Joe Rogan on Stanley Kubrick

Look at that. Jacked. Mm-hmm. You're a big dude, but I can take you. Whoa. No, no, I'm just kidding. That looks like fucking James Bond to me. Not all these other pussies. This is my all-time favorite James Bond, by far. That's a real James Bond. Yeah, I know. I like his, like, yeah. I like his steely resolve. My other favorite James Bond is a potential James Bond. I don't know if he's a James Bond yet. It's Idris Elba. Idris Elba. That's exactly what I was thinking. Because he's Jacked and because white people are mad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's like a fantastic four-room movie. They got Michael B. Jordan. It's like everyone just calmed down. Look at that right there. Oh, good lord. Look at his body. Look at that. Barf. Look at that. That's what he means. He's already kind of got a little... He's got the beginning of Mentitz. Yeah, I mean, he's not bad. Yeah, that's better than my body. He's not fat. It's just he doesn't look like a guy who fought with a fucking sword for a living. Yeah, but that's probably closer, like, more accurate to what, you know, what actual, like, Romans look like. No, not if they were an actual gladiator. If they were an actual gladiator, they had to swing swords around. Look at that arm. Come on, son. That arm ain't carrying no swords. It's just lean muscle. It's lean muscle. Yeah, it's wiry, bro. Look at that one. You got some veins coming out there. Jacked. Bro, he's Jacked. Yeah, this is Kubrick. People always forget. Spartacus is Kubrick. Confirm that, but yeah. Wow, that's a good idea. Yeah, apparently he hated it, too. He hated the movie. It was probably one of those things he had to do. Yeah, there you go. 1960. Yeah, jeez. God, I loved his movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, this is actually one of the weaker ones, really. Did you ever read The Shining? No. It's really interesting because Stephen King did not like it. Yeah, the movie. He did not like the movie. Because they did a TV movie in the early 2000s. Yeah, Stephen Weber. And he just decided that Kubrick had made Jack Nicholson crazy already. And he didn't like that. He wanted a guy that was turned crazy by the house. But how the fuck are you going to do that in a two-hour movie? Do you know what's not scary? Hedges. There's a thing. I bet you if you read it or whatever, it probably seems creepy. Like when he's talking about how the hedges are moving when he's not looking and stuff like that. But when you physically see it, it's not scary at all. Things like that don't visually translate. But it worked in the book. The book's amazing. The book's really, it's a big ass book, too. It's Stephen King. I think it's a big ass book. Maybe I'm confusing it with the Dark Tower series. There's also The Stand is really thick, too. That's a dictionary. It's like a paperweight. He still is, but so fucking prolific. There's a thing with the mazes. The mazes keep something kind of changing. The one that you see in the model there and the one that exists, and there's also a map on the outside of it, all three of those are different. Can you climb those bushes and get a look from the top? I think it's kind of more like stems. I don't think they're thick branches. Just hack your way through. Just walk straight. That's true. What are you, a pussy scared of bushes? You're scared of a bush, bro? The hedges that are moving in the book. They're monsters. They're demon hedges. It's kind of like Edward Scissorhand-esque. It's a kitten. It's like, ooh, it's moving when you're not looking. That's an adorable cat hedge. That place, that's supposed to be the Esses Park? Is that what it's supposed to be? That area? It's supposed to be somewhere in Colorado that's like that. Yeah, I think that's where they filmed it, or at least the outdoor stuff. They filmed some of it, and I think they filmed some of it also in upstate New York. Yeah, and then they did a studio. I think it was in London. Usually Kubrick worked out of London. The Overlook Hotel. There we go. It's not called The Overlook in real life, but it's in Colorado. That was a fucking great movie. It was so creepy and weird. He didn't see it. Remember Eyes Wide Shut? That was another one. That's his last movie. A lot of people didn't like that one. I thought that was fascinating. I'm a little soft on it, at least when it comes to like, I mean, it's still great, but I put it lower on my Kubrick list. Yeah, Clockwork Orange, 2001. I mean, you name it. During his spare time, he used to do complex mathematics. That sounds about right. That seems right. It was like a legit genius. Yeah, he has archives in, I think it's in London, but there's actually this standing in Kubrick library. He can kind of go through his scripts and his notes and all that kind of stuff. There's a whole archive that's supposed to be kind of pretty neat.