A name that broke out the world cinema

Stanley Kubrick is a veteran filmmaker who came under the light of fame because of his innovative style of filmmaking and choice of themes in his cinemas. As a filmmaker, he had garnered different awards such as one academy award, two BAFTA awards and three Hugo awards. Aspiring filmmakers all around the world are very much influenced by his way of directing films and telling a story to the audiences and most of them considered him the best director of all time.

Photographic frames!

Installation of the characters and still frames is an essential component of cinema. Frames stay for a long time in the minds of the viewers. Kubric has a mastery of the frames that makes him different from his contemporary filmmakers. He was a photographer from a very young age in the “Look magazine” and that helps in his filmmaking. Several frames in his films like “2001: A space odyssey” and “Clockwork orange” can themselves be award-winning photographs.

Auteur first!

If you see the filmography of the director you can find that Kubric is an auteur first and then a director. He chose and picked his theme and the plots of the films that influence the audiences. He is very much influenced by Franz Kafka. Different texts and short stories that can provide a taste of realism and sensation in the minds of the audience are mostly used by Kubric. He even treats erotica in a manner that plays with the minds of the viewers. Films like ‘Lolita’ and ‘Eyes wide shut’ have significant evidence of it. In the ‘2001:Space odyssey’, Kubric deals with the

the search for god and the ‘Paths of Glory’ is considered an anti-war film. these kinds of diverse themes made him versatile

in his skill as a director.

Music is the key! 

Kubric uses music like no other director used ion that time. The music of Beethoven in the ‘clockwork orange’ gives a chilling experience to the viewers still now. Sensory experiences can be felt through his music in the films. Even he used no music in the bgm in different scenes to enhance the mood of the scenes. He was very choosy regarding music in his films. Music is used as an effective device in his movies.

Filmmakers like Steven Spielberg are also influenced a lot by the directional traits of Stanley Kubric. He even called ‘2001: A space odyssey’ one of the best films ever made. Though Kubric had offered very few films to the audience he had served them with precision and quality that makes him the greatest of all time.