A supercut examining Stanley Kubrick's use of the color red.

Kubrick has always used red to great effect—not only for atmosphere but for the fact that the various meanings ascribed to red echo many of the themes in his films.

Red’s many meanings include: death, blood, danger, anger, energy, war, strength, power, determination…but also passion, desire, love, and sex. All prominent themes in Kubrick’s work. But more importantly the very dualistic nature of red (the fact that it can mean anger but also love) plays right into the grand “Jungian" theme in all of Kubrick’s work which is this notion of Duality: sex and violence, birth and death, war and peace, fear and desire...

Edited by Rishi Kaneria (@rishikaneria).
Music from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.

Footage from:
Spartacus
2001: A Space Odyssey 
A Clockwork Orange 
Barry Lyndon 
The Shining 
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut