and who ever said this was bad acting must be one hell of an idiot, this was considered one of the greatest epic horror films of all time. Jack Nicholson at his best ever.
lol, says the simple minded 12 year old. it's ok little boy, one day you too will understand the complexities of this world, and perhaps even appreciate them.
@deffekt agreed, it's not even worth replying to rd PUBIC's statement, thank you though, for taking the time. I know a handful of people's lives that were HorRor stories.
The overlook hotel is almost like the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. I wonder they filmed it at the Stanley Hotel? There were two films. One by Stanly K. and the other by Stephen Kings. I like this Shining better
eew WHO would ever and WHY would anyone wanna be going to this CREEPY and isolated "place" unsless you were pre disposed to eventually go spr shit crazy like they did lol. I work from home and I get cabin fever but this makes "Cabin fever" look like chump change ! LOL ;{
@ZiggyJFox It's a transcription of the "Dies Irae", a Latin hymn from the 13th century which describes the Day of Judgement and which was used in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass. And it was also used in Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique".
The helicopter flies so low! Most pilots would never do this. "Mr Kubrick told me to fly as low as is possible. He seemed serious." People will always be in awe of this opening.
@outdoorcats The theme is the "Dies Irae" which was used by several composers in various ways including Liszt as you mentioned but also Berlioz, Brahms, Mozart, Rachmaninoff and many others. The Dies Irae theme is based on a centuries old Latin hymn.
@outdoorcats Totentanz is a really awesome piece of music. My favourite recording is Zimmerman and Ozawa. The Dies Irae theme is just so powerful. Few themes have that kind of power. What you're hearing in the intro is a rendition of the Dies Irae by Wendy Carlos, a genius of electronic music and the creator of the TRON theme.
@jdbrown371 My cousin was just talking about Wendy Carlos the other day. Apparently, Wendy Carlos was originally Walter Carlos (he/she is a transsexual) and one of the great pioneers of electronic music...now I shall look up Switched-On Bach ;)
i'm looking for the font used in this part of the movie, read it might be helvetica or univers, i've overlayed a screenshot of the sequence with those (rounded) fonts in illustrator, didn't fit. any ideas what font kubrick actually used there?
Cinematography at it's best. Kubrick was a genius. Really sets the mood for the entire film. I especially like the part where the helicopter gets right behind the car, then continues over the edge.
When I first read the book, I was mostly horrified by the fact that you could be trapped in a place that can be huge, but nonetheless the freakiest place on Earth...I couldn't wait to see what the film would be like, so when I heard the music, I felt that same fear again, just listening to that sound...Horrifying...
More specifically, this opening scene was shot at Glacier National Park in Montana. The island in the middle of the lake is called Wild Goose Island. The coordinates are 48°41' 35"N,113°30'9"W.
The opening shot is indescribable. it gives me chills.We KNOW we`re about to witness something special. And im not found of horror movies! Also the layers of depth in this movie. Theres still a lot to discover 30 years later. Sometimes i wish Kubrick had made more films. But then i remember that his working process and slowness is what gave us so many masterpieces.
Not true dude read the book it has nothing to do with american history and shit like that and why would Stanley get that idea form when it's based on the book?
@fjortis02 : its BASED ON THE BOOK? where did you get that idea? If you're correct then why is Stephen King pissed with the movie and go and make his own? Nice try dude.
@fjortis02 : You said "it has nothing to do with American history" since its based on the book , now your'e saying "its not the same as teh book". Make up your mind.
@sieracki001 it says this on wikipedia: "The opening panorama shots (outtakes of which were used by Ridley Scott for the closing moments of the original cut of the film Blade Runner) and scenes of the Volkswagen Beetle on the road to the hotel were filmed from a helicopter in Glacier National Park in Montana on the Going-to-the-Sun Road."
One good example, though, of a wonderful novel to film transfer is Rosemary's Baby, but that's more to do with the concise writing style of Ira Levin. Polanski chose to stay within the confined parameters of Levin's work and created an almost identical story on film. This is very rare. Perhaps Levin's Stanford Wives was another. Levin is great at putting down the bare-bones then fleshing it out perfectly. To add or detract anything from his storyline would be almost impossible.
@exhibit500 Yes, I liked Rosemary's Baby, the book is excellent to, it has such a modern feel. King's own version of the book with the two part mini series wasn't great but I thought it made the scariest moment in Kubrick's version even more terrifying(the bath tube scene). It's good in the novel that you learn who that woman was. I was a big King fan but that was back in high school, I'm 27 now! I don't think his characters talk like everyday people but he is a superb horror writer, again not
I prefer the book. Kubrick's version just has no heart whatsoever, he loses the power of the character's battle with alcoholism and the relationship between the father and the son by turning it into just another haunted house film. Nicholson is one of the best actors of all time but his performance is just hysterical, as in way over the top. I'm not a King fan(I was in high school) but he is right when he moans about the hatchet job that Stanley did on his best work.
