How do you know this, hundredmillionlifetimes?
I thought Kubrick banned the film because he got fed up with the controversy that surrounded it. I didn’t think it had anything to do with the films actual content.
What concerns did he have about the films first 20 minutes?
How do you know this, hundredmillionlifetimes?
I thought Kubrick banned the film because he got fed up with the controversy that surrounded it. I didn’t think it had anything to do with the films actual content.
What concerns did he have about the films first 20 minutes?
How do
you know this, or more pertinently, how can you make such internally contradictory claims?
I'm basing it on the 60-odd books and hundreds of articles I've read over the years on SK and his films, and on the opinions of his wife Christiane, his daughters Vivian, Anya and Katharina, his nephews and colleagues, and many others in an actual position to know. Dispute all this if you like, but at least try to make some - consistent -
sensein your response.
First, to repeat, the film
was not banned. On the contrary, John Trevelyan, the then Chairman of The British Board of Film Classification (from 1956-71), passed the film with an "X" certificate and said it was "...an important social document of outstanding brilliance and quality". It opened in Britain in January 1972 soon provoking a great deal of controversy - to the extent that it only ran in one cinema (the Warner West End in London) for over a year. After the controversy seemed to have filtered away, the film then went on general release for a number of weeks - so unleashing a new, more determined hysterical hate campaign. On Kubrick's request, Warner's quietly withdrew the film from circulation, nobody even being aware or noticing, until many years later when a cinema tried to show the film ... Nobody imposed anything on anyone, it was Kubrick's own choice, albeit in a heated, seemingly threatening environment. Ya think a racist fuck like Borat/Cohen is going to withdraw his moviefilm because a few people in the medja expose it as racist shite? He's lapping it up.
Secondly, are you suggesting that there was no connection between the film's content and the controversy surrounding it?
Maybe he should have tried to ban the controversy instead? Ban people's views, however ridiculous, instead? [The film medium being innocent and neutral and harmless but the print and broadcast media eeeevil?].