Kubrick had started work on the idea for Full Metal Jacket in 198O.
When released 7 years later several Vietnam movies had already reached the screen.
Kubrick, the great innovator, had been overtaken by other filmmakers.
But it still appealed to a wide audience because it bore all the distinctive hallmarks of a Kubrick film.
He didn't like that he made so few films.
He always wished he could've done more.
If he had anything negative in his life I think it was that feeling that he was slow.
I suppose the other thing I noted about Stanley was there were still magnificent obsessions he never quite realized.
His fascination with World War II and with the movie industry and Goebbels during that period.
For years Kubrick had tried to find a way of portraying the appalling inhumanity of the Holocaust on screen.
He turned Louis Begley's book, Wartime Lies into Aryan Papers the story of a Jewish family trying to evade capture by the Nazis.
By the time he was ready for production Spielberg had begun shooting Schindler's List.
Feeling the similarities were too great Kubrick reluctantly shelved Aryan Papers.
Another thing, he felt it just couldn't be told.
"If I really want to show what I've read and know happened..."
And he read everything.
"...how can I even film it?
How can you even pretend it?"
He became very depressed during the preparation and I was glad when he gave up on it because it was really taking its toll.
Kubrick turned his attention to another longstanding project based on a short story by Brian Aldiss.
But A.I. Evolved into such a mammoth undertaking he sought the collaboration of another director.
He said, "You ought to direct A.I. And I should produce it."
I was shocked.
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