@johnny67448 You must consider that novels & films are 2 different animals. To transfer a novel of The Shinings length into a film would require a minimum 12 hour movie. Would you sit through that? Novels don't adapt well to Hollywood formula pictures. King's novel is very slow starting as are most. Movies don't work that way. The chase is cut to by page 3 of a good screenplay. Screenplays are doublespaced and average 90 to 120 pages long. Movies are pictures. Novels: words & thoughts. REDRUM
@exhibit500 Also, I take issue with your statement that Nicholson's acting is over the top. Kubrick directed him this way. In the "Making of" featurette, Jack stated that his approach to acting, up until this film, was attempting to "get it real", but Stanley insisted that "it may be real but it's NOT interesting!" The character, Jack Torrance, slowly becomes mad, or possessed, therefore Nicholson is acting as a mad or possessed man. It is definitely an interesting film and one of my faves. : )
@exhibit500 It's just my opinion bud. He should have went for that approach, it would have been more interesting. Kubrick cut out all the scenes that made Jack more like able, more human. That scene when he is eating the eggs has been cut to be really sinister but in the longer version, he sits up and converses more with his wife. I'm sure Time Out described Shelly's performance as retarded though I don't agree with that sort of language. The novel is slow moving but it's more terrifying
@exhibit500 in all honesty. Kubrick was a masterful director but as a man, he was just ice cold. That translates to his movies. The way he treated Scatman Crothers was disgusting. I read somewhere that the scene in the extended version when he gets out the car, was shot 40 odd times, how many ways can you get out a car!
@johnny67448 I understand where your coming from, Kings books are always better than their movie counter parts, but this movie is still pretty good. The Shining is one of the top horror films to ever be released, while Nicholson didn't play the part of Jack well enough for book fans, he still gave a scary performance that gives people chills to this very day
@Beltzer0072 Don't get me wrong, I am not a massive King fan, I stopped reading his books in high school. But The Shining novel has a moral heart that Stanley failed to capture. I did think that the extended version was a improvement on the cinematic release.
at 1:08 if you pause it at a certain point after the transition, you can see the slight shadow of the helicopter that's recording the shot in the bottom right corner...
For the payoff and what happens, this is one of the most expertly paced movies ever made. I can't understand how some people say it's too slow. I guess they prefer torture porn and gore to true terror...
"The Shining" is, in my opinion, creepy, not scary. There's other films that are FAR scarier than this, though I won't deny Kubrick's masterful camera work. This music is the only scary thing about the movie.
@Guigley Well, thats the thing. It's a more psychological horror movie, it made you think. Other movies just frequent scary shit pop out or happen. Scene after scene, its scary and makes you think what will happen next, unpredictable in a way.
I think this movie is too slow and dragged out. It's well made though in all ways but those things bother me. Sure it worked and was cool in 2001 but here it didn't fit.
@meNtor890 Dude i agree completly that its slow and dragged, but do u deny its greatness? (of course theres nothing wrong to have a different opinion about the movie)
@skaro73 Funny enough, Tubular Bells obsesses on one small portion of this Medieval Gregorian Chant, the DIES IRAE (Day of Wrath) from the Requiem Mass. It is also used in SYMPHONY FANTASTIQUE by Berlioz (used in Sleeping With The Enemy)
Y en a un qui connait le nom du morceau original? Si je ne me trompe pas, ça vient d'un chant catholique ancien qui parle du jugement dernier. Avec les choeurs et les paroles en latin, ça défonce tout, mais je connais pas le titre. De l'aide svp.
Please, what is the title of the original song? I know it's an old catholic music speaking about the judgement but....
@Magnitude33 Et bien je ne vois pas de quoi tu parles, mais ce morceau est très inspirée de "Songe d'une nuit de Sabbat" dans la Symphonie Fantastique de Berlioz. Sinon j'aimerais bien connaître le titre de ce chant catholique aussi !
Et bien je ne vois pas de quoi tu parles, mais ce morceau est très inspirée de "Songe d'une nuit de Sabbat" dans la Symphonie Fantastique de Berlioz. Sinon j'aimerais bien connaître le titre de ce chant catholique aussi !
I remember first seeing this when I was about 12 or so, maybe a little older. TOTALLY blew me away. The music, the way it is shot, everything, just gives the effect of such a sense of foreboding. It's so ominous, impending, chilling and unsettling. So subtle, yet so effective. Spectacular backdrop too. A true masterpiece in movie making from Kubrick.
Hey everybody - I just released my solo album "Mirror Image" that contains ambient songs (and upbeat songs) heavily inspired by Stephen King's novel and movies The Shining, as well as Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. If you're interested you can check out the songs on my youtube page, and links to my myspace page and places to download the full album are on my youtube channel as well :) .
