“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.”
- Stanley Kubrick, born on this day in 1928.
p.s. and by the way Stanley, there is nothing more aggravating than to have completed shooting a scene, to only learn after that there was a smudge on the lens. Thanks for the fair warning. No, honestly. The way in which you simply left in the helicopter shadow in the opening credits of, The Shining educated so many of us that sometimes the technical accidents and Murphy Law creepiness adds character to the final edited footage. If there is power in what is being shown on-screen (or told on-screen) then that is more than enough to give your audience permission to forgive any technical boo-boos. And better yet, the audience will immediately turn those boo-boos into the work's most definitive 'human' moments captured. Weird thing though, in your grave Stan, I'm sure that you're wishing that in the 70's you could have gotten your dirty hands on one of these cam drones we are all toying around with these days. That, I am certain, that you're pissed about, lying in the dirt 6 feet below us. bye.
