KUBRICK, BARRY LYNDON and MY NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

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7 жыл бұрын

From Web of Stories. Here the great film production designer KEN ADAM talks about how he was persuaded - against his better judgment - to work on Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 'Barry Lyndon', and how the job brought him to a nervous breakdown.... and an Oscar too! Ken Adam (1921-2016, aged 95) was one of the giants of cinema history, creating the war room for 'Dr Strangelove', and the huge sets for several Bond films including 'Dr No', 'Goldfinger and 'Diamonds are Forever'. He won two Oscars, for 'The Madness of King George' and 'Barry Lyndon'.
Recorded in London in 2010/11 and photographed by Julian Sykes, this is an extract from Sir Ken's remarkable life story as told to Web of Stories. You can watch it all for free at www.webofstories.com/people/ke...

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@jeremyseymour7905 3 жыл бұрын

BL is at the top of my top 10 films and rather dogmatically, and without hyperbole I declare it's the best movie in history.

@Known-unknowns 2 жыл бұрын

Really ? You’re easily pleased. Much of the acting was dreadful. Some of the continuity was nothing short of laughable. Some of it is excellent, some of it is amateurish. Movies are subjective of course. Most people haven’t seen it because it’s a bore. Costumes & settings I’d give 10/10 but that isn’t enough. Try watching The Shawshank Redemption, it knocks the socks off BL or Dances With Wolf’s or The Silence Of The Lambs or Out Of Africa any one of which will keep you awake until the end.

@steelyburt 2 жыл бұрын

The movie is not a bore for any gentleman with sensibilities or taste.

@steelyburt 2 жыл бұрын

One of the best movies ever.

@rphilipsgeekery4589 Жыл бұрын

@@steelyburt some folks are rather tiresom people ...that roam around the net all day ...contributing nothing , but pointing how they think others are wrong , he says the op is easy to please , then states two broad popular films as his favourites , some chaps struggle to relate to films with artistic vision , it's beyond them , sad to see

@g0679 Жыл бұрын

@@Known-unknowns Most people haven’t seen Eraserhead.

@DerafsheKavian 5 жыл бұрын

The film Barry Lyndon was/is a true work of art. Tribute to all those who worked to create it.

@Timrath 3 жыл бұрын

Summary: "Exhausting, terrible, awful, what a nightmare! The best time of my life!"

@JohnWesleyDowney 7 жыл бұрын

One of the most talented production designers that ever lived. Brilliant, world-class artist. Listening to the hell Stanley put him through (nothing unusual, Stanley put a lot of people through hell), I thought to myself, "Ken survived World War II, but he barely survived Barry Lyndon and Stanley Kubrick"!

@arricammarques1955 Жыл бұрын

Working behind the curtain not for the meek.

@tomhaskett5161 7 жыл бұрын

Ken Adam was an RAF fighter pilot in WW2, flying missions over enemy territory. He was still a German citizem at the time, and also of a Jewish family. If he had been captured, he would have been executed. A brave man and the best set designer ever.

@davedogge2280 6 жыл бұрын

I went to the Serpentine, London exhibition he had around 10+years ago ... it was a good little exhibition.

@JAMAICADOCK 6 жыл бұрын

He did all that, but Kubrick gave him a nervous breakdown. One tough guy to work for.

@PsilocybinCocktail 5 жыл бұрын

Actually a ground-attack pilot, which is even more dangerous than being a fighter pilot, because if you are attacking people on the ground, they are firing back at you, with everything from pistols to 105mm guns. And, if you are using 60lb high explosive rockets, you have to avoid flying into your own explosions.

@ivorbiggun710 4 жыл бұрын

That will explain the model of a Hawker Typhoon in the background.

@lisasmith516 2 жыл бұрын

@@PsilocybinCocktail Thank you for that information! ( I got here late, lol!) Lisa Rae Rousseau 🤗💯

@stutzbearcat5624 Жыл бұрын

This guy is a riot!! Love getting back drop on my favorite film EV-VER (well besides Chimes of Midnight)!

@JonnievonHeldreich 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for posting... Ken Adam‘s life story is worthy of a film an amazing career! Just been reading about his early life one of 3 German born RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain ... so fascinating

@1dbanner 6 жыл бұрын

Sir Christopher Frayling's discussion on Mr Adam's work on the Criterion of Barry Lyndon is wonderful as well

@a.k.7516 Жыл бұрын

Its so nice to see and listen to that great Gentleman again. I was driving him and his wife for a very bad german TV show on the 4th and 5th of April in 2002. I bow to none in germany. This man and his wife were the only exception, sincerely. I thanked him for his service in the RAF. Bombing germany was a heroic act.

@geoffhoutman1557 11 ай бұрын

GREAT interview

@GregLTravis 7 жыл бұрын

Great stuff.

@DungeonStudio 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing for Ken to go from the studio confines of Dr. Strangelove, which essentially was Ripper's office, the war room, and the B52 interior,. To 10 years later doing Barry Lyndon out in the open with SUCH a different story. As Stan would say - it's one thing to fall for a woman, get everyone on board for the wedding, and be happy with it all. But 10yrs later to hear the idea of 'I met a girl from Borneo...' That's tough for anyone else to wrap their head around.

@thefilmandmusic 5 жыл бұрын

Ken, genius, style.....

@squatch545 7 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. Ken.

@dj_bullets7106 7 жыл бұрын

R.I.P

@a34rwl Жыл бұрын

What a brilliant man.

