'The Shining' Film On its 43 Year Anniversary

[trekkiepetrelli]

THE SHINING was released 43 years ago today. Not a huge success on its release, it has gone down as one of Stanley Kubrick’s most popular films and most influential horror movies ever made. The behind the scenes story is as outrageous as you might expect…

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[artemisofluna]

This movie is great, but once I learned about what they did to Shelley Duvall I can't watch it.

[little_vienna]

I hope that Lee Unkrich's massive (1200 page) book on the history of the film gets its regular release soon. Apparently he goes into debunking a lot of the myths about the film/making the film that have developed over the years. For instance, he has evidence that the infamous "Kubrick made Duvall do 127 takes of the staircase scene" is a myth stated by a crew member who wasn't even on set, and is debunked easily by the film's meticulous logs. The most takes for any of the scenes was 66, and it was a dolly tracking shot of Wendy, Jack and the manager walking into the gold ballroom.

[bluesforgotten]

I think he definitely did many takes of that shot but I'd believe it wasn't actually 127.

[little_vienna]

Unkrich pointed out in an article about his book that Kubrick used rehearsals as a way of shaping character and film, and that scenes may have had long rehearsals, but that's different from doing actual "takes" of the scenes wherein the actors are actually being filmed, camera is on, soundstage all crew are set up etc etc.

Maybe this is how the myth started, with a crew member being told 'yeah they did that scene forever yesterday' and spinning it as "127 takes!" when in reality it was rehearsing the scene until Kubrick was happy with the dialogue, blocking etc, then the takes. I believe Unkrich says there were no more than 15 takes for scenes that weren't tracking shots, but I can't remember offhand. I would imagine his book goes into more specific detail, I hope it gets that normal edition that isn't literally $1500 soon, lol.

[likegunfire]

Do you know if they address this in the Room 237 movie? I haven't watched it, just wondering how thorough the documentary is

[polynucleotide]

the best horror film. one of the best ever made.

that last point is so embarrassing tho. even worse is it took so long to rescind it. shelley is stunning in this.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Lol I just saved this to read later on twitter.

Lol he made Jack to the door take over and over again cause Jack was a volunteer fireman in his youth so he perfectly how to take an axe to it which Stanley didn’t want.

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- No Film School (@nofilmschool) May 20, 2023

The twins were also inspired by Diane Arbus photo of a pair of twins:

[ellehcimbelle]

they are not twins in the movie tho

[genbu_no_miko24]

In the movie yes they are, but in the book they are sisters but not twins.

[dafuqgetoffmeho]

[ionadelfina]

yeah the movie is way better and King is the last person who should be calling someone else misogynistic. I got to the end of It, Stephen.

[scriptedending]

Totally disagree! I love the movie as a separate entity, but the book is scary as fuck.

[vapor]

the part about the hedges moving creeped me out so bad