He literally wrote a book on his inspiration for his characters and never mentioned this.
> The idea in ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ was it was going to represent the church, [so] I thought it would be powerful to use the hands with stigmata and then you put eyes on it. But although I had the idea and knew how it was going to operate, when we saw it on the set with the makeup on actor Doug Jones, everybody froze and we went, ‘Oh my God, this is amazing.’
Those dumb fucking people finding symbolism where there is none by analyzing the art are annoying enough. Now we have artists retroactively creating symbolism to circle jerk with their npc friends.
I wonder what his woke symbolism for the harbinger of doom being female is.
Semi related, if you like this kind of behind the scenes stuff on Kubrick, get this book. amazon link. Just bought it and it's really great. Cheap af, 800+ page hardcover full of production photos and script notes and letters on his entire filmography.
Plus, Jester has surely added her own contributions ;-)
edit - It's also a great opportunity for another tie-in publication, like Guillermo del Toro's notebooks: https://www.amazon.com/Guillermo-del-Toro-Cabinet-Curiosities/dp/0062082841/
I have this nice coffee table book by Matt Zoller Seitz that's pretty great with all production art and ephemera and the such.
The content of those two are identical, though the layout is different. I have both. One is portrait, the smaller, cheaper one. And the larger version in landscape. They both have their uses but for the average fan who wants to have a read go with the cheapest unless you specifically want the larger format. I also would buy from the US. That portrait (cheaper) version is gobsmackingly expensive.
See AMAZON UK at £15.22 so I imagine you could have it for $35 delivered.
There's a book that the hosts on Buffering the Vampire Slayer have referenced a few times that might be interesting if you haven't read it already. Amazon link here
Anne Frank's is the most famous one. I just reread it for the first time in over 30 years.
Others to look into: Guillermo del Toro, Anais Nin, Thoreau, Emerson, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Palin, Alec Guiness, Thich Nhat Hanh, Edith Holden, Samuel Pepys. I could go on...
I'll also recommend this book. It gives you a peek inside some of the most famous diaries and journals.
If you prefer a physical copy, you can pick it up from Amazon.
Tenet screenplay can (finally ?) be bought in France, on August 27^(th) : Link.
I'm quite optimistic now ;)
It's on Amazon! Going out on September 22, but some people are saying they're receiving their copies next week.
I still can't believe how cheap this new edition is.
Sorry for the bad picture quality, I was so anxious to start reading that I just snapped some picture with phone.
There's a Tarantino Interviews book where I thought he said he used 3 marble notebooks and 1 black pen and 1 red pen, or something like that
this is the book- https://www.amazon.com/Quentin-Tarantino-Interviews-Conversations-Filmmakers/dp/1578060516
Actually, I think Ermey told this story when they were compiling "The Stanley Kubrick Archives". I don't remember the particular source but I know it is on the IMDB page.
yea, but the amount of referential/contextual humor in that movie basically requires an alien species to have already had a k-12 education on human culture. The Big Lebowski would definitely have to be a University or Masters program class on human humor and interaction.
Have fun reading this: http://www.amazon.com/Years-Work-Lebowski-Studies/dp/0253221366
I got my copy a month ago and it is heavy going, but it does make you think about the movie in new and interesting ways.