@dantyler6907 4 жыл бұрын

Kubrick, like a lot of movie folk, was an artist. Being critical of a movie maker is tantamount to despising the color yellow. Is yellow "bad"? No. But its application, in the artist's eyes, may be inappropriate.

@Socrates... 3 жыл бұрын

...and you won an Oscar for it...

@vittoriostoraro 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone who complains about the difficulty of working with Kubrick was free to walk away at any time. Thankfully, Ken Adam didn't. Truly one of the greatest.

@RideAcrossTheRiver 2 жыл бұрын

Shelley Duvall said it was utter hell and one of the most intellectual and exciting times of her life to work with Kubrick.

@ppuh6tfrz646 Жыл бұрын

Adam did walk away. He *HAD* to for the sake of his own health and sanity.

@lucyboswell7584 6 жыл бұрын

wow ....

@felixcat4346 5 жыл бұрын

From the first, Adams seems real. The cheapist move, but A Clockwork Orange, was also cheap.

@TheHilavitkutin 5 жыл бұрын

I am the senate!

@ingvarhallstrom2306 3 жыл бұрын

Kubrick payed him back by helping him with the lighting in The Spy Who Loved Me, uncredited and unpaid. Imagine that call, calling Kubrick for an "You owe me."

@glizzytoucher2301 3 жыл бұрын

yeah well the fucker sure knew how to light a scene

@RideAcrossTheRiver 2 жыл бұрын

@@glizzytoucher2301 Kubrick called Altman asking how he did his lighting--and got answers. Kubrick knew to pay it forward.

@ppuh6tfrz646 5 ай бұрын

1:47 Working with Kubrick, I would have insisted upon a weekly fee rather than a fixed fee.

@tompo010101 5 жыл бұрын

wow..pushing the limits, it does bring fruitful things

@arricammarques1955 Жыл бұрын

Expense of the central nervous system.

@MrPhotodoc 4 жыл бұрын

But the model airplane behind him tho.

@RideAcrossTheRiver 2 жыл бұрын

Hawker Typhoon!

@Fugettaboutit 2 жыл бұрын

Kubrick: master manipulator. Whatever it took.

@TrondBie 7 жыл бұрын

The cinemas' Steve Jobs

@kianucollis3929 7 жыл бұрын

Who...?

@kianucollis3929 7 жыл бұрын

***** Try and find " Kubricks Boxes " a fascinating documentary about Stanley's obsessive nature, his vast collection of boxes and boxes, warehouses full of his research for his films, etc etc. Made by the annoying, arrogant, yet dedicated and privileged to get access Jon Ronson....hard to find as Ronson keeps taking it off YT.

@mator2339 4 жыл бұрын

Bullshit. Jobs was a hack. Kubrick was a genius.

@aallpprr8998 4 жыл бұрын

I don’t understand 1/3 of the words

@ChristopherSykesDocumentaries 4 жыл бұрын

You can watch it - and the rest6 of Ken Adam's life story - with a full transcript at Web of Stories www.webofstories.com/people/ken.adam

@ingvarhallstrom2306 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not even English and I understood all of it...

@pinetree1616 4 жыл бұрын

You need subtitles for this guy. He sounds like a Hungarian Jew.

@ChristopherSykesDocumentaries 4 жыл бұрын

He was a German Jew. It would be great if you would be willing to do subtitles - I'd help check them if you like.

@ChristopherSykesDocumentaries 4 жыл бұрын

And I've just remembered that you can find a full transcript of Ken Adam's stories (as well the rest of his life story) at Web of Stories www.webofstories.com/play/ken.adam/1

@amaxamon 3 жыл бұрын

I find him very easy to understand.

@jesuish6109 3 жыл бұрын

If he asks about the peculiarity of your accent, tell him that you are a Hungarian....

@alhawaritalbi6371 Жыл бұрын

Bullocks ! His accent(second or third language speaker) is clear & he is eloquent. We cannot teach ignorance. Do you know who is the man?

@ppuh6tfrz646 Жыл бұрын

Kubrick was a great director but his obsessive behaviour caused Ken Adam to have a nervous breakdown. That's unforgivable.

@callmeishmael7452 2 жыл бұрын

One of most visually beautiful films ever made. Unfortunately ruined by the choice of lead actor.

@jacksonlevine9236 3 ай бұрын

Huh?

@callmeishmael7452 3 ай бұрын

@@jacksonlevine9236 Ryan O’Neil? All the dramatic range from A to B. Love story was his peak moment.

@callmeishmael7452 3 ай бұрын

@@jacksonlevine9236 Ryan O’Neil? All the dramatic range from A to B. Love story was his peak moment.

@jacksonlevine9236 3 ай бұрын

@@callmeishmael7452 Your opinion is a dusty corner of a bookshelf in an infinite library

@renaissance6745 6 жыл бұрын

Stanley Kubrick grossly overrated could not direct people chose terrible bad actors and there is so much hype crap about his film techniques

@JJ-yk6bl 6 жыл бұрын

You have no idea what you're talking about

@renaissance6745 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Babar for not being a slave to all the hype about Kubrick i could not have put it better myself

@dantyler6907 6 жыл бұрын

The Emperor Said an unknown nobody about a well regaurded genius filmaker

@TheDeJureTour 6 жыл бұрын

The Emperor Well then... most people have bad taste then.

@johnlongenecker6560 6 жыл бұрын

Please post some of your most well admired cinema moments that you have done a like a lot for all to see and enjoy