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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of the diversity of Stanley Kubrick's film-making style. "A Clockwork Orange" and "The Shining" are compared and contrasted in this light. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and troubled main characters. However, it is ultimately false to assert that Kubricks style is identical in all of his films. Indeed, the strength of his style is that it
can remain so consistently recognizable, even as he employs it to dramatically different effects. This paper will explore two of Kubricks most famous works, 1971s "A Clockwork Orange", and 1980s
"The Shining", with an eye towards how Kubricks stylistic choices manifested important similarities and differences between the two works. This paragraph helps the student introduce the first point of comparison.
One of the most striking similarities between these two works is Kubricks trademark use of stylistically dramatic camera work. For instance, both works make use of long, extended tracking shots.
This is most notable in the opening shot of "A Clockwork Orange", where the camera opens startlingly on the leering face of main character Alex, and then slowly, over the
span of several minutes, withdraws to reveals the characters position in a long room filled with drug-addled teenagers and bizarre statuary; notably, at no point during this shot does Alex
move, instead remaining the center focus of this strange universe (Kubrick, 1971). The shot is mirrored, but in reverse, during the closing shot of "The Shining", where the camera again
slowly pans, this time from a wide view of the wall of a hotel ballroom adorned with photographs to end on a tight focus on a singular photograph, containing the
face of main character Jack Torrance (Kubrick, 1980). Other visually dramatic camera work includes the use of "first person perspective" in many shots, such as when Alex is attacking the
cat lady with the phallic sculpture, when Alex hurls himself out of his tormentors window near the end of the film, and, in "The Shining", during the famous sequences when
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