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2001 A Space Odyssey A clockwork orange Full metal jacket The shining Dr strangelove Eyes wide shut My favorite movies from kubrick.

@jaid2383

2 ай бұрын

I really liked the moon landing

@firstname4337

2 ай бұрын

the moon landing

@MarkRoss-er4yq

2 ай бұрын

I also loved Barry Lyndon and Spartacus

@monketakingyoutoparadise5609

Ай бұрын

@@gregbors8364fear and desire is genuinely abysmal

In high school, I was obsessed with Kubrick. He's truly one of the best.

Kubrick's films aren't for everyone, but they are undeniably purposeful and beautiful.

2:05 - Chapter 1 - Growing up kubrick 3:15 - Chapter 2 - Paying the bills , 1 photo at a time 5:25 - Chapter 3 - Photo to screen ; kubrick's short transition 6:35 - Chapter 4 - Fear & desire 8:15 - Chapter 5 - Developing a voice 10:50 - Chapter 6 - Harris kubrick pictures corporation 13:25 - Mid roll ads 15:35 - Chapter 7 - Spartacus takes kubrick to the top 17:30 - Chapter 8 - Controversial kubrick ; lolita & dr strangelove 20:40 - Chapter 9 - 2001; a space odyssey 22:30 - Chapter 10 - The film that never was ; Napoleon 24:05 - Chapter 11 - A clockwork orange 27:25 - Chapter 12 - The film that almost ruined kubrick ; Barry lyndon 29:55 - Chapter 13 - Horror / War 34:20 - Chapter 14 - Eyes wide shut ; the end of an illustrious career 36:15 - Chapter 15 - The unfinished story of stanley kubrick 39:35 - End roll ads

Stanley Kubrick really was a cinematic genius, in my opinion. I just watched Spartacus(1960) for the first time two nights ago and I was amazed to find out he directed that, amazing movie! Side note, if I may please make a request: I’d like a Biographics vid on Balian of Ibelin, the military genius who fought in the Crusades. I just watched the Director’s Cut of Kingdom Of Heaven, which though a great movie(with those extra scenes at least) wasn’t historically accurate. I’m still under the impression that he was more than just a blacksmith turned Crusader Knight. Please, thanks, and keep up the amazing work!

@davidlancaster8152

2 ай бұрын

That is an interesting request. Don't know if they can do it. Not a lot of information on Balian and as you mentioned Kingdom Of Heaven is an historical mess. I would be very interested in what they can dig up. I think History Buffs did an episode on Kingdom Of Heaven. That may be your best ticket at this time.

@mitchellneu

2 ай бұрын

@@davidlancaster8152 saw that. I understand Nick’s points, however I will stand by the Director’s Cut until the day I die. Though it’s not historically accurate, there’s so much in terms of character development that should have been in the movie from the beginning. To heavily paraphrase how one critic put it, I don’t remember the actual quote, but: “every movie has a sizeable weight, 190 minutes should have been what Kingdom Of Heaven was all along”.

@davidlancaster8152

2 ай бұрын

@@mitchellneu don't get me wrong. I love the movie. I was under the false impression for years it was accurate. It's still a great movie. Absolutely

@mitchellneu

2 ай бұрын

@@davidlancaster8152 I was under the impression it was accurate as well, I didn’t know the Crusades were a Christian response to 500 years of Muslim oppression(at least that’s what I heard in some post movie research, I could be wrong on that one too). Great movie with the Director’s Cut though.

A mastermind behind the camera and a clockwork orange is my favorite film by Kubrick

@zovalentine7305

2 ай бұрын

He was a perfectionist, which was a great quality for film making 🏆 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

@nvm9040

2 ай бұрын

@@zovalentine7305 most definitely

Stanley Kubrick definitely the best ever.

@MarkRoss-er4yq

2 ай бұрын

Forever up there with the greats.

Dr. Strangelove- what a hysterical movie. 2001, probably the most spoofed film ever!

The actor you mention at 11:26 was Sterling Hayden, not Sterling Hayde. Also, he was not some unknown actor. He was in many films including the movie you mention at 19:19 - Doctor Strangelove. In WWII he was a marine in n the OSS Maritime Unit, the predecessor to the U.S. Navy SEALs and received the Silver Star for his service.

@kennethwebber8159

2 ай бұрын

... I still never heard of him until some dude with "Grandpa" in his name explained it.

@MrTexasDan

2 ай бұрын

@@kennethwebber8159For you auto transmission-driving millennials, Sterling Hayden was in a ton of movies. This one was cool ... in The Godfather, he played the corrupt police captain that Michael Corleone shoots in the restaurant. Oh wait, maybe that was a little to long ago for you to watch.

