More than Cecil B. DeMille. More than Mel Gibson.
Stanley Kubrick made the most influential religious epics of the 20th century. You just didn't notice, because it wasn't your religion.
Six sides, one film: https://t.co/AA3LeymbhA
Full Metal Jacket name-drops Charles Whitman and Lee Harvey Oswald, then lets a recruit say Oswald shot Kennedy from the "book suppository."
Why is the room laughing: the slip, or the idea that Oswald was the shooter?
Side Five of Kubrick's Cube: https://t.co/AA3LeymbhA
Ebert: "an erotic daydream about chances missed."
Cruise: jealousy. Scorsese: marriage.
Eyes Wide Shut has a masked secret-society ritual in a mansion.
Did we see the same movie?
Kubrick's Cube, the full video: https://t.co/AA3LeymbhA
In 1987 one writer said The Shining was about the genocide of Native Americans. Critics laughed.
Decades later, Kubrick's co-writer admitted he'd built it in on purpose.
Indie theorists 2, establishment critics 0.
Full breakdown: Kubrick's Cube https://t.co/AA3LeymbhA