Biography of Stanley Kubrick

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Most of his tapes became a classic, but he immortalized his name in the history of the cinema thanks to the “Cosmic Odyssey” and “The Clothing Orange”. The director of the “Clothing Orange” and “Cosmic Odyssey”-Stanley Kubrick childhood and youth, the future author of the cinema masterpieces was born on July 26 in New York and became the first of the two children of the doctor Jacob Leonard Kubrik and the housewife of Sadie Gertrude in the girlbird.

In the year, his sister Barbara was born. In rationality, he is a Jew with Polish, Austrian and Romanian roots. Children's photos of Stanley Kubrick grew a boy in an atmosphere of freedom, love and support. Despite the intelligence above average, attendance and performance in his school years was mediocre. But he showed interest in literature - he loved the legends and myths of ancient Greece, the fairy tales of the Grimm brothers.

He also liked baseball. He often spent the weekend, watching the training of athletes from the New York Yankiz club. In the future, he was going to become either a writer or a baseball player. At the age of 12, with his father’s fascination, chess became his enthusiasm for many years, and when he gave him a camera, the young man began to hunt for interesting personnel.

In his youth, Kubrick became interested in photography from for a year, he studied at the prestigious Taft School. In secondary school, he also did not observe the desire for academic knowledge. Instead, he focused on the development of his creative inclinations, in particular, played on drums in the school jazz group.

The vocalist of their musical team, his classmate Edith Gormesano, later became a singer, known as Aidy Thunder. Photos of the Kubrick for the magazine Look besides this, he wandered around the city and opened for himself the fashion, taking plot photographs that Look magazine sold. One of his pictures, then hit the pages of this publication, was a photo with a newspaper kiosk and a press with headlines about the death of President Roosevelt.

This famous photo also took Kubrick after School Stanley failed to enter the college, disappointing his father's failure. He began to earn extra money with a game of chess in the Washington Square Park, and in the year he was adopted by a photographer in the state of LOOK magazine. For several years he traveled with a camera around the world. Subsequently, his work, highly appreciated by specialists, replenished the collections of the library of Congress and the museum of the city of New York, rehabilitating his son in the eyes of the pope.

Kubrik-director in the year Kubrick shot a documentary on his expense dedicated to the boxer Rocky Graziano, “The Day of Fight”. It was bought for a hundred dollars RKO Pictures. The same company financed the creation of his next short film about the life of the priest New Mexico-“Flying Padre”. As Stanley Kubrick shoots, having received money for the second film, he quit from LOOK and took up the films, experimenting with scripts and the visual side: he introduced innovative installation techniques, included documentary materials, shot a sharply moving camera, used a distant plan, the most open diaphragm.

He himself called her "amateur and awkward work." The frame from the film “Fear and Lust” in the year saw the Light film “The Kiss of the killer” with a pessimistic view of the world to the world, which brought him victory in the category “Best Director” in the MKF in the Swiss Lukarino year. Kubrick thoroughly controlled the filming process a year later, he presented the anti -war project of the “path of glory” with Kirk Douglas, the father of actor Michael Douglas, in the key role of Colonel Dax.

On the basis of the plot, he took genuine events - the execution of a soldier in Sune, described in the film of the same name by the book of Hamri Cobba. The director attracted the opportunity to show his attitude to the war as a certain form of comprehensive madness. Stanley Kubrick, on the set of “Glory Trips”, who worked together with Kubrik on “paths” noted his “almost psychopathic indifference and coldness to people“ apart from three or four people to whom he was really attached, the rest of humanity was like a mass of insects that he liked to explore with a cold and clear head-as the scientist could explore the experimental animals.

” In the year, the film adaptation of the novel by Howard Fast “Spartak” was released. This is the only non -resident film Kubrick. The director worked on its creation at the invitation of Kirk Douglas, producer and performer of the role of the key character - the gladiator who headed the struggle for freedom - after the former director of this project Anthony Mann was dismissed.

The production of the most high-budget at that time the picture lasted about two years and was accompanied by a mass of disputes due to the creative disagreements of its creators. Kubrick, for example, allowed historical inaccuracies, conflicting because of this with Douglas. He believed that the director has the right to express his own position and vision of certain events, even to the detriment of historical accuracy or compliance with the film adaptable.

Douglas, choosing a young director, was sure that he would easily paste the young man and make the film completely “his own”.But Stanley could well compete in persistence and confidence with the actor and even give him a head start. Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas, on the set of Spartak, this film received four Oscars for the installation, artists, costumes and the best male role of the second plan and the Golden Globe for the best film of the year.

The next film project of the director was the Lolita tape, shot in the year according to the most famous novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The Kubrik worked with the author later on his adaptation, later nominated for Oscar, but Stanley always left the last word. Shelley Wklaz, in the role of Lolita, to work on this scandalous tape, he moved to the UK because of less rigid censorship compared to the American one.

In the tape, he completely abandoned erotic scenes, leaving only one amazing episode where Humbert James Mason made his stepdaughter Lolita Sue Lyon, and she invited him to play the game in the summer stall. In addition, the age of Lolita was increased by 2 years. The only “Oscar” of Kubrick - for the visual effects in the “Space Odyssey” after the end of the filming, Kubrick with his family moved to Britain and stayed there until the end of his days.