The way he puts beautiful images of naturalistic scenery and contrasts it with artificial sounding synthesized music totally plays with our expectations of what a horror film should look like. This scene is so isolating. Kubrick is the man, the "maverick outsider" knows how to make a film.
Doesn't this music sound similar to that of the beginning in A Clockwork Orange? The music sounds similar to me, to the point of having the same progression in at least one part.
@Bassbait You're correct Bassbait. The same music is heard at the start of both the Shining and A Clockwork Orange. It's the Dies Irae(Day of Wrath) a 13th century Latin hymn.
Any thoughts as to why there's no Hedge Maze in the aerial of the Overlook? In the movie, it's pictured near the entrance; we should be able to see it here. If that discontinuity is supposed to give the film a surreal, disorienting character, well, it comes across as just a careless mistake.
@Nelsonhojax15 But then why choose a hotel w/o a hedge maze, yet set it later so close to the hotel? Kubrick is careful about other details he wants us to notice. There are other discontinuities between scenes later in the film, but by then, we';re into it enough that we just accept them as spooky. But when we first se the Hedge Maze, we're not that into it yet ...and it's like: "Hey, wait..."
ur a psychic kid on a dizzying drive thru the mountains and the vibes ain't getting any better the closer u get to the place....I'm gonna take a stab an guess that the female vocal wailing is probably the lady in the tub waiting for for him......eep, scaring myself better stop....
@skylx07 Visiting Colorado (Telluride) in Febuary. I'd love to have this soundtrack and play it while I take a nice scenic drive thru the desolate mountains. I live for this kinda shit.
The origional Shining movie with Jack Nicholson & Shelly Duval "(Not the tv mini series remake released in the 90s)" was actually filmed at The Timberline Lodge & ski resort in Oregon
I gotta tell you that even after all these many years since that movie first came out and I saw it in the theateres, This intro STILL gives me the creeps!
A perfect setting for the unknown horrors that await, Isolated hotel in the middle of no where,Restless & tormented spirits and 3 very isolated & vulnerable people, What's not to like?
@darthsideous1968 Yep, you'r right. This movie has made quite an impact on me. I never really thought about traveling to Colorado to visit until about five years ago when I bought this on DVD (had only seen parts of it when I was a kid). Now I visit Colorado every year. Even visited The Stanley hotel in Estes Park earlier this year, it was just awesome. The Shining is nothing short of prefection in combining nature's beauty and terror.
I'm not sure whether the ululating in the background is hilarious or terrifying.
themysteriouscrumpet 3 days ago
im sorry for wht i said. maybe the movie is not that bad after all cuz any movie is better than mambattiyan 2011(an extremely horrible indian movie)
RDPublic 2 weeks ago
BrrrrrrrrrrrrrdddddddddddAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oneversal 3 weeks ago
best opening film credits EVER! Talk about setting the atmosphere of a Gothic horror story...brilliant! Gives me chills every time!
bennyvega100 3 weeks ago
this truly is a great opening sequence
OGPUN 1 month ago
I always kiss my children good night, turn out the light, tuck them in and play this tune to soothe them so they can be quiet and fall to sleep.
PupuTheClown 1 month ago 3
and who ever said this was bad acting must be one hell of an idiot, this was considered one of the greatest epic horror films of all time. Jack Nicholson at his best ever.
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RDPublic 2 months ago
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lol, says the simple minded 12 year old. it's ok little boy, one day you too will understand the complexities of this world, and perhaps even appreciate them.
deffekt 1 month ago
@deffekt agreed, it's not even worth replying to rd PUBIC's statement, thank you though, for taking the time. I know a handful of people's lives that were HorRor stories.
Oneversal 3 weeks ago
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mattresslut 3 weeks ago
The most incredible opening scene ever.
racerxf12004 2 months ago
kubrick was a genious !!!!!!! i want a director like him, but i don't find
MsChamallow 3 months ago
The overlook hotel is almost like the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park. I wonder they filmed it at the Stanley Hotel? There were two films. One by Stanly K. and the other by Stephen Kings. I like this Shining better
interstateruler 3 months ago
@interstateruler Yeah that hotel in this movie is in Oregon, called the Timberline Lodge.
THECARS7879 2 months ago
anyone know the name of the song??/
behemoth969 3 months ago
@behemoth969 It's called Symphonie Fantastique- Fifth Movement: Dream of a Witches' Sabbath by Hector Berlioz
gizmowashere 2 months ago
If your car breaks down when your driving, your fucked.
pacmangod777II 3 months ago
i smokes it all mah nigguhs, lets get high
OrangeSaint420 3 months ago
Beautiful landscape.. reminds me of lake Bala in Wales
RAMALAMA2001 4 months ago
Everytime i walk into the office to get to my desk by 9am....this is what i hear.
