Thesis: Stanley Kubrick
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Thesis: Stanley Kubrick
The challenge was that I had to do everything, all the layout, and then when I had just done the last layout, he asked me: “Where’s your name?” I didn’t know I was supposed to put my name! The only open space was between two parts so I did it there, very little. You have to look for it. From then on, it was amazing working with him. I never thought... See more
Pablo Ferro: A Career Retrospective, Part 1
Kubrick (as an auteur) respected the designers an the artists he worked with, and cared about their credit
He asked me what I thought about human beings. I said one thing about human beings is that everything that is mechanical, that is invented, is very sexual. We looked at each other and realized – the B-52, refueling in mid-air, of course, how much more sexual can you get?!
Pablo Ferro: A Career Retrospective, Part 1
This shows Kubrick’s interest in the human condition and also the sexual nature of dr strangelove
He said, “I would like you to do the trailer for Strangelove because I like your commercials.” He said we could sell the movie as a product. I said that would be great.
Pablo Ferro: A Career Retrospective, Part 1
Quote from Pablo in interview
Ferro got a bit wilder when he worked for Kubrick again, cutting together the trailer below for 1971’s A Clockwork Orange . Though reminiscent of his Dr. Strangelove trailer in its use of onscreen text — “SATIRIC,” “BIZARRE,” “FRIGHTENING,” “METAPHORICAL,” and “BEETHOVEN,” among other suitable descriptors — it dispenses entirely with... See more
The Revolutionary Title Sequences and Trailers Created by Pablo Ferro: Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Stop Making Sense, Bullitt & Other Films
Dr. Strangelove elevated ferros career - kubrick worked with him again for the trailer of a clockwork orange
That honor belongs to the opening credits above, which layer Ferro’s signature hand lettering — an element requested by clients again and again throughout the rest of his career. (“He asked me what I thought about human beings,” Ferro remembers of Kubrick in the interview. “I said one thing about human beings is that everything that... See more
The Revolutionary Title Sequences and Trailers Created by Pablo Ferro: Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Stop Making Sense, Bullitt & Other Films
“He said we could sell the movie as a product,” Ferro remembers Kubrick telling him in an in-depth three-part interview at Art of the Title. “I said that would be great.”
The Revolutionary Title Sequences and Trailers Created by Pablo Ferro: Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Stop Making Sense, Bullitt & Other Films
Kubrick Quote
Fur-‐ thermore, notions of the experiential quality of spectatorship, which alternate between the realms of the symbolic and the affective, govern my analysis of Kubrick, whom critics lauded as being a “conductor” or “orchestrator” of the senses
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The main impression I gathered — and still retain — from that first meeting was of a restless, probing intelligence, with an unbounded curiosity about the universe.
Arthur Clarke • Destination: 2001 — Kubrick at the Controls
Universal ambiguous meanings
Proof of how everything is deliberate