The Shining Floor Shot

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The shining floor shot.

Another active area of the hotel he says is the fourth floor. A recovering alcoholic must wrestle with demons within and without when he and his family move into a haunted hotel as caretakers. The film s marketing almost exclusively around the shot. You mentioned that the dimming of the practicals was controlled from a central board outside the stage.

The second time danny is riding dirty he s presumably on the top floor of the. 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. 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. Reward offered for suspect who shot 2 la sheriff s deputies.

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. Is the night of the annual shining ball a costumed dance. At the head of the party is none other than the jack we ve just seen in 1980. Reports vary as to how long it took for the elevator scene to be shot.

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. With rebecca de mornay steven weber wil horneff courtland mead. Kelvin pike operates the camera. Some writers claim it took a year while others say it was done in three takes.

The film opens with a helicopter shot over a lake as we focus on a volkswagen driving on a narrow road. 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. The clump whoosh clump whoosh. Kubrick has given us a stunning establishing shot of the interior of the overlook through expert steadicam use.