DIGITALSCREAMS 4 months ago 4
This track was made using the Yamaha CS80 analog synthesizer.
A classic, haunting piece of music. Full of anxiety and pretty disturbing! I love this film.
DIGITALSCREAMS 4 months ago
@DIGITALSCREAMS Unless I'm mistaken, isn't this "Dies Irae?" The music, I mean.
jjobie 3 months ago
@jjobie
The music is a version of Totentanz for piano and orchestra by F Liszt.
Pancakesteve 3 months ago
This track was made using the Yamaha CS80 analog synthesizer.
A classic, haunting piece of music. Full of anxiety and pretty disturbing! I love this film.
DIGITALSCREAMS 4 months ago
eew WHO would ever and WHY would anyone wanna be going to this CREEPY and isolated "place" unsless you were pre disposed to eventually go spr shit crazy like they did lol. I work from home and I get cabin fever but this makes "Cabin fever" look like chump change ! LOL ;{
Jako32 4 months ago
that tree house of horror episode of the simpsons where they get snowed in that hotel inspired this movie.
screeem 4 months ago
@screeem i hope you are joking
sweetpete420 4 months ago
le film le plus flippant de l'histoire!!!!!
mouzza221 4 months ago 2
Strangely enough, if you just change the music, this could be a tourism commercial.
bubbyeater 4 months ago
so, who exactly composed this?
ZiggyJFox 5 months ago
@ZiggyJFox Is an adaptation of Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique"
traveler1938 4 months ago
@ZiggyJFox It's a transcription of the "Dies Irae", a Latin hymn from the 13th century which describes the Day of Judgement and which was used in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass. And it was also used in Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique".
chglubb 4 months ago
is that fear i smell...no just horror.
humankilljoy 5 months ago
Damn, talk about a long drive.
scidriver 5 months ago
no other filmmaker can turn such a beautiful landscape like this into complete horror the way Kubrick does!
DemiathDoomhammer 5 months ago 12
The helicopter flies so low! Most pilots would never do this. "Mr Kubrick told me to fly as low as is possible. He seemed serious." People will always be in awe of this opening.
GordonMorrice 5 months ago 3
holy shit...
facecheek 6 months ago
This movie is what nightmares are made of!!!
southerncajuncharm 6 months ago
This would have made a nice Wedding March for my Ex.
MarkFFHH 6 months ago 26
@MarkFFHH LMFAO
jjobie 3 months ago
@MarkFFHH lmao!!!!!!
jendarjen 2 months ago
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MarkFFHH 6 months ago
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MrHEC381991 7 months ago
This main theme is an electronic riff on a theme by Liszt from his "Totentanz"...check it out! :)
outdoorcats 7 months ago
@outdoorcats The theme is the "Dies Irae" which was used by several composers in various ways including Liszt as you mentioned but also Berlioz, Brahms, Mozart, Rachmaninoff and many others. The Dies Irae theme is based on a centuries old Latin hymn.
jdbrown371 7 months ago
@jdbrown371 thanks for the info :)
outdoorcats 7 months ago
@outdoorcats Totentanz is a really awesome piece of music. My favourite recording is Zimmerman and Ozawa. The Dies Irae theme is just so powerful. Few themes have that kind of power. What you're hearing in the intro is a rendition of the Dies Irae by Wendy Carlos, a genius of electronic music and the creator of the TRON theme.
jdbrown371 7 months ago
@jdbrown371 My cousin was just talking about Wendy Carlos the other day. Apparently, Wendy Carlos was originally Walter Carlos (he/she is a transsexual) and one of the great pioneers of electronic music...now I shall look up Switched-On Bach ;)
outdoorcats 7 months ago
WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?
eastw00d1 7 months ago
yeah... because of the music, you know, you'll be in baaaaaaaaaaaad shit
best nicolson movie IMO
krisiic1982 7 months ago
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Pagyptsian 7 months ago
1:28 That's Ted Bundy's car.
DanNZ4 7 months ago
hello,
i'm looking for the font used in this part of the movie, read it might be helvetica or univers, i've overlayed a screenshot of the sequence with those (rounded) fonts in illustrator, didn't fit. any ideas what font kubrick actually used there?
thanks
siegfried
siegfriedproksch 7 months ago
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good film this
flywalker100 7 months ago
Cinematography at it's best. Kubrick was a genius. Really sets the mood for the entire film. I especially like the part where the helicopter gets right behind the car, then continues over the edge.
haro82 8 months ago
i dont hear danny's big wheel in this.
ultragabe 8 months ago
The best opening ever made, and the music makes it more chilling with the nice locations. Kubrick knew what he wanted.
saqibk1 8 months ago 4
When I first read the book, I was mostly horrified by the fact that you could be trapped in a place that can be huge, but nonetheless the freakiest place on Earth...I couldn't wait to see what the film would be like, so when I heard the music, I felt that same fear again, just listening to that sound...Horrifying...
trelenh 8 months ago
More specifically, this opening scene was shot at Glacier National Park in Montana. The island in the middle of the lake is called Wild Goose Island. The coordinates are 48°41' 35"N,113°30'9"W.