@kennethwebber8159

2 ай бұрын

@@MrTexasDan Sounds like a loser. If he were as cool as you say, someone would have mentioned him by now. Guess you were too busy dying in Nam for no reason, huh?

@markcarey67

2 ай бұрын

I'm guessing that was a typo in the script that didn't get picked up before it went to the graphics person because no one else on the team apart from the guy who researched it had heard of the guy.

One of my favorite pieces of trivia, about Eyes Wide Shut: in 1997, when Boogie Nights came out, Kubrick loved it and had a private screening in his mansion, showing it to Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, if I remember reading correctly. So then Paul Thomas Anderson comes to England to recruit Tom Cruise for Magnolia. PTA is a big fan of Kubrick, so Tom snuck him onto the set of Eyes Wide Shut. They were still filming Eyes Wide Shut, and Kubrick had stripped the production down to a bare skeleton crew. PTA walks up to Kubrick and asks, Where is everyone? Kubrick tells him, How many people do _you_ need to make a movie? PTA later said something like, "at that moment, I felt a total Hollywood assh0le."

Rest in peace 🙏 Stanley Kubrick 26 July 1928 ~ 7 March 1999⚘

A mastermind and someone, who in someways, changed the game of movie making. If you ask me, his movies will continue to inspire generations for decades upon decades to come. Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, and of course, The Shining. Long live, Stanley Kubrick 💯👏🏻

My favorite movies of his are he clockwork orange and the shining

The amount of love I have for Kubrick films is extensive!

The actor who starred in THE KILLING was named Sterling HaydeN, with an "n."

@vvvhhhhhbb

2 ай бұрын

OK Mr. Person who has never made a mistake.

@vincentsaia6545

2 ай бұрын

@@vvvhhhhhbb This was a big mistake. Not only was Sterling Hayden a big star he was one of the few actors to star in two Stanley Kubrick movies having also appeared in DR. STRANGELOVE. And he also had a big part in THE GODFATHER. And where is it written that one has to be infallible to point out others' mistakes?

@nl3064

2 ай бұрын

Thank You! I was about to point that out.

Note: Kubrick himself actually pulled Clockwork from distribution after reading about the copycat crimes.

How long was this video before the edit? Will there be a Smallwood Cut?

I love that you made an episode on him!

Ooh hell yes! Thanks for so doing this one!

One of my favourite Kubrick facts is him ringing Ridley Scott to ask about the chest buster scene.

John Priestley pls🥺 His literally a very underrated genius and polymath. He co-founded Unitarianism, he help tackle the abolition of slavery and discover oxygen. I want to know ups and downs of his life

great bio - loved all his films - great reporting ks.

Lee Ermy also plays a Drill instructor in the 1976 film The Boys in Company C. Vietnam War film too.

Quite entertaining summary of a brilliant individual, factually based. Both points are the reason we view these video's on you tube...for years. Great job.

Love these vids be it Karl or Simon. Keep going Karl

Warner Bros...is Warner Brothers. Bros is an abbreviation for brothers. Please say Brothers bro. Good work Karl! Love your narration. Sorry to nitpick.

@lynnbowers4722

2 ай бұрын

Yes, please. This drives me nuts.

@josekentucky86

2 ай бұрын

But the company's name is Warner bros, never has it ever been Warner Brothers. Incorporated in 1923 as Warner bros.

@davidlancaster8152

2 ай бұрын

@@josekentucky86 you don't know what you're talking about.... unless you're being facetious and in that case...good one! ☺️

@josekentucky86

2 ай бұрын

@@davidlancaster8152 if I was, it wasn't on purpose lol, maybe I missed something?

@josekentucky86

2 ай бұрын

@@davidlancaster8152 could ya fill me in?

Love your haircut!

Love to you, in recognition of any good you do on here.

Stan = 🐐

Simon changed his name, got lasec, shaved beard & grew hair? Now THAT'S dedication.

I just rewatched the shining again. I try to watch it every 3 months or so. It’s a brilliant movie! 2001 is another in my 6 month rotation.

Thanks for the video, Kubrick is one of my favorite directors. I have seen most of his movies, and I only find fault in one very particular film...Barry Lyndon was just not the movie for him to direct, it was barely watchable. Other than that, what a freaking genius! Dr. Strangelove is a comic masterpiece and A Clockwork Orange disturbed me for weeks. That is an accomplishment.... Nicholson would have been the very best Napoleon, if only.... Thanks again, and let Karl stay, he's a right guy.

