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Let's Pretend We're a Stanley Kubrick Film!

I'm the arch line delivery!

by Anonymousreply 166August 27, 2018 5:35 AM

I'm the retake # 108.

by Anonymousreply 1October 17, 2013 6:44 PM

I'm Shelly Duvall's cigarette ash.

by Anonymousreply 2October 17, 2013 6:49 PM

I'M Spartacus!

by Anonymousreply 3October 17, 2013 7:21 PM

I'm Tony Curtis's toga.

by Anonymousreply 4October 17, 2013 7:22 PM

I'm the extremely long tracking shot.

by Anonymousreply 5October 17, 2013 7:23 PM

I'm the extremely long tracking shot.

by Anonymousreply 6October 17, 2013 7:24 PM

I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be "Sir". Do you maggots understand that?

by Anonymousreply 7October 17, 2013 7:24 PM

Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall!

Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall!

Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall!

Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall!

Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall!

by Anonymousreply 8October 17, 2013 7:26 PM

I am... in a world... of shit!

by Anonymousreply 9October 17, 2013 7:26 PM

Spartacus was a film he took over directing at the last minute. He didn't have much say in it

by Anonymousreply 10October 17, 2013 7:27 PM

I'm that weird kid that keeps saying "redrum".

by Anonymousreply 11October 17, 2013 7:30 PM

I'm that really overrated film called "Eyes Wide Shut".

by Anonymousreply 12October 17, 2013 7:32 PM

I'm the undercurrent of sadistic dark humour.

by Anonymousreply 13October 17, 2013 7:33 PM

I'm the compulsive symmetry.

by Anonymousreply 14October 17, 2013 7:33 PM

I'm the douchbag bro who owns the box set of Kubrick films and thinks he's culturally elite.

by Anonymousreply 15October 17, 2013 7:33 PM

I am the three wasted hours of your life that you will never get back after seeing EYES WIDE SHUT.

by Anonymousreply 16October 17, 2013 7:34 PM

I'm the perfectly symmetrical structure - exactly half-way through the film, the story takes a 180.

by Anonymousreply 17October 17, 2013 7:34 PM

I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you. It's called "Daisy".

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do. I'm half crazy, all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage. I can't afford a carriage. Buut yoou'll loooooook sweeeeeeeet... uppppppooon the... seeeeeeeeat.... of a bi...cy.....cle..... built..... for......... twooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

by Anonymousreply 18October 17, 2013 7:39 PM

R21 No, you could not.

by Anonymousreply 19October 17, 2013 7:40 PM

I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

by Anonymousreply 20October 17, 2013 7:43 PM

I'm married to an annoying, dippy bug-eyed bitch with a schizophrenic son and I can't think of anything to write and I'd give my goddamn soul for a glass of beer....

by Anonymousreply 21October 17, 2013 7:47 PM

I used to get mistaken for him constantly before he died.

by Anonymousreply 22October 17, 2013 7:48 PM

I'm the marriage that Eyes Wide Shut killed.

by Anonymousreply 23October 17, 2013 7:50 PM

I'm the screenwriter of Kubrick's next movie, "Datalounge Kills the 'Let's Pretend' Troll."

by Anonymousreply 24October 17, 2013 7:53 PM

I'm your gun

by Anonymousreply 25October 17, 2013 7:54 PM

I'm the boring underwhelming sex scenes in "Eyes Wide shut" that were supposedly so controversial and daring.

by Anonymousreply 26October 17, 2013 7:56 PM

I'm the snails AND oysters.

by Anonymousreply 27October 17, 2013 7:56 PM

I'm the films that never got made because he spent far too much time obsessively doing "research" (such as hiring a someone to photograph streets for a whole year) and ended up being beaten by another director's similarly-themed film

by Anonymousreply 28October 17, 2013 8:18 PM

I'm the long shot of people sitting around a well-lit space having cordial conversation.

by Anonymousreply 29October 17, 2013 8:23 PM

I'm "Barry Lyndon," the most boring movie ever made!

by Anonymousreply 30October 17, 2013 8:24 PM

I'm the lighting in Barry Lyndon

by Anonymousreply 31October 17, 2013 8:26 PM

I'm Shelley Duvall's tears.

by Anonymousreply 32October 17, 2013 8:28 PM

I'm the striking violence and the unsettling viewing it provokes

by Anonymousreply 33October 17, 2013 8:28 PM

I'm the road markings that spoil the illusion that this is the US Marine Corps training depot and not an army base in England.

