZA1Q0KNdiianG5ZtwoiyzsLoQLScxjaTUFgo/s320/14.png" width="186" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kieron Jecchinis as Crazy Earl</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Then, once Joker and a character mentioned later, go from the safety-zone as writer and photographer to where the bullets are flying, a fitfully nut named <u>Crazy Earl</u> gets lost in the bravado of both Animal Mother and a nameless gun-happy grunt who shoots local paddy workers (this stocky, tough-guy actor, Tim Colceri, was originally slated to play, and was in the role for eight months, of Sgt. Hartman that R. Lee Ermy made quotable and legendary) from a gunning helicopter during a completely overblown and overdone scene bringing Modine to the front lines where, still a journalist, a series of interviews not only take place, but take us right out of the reality of war...<br /> <br /> Thus a linear motion picture that had, after the first two acts, potential to equal the Oscar Winning PLATOON, which, though far from perfect and with a subject a bit too close to writer/director Oliver Stone, remains a character-driven vehicle unlike JACKET, that meanders from genre to genre. Meanwhile, a similar looking (of the helicopter assassin) <u>Ed O'Neil as Touchdown</u>, explains strategic exposition for Pvt. Joker as they walk towards the mobile barracks, yet not lasting as long as Earl, played by Kieron Jecchinis, sitting next to a dead “gook,” providing an image that turns the troop introduction into a chilling (if pretentiously so) moment of truth.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj78UpLxYHNMCioJV9HYHcol-3ZPcGA4q6QzbPSagmBWn1ot2BhA5yqRvRI79AKcqQwCaKsfuBkx7PTuS46X7FnH-rXsUyB_vpDN98-uef9VjxeaSlFtdgvPVpfMbL1M9Pwgd-AowjefyI/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-02-12+at+4.32.42+AM.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj78UpLxYHNMCioJV9HYHcol-3ZPcGA4q6QzbPSagmBWn1ot2BhA5yqRvRI79AKcqQwCaKsfuBkx7PTuS46X7FnH-rXsUyB_vpDN98-uef9VjxeaSlFtdgvPVpfMbL1M9Pwgd-AowjefyI/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-02-12+at+4.32.42+AM.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A doomed Ed O'Neil</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Also to note, it’s Earl’s long-take frown turned hopeful grin, after blasting a few unlucky stragglers leading to the song “Surfin’ Bird” in jovial irony, that bridges an important gap between strategic battles, kind of like the opening credit sequence of the somewhat underrated <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/01/more-american-graffiti.html">MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI</a> playing the uptown Motown classic "Heat Wave" while (deadly) American Huey copters are flying.<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG3ARnTviHEHHLOJzP_675HgxrL6dMWaqnITeowAYaqRoNHkfPSYGwbwIVUQEAvsDe6OuUBpwl2PhTxIjHSt3RUP9MJ4q3ZwJ8NI3KY4llRFRDZWgryZhfw72eCsLcO2F-Qo7yocDLe2sd/s1600/46744446_607298586365988_6554986775146659840_n.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="502" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG3ARnTviHEHHLOJzP_675HgxrL6dMWaqnITeowAYaqRoNHkfPSYGwbwIVUQEAvsDe6OuUBpwl2PhTxIjHSt3RUP9MJ4q3ZwJ8NI3KY4llRFRDZWgryZhfw72eCsLcO2F-Qo7yocDLe2sd/s400/46744446_607298586365988_6554986775146659840_n.jpeg" width="230" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Beginning of the end...</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Alas, Crazy doesn’t make it all the way. But his departure gives the boys real vulnerability for the last <i>ultra-violent </i>stretch, making up for the pseudo documentary third-act template that doesn’t always work as Arliss Howard’s Cowboy, a nice guy but definitely not a leader, is put in charge of a showdown between an unseen sniper who can’t be properly located... <br /> <br /> That's until scene-stealer Adam Baldwin steps forward, providing Kubrick his most effective camera movements right alongside: this is where we finally have ourselves a bonafide "old school" war flick hero to root for despite the fact JACKET is... like most anti-war ventures, attempting to veer beyond your typical G.I. JOE cliché barnstorm... a hero-less journey into fear, and beyond.<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitn2EX_j655QRA25YcOEs2STxmzgLERyrUHpMkhl6x14ceLCBkp7ifWOjRFeignJ9fG_q4Iv1TxNTVCr0IHG7JeiYbwitnI7UFYsNmMu5T8LCEgU1oHd_bV35liR1sXiHmbE2yFEzTNNQ/s1600/15.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitn2EX_j655QRA25YcOEs2STxmzgLERyrUHpMkhl6x14ceLCBkp7ifWOjRFeignJ9fG_q4Iv1TxNTVCr0IHG7JeiYbwitnI7UFYsNmMu5T8LCEgU1oHd_bV35liR1sXiHmbE2yFEzTNNQ/s320/15.png" width="192" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Thumbs-Up for Rafterman</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> And last but not least, photographer <u>Pvt. Rafterman</u>, played by Kevyn Major Howard, a Pluto to the goofy Joker and/or second banana in the second segment…. Actually there are three parts: boot camp; the safe-knit journalist unit full of dialogue and eventually, and quickly, brought into semi-action during the infamous Tet Offensive; and then the full-on Vietnam sequences, not located at the usual jungle setting ala APOCALYPSE NOW but instead existing within burnt-out villages harboring dilapidated buildings reminiscent of war pictures in WWII France or Germany or on episodes of, say, television's classic COMBAT starring Vic Morrow.