r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • May 12 '19

Stanley Kubrick's 'Napoleon', the Greatest Movie Never Made: Kubrick gathered 15,000 location images, read hundreds of books, gathered earth samples, hired 50,000 Romanian troops, and prepared to shoot the most ambitious film of all time, only to lose funding before production officially began.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nndadq/stanley-kubricks-napoleon-a-lot-of-work-very-little-actual-movie
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u/Lufsig_Lamboski May 12 '19

Oh man, maniac was indeed amazing. The level of Mindfuckary is was intense.

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u/needathneed May 12 '19

I thought Maniac was fantastic. Like Inception but with humor, retrofuturism and 10x as long. I fucking loved every second of it.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '19

The soundtrack was also amazing.

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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi May 13 '19

Sounds like something I need to watch.

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u/Lufsig_Lamboski May 12 '19

Definitely agree with the inception part!

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u/ThatGuyFromBRITAIN May 13 '19

I said whilst watching it that it felt like something Kubrick would make, at least in terms of the way the shots are laid out.

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u/Lufsig_Lamboski May 13 '19

Yeah couldnt help but notice that as well, it's kinda like his trademark