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Originally Posted by Oriphiel
Anyway, do you think that the movie is partly a commentary on perspective?
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Nah.
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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
He's just f*cking with people.
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Another thing he did all throughout the shoot was move things around and/or remove/add them to scenes. In some scenes of the Colorado room there's a huge bearskin rug on the floor. In others it's gone. When Jack is being interviewed, Unger has a cigarette in his ashtray. Cut to Jack and then back to Under and the cigarette is gone. When Danny sees the two girls in the rec room holding hands there's a couple of tables with chairs in the frame. Cut to Danny then back to the girls and the chairs have all been moved very slightly.
In an early scene there's a glass display case on one side of a hallway. In a later scene it's been moved to the opposite wall. In another Wendy is talking to Jack while he sits at his typewriter and there's a chair in the background against the wall. Cut to Wendy then back to Jack and the chair is gone.
There's dozens and dozens of instances like this all throughout the movie. Kubrick knew that no-one was going to catch all of this when they first watched the flick. They'd be too busy paying attention to the foreground and dialogue. But he put it all in anyway knowing that eventually people would analyze the movie knowing that Kubrick simply wasn't going to tell a straight ahead ghost story and that there had to be more there.
The Shining was Kubrick's magnus opus of using the cinematic experience to totally mess with people's heads.
Check this one out.
Danny is playing with his trucks and a tennis balls rolls up out of nowhere.
Camera angle changes to Danny looking down the hall where the ball came from. Do you see what Kubrick did here?
