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...is the most brilliant event
on London 's show business calendar.
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Director Stanley Kubrick...
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Spartacus was a critical
and commercial success. . .
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. . .winning four Oscars.
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Despite Kubrick's youth. . .
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. . .he was now a recognized
Hollywood director.
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But the process had taught him he had
to have full control over his films.
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I had a feeling that during Spartacus
he was biding his time. . .
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. . .getting on the record
as the director. . .
:29:35
. . .of a big and successful film. . .
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. . .which would give him
greater freedom in the future.
:29:40
And he did turn his career
into that of an artist. . .
:29:45
. . .whereas it could quite easily,
had he surrendered at any juncture. . .
:29:50
. . .have been that
of a very successful journeyman.
:29:53
He felt now he had this label:
"I'm a film director, officially.
:29:57
Now I can make a story
that I have a crush on. "
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The interpretation of the image,
where to place the camera. . .
:30:15
. . .the nature of the subject matter. . .
:30:19
. . .which at that time, everything was
opening up in the early '60s. . .
:30:22
. . .and it was scandalous.
:30:24
Put your head back.
:30:26
Put your head back.
:30:29
Open your mouth.
:30:31
You can have one little bite.
:30:32
I think what a lot of people forget. . .
:30:35
. . .is just what a hot book
Lolita was.
:30:38
Originally, Nabokov couldn't get
a publisher in the States or the UK. . .
:30:43
. . .so it was published
as a dirty book in Paris.
:30:46
It was in 1 955 that Graham Greene
and The Sunday Times in London. . .
:30:51
. . .nominated it as his
novel of the year.
:30:54
It then took off
and it very soon found a publisher.
:30:57
He thought Lolita
was a fantastic book. . .