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by tieman64 » Tue Feb 12 2013 16:33:38

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Post Edited: Tue Feb 12 2013 16:34:22

Well, these notes seem more Kubrickian than the Napoleon script that's been floating around.



What does the bottom of the second note say? "Although Napoleon can be blamed for not establishing freedom of the press, he cannot be too blamed for..."?



You've got a little Nature vs Nurture, philosophical and political argument in the third note. It seems as though Kubrick's Napoleon would have gone from liberator to tyrant: "man must always have more and more, and always have guarantees that he will never lose what he has won".



Alot of the riches from the countries he "liberated", Napoleon would then ship back to France. I think Beethoven wrote songs celebrating Napoleon, till Napoleon made himself Emperor and went "a little funny in the head".

by tieman64 » Wed Feb 13 2013 14:14:29

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Post Edited: Thu Feb 14 2013 13:21:12

I think it may say...



"Although Napoleon can be blamed for not establishing freedom of the press, he cannot be too blamed for destroying [it]?. It had never really started."



These notes show him thinking in terms of broader social changes. The Napoleon script doesn't really do this.





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Minor correction, the quote seems to say: "Although Napoleon can be blamed for not establishing freedom of the press, he cannot be too blamed for destroying [it]?. It had never really existed."

y hyperstillharry » Wed Feb 13 2013 17:22:51

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""Although Napoleon can be blamed for not establishing freedom of the press, he cannot be too blamed for destroying [it]?. It had never really started."



These notes show him thinking in terms of broader social changes. The Napoleon script doesn't really do this."



Freedom of the press had been established before Napoleon during the years of the revolution; he simply then took control of all of it, imposing a regime of total censorship. While he was indeed thinking of the wider context, I think Kubrick was being somewhat (politically) naive about this subject, surprisingly so, despite his large book collection.



"Under Napoleon the press lost its critical faculties, and were expected to promote the Emperor; indeed, this was all he wanted them to do. To control and censor the press Napoleon slashed the number of political publications which were allowed to 13 and banned new ones, using the police to monitor what remained for dissent. Even in this few many topics were banned, and from 1809 every paper had an official censor. In the early part of Napoleon’s reign all books, papers, plays and posters had to be submitted to the government for censorship, and this situation grew more repressive as time went on. In 18010 – 11, Paris was restricted to just four newspapers, and one for every other department. Prison and exile awaited offenders. Napoleon was an avid dictator of letters and reports, and wrote a fair proportion of the articles which appeared in the official government newspaper Le Moniteur. Dissent could not be easily spread, and organised opposition was hard to stir up on a large level."


europeanhistory.about.com/od/thenapoleonsandempire/a/Napoleons- Hold-On-France.htm



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Moniteur_Universel



It is always in the lead-up to a revolutionary period , and during it, that there is a frenetic expansion in all manner of publications (we even witness this today, in say, Egypt - Cairo and Tahrir Square 2 years ago coinciding with the huge expansion of cyber-social media). Indeed, it was during the French Revolution that the street-selling of newspapers, pamphlets, etc, originated on a large scale.



"Between 1789 and 1791, the number of journals and pamphlets exploded : from one daily newspaper in 1788, the Journal de Paris, the production reached one hundred and eighty four in 1789 and three hundred and thirty five in 1790. As Camille Desmoulins said, “Newspapers rain down every morning” (Les journaux pleuvent tous les matins). Although many of them were ephemeral publications, they reveal an extraordinary development and democratization of information. While the boom in periodical literature provoked a crisis in book publishing, at the same time culture and especially political culture was for the first time brought out of the bookstores and libraries to the streets and to common people."

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"Peddlers made the history of the French Revolution, recording its important moments and its most tragic events : June 1791 the flight of the king to Varennes : seditious pamphlets and engravings attacked the king violently and circulated widely; 17 July 1791, massacre of the Champ de Mars : peddlers were arrested all over Paris for having distributed a leaflet called Ordre de marche pour aller au Champ de Mars. Pornographic leaflets, political pamphlets and journals participated in the surge of a political consciousness. They fed rumors, either against the royal family or political leaders. They also helped to create an atmosphere of latent violence. In a way, they embodied the strength of the French Revolution, but also its outrageousness and excesses. The relatively small number of printers and booksellers who were executed during the Terreur should not make us forget the brutal repression of journalists and the fact that the freedom of the press was sometimes a principle difficult to apply.

The years 1789-1799 were a time of an extraordinary cultural revolution. The common people, the previously silent majority, won for the first time the right to speak and write. They expressed themselves passionately through pamphlets and journals, as well as a huge amount of petitions and memoirs, many of which were addressed to the National Assembly. Everything became politicized : readings, songs, theatre performances, festivals and celebrations. After the fall of the Monarchy in August 1792, revolutionary culture took a new step. Every aspect of daily life was meant to obliterate the symbols of the Old Regime. Names of babies, of streets and towns were changed. Bakers were even prohibited from cooking the traditional “gâteau des rois” on the 6th of January. New measures of space and time were also invented. The revolutionary calendar beginning in “Vendémiaire year I” was launched in September 1793. It is in such an exceptional context that the radicalization of the printing trade must be understood. Journals and pamphlets became both the means of personal committment and the powerful instruments of mass political education."



docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:nlN3HsHDkMQJ:www.prince ton.edu/csb/conferences/march_2006/papers/andries.doc+&hl=en&g l=ie&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjVwI_MtLEK_NAV1orXIJC13GpTUad3dd3OSBM4 50SeOvP3oLS4luAzwLDfduacgx7bv-ac7bL8wx4lQWeskXMSZ7YtyyVu4p-nG5DWSW7sZB T8VbXgaU_II-mwEV-Ohh2Q5BdL&sig=AHIEtbSv8QnkVXLS5agDwS2RLIivon2x9A



See also:

www.nytimes.com/1989/02/18/arts/how-the-storming-of-the-bastill e-liberated-the-printing-press-too.html

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by tieman64 » Tue Feb 11 2014 18:31:22

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by tieman64 » Sat Mar 1 2014 06:47:05

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by EvanVolm » Mon Jul 21 2014 20:37:34

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Post Edited: Mon Jul 21 2014 20:38:00

Higher quality version of The Shining 1980 TV spot.



www.youtube.com/watch?v=esaGu1w1K1g&list=UUhGaKiPQXL907Agy D98buhw



Comparison to final film:



www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_AyeIZVWSc&feature=gp-n-y&goo gle_comment_id=z13jt3zqxvr1w3nbu04chnhrbxmly1ia3to0k



You've had your whole *beep* life to think things over!