Stanley Kubrick’s Symbolic Cosmos | The HIDDEN Meaning Behind THE KILLING (1956)

[@tonywords6713]

Good video. You say the movie lacks Kubrick's usual obtuse style and I know what you mean but I still feel like it's weird when compared to movies of it's time, so is Paths of Glory. They just have this weird meta quality almost like they're made sarcastically, which is normal nowadays, but it'd be like if Haeneke or the Coen Bros were making stuff half a century ago instead of now.

[@fernandomaron87]

I agree. John Houston and Billy Wilder were also masters of doing weird movies for studio standards at that time

[@alvarhanso6310]

Was going to post a similar comment. Perhaps it's because Kubrick, like Orson Welles before him, so changed the way movies are shot that you don't notice The Killing being way ahead of its time. The camera angles and dolly shots are as innovative as Citizen Kane. I think the script is where it's less Kubrickian, the female characters are incredibly shallow, but there's an over the top quality typical of the 50s melodramas, so I'll forgive the young Kubrick, he did come back with Paths of Glory, after all.

[@charliewest1221]

Excellent analysis on the thematic and symbolic fabric which underpins the artistic unity of Kubric's work. May, I also add: the significance of horse racing as another central motif - that proverbial game of chance which forms the backdrop to the destiny of those inexorable chess pieces?

[@skinny_mountain3175]

You're starting to spoil us, 3 videos in 3 weeks! Thank you again for putting out such great content!

[@EmpireoftheMind]

You’re welcome! I’d like to get onto a weekly upload schedule. Definitely easier when the videos are short…

[@dantagogoseb202]

@@EmpireoftheMind Yes, keep the short ones coming but remember there are those in your audience who enjoy the 30+ minute deep dive into matters of philosophy and ideology.

[@AllenJones-w3p]

Sterling Hayden also played General Jack D. Ripper in "Dr. Strangelove".

[@pascalcooper4518]

So the chess clerk is named Fisher. Is it a Bobby Fisher reference? The movie was released in 1956, one year before Bobby Fisher won his first of 8 titles. While he would already have been on the map in the chess world that is a remarkable premonition. Was he clairvoyant?

[@joeblow411]

What difference does it make? It's a topsy-turvy world, and maybe the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of beans. But this is our hill. And these are our beans! That's the difference it makes.

[@tamarrajames3590]

I am very much enjoying your look into the psychology of Kubrick’s films, and the themes that tie them together. I think we could call Kubrick a philosopher, but perhaps more significantly…he is a visual poet, using kernels of reality around which to develop a story,(or fiction) that speaks to “Everyman” and the perils of the Heroes journey. Thank you for the quality content you provide.🖤🇨🇦

[@charliewest1221]

Sterling Hayden is great in this film but, in the final analysis, he does not reach the monumental heights which he scales in "The Asphalt Jungle", for that is, truly, his magnum opus.

[@nattyps3160]

Omg he was so good in this & at first when i saw the name i immediately recalled thats the crooked cop in the godfather. The best movies have a combo of using older stars w/ new up & comers. I.e. pacino talia shire.

[@phyarth8082]

The Killing (1956) and Tarantino Pulp Fiction, both connected by non-linear plot device and mysterious McGuffin briefcase. In both cases heist and money is just plot device "what the difference", but about Killing (1956) - Siberian goat herder in the Sun and getting blind, in Pulp Fiction Ringo steers directly into briefcase glow and survives. Killing (1956) as non-linear plot is very convoluted is very difficult to follow very character moves, in Pulp Fiction character number is much smaller and is easier to follow every step. Non-linear plot also coincides with chees 6 moves in chess can be easy calculated but after that it happens combinatoricall explosion, no computer can calculate moves forward and be sure that they be successful. Same in life till 10 years old all moves and decision in life is not important after 10 years combinatorial explosion and your destiny is in hands of probability. Pulp Fiction movie suggest that still all moves (even they are non-linear) in life are interconnected together to first move on chess board.

[@hankworden3850]

You think the Killing is hard to follow? Ok...😬

[@fernandomaron87]

​@@hankworden3850 Imagine if he watched The Big Sleep 😂

[@hankworden3850]

@@fernandomaron87 I hope he does watch it!

[@kdizzle901]

This film is so underrated

[@jeffspencer646]

Curious about that color scene in the hospital that looks like a happy ending for the bartender and his wife. Where is that from?

[@Dr.Strangmeme]

I look at "what's the difference" as whether we are Fated to

[@berniekatzroy]

The line about perfect mediocrity during the chess scene has always stayed with me due to it's powerful meaning.