BoundaryShift 8 months ago in playlist shining
Where is this in America?
theecollective11 8 months ago
@theecollective11
Rocky mountains i think.
heinzstubben 8 months ago
@theecollective11 Glacier National Park, Montana. It is the Entrance on the East Side of the Park. The lake is St Mary Lake
tuffasgong 7 months ago
and this is why Kubricks grabs your attention and never let it go again ☺
luculos 9 months ago
i woke up at 4am to this the other morning made the move more so epic
Obiwaannn 9 months ago
@Obiwaannn why did it wake you? did it scare you?
DanNZ4 9 months ago
this melody is from Liszt's Totentanz No?
pianistsan 9 months ago
@pianistsan lol no, this is hector berlioz. This is his famous Symphonie fantastique. I think is the 5th mvt
macrocec 9 months ago
@macrocec I just read that Totentanz was inspires by Symphonie Fantastique, which makes sense. Listen to Totentanz, its exactly the same melody
pianistsan 9 months ago
@macrocec inspired*
pianistsan 9 months ago
@pianistsan yeah its the same melody!!! I think berlioz based his melody on a church chant called dies irae.
macrocec 8 months ago
The opening shot is indescribable. it gives me chills.We KNOW we`re about to witness something special. And im not found of horror movies! Also the layers of depth in this movie. Theres still a lot to discover 30 years later. Sometimes i wish Kubrick had made more films. But then i remember that his working process and slowness is what gave us so many masterpieces.
sharkan 9 months ago
i got the chills even though its hot
TheMASDrummer 10 months ago
Anyone else cries while watching this? Or am I this sensitive idiot?
RudolfSchmidt 10 months ago 14
@RudolfSchmidt its alright every now and then i get a little emotional with the ending of glory
sargentsnugglewolf92 9 months ago
@RudolfSchmidt I don't know if you're an idiot, but you are sensitive.
MrChuckles7272 3 months ago
That music at 1:30 is so chilling.
dfa66 10 months ago
note the Native American chanting from 1:30-2:15 and especially what sounds like a Native American woman shreaking from 2:05-2:15.
This is key to understanding the film.
cobrien1977 10 months ago
@cobrien1977 omg u belive in rob agers opinion..
Not true dude read the book it has nothing to do with american history and shit like that and why would Stanley get that idea form when it's based on the book?
fjortis02 10 months ago
@fjortis02 : its BASED ON THE BOOK? where did you get that idea? If you're correct then why is Stephen King pissed with the movie and go and make his own? Nice try dude.
cobrien1977 9 months ago
@cobrien1977 yeah the shining 1980 is BASED ON THE BOOK
its not the same as the book but its based on it
fjortis02 9 months ago
@fjortis02 : You said "it has nothing to do with American history" since its based on the book , now your'e saying "its not the same as teh book". Make up your mind.
cobrien1977 9 months ago
When film and music genius meet.
Kyuss9 10 months ago
Anyone know which road this is? It looks like Icefields parkway in Alberta, Canada.
sieracki001 10 months ago
@sieracki001 it says this on wikipedia: "The opening panorama shots (outtakes of which were used by Ridley Scott for the closing moments of the original cut of the film Blade Runner) and scenes of the Volkswagen Beetle on the road to the hotel were filmed from a helicopter in Glacier National Park in Montana on the Going-to-the-Sun Road."
skovaretta 10 months ago
The horror movies from this era put the vast majority of modern day horror films to shame!
MCK3274 10 months ago 5
guys, the song is an excerpt from Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique 5th Movement (thumbs up so people know)
kvnlmn 11 months ago 5
@kvnlmn and the symphonie fantastique's excerpt is taken from a gregorian chant called "Dies Irae" :p
papertesseract 10 months ago
@papertesseract :) thanks for telling me that, I just checked it out, it's nice
kvnlmn 10 months ago
The music believe it or not I am at home with it.
