version

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Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I was struck by the colour of the opening credits in the shining.

They're a light blue, it looks very weird and gauche and not at all what you'd expect for a notionally horrifying and tasteful movie.

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It's so strange that you figure there MUST be a good reason why he's done that.

I found it impressive, because he's not done the "tasteful" thing. He's done something bizarre. Perhaps it even contributes to that sense of unease and unreality?
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
It's not the islanders I find funny. It's him. You're watching a man being driven spare. It's like winding up the teacher in school.
Well put. Oh man I feel really guilty about the bullying some teachers faced from us - flicking ink on their shirts every time they turned round, constantly throwing stuff, putting them in a wicker man and burning them alive, one time someone threw someone else's pen out the window on to the roof and she made such a fuss about how it was a present and she had to go out and get it so in the end the teacher went and then someone shut the window and left him helplessly trapped on the roof.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
That's another one of those things where the film is subconsciously drawing on the audience's horrific darkside

You sympathise with Jack taking the axe to his annoying family. You want to see the pious policeman get burned alive.
 

version

Well-known member
I was struck by the colour of the opening credits in the shining.

They're a light blue, it looks very weird and gauche and not at all what you'd expect for a notionally horrifying and tasteful movie.

sh_op3.jpg


It's so strange that you figure there MUST be a good reason why he's done that.

I found it impressive, because he's not done the "tasteful" thing. He's done something bizarre. Perhaps it even contributes to that sense of unease and unreality?
 

version

Well-known member
In the 1980 horror classic, Kurkrick had used a similar mountain terrain in its scenery. Scott recalled the brilliant opening of the Jack Nicholson film and how it had employed the expert use of an overhead shot—Scott would use the same technique to end his sci-fi masterpiece.

According to Scott, he called Kubrick to discuss the issue he was facing with the ending to his film then, without thinking twice, Kubrick delivered the goods: “The next day I had seventeen hours of helicopter footage; it was stunning,” Scott once said. “So the end of the film in Blade Runner, that’s Stanley Kubrick’s footage…”

The day after, as Scott was trying to get his head around the mountain of new footage, he got a phone call: “It’s Stanley. One other thing. I know you’re going through my footage right now. If there’s anything I used, you can’t have it. Got it?”
 

luka

Well-known member
"It's so strange that you figure there MUST be a good reason why he's done that.

I found it impressive, because he's not done the "tasteful" thing. He's done something bizarre. Perhaps it even contributes to that sense of unease and unreality?`"

i feel really troubled by this
 

luka

Well-known member
i really can't tell if corpsey has read the posts i made a few minutes earlier about this effect or if he hasn't. im not saying i invented the idea, everyone has had it. i just can't tell what's going on. it's really anxiety provoking.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
It's not the islanders I find funny. It's him. You're watching a man being driven spare. It's like winding up the teacher in school.

The thing I really love about this film is Ingrid Pitt’s cameo.

Kubrick is a fraud.
 
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