by Anonymousreply 34October 17, 2013 8:30 PM

I'm Nicole Kidman's splendid ass.

by Anonymousreply 35October 17, 2013 8:35 PM

I'm the 200 palm trees brought in from Spain to make England look like Vietnam because I won't film anywhere else.

by Anonymousreply 36October 17, 2013 11:10 PM

I'm the Schubert Piano Trio in Barry Lyndon, which was NOT boring at all.

by Anonymousreply 37October 18, 2013 12:03 AM

I'm the closeted elder gay who asks Sterling Hayden to go away with me in the The Killing.

by Anonymousreply 38October 18, 2013 12:10 AM

red rum red rum red rum red rum

by Anonymousreply 39October 18, 2013 12:13 AM

I'm the creeping topiary from Stephen King's book that was not used in the film.

by Anonymousreply 40October 18, 2013 2:28 AM

That's true, R11, but the only interesting compositions and camera movements are in the first segment, which was directed by Anthony Mann.

by Anonymousreply 41October 18, 2013 4:27 AM

I am the British dustbins doing a bad imitation of New York trash cans in the street scenes of Eyes Wide Shut, reminding the audience that the film was shot in England.

by Anonymousreply 42October 18, 2013 4:47 AM

I'm the hooker

by Anonymousreply 43October 18, 2013 4:51 AM

I am a phallic rocket ship simulating intercourse as I dock on a space station that looks like a rotating fertility symbol.

by Anonymousreply 44October 18, 2013 4:57 AM

I'm the monolith that alters history.

by Anonymousreply 45October 18, 2013 5:07 AM

I'm the Kubrick glare.

by Anonymousreply 46October 18, 2013 5:33 AM

I'm the old in-out!

by Anonymousreply 47October 18, 2013 8:06 AM

I'm the real life daughter that got swallowed up by Scientology, never to be heard of or seen again.

by Anonymousreply 48October 18, 2013 8:24 AM

And I thought NY had never looked better at night on film... I do prefer England.

by Anonymousreply 49October 18, 2013 10:25 AM

I'm "Surfin' Bird."

by Anonymousreply 50October 18, 2013 10:29 AM

I am the composoer of the portentous modern-classical music you hear in the background, but you probably never heard of me.

by Anonymousreply 51October 18, 2013 2:16 PM

I'm not wearing a suit, this happens to be an RAF uniform!

by Anonymousreply 52October 18, 2013 2:18 PM

I'm not going down in history as the greatest mass murderer since Adolf Hitler.

by Anonymousreply 53October 18, 2013 2:20 PM

MEIN FUHRER! I CAN VALK!

by Anonymousreply 54October 18, 2013 2:21 PM

I'm Peter Sellers and I'm not playing Major Kong as well.

by Anonymousreply 55October 18, 2013 2:21 PM

I'm sorry, Dave.

by Anonymousreply 56October 18, 2013 2:23 PM

I'm Private Cowboy and this Vietnam: The Movie!

by Anonymousreply 57October 18, 2013 2:24 PM

I'm John Wayne

by Anonymousreply 58October 18, 2013 2:25 PM

I'm a horse.

by Anonymousreply 59October 18, 2013 2:25 PM

I'm a rock.

by Anonymousreply 60October 18, 2013 2:26 PM

I'm Ann-Margret

by Anonymousreply 61October 18, 2013 2:26 PM

I'm a rabid buffalo.

by Anonymousreply 62October 18, 2013 2:27 PM

I'm General Custer

by Anonymousreply 63October 18, 2013 2:27 PM

I'm Lady Lyndon's tepid bath water.

by Anonymousreply 64October 18, 2013 2:27 PM

Who'll play the Indians?

by Anonymousreply 65October 18, 2013 2:28 PM

Hey, we'll let the gooks play the Indians!

by Anonymousreply 66October 18, 2013 2:28 PM

I'm the guy who pretended to be him and was later played by John Malkovich in a movie that vanished without trace.

by Anonymousreply 67October 18, 2013 2:30 PM

I am Sarabande.

Offsite Link
by Anonymousreply 68October 18, 2013 2:38 PM

I'm merrily committing war crimes and no one's attempting to stop me.

by Anonymousreply 69October 18, 2013 2:41 PM

Does this mean Ann-Margret's not coming?

by Anonymousreply 70October 18, 2013 2:42 PM

I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain!

by Anonymousreply 71October 18, 2013 2:46 PM

I'm going to take a giant shit on you if you don't get your head and your ass wired together. (and take off that damn button)

by Anonymousreply 72October 18, 2013 2:47 PM

I'm the creepiest Kubrick character of them all.

by Anonymousreply 73October 18, 2013 2:51 PM

Because it can't be stated enough: I'm England! I'll always be England!

by Anonymousreply 74October 18, 2013 2:51 PM

I'm the monophonic soundtrack.

by Anonymousreply 75October 18, 2013 2:57 PM

I'm Delbert Grady in the red bathroom, informing Jack You've always been the caretaker.

by Anonymousreply 76October 18, 2013 7:33 PM

I'm the swastika hidden way in the back of the Gold Room in the Shining.

by Anonymousreply 77October 18, 2013 7:41 PM

I'm chair that appears and disappears and appears and disappears screenshot after screenshot when Jack sets a few rules for Wendy while he's writing.

by Anonymousreply 78October 18, 2013 7:54 PM

I'm the "Go" in LET. HIM. GO.

by Anonymousreply 79October 18, 2013 8:05 PM

I'm the same few piano keys that are played over and over again in Eyes Wide Shut.

by Anonymousreply 80October 18, 2013 10:21 PM

I'M CHIEF OFFICER BARNES. ARE YOU NOW, OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN AHOMSEXZALL?

by Anonymousreply 81October 18, 2013 10:30 PM

NOW BEND OVER WHILE I LOOK UP YOUR ARSEHOLE FOR DRUGS.

by Anonymousreply 82October 18, 2013 10:32 PM

I'm looking at the big board. How do you like that, General Turgidson?

by Anonymousreply 83October 18, 2013 10:35 PM

I'm gonna git them doors open if it hair-lips ever'body on Bear Creek.

by Anonymousreply 84October 18, 2013 10:38 PM

I'm pissed because Shelley's just missed her cue. We're fucking killing ourselves out here and she's not ready!

by Anonymousreply 85October 18, 2013 11:01 PM

I'm losing hunks of hair.

by Anonymousreply 86October 18, 2013 11:05 PM

Hunks of hair, huh? (sceptically holding 3 pitiful stands of hair up the camera lens for posterity)

by Anonymousreply 87October 18, 2013 11:07 PM

I'm going to take a piss. (shuts bathroom door revealing Page 3 girl from The Sun pinned up on it)

by Anonymousreply 88October 18, 2013 11:09 PM

I had the task of typing out dozens of pages of "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy" (no copy & paste back then!)

by Anonymousreply 89October 18, 2013 11:18 PM

We're lost in the bloody hedge maze! Help!

by Anonymousreply 90October 18, 2013 11:23 PM

I'm the fake band shown in the Top Ten records in the Chelsea Drugstore scene in A Clockwork Orange that inspires the name of a real band.

by Anonymousreply 91October 19, 2013 5:16 AM

I'm Shelley Winters' desperation.

by Anonymousreply 92October 22, 2013 1:56 PM

I'm in the noodles Jack orders instead of rice at the beginning of "The Making of the Shining".

by Anonymousreply 93October 22, 2013 2:41 PM

"You look cute in your red sweater, hon."

I'm the red sweater.

by Anonymousreply 94October 22, 2013 2:51 PM

I'm the creepy men leading the daughter away around a corner in the toy store final scene of Eyes Wide Shut, the same men who appeared at Ziegler's party at the beginning, as the narcissistic parents (Cruise and Kidman) return to their somnambulistic opulence.

by Anonymousreply 95October 22, 2013 3:07 PM

I'm Alan Cumming, and I forgot I wasn't still in Cabaret when we shot my lousy scene as a gay stereotype.

by Anonymousreply 96October 22, 2013 3:10 PM

I was cast in dual roles:

I was the Apollo shuttle on Danny's sweater, and I also played the note in Jack's hand in the ballroom photograph at the end.

by Anonymousreply 97October 22, 2013 7:10 PM

OP, why don't you pretend to be an adult.

by Anonymousreply 98October 22, 2013 9:46 PM

I'm the ominous repeating piano chord of "Eyes Wide Shut."

