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...joining in the choruses while someone recites the verses--that could be the melodies at the beginning, and maybe even the ecstatic double-stopped trill at the end--just because they all felt they'd enjoy singing together. The music reminds me of the scene at the end of Kubrick's Paths of Glory, where the doomed French soldiers chime in with a German girl's singing, or Matisse's dancing nudes, or a vision of primitive communism, or Melville's description of the Fiddler...
...novels and story collections, he pushed the theory of evolution toward a new creation myth, as humankind toddled−with some sadness and a certain lyric mysticism−out of its earthbound nursery toward a higher being. Clarke's best-known work is his collaboration with Director Stanley Kubrick on the film 2001, which viewers left not only humming bits of Richard Strauss but full of wry speculations. Did HAL, the onboard computer, rebel because of homosexual jealousy, or was he some kind of reverse Luddite who feared that the mission back to first causes would leave him metaphysically...
...indeed imagine Collier's Paradise Lost as a superflick, called All About Eve II, or 4560 B.C., done in the style of Stanley Kubrick. Collier has spent his 40-year literary career variously in England, the French Riviera and Hollywood. He has long believed that the cinema has not taken full advantage of its potential for fantasy, and he has thought about Paradise Lost as a film for years. "Milton was one of the greatest science-fiction and space-travel writers," he explains. "Satan flies through the whole universe, after...
...trial seemed like an unwritten epilogue to A Clockwork Orange. The 35-year-old man in the witness box could resemble an aged Alex, back in the public spotlight after a few years hidden from scrutiny. But somehow, the romanticized notion of brain transformation that Kubrick served up on the screen and Burgess depicted--to a lesser extent--in his novel seemed far away from the austere chambers of the Wayne County courtroom...
Paths of Glory, shot by Stanley Kubrick in 1957 (when he still cared about human affairs), is one of the most unillusioned films about war made in this or any other country. Derived from the French soldier mutinies in the Vimy Ridge in World War I, the screenplay by Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson is a paradigm of military disfunction. An ambitious general, intrigued by an offer of promotion, leads an already battle-weary battalion on a suicide mission. But the battalion falls back from their advance. Enraged, the general orders three men shot for cowardice as examples...