Thank you, I do think though I could’ve said some more things in this video. I’ve also made a few other Kubrick videos, One was about Eyes Wide Shut ruclips.net/video/VdnQmT_XteY/видео.html
@@abesamazingvideos1598 Well, it's the way you edited the existing footage. You're a natural story-teller. It flows so well. And your commentary is just enough to bridge each little piece to the next one.
Awesome documentary! I have no idea who you are but I still give you a thumbs up! I love the shining and it's one of my favorite horror films. It never gets old either
@@abesamazingvideos1598 you can still add things u think u missed, maybe at the end of this video. Like: extra. Or, make another video, but shorter. Like, Part 2.
Shelley Duvall would have been within her rights to walk off that set. It's obvious Kubrick bullied her in a way he didn't dare try with Jack Nicholson - misogyny was at its height among 'seventies movie-makers! But 'The Shining' is right up there in my all time favourite movies, and is surely one of the creepiest horrors ever made. Great job by all the cast - and a special shout out for Danny Lloyd. A below average/average child actor would have messed up the whole thing, because Danny's role was so pivotal to the plot. Danny Lloyd's performances in the movie were astonishingly good and 100% believable. The kid was just six years old!
@glamdolly30 He did bullied her. I wonder if he saw her a little too fragile & wanted to make her feel lost and scared, probably. Very sad she wasn't being hire later on. As for Danny, the kid was a great cast, so many kids end up messing up the movie believability. Like the kid in the movie The Road.
What a fantastic and extremely thorough video! Everything about this video was great. The story and how you described it, the pacing, the editing, the super interesting tidbits of information. Great job! I'm currently building the set of the shining in a game called 7 days to die and so I get shining videos in my feed now, and that's how I found this!
amazing work and analysis u deseve more subs and vies this work is amazing and u relaly put a lot of effort on this topic, and many nerw info we did not know keepupt the good work
Nice vid Abe! I uploaded a Analysis of the shining recently and found out that this vid you made was recommending mine! Great stuff mate , subbed all the way from Australia! 💥
Loved your video! Not sure but I may have you beat in the number of times seeing it. I saw it when I was 20 in 1980 in the theater and I’m 63 now and I have lost complete track of the number of times I’ve seen it. It remains my favorite movie. It also remains one of my favorite books, even though they are very different. Great job on this. Really well done!
I have to admit that when I saw The Shining in the theaters in 1980, I was underwhelmed and perplexed at Kubricks style. But I was definitely fascinated enough to keep watching it again that it quickly became one of my all time favorites (I just redid my living room to look like the Overlook - Ahwahnee- lobby -love it!). I've seen this film more times than any other film in my life! You have done a wonderful job at gathering together info on this movie. Well done!
Thank you very much, I kind of felt the same way the first time I saw it, I did like it but not that much at the time, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it so I watched it a few more times till it grew on me more and more, and now it’s a definite favorite of mine, I do wish though that the film can be released in it’s full original shot aspect ratio someday. And I’ve seen almost every Stanley Kubrick film there is, so yeah his work has definitely grown on me.
@@abesamazingvideos1598 agreed! I find myself entranced by large empty buildings...in a spooky way. I used to work an off shift for the Forestry in a 16 story building and on my break would wander around the other floors.
Thanks man, there are some other great videos out there on the production of The Shining one of them is made by CinemaTyler. ruclips.net/video/fHvk2zgUBpY/видео.html
@@andrewrau7516 I don’t yet, there are other horror films out there that I love like The Exorcist, Psycho, The Evil Dead, Halloween, and even Jaws though for me Jaws is more of a thriller than a horror film, the same goes for The Exorcist and Psycho because they’re both built on suspense and characters. I’m also a fan of films outside of the horror genre. I do want to make videos on some of these films but not any time soon, I have actually referenced some of these films on this channel before, in fact soon I’m gonna start working on a skit/parody of The Evil Dead.
Nice video! The best thing I'd learned was the best version of the Shining was released in 2007. Which might explain so much why the Wendy Theory is slowly starting to take off. In case you don't know the more you watch the shining the more you'll noticed there are stuff in the movie that's not right. Missing chairs, light switches missing, cigarettes in Ullmans ashtray, the odd windows placement in the Apartment building (not the Overlook hotel). And looks like we are dealing with a story being told by an Unreliable Narrator. (Which could be the reason why Wendy is reading Catcher in the Rye in the start of the movie - The Catcher in the Rye is known as the Ultimate Unreliable Narrator). I'm born in 1970, so I do remember the Shining being played on TV and the full screen format would cut out most of the film and I didn't recall when they started to push the wide screen format. And not to mention that most TV's were 25" to 30" and bigger screens were expansive. Funny to think about because my two monitors are wide screens at 24." Since I've been invested into the Wendy Theory "mystery' I'm beginning to believe the number of takes were made with intent. The dark story of Shelley Duvall being mistreated by Stanley Kubrick, I'm finding it was mostly an internet rumor made in 2000's and it that took her Roger Ebert 1980 interview out of context and inserted the number of takes. If you get a chance to read the Roger Ebert interview you'll notice two things. Her comment was directed at the movie critics for not recognizing her hard work and that she may have gotten a concussion while filming Time Bandits. www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-shelley-duvall If you check out the Hollywood Reporter interview in 2021. You'll notice the reporter tossed her a softball for her to callout Stanley Kubrick mistreat and she didn't. www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/searching-for-shelley-duvall-the-reclusive-icon-on-fleeing-hollywood-and-the-scars-of-making-the-shining-4130256/#! If you watch the 1989 Arsenio Hall interview, Shelley Duvall seemed to be more concerned about Jack Nicholson swinging the Axe. Sorry, I'm at the belief that this whole mistreatment story is not true. I also believe the Vivian Kubrick video was over analyzed and we don't know the full context of the event. In the video Shelley Duvall said she pulled her hair from the window (nothing about Stanley Kubrick making her loose hair) and I could assume that this could be an insurance issue. Again, we hear Stanley saying don't Sympathize with Shelley, but Shelley Duvall replies with a smile. This could be a joke between the two. We don't know the whole story. I do believe that Shelley Duvall seemed to Method Acting her character Wendy. There has been several things that suggest it. I'm not saying Method Acting is bad but I do believe it does a toll on the human body. Great video! I hope cover Shining 50!
