Stanley Kubrick’s Prop Odyssey

War-ravaged weapons from ‘Full Metal Jacket’, eerie papers from ‘The Shining’, Tom Cruise’s driving licence from ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ … As the Stanley Kubrick archive - all 900 boxes of it - is opened up for the first time, Chris Hastings of the Telegraph provides a guide to some of the objects that made movie history.

 

~ by eÆsthete on 07/13/08.

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One Response to “Stanley Kubrick’s Prop Odyssey”

  1. Those have just got to be the best props ever. I’d love to have the “All work and no play…” prop from “The Shining”!

    I’m in complete agreement. For those of you in the dark:

    In The Shining, which many regard as one of the most chilling horror films ever made, the deranged Jack Torrance, played by Jack Nicholson, stuns his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), when he produces the novel that he has spent weeks slaving over. Yet, instead of a completed manuscript, there were just dozens of pieces of paper with the words ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’ typed over and over again - Wendy’s first real clue that her husband had gone mad. (You can see it here).

    Renton Mason said this on 07/13/08 at 10:07:32

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