{"id":3641,"date":"2018-07-01T17:45:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T17:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/07\/01\/gaspar-noe-is-not-fascinated-by-stanley-kubricks-work-as-a-whole-but-calls-2001-a-space-odyssey-utterly-majestic\/"},"modified":"2018-07-01T17:45:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T17:45:29","slug":"gaspar-noe-is-not-fascinated-by-stanley-kubricks-work-as-a-whole-but-calls-2001-a-space-odyssey-utterly-majestic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/07\/01\/gaspar-noe-is-not-fascinated-by-stanley-kubricks-work-as-a-whole-but-calls-2001-a-space-odyssey-utterly-majestic\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaspar No\u00e9 Is \u2018Not Fascinated\u2019 by Stanley Kubrick\u2019s Work as a Whole, but Calls \u20182001: A Space Odyssey\u2019 \u2018Utterly Majestic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaspar No\u00e9 may not have liked &#8220;Black Panther,&#8221; but not all his takes on acclaimed films are of the hot variety. The controversial filmmaker \u2014 whose &#8220;Climax&#8221; received much acclaim at Cannes this year \u2014 is, for instance, even more obsessed with Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/2001-a-space-odyssey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_2001-a-space-odyssey\">2001: A Space Odyssey<\/a>&#8221; than most other filmmakers: He estimates he&#8217;s seen it upwards of 50 times, believes he owns the largest collection of &#8220;2001&#8221; posters in the world, and calls it &#8220;THE film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/05\/gaspar-noe-hated-black-panther-walked-out-1201965879\/\" title=\"Gaspar No\u00e9 Explains His Hatred for \u2018Black Panther\u2019: \u2018I Had to Escape the Cinema After 20 Minutes\u2019\">Gaspar No\u00e9 Explains His Hatred for \u2018Black Panther\u2019: \u2018I Had to Escape the Cinema After 20 Minutes\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>The first time he saw it, No\u00e9 recalls in a <a href=\"http:\/\/sensesofcinema.com\/2018\/feature-articles\/the-absolute-and-ultimate-manifestation-of-the-power-of-the-mind-over-technology-gaspar-noe-talks-2001-a-space-odyssey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Senses of Cinema<\/a> interview, was when he was around seven years old in Buenos Aires. That first experience helped him &#8220;realize what a psychedelic trip could be, where life came from and how it was conceived. The origin of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No\u00e9 explored similarly mind-bending territory in &#8220;Enter the Void,&#8221; though his best-known \u2014 and most hotly debated \u2014 film remains &#8220;Irr\u00e9versible,&#8221; whose graphic rape scene remains infamous 16 years later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s sublime. It\u2019s unthinkable that someone managed to pull off a film like that, before any form of CG,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;It was a period when people still believed in cinema. This film is the absolute and ultimate manifestation of the power of the mind over matter, over technology. In cinematic terms, &#8216;2001&#8217; is that manifestation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for his thoughts about what the film is getting at,No\u00e9 posits that the sci-fi masterpiece &#8220;deals with the inner world as much as with the outside world. We spend one third, maybe even more, of our life sleeping. So there\u2019s conscious and unconscious life, and to me, the last third of 2001 deals with the unconscious, the great, vast unconscious, as vast as outer space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/06\/climax-set-gaspar-noe-sofia-boutella-rehearsal-1201971894\/\" title=\"Gaspar No\u00e9\u2019s Wild \u2018Climax\u2019 Set: Sofia Boutella Says Scenes Required Four Hours of Rehearsal and Over 13 Takes Each\">Gaspar No\u00e9\u2019s Wild \u2018Climax\u2019 Set: Sofia Boutella Says Scenes Required Four Hours of Rehearsal and Over 13 Takes Each<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Asked whether his own films have a philosophy in the same way Kubrick&#8217;s do,No\u00e9 is uncharacteristically modest. &#8220;I am a dwarf\u2026a flea\u2026compared to the giant\u2026You can\u2019t compare. Kubrick made THE film,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The film where you can wonder how could someone do something so utterly majestic and ahead of its time. It is the major, the ultimate work of art made by a filmmaker,&#8221; he gushes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, Noe is &#8220;not fascinated by Kubrick\u2019s oeuvre as a whole&#8221; and has only seen &#8220;Dr. Strangelove&#8221; once: &#8220;This is one stands alone, above all the other ones,&#8221; he says. Read the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/sensesofcinema.com\/2018\/feature-articles\/the-absolute-and-ultimate-manifestation-of-the-power-of-the-mind-over-technology-gaspar-noe-talks-2001-a-space-odyssey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaspar No\u00e9 may not have liked &#8220;Black Panther,&#8221; but not all his takes on acclaimed films are of the hot variety&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-WJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}