I don’t believe the stories either. I’d not heard of them until a couple of months ago. I simply happened to research the film after many years. I do agree that without Shelley’s terror, the film would be less effective. I first read the book at 13. I was afraid but couldn’t stop reading. I watched the film at 14 and knew that it had been panned by critics. I was particularly terrified from where Jack goes beserk with the axe and Hallorann the hero is supposed to come to the rescue. I see now that it’s a most highly rated film according to the average viewer. It’s too easy to frighten people with fake news and untruths. It’s Vivian Kubrick’s film that essentially reveals no discord on the set and they’re all very diplomatic.
Excellent work dude. Not only Stanley Kubrick is one of my favourite filmmakers of all time with Orson Welles, The Shinning is without a doubt one of a very very few movies that really scare the hell out of you but probably one of the finest films ever produced. As in many other movies like Barry Lyndon, Kubrick introduced technical innovations that were immediately adopted by the rest of filmmakers, achievement that only a handful of directors were able to reach. So yes, here is a beautiful tribute to one of the very best creators of the XX Century. Thanks again for this. All the best from West Spain 🙂
Bravo! This video was highly enjoyable and keep on shining on. 🚪 🔪❄🎭 Btw I agree, this is the best horror film that has ever been made. A true cinematic masterpiece.
31:01 I remember watching the network premiere in 1983 vividly, my mother recorded it and fell in love with it, I was 6. Heavily edit of course, which is probably why I was allowed to watch it. Neither one of us saw the uncut R rated version until I got it for my 12th birthday. Even at age 6, when my entire world revolved around Return of the Jedi, I was fascinated with The Shining.
I'll never understand why Stephen King just couldn't keep his mouth shut, and let Stanley Kubrick make his film. King is a fantastic novelist, not a filmmaker.
Thank you!! Maximum overdrive can attest to that! That film would have been better if an actual film maker was involved. That's why alot of his film adaptations have been great because they had great film makers behind them. A film version is not gonna be 100 percent accurate to it's source, it's just not. Books make ones imagination work more while film mostly shows it for us. When he wrote creepshow I'm pretty sure he let Mr. Romero direct it himself. He knows what he's doing, he's not gonna make a piece of crap. I mean he agrees to let them make his books into films,loves the checks he gets!
The interviewer ASKED King about the movie. He could have left it at just "No." But complaining that a movie was cold was not an unusual thing in those days. And of course, "warm and funny" was always very good praise for a movie.
There is a clip of Stephen King on David Letterman that you can find here on RUclips where he describes the film as “marvelous, flawless and beautiful,” before then making a critical statement about it. Seems’ he saw the beauty in the movie when it released and for whatever failed to ever give it praise after that.
If you’re still wondering about it, or interested in it, there’s a few really good videos about it and Garrett Brown on RUclips. They’re also better reliable sources then this video is.
Watched it again recently. Was most impressed by how great Shelly's performance was...a film thst will stand the test of time for many decades to come.❤
Really? I remember as a child seeing The Shining in a Drive-In theater the day it was released. The movie was all my classmates talked about for the next six months!
Yeah critics are bias to what there told to be popular and paid to say, a radio DJ now will say about modern music like it's the best song they ever heard and we forget the song as soon as we heard it because Sony music or the record label wouldn't have them say otherwise. The DJ or critic would lose there job it's politics.
It's strange that critics disliked Nicholson's character being nasty from the start. The husband in Rosemary's Baby was even nastier than Jack Torrance, yet was seen as a masterpiece.
Great work! (except for the audio levels. Always worth doing a final audio level only pass and make sure every clip centers around 0 decibels)m But that's fixable... I wish there were more interviews of Kubrick asking about his intentions...
Great job! I love all of Kubrick's films but The Shining is definitely the one that I have watched the most. The casting and the performances are so perfect for this gothic story and I never get tired of it. I think the reason that Stephen King didn't like it is because Kubrick made the story even better in film format. Kubrick was a master of film making. King needs to stick to writing books.
Not only that, but Kubrick PURPOSELY and PURPOSEFULLY put in so much jarring and disorienting material, that at times can seem nonsensical, but it was all meticulously planned to be disorienting. Such as the two Gradys, the contradicting ages of the twins, even continuity ‘errors’ like Danny’s PB&J sandwich eating. Any other movie it would seem like errors, but Kubrick did it in such a way that it’s meticulous and even brilliant placements of disorienting the audience, that people still talk about. Also experimenting with numbers and math in the movie... JUST to get people talking and thinking. This movie was a big experiment for him, but he was still a diligent perfectionist of a filmmaker. The Shining is my all time FAVORITE film! has been for 20 years. Kubrick didn’t just make a genre film.... He CHANGED the genre! Sci-fi was never the same after ‘2001’, historical biopics were never the same after ‘Barry Lyndon’, war films were forever changed after ‘Full Metal Jacket’ and horror was forever changed after ‘The Shining’.
The sound quality is horrible. This is probably one of you're first videos. I know you'll fix this next time. It's still very good. Keep up the good work!
I know, I don’t own a professional microphone and it’s always a trial and error it comes to recording audio for these type of videos, it’s mostly noticeable during part 1 where you can barely hear me. ruclips.net/video/VdnQmT_XteY/видео.html
The Shining saw resurgence primarily because young people stopped reading. As a movie, I find it unsettling after dozens of watches, and still enjoy the fulness of the novel. It gets boring and preaching at times, but it definitely is a creepy story.
Great documentary, I would have assumed it was a professional job until the spelling mistakes showed up @ 28:21 and 28:26 - Oops! But it was well paced, informative and entertaining, with great selection of visual and audio source material. Bravo! I was fascinated to hear Stephen King's negative reflections on the movie adaptation of his book. I understand his frustration that Kubrick took 'his baby' and ran with it, even bringing a co-writer on board - that wasn't him - to help with the screenplay. That had to hurt! I totally agree with his criticism of the way Wendy's character was written. I haven't read Stephen King's book 'The Shining', and always assumed he created her like that. So it was an eye-opener to discover that's not the case, and the on-screen, hysterical and it has to be said pretty weak and feeble Wendy, was very much Kubrick's creation. While the legendary director was hellishly tough on Shelley Duvall, he was kindness itself to child actor Danny Lloyd. His memories of Kubrick were all positive, he said he remembered him as a big friendly guy with a beard who played soccer with him between takes. However he recalls being very disappointed as a kid, that a promise made to him that after the movie wrapped he could keep the tricycle he rides around the hotel corridors, never materialised. He said he waited and waited for delivery of the promised tricycle, but it never came. Shame, that kid was amazing, he deserved that trike!
If anyone is interested in The Exorcist, there is a Documentary series similar to this which was made by this guy, check it out. ruclips.net/p/PLjTNg6cj5AGeH-JiaxJDE9i-BCIHWaMM0
My favorite movie of all time. I actually didn't really like the book, as I saw the movie first! BTW - Shelly Duvall has been in movies again since 2019 - most recently The Forest Hills!
I must have been one of the first people to watch The Shining in theaters in the United States as it actually had an intermission. I remember going outside to stretch my legs. The movie was very intense for me as I was only 19 years old. What happened to the scene where we see Jack pulling the spark plug wires off of the distributor cap of the snow cat ? I don't recall seeing it on DVD.
Shelley Duvall for "worst actress"?? You f'kn kidding? I'm convinced that in some of those scenes she wasn't even acting but actually living a nightmare due to how she was treated and the insane amount of takes she had to do. There's no doubt it messed with her head and the sheer mental, emotional, and physical exhaustion is unimaginable.
stephen king said hos adaptation was cold compared to his more friendly atmosphere as much as i enjoy stephen king i also appreciate cold horrors as many people in this world are cold and let their dark side out more
The intro song @ 31min sounds different compared to the one used in the intro. Like the scream at 31:10 Anyone knows if that version is available somewhere?
Those screams are near the end of The Shining theme, they are just not used in the films opening title sequence, they are used in few scenes in the film though.
When you get highly intelligent dominating personalities like Kubrick and put him in charge of sometimes hundreds of people to make a film, of course there will be conflict. The ass kissing directors that have no backbone allow the actors to direct the film, and stanley wasn't having any of that. He had his vision of what he wanted and had the balls to stand by it and make it happen. I respect that.
Perfection is in the eye of the beholder. Its more about getting what you want than something actually being perfect. I'd say its obvious the movie was not perfect and there are questionable edits with mistakes 🤔
True, but it has been debated that some of the continuity errors in The Shining were intentional to show that the Overlook was alive and Spirits are moving stuff around, as well as the fact that the layout of the hotel makes no sense, if you want more on the subject theres a few videos by Rob Ager talking about the subject. ruclips.net/video/0sUIxXCCFWw/видео.html ruclips.net/video/IfJ8rK7eJeQ/видео.html
You did a nice job here. Using original artwork was a fun idea imo. I've watched about half of this so far. Just a couple of things on making a documentary (which is what this is). You want to stay away from 'quoting' a person who is reading lines written for them...the Tom Cruise clip is narration from a different documentary, not his own thoughts or words...a no-no. Plus, any prepared statements are much less powerful than a person speaking their own mind, off the cuff. Use a clip from an interview. Also, if you have an editorial point to make, it is definitely not allowed for you to use creative editing to 'prove' it. Some examples. Saying 'Kubrick told the crew to not sympathize with her during production', and then showing the tail end of a conversation like you did (Duvall exaggerating an injury and Kubrick telling the crew to not sympathize with her over it isn't the same thing as what you implied.). Claiming Nicholson was frustrated with the script changes is exaggerating what was shown...since Nicholson mentioned it when chatting with Kubrick and Kubrick's mother when she visited the set, and does so matter-of-factly (You are editorializing and pretending it's an objective fact. You are adding an internal monolog that you invented. Don't.). It would have been an odd thing for Nicholson to get too worked up over that anyway, since many of the script changes were from the actor's own performances and input. Using the clip with Kubrick telling Duvall she was 'wasting everyone's time' to show he abused her is silly. She just missed her cue for a scene with a lot of setup (snow-makers, smoke machines etc.) and then lied about it (something you cut out). Kubrick and crew would then have to re-dress the set, reload the snow makers and re-set up the scene all over again. She DID waste everyone's time, so a bad example. Oh, and be careful when using film-making terms. Pre-production is the planning and work done BEFORE principal photography. When the cameras are rolling is PRODUCTION (and obviously, post-production is done after principal photography is complete). So 'shooting' is not also known as (a.k.a.) pre-production like you stated...they are very different things.