MrTantraMan 11 months ago
Correction: Stepford Wives. My bad. : )
exhibit500 11 months ago
One good example, though, of a wonderful novel to film transfer is Rosemary's Baby, but that's more to do with the concise writing style of Ira Levin. Polanski chose to stay within the confined parameters of Levin's work and created an almost identical story on film. This is very rare. Perhaps Levin's Stanford Wives was another. Levin is great at putting down the bare-bones then fleshing it out perfectly. To add or detract anything from his storyline would be almost impossible.
exhibit500 11 months ago
@exhibit500 Yes, I liked Rosemary's Baby, the book is excellent to, it has such a modern feel. King's own version of the book with the two part mini series wasn't great but I thought it made the scariest moment in Kubrick's version even more terrifying(the bath tube scene). It's good in the novel that you learn who that woman was. I was a big King fan but that was back in high school, I'm 27 now! I don't think his characters talk like everyday people but he is a superb horror writer, again not
johnny67448 11 months ago
I prefer the book. Kubrick's version just has no heart whatsoever, he loses the power of the character's battle with alcoholism and the relationship between the father and the son by turning it into just another haunted house film. Nicholson is one of the best actors of all time but his performance is just hysterical, as in way over the top. I'm not a King fan(I was in high school) but he is right when he moans about the hatchet job that Stanley did on his best work.
johnny67448 11 months ago
@johnny67448 You must consider that novels & films are 2 different animals. To transfer a novel of The Shinings length into a film would require a minimum 12 hour movie. Would you sit through that? Novels don't adapt well to Hollywood formula pictures. King's novel is very slow starting as are most. Movies don't work that way. The chase is cut to by page 3 of a good screenplay. Screenplays are doublespaced and average 90 to 120 pages long. Movies are pictures. Novels: words & thoughts. REDRUM
exhibit500 11 months ago
@exhibit500 Also, I take issue with your statement that Nicholson's acting is over the top. Kubrick directed him this way. In the "Making of" featurette, Jack stated that his approach to acting, up until this film, was attempting to "get it real", but Stanley insisted that "it may be real but it's NOT interesting!" The character, Jack Torrance, slowly becomes mad, or possessed, therefore Nicholson is acting as a mad or possessed man. It is definitely an interesting film and one of my faves. : )
exhibit500 11 months ago
@exhibit500 It's just my opinion bud. He should have went for that approach, it would have been more interesting. Kubrick cut out all the scenes that made Jack more like able, more human. That scene when he is eating the eggs has been cut to be really sinister but in the longer version, he sits up and converses more with his wife. I'm sure Time Out described Shelly's performance as retarded though I don't agree with that sort of language. The novel is slow moving but it's more terrifying
johnny67448 11 months ago
@exhibit500 in all honesty. Kubrick was a masterful director but as a man, he was just ice cold. That translates to his movies. The way he treated Scatman Crothers was disgusting. I read somewhere that the scene in the extended version when he gets out the car, was shot 40 odd times, how many ways can you get out a car!
johnny67448 11 months ago
@johnny67448 I understand where your coming from, Kings books are always better than their movie counter parts, but this movie is still pretty good. The Shining is one of the top horror films to ever be released, while Nicholson didn't play the part of Jack well enough for book fans, he still gave a scary performance that gives people chills to this very day
Beltzer0072 9 months ago
@Beltzer0072 Don't get me wrong, I am not a massive King fan, I stopped reading his books in high school. But The Shining novel has a moral heart that Stanley failed to capture. I did think that the extended version was a improvement on the cinematic release.
johnny67448 9 months ago
Best opening ever after Rambo First Blood opening
Hitchhikeroftheyear 11 months ago
at 1:08 if you pause it at a certain point after the transition, you can see the slight shadow of the helicopter that's recording the shot in the bottom right corner...
DennisBayazitov 11 months ago
What is the name of the song
santsmosh 11 months ago
@santsmosh this is an electronic version of dies irae, this is a medivial hymn often used as a requiem mass or the dead.
sgwolp 11 months ago
this should be in HD
it deserves it
mmmmarcoo 11 months ago
For the payoff and what happens, this is one of the most expertly paced movies ever made. I can't understand how some people say it's too slow. I guess they prefer torture porn and gore to true terror...
1147productions 11 months ago
Four people escaped the 'Overlook Hotel'....
Kristopful 11 months ago
I think this must be the music that plays in the head of every single serial killer.
bobina05 1 year ago
"The Shining" is, in my opinion, creepy, not scary. There's other films that are FAR scarier than this, though I won't deny Kubrick's masterful camera work. This music is the only scary thing about the movie.
Guigley 1 year ago
@Guigley just listen to yourself I guess you did not understood the movie at all .... this is easiest the BEST horror movie of all TIME
elementx16 1 year ago
@Guigley Well, thats the thing. It's a more psychological horror movie, it made you think. Other movies just frequent scary shit pop out or happen. Scene after scene, its scary and makes you think what will happen next, unpredictable in a way.
