Confessions of a Conservative Atheist
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More than twenty years ago, Steven Spielberg completed Stanley Kubrick’s final passion project, a film about artificial intelligence and machines that is equal parts prophetic from a modern perspective, uneven as a movie, and unfulfilled as a work of art. Today, everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence. The emergence of ChatGPT and subsequent competitors capable… Continue reading Spielberg’s thought provoking bastardization of Kubrick, A.I. Artificial Intelligence
My writing process can best be described as vomiting on the screen and sifting through it in search of an editable morsel. The morsel is then preserved as I throw up again and repeat the process. Many morsels do not make it, some do as the process repeats itself into something resembling a final product. … Continue reading Celebrating 500 posts: Why and how I write
The master director never said what he is claimed to have said regarding a ghost opening the larder door in the famous scene. It is a quote that is often taken grossly out of context to justify the existence of ghosts in his cinematic masterpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BZ9J3joPpI Stanley Kubrick did not actually say what he is… Continue reading YouTube video: Stanley Kubrick never said there were ghosts in The Shining
The legendary director’s first great film is a dizzying blend of genres driven by a middle-aged man’s sexual fascination with a teenager. Told in a more straightforward style than much of his later work, the story beneath the surface is one of cultural decline, where villain and victim become increasingly hard to define in an… Continue reading Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita and the collapse of Western Culture
Three very different masters of their craft, three unique mediums, one connecting concept that illuminates what makes their work timeless and yet somehow outside our reach at the same time Like William Shakespeare, Stanley Kubrick can be something of an acquired taste. People are vaguely aware of the reputed genius, but prefer to appreciate it… Continue reading Negative space: How the things left unsaid connect the diverse genius of Shakespeare, Kubrick, and Springsteen
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 