Cinemascope
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I like his work, but he was no Billy Wilder.
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I liked him a lot in While the City Sleeps. Also I see he played Mr. Freeze in the TV "Batman" though I don't remember those episodes.
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I wouldn't call it a technique, it's a recurring theme through most of his work.
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Glad you enjoyed it cinemafan!
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But I mixed up my Woodys with my Billys.
Well thanks to you I've certainly brushed up on my W.S. Van Dyke.
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That's not a bad analysis Arkadin. I think when the material was there, JW could certainly raise to the challenge.
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I wasn't chastising anybody, just a comment.
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I'm glad you like it too!
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Then your idea of disturbing is very different from mine. I don't find Kubrick's movies to be disturbing in that same sense, I think it's more about dehumanization than anything else and it isn't particularly disturbing, although it certainly can leave strong impressions on the viewer.
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A DVD of My Gal Sal will soon be on your way!
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I'd love to watch those! B-)
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Now, where did you hear that!
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The Major and the Minor was directed by Billy Wilder, not W.S. Van Dyke.
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Personally I kind of doubt that there is.
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Sometimes I think showmen are underappreciated -- the guys who don't want to make pictures that will win lots of Oscars, but that will unquestionably entertain people who aren't looking for something super dooper fancy shmancy.
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I don't believe there is any evidence that this is what he was saying. And nothing that Kubrick ever did is nearly as disturbing as some David Lynch or Peter Greenaway movies, IMHO.
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Ah, good to know it's playing there.
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Indeed, that movie has already been released on DVD in Europe!
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Actual bigotry is one thing and it is not any less reprehensible but it has nothing to do with releasing a movie on video.
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I think there's a few factors to be considered, such as the overall level of violence and alienation, the borderline torture eventually imposed on the Malcolm McDowell character, and yes the nudity.
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Well I didn't find either scene to be funny in any way.
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It's sad to hear his life ended under such tragic circumstances.
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That may be what Kyle was trying to say. And I don't think there should be double-standards. However a lot of what passes for "humor" in some lesser comedies is nothing more than thinly veiled homophobia. I think it is the suggestion that a man getting raped is bad not because of the rape, but because it's a same-sex rape among men.
But still, it doesn't change that a very graphic scene where a woman is gang-raped in her own house is something that most people would probably never find funny by any stretch of the imagination.
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If you would call it that then you don't know much about directorial techniques, as opposed to choices of subject material, etc. Also, dehumanization doesn't necessarily have to involve violence.