How Stanley Kubrick Uses Close-Ups

[@WayTooClose]

There's something new to learn about Kubrick everyday.

[@sangeovr]

True

[@alexanderfogus3877]

Great video, really made me think about Kubrick. His style is seen as cold and distant, although close-ups of faces, the direct cinematic way into human emotions, is one of his signature shots. But, as you said, they are often focused on people who have lost their humanity, so Kubrick's close-ups turn its usual meaning around and heighten the inhumanity that lies within people. The match cut from the bone to the spaceship tells the story of human progression. It forms a direct connection from the first small tool to the newest, gigantic technological achievement. The way it tells this huge leap in one split second is distinctly cinematic. That's what I love about Kubrick, he has a very visual mind and tells his stories with methods exclusive to filmmaking.

[@ThomasFlight]

Great video guys!

[@2sinfulsansYTGOD]

The weird thing is I've been doing this for so long and didn't even know what the name of it was I've been doing the Kubrick stare the whole time just so everyone knows I do call myself an actor LOL

[@taylormerriweather2824]

Are you the same guy that made the kurosawa movement video? I enjoyed watching the compilations of parts from my favorite movies, and hearing the patterns you've noticed. I've seen all of Kubrick and kurosawa movies except rhapsody in August.

[@thisandthat3889]

How good is this video! You deserve waaayy more subs!

[@自由石匠-b8k]

this video reminds me how good Kubrick is, at using this simple but effective technique

[@giampfrasca]

Well done, Julian, very nice job.

[@mrskinszszs]

Please do a complete Shining breakdown.

[@blue-cn8hc]

the leader of that group of hominids has a name - it's Moonwatcher

[@Metalheadharsh]

This was seriously good.

[@sirlordhenrymortimer6620]

Indians like Kubrick?

[@Metalheadharsh]

@@sirlordhenrymortimer6620 I cannot speak for the rest of us which would be more than a billion but I can say that compared to the other directors like Ingmar Bergman, Tarkovsky, Fellini etc. Kubrick movies are more mainstream followed by maybe Kurosawa.

[@sirlordhenrymortimer6620]

@@Metalheadharsh Kubrick is just more popular amongst amateur cinephiles on internet . Kurosawa was more mainstream than him in terms of output and overall popularity , he made a name for himself with samurai films. By the way why don't Indians make films like stayajit ray anymore.

[@Metalheadharsh]

@@sirlordhenrymortimer6620 True. I agree although I'd say Kurosawa has more than just Samurai films in his roster. It's very clandestinely shuffled though pre samurai era obsession. He was famous with Asian audience though, so in numbers there's strength but that's not how I'm describing popularity and mainstream. I'm basing it off with Western audience as they had a wider reach and it got into popular culture sooner than other art house greats from around the world. My favourite director so far is Ingmar Bergman with The Seventh Seal as the favourite of his. And with Tarkovsky Stalker and Solaris so far. Well Satyajit Ray was one of a kind. There's only one guy who kinda comes close to the Indian version of Tarantino but he's not to be called Tarantino when you look at his filmography overall. He went into the Tarantino or Scorcesse route when he became kinda famous in India. His name is Anurag Kashyap, and while People would suggest his obviously famous movie. I'd suggest an Indie Short film of his that was his first project to you as a recommendation. It's just inside 40mins. The tile is Last Train to Mahakali. Lemme know if you liked it or not. He has very diverse movies though.

[@sirlordhenrymortimer6620]

@@Metalheadharsh Kurosawa is very popular with the western audiences of the 50's because of his modernist aesthetics . His earlier works like ikaru , Roshomon was modernist masterpiece . He, Bergman were pioneers of the 50's . I consider him mainstream because of his later adaptations of western classics and in turn he influenced George Lucas , soeilberg , scorcesse. I can't pinpoint my absolute favourite director as there are many but the directors which have the greatest influence on me are Fellini, Hitchcock, David lynch, Luis bunuel, fw murnue ,orsen Welles I have actually seen a film by kashyap, it is gangs of wassipur (excuse my spelling) yeah, in terms of dialogues , liberal use of gore he reminds me of tarrantino but aesthetically reminds me of park Chan wook and stylistically Korean gangster flicks . I think he was deeply influenced by a lot of Korean movies because stylistically his films are so similar to them

[@VousEtesOdileDeray]

Great job! Very interesting

[@santioned_sneh]

8:30 which benecio del toro film is this ? plz.

[@umer515k7]

Sicario, I think.

[@santioned_sneh]

@@umer515k7 i have seen Sicario( 1st), he never wore a suit like that in the movie.

[@로열위드치즈]

His trade mark is close up and zoom in

[@giothemath]

Pretty sure he learned this from Tarkovsky

[@saiashwin26]

7:55 are you telling me that The Passion of Joan Arc, a film consisted almost entirely of close-ups and makes for such effective cinema not to mention 90 years ago when close-ups were rarely used is EASY? Are you kidding me?

[@TheDiscardedImage]

I had no intention of diminishing that film, I simply used it as an example of close-ups from early cinema. Having said that, Passion is an outlier in Dreyer's body of work, at least from everything I've seen. He made films later on, like Ordet, in an almost polar opposite fashion - very restrained formally, and my favourite of his.

[@bbpoltergeist]

@@TheDiscardedImage I also got the impression that you were taking a shot at Dreyer's Passion of Joan D'Arc when you said that's easy to overuse close-ups & cut immediately to it. The rest of the video is really good.

[@madnero5508]

Many centuries later? how about millions of years lol.

[@FabryckFoda]

What is a million of years if not many centuries?

[@whocrusader5179]

Not much what call art of movies

[@madnero5508]

Eyes Wide Shut was awful though.

[@bw-xv2rz]

no it isn't

[@madnero5508]

Jae I’m a huge Kubrick fan and it was smh.