Neo Cro-magnon

Contrary to the rest of arts, the ‘epic’ movie gets worse each time a new iteration or re-envision gets commissioned.

There’s a very clear and defined structure on these type of movies; basically taking the David vs Goliath fable and adding a bit of Greek Tragedy by killing ‘David’ and let the social movement inspired by his act be the winner.

Many other movies seem to be ‘Epic’ or to follow the ‘Epic’ structure or feeling, but to qualify for this all important post, they need to fit within certain parameters I would gladly pull out of my ass.

The candidates to be dissected are, Spartacus, Braveheart, Gladiator and 300

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A lot has being said about Stanley Kubrick‘s cinema, many rumours have been told about his increasingly odd behavior;  but very little is really known about how his personal life affected his very famous ‘dehumanised cinema’.

Kubrick’s camera, an observer of human nature.

Stanley Kubrick self portrait

Having watched the Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes documentary, I’m left with a charming desire for voyeurism and stationary.

Jon Ronson is invited to the director’s house to see the content of thousands of boxes scattered all over the place. Inside the boxes there are research materials from all his movies and unfinished projects.

There are a few anecdotes from the people who surrounded him; his personal assistant, wife and daughter. It is a lovely piece of film that definitely leaves you wanting to know more about him.

The stationary comment is about how Mr. Kubrick, being a fanatic of organization, loved stationary and even joked about opening a museum of old stationary as he was always buying, organizing and searching for new models of notepads and such.

We discover how Kubrick always made odd requests to his personal assistant like; ‘call the met office and find out what the humidity was last week’

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How he filed every single fan letter, or asked a box manufacturer to build the perfect box.

The moment that inspired me to write this was when they talked about “Wartime Lies” Kubrick’s unfinished project about the holocaust.

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