BigSmoke2222 1 year ago
@BigSmoke2222 Yup, it's the psychological effect that really makes this movie chilling.
cheapcape 1 year ago
Epic opening and theme! It was also heard in The Screaming Skull.
cheapcape 1 year ago 3
scary but not as scary as the music to THE OMEN
Successfulman5229 1 year ago
Four people think that this movie is too scary!
madgeir123 1 year ago 2
totally agree!!! If you heard this music you know your times up!
ste22s 1 year ago 2
@ste22s Try listening to this on a stormy day, wow!
cheapcape 1 year ago
Well it was a long trip but we are almost there
Homer did you remember to lock the front door of the house DOH!!
Well it was a long trip but we are finally almost there again
When you locked the front door did you remember to lock the back door DOH!! DOH!!
Oh no we left grandpa back at the gas station,What about grandpa
Hitchhikeroftheyear 1 year ago
dude i swear if i woke up in the middle of the night to this music i woulda shit myself
stupidmclovin 1 year ago
I think this movie is too slow and dragged out. It's well made though in all ways but those things bother me. Sure it worked and was cool in 2001 but here it didn't fit.
meNtor890 1 year ago
@meNtor890 Dude i agree completly that its slow and dragged, but do u deny its greatness? (of course theres nothing wrong to have a different opinion about the movie)
rotwei 1 year ago
Does anyone know where this opening sequence was filmed? :-)
cchapman71 1 year ago
@cchapman71
The opening is the climb up to the Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood, Oregon, US.
srtmapledene 1 year ago
@srtmapledene
Incorrect. It is filming of the Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park, Montana.
You are right about what hotel is used in the film though.
The movie actually takes place in Colorado.
usszmcv 1 year ago
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I love this movie. This movie is truly impressing and satify the audiences.
wangliangwei 1 year ago
Greatest horror movie music ever. I can only imagine this used in the exorcist ! Much freakier than tubular bells.
skaro73 1 year ago 30
@skaro73 Funny enough, Tubular Bells obsesses on one small portion of this Medieval Gregorian Chant, the DIES IRAE (Day of Wrath) from the Requiem Mass. It is also used in SYMPHONY FANTASTIQUE by Berlioz (used in Sleeping With The Enemy)
courtneygp2 11 months ago
I absolutely love this movie, the music, and the scenes where the cameras pan over the mountains, over what looks to be treacherous drives......
VikingLady219 1 year ago
This.. is the scariest music I ever heard!
panenos 1 year ago 53
@panenos Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Dream of a Witches Sabbath
It was composed after his lover left him and He had dreams of killing her. <3
EmmieMaria 9 months ago
@panenos It's a work of art
gab0624 9 months ago
@panenos Actually it's not that bad
DanNZ4 9 months ago
@panenos I might have to agree with you there it's kind of spooky music
DanNZ4 9 months ago
always play this song on the way up to my grans house
BooJoMan 1 year ago
Only Stanly Kubrick could make a scene as simple as driving along a mountain side THIS SCARY AND CREEPY.
BigSmoke2222 1 year ago 2
@BigSmoke2222 Only people with a vision and budget (but ofc i know you were joking) ;D
rotwei 1 year ago
my favorite movie.
wendyblue7 1 year ago
creepiest opening ever! scary music, fits their "transcedence" to this other world..up in the mountains
AtlantaITGirl 1 year ago
I prefer the start with the old red bubbly Warner Bros. logo as opposed to the shield logo.
stuh1975 1 year ago
Although set in Colorado, none of the movie was shot there.
jimmyhd1969 1 year ago
Y en a un qui connait le nom du morceau original? Si je ne me trompe pas, ça vient d'un chant catholique ancien qui parle du jugement dernier. Avec les choeurs et les paroles en latin, ça défonce tout, mais je connais pas le titre. De l'aide svp.
Please, what is the title of the original song? I know it's an old catholic music speaking about the judgement but....
Magnitude33 1 year ago
@Magnitude33 Et bien je ne vois pas de quoi tu parles, mais ce morceau est très inspirée de "Songe d'une nuit de Sabbat" dans la Symphonie Fantastique de Berlioz. Sinon j'aimerais bien connaître le titre de ce chant catholique aussi !
Maya42390 1 year ago
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@Magnitude33
Et bien je ne vois pas de quoi tu parles, mais ce morceau est très inspirée de "Songe d'une nuit de Sabbat" dans la Symphonie Fantastique de Berlioz. Sinon j'aimerais bien connaître le titre de ce chant catholique aussi !
