To examine how Stanley Kubrick changed modern cinema, five aspects need to be closely examined. First, the life of Kubrick needs to be examined from the boyhood photographer to the man who was a cinematic genius. Second, one must examine his special use of both photography and the way he innovated the uses for the camera. Next, the use of music in his films as a narrative structure shall be examined, followed by his lasting impact on the world of special effects. Finally, an examination must be made of the controversy and social impact surrounding Kubrick's movies, which enabled him to have unheard of control over his films, which in turn impacted the expectations of directors for years to come. Each of these five aspects will be reviewed in correlation to the chronological order of the films that best express them. Not all of Kubrick's movies will be covered. To start, one must first understand Kubrick himself. To understand how a man who died at the relatively young age of seventy-one with only thirteen feature films to his name, left such an impact on the world of film. To do this, one must return to the Bronx to find the boy and his camera.
             Stanley Kubrick was born in the Bronx, New York on July 26, 1928. Stanley was an under achiever in school, "in elementary school, his attendance record was evenly split between days absent and present"(Kehoe 1). In high school, Stanley continued to slack. A social outcast, he was obviously intelligent, but his grades left him at the bottom of his class. This mattered not to Kubrick, who even went so far as to say " I never learned anything at school, and I never read a book for pleasure until I was 19" (Kehoe 1). While school was clearly not his forte, Kubrick was an avid chess player. "I used to play for 12 hours a day" (Kehoe 1). Chess was much more than a game to Kubrick. It, in essence, defined who he was and how he made his films. He was both cautious and aggressive, taking great risks,...