Plink!... Plink!... Plink!

by Anonymousreply 99October 22, 2013 10:47 PM

I'm the car that runs over Shelley Winters in "Lolita."

by Anonymousreply 100October 23, 2013 1:04 AM

I'm the scene in the bathroom.

by Anonymousreply 101October 23, 2013 1:48 AM

I'm private property.

by Anonymousreply 102October 23, 2013 1:51 AM

I'm the seemingly immaterial props and set elements that on closer examination reveal important clues that reference back to the cryptic central themes being communicated.

by Anonymousreply 103October 23, 2013 1:56 AM

I'm the German female singer. And I'm relieved the French soldiers are now singing with me, feeling all nostalgic and missing their moms. Phew!

by Anonymousreply 104October 23, 2013 2:11 AM

I'm a lady journalist interviewing that snotty Alex Delarge and I DO know how to spell Beethoven, thank you very much!

by Anonymousreply 105October 23, 2013 2:13 AM

I'm a Prussian army uniform and I don't look that bad on Ryan O'Neal.

by Anonymousreply 106October 23, 2013 2:13 AM

We are the two gay British officers.

We are having a sentimental scene in the water.

But actually, we look a bit ridiculous in the director's eye and our clothes get stolen.

by Anonymousreply 107October 23, 2013 2:15 AM

I'm a precious bodily fluid.

by Anonymousreply 108October 23, 2013 2:20 AM

I'm James Mason's weird sexiness in Lolita.

by Anonymousreply 109October 23, 2013 2:28 AM

I'm a hidden illuminati symbol.

by Anonymousreply 110October 23, 2013 2:30 AM

I'm the bear in every scene in The Shining: stuffed or living. I'm a versatile actor.

by Anonymousreply 111October 23, 2013 1:58 PM

[quote]OP, why don't you pretend to be an adult.

R105 = the old woman in the bathtub from The Shining.

by Anonymousreply 112October 23, 2013 1:59 PM

I'm the sleeping audience.

by Anonymousreply 113October 23, 2013 2:20 PM

I'm John Candy's character in Spaceballs. That man in the bear suit at the end of The Shining was really me, I just appeared so quickly you didn't notice.

by Anonymousreply 114October 24, 2013 6:39 PM

I'm the topless black girl with the biggest afro you've ever seen on the wall above Scatman Crothers' television set. My comical appearance detracts from the tense atmosphere a little.

by Anonymousreply 115October 24, 2013 6:47 PM

I'm Barry Nelson, who plays the Overlook Hotel manager. Did you know I was the first actor to play James Bond on screen?

by Anonymousreply 116October 24, 2013 6:51 PM

I'm Keir Dullea. After 2001: A Space Odyssey my career sunk into obscurity even more than Mark Hamill's did after Star Wars.

by Anonymousreply 117October 24, 2013 6:56 PM

I'm Danny Torrance's tricycle, I make a lovely sound as my plastic wheels roll over the rugs and hard floor.

by Anonymousreply 118October 24, 2013 7:02 PM

I'm Wendy Torrance at The Overlook Hotel. Over.

by Anonymousreply 119October 24, 2013 7:15 PM

Hi Mrs. Torrance, how are you and your family getting on over there at the Hotel?

Over.

by Anonymousreply 120October 24, 2013 7:24 PM

Oh, we're doing just fine up here. Over.

by Anonymousreply 121October 24, 2013 7:26 PM

That's great to hear, Mrs. Torrance. The weather report says the blizzard isn't going to let up anytime soon. Says the worst we've had in years.

Over.

by Anonymousreply 122October 24, 2013 7:30 PM

Mrs. Torrance, your husband introduced you as Winifred. Now, are you a Winnie or a Freddy?

by Anonymousreply 123October 24, 2013 7:36 PM

I'm the curved fisheye lens that is used to shoot every single movie.

by Anonymousreply 124October 24, 2013 7:41 PM

I'm R132 and I need to have my vision checked.

by Anonymousreply 125October 24, 2013 7:55 PM

I applaud r120, and take him/her out for a lot of wine.

by Anonymousreply 126October 25, 2013 5:43 AM

I'm the tall skinny naked chick that appears in every one of Kubrick's later films.

by Anonymousreply 127October 25, 2013 8:57 AM

I'm the Steadycam.