[@CarlosGarcia-no7vu]

L.A noire theme,good reference

[@buttercakeluv]

Just finished this movie on prime and came straight to this video. An excellent analysis on kubrick's style of film-making !

[@hoshiref]

My new favorite channel 🙏

[@timadamson3378]

Your thesis reminds me quite a bit of No country for Old Men.

[@jd4evr2001]

In 1956, the "End" did NOT "justify the means". Kubrick was among avant garde to tear this down by making the goal or "End" a good thing. In 1956, even THIS was UNTHINKABLE. He made it thinkable and voilâ, today your goal can be pure terrorism and it's just fine. That's why a certain religion where the End Justifies the Means beats out the Judeo Christian ethic of 1956. I've experienced both worlds with full human rationale.

[@davidw.2791]

If you mean the religion that started from Arabia… all they’ve been doing is their version of “Manifest Destiny”: the ends justify the means because the very fact that they succeed is all the proof you need that God is on your side. - “Unfortunately”, a lot of the peoples they fight (certainly the ones in Europe as they almost made their way to Vienna) have more of a platform to speak out than the “Red” people that the “original” Manifest Destiny tRiuMphEd over, and that’s why this Arabian religion can get a bad rap and even have people focus on them as seemingly uniquely having the EJtM fallacy.

[@MustafaAliTalks]

what is the background music?

[@RyanDudziak]

LA Noire theme

[@TheSaltydog07]

I have a love/hate relationship with this film, which begins with the voice-over, hate. But with Coleen Gray, James Edwards, Elisha Cook Jr., Marie Windsor, how can you resist?

[@silber724]

Well done, sir. Very well done.

[@EmpireoftheMind]

Thank you!

[@bird8995]

Whats the song in the background?

[@RyanDudziak]

LA Noire theme

[@felixcat4346]

That may be so but this has exactly the same ending as The Treasure of Sierra Madre with a gold blows away

[@mixerD1-]

There he is, a young captain McCloskey...

[@ManAdam712]

I just began my deep dive into Kubrick watching most of these for the 1st time (Gotta get Spartacus & then Clockwork from 🤓My Local Library👍) but I copied down that 2nd Maurice quote immediately. I hate ?s about my personal plans from anyone most ’o the time. Loved the characters 'n dialogue. Timothy Carey was awesome. I was so happy to see him cast in the next flick... then I read a bit more ☹️

[@charliewest1221]

I've just subscribed.

[@BrianBingham6101]

.nice video ..and the inability to lock the suitcase was comical.

[@teamtomahawk5901]

Awesome dude. Keep it up.

[@mr.strong376]

Fun fact, Rodney Dangerfield is in this film. RESPECT.

[@freeenergyeducationinterna1086]

What was the optimistic part?

[@EmpireoftheMind]

Hopefully that will become more apparent in future films.

[@RachadiAyyoub]

Great work

[@DonateRanchoKitty]

I read he fought hammer and thongs with his lighting guy Luicien Ballard in this picture.

[@Johnconno]

The hidden meaning of Stanley Kubrick's script doodles.

[@martinbroverman7955]

I guess RUTHIE NEVER GOT HER MAGAZINE

[@ericddl]

Ephesians 1:10

[@elichilton7031]

Outstanding.

[@adamskorupskas2184]

Cheers.

[@nightrider12soul]

Two bags would solve the problems

[@sangeovr]

Great

[@trajan75]

THe Killing is a good not great film. It iis derivative of and inferior to John Huston's film Asphalt Jungle.. Also Kubrick's ending contrived.

[@christophermacintyre5890]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3rLZ4iajbl1fNU When Your Pile Is One The Wane You Don't Complain Of Robbery Run Away Don't Bother Me What's The Use Of Worrying? What's The Use Of Anything? Leave Me Alone Mrs. Washington I've Done Plenty Of Time On My Own What's The Use Of Worrying? What's The Use Of Hurrying? What's The Use Of Anything?

[@Mr.Howell]

I absolutely loved your commentary! I hope to find more! After the heist Johnny picks up the sack of money in a little hotel cabin. I would gladly spend the rest of my life in that cabinet, provided I have a stack of books (Crime and biographies). *I hope you will listen to Iron John by Robert Bly and watch the movie Waking Life & Momento and especially read the book: X MAN, by Michael Brodsky. ( If you do book reviews, please do this one. It confuses me. ) Delaware 👍🪰