by The Consul » Tue Oct 21, 2014 2:03 pm
Every part is a secret from every other part. The shooting script is just something to hold onto, a map for the tracks, the lighting, the crew, the producers. Col. Dax, the thinking soldier, a man with a tortured soul and conscience is still just a ColD ax. Every part is secretly peeking into the parts that enfold it, like an eye briefly glimpsing the myriad of what we feel but cannot see. The hidden hands of history. The naked ghosts of ecstasy. Napolean struggling not to see the world as something that has projected from his fierce will & intelligence. Come into the costume shop. You ask me how does it look? The secret is....in the details, each like a tiny hole in the fence around a vast construction site. What Ann Sexton said about looking down outside the publisher's office and seeing all these cars and buildings outside how they were once just ideas in someone's head. Kubrick was no fourteen carat clown. Every part of the universe is moving away from every other part. In general. It's not what I want as a matter of supremacy, rather, it's a choice that's made and it's just the only thing that will work. He wasn't always right. But that wasn't the point, was it?
" Morals is the butter for those who have no bread."
— B. Traven