Stanley Kubrick and Me by Emilio D'Alessandro

Author:Emilio D'Alessandro
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2016-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

Not long afterwards, Jack’s health worsened dramatically and he passed away in October at the age of eighty-three. Stanley decided to do the same thing he had done a few months earlier when his mother had died, and sent Vivian to the funeral.

Needless to say, the fact that Stanley hadn’t gone to either of the funerals caused something of a scandal. The press wrote that Kubrick had preferred to keep working on his film rather than go to his parents’ funerals. All I know is that Stanley stayed in his apartment for two days and told me that he was not to be disturbed for any reason whatsoever. Mourning was an extremely private matter for him. When he finally came downstairs, I looked at him but couldn’t say a word. He put a hand on my shoulder and nodded.

That night I dreamed of Jack Kubrick. I met him as he was slowly coming up the large staircase in Childwickbury. He looked smart in the dark trousers and pullover he often wore, and he had a peaceful expression on his face. He turned towards me and said with a radiant smile, “Tell Stanley that I’m just fine now, and that I’m happy here. Promise me you’ll tell him that.” As soon as I said yes, Jack continued going up the stairs. I moved towards him to take a closer look, but he was gone. When I saw Stanley, I didn’t tell him anything. I didn’t want to upset him, but a couple of days later, Jack came back to see me again. This time he was leaning over the banister. “Emilio, tell my son that I’m okay. Otherwise, he’ll worry. Write this message on that notepad you always keep in your shirt pocket, that way you won’t forget.” “I don’t need to, Jack. I’ll remember,” I told him. He smiled, moved away from the bannister and disappeared. The next day, when I saw Stanley, I decided to tell him. “Stanley, something has happened,” and I told him about my dream. “I didn’t want to upset you, but I’ve dreamed of him twice now, and I can’t keep it to myself anymore.” “I’m moved, Emilio,” said Stanley when I had finished telling him about it. “Thanks for letting me know.”

When filming at Beckton was over, work started on the first part of the movie: the training of the recruits at Parris Island military base. The first thing the actors had to do was have a buzz cut. In disciplined silence, Stanley’s soldiers lined up for the barber in the warehouse at Brimsdown. The cameras filmed their dismayed expressions. To get the quick, radical haircut that Stanley wanted, the barber used the electric razor that Stanley had asked me to buy to trim the dogs’ fur instead of using scissors. It had been left untouched in a drawer for months because we thought it seemed too powerful and dangerous, but for the recruits it turned out to be just perfect.

The sergeant whose job it was to transform these average American guys into marines was Lee Ermey.

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