How Stanley Kubrick Writes a Screenplay I Video Essay

[@jeffwalker6815]

I recently watched all his films to see if I could find any kind of universal constant which I discovered to be this: all Kubrick films are about someone in danger of losing their humanity. Either by becoming a beast (the Shining) or by losing touch with emotion (2001) or both (A Clockwork orange). This is why all his films (Lolita onwards, since this is when he gained complete control) feature a bathroom, the perfect intersection between man's base animal nature and civility.

[@Bigkingmonster408]

That's very interesting, I just had a conversation about instinct to where I said we do have instincts like when we need to shit lol.

[@everythingmax]

Well said. I made a video about his use of bathrooms if your are interested kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoethmSfaceKbbM

[@awesomepigthecapedcrusader663]

How does this guy not have over 100k I mean this is good information.

[@86adamleon]

Kubrick said that he aimed to amuse the audience, whole he also built subtext, and clues for those who found it interesting. He put many interpretive layers in his works. And changed the script daily.

[@MsDPgames]

Stanley Kubrick’s screen playa find a way to get a profound character study as well as a complete understanding of the world around it.

[@zacharycollins6548]

God I wish Kubrick could have made AI. It would have been amazing. His greatest film.

[@damienx0x]

Yes I really wish he had.

[@jacktaliasteinberg9681]

God, imagine if he made Napoleon

[@Mr.Goodkat]

@@Conman9310 Yes, it's a great film.

[@damienx0x]

​@@Conman9310 More overrated, I'd say.

[@Conman9310]

@@damienx0x Maybe nowadays. It has a lot of flaws.

[@macpettit944]

I'm shocked. I think this was one of the best video essays I'd ever seen and was sure the channel had over 100,000 subs. I never comment on stuff but boy, is that criminal. Awesome video dude!

[@michaelfilofficial]

I didn't notice the viewcount until I was halfway and... ONLY 8300??? This is an excellent essay!

[@sahidshaikh1601]

Hold your breath because this video is gonna viral

[@highonsleep4219]

great video! as an aspiring screenwriter and director, this gave me some new perspectives to filmmaking.

[@justinryangreenjr3157]

Excellent Analysis! Very interesting to get to know the nature of what he was writing instead of focusing on the trivial details that most people often focus on

[@MartinNenov]

Never had this much clarity on that mastermind, good job!!!!

[@carl5192]

Well done mate. Vey insightful - good examples!

[@dinitha11]

This was very well edited and planned out. Thanks for this video. My only feedback would be to invest on a quality microphone for your narration. The video quality is incredible, however, it makes the sound quality stand out more. Keep it up!

[@stevenp748]

I agree. The analysis is great but the audio quality made this difficult for me to listen. I had to adjust the volume settings multiple times in order to hear the voiceover at a comfortable level. All that aside, very well done. Keep it up 👍🏼

[@nireviews8492]

Great video man! How do you only have 100 subs...

[@Thespeedrap]

I wish Kubrick would had made a Biblical epic movie or a superhero movie that would have been fantastic😱

[@applehat2345]

Definitely!

[@saltalgilmour9745]

Kubrick wasnt a madman he was a genius!

[@DavesArtRoom]

Part of experiencing his films is analyzing them. There are auto biographical elements in his films. They have been adapted by him with other narratives than the novels offered. 2001 was not already written whem Kubrick filmed it. Kubrick deliberately commissioned Arthur C. Clarke to write the story while Stanley made his own story and ideas. So 2001 one cannot be explained by the book, as Rob Ager figured out.

[@tomnorton4277]

Apart from Fear and Desire, which the man himself admitted was a misfire, 2001: A Space Odyssey was Stanley Kubrick's most original film. I don't know if I'd call it his best - I've only watched The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut so far - but it had no source material. Arthur C. Clarke adapted it into a novel while Kubrick was making the film but Kubrick was the man who came up with the original idea.

[@jamesleodelacruz]

Imagine if Kubrick himself had a master class. Now that’s something I’d pay for

[@timeofthewhoviansunited1504]

Thanks for making this

[@nicholastapia25]

Fantastic work. Loved this.

[@RawHeadRay]

Is Kubricks screenplay for A.I. (untouched by others) available to buy or download r even read off screen, i want to see his version in my minds eye.

[@BloodBrothers87]

Brilliant video!

[@gianthills]

in 2001, the protagonist is the ape / Dave the spaceman. its the evolution of the same soul.

[@charlieg4258]

Hey there, thanks for this! Subscribed

[@jravell]

Was Jack ever the protagonist of The Shining? That look on his face in the car at the start is not that of a nice guy.

[@kellysaysthings9202]

Great work!

[@fatcabin]

friend.

[@damienx0x]

Did you deliberately spell the word extreme incorrectly? Good video anyway.

[@anthonygreenwood189]

...fundemental...fun. de-mental...

[@arjungaga5256]

i'm your new subscriber

[@thorn262]

Quite a remarkable analysis, one that tackles the basics in storytelling, which is usually ignored for, 'I liked this,' or 'I didn't like that.' You've spurred me to write some notes, but just a couple for now. '2001: A Space Odyssey' was a piece by a master, but was hardly 'a Masterpiece,' or, the work that gets you into the Academy.* Kubrick never won an Oscar as director because he refused to toe the Academy-line.** For instance, any Modernist works from the early 20th century would deem 'hallowed halls' as over-populated with fansy-schmansy dreck; skilled, yes, but to what end? Fame and Fortune, of course. Why would any honest film-artist want to achieve 'applausedits' from the Hollywood grand-marketing device created by MGM's Louis 'Ars Gratia Artis' Mayer? I'm surprised '2001' got so far as it did with MGM, since -- essentially -- poetry does not sell. But, MGM didn't figure the rebel-poet would stay -- blessedly, and above all else -- true to his work. * SK's Masterpiece? I vote: 'The Killing.' It opened a lot of doors early on, professionally, though not always portals through which he wanted to transit. ** Leave the fetching, 'My Fair Lady,' for the MPAA. Actually Oscarize, 'Dr. Strangelove'? 'Not in OUR Academy. All our money and celebrations would collapse!'

[@bigfigwasp8689]

Nice video to start a channel with 😁 Although I would disagree with you on Alex's Character Arc. Maybe he did not return to point A. A being the extereme Alex was B is the idealistic Alex created by the Ludovico treatment At the End he reaches a midpoint C greater than both A & B because human beings lie between extremes. In this C point, as we see in the last scene of the movie, he is having consensual sex, and the A Alex was far from knowing what consent is. Although he found the sweetspot in between the Ludovico, when he scremed that he gets that what he did was "against society" but the Ludovico pushed him unhealthily towards B. And after the final counseling in the hospital he reaches C again being "cured alright"

[@jackhill4882]

Thank you very much! And this is a wonderful insight I never thought of it that way but you're right!

[@andreavoigtlander1087]

nope

[@damienx0x]

He was being sarcastic when he said he was cured. That's the point. He's back to Point A. A raging psychopath.

[@bigfigwasp8689]

@@damienx0x That's not the case, because the woman he was having sex with was on top of him and enjoying their moment. Moreover the set was designed to be so as to resemble a wedding and people were clapping. It was Kubrick's way of saying sex isn't bad as it keeps our species alive. Similarly aggression is also a requirement for society as it keeps it from crumbling under hostilities. It is just a matter of context how those forces should be channelised. The scene speaks against the neutering of Alex through the Ludovico technique and rather celebrates the forces of sex and aggression. The only difference from the start of the film to the end is what Alex himself observes - letting those forces manifest without control is "against society". But the forces when channelised properly are rather benefactors of society. The final Alex has got his vitality back and is ready to be placed properly in society.

[@benjamingejman8512]

I disagree regarding A Clockwork Orange. Alex at the end, in his imagination, is having consensual sex, and the image is very similar to a wedding, showing how the primitive impulses Alex had are channeled through marriage to be accepted in society.

[@1qwasz12]

HAL is the protagonist but loses his fight not to go to Jupiter. He saw the evil coming: as the monoliths were places of advanced learning, they marked mankind's increasing violence. Most people see the Starchild as beautiful, but not me. It's eyes are cold and deadly. One of the most terrifying movies ever made.

[@potatotalitarian4231]

Wholey moley you just caused a ripple in space

[@erlstone]

you open with "mad man"... which is silly thing to even refer to... and then you iterate very little from there on... and descend into lame rubbish. you have no clue.