I want to stay here forever....and ever....and ever!

:popcorn: :popcorn:

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I'm glad you like it!

give me the bat...

The redbuds are in bloom out here, and every time I pass one I gots to hold my finger up and say "REDBUD! REDBUD!!!!"

and interrupt me you're breaking my concentration...you're DISTRACTING me! And it will then take me time to get back to where I was!"

One of them actually stole a pack of matches, and tried to burn it down. But I corrected them sir. And when my wife tried to prevent me from doing my duty, I corrected her.

...or something like that. That line always jumped out at me. One of my favs for sure!

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you have to admit some of the scenes were just plain creepy

But overall... I think it's just like pretty much every other Kubrick movie not named Dr. Strangelove - he tries way too hard to be artistic and fucks up basic parts of the plot in the process.

I had to endure

...seeing as the Overlook burned down and all...

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....just kidding. That's a good question, I may have to research that!

http://www.disinfotainmenttoday.com/darenet/kubrick.htm

They still look freaky.

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Love angryalien!

:hi: Richardo!!! :pals:

From imdb.com:

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 on a soundstage in London, England. 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 nonexistent 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" ("Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today"). For the Spanish version, it was "No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano" ("Although one will rise early, it won't dawn sooner."). For the French version, it was "Un 'Tiens' vaut mieux que deux 'Tu l'auras'" ("A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush").

Stanley Kubrick ordered more than 120 takes in the scene where the camera simply slowly zooms in on Scatman Crothers as he "shines" in his bedroom. Kubrick originally wanted approximately 70 takes of the scene where Halloran gets killed by Jack Torrance, but Jack Nicholson talked Kubrick into going easy on the 70 year-old Crothers and stopping after 40. At one point during the filming, Crothers became so exasperated with Kubrick's notorious, compulsive style of excessive retakes that he broke down and cried, asking "What do you want, Mr. Kubrick?"

Nicholson ad-libbed the line "Here's Johnny!"

Every time Jack talks to a "ghost", there's a mirror in the scene (except in the food locker scene, because in the food locker scene he only talks to Grady through the door). So in those scenes, Jack is essentially talking to himself.

At the time of release, it was the policy of the MPAA to not allow the portrayal of blood in trailers that would be approved for all audiences. In order to overcome this, Kubrick convinced the board that was approving the trailer that the blood flooding out of the elevator was actually rusty water.

Because Danny Lloyd was so young and since it was his first acting job, Stanley Kubrick was highly protective of the child. Through clever and creative directing, Danny didn't know he was working on a horror movie until after it was released.

For the scene in which Jack breaks down the bathroom door, the props department built a door that could be easily broken. However, Jack Nicholson worked as a volunteer fire marshal and tore it apart easily. The props department were then forced to build a stronger door.

Anjelica Huston lived with Jack Nicholson during the time of the shooting. She recalled that, due to the long hours on the set and Stanley Kubrick's trademark style of repetitive takes, Nicholson would often return from a day's shooting, walk straight to the bed, collapse onto it and would immediately fall asleep.

Tony Burton, who had a brief role as Larry Durkin the garage owner, arrived on set one day carrying a chess set in hopes of getting in a game with someone during a break from filming. Stanley Kubrick, an avid chess player who had in his youth played for money, noticed the chess set. Despite production being behind schedule, Kubrick proceeded to call off filming for the day and engage in a set of games with Burton. Even though Kubrick won each game, Burton said the director thanked him since it had been some time that he'd played against a challenging opponent.