Full Metal Jacket

Guys! The title is lacking! Edit: now is better

28:11 Related to the act of bolting two cameras together, I was sure you were going to mention Jerry Lewis' invention of using a small cheap VHS/Beta video camera mounted to the main 35mm or 70mm cinecamera. This allowed instant review and playback of a just-shot scene without waiting for the main camera's footage coming back fro the labs. (A day or so's wait)

“Who knows Ian, maybe this is my next movie” -Stanley Kubrick speaking to author Ian Watson after reading a pre-publication copy of his book “Inquisitor.”

Never knew that about the Simpsons Movie! This was a fun and entertaining video, there's just so much to explore with Kubrick.

Great video.. We know you love movie trivia, so please tell us a tail about Terry Gilliam's "Don Quixote" movie.. Great video..

I thought Karl stopped doing fact fiend. And yes, we know about your Smallwood, family heritage.

33:44 never heard that one… the story I heard was he was there to work with the original DS actor and every time he told the actor what to do the actor couldn’t so Kubrick put Ermey in.

Police are the standing army the founders warned about

I just want to say, having known nothing about kubrick in my teens (late 90's) i rented all the hits and one thing crossed my mind, some of the actors scenes are so dull and dry, worst deliveries to my teen ears... i still think that's the case. I then read interviews around that time and, like the video pointed out, Stanley's background was photography and a lot of his work, being capturing live subjects.... I am personally convinced he approached film making like a photographer and that is the only reason for the many takes, he simply didn't have the training of an actor or director but instead was looking to create a scene that he could capture with a camera. In other words, i don't really believe he was "looking to get the best out of the actor or performance, but thought "it just didn't feel authentic" to his photography background. Thanks for the video!

He actually holds a Guinness World Record for the most takes.

@samuelbarber6177

2 ай бұрын

I once heard that the upside of working with Stanley Kubrick was that you were working with a genius, and the downside was you were working with a genius.

Karl you look way more relaxed and comfortable. Great video missed your style and your team they are great.

2001 a space odyssey is the best

Thank you.

Please do a biographics on Luciano Pavarotti. Thanks

I understood that the scene on the stairs with the baseball bat in The Shining had the excessive takes.

He was actually born in July 😉 Was surprised to see Karl in the vid. I Just clicked on it because it was about Kubrick.

Nicholson ad libbed the "Here's Johnny", but first he had to explain what it was to Kubrick, who because he lived in England had never seen the Carson Tonight show.

I am afraid to google you Mr Smallwood. Im afraid of what might come up at work.

On Stephen King's shade for The Shining... he liked the film adaptation of The Dark Tower, I'm not sure if he gets an opinion when it comes to cinema. His books are phenomenal don't get me wrong

Weigh in with your Kubrick-related Simpsons references! “What he’s written will be a window into his madness…” “Feelin’ fine.”

My third favorite director of all time! Fantastic director despite driving his stars crazy.

Kubrick was born on 26th July, not June. Same day as me.

That was Sterling Hayden, not "Hayde".

He looks like Mr bean when he was younger

For more tips, look for the documentary "S is for Stanley"

Oh Kirk Douglas ur up next for biographics

"Genius is a powerful word, but there's no reason to use it! 'Less you're talking about the Kubrick, then there's really nothing to it."

He is a real cinematic genius.

Greate Video! Just a minor request. Please better use photos of the real individual or a photo of his work rather than the AI fake photos. But I have to say biographics is still going strong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"I know how it sounds, let's move past it" 😂

Ya'll need to make video on George C.Marshall man

I hear with Eyes Wide Shut that Kubrick made Tom Cruise step through a door 90 times... then took the second cut. So, not always the final one. 😏

Why are there no single famous linguists biography? Ferdinand de Saussure or Noam Chomsky?

Drill Instructor, not Drill Sergeant.

Fun fact: in The Putin Interviews, Oliver Stone makes Putin watch Dr Strangelove.

No dive into the Eyes Wide Shut edit that Kubrick refused to make, and suddenly he is dead and the 20 something minutes are edited out...Kman

No more AI!

My favourite director

I don't think Kubrick did so many takes to get the best performance of the actors, I think he did it to make the actors so sick of the scene that they did it in a perfunctory fashion and got rid of the "overacting" so appeared totally natural and unaffected, and my God it worked!!!!

Apollo Moon Landing Guy.....

Sterling HaydEN

Karl Smallwood? Stanley Kubrick? New episode? I liked it before I even watched it.

