"Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made" Topic
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| Tango01 | 03 Nov 2020 9:47 p.m. PST |
"After the incredible success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick began working on a large-scale biopic about Napoleon Bonaparte. He spent countless hours digging through manuscripts, reading books and researching the life of the great French emperor, created a meticulous card catalog of the places and doings of Napoleon's inner circle, and amassed over 15,000 location scouting photographs and 17,000 slides of Napoleonic imagery. Then he wrote a preliminary screenplay. But in his obsessive genius, Kubrick envisioned such an epic movie that it was ultimately canceled due to the exorbitant costs of location filming. (Well, that and the fact that two similar historical biopics had failed miserably in the preceding years.) And for 40 years, fans mourned the nonexistence of Kubrick's Napoleon. But the true measure of any creative project is as much the process as the final product. By shifting the focus back to Kubrick's astounding creative process, Taschen's Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made (public library) — an equally epic tome about the project that never happened, making Kubrick's ambitious work on Napoleon available to the world for the first time in the form of ten books nesting inside one giant volume — offers a beautiful silver lining to the failed final product…"
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| YankeeDoodle | 04 Nov 2020 3:32 a.m. PST |
There was an earlier version of this around some years ago but with much of the documentation on a CD (so it was much cheaper) – little more than a glorified scrapbook? |
 Artilleryman  | 04 Nov 2020 5:16 a.m. PST |
Yes I have that. It is quite interesting and all in all indicates that it would have been a great film. |
| Silurian | 04 Nov 2020 9:38 a.m. PST |
I followed Tango's link, and being a sucker for a lavish tome I admit I drooled a little over the description. $700 USD though, ouch! Following the link from there to Amazon, it's now $5,000 USD!!!
But now I see there's a much more reasonable $50 USD reprint. Smaller and not so fancy, but I'm tempted.
Thanks Tango. |
| Tango01 | 04 Nov 2020 12:22 p.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Amicalement
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| Artilleryman | 04 Nov 2020 3:35 p.m. PST |
Blimey! The original did not cost anywhere near that! |
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