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSy27BopGQWkVpnVZMttKobtGjNbhnmM10k-iJDpUoVCcKBYFqIY1SwqnSMbEBqLhN27J4-7TyRZpSjealp7cRk3HjrOO2KkLXGuHlEG8ibFdQSTn1_xhb8sWijIUy6loZkTyZ82y9-Vc/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-02-11+at+3.10.26+AM.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSy27BopGQWkVpnVZMttKobtGjNbhnmM10k-iJDpUoVCcKBYFqIY1SwqnSMbEBqLhN27J4-7TyRZpSjealp7cRk3HjrOO2KkLXGuHlEG8ibFdQSTn1_xhb8sWijIUy6loZkTyZ82y9-Vc/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-02-11+at+3.10.26+AM.jpg" width="223" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>PAINT IT BLACK single</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Rafterman is a sort of loyal pup that Modine’s Joker has to protect, although he gets a bit too Gung-Ho, unrealistically rushed for his originally innocent character. But looking an eerie cross of the boy next door and a sneaky weasel, it’s nice having Rafterman there during the “Nam” half, wonderfully catapulted/bookended by Nancy Sinatra’s sexy THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING and The Rolling Stone’s effectively climactic PAINT IT BLACK, which brilliantly concludes the picture after the exhausted survivors sing the Mickey Mouse song as they march further into unknown purgatory that is, or rather, was, The Vietnam War.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5nlYGBMe5gzeJS2uTHdAhCkfQyZL1TjLadC_lBgUg0JwdMpGs4TjLGm4fZjGBD_7xd-c8SHUmC5Hxe2KSTBled2BK0lt3_FuwRV-8WDXcq6WSr9a2Po7TJW0X3o3sluebVkJQoMOSJSpW/s1600/maxresdefault.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="403" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5nlYGBMe5gzeJS2uTHdAhCkfQyZL1TjLadC_lBgUg0JwdMpGs4TjLGm4fZjGBD_7xd-c8SHUmC5Hxe2KSTBled2BK0lt3_FuwRV-8WDXcq6WSr9a2Po7TJW0X3o3sluebVkJQoMOSJSpW/s400/maxresdefault.jpeg" width="228" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Brian Jones painting black</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <u>FILM RATING: ***1/2</u><br /> <u>TRIVIA</u>: Propaganda chief John Terry plays the famous Bond sidekick Felix Leiter in Timothy Dalton's first 007 outing THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, and if you blink you'll miss him as he's very underwhelming... not boring with a purpose, like in FULL METAL JACKET: he'd be best known two decades later as the good doctor Jack's dad on LOST...<br /> <br /> The next and last Dalton venture had the LIVE AND LET DIE Leiter, THE FLY original actor David Hedison, who has a deathly honeymoon with the last blonde roommate on THREE'S COMPANY and a hungry bionic shark...<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, Kevyn Major Howard wasn't always so sweet a character... although he gets really angry at the sniper (during a supposedly ambiguous Anti-War Flick, we're supposed to feel for the Vietnamese Shelley Duvall who kills half the beloved cast during the 11th hour): in fact, Howard plays victim to two tough guy legends in two sequels: by Clint Eastwood in the fourth DIRTY HARRY flick, SUDDEN IMPACT, and Charles Bronson in DEATH WISH II, the first thing Jimmy Page did, darkly scoring the picture under Cannon Films, after Led Zeppelin tragically disbanded.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9dmYHU5MrXak77fTH4igkw7S7hjjxl7SaPFEwlnozufOYu5wAuqjJ8LrMz8sJgE3gZEN-D-amduR1PkXlB0KBFMQufFNVNyDT7eqtHyVsceTVGvaCaOozbu7YODddsP7FrYNrnwCIZY4/s1600/0.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9dmYHU5MrXak77fTH4igkw7S7hjjxl7SaPFEwlnozufOYu5wAuqjJ8LrMz8sJgE3gZEN-D-amduR1PkXlB0KBFMQufFNVNyDT7eqtHyVsceTVGvaCaOozbu7YODddsP7FrYNrnwCIZY4/s1600/0.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Not exactly a review, but more of a glimpse into several, unlike Adam Baldwin, shown above, underrated, side-side characters</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYto1Nyt1ExMUipUymsKYGwFjGu7yLbzkglOgq6Te-WYufF4vEsbBPlI1KCik-BD22IXTCVUSJziRYvnkt2jki4bGwbu5oXeT5HtPtV_KRmoWu-FemrU0X64-3lgPVHwCMm3JDGi-E3gw_/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-11-25+at+4.13.08+AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYto1Nyt1ExMUipUymsKYGwFjGu7yLbzkglOgq6Te-WYufF4vEsbBPlI1KCik-BD22IXTCVUSJziRYvnkt2jki4bGwbu5oXeT5HtPtV_KRmoWu-FemrU0X64-3lgPVHwCMm3JDGi-E3gw_/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-11-25+at+4.13.08+AM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tim Colceri consolatory if hammy role as a violent Huey gunner after R. Lee Ermy replaced him as Sgt Hartman</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQNX5tuc8ZZTPr3h1XWJdrQNObyfR9HpSg5Suz-vYjD4cHTKN7rlbdS9eyZUO4Qp8dHXyEDcvvGbhEUFO5QQG02wfDUKP2gx0HTnsXOFqO_R3oMGUmrxZkuWJ9Eiij8fjEDbFpHKdkSZYvj2nfgl0J21RJ0AlMK24-uuN3-v3m0HW4uc47FPNrdtT2lQ=s2184" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="2184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQNX5tuc8ZZTPr3h1XWJdrQNObyfR9HpSg5Suz-vYjD4cHTKN7rlbdS9eyZUO4Qp8dHXyEDcvvGbhEUFO5QQG02wfDUKP2gx0HTnsXOFqO_R3oMGUmrxZkuWJ9Eiij8fjEDbFpHKdkSZYvj2nfgl0J21RJ0AlMK24-uuN3-v3m0HW4uc47FPNrdtT2lQ=s16000" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Rutger Hauer and Papillon Soo ("Me So Horny") in Split Second</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />

