Stanley Kubrick was often accused of being a cold, driven director. His glorious cinema mastery and the notorious perfectionism have resulted in beautifully composed but emotionally distant films, with protagonists who are not as many people as Kubrick's psychological plays.

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These are fair reviews, but it should be noted immediately that they are usually applied only to Kubrick's later films. The signature of Kubrick "Coldness" - marked with long shots, long downloads and slower editing - did not really start Until he did "2001: Space Odyssey" In 1968, that film was not so much for a character as it was for all mankind. Others familiar with his work at Shining have noticed how strange inhumane feels all the characters. However, before 1968, Kubrick was completely personal (if not a cynical) director, and his early films - including "Fear and Desire", "Killer's Kiss", "The Killing", "Paths of Glory", "Spartacus", "Lolita" and "Dr. Strigelovi" - Bore or Natural Ritz.

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Recall that Kubrick was a news photographer before being a director, and he often photographed his daily life. Some may have seen his famous photos in the 1949 boxing. He did not upload footage and edited fiction. He caught the real world.

That real world flu is all over the function of Kubrick, an anti -war film called "Fear and Desire" that was released in United in the spring of 1953. Kubrick has already cut his teeth with two documentary shorts, and decided that time is to make a script function properly. It was a small affair. The budget was reportedly less than $ 50,000, with many coming from Kubrick's friends and family.

Kubrick, we will learn later, hated the outcome. He tried infamously to destroy the original negative.

"Fear and Desire" was a modest affair. There was a complete team of only 14 people, including Kubrick and the five members of the cast. The film is shot in the San Gabriel Mountains in California, where hundreds of low -budget films and Hollywood films will be collected. It was also compared to the stable expertise of Kubrick's later films, slightly shabby. Kubrick initially intended to shoot the film without sound to save money, but then decided that the sound was necessary, adding the budget. He also accidentally made a mistake late in the film - the character enters the frame on the wrong side - forcing him to turn over the negative, extra expense.

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Kubrick had no Dolly or a trail to make smooth tracking shots, so he put the camera in a baby transportation. The fog machine was just a crop spray with part of the DDT still lasting inside. Stressful, low-budget film products in the best.

The story of "fear and desire" follows four soldiers crashing their plane a few miles behind enemy lines. The warring nations are never named. The film follows their dark trip through the woods in an attempt to reach their battalion. They find several enemy soldiers in the house and kill them for their food. They find a peasant who meets a dark fate in their hands. One of the soldiers, played by Future film director Paul Mazuris ("Moscow of Hudson")crazy. The film ends with infiltration of a hostile base and unification with fellow citizens, followed by a gloomy conversation about the nature of the war. "We all traveled too far from our own private boundaries," one of them said. "I'm all mixed," the other says. "I would like to be able to wish what I wanted before."

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Fun Trivia: The peasant who is thrilled by the character of Mazuris was played by actress Virginia Leith, who played the avenging head in the popular B-movie "The Brain That Would Not Die".

"Fear and Desire" debuted at the Venice Film Festival in the summer of 1952 and was released in theaters next spring. Wasn't a hit. Came and went without announcement. Unfortunately, the film's distributor, a man named Josephosef Burastin, died in November 1953, leaving the fate of "fear and desire" unknown. Burstin's company got out of work, and the only known print remained with Kubrick. As students from the film can easily tell you, Kubrick tried to burn it. Indeed, Kubrick was so excavated from his last film, he tried to use all the prints he could find and destroy. He felt the film was amateur.

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Fortunately for the audience, some collectors kept several prints of "fear and desire" and lived long enough to revive the film forum in the village of Greenic. Specifically, the printing in question belonged to the house of George Eastman, a photography museum. Kubrick tried to close the exhibition of the Film Forum, but could not have been in the public domain since the copyright of the film, and was now in the public domain. It would not be by 2010 that a complete, complete, original print of "fear and desire" would appear after it was found in a film laboratory in Puerto Rico. Since then it has been completely updated And now you can find on Blu-ray. Also, since it is in the public domain, you simply Watch the whole movie on YouTube.

Kubrick minimized how good "fear and desire" is. The dialogue is a bit weak and preached, and violence is a little difficult, but the foggy, thinking tone makes the film unique. Kubrick may be known for his mastery of Chinese craft, so it is refreshing for aspiring directors to see that he has started in the low budget trenches.

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