I can relate to Kubrick's reaction to reading The Shining. I discovered the book during my final week of film school in 1979, while browsing the university book store. The front cover featured the tag : "The New Movie by Stanley Kubrick", which put the hook in me. I typically was not much of a reader, and particularly not horror thrillers - although I had read "Interview With the Vampire" a couple years prior. Once started I barely put the book down, and finished it in a day and night marathon of continuous reading. Reading the book was far more riveting and freaky than the movie experience, and I was actually rather disappointed upon seeing the movie - not because it was not a completely faithful rendition of the book, but that is was a lackluster Kubrick movie. I can appreciate it more upon introspection after viewing it several times. Probably my favorite scene is the confrontation with Grady in the men's room.
The shining movie was a lot scarier than anything king put in a book. Most of kings stories are just ok. There were only a few movies you didn’t sleep through. The shining, silver bullet, tommyknockers, IT TV serious, storm of the century that’s it. The rest of kings stuff is shit. Wes Craven ate his lunch!!! I was 9 when this movie opened. As a child it gave me nightmares and scared me so bad it’s memories kept me up all night. I just new Nicholson was in my room with a axe. No other movie scared me that much as a kid except maybe the first Friday the 13th and Halloween 1978. I grew to love horror and it’s always been my favorite genre. Micheal Myers was always my favorite horror character and the new trilogy by Green is really awsome.
You could cut out 30 minutes and people would make up some reason why Kubrick left a 30 minute blank spot and declare it genius somehow. Its just a jumble of jump scares with no plot that makes any sense. But people are shallow.
I honesty have to think that some of these reviewers of this film and others by Kubric don't give a shit about the plot, the production, the acting, etc. They are just here via the establishment to tell you that, you can believe every explanation out there regarding this movie's hidden meanings, but you better not ever suggest Kubric was offed by the deep state. No reason to discount this theory is ever given , but the narrator is always quick to suggest that anyone who believes it, even a little, is a nutbag. Just wile your life away looking at all the hidden meanings here in this movie, but nevermind any real life suggestions that might illuminate the evil acts of the actual nefarious ones who don't like the light "shining" on them.
Thank you for making this. It was very informative. What is your take on the theory that Kubrick's movie is part in reality and part in the mentally ill Wendy? ruclips.net/video/wRr_0W-9hWg/видео.html What was the impact of the fire on the filming, as in , what scenes were left to have to rebuild the set to finish the filming, if any? Constructive criticism: If you still have all of the cuts made into final form in your non-linear editor, I beg you to remake it with proper sound levelling. In your own voice is at one level and then 30 seconds later very loud and then quieter than the first. The clips with actors and crew speaking were very low most of the time so I would crank up the volume only to blast the neighbors a a minute later. This is a good documentary but it could be great.
Good video - but the levels of people's voices badly need balancing - they are up and down all the time. Mostly your voice is really loud compared to many of the others.
Best Shining documentary I've seen. You got talent, kid.
Thank you, I do think though I could’ve said some more things in this video.
I’ve also made a few other Kubrick videos, One was about Eyes Wide Shut
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@@abesamazingvideos1598 Well, it's the way you edited the existing footage. You're a natural story-teller. It flows so well.
And your commentary is just enough to bridge each little piece to the next one.
Awesome documentary! I have no idea who you are but I still give you a thumbs up! I love the shining and it's one of my favorite horror films. It never gets old either
@@abesamazingvideos1598 you can still add things u think u missed, maybe at the end of this video. Like: extra. Or, make another video, but shorter. Like, Part 2.
Well done, Abe! It was fun helping you with this.
You are amazing!! This video was so easy to watch! I didn’t even skip parts of this video, super interesting
one of the best videos on the shining I've seen, really informative, I thought I knew everything about my favourite film.
Shelley will always be a hero to me. She suffered for a film I'd say is my absolute favourite. She's awesome.
She definitely will, It’s very sad what has happened to her over the years, and her performance in The Shining is extremely underrated.
Shelley Duvall would have been within her rights to walk off that set. It's obvious Kubrick bullied her in a way he didn't dare try with Jack Nicholson - misogyny was at its height among 'seventies movie-makers!
But 'The Shining' is right up there in my all time favourite movies, and is surely one of the creepiest horrors ever made. Great job by all the cast - and a special shout out for Danny Lloyd. A below average/average child actor would have messed up the whole thing, because Danny's role was so pivotal to the plot. Danny Lloyd's performances in the movie were astonishingly good and 100% believable. The kid was just six years old!
She is awesome man. I at one point knew people that know her, she's lovely.
She is also beautiful but not in the movie obviously.
@glamdolly30 He did bullied her. I wonder if he saw her a little too fragile & wanted to make her feel lost and scared, probably. Very sad she wasn't being hire later on.
As for Danny, the kid was a great cast, so many kids end up messing up the movie believability. Like the kid in the movie The Road.
This video is so well done! Teaches a lot of good things I didn't know about the Shining and I'm a fanatic. Great research.
Bro, you deserve more subscribers. This video was absolute perfection!
What a fantastic and extremely thorough video! Everything about this video was great. The story and how you described it, the pacing, the editing, the super interesting tidbits of information. Great job! I'm currently building the set of the shining in a game called 7 days to die and so I get shining videos in my feed now, and that's how I found this!
amazing work and analysis u deseve more subs and vies this work is amazing and u relaly put a lot of effort on this topic, and many nerw info we did not know keepupt the good work
This was a fantastic video man. Really enjoyed it. And the shining is one of my favorite movies as well. Masterpiece
Thank you man, there are many problems with this video that I wish I could fix.
damn bro ur vid deserves way more views :) awesome details n gl
Awesome work, and love how your choice of zooms and framing is reminiscent of Kubrick’s!