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STRATEGIC SIDE-CHARACTERS OF KUBRICK'S 'FULL METAL JACKET'

The Expendable Unsung Heroes of FULL METAL JACKET The irony of the helmet sharing BORN TO KILL with a peace symbol represents more than ...

TOM CRUISE IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S FINALE OF 'EYES WIDE SHUT'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpd9tbQEjYzHOBE_Vd-6c9w3Cb904-azk8FjqpsXjN1XGNhDp6J2ebgW-UcxIe2I14hELl7ina6x5TOFFNntqlz1YVdRXsP1aJe6ENEASOpVcbfWifjLcJTBhEB7_y3vsDIS9jQ1taNFiaoXXkNDLz6Raj5MxWLrmc7oGx-2Ie7AKlMiAAS83Z_Sx5A/s1128/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-22%20at%2012.07.08%20AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1128" data-original-width="1016" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibpd9tbQEjYzHOBE_Vd-6c9w3Cb904-azk8FjqpsXjN1XGNhDp6J2ebgW-UcxIe2I14hELl7ina6x5TOFFNntqlz1YVdRXsP1aJe6ENEASOpVcbfWifjLcJTBhEB7_y3vsDIS9jQ1taNFiaoXXkNDLz6Raj5MxWLrmc7oGx-2Ie7AKlMiAAS83Z_Sx5A/w360-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-22%20at%2012.07.08%20AM.jpeg" width="360" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: Eyes Wide SHUT Year: 1999 Rates: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Some films seem created to be despised and misunderstood. <i>Misunderspised</i> is not a word but fits the subliminally insane, intensely mellow and tortuously strange EYES WIDE SHUT, the last vehicle of legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick: starring Tom Cruise as a seemingly perfect Manhattan doctor with a gorgeous wife in Nicole Kidman...<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0URfeelOKn42ku_7x6JpXVmsXDC1BOLd82iOGxr7W5Hgsdrl9wyrDiqVuYb7fDBq1o9pTmoTCaKAuLkoE31UP9cbSFxpPR0bxKRWG5050txMUfMvbrnh4e4fEpOOnLh0_Bqfe6TMON9PnCvmEJyOiWNq5126iLtHJifG8BCHyEtTSvCVtPX2XHbRy6w/s320/3.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0URfeelOKn42ku_7x6JpXVmsXDC1BOLd82iOGxr7W5Hgsdrl9wyrDiqVuYb7fDBq1o9pTmoTCaKAuLkoE31UP9cbSFxpPR0bxKRWG5050txMUfMvbrnh4e4fEpOOnLh0_Bqfe6TMON9PnCvmEJyOiWNq5126iLtHJifG8BCHyEtTSvCVtPX2XHbRy6w/s16000/3.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Nicole Kidman</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Beginning with a plush (but secretly lush) party thrown by a millionaire initially played by Harvey Keitel...<br /> <br /> After which, Tom Cruise called his FIRM director (originally an actor), Sydney Pollack who, at the very end of this extremely long theatrical experience, partakes in one of the greatest monologues ever filmed, both men playing a game of fancy red-velvet pool while discussing a place that Cruise's love-torn Dr. William Harford should not have gone; a sort of demonic, masked orgy with a reoccurring chant that might be one of the most intentionally annoying scenes of all time, saved only by that 11th hour Cruise/Pollock cool-to-hot conversation that still doesn't fully explain why the seemingly contented doctor ventured out in the first place: making SHUT a three-hour modern Noir having to do with a married man's reaction to a story his stoned wife, Kidman's Alice, tells about seeing (yet never actually meeting) the perfect man she would have left her family for...<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7cFZ74YZ99DaCdGJGTz5wOzoodCshQJAGShdOhmV_g1X6L4xKck_CRWHG5f92Rc6-myOfx8o3rUhw-8mhrA9CX8AL7ZmpKqTpRk9M1uKbklVKeNfRAElpdyqc6E8tIOQYSWegk5hmm_-ou_lX_tZxmJRQKgT80vtyfLBeIqculVQogrETS_pSX8doA/s320/2.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="195" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7cFZ74YZ99DaCdGJGTz5wOzoodCshQJAGShdOhmV_g1X6L4xKck_CRWHG5f92Rc6-myOfx8o3rUhw-8mhrA9CX8AL7ZmpKqTpRk9M1uKbklVKeNfRAElpdyqc6E8tIOQYSWegk5hmm_-ou_lX_tZxmJRQKgT80vtyfLBeIqculVQogrETS_pSX8doA/w244-h400/2.jpeg" width="244" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sydney Pollock </u></td></tr></tbody></table>Thus, throughout the night, as Tom Cruise wanders the streets, scored by what sounds like ominous carnival ferris wheel music, where Kubrick, in his working home of England, turned a giant studio into a replica of Manhattan (also including some actual footage), looking dreamlike and surreal as well as gritty and palpable as the best, breeziest moments occur between Cruise and his former med school buddy, Nick Nightingale, played by another director/actor...<br /> <br /> And perhaps this would fit more in the trivia section, but Todd Field also dropped out of med school after taking too many meds and listening to Mozart more than studying in the underrated GROSS ANATOMY, starring another Kubrick veteran, FULL METAL JACKET "Pvt. Joker" Matthew Modine.<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRKoIXb-7rgzsZ9Z85PZBYp6Fa8sYOH-qfoN2CAbOnQeoajZgZ42oUHzaUoY-YINFXYPO_X3IrtGAp0yuHQ0E5QbKu2ul5j17EC61MAVH-N-4P1wLL7z_5iJLfGJBgJpSxK1T-JMvS9rVV2zc3bcdluafx9r_2ykrqgoL8GNoiqfFe4XH1lecJ79dyfw/s320/4.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRKoIXb-7rgzsZ9Z85PZBYp6Fa8sYOH-qfoN2CAbOnQeoajZgZ42oUHzaUoY-YINFXYPO_X3IrtGAp0yuHQ0E5QbKu2ul5j17EC61MAVH-N-4P1wLL7z_5iJLfGJBgJpSxK1T-JMvS9rVV2zc3bcdluafx9r_2ykrqgoL8GNoiqfFe4XH1lecJ79dyfw/s16000/4.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Todd Field in Kubrick mode</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Back on track... When Cruises' successful doctor and the opening party's piano-playing Nightingale connect, before their second more important meeting at a jazz club later on, there's an awkward silence followed by a burst of laughter that displays the fabulous ultra-realistic spontaneity of a Kubrick film: he doesn't make his actors go through over one-hundred takes for nothing. A Selector along with being a Director, within the long editing process, he'd want as many options as possible to choose from...