(with a tip of the hat to the wonderful ‘Room 237’…)
The key to understanding the Kubrick movie ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ is to understand that Kubrick was a notorious perfectionist, one who never left anything to chance. The reshoots that Kubrick undertook, reshoots that scrapped an already-filmed and extremely expensive ending, were explicit in changing the original film as well as the Broadway play. These changes were not undertaken by chance. By examining them on a frame-by-frame basis, backwards as well as forwards, we can see how Kubrick was actually making a movie about …
(…to be continued once I go completely insane…)
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You can’t just end midsentence like that. This is Stanley Kubrick, not Franz Kafka.
Personally, I find Kubrick to be a perfectionist only to keep on filming until he finally finds the shot that ‘feels’ right. as someone that’s actually made (student) films, it’s about getting the the right amount of material, and stitching together the best version.
I just see a very smart, successful guy with a lot of resources that put a lot of thought into each shot, and was able to shoot till he got it right. nothing more, nothing less.
@Sumguy: I actually finished that sentence at least twice, but I decided that going any further with the gag a) didn’t make it any funnier, and b) risked turning the comments section into an actual discussion of the gag hidden meaning, which sounded very much not-fun because all the hidden meanings I could think of revolved around the duality between Audrey and Audrey II, and the way that the original ending killed off Audrey and the reshoots killed off Audrey II. So I decided that the point was made, and left it at that. 🙂