How Kubrick Uses the Camera

#videoessay #cinema #stanleykubrick
Kubrick is one of the most influential directors of the 20th Century, his career spanning almost five decades. He is perhaps best known for his bordering on insane attention to detail when it came to what's in the frame, requiring take after take until the shot was perfect. This video looks at a handful of his most interesting shots, and breaking them down, examining how they elevate the themes of their films, and the visual techniques that are on display.
One-Point Perspective Montage:
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Timestamps
00:00 - Full Metal Jacket
01:28 - A Clockwork Orange
03:09 - Dr. Strangelove
04:29 - Barry Lyndon
06:55 - Eyes Wide Shut
08:00 - The Shining
09:43 - One-Point Perspective

[@ArcherGreen]

Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and want to learn more, check out a previous video of mine on Full Metal Jacket: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3umf4pqd6xlhLs&ab_channel=ArcherGreen

[@Ciberpotato]

Love this, as an art student kubrick's work is truly a masterpiece of composition

[@stephenmanley4097]

Being a long term Kubrick fan, I think that was a good summary of his work. Barry Lyndon is my favourite.

[@Jig_Artist]

Thanks for this. I really appreciate how you've broken these shots down and highlighted the details you are describing

[@Jalvee]

Brooo I didn't even realize you only had 482 subscribers. You definitely deserve more recognition with this level of content production.

[@ArcherGreen]

Thank u so much

[@product_of_august]

Very well edited video. Very subtle and emphasizes your points

[@pranavramraj5141]

Loved this, truly underrated youtuber. Loved the editing

[@SmallLebowksi]

This is a very well put together video

[@tediousmaximus1067]

Very good video! I love Kubrick's films. He was an absolute genius! And yes he used symmetry very often.

[@effinjamieTT]

Just discovered your channel. Reminds me very much of the now defunct channel every frame a painting, this is meant as a compliment. Great stuff

[@alltimegamer1343]

You deserve more my boy

[@MOART]

Bro you deserve waaay more subscribers 🔥💜

[@MegaSlanguage]

Fantastic video.

[@MondoChelloveckMovies]

This was a great video to watch, I love Stanley Kubrick and I really appreciate the way he makes a movie look spectacularly his own. Excellent video, really enjoyed that 😊👌

[@keithmichael112]

this was good, thank you edit: I can see this getting pushed by the algorithm

[@ArcherGreen]

Thank you, I sure hope so

[@wtcben]

At 00:27 you say "perfect" and then cut straight to Barry Lyndon. Coincidence? I think not.

[@ArcherGreen]

A pure coincidence to be sure

[@Thesaurcery4U2C]

Sweet, Sweet Nicole. You have quite an eye for noticing all these nuances. Mine is more typical and without nuance I'd guess.

[@oobrocks]

Called the “vanishing point “

[@chrundle00]

Is that Minecraft music? It doesn't fully sound like it but its also profoundlly distracting

[@Whaddayamean13]

Kubrick was the very best at saying something with his images. The style over substance critique is so stupid and only used by wannabe intellectuals. It’s a MOTION PICTURE. Style is substance, especially when you have a talent like that.

[@manymany4879]

7:18 the reason no one mentions christmas is that kubrick is a jew and the novels writer is also a jew.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Christmas is mentioned. Which religion are you?

[@manymany4879]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver jews hate christmas cuz they hate christians

[@Sska29]

This is a cute attempt, but the video completely misses the mark again about how SK framed his shots and instead goes into how "perfectionist" and his "attention to detail" oft-repeated cliches. You people need to stop this nonsense because a whole bunch of young people are watching this and becoming clones like that wierdo Wes Anderson whose films have frames that look like they were wiped with Clorox bleach. Shots used to be framed exactly like this in silent films and even in studio pictures up until the 50s. Exactly with the same attention to detail and composition. It's just that none of the younger people have seen much of those films outside of the top 50 or 100 "black and white movies" entry level lists and so SK's films come across as this mystical product that existed completely outside the cultural norm. The other reason is that the quality of filmmakers dropped after the 60s because the field became relatively open due to the decline of the studio structure. For every Stanley Kubrick, there were 20 other mediocre filmmakers in that era releasing movies to theaters with terrible craftsmanship. The last thing is SK always used the biggest format cameras, the sharpest lenses, and the best film stock money could buy and he did that from the beginning of his career when he made his first feature films on 35mm. He has a very traditional and classical method of framing shots. Any real art or architecture student knows the 1,2,3,4,5 point perspective framing for drawings. His peers from the 60s and 70s were actually very mediocre and few to count as well. The 1-point perspective is probably the most "silent film framing" of all, because its just keeping the camera still and letting the action unfold. The attention to detail is there in his films, but you haven't seen his films enough if you don't know about the hundreds of shot mistakes and continuity errors in his films for an apparent "perfectionist".

[@martinlennon4673]

Interesting … food for thought 👍

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

"you haven't seen his films enough if you don't know about the hundreds of shot mistakes and continuity errors in his films for an apparent "perfectionist"" Those aren't mistakes and errors when they are incorporated self-reflexively and with directed purpose.