<br /> <br /> Other scenes, though, fail to inhabit such keen, wry realism, perhaps on purpose, or maybe because some characters just aren't that intriguing compared to others, and there are plenty to choose from...<br /> <br /> But liken to Kubrick's best work, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, the main character basically survives throughout a yo-yo kind of experience as the eventual upswing has the same inhabitants cursed, from a fatal disease to death itself, providing a basic lesson of all Film Noir: don't stick your neck out too far where your head doesn't belong...<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4f_nbqY33lAdc_6DsdrDZr-ZsoxNFibfWMdiTJF9krJvve_N-8LF22QgfFpA20uF_Na-X0imgQAPS1sGj_gOr4cIu2XqD8WNaPQaIprGSB8i8mqb-tQiP4GLbMPOpHoBEdnNm4H6vn6I/s1600/2354023-4db11.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4f_nbqY33lAdc_6DsdrDZr-ZsoxNFibfWMdiTJF9krJvve_N-8LF22QgfFpA20uF_Na-X0imgQAPS1sGj_gOr4cIu2XqD8WNaPQaIprGSB8i8mqb-tQiP4GLbMPOpHoBEdnNm4H6vn6I/s400/2354023-4db11.jpg" width="211" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Box Set DVD Cover</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Covering every aspect of the Sexual Experience without seeing much of anything, beyond various shots of nudity as realistic, everyday occurrences (of course, the orgy aside), what the haunted doctor imagines about his wife and her mysterious lover in EYES WIDE SHUT, and his failed attempts at sexual revenge is to fornication what CHINATOWN is to that particular city...<br /> <br /> So it's no surprise, with such a long run time and a subliminal feeling that Kubrick just might have been purposefully torturing both his fans who waited over a decade after FULL METAL JACKET for another movie, or the myriad of mainstream-movie Cruise/Kidman followers... in-between, trying to develop A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, which would be posthumously finished by colleague Steven Spielberg, whose JURASSIC PARK gave Kubrick the vision that A.I. could actually work using likewise computer-animation... these EYES are either despised or beloved, or somewhere lost within a convoluted, unexplained purgatory...<br /> <br /> It really all depends on how you look at it, what mood you're in while watching, and how much, after attempting, perhaps, several viewings, the realization that everything means nothing but the final blunt words uttered by Kidman: basically telling us that what supposedly makes the world go 'round is really no big deal at all, despite the fact we spent a very long time completely immersed around its dark, seedy, provocative outskirts.<br /> <br /> <u><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPvMmwsPn8uVgtj8oFevnKZ5qHlSBgRnHzQzA58H4lBGtV8M8dfol9ejNBFLG4UjYtCgYr5YX4A3t5ppJAMLE-asPdMDgvZ3IF76Xp1DSoLFdbKTXnRZnh4mxvixiufW2kVcOslkVO0-Un0iuJSd-ohHJRGaXU0Djl6o40Kxbd1cqSGks3znSZdByUCw/s1678/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-22%20at%2012.20.28%20AM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1678" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPvMmwsPn8uVgtj8oFevnKZ5qHlSBgRnHzQzA58H4lBGtV8M8dfol9ejNBFLG4UjYtCgYr5YX4A3t5ppJAMLE-asPdMDgvZ3IF76Xp1DSoLFdbKTXnRZnh4mxvixiufW2kVcOslkVO0-Un0iuJSd-ohHJRGaXU0Djl6o40Kxbd1cqSGks3znSZdByUCw/w400-h198/Screen%20Shot%202022-08-22%20at%2012.20.28%20AM.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doctor and the ladies in this weird dream world flick</td></tr></tbody></table></u><u>RATING</u>: ***1/2<br /> <u>TRIVIA:</u> Heard yet not seen thanks to a mask, Leon Vitali, who was the young protagonist in another Kubrick epic, BARRY LYNDON... that, like EYES WIDE SHUT, has a love-hate relationship with both critics and audiences alike, and was Kubrick's assistant thereafter... plays the role of the "leader" at the chanting party where Cruise is found out, and asked, very grimly, to exit the premises. And just to note, upon leaving the theater after seeing this movie for the first time, it was utterly, thoroughly despised but slowly grew on this particular Kubrick Freak... although there is sporadic use of the fast-forward button either to avoid, or to get to, particular scenes.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj04HvrkJJ64IJhu8L_zxw2Uv1ooWd9_BZ4wwyA0NSTJR3hmUH36Bp1X0bCtNpympk5ZZ3V2n_yWnsyHdkWrWdUzmdtQp7IZeqMXSGpWorfiz9kZil0g6WRgvPifh_4E9Dy-aNzHGogRQv0/s1600/21106320_366347237127792_3395211817946657677_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj04HvrkJJ64IJhu8L_zxw2Uv1ooWd9_BZ4wwyA0NSTJR3hmUH36Bp1X0bCtNpympk5ZZ3V2n_yWnsyHdkWrWdUzmdtQp7IZeqMXSGpWorfiz9kZil0g6WRgvPifh_4E9Dy-aNzHGogRQv0/s1600/21106320_366347237127792_3395211817946657677_n.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Tom Cruise with Domino played by "Ladybugs" teen starlet Vinessa Shaw another anti-conquests of the long night</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvE57Tj6bsJJxKgD39fbS8CbZph08f-UjZFxEy3dbzGt3x0BQ-qzHhRZdXrmeHw6A2_Ab0PT7ojrpm5eq4SBxJOgQKhFbSaxxPHsrA6KWD4IbABTH6ygi3D0C1yXHu8kArjjj7JyxeCu76/s1600/21150060_366371707125345_8877089482585418380_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvE57Tj6bsJJxKgD39fbS8CbZph08f-UjZFxEy3dbzGt3x0BQ-qzHhRZdXrmeHw6A2_Ab0PT7ojrpm5eq4SBxJOgQKhFbSaxxPHsrA6KWD4IbABTH6ygi3D0C1yXHu8kArjjj7JyxeCu76/s1600/21150060_366371707125345_8877089482585418380_n.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>EX-BEAUTY QUEEN IN HOTEL DRUGS OVERDOSE... Is Drugs a Verb or was this an intentional, subliminal error?</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <br />

