>makes every other film ever made look like shit
Makes every other film ever made look like shit
Elijah Brown
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Jonathan Miller
most rewatchable movie ever?
Jonathan Price
t.
Jose Stewart
Why do people say the acting is great in this movie? The actors look uncomfortable and tired but not in a good way, just "I wish I wasn't on this set right now". It reminded me of Jared Leto's Joker performance when everything became extremely awkward and cringe whenever he was on the screen.
Grayson Brooks
>Wendy Torrance is uncomfortable with being the hotel
>Shelley Duvall gives an uncomfortable performance
And this is somehow bad?
Luis Garcia
I think he means the actors are making it obvious that they don't want to be there making the movie thus breaking immersion
Isaac Jenkins
I remember watching his analysis of this film on youtube. I think he is the one who made the connection between the empty Gold Room and the looting of the Federal Reserve
William Mitchell
Of course they don't want to be there. Kubrick has made them do a hundred takes. They're worn down.
The desperation and frustration adds to what the characters are feeling. It goes beyond acting on some level. Kubrick is actually filming people who are distraught.
Angel Fisher
this
Aaron Harris
I used to be able to see a bear in that movie poster but now I can't see it anymore
Jordan Howard
I love this movie, but what a strange poster.
Logan Harris
Yep, the actors weren't giving Kubrick what he wanted, so he forced them to. Actors should be treated like shit, because that's what they are.
Daniel Campbell
It's a strange movie, so it's fitting. Is there any theory on whose face it's meant to be?
Nolan Young
When you can tell actors aren't acting its generally just jarring. Because you can tell the difference between their fake emotion and real emotions from scene to scene, and you're taken out of the film. I don't watch movies to see reality depicted, I go to see the world of film. Stuff like Leonardo Dicaprio eating a raw fish for real means nothing to me. Its not acting, its a stunt.
Eli Cox
personally, when I watch this movie I just interpret everything the actors do as being part of the character - I'm totally immersed in it. but that's just me...
Connor Rodriguez
But acting is itself always trying to reach for reality. It's a profession which bases its praise and reward system on who reaches false perfection the most believably.
Kubrick didn't want false perfection. He wanted perfection. The aim of a horror film is to scare the audience in a safe way. When the film ends, technically, the threat ends. For both the audience and the actors.
It's clear that Kubrick saw what Friedkin had done with The Exorcist, using dissonance and harming actors to get genuine performances, and took it to the next level.
Friedkin accidentally hurt Ellen Burstyn. Kubrick didn't accidentally hurt his actors. He didn't want them to achieve fake emotions. He wanted them to achieve reality.
That takes care of harming the actors in a way that affects them and the audience, but how to further hurt the audience? Dissonance.
Sounds, voices, imagery, etc is used randomly in The Shining to create an atmosphere of spiraling hysteria that is actively designed to harm the audience. It's designed to stick with you. It's crafted to make the viewing experience as bizarre, striking, and strange as possible.
Whether or not you find that pleasing is subjective, but objectively, the film is structured to cause mental anguish in several ways.
And for many, that makes it the most effective horror film ever made. The Shining, on some level, extends beyond fiction.
Sebastian Miller
Uh oh, chud bros...
Sebastian Ward
No wonder the music is so fucked up and creepy. It was composed by a fucking up creep.
Dylan Garcia
The poster seems to have been intentionally made to have only slight connection to the film. The comfy thing about older movie posters and certain cover art is that they may not have explicit, intelligence-insulting context for the film.
The poster designer Saul Bass was personally disappointed when Kubrick insisted on yellow-black as the final design, Bass felt that red-black was better for the horror theme (Yelllow is a lighter color making the black information more legible, Kubrick may have had that in mind).
I like to think that the strange ghost-face is Tony. Both Tony and this odd ghost face are ephemeral traces of the film's release. We never actually know know what either one is. If the poster's face is Tony, then it is sympathetically reacting together with Danny in horror at the visions (both via Shining and in reality) to which Danny is exposed.
It has also been noted that the face's eyes are semi-circles which match the floor indicators for the hotel's elevators. So, the face might otherwise be the Overlook itself.
Isaiah Parker
The majority of the music comes from existing modern classical.
Christian Gray
the first 10 minutes for free
Robert Gomez
That's what dissonance is. Dies Irae and Penderecki are used to make a dissonant score.
Aiden Ward
this exists
love The Shining too tho
Xavier Ramirez
There is another subtlety about music for a film. It might be an (original) score, in which case generally a single artist or group create music expressly for the film. Otherwise it's a soundtrack, with already-existing selections being put together. The Shining's music is best described as a soundtrack, although Carlos did create original material which went unused apart from early stuff and the ambience when things are really bad.
The beautiful "Rocky Mountains" vignette, which plays when the Torrances drive to the hotel for the winter, is hard to find. The legal people associated with Carlos make a point of taking down Youtube videos just as soon as they're put up. Cuntitude.
Something similar happened during 2001's production. Some guy did a whole original score and Kubrick finally settled on picking and choosing existing atonal/modern/classical stuff instead.