Thanks man, though a lot of the zooms in this video are digital which I’m not personally a fan of.
This was a great video dude. Good job
Your channel are truly amazing videos!
Great video, very interesting! Keep up the great work 👍👍😊
Nice vid Abe! I uploaded a Analysis of the shining recently and found out that this vid you made was recommending mine! Great stuff mate , subbed all the way from Australia! 💥
Outstanding work thank you
Loved your video! Not sure but I may have you beat in the number of times seeing it. I saw it when I was 20 in 1980 in the theater and I’m 63 now and I have lost complete track of the number of times I’ve seen it. It remains my favorite movie. It also remains one of my favorite books, even though they are very different. Great job on this. Really well done!
Excellent documentary! Great job.
Great, really enjoyed this!
Thanks for Sharing, as this was an Epic, Classic piece of Modern Horror, great Behind the scenes takes.
This was very Interesting.
One of the best documentaries of The Shining. Kudos to you
I have to admit that when I saw The Shining in the theaters in 1980, I was underwhelmed and perplexed at Kubricks style. But I was definitely fascinated enough to keep watching it again that it quickly became one of my all time favorites (I just redid my living room to look like the Overlook - Ahwahnee- lobby -love it!). I've seen this film more times than any other film in my life! You have done a wonderful job at gathering together info on this movie. Well done!
Thank you very much, I kind of felt the same way the first time I saw it, I did like it but not that much at the time, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it so I watched it a few more times till it grew on me more and more, and now it’s a definite favorite of mine, I do wish though that the film can be released in it’s full original shot aspect ratio someday.
And I’ve seen almost every Stanley Kubrick film there is, so yeah his work has definitely grown on me.
@@abesamazingvideos1598 agreed! I find myself entranced by large empty buildings...in a spooky way. I used to work an off shift for the Forestry in a 16 story building and on my break would wander around the other floors.
Barry Lyndon might arguably be the most beautifully filmed ever!
That was very well done and informative. The Shining is a masterpiece in most every way and remains on my top 10 best movies of all time!
Great job man. Besides Kubrick's daughters documentary I'd say this is the best making of The Shining out there
Thanks man, there are some other great videos out there on the production of The Shining one of them is made by CinemaTyler. ruclips.net/video/fHvk2zgUBpY/видео.html
@@abesamazingvideos1598 do you do this with other classic horror movies?
@@andrewrau7516 I don’t yet, there are other horror films out there that I love like The Exorcist, Psycho, The Evil Dead, Halloween, and even Jaws though for me Jaws is more of a thriller than a horror film, the same goes for The Exorcist and Psycho because they’re both built on suspense and characters. I’m also a fan of films outside of the horror genre. I do want to make videos on some of these films but not any time soon, I have actually referenced some of these films on this channel before, in fact soon I’m gonna start working on a skit/parody of The Evil Dead.
Nice video!
The best thing I'd learned was the best version of the Shining was released in 2007. Which might explain so much why the Wendy Theory is slowly starting to take off. In case you don't know the more you watch the shining the more you'll noticed there are stuff in the movie that's not right. Missing chairs, light switches missing, cigarettes in Ullmans ashtray, the odd windows placement in the Apartment building (not the Overlook hotel). And looks like we are dealing with a story being told by an Unreliable Narrator. (Which could be the reason why Wendy is reading Catcher in the Rye in the start of the movie - The Catcher in the Rye is known as the Ultimate Unreliable Narrator). I'm born in 1970, so I do remember the Shining being played on TV and the full screen format would cut out most of the film and I didn't recall when they started to push the wide screen format. And not to mention that most TV's were 25" to 30" and bigger screens were expansive. Funny to think about because my two monitors are wide screens at 24."
Since I've been invested into the Wendy Theory "mystery' I'm beginning to believe the number of takes were made with intent.
The dark story of Shelley Duvall being mistreated by Stanley Kubrick, I'm finding it was mostly an internet rumor made in 2000's and it that took her Roger Ebert 1980 interview out of context and inserted the number of takes. If you get a chance to read the Roger Ebert interview you'll notice two things. Her comment was directed at the movie critics for not recognizing her hard work and that she may have gotten a concussion while filming Time Bandits.
www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-shelley-duvall
If you check out the Hollywood Reporter interview in 2021. You'll notice the reporter tossed her a softball for her to callout Stanley Kubrick mistreat and she didn't.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/feature/searching-for-shelley-duvall-the-reclusive-icon-on-fleeing-hollywood-and-the-scars-of-making-the-shining-4130256/#!
If you watch the 1989 Arsenio Hall interview, Shelley Duvall seemed to be more concerned about Jack Nicholson swinging the Axe.
Sorry, I'm at the belief that this whole mistreatment story is not true.
I also believe the Vivian Kubrick video was over analyzed and we don't know the full context of the event. In the video Shelley Duvall said she pulled her hair from the window (nothing about Stanley Kubrick making her loose hair) and I could assume that this could be an insurance issue. Again, we hear Stanley saying don't Sympathize with Shelley, but Shelley Duvall replies with a smile. This could be a joke between the two. We don't know the whole story.
I do believe that Shelley Duvall seemed to Method Acting her character Wendy. There has been several things that suggest it. I'm not saying Method Acting is bad but I do believe it does a toll on the human body.