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TOM CRUISE IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S FINALE OF 'EYES WIDE SHUT'

Title: Eyes Wide SHUT Year: 1999 Rates: *** Some films seem created to be despised and misunderstood. Misunderspised is not a word but fits...

ACTRESS PAULINE TAYLOR RECALLS A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj715usE_Elg6lk49Yu88XuY9St92oW6DFL4YLpjE3TIz9ofj_eab53ezvat4ET9f0j14uEn61-GPLKhgEfYM3YW8swDjx4X3TCFOlonNu3Zbw4ymtBhE8uhLKn2UlEC-1kapd-AdwVkeIyz9ONn42be1XSv4Daa4YknN5fUWY_627_kCFmbgDndq1thcXr/s886/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-29%20at%206.25.18%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj715usE_Elg6lk49Yu88XuY9St92oW6DFL4YLpjE3TIz9ofj_eab53ezvat4ET9f0j14uEn61-GPLKhgEfYM3YW8swDjx4X3TCFOlonNu3Zbw4ymtBhE8uhLKn2UlEC-1kapd-AdwVkeIyz9ONn42be1XSv4Daa4YknN5fUWY_627_kCFmbgDndq1thcXr/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-29%20at%206.25.18%20PM.jpeg" width="243" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Malcolm McDowell & Pauline Taylor</u></td></tr></tbody></table>“He was one of those people,” actress Pauline Taylor describes Stanley Kubrick, the director of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, “that when he came into the room you knew he was there, straightaway.”<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUXfc1QzFmjjD0RFpJLiTDhEvWFSHaiZO_YVUioLuNtKYO7XlDkNaRNEckolzpUOmI_A9kSG2YMyRT-m-gzIO8BtSFB8urg75yamjUrN-h_LVX1JVjAwNiuUD6P7GFGmhWgTscDUuIyNE/s1600/mm2.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUXfc1QzFmjjD0RFpJLiTDhEvWFSHaiZO_YVUioLuNtKYO7XlDkNaRNEckolzpUOmI_A9kSG2YMyRT-m-gzIO8BtSFB8urg75yamjUrN-h_LVX1JVjAwNiuUD6P7GFGmhWgTscDUuIyNE/s200/mm2.jpg" width="163" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Famous Artwork</td></tr> </tbody></table> And a similar mesmerizing aura could describe Kubrick's work, especially A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, the groundbreaking, ultra-violent motion picture that has gained an immense cult following and still, after over forty years, remains a controversial phenomenon, and then some. Based on a novel by Anthony Burgess and scripted by Kubrick, the story centers on a gang of young thugs running wild, led by Alex DeLarge. In this role, Malcolm McDowell creates such a vile monster within the first half, when you begin feeling sorry for the character, it’s testament to a remarkable performance that, during the 11th hour of the film, turns surprisingly humorous when a hospital psychiatrist gives the recovering Alex a sort of Rorschach test, using cartoon slides instead of surreal ink blotches.<br /> <br /> Actress Pauline Taylor provides a breath of fresh air as the subtle, even-keeled and quirky-cute Dr. Taylor (keeping her same last name), whose job is to make sure Alex's askew mind is back in working order.<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizJq930cNZZDZxzuQ3C2pvMYwfnW5KU2z5hsVdzjckDPE3B4_iOPFWHcqLijFcsq_lpJn_tBQme-Cq2lTDqkgIyrs-CRH7jlkvmWgMRFmyR_QHsZRXPyRXzjTdR1VD5roZO3mXVJyL0LtmF6FeX5Id2_MLaQo0gSwvlU3RUPzFufSWESVO7tmX227Xhz6N/s994/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-29%20at%206.26.31%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="994" data-original-width="886" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizJq930cNZZDZxzuQ3C2pvMYwfnW5KU2z5hsVdzjckDPE3B4_iOPFWHcqLijFcsq_lpJn_tBQme-Cq2lTDqkgIyrs-CRH7jlkvmWgMRFmyR_QHsZRXPyRXzjTdR1VD5roZO3mXVJyL0LtmF6FeX5Id2_MLaQo0gSwvlU3RUPzFufSWESVO7tmX227Xhz6N/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-29%20at%206.26.31%20PM.jpeg" width="285" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pauline Taylor</td></tr></tbody></table>This Cult Film Freak inspired interview morphed into a wonderful video with Pauline, conducted in England by her personal friend, Andrew Stevens, covering her entire career... <br /> <br /> And now, exclusive in written format along with photos of the scene, we'll center on her complete journey into one of the most controversial films of all time...<br /> <br /> <u><b>OH JOLLY GOOD: THE PAULINE TAYLOR INTERVIEW...</b><b> with questions written & transcribed by James M. Tate</b></u><br /> <br /> <b>How did you get the part as the psychiatrist in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE? </b><br /> <br /> My agent put me up for a reading, and I’m so dumb I thought it was another commercial… He was always setting me up for commercials…  And when they gave me a sheet of script… Two pages I think it was… I thought, ‘I don’t know what this is, but it isn’t a commercial.’ <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidPxP2s9ph-AjSwHKdpDUaJp7eudPk6JQr6n1QxGCygkiy9jb_wZqMuTfb65JGR4Qw2nSqMEbdtCkTXqseQnowW9YuxCY2zH9E5jpsZQv-ZN1l74Sn0joVQ7PLuTHZ6uHtaYaDDiVELIB2/s1600/23905230_401072593655256_3797205363201463972_n.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="802" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidPxP2s9ph-AjSwHKdpDUaJp7eudPk6JQr6n1QxGCygkiy9jb_wZqMuTfb65JGR4Qw2nSqMEbdtCkTXqseQnowW9YuxCY2zH9E5jpsZQv-ZN1l74Sn0joVQ7PLuTHZ6uHtaYaDDiVELIB2/s400/23905230_401072593655256_3797205363201463972_n.jpg" width="333" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thine Own McDowell Autograph inside Blu Ray Booklet</td></tr> </tbody></table> <b>Was it an audition? </b><br /> <br /> It was more like a screen test… You read in front of a screen… And afterwards, the casting director said to me, ‘Polly that was fine… We can’t tell you anything yet, because Kubrick’s out of the country.’ And I thought… I just stopped myself from saying… [excited tone], ‘Ooooooh….’ And I said [regains composure], ‘Oh yes, of course.’ Bligh me…<br /> <br /> I hadn’t realized it was important until that point. Anyway, then I was told I got the part, and they sent me a script, and I had to do lines: there was a male psychiatrist and a female one… <br /> <br /> And the night before we were going to film it… I think film people are a bit dodgy sometimes… They rang me and said, ‘Well we’re terribly sorry, Ms. Taylor, but we decided to telescope the male and female psychiatrists into one person.’ I thought, ‘Oh well, they still have to pay me, I signed the contract.’ I thought they were cutting me, you see. And so he said, ‘Do you think you could possibly learn the male psychiatrist's lines overnight?’<br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgijb-Q5SxzG5RD7nXrY445pcm0hXOudTXfnYhTnBMpD-z9ZkPQD6wBPxx7uFflpVdRFkwS_YsH5DPPJDOOMx3wRCjRcP8PIhEJEl6u_JJXdWA_AifZbbsV3D-czwhfp2bEx7j1Gp3ny4Q/s1600/kubrick.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgijb-Q5SxzG5RD7nXrY445pcm0hXOudTXfnYhTnBMpD-z9ZkPQD6wBPxx7uFflpVdRFkwS_YsH5DPPJDOOMx3wRCjRcP8PIhEJEl6u_JJXdWA_AifZbbsV3D-czwhfp2bEx7j1Gp3ny4Q/s1600/kubrick.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanley Kubrick</td></tr> </tbody></table> I thought of all those years in Rep where I learned yonks and yonks of stuff… So I said, ‘I think I can just about manage that.’<br /> <br /> And when I went in and we did the scene, Kubrick sort of looked down on the floor for a bit. And then he looked at us… Very bright eyes that man had… And he said, ‘Pretty dull scene.’ Well I agreed with him. It was.