In order to openly explore whether Kubrick is an optimist or pessimist, we must first understand the man. We must look into his origin and the history of the world at that time. We have to take his life’s time line in consideration. We have to take his family heritage into account, his place of birth, and where he is from. Once we take all these circumstances into consideration; I think we will understand why he is the way he is. I will convey why I think Kubrick is a pessimistic optimist and in many ways a realist. So to answer the question whether Kubrick is an optimist or pessimist, I would have to say both.
Stanley Kubrick was born on July 26 1928 in the Bronx district of New York, into a family with Jewish ancestry. As a child, Stanley was considered intelligent, …show more content…
By 1951, when he was just 23 years old, he had begun to dream of becoming a film director. He used his own savings to finance his first film, a 13-minute documentary short about the boxer Walter Cartier, called Day Of The Fight. Stanley acted as producer, director and cinematographer on this first film; he’d first met Cartier whilst shooting a magazine photo assignment. The young
Kubrick knew nothing about filmmaking and was taught how to use the equipment by the man who rented it to him.
Stanley’s first short film was a success and was bought by RKO for its This Is America series, earning Stanley a small profit. Several other short films followed, including Flying Padre (1951) and The Seafarers (1952). Finally, thanks to the money he’d earned hustling chess games, Stanley raised enough cash to be able to make his first full-length film, Fear and Desire, which he filmed in California in 1953.
The timeline of events in U.S. history that unfolds along with the origins of Kubrick are as follows;
1914 - WORLD WAR I BEGINS IN