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April 25

Kalibak in Superman (2025)

Will Kalibak be in The Superman movie in 2025? 50.100.64.145 (talk) 02:16, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewing the article Superman (2025 film), it does not appear so. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:35, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Shining article: Is this Kubrick quote a hoax?

Hello, The Shining (film) states:

Furthermore, the filmmaker did not believe in ghost stories because that "would imply the possibility that there was something after death," and he did not believe there was anything, "not even hell."

I was quite interested by this quote but there is no source. (The two sources around it do not have it. Google Web only returns a few recent cites of the wiki article sans source, eg this 2022 Screen Rant article sounds like it was written from wiki-pilfering. Google Books and Google Scholar and Google News have zilch. I don't have access to academic resources.) While I understand this may come from a print interview not online, or be some literal translation of a foreign interview, it also looks like a fake quote...

Can someone find a decent source for it? Thanks, 77.147.79.62 (talk) 18:39, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

While I can't independently corroborate Kubrick not believing in ghost stories, I don't see why you think this 'looks like a fake quote'.

Regarding his thoughts about an afterlife, and hell, see our article Political and religious beliefs of Stanley Kubrick, in particular its closing paragraph:

'In Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, Jack Nicholson recalls that Kubrick said The Shining is an overall optimistic story because "anything that says there's anything after death is ultimately an optimistic story." Stephen King recounts hearing the same thing from Kubrick in conversation with him, and replied, "What about hell?" King says there was a pause and Kubrick answered, "I do not believe in hell." '

{The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.194.109.80 (talk) 19:45, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In looking at Newspapers.com (pay site), I found a King quote similar to that one in contemporary writeups about the movie. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:07, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

From a purely logical point of view, one can be an atheist yet not exclude the possibility of physical manifestations of immaterial beings. The source of the statement in our article The Shining is almost certainly the testimony of Kubrick's stepdaughter, quoted in the section Political and religious beliefs of Stanley Kubrick § Religion:

I asked him once after The Shining, if he believed in ghosts. He said that it would be nice if there "were" ghosts, as that would imply that there is something after death. In fact, I think he said, "Gee I hope so."

It is a bit of a stretch from this quote to the declarative statement in the article The Shining. ‑‑Lambiam 13:08, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Animatronics versus CGI

Watched My Penguin Friend last night. According to the film's IMDB page, CGI was used for 15% of the shots, while animatronics accounted for the final 5%. If you're directing a film and have access to CGI software and skilled users, and access to animatronic animals, what factors would influence your decision to use one or the other? In this film, where hazardous situations could endanger the animatronics (e.g. the character falls down a cliff and swims, injured, in the ocean), I'm a bit surprised that animatronics were used at all. Nyttend (talk) 21:04, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here you can read why film director Christopher Nolan prefers practical effects over CGI. While this focuses on Nolan, the reasons pertain to any director who puts great value in their films having the feel of recorded physical reality. This is less important for most fantasy and many adventure films. For these, effects being unrealistically spectacular is more important for the box office success hoped for. ‑‑Lambiam 12:48, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That same aspect is important for a movie like My Penguin Friend were the theme asks for the expression of a lot of genuine empathy from the actors. Implied projection from them into their (required) theme park mood might be made easier with them interacting with, or witnessing animatronics action than their looking for inspiration by processing unfinished CGI displays. --Askedonty (talk) 14:47, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]