The Shining Floor Shot

Reports vary as to how long it took for the elevator scene to be shot.

The shining floor shot.

The clump whoosh clump whoosh. 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. Some writers claim it took a year while others say it was done in three takes. 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.

With rebecca de mornay steven weber wil horneff courtland mead. 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 second time danny is riding dirty he s presumably on the top floor of the. Kelvin pike operates the camera.

Stanley kubrick s the shining is a masterclass of cinematic art and a. Is the night of the annual shining ball a costumed dance. Home without worrying about it scratching the floor. The film s marketing almost exclusively around the shot.

A recovering alcoholic must wrestle with demons within and without when he and his family move into a haunted hotel as caretakers. The film opens with a helicopter shot over a lake as we focus on a volkswagen driving on a narrow road. It s interesting to note then that in the shining 1980 his adaptation of the stephen king novel of the same name the first three minutes of the film were photographed without his presence. At the head of the party is none other than the jack we ve just seen in 1980.

Kubrick has given us a stunning establishing shot of the interior of the overlook through expert steadicam use. Reward offered for suspect who shot 2 la sheriff s deputies. 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. 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.