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I went to see the Stanley Kubrick exhibit at LACMA again yesterday and my friend Laura and I were so impressed with the Stanley Kubrick exhibit I decided to repost this blog I originally wrote back in October. I've added the first two photos which I and my friend Laura took on my cell phone so that I can post this for Saturday Snapshot too. Saturday Snapshot is a fun meme hosted by Alyce at At Home With Books. Visit Alyce to play along!
That's me on the right, pretending to type on the exact typewriter that Jack Nicholson used in The Shining, Kubrick's amazing adaptation of Stephen King's book. I would never have done that except the security guard egged me on. 'Go on! You can touch it; just don't push down on the keys'. So I did!

amazing Stanley Kubrick exhibit.
There are film clips, extensive notes, sketches, designs, wardrobe, props from most of his movies. It's a thorough and fascinating multi-roomed show, each film getting the full treatment. I'd heard Kubrick was ferocious in terms of research and preparation but I was completely blown away to the degree displayed in the exhibit. I was also pleasantly surprised by just how many of Kubrick's films were based on books!

There's the typewriter WITH the sheet of paper in it from that wild and crazy scene in The Shining plus a model of the maze.

Lolita based on Nabakov's book.
Barry Lyndon based on the novel of the same name (but sometimes called The Luck of Barry Lyndon) written by
William Makepeace Thackeray.
Eyes Wide Shut based on Arthur Schnitzler's Rhapsody: A Dream Novel written in 1926.
Full Metal Jacket based on the novel Short Timers by Gustav Hasford.
Clockwork Orange based on Anthony Burgess' masterpiece.
2001: A Space Odyssey based on the book by Arthur C. Clarke
And of course, The Shining from Stephen King - much to his disgust.


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