Holy cow. My mind is blown. Everything from the title, to the director dying 5 days after submitting the final cut, to the location chosen to film the cult party. These links are a long read but a great explanation of the movie.
So many unbelievable things that I've come across in this group are confirmed by this movie. I saw someone mention it in a comment months ago and glad I finally came around to watching it. It was very strange in the beginning, but you have to remember you're not watching a regular movie, you're watching someone trying to show you what's going on without explicitly saying it. After reading the above articles I am just blown away.
Oh yea and how could you forget (easy if you did not know) - The orgy scenes and masked ball were shot on location in a Rothschild Mansion in Britain.
This movie confused a lot of people at the time, but they had not the insight or symbolic knowledge to understand what they were showing.
The audience were as good as walking around with their eyes wide shut to the secret world right in front of their faces, Kubrick was showing them by opening the eye of the camera on that world.
So you either believe Kubrick was carefully outing as best he could those who run this world like his daughter claims, or he was used for controlled release.
I think he did the deal with the devil to help perfect the filming techniques (done in the UK at the same time 2001 was being shot in pinewood) and regretted it as it almost cost him his soul as such - the shinning plot as originally outlined by Jay Weidner (but he moved all his info online) was on the money here, it's about Kubrick brush with the DS back then around the moon landings... ROOM 237 is a misdirection IMHO do not watch it until you have done lots of other digging.
BTW how do you folk think Kubrick got the super duper low like aperture lenses winged for the black of deep space from NASA to shoot Barry Lyndon scenes by candle light?
A cinematic first! (another film about an outsider allowed into the inner circles)
Original cuts of the 2001 credit NASA and a whole host of other agencies still around today all involved in the Moon program. Later versions the credits are gone.
You need to watch all of Kubrick smokes and the Shinning is not the only one that deals with the Moon Landings.
You all need to watch Clockwork Orange.
Opening scene and early dialogue. Seriously. If you spot the various clues. You will fall over. It's all there.
Oh this is a bit of a spieler too.
The MONOLITH in 2001 is the same ratio as the original 70mm project cinema screen. The original movie had a couple fo minutes at the start of Black.
The Cinema screen was the monolith - Was 2001 was a master work of illumination?
Great post. And yes to all of this.
Funny how the monolith is now the cellphone.