Every film he made after that was testimony about the same thing
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The furnaces never went cold.
Left the production, the studio system, the country. Moved to England in 1961. Bought a manor house in Hertfordshire. Built his own production compound on the grounds. Never returned to Hollywood. Not for a premiere, not for an Oscar, not for anything.
Every film after Spartacus, eight of them across four decades, was shot in England. The Shining, set in Colorado, was filmed at Elstree Studios. Full Metal Jacket, set in Vietnam, was filmed in an abandoned gasworks in East London. He recreated New York City on a soundstage for Eyes Wide Shut. He would rather build America from scratch on another continent than set foot in the country itself.
The standard explanation is that he was eccentric. Afraid of flying. A recluse who preferred isolation.
The other explanation is that he understood what the industry was and removed himself from its gravitational field while continuing to use its infrastructure to deliver the most dangerous filmography in cinema history.
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And ?!?!…..that’s his prerogative. This is incomplete reporting.