I intend to critically evaluate the significance of Stanley Kubrick as a filmmaker. Stanley Kubrick according to the New York tabloids is seen as a “secretive”, ' 'strange, ' ' ' 'mysterious ' ' and a ' 'cold ' ' director (P. Bogdanovich 1999:1), but the story differs from old friends like Steven Spielberg (the Kubrick coner 2000). According to Steven Spielberg “In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick 's vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it 's a legacy” (Brainy Quotes 2001).
Stanley Kubrick kept himself to himself, according …show more content…
As such, it is a perspicuous, poignant, and truly profound film.
In 1954, having already run through two marriages, Kubrick moved to Los Angeles and formed a production company with his friend James B Harris.
Harris, through which he made his first two professional pictures, the film noir ' 'The Killing ' ' (1956), with Sterling Hayden, and the powerful antiwar drama ' 'Paths of Glory ' ' (1957), starring Kirk Douglas. While shooting ' 'Paths of Glory ' ' Kubrick fell in love with and wed the German painter and actress Christiane Harlan, with whom he would rear two daughters along with Christiane 's young daughter from an earlier marriage. ' 'The Killing ' ' and ' 'Paths of Glory ' ' did not make money, but they did make Kurbick 's reputation as a budding genius among critics and studio executives. In 1960, Kirk Douglas hired Kubrick to replace another director on ' 'Spartacus, ' ' the only all-Hollywood production Kubrick would ever make, and his first box-office success. He hated the experience. Disenchanted with the industry and having developed a phobia about flying, the director soon afterward moved with his family to England, never again to travel far from home.