Popture
is what it is.
Miss Scott: It’s three o’clock in the morning.
Turgidson: *laughs* The Air Force never sleeps.
Miss Scott: Buck, honey… I’m not sleepy either.
for comparison…
(literally in the foreground and previous post literally in the background)
still the best christmas movie
My copy of this arrived. Such joy.
http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/film/all/03844/facts.stanley_kubricks_napoleon_the_greatest_movie_never_made.htm
For Jus, who thinks the good bits were Kubrick and the crappy bits were Spielberg. A quick this and that between the original storyboards from my copy of The Stanley Kubrick Archives and final shots in the film.
Among other things, the teddy bear and the ending was all Kubrick. It’s not a happy ending. The mother dies for a second time, the boy doesn’t realise his Pinocchio dream, and his descendants begrudging give grant his wish because these are not the answers they’re searching for.
This is shown through a neat rejection of Baudrillard’s ideas on simulacra, which I guess in 2001 wasn’t hip and could have be mistaken for optimistic. I don’t find it that way. It says, yes we can know something exists and is real, even if the only way we can know this is because we failed when we tried to fake it. A sickly clever point to make by telling a story.
