A book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read is being published
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#2So the guy writing the book wanted Lolita to be a lot hornier?
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#3I guess it shows that no matter how objectively successful you are, your skin can still be see-through thin.
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#4So, why can they publish it now? His death doesn’t nullify the agreement, does it?
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#5Doesn't seem that controversial. A publisher commissioned a book about the films of Stanley Kubrick, agreeing that Kubrick would be able to veto publishing of the text if he didn't like it.
He didn't like it, didn't sign off on it, and the book was never published.
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#6I guess it shows that no matter how objectively successful you are, your skin can still be see-through thin.
It sounds like Kubrick felt betrayed. He collaborated with the author extensively up until receiving a draft.
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#7I guess it shows that no matter how objectively successful you are, your skin can still be see-through thin.
I was thinking the same, but it’s easy to do so when it’s not your life’s work— especially something that took so much time and dedication. The quote about the Lolita film was pretty damning, and imagine the shame of accepting that you had botched the adaptation of such a prolofic novel.
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#8I have to say that the 'critical' quotations from the book are uncharacteristic of a project where the target of the biography (and this is a kind of biography) is cooperating and participating - and particularly when they have veto.
Most writers know the score in this respect: unauthorized coverage is harder-hitting and may be more accurate, whereas authorized coverage has inside scoops, but is unlikely to be allowed to contain very critical barbs.
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#9Fun fact you can visit Stanley Kuberick’s old house in North London (near Elstree).
You can’t go inside, mind. It is surrounded by lots of farm and woodlands, however, so theres that.
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#10So, why can they publish it now? His death doesn’t nullify the agreement, does it?
I would think it does, yes. It's personal rights, not concrete assets.
Dead people have no right to privacy in law as I understand it.
Not a lawyer, not in the economies involved in this.
"it depends"