<br /> <br /> So we spent a couple of days, really, Malcolm McDowell and myself… Improvising the scene until we'd virtually written her… A scene… And that’s the one we did… And as I was being paid by the day, I was very pleased… I thought, ‘Good, I can have some nice winter boots, which I need… Which I <i>did</i>  get!’<br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: right;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2QgI1MiOLcy2EnxNJ44p5YaHrZRj2fts92WsWDeo2XlWEt4oTFw_ez-51bM1x2BF-IM_0g-PUQgtnDeDOfWdPD5_6T9vPjiMRw5rR78bvpq6FMPB1UCEDDNaDuQualrX_S8Z7QsY1-Fq3VJzKNfRCN403XPZ92Sr0p5jbd05NCQrgGSyc3m95vs-C7zs_/s610/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-29%20at%206.28.05%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="496" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2QgI1MiOLcy2EnxNJ44p5YaHrZRj2fts92WsWDeo2XlWEt4oTFw_ez-51bM1x2BF-IM_0g-PUQgtnDeDOfWdPD5_6T9vPjiMRw5rR78bvpq6FMPB1UCEDDNaDuQualrX_S8Z7QsY1-Fq3VJzKNfRCN403XPZ92Sr0p5jbd05NCQrgGSyc3m95vs-C7zs_/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-07-29%20at%206.28.05%20PM.png" width="260" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Malcolm McDowell</td></tr></tbody></table>How was it working with Malcolm McDowell? </b><br /> <br /> I can’t say I got to know him very well because there wasn’t time to chat… And what he was doing required such enormous concentration… And me too…<br /> <br /> <b>Were there a lot of takes?  </b><br /> <br /> Quite a few, I think… Yes, because he [Kubrick] kept changing his mind about what he wanted. It was fair enough; he was the boss. <br /> <br /> <b>Did you know about the content of the rest of the movie?</b><br /> <br /> No I didn’t… And when I read the book, which of course I hurried to do… I didn’t understand it really… It took me ages to get the point of it…<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <b>Was there a big premiere screening? </b><br /> <br /> Yes there was… And the guy who was my agent, at that time… He fainted from some of the violence… And had to be carted out… And oh, I can tell you a Kubrick story… Having seen that, practically, you know… I’d been talking to some of the cast and found that everyone was showing their ‘All’… I was terribly embarrassed, because I hadn’t got much of a bosom… and I thought, I’d be too embarrassed to say yes and too frightened to say no. And when it came to the point where… ‘You’re going to have a transparent dress…’ I said, ‘I’ve only got two little mosquito bites.' And he said, ‘Okay, you can have a proper dress.’ [claps hands] Thank God for that!<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU82uXOeDuOMnGN861WCvH0aRJRDf_4Ihof50JvRjEMyshVNlQZJqI3bSrq9cnComN7YC7r7cAQPsS74KIbhF20f8DJ5V6L7R9_7RP2vpw0tpXIVTp7LAHnU_WZMO5kQffeeO4JiYw2rk/s1600/Picture+14.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU82uXOeDuOMnGN861WCvH0aRJRDf_4Ihof50JvRjEMyshVNlQZJqI3bSrq9cnComN7YC7r7cAQPsS74KIbhF20f8DJ5V6L7R9_7RP2vpw0tpXIVTp7LAHnU_WZMO5kQffeeO4JiYw2rk/s1600/Picture+14.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I'm Dr. Taylor... I'm going to show you some slides, and you're going to tell me about them."</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKrYxOlfxmAz9n5OLJSwz4PBwNWWm-prNCLbS_ZlfsPyqttfdToVFNhO3_8QL6G-O3Ws3Dgb5sokKw5_kd67StVneWN3_ia4gvn03OsyJ24dfG7NLTsVlWRqfbrpv6B0HMZ1Gb56NoYPE/s1600/Picture+4.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKrYxOlfxmAz9n5OLJSwz4PBwNWWm-prNCLbS_ZlfsPyqttfdToVFNhO3_8QL6G-O3Ws3Dgb5sokKw5_kd67StVneWN3_ia4gvn03OsyJ24dfG7NLTsVlWRqfbrpv6B0HMZ1Gb56NoYPE/s1600/Picture+4.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Oh... Jolly good!"</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiszw3XzrNDkrhy7wRA0c4oTBQbuR8-ajB-xhRwGVESZQDBHYBci7Xugd63zhbESv3UCFJPWz7CNH4ZofN9YWRBk6lhtxO2lo_8roObEGyo87qhHVSpdoBUaQ1a7pocD3ukbri9HJ2sLTw/s1600/Picture+9.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiszw3XzrNDkrhy7wRA0c4oTBQbuR8-ajB-xhRwGVESZQDBHYBci7Xugd63zhbESv3UCFJPWz7CNH4ZofN9YWRBk6lhtxO2lo_8roObEGyo87qhHVSpdoBUaQ1a7pocD3ukbri9HJ2sLTw/s1600/Picture+9.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Cabbages, knickers, it's not got a beak."</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3eeClWA8bKnYvzY2UiuCK-cOIwWmvVbtFS9O-7FfZY8TkydDsS3DkLBoH08BlaQfzyPg9pkbmbD6Sif3W9qTjput-XDmTa72SeVCftPR3fjYlZ3BOtLVYQwY3eH-VfLV9Sn4-V6TMQW0/s1600/Picture+10.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3eeClWA8bKnYvzY2UiuCK-cOIwWmvVbtFS9O-7FfZY8TkydDsS3DkLBoH08BlaQfzyPg9pkbmbD6Sif3W9qTjput-XDmTa72SeVCftPR3fjYlZ3BOtLVYQwY3eH-VfLV9Sn4-V6TMQW0/s1600/Picture+10.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"My mind is a blank... And I'll smash your face, for you, Yarblockos!"</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEintlC2E9PJt5bA6mB6NlA3Fzcd5S_ZjkKwiDqYpNEmwqhhEMgkYI_R5vuF6MIuLv41_xgYc5xuSQZMdIFGo57ljLHEoVAiTfnyk3frUvn2qHWeYSLlMcZDPVydN4vvqoTFFXTxPXJRkGc/s1600/Picture+11.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEintlC2E9PJt5bA6mB6NlA3Fzcd5S_ZjkKwiDqYpNEmwqhhEMgkYI_R5vuF6MIuLv41_xgYc5xuSQZMdIFGo57ljLHEoVAiTfnyk3frUvn2qHWeYSLlMcZDPVydN4vvqoTFFXTxPXJRkGc/s1600/Picture+11.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"No time for the old in-and-out, love. I've just come to read the meter."</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3MVefWGOWzO1FVGGM9_Vc6EcOg49JitgamXPjfZ2xDT0cmEMBDWOwD_qFa3n6DpJNqz9oeEWhdpIuT5b5A9o8YtGRnQpG-dXmdyTlYwdGczHC6n7rIxRIFTxEvLYoOFcjRCs9bGIIm-E/s1600/Picture+12.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3MVefWGOWzO1FVGGM9_Vc6EcOg49JitgamXPjfZ2xDT0cmEMBDWOwD_qFa3n6DpJNqz9oeEWhdpIuT5b5A9o8YtGRnQpG-dXmdyTlYwdGczHC6n7rIxRIFTxEvLYoOFcjRCs9bGIIm-E/s1600/Picture+12.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"You know what you can do with that watch? You can stick it up your ass!"</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChtmRM0QKy-HpPT3d6OTCNEQqC-9JQXx1YGYBGFcbLqtDv9fyBL_kDOE5Lbxn-eLfSv2nGfS8b6UD7eD4tKwKLCW6Sme5n6eBra-4vqRO5I6_7wBcox-PqRVTz6H4qoVAOMXbEu1Db78/s1600/Picture+13.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjChtmRM0QKy-HpPT3d6OTCNEQqC-9JQXx1YGYBGFcbLqtDv9fyBL_kDOE5Lbxn-eLfSv2nGfS8b6UD7eD4tKwKLCW6Sme5n6eBra-4vqRO5I6_7wBcox-PqRVTz6H4qoVAOMXbEu1Db78/s1600/Picture+13.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Eggy wegs.. I would like... To smash 'em... And pick em all up... And thr... OWWWW!"</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjVtRC0leB9ALleQWCvkku08DTac7uhz1TmIUh0Qv54-BoDhX-Mka36WIs_HPt4CQiYc2gUR_pXmV6kGHjh_VQy7JdAIiFnwptsBTNmALQ0-mkS0nxbkxGNb-Ow_2ODCKwoBEres7aDww/s1600/Picture+98.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjVtRC0leB9ALleQWCvkku08DTac7uhz1TmIUh0Qv54-BoDhX-Mka36WIs_HPt4CQiYc2gUR_pXmV6kGHjh_VQy7JdAIiFnwptsBTNmALQ0-mkS0nxbkxGNb-Ow_2ODCKwoBEres7aDww/s1600/Picture+98.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pauline Taylor rolls along a signature Stanely Kubrick gliding shot in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrE-i6CSQ2RtX2_pfVDPABZTgNQ964OmWC6-R9oWv4RJrbmbolJB3DUWv5iwB-1VCKK2ZAoUNdpNYDpaGuwVrwcatfxiiOFVBXuHlij7LjhgNpAGRFvjFQsME7TefiCj__LJm88NsBa4s/s1600/Picture+1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrE-i6CSQ2RtX2_pfVDPABZTgNQ964OmWC6-R9oWv4RJrbmbolJB3DUWv5iwB-1VCKK2ZAoUNdpNYDpaGuwVrwcatfxiiOFVBXuHlij7LjhgNpAGRFvjFQsME7TefiCj__LJm88NsBa4s/s1600/Picture+1.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvLa7j48MOk&sns=em">Click this link for the full 30 minute video interview of Pauline Taylor</a></td></tr> </tbody></table>

