Digging through commentaries, featurettes, documentaries and more, here are 14 stories about The Shining that you may have never heard before.
His period film Barry Lyndon was not as successful at the box office as desired, and Kubrick required studio support to try and make his dream project: Napoleon starring Jack Nicholson.
Inspiration came from all over the place, but some of the best material came from The Ahwahnee in Yosemite National Park, including the look of the cavernous lobby and the blood-red colored elevators.
Bonus Trivia: the exterior shots of the hotel were done at the Timberline Lodge in Oregon. Introduced in , the stabilizer mount known as the Steadicam was a revelation in Hollywood and a technology beloved by Stanley Kubrick, who loved to keep his camera in motion in his films. The look created was incredible, and the director was totally shocked and delighted to discover the alternating sound of the wheels going from carpet to hard wood while reviewing the dailies. This led the crew to challenge him to try and solve it himself one Saturday morning on set, and folks were delighted when the filmmaker had to give up.
The crew simply made a movable reproduction of the middle section of the maze and brought it next to a tall apartment complex. With The Shining not actually shooting in the Colorado mountains during the winter but instead an English studio in the summer, the production had to find special ways to translate the idea of coldness in the environment, and Stanley Kubrick came up with some wonderfully clever methods.
One was the thought to create a kind of stagnant fog using oil smoke during scenes outside, though that was its own challenge because it required not filming on windy days. The negative side effect was that the smoke combined with the lights created a kind of sick yellow on set, but Kubrick was able to suck out all of the red and yellow while emphasizing the blue during the color timing process, and the result is what we see in the movie! Not only was the whole set polluted with smoke, the snow was made from a mix of Styrofoam and dairy salt, only further poisoning the atmosphere.
Stanley Kubrick was a notorious perfectionist who got double-digit takes of basically every angle, and while it allowed him to bring all of the footage he could ever need to the edit bay, it was an exhausting process for the actors.
A new novel was published in January entitled 'Doctor Sleep' by Stephen King- it picks up the story of Danny Torrance as a middle-aged man. Highly rated documentary following five The Shining obsessives as they explain their analyses of the movie. All interior scenes of The Overlook Hotel were filmed on soundstages.
Because of the intense heat generated from the lighting used to recreate window sunlight the room took , watts of light per window to make it look like a snowy day outside , the lounge set caught fire. Fortunately all of the scenes had been completed there, so the stage was rebuilt with a higher ceiling, and was eventually used by Steven Spielberg as the snake-filled Well of the Souls tomb in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Stanley Kubrick wanted to shoot the film in script order.
This meant having all the relevant sets standing by at all times. In order to achieve this, every soundstage at Elstree was used, with all the sets built, pre-lit and ready to go during the entire shoot at the studios. One of few sequences filmed out of chronological order was the memorable sequence of blood flowing from the elevators.
The blood was a movie special-effects product called 'Kensington Gore', and thousands of gallons was used. At the start of the movie, and in a long shot, the hotel featured is the Timberline Lodge, at Mount Hood in Oregon.
For the rest of the movie, the outside of the Overlook Hotel and the exterior of the maze was constructed on fields at the rear of Elstree Studios.
The Overlook Hotel set see photo right was built in forced perspective; it was smaller in reality than it looked on camera. According to Variety magazine, the film took almost days to shoot. Photos Top cast Edit. Danny Lloyd Danny as Danny. Scatman Crothers Hallorann as Hallorann. Barry Nelson Ullman as Ullman. Philip Stone Grady as Grady. Joe Turkel Lloyd as Lloyd. Anne Jackson Doctor as Doctor. Tony Burton Durkin as Durkin. Barry Dennen Watson as Watson. Robin Pappas Nurse as Nurse.
Alison Coleridge Secretary as Secretary. Stanley Kubrick. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Haunted by a persistent writer's block, the aspiring author and recovering alcoholic, Jack Torrance, drags his wife, Wendy, and his gifted son, Danny, up snow-capped Colorado's secluded Overlook Hotel after taking up a job as an off-season caretaker.
As the cavernous hotel shuts down for the season, the manager gives Jack a grand tour, and the facility's chef, the ageing Mr Hallorann, has a fascinating chat with Danny about a rare psychic gift called "The Shining", making sure to warn him about the hotel's abandoned rooms, and, in particular, the off-limits Room However, instead of overcoming the dismal creative rut, little by little, Jack starts losing his mind, trapped in an unforgiving environment of seemingly endless snowstorms, and a gargantuan silent prison riddled with strange occurrences and eerie visions.
Now, the incessant voices inside Jack's head demand sacrifice. Is Jack capable of murder? Iconic terror from the No 1 bestselling writer.
Rated R for disturbing violent content and behavior, bloody images, graphic nudity, and strong language. Did you know Edit. Trivia For the scene in which Jack breaks down the bathroom door, the props department built a door that could be easily broken. However, Jack Nicholson had worked as a volunteer fire marshal and tore it apart far too easily. The props department were then forced to build a stronger door.
Goofs When Jack is using the ax to break through the door, he only breaks through one of the recessed panels and says, "Here's Johnny". But when he hears the snowmobile and turns, and the shot changes, two of the panels are gone without him using the ax on them.
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