Maya42390 1 year ago
This intro is amazing
Akumalive 1 year ago
I remember first seeing this when I was about 12 or so, maybe a little older. TOTALLY blew me away. The music, the way it is shot, everything, just gives the effect of such a sense of foreboding. It's so ominous, impending, chilling and unsettling. So subtle, yet so effective. Spectacular backdrop too. A true masterpiece in movie making from Kubrick.
vinyldude1210 1 year ago
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vinyldude1210 1 year ago
creepiest.....thing.....ever
PianoMan53100 1 year ago
Looks like the paramount pictures logo at the end.
canecorsomob 1 year ago
well it was a long trip but we are almost there
Hitchhikeroftheyear 1 year ago
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ORTmusic 1 year ago
best opening to a film ever
wrecker88 1 year ago
Talk about some disturbing music. Why can't they make horror films like this anymore.
blackman26 1 year ago
By far the greatest horror, If not the greatest movie, EVER made!
lemonsthemelon 1 year ago
The way he puts beautiful images of naturalistic scenery and contrasts it with artificial sounding synthesized music totally plays with our expectations of what a horror film should look like. This scene is so isolating. Kubrick is the man, the "maverick outsider" knows how to make a film.
dadplusone 1 year ago
Doesn't this music sound similar to that of the beginning in A Clockwork Orange? The music sounds similar to me, to the point of having the same progression in at least one part.
Bassbait 1 year ago
@Bassbait You're correct Bassbait. The same music is heard at the start of both the Shining and A Clockwork Orange. It's the Dies Irae(Day of Wrath) a 13th century Latin hymn.
JohnWesleyDowney 1 year ago
Any thoughts as to why there's no Hedge Maze in the aerial of the Overlook? In the movie, it's pictured near the entrance; we should be able to see it here. If that discontinuity is supposed to give the film a surreal, disorienting character, well, it comes across as just a careless mistake.
boriato 1 year ago
@boriato Because the hedge maze was built on a set, that is an Arial shot of a real hotel, which doesn't have a maze in front of it.
Nelsonhojax15 1 year ago
@Nelsonhojax15 But then why choose a hotel w/o a hedge maze, yet set it later so close to the hotel? Kubrick is careful about other details he wants us to notice. There are other discontinuities between scenes later in the film, but by then, we';re into it enough that we just accept them as spooky. But when we first se the Hedge Maze, we're not that into it yet ...and it's like: "Hey, wait..."
boriato 1 year ago
sorry, I disagree. This isnt just nostalgia. This was a great culmination of director, actor, author & composer.
sunnyacres23 1 year ago
The Shining is as superior to today's movies as an expensive steak is to a can of spam.
JohnWesleyDowney 1 year ago
ur a psychic kid on a dizzying drive thru the mountains and the vibes ain't getting any better the closer u get to the place....I'm gonna take a stab an guess that the female vocal wailing is probably the lady in the tub waiting for for him......eep, scaring myself better stop....
skylx07 1 year ago
@skylx07 Visiting Colorado (Telluride) in Febuary. I'd love to have this soundtrack and play it while I take a nice scenic drive thru the desolate mountains. I live for this kinda shit.
MyWendal 1 year ago
@MyWendal We could be twins in that respect! I look up vids of driving through Colorado on YouTube and play this with it.
SaxonBrit 1 year ago
@SaxonBrit That's a great idea! That'll hold me over til I get to Telluride.
MyWendal 1 year ago
@MyWendal CO. is the best!
SaxonBrit 1 year ago
@skylx07 Idk lol, but the chanting has to do with the Indian burial ground.
SaxonBrit 1 year ago
Spookiest intro to a movie EVER.
LiveCrueltyFreeNow 1 year ago
Greatest horror movie ever
bassdar87 1 year ago
Beautiful scenery, but when I was a kid, this music scared the shit our of me.
scidriver 1 year ago
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Who are the three downs that doesn´t like this?
gordo64ful 1 year ago
Who are the three downs who doesn´t like this?
gordo64ful 1 year ago
BEST OPENING, BEST SCENES, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST THEME, BEST ACTORS, BEST ACTRESSES, BEST HORROR MOVIE EVER!!!!!!
gordo64ful 1 year ago
The origional Shining movie with Jack Nicholson & Shelly Duval "(Not the tv mini series remake released in the 90s)" was actually filmed at The Timberline Lodge & ski resort in Oregon
darthsideous1968 1 year ago
@darthsideous1968 Most of the movie was filmed in London actually. The outside of the hotel is in Oregon though.
MyWendal 1 year ago
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darthsideous1968 1 year ago
I gotta tell you that even after all these many years since that movie first came out and I saw it in the theateres, This intro STILL gives me the creeps!
A perfect setting for the unknown horrors that await, Isolated hotel in the middle of no where,Restless & tormented spirits and 3 very isolated & vulnerable people, What's not to like?
darthsideous1968 1 year ago
@darthsideous1968 Yep, you'r right. This movie has made quite an impact on me. I never really thought about traveling to Colorado to visit until about five years ago when I bought this on DVD (had only seen parts of it when I was a kid). Now I visit Colorado every year. Even visited The Stanley hotel in Estes Park earlier this year, it was just awesome. The Shining is nothing short of prefection in combining nature's beauty and terror.
MyWendal 1 year ago