16. RT @CorComm Clockwork Orange, is of course, one big cartoon, almost a Roy Lichtenstein
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17. One thing about animated cartoons is that every frame has to be planned. Nothing can be left to chance. The Kubrick aesthetic.
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18. Those hostile to Kubrick --- again, Kael the most eloquent -- thought movies too icy, precise, inhumane.
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19. But what if Kubrick wasn't (as Kael thought) a failed humanist. Maybe his model was cartoons, rather than, say, theater.
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20. The longer Kubrick lived, the longer it took for him to make movies, because he wanted them to be more and more precise.
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21. The precision of Kubrick's movies explains the informational density he was able to achieve and why they improve on repeated viewings.
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22. Informational density also explains why Kubrick's movies so easily lend themselves to conspiracy theories (paging
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23. There are, that I know of, at least 3 major conspiracy theories about Kubrick: I) IBM coded into HAL in 2001 II) moon landing in Shining
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24. What do I mean by the informational density of Kubrick's movie. One example: the Native American theme in The Shining.
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25. The Overlook Hotel in The Shining is supposedly built on an Indian burial ground.
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26. The more you watch The Shining the more references there are to Native American themes. The native genocide is the ur-murder.
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28. You know who had folklore about roadrunners and coyotes? The Navaho. THE END
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