by Anonymousreply 128October 25, 2013 9:08 AM

R135 His wife wasn't tall though (but she was pretty)

by Anonymousreply 129October 25, 2013 6:37 PM

I'm Roman Polanski. My 1999 film The Ninth Gate was nearly another example of R33

by Anonymousreply 130October 25, 2013 6:51 PM

I'm Steve Martin. Imagine how much more interesting Eyes Wide Shut could have been if I'd been in it instead of Tom Cruise.

by Anonymousreply 131October 25, 2013 6:56 PM

I'm the extra hour and a half that should've been cut (from every single one of his movies, save for 'Clockwork Orange").

by Anonymousreply 132October 25, 2013 6:57 PM

I'm Ryan O'Neal. I still don't know why Kubrick picked me as the lead in Barry Lyndon

by Anonymousreply 133October 25, 2013 6:58 PM

I'm Leelee Sobieski. I was lucky my scenes in EWS were shot before I hit a growth spurt because then I'd have towered over Tom and he would have made them replace me.

by Anonymousreply 134October 25, 2013 7:03 PM

We're the louts in EWS who bump into Tom Cruise and call him a fag. We were right all along.

by Anonymousreply 135October 25, 2013 7:09 PM

I'm Eightball, the main African-American soldier in the second half of in Full Metal Jacket. I have no problem with Animal Mother's racist wisecracks. Or am I just too scared of him?

by Anonymousreply 136October 25, 2013 7:16 PM

I'm a combat correspondent.

by Anonymousreply 137October 25, 2013 7:19 PM

Oh-ho, you seen much combat?

by Anonymousreply 138October 25, 2013 7:20 PM

I've seen a little on TV!

by Anonymousreply 139October 25, 2013 7:20 PM

You're a real comedian.

by Anonymousreply 140October 25, 2013 7:20 PM

Well they call me the Joker.

by Anonymousreply 141October 25, 2013 7:21 PM

Well, I've got a joke for you! I'm gonna tear ya a new asshole.

by Anonymousreply 142October 25, 2013 7:21 PM

[John Wayne voice] Well, pilgrim.....

Only after ya... pick the peanuts outta ma shee-it!

by Anonymousreply 143October 25, 2013 7:23 PM

Talk the talk... do you walk the walk?

by Anonymousreply 144October 25, 2013 7:23 PM

[stepping in before they start fighting] Now you might not believe this, but under fire Animal Mother's one of the finest human beings in the world. All he needs is someone to throw hand grenades at him for the rest of his life.

by Anonymousreply 145October 25, 2013 7:26 PM

I'm my own fantasy of getting plowed by Animal Mother.

by Anonymousreply 146October 25, 2013 7:26 PM

Thank God for the sickle cell.

by Anonymousreply 147October 25, 2013 7:27 PM

We're the twins in The Shining. We later merge into each other to become Christina Ricci.

by Anonymousreply 148October 25, 2013 7:49 PM

I'm a well-disciplined Vietcong.

by Anonymousreply 149May 2, 2014 5:03 AM

I'm the fourth hour of wishing I were somewhere else.

by Anonymousreply 150May 2, 2014 5:06 AM

I'm Ann-Margret's pubes that Rafterman never got a chance to photograph.

by Anonymousreply 151May 2, 2014 10:45 AM

I'm far, far too fat to get into the Marine in real life.

by Anonymousreply 152May 2, 2014 10:53 AM

I'm a Scientologist now and I've broken off all contact with my family.

by Anonymousreply 153May 2, 2014 10:57 AM

R160 I meant Marine Corps not Marine, I've never had any trouble entering an actual Marine.

by Anonymousreply 154May 2, 2014 11:00 AM

I am the Art Deco interiors of the Overlook Hotel. I am spacious, elegant and flooded with light, the exact opposite of any haunted house set you've previously seen.

You wouldn't believe how creepy I am.

by Anonymousreply 155August 27, 2018 4:58 AM

I'm the dullness of it all.

by Anonymousreply 156August 27, 2018 5:00 AM

I'm the long tracking shot that seems like maybe it'll be profound or something, but starts to feel endless and finally you want to head outside the theater for a cigarette but you think maybe you'll miss a cinematic payoff that might justify the last 17 minutes so you sit there moribund, waiting for the entire thing to end.

by Anonymousreply 157August 27, 2018 5:33 AM

I am the critics ejaculate

by Anonymousreply 158August 27, 2018 5:35 AM
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