The Shining [DVD] [1980]

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m., with Turkel recollecting that his clothes were soaked in perspiration by the end of the day's shoot. Jan Harlan, an Executive Producer on The Shining, was asked about the discontinuity of sets by Xan Brooks of The Guardian and confirmed the discontinuity was intentional, "The set was very deliberately built to be offbeat and off the track, so that the huge ballroom would never actually fit inside. For each language, a suitable idiom was used: German ( Was du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf morgen/ "Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today"), Italian ( Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca/ "The morning has gold in its mouth"), French ( Un «Tiens» vaut mieux que deux «Tu l'auras»/ "One 'here you go' is worth more than two 'you'll have it '", the equivalent of "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"), Spanish ( No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano/ "No matter how early you get up, you can't make the sun rise any sooner.

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On Duvall's performance, Vulture magazine wrote in 2019: "looking into Duvall's huge eyes from the front row of a theater, I found myself riveted by a very poignant form of fear. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. This allowed you to suspend your doubt of the supernatural until you were so thoroughly into the story that you could accept it almost without noticing. The LP soundtrack omits some pieces heard in the film, and also includes complete versions of pieces of which only fragments are heard in the film.According to the novel, the character represented an ordinary and balanced man who little by little loses control; furthermore, the written narration reflected personal traits of the author himself at that time (marked by insomnia and alcoholism), in addition to abuse. Bass originally intended the poster to be black on a red background, but Kubrick, to Bass's dismay, chose to make the background yellow. Perhaps in some earlier incarnation Jack really was around in 1921, and it's his present-day self that is the shadow, the phantom photographic copy.

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The excised scenes included: a longer meeting between Jack and Watson at the hotel; Danny being attended by a doctor ( Anne Jackson), including references to Tony and how Jack once injured Danny in a drunken rage; more footage of Hallorann's attempts to get to the hotel during the snowstorm, including a sequence with a garage attendant ( Tony Burton); extended dialogue scenes at the hotel; and a scene where Wendy discovers a group of skeletons in the hotel lobby during the climax. Nowadays, getting a god’s-eye shot from hundreds of feet in the air is as simple as a production investing in a drone or satellite photography, but that was not something available in the late 1970s in the making of The Shining. King, for his part, disavowed Nicholson because he thought that, since his part in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the viewer would tend to consider him an unstable individual from the beginning.He argues that as in earlier films, Kubrick stripped out the back story of the film, reducing it to a "basic narrative line", making the characters more like archetypes.

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In an interview with Michel Ciment, Kubrick said that the photograph suggests that Jack was a reincarnation of an earlier official at the hotel. It is to say he is two people: the man with choice in a perilous situation and the man who has 'always' been at the Overlook.It's not until Grady, the ghost of the former caretaker who axed to death his family, slides open the bolt of the larder door, allowing Jack to escape, that you are left with no other explanation but the supernatural. Though it deviates from Stephen King's novel, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is a chilling, often baroque journey into madness -- exemplified by an unforgettable turn from Jack Nicholson. Another theory posits an obsession with the number 42 in the film, and the product of the digits in 237 is 42. Furthermore, the filmmaker did not believe in ghost stories because that "would imply the possibility that there was something after death," and he did not believe there was anything, "not even hell.

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Among interpreters who see the film reflecting more subtly the social concerns that animate other Kubrick films, one of the early viewpoints was discussed in an essay by ABC reporter Bill Blakemore titled "Kubrick's 'Shining' Secret: Film's Hidden Horror Is The Murder of the Indian", first published in The Washington Post on July 12, 1987. In the European cut, all of the scenes involving Jackson and Burton were removed but the credits remained unchanged. Hoping to get more frenzied character work from the actress, Kubrick actively antagonized her, and the stress from the friction ultimately had an adverse effect on her health.If Jack did indeed freeze to death in the labyrinth, of course his body was found–and sooner rather than later, since Dick Hallorann alerted the forest rangers to serious trouble at the hotel. Plus Danny Lloyd’s trips through the maze were done by just having the camera follow him while he ran, meaning that the crew got repeatedly lost between takes. The Ahwahnee Hotel (the Overlook Hotel's main interior) and the Timberline Lodge (the Overlook Hotel's main exterior) were both designed by architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood, in the 1920s and 1930s respectively. Some of the film's most iconic scenes, such as the ghost girls in the hallway, the torrent of blood from the elevators, and typewritten pages Wendy discovers on Jack's desk, are unique to the film.