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ACTRESS PAULINE TAYLOR RECALLS A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

Malcolm McDowell & Pauline Taylor “He was one of those people,” actress Pauline Taylor describes Stanley Kubrick, the director of A CLOC...

SPIELBERG DESIGNS A.I. FOR KUBRICK

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibEakfZpoTrbDAs6Y5cBdw2qxOBvJ_nyHLJj7u-6Yv09D0d2tftQU3nA7assG_dZkUU2g_1myvwA9p5gZSNkhvLywpNKG1zwyqccAON7aZZImtPjLxERGaaPozgSA07NUtC0V5-TA9fBw/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-01-22+at+2.12.55+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibEakfZpoTrbDAs6Y5cBdw2qxOBvJ_nyHLJj7u-6Yv09D0d2tftQU3nA7assG_dZkUU2g_1myvwA9p5gZSNkhvLywpNKG1zwyqccAON7aZZImtPjLxERGaaPozgSA07NUtC0V5-TA9fBw/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-01-22+at+2.12.55+AM.png" width="231" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2001 rating: **1/2</td></tr> </tbody></table> The most intriguing aspect of A.I ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is discovering where Stanley Kubrick ends and Steven Spielberg begins: A project that Kubrick was preparing since the early eighties, and then realized could be technologically realized after seeing his friend Steven's JURASSIC PARK, and so, with a completed script and storyboards, Spielberg took over when the legendary director died after completing his maligned opus, EYES WIDE SHUT…<br /> <br /> As is common, ARTIFICIAL consists of three acts, only these seem like separate movies altogether: Opening with William Hurt’s Professor Hobby lecturing a group of technical designers on a new form of Artificial life: a child that will look, breath and feel very human. The character, immersed in exposition, is both speaking to them and us... After which we cut to a high class couple whose son (an only child) is in a coma and probably won’t recover: Enter SIX SENSE phenom Haley Joel Osment as David, literally created to love his new family, especially Monica (Francis O’Conner). Here’s where the movie, with futuristic settings and ominously slow paced dialogue, feels as much like a Kubrick film as possible i.e. Spielberg paying homage to his mentor: from the white pod-like vehicles to the slow-paced yet intriguing conversations... The only difference is the John William’s soundtrack pulling heartstrings as David's finally loved by his reluctant new mom. But after her human son recovers from the coma, David becomes a mere plaything, and not entirely wanted. Thus the second act becomes more of signature Spielberg film as our young hero, after accidentally endangering his sibling, is set free to live on his own with a talking Teddy Bear "super toy."<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPxOP_UC2QrxG064xxjHIxZI07X0RC1JDbMdheg7d4pkRPGwMhOyBdWQEsHJxJLuNILLaVn2q9w2wYRgWToXJjoHUF4wpaoJa9YfCztFtGdi7mwIcH_8hSiCzQSrL0k7xlCXGWbwEONes/s1600/Screen+Shot+2016-01-22+at+2.13.03+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPxOP_UC2QrxG064xxjHIxZI07X0RC1JDbMdheg7d4pkRPGwMhOyBdWQEsHJxJLuNILLaVn2q9w2wYRgWToXJjoHUF4wpaoJa9YfCztFtGdi7mwIcH_8hSiCzQSrL0k7xlCXGWbwEONes/s400/Screen+Shot+2016-01-22+at+2.13.03+AM.png" width="281" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boy and his bear</td></tr> </tbody></table> The action flows with Spielberg’s signature gliding cameras and bombastic soundtrack, but the character of David, joined by a male prostitute robot Gigolo Joe – played by Jude Law, attempting the kind of roguish energy of a young Kubrick-directed Malcolm McDowell combined with a devilish dash of David Niven – becomes second string to a robot destruction circus/derby, resembling a white trash Monster Truck show set in a MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME style future. <br /> <br /> A.I. attempts returning to the Kubrick roots after David finds his origin in Manhattan, where ice caps had melted the city into a watery ruin. Reminiscent of Keir Dullea’s arrival in the “Jupiter condo” in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the third act has David seeking a “blue fairy” since he was raised on, and mirrors the story of, Pinocchio – and eventually, thanks to those long armed, giraffe-necked aliens that Spielberg turned into cinematic messiahs since the 1970's, David gets a last wish, one the audience has to suffer a prolonged half-hour to finally reach. <br /> <br /> While there are intriguing aspects of A.I, it’s much too convoluted with pathos and melodrama to be a truly involving adventure and at the same time, the action-packed mid-section disrupts the character development from the Kubrickian setup, which is the most thought-provoking and entertaining. But let’s give credit to perhaps the best character on board: the robotic, talking Teddy Bear, who seems more alive than mechanical, providing Jiminy Cricket logic and stealing the show.

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SPIELBERG DESIGNS A.I. FOR KUBRICK

year: 2001 rating: **1/2 The most intriguing aspect of A.I ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is discovering where Stanley Kubrick ends and Steven ...

