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Stanley Kubrick
Retrospective and exhibition in the Deutsches Filmmuseum and the Deutsches Architektur Museum from 31 March to 4 July 2004, Frankfurt, Germany.
www.stanleykubrick.de
Kubrick Trailers and "Making of" films 24 April 04
Section: kubrick
Categories: Film / in-a-cinema
The original trailers for all of Kubrick’s films were shown.
A video documentary made by his daughter Vivian during the making of The Shining was also shown… some time ago I was given a copy of that by a friend.
Of interest was a film on the making of Dr. Strangelove:
- The well-known German set designer Ken Adam drove a Jaguar which Kubrick liked, so Adam used to pick him up and drive him to the studio every morning in it: but Kubrick wouldn’t let him drive faster than 30 mph.
- The title designer Pablo Ferro did the titles for the film with Kubrick: the first try didn’t work well because the smaller titles did not hold up well against the… engaging… footage of the planes refueling in air. Kubrick asked Ferro to try something else, so he did a draft by hand of larger titles to be put on top of the footage. Kubrick liked the hand-written draft itself so much that he used it as it was, superimposed in white on the images. But there was one little error which remained in the final version.
- To do the aerial footage for the bomb squadrons the production company organized a plane and for flights over Greenland. On one of the flights they filmed from a bay window in the plane which couldn’t be heated: upon returning the film had frozen and turned to powder.
They once mistakenly flew over a secret U.S. military base: fighter jets pursued the plane and accompanied them out of the area. On the side of the plane was painted in full view of the fighter pilots: Dr. Strangelove.
- The premiere of the film was scheduled for 22 November 1963—the assassination of Kennedy changed that. They had to postpone the premiere for a few months. They also had to change a line in the film: when Slim Pickens’ character Maj. Kong says “a fella could have a good time in Vegas with that…” (referring to the survival kit with condoms, gum and nylons, etc.), if you watch his lips you can see that he in fact originally said ”...a good time in Dallas.”
- After Reagan became elected president and was about to move into the White House, he asked his chief of staff to check out the war room for him… to which his chief of staff said, but Mr President, there isn’t a war room in the White House, to which Reagan said that he had seen that there was in that film, referring to Dr. Strangelove.
- Title: Kubrick Trailers and "Making of" films