Great video! I hope cover Shining 50!
I don’t believe the stories either. I’d not heard of them until a couple of months ago. I simply happened to research the film after many years. I do agree that without Shelley’s terror, the film would be less effective. I first read the book at 13. I was afraid but couldn’t stop reading. I watched the film at 14 and knew that it had been panned by critics. I was particularly terrified from where Jack goes beserk with the axe and Hallorann the hero is supposed to come to the rescue. I see now that it’s a most highly rated film according to the average viewer. It’s too easy to frighten people with fake news and untruths. It’s Vivian Kubrick’s film that essentially reveals no discord on the set and they’re all very diplomatic.
Excellent work dude. Not only Stanley Kubrick is one of my favourite filmmakers of all time with Orson Welles, The Shinning is without a doubt one of a very very few movies that really scare the hell out of you but probably one of the finest films ever produced. As in many other movies like Barry Lyndon, Kubrick introduced technical innovations that were immediately adopted by the rest of filmmakers, achievement that only a handful of directors were able to reach. So yes, here is a beautiful tribute to one of the very best creators of the XX Century. Thanks again for this. All the best from West Spain 🙂
Bravo! This video was highly enjoyable and keep on shining on. 🚪 🔪❄🎭
Btw I agree, this is the best horror film that has ever been made. A true cinematic masterpiece.
So good bro. Just be careful with the volume of the soundbytes. Too quiet
Great video. Wish some of the audio was better on the interviews. The audio is very choppy.
the Shining is the best Horrorfilms for me, good Work my friend
The care and love put into this film shows, it’s an amazing film, and the acting is incredible …
What an EXCELLENT job you've done here! Really GREAT.
Just started watching. 30 seconds inn. Love it allready.
This is really well made Abe
This video is tremendous!
31:01 I remember watching the network premiere in 1983 vividly, my mother recorded it and fell in love with it, I was 6. Heavily edit of course, which is probably why I was allowed to watch it. Neither one of us saw the uncut R rated version until I got it for my 12th birthday. Even at age 6, when my entire world revolved around Return of the Jedi, I was fascinated with The Shining.
Fantastic documentary , You have a Gift young man and who knows maybe some day You will become better than S.
I'll never understand why Stephen King just couldn't keep his mouth shut, and let Stanley Kubrick make his film. King is a fantastic novelist, not a filmmaker.
Thank you!! Maximum overdrive can attest to that! That film would have been better if an actual film maker was involved. That's why alot of his film adaptations have been great because they had great film makers behind them. A film version is not gonna be 100 percent accurate to it's source, it's just not. Books make ones imagination work more while film mostly shows it for us. When he wrote creepshow I'm pretty sure he let Mr. Romero direct it himself. He knows what he's doing, he's not gonna make a piece of crap. I mean he agrees to let them make his books into films,loves the checks he gets!
The interviewer ASKED King about the movie. He could have left it at just "No." But complaining that a movie was cold was not an unusual thing in those days. And of course, "warm and funny" was always very good praise for a movie.
There is a clip of Stephen King on David Letterman that you can find here on RUclips where he describes the film as “marvelous, flawless and beautiful,” before then making a critical statement about it. Seems’ he saw the beauty in the movie when it released and for whatever failed to ever give it praise after that.
Absolutely one of the all time best horror movies.
I've always been wondering about that steady cam!!
If you’re still wondering about it, or interested in it, there’s a few really good videos about it and Garrett Brown on RUclips. They’re also better reliable sources then this video is.
Good documentary. But I keep on having to adjust the sound. Real loud then super soft.
Watched it again recently. Was most impressed by how great Shelly's performance was...a film thst will stand the test of time for many decades to come.❤
I can't believe critics hated The Shining when it first came out. They also hated Led Zeppelin's first album also.
I know right, and how could Kubrick possibly be nominated for a Razee Award?
Really? I remember as a child seeing The Shining in a Drive-In theater the day it was released. The movie was all my classmates talked about for the next six months!
Yeah critics are bias to what there told to be popular and paid to say, a radio DJ now will say about modern music like it's the best song they ever heard and we forget the song as soon as we heard it because Sony music or the record label wouldn't have them say otherwise. The DJ or critic would lose there job it's politics.
This video is very very well done CONGRATULATIONS i love the Shinning movie tío.
It's strange that critics disliked Nicholson's character being nasty from the start. The husband in Rosemary's Baby was even nastier than Jack Torrance, yet was seen as a masterpiece.
Great work! (except for the audio levels. Always worth doing a final audio level only pass and make sure every clip centers around 0 decibels)m But that's fixable... I wish there were more interviews of Kubrick asking about his intentions...
Great job! I love all of Kubrick's films but The Shining is definitely the one that I have watched the most. The casting and the performances are so perfect for this gothic story and I never get tired of it. I think the reason that Stephen King didn't like it is because Kubrick made the story even better in film format. Kubrick was a master of film making. King needs to stick to writing books.
I always felt that the only thing really scary in The Shining was Shelley's facial expressions...
Well put together mate. Dug it.
Perfectionism is art so that shows what a real artist Kubrick was get every scene right and I mean EVERYTHING.
Not only that, but Kubrick PURPOSELY and PURPOSEFULLY put in so much jarring and disorienting material, that at times can seem nonsensical, but it was all meticulously planned to be disorienting. Such as the two Gradys, the contradicting ages of the twins, even continuity ‘errors’ like Danny’s PB&J sandwich eating. Any other movie it would seem like errors, but Kubrick did it in such a way that it’s meticulous and even brilliant placements of disorienting the audience, that people still talk about.