In M, the painting “Dr. Strandzhlav, or how I stopped being afraid and fell in love with a bomb”, created by a cubic based on the “red alarm” of the British writer Peter George, but satirically adapted and rethought. He ridiculed the US military doctrine. Filming “DR Strangelove”, a year to develop a new project “Year: Space Odyssey” the director spent 5 years. For his basis, he took the story of the British scientist and writer Arthur Clark “Watch”.

This epic, meticulously designed science fiction film was released in the year, but also after almost half a century, according to prominent directors of directors, remained unsurpassed. He won Oscars. Numerous scenes of group rape, bordering on sadistic aggression and eroticism, caused indignation of the public. Stanley Kubrick and Makolm MacDaeull as Alex, the author of Roman, who received fame thanks to the film, even stated that he wanted to renounce his book, which served as the basis for the film, singing violence.

After all, the director, as usual, changed the ending and completely distorted the author’s idea. After several cases of crimes, identical to the fact that the screen heroes were committed, and the threats of his physical reprisals, the picture was removed from the British film distribution. The fragment Malcolm Madauwell, who played the baby Alex, later responded about working with Kubrick: “Do not be a cubrick director, he should command the US armed forces.

He holds everything in his head - up to the purchase of shampoo. Nothing passes by him. He must follow everything and everything. ” In the year, the already recognized direction of directing was created by Barry Lyndon, a free film interpretation of the work of William Meikpis Tekkest about the vital ups and downs of the Irish fraudster of the 17th century.

He rented it in historical premises, using genuine costumes of that time and innovative techniques, which, in particular, allowed to abandon modern lighting in night scenes, using exclusively authentic lights of candles. This film work was called the most beloved from the filmography of Kubrick, director Martin Scorsese. A frame from the historical drama "Barry Lyndon" in M ​​on the screens appeared a new Kubrick film, which also gained the status of a cult.

We are talking about "radiance" - the own interpretation of the cubrick of the same horror region Stephen King. The role of the main character in it was embodied by Jack Nicholson, with terrible reliability, playing the deceased writer, slowly crazy in the damned Overlock Hotel, cut off from the outside world. And actress Shelley Duval, who played the role of the wife of the protagonist Wendy, by the end of the filming, was earned by a nervous exhaustion - the demanding director has recovered some scenes at a time ...

The “radiance” of the Kubrick. The scene with the ax, paradoxically, the “radiance” twice nominated for the “Golden Raspberry” anti -aircraft “The worst director” and “The worst female role” - in Hollywood, Kubrick was not loved for arrogance. King was also dissatisfied, who said that "Kubrick thinks a lot, but feels very little." Stanley Kubrick’s personal life over 70 years of his life, the director was married 3 times.

At the age of 19, he made an offer of his school love, the summer beauty Tobe Metz. Three years later, in the year, they divorced. He met her in the year, during the filming of his first tape. In m they married. It can be seen in the film Kubrick "Kiss of the killer" as a ballerina. She played the role of a singing girl in the tape. In the year, Kubrick married for the third time in the year they got married and settled in the mansion in Beverly Hills.

Kubrick adopted 6-year-old Katerina, daughter of Christiana from previous relationships. Soon after the wedding, Christian left her career and devoted herself to painting, housekeeping and raising her daughters with her husband - Anna and Vivian. Stanley Kubrick with his wife Christine and children, the director was distinguished by a recluse lifestyle. He rarely retired from the house for more than 15 kilometers, and few knew how he looked.

There is an opinion that he was afraid of death by the hands of American special services-due to the fact that he allegedly removed the landing of American astronauts on the moon in a completely “earthly” pavilion. The roots of this mystification are growing from the video in which Kubrick gives an interview to Patrick Murray, claiming that he personally filmed the “adjustment” and considers this fake his main masterpiece.

In fact, the video is not captured by Kubrick, but by an actor similar to him, which later confirmed the director’s wife. The workplace of the year of the year of the year of Cinema published the first and only list of Stanley Kubrick's favorite films. The last years of his life, the last works of the director are “all -metal shell” and “with wide eyes wide”. The first of the named was the light of the year.

The shooting of the "All -metal membrane" took place in England the last film of the master of directing - this is the surreal drama "With wide -closed eyes", created based on the "novels about dreams" by Arthur Schitzler. There is a version that the shooting in it in the role of key characters of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, then married, contributed to the breakdown of their family relations.

The frame from the film “With Years Wide -Closed” is perhaps the most memorable scene of the film is in colors the depicted ritual of the Satanists. With this episode, Kubrick wanted to show who actually controls modern America. Kubrick died, barely finishing his last film 4 days after the completion of the installation of this tape, the director went to bed and no longer woke up.

The cause of his death on March 7 was a heart attack. At the festival in Venice in M, for the integrity and depth of this film work, the director posthumously honored the prize of the Association of Critics. Grave Stanley Kubrick.