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This article is from the Movie Trivia,
by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions
by others.
90 Shining, The (1980)
- 'Stanley Kubrick' (qv) had a large stack of books that he was looking
through to find a movie project. For a couple of hours, his secretary could
hear him pick up a book, read it for about a minute, and then hurl it into
the wall. She then noticed that this hadn't happened in a while, so she went
in to check on him, and found him reading 'Stephen King' (qv)'s
``The Shining''. King says that this is really strange, because the start
of the book is very slow, and doesn't have much to do with the rest of the
story.
- During the making of the movie, Kubrick would call King at 3am and ask him
questions like ``Do you believe in God?''.
- The Timberline Lodge on Mt Hood in Oregon was used for the exteriors, but
all the interiors were specially built.
- The management of the Timberline Lodge requested that Kubrick not use room
217 (as specified in the book), fearing that nobody would want to stay
in that room ever again. Kubrick changed the script to use the non-existant
room number 237.
- The book that Jack was writing contained the one sentence (``All work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy'') repeated over and over. Kubrick had each page
individually typed. For the Italian version of the film, Kubrick used the
phrase ``Il mattino ha l' oro in bocca'' (``He who wakes up early meets a
golden day''). For the German version, it was ``Was Du heute kannst
besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf Morgen'' (``Don't postpone something,
that can be done today.'')
- Kubrick decided that having the hedge animals come alive was unworkable, so
he opted for a hedge maze instead.
- Rumor has it that 'Jack Nicholson' (qv) had to be physically restrained after
working himself into a frenzy during the scene where he axes the door.
- The axe used in some shots is made from rubber.
- Danny can be seen wearing a sweater with a crude drawing of a rocket and
the text ``2001'' on it: a reference to Kubrick's
"2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)" (qv).
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [faces]: Jack, as he chases his son
through the maze.
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