The Wrap
A lost, unfinished script written by Stanley Kubrick in 1956 called “Burning Secret” has been found in Wales, and is so close to completion that it could be made into a feature film…
…Based on the 1913 novel by Stefan Zweig and co-written by Calder Willingham (who also co-wrote “Paths of Glory”), “Burning Secret” follows a lecherous man who befriends a 10-year-old boy with the hopes of using him to seduce his mother at a spa resort. The reason for the commissioned project’s cancellation is disputed. Some believe that MGM nixed it after the studio discovered Kubrick was filming “Paths of Glory” with United Artists, while Abrams believes the story’s focus on a child’s manipulation by a predatory adult might have been deemed too risque for audiences in 1950s America. More
To risque for the 50s.
My how the cultural norms have fallen.
Eyes Wide Shut…
Very creepy specially with all this
deep state stuff.
Sounds like the opposite of Barry Lyndon which was manipulating a woman to steal a boy’s birthright.
There was only one Kubrick movie that I didn’t like or love.
Eyes Wide Shut. Could have been something great but wasn’t. He didn’t beat you over the head with his opinion like they all do now.
Kubrick was like the little girl with the little curl right in the middle of her forehead.
When he was good, he was very, very good. You know the rest.
By the time the American public was ready for a film about a man who befriends a boy to get close to his mother, Kubrick had a much better film story, Lolita, about a man who marries a mother in order to get close to her daughter. Had Kubrick later made Burning Secret, the critics and the public would have savaged him for rehashing an old story line to cash in
on his previous work. No way was he going to make Burning Secret after Lolita. Ever.
“Come and get one in the yarballs…if ya got any yarballs…ya eunuch jelly thou…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMSvzqOCLss
Saw Lyndon in the movies.
Saw Eyes Wide in the movies…with the Mrs.!
The last scene of going back to birth in 2001 will always be mesmerizing.
“I could see your lips move” – HAL9000
“Dave…this conversation can serve no purpose anymore…Goodbye” – HAL9000
Kubrick, a fellow Bronx Boy…