The Look Years

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As long as we're on a Kubrick jag, I happened upon this while searching for the Stanley Kubrick's Boxes installments. I've heard it, I think, on that Taschen audio disc that came with that Kubrick coffee-table book, but I've never seen it accompanied by footage. Here's Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. I love hearing Kubrick admit that his senior class grade average was 67, which, in 1945, prevented him from getting into even the lowest-calibre college due to all the soldiers pouring into schools on the G.I. bill.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 16, 2008 at 1:25 PM

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Rich S. says ...

Man, in those shots of Kubrick as a little kid, he looks just like his daughter from the videophone scene in 2001.

And is it just me, or does Kubrick sound an awful lot like Sellers doing Quilty?

Posted by Rich S. at July 16, 2008 2:07 PM

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gruver1 says ...

Wells to Rich S.: Legend has long had it that Sellers based his Quilty voice (the New York Jewish accent, the aloof showbizzy manner, etc.) on Kubrick.

Posted by gruver1 at July 16, 2008 2:17 PM

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Mgmax, le Corbeau says ...

Wow, I had heard that, but I never realized how fucking close it was. That's pretty remarkable, that Kubrick presumably dug on Sellers imitating him all through the movie.

The pictures of him as a kid are always so funny, because he has such a perfect Bowery Boys look (Leo Gorcey to be precise).

Posted by Mgmax, le Corbeau at July 16, 2008 3:59 PM

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