1:50:01
And he understood
when you're making a movie. . .
1:50:04
. . .you often don't know what you want
until you see it.
1:50:07
Did you try it?
Let's give it a crack.
1:50:09
One way or another. . .
1:50:12
. . .I felt utterly compensated. . .
1:50:17
. . .for my time with Stanley.
1:50:19
If you're in it only for the money,
you might have a different feeling.
1:50:24
But my feeling was that. . .
1:50:27
. . .I have absolutely
had no complaints.
1:50:30
Kubrick had started work on the idea
for Full Metal Jacket in 1 980.
1:50:35
When released 7 years later. . .
1:50:37
. . .several Vietnam movies
had already reached the screen.
1:50:40
Kubrick, the great innovator, had
been overtaken by other filmmakers.
1:50:45
But it still appealed
to a wide audience. . .
1:50:48
. . .because it bore all the distinctive
hallmarks of a Kubrick film.
1:50:52
He didn't like
that he made so few films.
1:50:55
He always wished
he could've done more.
1:50:57
If he had anything negative
in his life. . .
1:51:01
. . .I think it was that feeling
that he was slow.
1:51:05
I suppose the other thing
I noted about Stanley. . .
1:51:09
. . .was there were still magnificent
obsessions he never quite realized.
1:51:14
His fascination with World War II
and with the movie industry. . .
1:51:18
. . .and Goebbels during that period.
1:51:20
For years Kubrick had tried
to find a way. . .
1:51:23
. . .of portraying the appalling
inhumanity of the Holocaust on screen.
1:51:26
He turned Louis Begley's book,
Wartime Lies...
1:51:30
. . .into Aryan Papers...
1:51:32
. . .the story of a Jewish family
trying to evade capture by the Nazis.
1:51:37
By the time he was ready
for production. . .
1:51:39
. . .Spielberg had begun shooting
Schindler's List.
1:51:43
Feeling the similarities
were too great. . .
1:51:45
. . .Kubrick reluctantly shelved
Aryan Papers.
1:51:49
Another thing, he felt it
just couldn't be told.
1:51:52
"If I really want to show
what I've read and know happened..."
1:51:56
And he read everything.