Thesis: Stanley Kubrick
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Thesis: Stanley Kubrick
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
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
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
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
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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Proof of how everything is deliberate
“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
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