In all those years of friendship with Stanley, it was impossible for me to distinguish the owner of an idea. This community, this union is one of the secret and fundamental aspects of the man and artist Stanley Kubrick, yet that never interested people. I can't imagine the work, the style, the quality of Stanley's life, without Christiane. It was a true model of life within a couple, more fascinating of anything else. Going to Kubrick's house was, every day, a show of familiar life spent sincerely. I remember Christiane painting "the green" of England, hot-colored works; essential that show the deep and sentimental relation between man and nature. I remember Stanley solacing his daughter Vivian, sad because she saw a cat killing a bird. "This is nature, honey" said the father to the girl. "We'll have to get another bird, Vivian." Kubrick's solitude and reserved ness can suggest he was a snappish, asocial and pessimist guy. There isn't anything falser. Stanley, really, was a happy man and he was full of humor. The truth is that he had found out the value of privacy. He had understood that only preserving his own private life he could keep the relation with his beloved woman pure, or enjoy his daughter's love for him and stay with his relatives and few friends. Always ant conformist, Stanley, with the extraordinary complicity of his wife Christiane, was able to build something our society has almost completely destroyed: a perfect model of familiar life. His greater and passional masterpiece. I miss the guy!!!! I was a young man just starting out in the film industry. I was just 20 years old I worked on the following film with Kubrick. 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) (additional photography) 1971 Fangio (Hudson); A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick) 1973 David Niven (Burder—doc) 1974 Little Malcolm (Cooper) 1975 Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) and yes only a genius of Stanley Kubrick could get away with staging Vietnam in London's Isle Of Dogs. The entire film was shot in England (Pinewood studios and military barracks). Footage of an actual graduation ceremony at Parris Island was used in the film, with an insert from England added to it. For the final battle scenes set in Hueh, Kubrick was able to use the abandoned gasworks town of Beckton on the River Thames. Researchers painstakingly went through dozens of shots of the real Hueh in order to make sure Beckton looked authentic, and palm trees were brought into the area to create a tropical effect. Kubrick also shot a scene in the Norfolk Broads where a Westland "Wessex" helicopter (flown by a stunt pilot) was required to fly low down along a canal (the area doubling for paddy fields) while someone fired a heavy machine gun out of the doors. The scene was shot at dawn and the local police were supposed to have warned fishermen but there was a communications problem. The many fishermen were awoken by a US helicopter apparently machine gunning their "positions". The Wessex itself was subsequently damaged during filming when the tail rotor got pushed into an obstacle while the copter was parked.