Stanley Kubrick was a pioneer of film making.
Giving the world such campy good times as found in the frames of Dr. Strangelove to the most realistic military Basic Combat Training film ever made with Full Metal Jacket, Kubrick explored the ultra-violence with his celebrated Clockwork Orange and delved into sexuality with Eyes Wide Shut -- Just before forever closing his own lids to this world...Fade to black.
Long before Jeremy Irons and the nubile actress Dominique Swain gave a sense of realism to the film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's infamous tale of Lolita, Kubrick offered the world his own shocking, if not entertaining, depiction of the story: Featuring Nabokov himself as the movie's screen writer! |
