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    Stanley Kubrick’s cold and frightening "The Shining" challenges the mind. In the opening scene at a job interview‚ we meet Jack Torrance‚ a man who plans to live for the winter in solitude and isolation with his wife and son. He will be the caretaker of the snowbound Overlook Hotel. His employer warns that a former caretaker murdered his wife and two daughters‚ and committed suicide‚ but Jack told him: "You can rest assured‚ Mr. Ullman‚ that’s not gonna happen with me. And as far as my wife is concerned

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    Few films have replicated the controversy of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971). Created during the ‘Golden age of American Film violence’ between the 1960s and early 1970s and based on the Anthony Burgess novella of the same name. The Orwellian‚ science-fiction film‚ catalogues the life and crimes of antagonist Alex Delarge; a young‚ violent and hedonistic delinquent with an enthusiastic appreciation for music‚ specifically German composer‚ Ludwig van Beethoven. Alex’s ‘droogs’‚ Dim‚ Georgie

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    "The Shining" by Stanley Kubrick One of the most ambiguous movies shot by Stanley Kubrick is “The Shining” – a horror film‚ that tells a story of a family that has moved into a hotel called the Overlook‚ which was inhabited by ghosts. Throughout the film‚ the plot develops around the Torrance family: Jack‚ Wendy‚ and their son Danny. Kubrick based the film on a novel written by Steven King. The literary source is rather thrilling and intriguing‚ and the film can be basically given the same positive

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    Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is considered one of the most impressive science fiction films in the modern era and is a critically acclaimed masterpiece. To begin this analysis I will first give a synopsis of the films plot and key points to help lay a foundation for the film. The movie is broken into 4 acts‚ each focusing on a different event and time in the story. We first start with “The Dawn of Man”; we are greeted by what appears to be a tribe of early hominids foraging for food in

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    The Shining‚ a film produced by Stanley Kubrick in the year of 1980‚ is a classic horror movie about a family isolated in a haunted hotel for the winter. However‚ Bill Blakemore‚ a journalist‚ has written an article that claims that the film has much more meaning to it than just a man gone mad in a sinister hotel filled with dark entities. The article “The Family Of Man” written by Bill Blakemore‚ could make it seem as if it is almost an entirely new film. However‚ the movie is no more than what

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    nation of Great Britain in order to curb its immoral content from permeating society. Before all the controversy began‚ A Clockwork Orange was a novel‚ written mostly in Russian‚ by Anthony Burgess. Stanley Kubrick is known to critics as a film maker who probes the dark side of human psyche. Kubrick has also directed films such as Dr. Strangelove‚ The Shining‚ and Full Metal Jacket. In each of these movies the audience delves into the evil side of the main character. Great Britain had this film

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    into practice. An example of this would be Stanley Kubrick. Although his films vary in genre‚ the camera work and the actual visual quality of the film have similarities. Stanley’s most famous films were all created around the same time‚ with 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and A Clockwork Orange (1971)‚ the visual quality is high in both of these films and can be compared with media created decades later. This goes to show just how far Stanley Kubrick went to give his works of art a quality signature

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    Satire in Dr. StrangeLove? Dr. StrangeLove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1964. "Dr. StrangeLove" is a Cold War suspense comedy that depicts the extreme tensions felt by the American government and public regarding the potential for nuclear war. Roger Ebert‚ a critic wrote that this "cold war satire…opened with the force of a bucketful of cold water‚ right in the face". In his review Ebert’s contemplates the use and effectiveness

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    Stanley Kubrick uses his film‚ Full Metal Jacket to say that people today are brainwashed products of decades of conditioning. Kubrick strongly encourages us to relish individual thought. He expresses that society’s ideology encourages conformity‚ which can eventually cause fatality. Also the article "You Cant Hack It Little Girl: A Discussion Of The Covert Psychological Agenda of Modern Combat Training" by R Wayne Eisenhart realizes the extreme repression on individuality in the Marines.

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    recurring theme in the Utopian genre is the resulting creation of a dystopia in an effort to reach Utopia. Two novels which clearly illustrate this convention are Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange‚ later adapted by Stanley Kubrick as a film. Other conventions of the Utopian genre include lack of depth of characterization‚ and the texts ability to analyse the state of the society in which it was written and to provide an array of possibilities for the future. Brave New

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