Killing Stanley Kubrick Was One Term Paper

Another pattern of the film noir is the urban setting which has dark and/or wet streets. Take for example the scene when Mike leaves for the bus station, for the flower box, the street outside his apartment is wet.

What might be rather bothering is the narration, the voice is not the most pleasant one, and some may find the information in it too much. But we can not ignore that it is an important to the film's structure, the description sounds like the narrator's a reporter looking back on the past events with objectivity.

Definitely ingenious because it relies heavily on flashbacks, and is telling things out of order depending on which character is involved with the heist; in spite of these nonlinear sequences it is very straightforward, very unique for its time.

Kubrick is the master in creating tension in his plots, playing with time, he takes each character and plays its incident, then goes back in time to see what other personage was doing, and what is unique about Stanley Kubrick is how he shocks, always searching to impress the viewer, either by image or dialog, always trying to create something new

Although I might not be devoted to heist movies, I consider "The Killing" one of the most entertaining and absorbing crime thrillers, and for sure it was an influence for many film directors working in this genre, like Quentin Tarantino.Although in my view it does not stand up to a masterpiece like "A Clockwork Orange," although I admit is probably the best heist movie ever made. What uplifts it is the extraordinary cast, a very good one, the acting I say is flawless, Sterling Hayden, pretty Collen Gray, Elisha Cook Jr., they all are very….....