PICS OF JACK NICHOLSON FROM THE SHINING

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_cxUYbgLo9wKA2Kw1Kc0pBCMblNcp8jDSxfYuPSztBoG_xc2gJrLiiHNtbCluhUB-qbr-o_Uo2gKs6VeEh2v6QMDbz4ZivAeNbfRhBEsbZOK78gNxzsl33RUpu_u7-KHJeZ_O-_MV6Y/s1600/CRAZY.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_cxUYbgLo9wKA2Kw1Kc0pBCMblNcp8jDSxfYuPSztBoG_xc2gJrLiiHNtbCluhUB-qbr-o_Uo2gKs6VeEh2v6QMDbz4ZivAeNbfRhBEsbZOK78gNxzsl33RUpu_u7-KHJeZ_O-_MV6Y/s1600/CRAZY.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/05/still-crazy-4-the-SHINING.html">CLICK HERE FOR THE ARTICLE 'CRAZY FOR THE SHINING'</a></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdGNYQFSocgkNV_Ne1KWroYJ5ehAyMY-Ztc5iFT2FX24FfdrsCauVM65_XblKbDOv6GA8_ZjjLAMMQD4o8SOAsTv-D2pzIT52Ab64v22gbxaAYhZKCHjzbWeWdIP5EDaoFzI01vJzmv3Y/s1600/s12.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdGNYQFSocgkNV_Ne1KWroYJ5ehAyMY-Ztc5iFT2FX24FfdrsCauVM65_XblKbDOv6GA8_ZjjLAMMQD4o8SOAsTv-D2pzIT52Ab64v22gbxaAYhZKCHjzbWeWdIP5EDaoFzI01vJzmv3Y/s1600/s12.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"Give me the BAT, Wendy!"</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1wSjhQ8li-6r5h9SvuN7uawY1Scg-YNjPBxLsLmFrnXkcBxn48tIN24rQukHotWCBSR0EibbJHZms6pkgT445qngLOu8Wt0lFYPRMOp1_zYv2rSALoK9WjbEYlLPIBN5RWuWUTL0mIsPM/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-11-23+at+3.26.04+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1wSjhQ8li-6r5h9SvuN7uawY1Scg-YNjPBxLsLmFrnXkcBxn48tIN24rQukHotWCBSR0EibbJHZms6pkgT445qngLOu8Wt0lFYPRMOp1_zYv2rSALoK9WjbEYlLPIBN5RWuWUTL0mIsPM/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-11-23+at+3.26.04+AM.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Louisville Slugger to the noggin... Even worse than a hangover...</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> “Mr. Torrance, I see you can hardly have taken care of the business we discussed,” Grady’s voice speaks through the storage room door, where Wendy locked Jack inside following his stair-climbing tirade… A failed attempt halted by a swinging baseball bat. “I and others have come to believe that your heart is not in this.”<br /> <br /> That particular dialogue is very telling… And Jack’s over-the-top performance might not be an intense actor playing a lunatic – but rather, a character trying desperately to be <i>crazy enough</i> to muster the energy to do such a horrendous thing... "Your heart is not in this," Grady had said. Thus Jack Torrance, and not Jack Nicholson, is seeking the right <i>motivation</i> to get into the part of a cold-blooded killer.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYI7boyekaWx-vRb4EH4Joe7rAwkZ5EbYahiOcSZnAXz1m9IXlW2u6DuN38o4v_MGzVwarfJVcTTxRMqMK5QqyD8MH58vGixA4lHcf5w1eyXVHigaIFJVyoXy4erbQeTF2aGRKksSTp1q/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-11-23+at+3.27.16+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYI7boyekaWx-vRb4EH4Joe7rAwkZ5EbYahiOcSZnAXz1m9IXlW2u6DuN38o4v_MGzVwarfJVcTTxRMqMK5QqyD8MH58vGixA4lHcf5w1eyXVHigaIFJVyoXy4erbQeTF2aGRKksSTp1q/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-11-23+at+3.27.16+AM.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A terrifically conceived room for a possessed hotel... One never has to fret about blood stains...</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFEaB_t9PmfE1CvKySAQvOiaI60ptRyhQo-Fdg2s7KJphrXgO_s-I9H-rqDwk0TKqzU3oGrZbh7_avw3tGbRtRwQWZw3zZK72XmPCnxGTF2j92e9XnVi1FllRfL03027zr3v6Ut9dXOnU/s1600/shining11111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFEaB_t9PmfE1CvKySAQvOiaI60ptRyhQo-Fdg2s7KJphrXgO_s-I9H-rqDwk0TKqzU3oGrZbh7_avw3tGbRtRwQWZw3zZK72XmPCnxGTF2j92e9XnVi1FllRfL03027zr3v6Ut9dXOnU/s1600/shining11111.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Overlook carpeting makes for the perfect toy car highway...</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgShnIrAQgX3JKooBZue9ewBdi4maombEsvkj-805s0Sw0gQmNfF0hciJoCGzLHIN-PvkpoKLsdkFARi9d7ZX9FcLd3a4EO2iKFupuMrdvomUN5FDJwgqMlBSUl_dsLjLiLTJaDj0B9Rsc/s1600/s4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgShnIrAQgX3JKooBZue9ewBdi4maombEsvkj-805s0Sw0gQmNfF0hciJoCGzLHIN-PvkpoKLsdkFARi9d7ZX9FcLd3a4EO2iKFupuMrdvomUN5FDJwgqMlBSUl_dsLjLiLTJaDj0B9Rsc/s1600/s4.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This scene where Jack first lectures Wendy is perhaps the best Nicholson tirade... And the most subtle...</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEindIDs5jvYzjBOfpx21YIn5mrSRO74cckUxKWfZRdIPyoro2N5oZGMUxW3zdPUtf-tgK38PkkamUxl2EGjZbl2Su3rzsDvIbtIGz8m0YxVnwlsK0RUBK9Rz8ntXZtpDk4C5CjlNNi5SRM/s1600/s6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEindIDs5jvYzjBOfpx21YIn5mrSRO74cckUxKWfZRdIPyoro2N5oZGMUxW3zdPUtf-tgK38PkkamUxl2EGjZbl2Su3rzsDvIbtIGz8m0YxVnwlsK0RUBK9Rz8ntXZtpDk4C5CjlNNi5SRM/s1600/s6.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SUMMER OF '42 with Gary Grimes viewed by Danny, who grows up suddenly in a much harsher way...</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1323l-CZ0ECtei6qxYoNPF88clLRsewRXk8hmCTvsdWnIHpvveXOIZ45u2jiuUn6BQ5t-xXm8HN2vkhLVjH7zizuqgvbYPIhyphenhyphenmb693jXky9maTsCzO5dqboc4yQo4VU1WMqpMinZSML0/s1600/s8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1323l-CZ0ECtei6qxYoNPF88clLRsewRXk8hmCTvsdWnIHpvveXOIZ45u2jiuUn6BQ5t-xXm8HN2vkhLVjH7zizuqgvbYPIhyphenhyphenmb693jXky9maTsCzO5dqboc4yQo4VU1WMqpMinZSML0/s1600/s8.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joe Turkel... First THE KILLING, then PATHS OF GLORY followed by his final Kubrick film, THE SHINING</td></tr> </tbody></table> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmTtIaZFCA8MO0IZUCnyepYz33qm-JHlWP8msbD9xGb694ubeCmLsAR-wDcAWQQtkwmUFHECaI3O48Wk1dRzO9Pr-X2k0Yt_u_mJgYm57e_Njcv3H-EPKz0oT9WzYbVzUyBydO74Nxpbc/s1600/s16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmTtIaZFCA8MO0IZUCnyepYz33qm-JHlWP8msbD9xGb694ubeCmLsAR-wDcAWQQtkwmUFHECaI3O48Wk1dRzO9Pr-X2k0Yt_u_mJgYm57e_Njcv3H-EPKz0oT9WzYbVzUyBydO74Nxpbc/s1600/s16.jpg" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/11/ten-thankless-actor-roles-vol-one.html">Barry Nelson plays Stuart Ullman, providing exposition that lasts two important scenes</a></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>

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PICS OF JACK NICHOLSON FROM THE SHINING

CLICK HERE FOR THE ARTICLE 'CRAZY FOR THE SHINING' "Give me the BAT, Wendy!" Louisville Slugger to the noggin......