I love Stanley Kubrick and his movies. They are the closest to perfection that any director's movies ever have. I especially love his style of framing and using the camera.
My favorite style of his is a shot like this:
It's a shot in which walls, objects, people, or basically anything you can put in the frame point towards the thing that your should be looking at, called a "one-point perspective" shot. There's hundreds of shots that Stanley Kubrick uses in his films that use this. He always wants you to look at certain things. It's usually done as a tracking shot, with the camera following someone, but it can also be done stationary or with a zoom. Either way, it's a beautiful shot and if I were a cinematographer, I'd use this shot over and over again. I love it. It puts depth and perspective into the movie, and also adds symmetry and style into the frame. It points your eyes to something that all of the things are pointing to, and I think that that's what Kubrick was trying to do: to let the audience be subconsciously manipulated to look at certain things in the frame or to think certain things with subliminal messages. He was truly a genius.
Another shot that I like are his tracking shots. I love tracking shots, by the way. He puts the person in the center of the frame and follows them along from all angles, again utilizing the one-point perspective shot.
Yet another common shot in a Kubrick film is a shot where he focuses on someone's head at a slight angle with a little bit of a zoom, giving it a flat feeling, like the still that I have here>>>>>> He utilizes the actor's facial expression to give the shot a very human, yet inhuman look, especially when using the infamous Kubrick Glare, with the head tipped down and the eyes looking up, usually trying to signal that the person is insane and/or evil. I think that there isn't a single person on this planet who hasn't done this creepy glare once or twice.
He typically likes to point your eyes in a particular spot of the frame, by using the methods above. He'll also use framing and lights to make your eyes subconsciously look at them, like when something is directly in the center of the frame, or when something is lit brighter or darker than the rest of the frame. That's literally what he does in almost every shot: he wants you to look at certain things so you get a certain feeling in your mind. He also uses music and audio to support the feelings. Kubrick loved psychology, and he knew how the human mind worked and how people perceive certain things in context with everything else. He used subliminal messages, tiny details, symbolism, religion, politics, and philosophy to mold your mind, and to create an unforgettable film by an unforgettable artist.
He typically likes to point your eyes in a particular spot of the frame, by using the methods above. He'll also use framing and lights to make your eyes subconsciously look at them, like when something is directly in the center of the frame, or when something is lit brighter or darker than the rest of the frame. That's literally what he does in almost every shot: he wants you to look at certain things so you get a certain feeling in your mind. He also uses music and audio to support the feelings. Kubrick loved psychology, and he knew how the human mind worked and how people perceive certain things in context with everything else. He used subliminal messages, tiny details, symbolism, religion, politics, and philosophy to mold your mind, and to create an unforgettable film by an unforgettable artist.
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