Also experimenting with numbers and math in the movie... JUST to get people talking and thinking. This movie was a big experiment for him, but he was still a diligent perfectionist of a filmmaker.
The Shining is my all time FAVORITE film! has been for 20 years. Kubrick didn’t just make a genre film.... He CHANGED the genre! Sci-fi was never the same after ‘2001’, historical biopics were never the same after ‘Barry Lyndon’, war films were forever changed after ‘Full Metal Jacket’ and horror was forever changed after ‘The Shining’.
Can someone get that alarm in the background? 😆 Great analysis all jokes aside!!
That “alarm” was actually our old fridge, and trust me, it was annoying.
Amazing...
well done
great review you earned my sub and could you do john carpenters 1978 halloween some time if you haven’t
Excellent
Very nice video young man, but you must even-out the high/low audio levels of the various cuts; that's basic production.
"It was 3 'Long'-damn years ago!!" 😂
The sound quality is horrible. This is probably one of you're first videos. I know you'll fix this next time. It's still very good. Keep up the good work!
I know, I don’t own a professional microphone and it’s always a trial and error it comes to recording audio for these type of videos, it’s mostly noticeable during part 1 where you can barely hear me.
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I didn’t know about the ending scene with Wendy and Danny at the hospital that was cut.
I liked the drawings :)
The Shining saw resurgence primarily because young people stopped reading. As a movie, I find it unsettling after dozens of watches, and still enjoy the fulness of the novel. It gets boring and preaching at times, but it definitely is a creepy story.
I like the slow Zoom effects
Great documentary, I would have assumed it was a professional job until the spelling mistakes showed up @ 28:21 and 28:26 - Oops! But it was well paced, informative and entertaining, with great selection of visual and audio source material. Bravo!
I was fascinated to hear Stephen King's negative reflections on the movie adaptation of his book. I understand his frustration that Kubrick took 'his baby' and ran with it, even bringing a co-writer on board - that wasn't him - to help with the screenplay. That had to hurt! I totally agree with his criticism of the way Wendy's character was written. I haven't read Stephen King's book 'The Shining', and always assumed he created her like that. So it was an eye-opener to discover that's not the case, and the on-screen, hysterical and it has to be said pretty weak and feeble Wendy, was very much Kubrick's creation.
While the legendary director was hellishly tough on Shelley Duvall, he was kindness itself to child actor Danny Lloyd. His memories of Kubrick were all positive, he said he remembered him as a big friendly guy with a beard who played soccer with him between takes. However he recalls being very disappointed as a kid, that a promise made to him that after the movie wrapped he could keep the tricycle he rides around the hotel corridors, never materialised. He said he waited and waited for delivery of the promised tricycle, but it never came. Shame, that kid was amazing, he deserved that trike!
Found about 3 spelling/grammatical errors from your own paragraphs. Not a big deal and no need to point it out.
If anyone is interested in The Exorcist, there is a Documentary series similar to this which was made by this guy, check it out.
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Kubrick enjoyed tormenting Shelly
My favorite movie of all time. I actually didn't really like the book, as I saw the movie first! BTW - Shelly Duvall has been in movies again since 2019 - most recently The Forest Hills!
Steadicam was the best invention ever made.
I must have been one of the first people to watch The Shining in theaters in the United States as it actually had an intermission. I remember going outside to stretch my legs. The movie was very intense for me as I was only 19 years old. What happened to the scene where we see Jack pulling the spark plug wires off of the distributor cap of the snow cat ? I don't recall seeing it on DVD.
I have the old VHS tape version and only Wendy goes out to the snow cat and I think she pulls something out of the engine.
I think it's one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Period.
Great
Shelley Duvall for "worst actress"?? You f'kn kidding? I'm convinced that in some of those scenes she wasn't even acting but actually living a nightmare due to how she was treated and the insane amount of takes she had to do. There's no doubt it messed with her head and the sheer mental, emotional, and physical exhaustion is unimaginable.
I loved the shining move still gives me the creeps and I'm a grown ass man don't know what the hell stephen king is talking about 😏
I can definitely see Stephen Kings criticism though especially when it comes to the character of Jack Torrance
@@abesamazingvideos1598 Stephen King's version is trash. The only reason people refer to the novel all these years later is Kubrick.
stephen king said hos adaptation was cold compared to his more friendly atmosphere as much as i enjoy stephen king i also appreciate cold horrors as many people in this world are cold and let their dark side out more
The intro song @ 31min sounds different compared to the one used in the intro. Like the scream at 31:10 Anyone knows if that version is available somewhere?
Those screams are near the end of The Shining theme, they are just not used in the films opening title sequence, they are used in few scenes in the film though.
The scene that was removed would have been a very creepy ending
When you get highly intelligent dominating personalities like Kubrick and put him in charge of sometimes hundreds of people to make a film, of course there will be conflict. The ass kissing directors that have no backbone allow the actors to direct the film, and stanley wasn't having any of that. He had his vision of what he wanted and had the balls to stand by it and make it happen. I respect that.
The only thing was scary about The Shining was looking at Shelley Duvall.
15:07... Kubrick should have known better - not a good idea to berate a traumatized woman holding a knife.
Perfection is in the eye of the beholder. Its more about getting what you want than something actually being perfect. I'd say its obvious the movie was not perfect and there are questionable edits with mistakes 🤔
True, but it has been debated that some of the continuity errors in The Shining were intentional to show that the Overlook was alive and Spirits are moving stuff around, as well as the fact that the layout of the hotel makes no sense, if you want more on the subject theres a few videos by Rob Ager talking about the subject.
