https://cinephiliabeyond.org/paths-glory-stanley-kubricks-first-step-towards-cinema-immortality/ Films and Filmmaking Sat, 21 Dec 2024 01:34:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/paths-glory-stanley-kubricks-first-step-towards-cinema-immortality/#comment-2676 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:26:15 +0000 https://cinephiliabeyond.org/?p=27300#comment-2676 […] Last word: “That farmland we hired had to be dressed and built into a battlefield, with the trenches and barbwires and all of the shell holes. Stanley loved moving shots. The main thing was taking Kirk Douglas through this obstacle course, this barrage. The idea was that Kirk was going to be followed, in a moving shot, through as much action as we could muster before a cut had to be made, after which we would set up to continue. It was cold; it was uncomfortable; it was wet. Everything was tough on Kirk. After he did it the first time, he told Stanley, ‘I’ll give you one more, maybe two, but that’s it. I’m not going to do this forever.’” (Producer James B. Harris, DGA Quarterly) […]

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