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I saw The Shining on the big screen last night and got to shake the hand of Leon Vitali, the guy who plays Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon (my favorite #Kubrick film) who became Kubrick’s full time assistant on his final projects. I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey on Friday, so the weekend was wall to wall Kubrick for me.
I’ve seen The Shining countless times on video and TV, and it’s still one Kubrick’s most troublesome and flawed masterpieces. And though it is indeed a masterpiece in the truest sense, what’s truly unusual about it is how its glaring flaws that would sink other accomplished filmmaker’s weaker films seem to enhance the whole thing. It makes more sense in terms of surrealism than filmmaking. Like Eyes Wide Shut, by far Kubrick’s most dubious masterpiece, The Shining feels like a cross between an actual dream with its tense silences and paradoxical clarity, and a field trip to the reptile section of the zoo. It’s like a haunted terrarium. Artificial. A simulacrum of an environment created by aliens to make their specimens feel at home. It’s almost right, but not quite. Uncanny. Like a dream. The entire film even looks like a Magritte painting - terrifyingly matter of fact, clear, yet hellishly ambiguous. Kubrick is one of the few popular filmmakers in history to be able to pull this off to such a degree that even his failures are oddball successes. Kubrick’s mise-en-scène is so goddamned mesmerizing, especially on the big screen. And the music and sound is ESPECIALLY profound in a big theater. I don’t think I can ever watch The Shining in any other context now.
We get lost in the Kubrickness of it all. People (severely delusional ones) even read the most ridiculous bullshit into it. The moon landing was fake, all kinds of crap. We drown so deeply in it, The Shining is no longer “Stephen King” or a movie where the expected banalities of plot and character development even matter. They get left out in the cold to freeze to death. I don’t want The Shining to be a faithful adaptation of a bestseller with characters and plot any more than I want to see a soul in the eyes of the Komodo dragon that’s eating me alive.
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One of the greatest films ever made! As well as undoubtedly one of the most iconic films to ever poise the silver screen. [ THE SHINING ]
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The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick is known for his forays into different genres—and horror was a genre that piqued his interest. In the early '70s, he was inconsideration to direct The Exorcist. But he ended up not getting the job because he only wanted to direct the film if he could also produce it. Kubrick later told a friend that he wanted “to make the world’s scariest movie, involving a series of episodes that would play upon the nightmare fears of the audience.” In 1952, Kubrick worked as the second unit director on one episode of the television series Omnibus. But it was a different episode, about poker players getting into a fight, that inspired parts of The Shining.
According to Kubrick, “You think the point of the story is that his death was inevitable because a paranoid poker player would ultimately get involved in a fatal gunfight. But, in the end, you find out that the man he accused was actually cheating him. I think The Shining uses a similar kind of psychological misdirection to forestall the realization that the supernatural events are actually happening.”
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According to one of Kubrick’s biographers, David Hughes, King wrote an entire draft of a screenplay for The Shining. Kubrick didn’t even deem it worth a glance, which makes sense as he once called King’s writing “weak.”Instead, Kubrick worked with Diane Johnson on the screenplay because he was a fan of her book, The Shadow Knows. The two ended up spending eleven weeks working on the script.
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