Stanley Kubrick

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<div class="postbody">This is more of a research data thread but I'm putting it here for now so it doesn't get overlooked.

<em><strong>A Clockwork Orange</strong></em>

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<div class="quotecontent">Why the story was selected for the Kubrick treatment?

"This question becomes more interesting when considered in light of information revealed in Roger Lewis’s controversial biography of the novelist [...]. Around the 280-page mark, Lewis details his meeting with a British secret service man who informed the Welshman that Burgess was not wholly responsible for A Clockwork Orange. Rather it was a work of collaboration with the British secret services.

<a class="postlink" href="http://cryptoscatology.blogspot.ca/2013/10/the-intelligence-codes-in-clockwork.html">http://cryptoscatology.blogspot.ca/2013 ... kwork.html</a>

<a class="postlink" href="http://dangerousminds.net/comments/anthony_burgess_and_the_top_secret_code_in_a_clockwork_orange">http://dangerousminds.net/comments/anth ... ork_orange</a></div>

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“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ― Mark Twain</div>

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<td align="center" valign="middle"><a id="p360" name="p360"> </a><b class="postauthor" >Jasun</b></td>

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<div > <b>Post subject:</b> <a href="http://kubrickon.com/maze/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28#p360">Re: Kubrick Intelligence connections</a></div>

<div ><a href="http://kubrickon.com/maze/viewtopic.php?p=360&sid=d3e978c74b2c81a1dcd07f1b83d22e2a#p360"><img src="/4402abf2-9f70-593d-82f6-3748d3c882d9.gif"/></a><b>Posted:</b> Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:19 pm </div>

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<div class="postbody">From the DM piece:

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<div class="quotecontent">Burgess always wanted to be seen as smarter than everyone—when readers pointed out to the master the mistakes in his magnum opus Earthly Powers, Burgess claimed he had deliberately included these errors to see who would discover them, which is like ye olde Thelwell cartoon of the riding instructor who when thrown by his horse, asked his pupils, “Which one of you spotted my deliberate mistake?”</div>

Hmmm. Sound familiar to anyone?

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<div class="quotecontent">[Burgess biographer] Lewis was told by his source that A Clockwork Orange was about:

....the mind-control experimentation conducted by Dr. Ewen Cameron at the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal, between 1957 and 1963, and the Remote Neural Monitoring facility that operated out of Fort George Meade. The CIA were funding controversial research programmes into electronic brain stimulation. They induced exhaustion and nightmares in patients; they put hoods or cones over people’s heads to broadcast voices directly into their brains; they irradiated the auditory cortex or inner ear. When patients had their own speech played back to them, incessantly, they went insane. There was a misuse of civilians in these covert operations, and intelligence on these devices remains classified.

Indeed there is an hilarious appendix containing Lewis’s correspondence with the CIA, who neither confirm nor deny the existence or non-existence on files pertaining to Burgess’s secret service work.

According to Lewis, Burgess “had been a low-grade collector of intelligence data (or ground observer) in the Far East” for the British. On return to England, he found himself in a world of spy scandals (Burgess, Philby and Maclean) and double agents (George Blake), where the American cousins were questioning their bond with the Brits. A plan was hatched where Burgess would essentially front a novel that would:

...lift the corner of the carpet and put into his novel classified material about the (then) new-fangled conditioning experiments and aversion therapies being devised to reform criminals—experiments which had wider implications for the concept of social engineering.

According to Lewis’s “Curzon Street contact”:

...Burgess’s collaborator was a former CIA officer called Howard Roman, a languages expert whose particular field had been the Polish Intelligence Service, the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa (UB)—and it was a senior officer in Polish military intelligence, Michal Goleniewski, who upon defecting had told the CIA about the mole at Underwater Weapons Establishment Portland.</div>

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<div class="quotecontent">Ah, but this is small potatoes compared to Lewis’s revelation that there is a secret message hidden in the text of A Clockwork Orange.

‘You realise,’ said the spook, as we sat on a bench in Berkeley Square opposite Maggs Bros. Ltd., by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen, purveyors of rare books an manuscripts, ‘that the capitalised lines on page twenty-nine of A Clockwork Orange give the HQ location of the psychotronic warfare technology?’

The secret serviceman was referring to the section in the book that described the college pennants on Alex’s wall, each of these ‘being like remembrances of my corrective school life since I was eleven, O my dear brothers…’:

SOUTH 4; METRO COR-SKOL BLUE DIVISION; THE BOYS OF ALPHA.

The spy explained to Lewis that if he looked at a map of America, then he would see that Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico are the only states with a right-angled four-corner conjunction (“4…COR”), and that there is a military reservation to the “SOUTH.” This reservation runs north into New Mexico, and is situated around the “METRO”-politan area of El Paso. This is where the training school (“SKOL”) is situated. At the time of the book’s publication (1962), the Navy (“BLUE DIVISION”) were in charge of this operation:

Analysing, isolating and interfering with the ‘ALPHA’ wavelengths of the human collective unconsciousness was part of the set-up. The name of the establishment is Fort Bliss. The word bliss appears on page twenty-nine of Burgess’s novel no less than six times.</div>

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<div class="quotecontent">Lewis none the less seems to believe that espionage made Burgess rich and was the “dark secret haunting him” to the end.</div>

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In “The Secret of the Pyramid,” which appeared in the January 2013 issue of the film journal Positif, critic and screenwriter <strong>Laurent Vachaud</strong> offered a new interpretation of “Eyes Wide Shut,” <strong><a href="http://www.blouinartinfo.com/artists/stanley-kubrick-101969">Stanley Kubrick</a></strong>’s last film, which came out in 1999 and was based on <strong>Arthur Schnitzler</strong>’s “Dream Story” (1926). After analyzing the omnipresence of triangle patterns in the film’s sets, Vachaud (interviewed this week by <strong>ARTINFO</strong>) concluded that “Eyes Wide Shut” is much more than a simple story of spousal jealousy. He theorizes that it is about mind control exerted by the secret society to which Alice Harford (<strong>Nicole Kidman</strong>) belongs. Her husband, Bill Harford (<strong>Tom Cruise</strong>), with “big closed eyes,” is blind to the fact that his wife is part of a cult that provides sex slaves to wealthy elites. This use of women echoes Doctor Strangelove’s final speech, in which he says that “with the right genetic policy, a ratio of 10 females per male, the population could return to its current level within 20 years.”          

In his article, Vachaud wrote that <strong>the theme of abused children is at the heart of all Kubrick’s movies</strong> since “Lolita,” and that the Harfords’ child would also become, under the control of her mother, a slave of the secret society. Uncovering “barely veiled allusions” to Scientology in “Eyes Wide Shut” (among them the fact that Tom Cruise is himself a zealous Scientologist), the article claimed to discover a parallel between the movie and Kubrick’s personal life. His daughter <strong>Vivian Kubrick</strong>, who acted in several of her father’s movies, directed a film about the making of “The Shining,” and wrote the music for “Full Metal Jacket” (under the pseudonym <strong>Abigail Mead</strong>), joined the Scientologists during the preparation for “Eyes Wide Shut” and was no longer speaking to her family as of 1998.

<a href="http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/943711/is-eyes-wide-shut-a-requiem-for-stanley-kubricks-estranged">http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/943711/is-eyes-wide-shut-a-requiem-for-stanley-kubricks-estranged</a></p>

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