The Shining Floor Shot

The film s marketing almost exclusively around the shot.

The shining floor shot. The film opens with a helicopter shot over a lake as we focus on a volkswagen driving on a narrow road. Reward offered for suspect who shot 2 la sheriff s deputies. The clump whoosh clump whoosh. Shooting on september 15 1978 assistant peter robinson slates a take with actors lisa and louise burns playing the doomed daughters of the previous overlook caretaker.

Some writers claim it took a year while others say it was done in three takes. 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 second time danny is riding dirty he s presumably on the top floor of the. Stanley kubrick s the shining is a masterclass of cinematic art and a.

Reports vary as to how long it took for the elevator scene to be shot. Kubrick has given us a stunning establishing shot of the interior of the overlook through expert steadicam use. A recovering alcoholic must wrestle with demons within and without when he and his family move into a haunted hotel as caretakers. Another active area of the hotel he says is the fourth floor.

Home without worrying about it scratching the floor. Is the night of the annual shining ball a costumed dance. Whatever the case in the end kubrick was so. 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.

With rebecca de mornay steven weber wil horneff courtland mead. You mentioned that the dimming of the practicals was controlled from a central board outside the stage. Kelvin pike operates the camera. Like with the rest this scene has been interpreted in many ways and one of the most popular explanations says that it represents the hotel absorbing jack s soul.