The Shining Floor Shot

It s interesting to note then that in the shining 1980 his adaptation of the stephen king novel of the same name the first three minutes of the film were photographed without his presence.

The shining floor shot.

Kubrick gets away with this establishing tracking shot because even the most antifetishistic observer must find the technical achievement exhilarating and also because the action is punctuated with one of those vivid lushly particular moment of cinematic discovery effects that has virtually an atavistic appeal. The film opens with a helicopter shot over a lake as we focus on a volkswagen driving on a narrow road. Kubrick has given us a stunning establishing shot of the interior of the overlook through expert steadicam use. Some writers claim it took a year while others say it was done in three takes.

Reward offered for suspect who shot 2 la sheriff s deputies. Kelvin pike operates the camera. You mentioned that the dimming of the practicals was controlled from a central board outside the stage. Perhaps the most analyzed part of the ending is the final shot of a photograph from 1921 that shows jack with other guests in the hotel s ballroom.

The clump whoosh clump whoosh. Stanley kubrick s the shining is a masterclass of cinematic art and a. Another active area of the hotel he says is the fourth floor. The second time danny is riding dirty he s presumably on the top floor of the.

At the head of the party is none other than the jack we ve just seen in 1980. The shining ends with an extremely long camera shot moving down a hallway in the overlook reaching eventually the central photo among 21 photos on the wall each capturing previous good times in the hotel. Whatever the case in the end kubrick was so. Is the night of the annual shining ball a costumed dance.

A recovering alcoholic must wrestle with demons within and without when he and his family move into a haunted hotel as caretakers. Home without worrying about it scratching the floor. With rebecca de mornay steven weber wil horneff courtland mead. Reports vary as to how long it took for the elevator scene to be shot.