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You did a nice job here. Using original artwork was a fun idea imo. I've watched about half of this so far. Just a couple of things on making a documentary (which is what this is).
You want to stay away from 'quoting' a person who is reading lines written for them...the Tom Cruise clip is narration from a different documentary, not his own thoughts or words...a no-no. Plus, any prepared statements are much less powerful than a person speaking their own mind, off the cuff. Use a clip from an interview.
Also, if you have an editorial point to make, it is definitely not allowed for you to use creative editing to 'prove' it. Some examples. Saying 'Kubrick told the crew to not sympathize with her during production', and then showing the tail end of a conversation like you did (Duvall exaggerating an injury and Kubrick telling the crew to not sympathize with her over it isn't the same thing as what you implied.). Claiming Nicholson was frustrated with the script changes is exaggerating what was shown...since Nicholson mentioned it when chatting with Kubrick and Kubrick's mother when she visited the set, and does so matter-of-factly (You are editorializing and pretending it's an objective fact. You are adding an internal monolog that you invented. Don't.). It would have been an odd thing for Nicholson to get too worked up over that anyway, since many of the script changes were from the actor's own performances and input. Using the clip with Kubrick telling Duvall she was 'wasting everyone's time' to show he abused her is silly. She just missed her cue for a scene with a lot of setup (snow-makers, smoke machines etc.) and then lied about it (something you cut out). Kubrick and crew would then have to re-dress the set, reload the snow makers and re-set up the scene all over again. She DID waste everyone's time, so a bad example.
Oh, and be careful when using film-making terms. Pre-production is the planning and work done BEFORE principal photography. When the cameras are rolling is PRODUCTION (and obviously, post-production is done after principal photography is complete). So 'shooting' is not also known as (a.k.a.) pre-production like you stated...they are very different things.
The sound quality of this video could do with a bit of Kubrick's perferctionism.
Nice work but ur volume is off. Your voice is low and your clips are insanely high.
Do you mean the clips of the actors interviews?
It’s all uneven. Good content, but you need a sound editor
Soundtrack on this needs remixing in several spots. Background music in casting sequence completely obscures what's going on.
I can relate to Kubrick's reaction to reading The Shining. I discovered the book during my final week of film school in 1979, while browsing the university book store. The front cover featured the tag : "The New Movie by Stanley Kubrick", which put the hook in me. I typically was not much of a reader, and particularly not horror thrillers - although I had read "Interview With the Vampire" a couple years prior. Once started I barely put the book down, and finished it in a day and night marathon of continuous reading. Reading the book was far more riveting and freaky than the movie experience, and I was actually rather disappointed upon seeing the movie - not because it was not a completely faithful rendition of the book, but that is was a lackluster Kubrick movie. I can appreciate it more upon introspection after viewing it several times. Probably my favorite scene is the confrontation with Grady in the men's room.
Good video, but the audio levels are all over the place.
The shining movie was a lot scarier than anything king put in a book. Most of kings stories are just ok. There were only a few movies you didn’t sleep through. The shining, silver bullet, tommyknockers, IT TV serious, storm of the century that’s it. The rest of kings stuff is shit. Wes Craven ate his lunch!!! I was 9 when this movie opened. As a child it gave me nightmares and scared me so bad it’s memories kept me up all night. I just new Nicholson was in my room with a axe. No other movie scared me that much as a kid except maybe the first Friday the 13th and Halloween 1978. I grew to love horror and it’s always been my favorite genre. Micheal Myers was always my favorite horror character and the new trilogy by Green is really awsome.
You could cut out 30 minutes and people would make up some reason why Kubrick left a 30 minute blank spot and declare it genius somehow.
Its just a jumble of jump scares with no plot that makes any sense.
But people are shallow.
Please look up the definition for the word, “infamous.”
Hmm.. Kubrick's daughter being loud, yet her dad turned Shelly into a shell....
I honesty have to think that some of these reviewers of this film and others by Kubric don't give a shit about the plot, the production, the acting, etc. They are just here via the establishment to tell you that, you can believe every explanation out there regarding this movie's hidden meanings, but you better not ever suggest Kubric was offed by the deep state. No reason to discount this theory is ever given , but the narrator is always quick to suggest that anyone who believes it, even a little, is a nutbag. Just wile your life away looking at all the hidden meanings here in this movie, but nevermind any real life suggestions that might illuminate the evil acts of the actual nefarious ones who don't like the light "shining" on them.
You would think duval was working down a mineshaft.
The Shining is THE BEST horror movie ever made....mabye the only
One of the best
The Haunting.
The Haunting.
Original BW version. Avoid the awful remake.
Crothers, not Caruthers.
Thank you. I noticed that also.
Well, in the book the actual Hotel burnt down in the end of the book and then the set burnt.
Thank you for making this. It was very informative.
What is your take on the theory that Kubrick's movie is part in reality and part in the mentally ill Wendy?
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What was the impact of the fire on the filming, as in , what scenes were left to have to rebuild the set to finish the filming, if any?
Constructive criticism: If you still have all of the cuts made into final form in your non-linear editor, I beg you to remake it with proper sound levelling. In your own voice is at one level and then 30 seconds later very loud and then quieter than the first. The clips with actors and crew speaking were very low most of the time so I would crank up the volume only to blast the neighbors a a minute later. This is a good documentary but it could be great.
Thank you, there are so many things in this video that could be fixed, my voice over especially.
Dang I was Dannies age when this movie was filmed
Good video - but the levels of people's voices badly need balancing - they are up and down all the time. Mostly your voice is really loud compared to many of the others.
The music is too loud. You have some great archives but that music drowns it out.