Do We Need To Suffer for Art? Stanley Kubrick vs David Lynch

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  @theferociousblue3945 · 5 years ago · pinned

  Sir, this is a film set. Remember: don't sympathise with Kubrick, and save Martha.

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  @mandownunder5211 · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr65ZIWoD6c&amp;t=290">4:50</a><br>One of my favourite jokes regarding this ludicrous theory is &quot;Kubrick DID fake the moon landing, but he was such a perfectionist that he insisted they film on the actual moon.&quot;

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• AG

  @agnieszkasmoreda3789 · 5 years ago

  &quot;Kubrick trusts Jack to play evil without being evil but he didn&apos;t trust Duvall to play terrified without being terrified.&quot; This is such a brilliant sentence and I salute you for it!

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  @mrheisenberg83 · 5 years ago (edited)

  I think it was more powerful for Wendy to leave her abusive husband to die alone, angry and confused in the cold than to &quot;beat&quot; him in the traditional way. Beating him was never the answer, leaving him always was. At least that is my read of the ending.

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  @mattgilbert7347 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Lynch had a formative experience as a young boy. He was walking with his friends, just a sunny midwestern day, and he saw a badly bruised, naked woman walking down the same street. He said he was too young to understand what <b>might</b> be going on, but that he <b>knew</b> something was very, very wrong. And he began to cry.<br>He is also suprisingly open about dealing with anger issues during the 70s, when he was making Eraserhead.<br><br>He strikes me as an honest guy. I mean that as it is, as it sounds...<br><br>I live in Australia. It&apos;s not <b>that</b> great.

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  @stephenstrange4245 · 5 years ago

  I&apos;m baffled by how anyone can think that the family was &apos;idyllic&apos; before they lived at the hotel. Like, the beginning of the movie makes explicit that Jack was always abusive??

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• PJ

  @PJB-t7g · 5 years ago

  Stanislavsky had the courage to remind actors that it&apos;s their job to <b>*pretend*</b>

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  @nikotina899 · 5 years ago

  One of my favorite stories of David Lynch being collaborative with his actors is how Nadine was supposed to be a smaller character in Twin Peaks, but in her first scene with the curtains Wendy Robie made Lynch laugh so hard he saw more potential in her. A few years ago in a interview she talked about how he makes his actors feel free to go as far as they want because he would ground them if needed.

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  @sabreveitch3554 · 5 years ago

  Every time I learn more about how Hollywood treated Shelley Duvall, I just feel incredibly sad. I just want to hug her 😞

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  @gearandalthefirst7027 · 5 years ago

  It&apos;s bizarre to me that people miss the very obvious interpretation of the Shining being about abuse. I lived with an alcoholic for several years and Jack is... he&apos;s a very good actor.

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  @wsudance85 · 4 years ago

  I had a dance teacher who was very tyrannical and yet he was lauded for his results, but I felt like hell every day and ultimately gave up on my career due to PTSD. You can get great results from people through encouragement too, not just through aggression, and this video really speaks to that principle.

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  @ddpsf · 5 years ago (edited)

  Laurence Olivier to Dustin Hoffman after the latter stayed up three days to portray a sleepless man, &quot;Dear boy, why not try acting?&quot;

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