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Critics have always debated the correct way to apportion the credit for a multi-million-dollar production among producers, writers, actors and corps of technicians, but Stanley Kubrick, the youthful director of \u201cSpartacus,\u201d has no such doubts.<\/div>\n

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If any critical bouquets are available after the elaborate costume spectacle opens Thursday at the De Mille, the dynamic Mr. Kubrick is prepared to claim a director\u2019s share.\u201cI think the film will be a contender for awards,\u201d he remarked with typical candor over a Scotch and soda the other day. \u201cIt\u2019s just as good as \u2018Paths of Glory,\u2019 and certainly there\u2019s as much of myself in it. I don\u2019t mean to minimize the contributions of the others involved, but the director is only one who can authentically impose his personality onto a picture, and the result is his responsibility\u2013partly because he\u2019s the only one who\u2019s always there.\u201dIn assuming the responsibility for \u201cSpartacus,\u201d the self-confident Mr. Kubrick was undeterred by either his occasional disagreements with the producer-star, Kirk Douglas, or by the fact that, at 31, he is the youngest director ever placed in charge of a $12,000,000 film. Self-assurance, in fact, is the personality trait most apparent in this intense and dark-browed young man. \u201cHe\u2019ll be a fine director some day,\u201d Mr. Douglas recently observed, \u201cif he falls flat on his face just once. It might teach him how to compromise.\u201dMr. Kubrick\u2019s cool demeanor in maintaining the courage of his convictions has been known to antagonize his collaborators, but it proved a useful asset when he was called to take the reins of \u201cSpartacus\u201d early last year after the initial director, Anthony Mann, had an \u201cartistic difference\u201d with Mr. Douglas in the first days of production. With Dalton Trumbo\u2019s screen play in need of repairs and such expensive temperaments as Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov and Tony Curtis already on call, the situation would have challenged a veteran, much less a fledgling director whose first four films had grossed considerably less than the pre-Biblical spectacle cost.Mr. Kubrick, according to all reports, took control with icy aplomb. He promptly replaced the leading lady, Sabina Bethmann, with Jean Simmons and went to work with Mr. Trumbo on the script, changing it, as he put it, \u201cto a more visual conception, and removing all but two lines of Kirk\u2019s dialogue during the first half-hour of the film\u2019s three-hour-plus running time. We fought about that one,\u201d he added wryly, \u201cbut I won.\u201dThe theme Mr. Kubrick indicated, has distinct parallels with his other film work. \u201cIt concerns the outsider who is passionately committed to action against the social order. I mean the outsider in the Colin Wilson sense\u2013the criminal, maniac, poet, lover, revolutionary. The protagonists of \u2018Paths of Glory,\u2019 \u2018The Killing,\u2019 \u2018Spartacus\u2019 and my next film, \u2018Lolita,\u2019 are all outsiders fighting to do some impossible thing, whether it\u2019s pulling a perfect robbery or saving innocent men from execution by a militaristic state or carrying on a love affair with a 12-year-old girl.\u201dIn \u201cSpartacus,\u201d which deals with the justice of slavery, the Roman slave begins by revolting out of blind instinct, but gradually acquires a will to improve the society he is part of and to exert his full value in it. Observing that this aspect had modern implications, Mr. Kubrick emphasized that he was equally concerned with the opposite point of view. \u201cMy villain, Laurence Olivier,\u201d he said, \u201cis convinced that slavery represents a social advance, since it saves the lives of captured prisoners and turns them into vassals of the Roman state. Previously, the captives from conquered nations were slaughtered.\u201dBy articulating both attitudes, Mr. Kubrick hopes to cause his audience to think\u2013a rarity, he concedes, in an historical film. \u201cIf I have my way, they\u2019ll think in \u2018Lolita\u2019 too,\u201d he said. \u201cThe audience will start by being repelled by this \u2018creep\u2019 who seduces a not-so-innocent child, but gradually, as they realize he really loves the girl, they\u2019ll find that things aren\u2019t quite as simple as they seemed, and they won\u2019t be so ready to pass moral judgments. I consider that a moral theme.\u201dAfter almost two years\u2019 association with \u201cSpartacus,\u201d including close supervision of the editing, Mr. Kubrick feels that he has a film to be taken seriously by even his avant-garde admirers\u2013 unlike the usual \u201ccostume epics,\u201d none of which he has particularly admired. \u201cLet\u2019s say,\u201d he added mildly, \u201cthat I was more influenced by Eisenstein\u2019s \u2018Alexander Nevsky\u2019 than by \u2018Ben-Hur\u2019 or anything by Cecil B. De Mille.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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