23:10 napoleon is such a pos movie😭

"it won't be cinematic"

Roger Corman

Born July 26 not June

Some people say he also directed the moon landing

@TheDneaves

2 ай бұрын

Yes, and they're all stupid people. Not one has credibility or relevance on the matter at all.

The writer of Spartacus, Trumbo, was one of those guys blacklisted by the McCarthy un-American activities committee, and it was Kirk Douglas putting his own reputation and career on the line to keep him that both kept Trumbo with the production, AND defanged McCarthy and his very Trump/freedom caucus like committee of paranoid populist lies. Bryan Cranston actually starred in a movie about Trumbo too, now that I think about it . A great film too.

@BogattheMoon

22 күн бұрын

McCarthy defanged himself with his own tounge.

Sterling Hayden, sir. The Sterling Hayden. Also WATERLOO (1970) is an amazing film. Check it out if you're missing a Kubrick Napoleon.

My likely unpopular take: while 2001 is a masterpiece, and Strangelove is a classic, the remainder of his films range from meh to overrated. Further, his insistence on absurd numbers of takes was indulgent, counterproductive, and wholly unnecessary if he was the genius director he is claimed to be.

The AI images are so cringey.

One minor request: PLEASE stop with the AI depictions!!!

@loganrobinett1783

2 ай бұрын

One request get rid of the usurper lol

@TerenceClark

2 ай бұрын

​@@loganrobinett1783if you're talking about the host swap you can't usurp a throne that's been abdicated. Simon wasn't tossed out, he left. He's gone from the channel and never coming back. Move on, mate.

@nobodyfamousX

2 ай бұрын

​@@TerenceClarkSimon has so many channels. Let Karl have his corner of the Internet. There's enough room for everyone.

@hejenssvsg8468

2 ай бұрын

Right?! The AI depictions were so gross and uncanny.

@josekentucky86

2 ай бұрын

Welcome to the future

Absorbiant fees 😂 Like deployed 👍

Next year cern is going to prove we dont exist then everything inplodes

Q🧱

Cool, Carl is back! I just got used to him, let him host!

You can't mention the treatment of actors on The Shining and not mention Scatman Crothers. Dude was so traumatized by Kubrick's directing style that on the next movie he did, when that director was satisfied after a take or two, Scatman broke down in tears cuz of essentially ptsd

How many times in one video do you have to ramble about something nothing to do with the video? Another egomaniac that just loves the sound of his own voice. And why all of the AI?

174th

No he is not cinematic genius.

Oh dear god not the god awful AI crap! (Goes off to watch something else).

A totally *MAJOR* subject, on this channel, and Beardy/Baldy (the really very good presenter) delegates to the Numpty?! Nope.

@joeobrien196

2 ай бұрын

He didn’t ‘delegate ’ he left the channel

Just here checking on the rapid decline of the channel. This used to be run and presented so well. I just cant put my finger on whats different.

The Moon Landing is my favorite Kubrick movie. Loved the part where they added Armstrong running from the reporters in the airport, refusing to swear on the Bible, and how in our "democracy" these subjects cannot be discussed properly.

@markcarey67

2 ай бұрын

You do know there were 6 separate missions that landed humans on the moon, right?

@desprezolorde

2 ай бұрын

@@markcarey67 Feel free to believe in their CGI, when their own editor already admited the theatrical farse.

@desprezolorde

2 ай бұрын

@@markcarey67 And, must I add, your question doesn't invalidate the FACT that the "honored" Armstrong runned from the reporters, refusing to swear he went there. Why? Maybe because making a false statement under oath is quite damaging to one's reputation.

@desprezolorde

2 ай бұрын

@@markcarey67 _The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society._ The author is Kennedy, and the most famous man to receive CIA's Journalism Award. Nobody knows who unalived him, right? All we have are suspects, according to the verified "trustworthy" fact-checkers. If not, Hell, why not use a scapegoat to divert the attention? We own everything and they believe in every lie we spit. In 1958, Robert Welsh detailed how it would be, how it is. Look for it.

@desprezolorde

2 ай бұрын

@@markcarey67 1958, Robert Welch speech. _The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society._ The author is Kennedy, and the most famous man to receive CIA's Journalism Award. Be certain that nothing would please me more than to provide you every single link I require to prove my statements irrefutable. But we all know I cannot. I believe it's all I can write in this very democratic enviroment.

His best movie was the Moon landing.

@TheDneaves

2 ай бұрын

which one?

Using of AI images & videos to depict Kubrick. Logging off.