\nCredit: 20th Century-Fox<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Finally, Roy Scheider’s Against-Type Casting Is A True Sight To Behold<\/h2>\n
Much like I never expected Kubrick to be into musicals, I also never expected Roy Scheider to be in<\/em> a musical. I mean, this is Detective Buddy \u2018Cloudy\u2019 Russo from The French Connection<\/em>. It\u2019s Agent Henry \u2018Doc\u2019 Levy from Marathon Man<\/em>. Hell, it\u2019s freaking Chief Brody from Jaws<\/em>! This is not a man who sings and dances.<\/p>\nYet, he is. At least in All That Jazz, <\/em>he is. Now, given that Scheider spends a great deal of time being ill in this film (and even talking to a physical embodiment of Death, played by Jessica Lange), he\u2019s not doing a lot<\/em> of singing and dancing. In fact, he does the most moving about in the final number, which is a performance that Gideon is hallucinating while he\u2019s on his deathbed. Be that as it may, you believe <\/em>he was once a dancer. You believe <\/em>he\u2019s a master choreographer, and I think Kubrick was likely impressed by this as well.<\/p>\nKubrick was, after all, the kind of director who could make the dreamy Tom Cruise resemble a jealous husband. He was the kind of filmmaker who could direct Peter Sellers in three different roles and make them all work. Hell, as much as I\u2019m not a fan of the film, he could take Nabokov\u2019s prickly novel, Lolita<\/em>, and make it a palatable watch. So, Kubrick was probably as marveled as everybody else that Fosse could pull this out of Scheider.<\/p>\nHonestly, I think the main reason why Kubrick loved this movie so much is that Scheider\u2019s character mentions Kubrick by name. I\u2019m serious! In one scene, he wonders if Kubrick ever suffered for his art as much as he is. So, maybe that\u2019s<\/em> why Kubrick loved All That Jazz<\/em> so much. As they say, flattery will get you everywhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: 20th Century-Fox Stanley Kubrick is my favorite director. So, when I learned that he once said that 1979\u2019s All That Jazz was quite possibly the best film he’d ever seen (which can be found in John Baxter’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2090955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[313549,394310,340996,356854,359244],"class_list":["post-2090954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-20th-century-fox","tag-all-that-jazz","tag-bob-fosse","tag-roy-scheider","tag-stanley-kubrick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/I-Finally-Watched-The-Movie-Stanley-Kubrick-Once-Called-The.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090956,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090954\/revisions\/2090956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2090955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}