Stanley Kubrick is another one of my favorite directors, so I decided to see if he (like Paul Thomas Anderson) also produced any of his own films. I found that he did, pretty much all of them! I must confess I was extremely happy to find out the many directors often take an active role in producing. I already knew a lot about Stanley Kubrick, he is a genius!
Anyway, I made it my goal to learn even more about this man and I found out he played chess and often asked actors and other people he is working on set with to sit down and give him a game of chess, his ethos is that sometimes you have to care for the people you work with and show them respect, but more importantly give them all time to connect with you one on one.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000040/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Great man, great films! I spent half an hour reading his bio's over IMDB and found it facinating how he first got involved in film making and I also learned he loves chess and often plays with his actors, which I thought is a fantatic way to connect with your actors and really understand them.
I also wanted to know more about his work, so I spent 160 minutes of my time seeing the sci-fi classing 2001: A space odyssey. I also watched the trailer for it and saw how he chose to advertise it, it is a fantastic film. Even though it was made in 1968 some of the effects and the mis-en-scene, make it feel so futuristic that i forget what year it is made. It had around a 10 million pounds budget and grossed over 50 million and that is deservedly.
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