 nospoons
Male, 18-29, Australia
 184 Posts
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Friday, July 29, 2011 5:15:03 AM
Cannot decide if it was intentional or just for convenience sake, for example "I want windows in the living room and in the bathroom, so lets just make that happen", as opposed to "let's disorientate people",
Extra doors were just about making it seem like there were more rooms.
This is clearly just pretentious over-analysis by english majors. |
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 phoneybone
Male, 18-29, Western US
1750 Posts
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:18:36 AM
this looks/sounds more like horrible set design then intentional attempts at disorientation |
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 Listypoos
Male, 30-39, Europe
1535 Posts
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 9:50:41 AM
procyan... way to go on a grammar fail - of course disorientate is a word.... look it up in any good English dictionary.
As far as the film goes... it wasn't that interesting to me, but it did make me go fish out my Shining DVD to watch later. |
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 Matwix_2004
Male, 18-29, Europe
2101 Posts
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 1:56:43 AM
Lol. The link I submitted with this had the second video too.
The second part:
http://tinyurl.com/4xofuee |
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 CrakrJak
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
14460 Posts
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 12:15:28 AM
GHudston: You should watch the 2nd part of this. It's obvious that Kubrick deliberately made the hotel confusing to unnerve the movie viewer and make them feel lost in the huge scale of the sets.
The exterior was based on the Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood and The interior was loosely based on the Awhanee Hotel in Yosemite Park, but the maze never existed in real life. Make no mistake all the non-aerial shots were filmed at Elstree Studios.
My cousin visited the Awhanee Hotel and was rather creeped out by it's similarities.
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 Razeiel
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
32 Posts
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 12:06:45 AM
Now you're thinking with portals. *original* |
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 Omphaloskept
Male, 40-49, Southern US
183 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:29:19 PM
@Devilpillar: Thanks for commentating. |
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 Demstar_Aus
Female, 18-29, Australia
108 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 9:19:40 PM
He also didn't mention that you can't see the hedge maze in the aerial footage of the hotel. |
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 DickenMcHunt
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1140 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 8:32:28 PM
That was awesome! |
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 MrTwidget
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
751 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 7:07:19 PM
What is this, a 9/11 debunking? It's a MOVIE. |
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 Buzzard250
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
345 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:20:21 PM
2001 was way more disorienting. |
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 Devilpillar
Male, 13-17, Europe
37 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:51:32 PM
@Procyon19
Well, I love to be the Grammar-Nazi, and I can assure you that "disorientate" is a word. |
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 Procyon19
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
4 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:14:29 PM
I hate to be the Grammar-Nazi, however, "disorientate" is not a real word. The use of "disorientate" makes one seem uneducated and hickish. The proper usage would be "disorient." No wonder the rest of the world looks at us Americans with contempt! They think that we are ALL a bunch of idiot rednecks because of stuff like this! |
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 xelous
Male, 18-29, Western US
2535 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 2:52:34 PM
That is nuts that he put so much effort making things appear off. Either that or what Omphaloskept said, just the set designer making things look 'pretty' and Kubrick got kudos for it |
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 dramaeco
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
306 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 2:46:07 PM
Ya um... I'm all for directors trying all kinds of mind tricks, but... I dunno this just looks like a crappy job of continuity to me...
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 TR-Wolf
Male, 18-29, Europe
1565 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 2:09:34 PM
I mistakenly clicked this thinking it was going to be interesting rather than an extremely dull Liverpool accent droning on about incorrect architecture. If it was a real hotel/building used then yeah, but it was a set, so the argument holds no water. I'd have thought they'd have used a proper hotel/building, it certainly looks like one. I wonder why they didn't. |
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 angelo0317
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
335 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 2:04:03 PM
This is pretty cool to watch, buuuut, who gives a freak? |
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nomnomnom
Male, 40-49, Western US
12 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:36:57 PM
@survivalist: from IMDB: "The Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in Oregon was used for the front exterior, but all the interiors as well as the back of the hotel were specially built at Elstree Studios in London, England."
This isn't necessarily an authoritative source, but is consistent with what I've seen elsewhere. |
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Omphaloskept
Male, 40-49, Southern US
183 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:32:28 PM
Many of these points may be valid -- Kubrik (and I'm a big fan) played to his tortured genius reputation plenty -- but I bet most of the inconsistencies noted here are just set-design tricks to create the illusion of a bigger space than they were filming in. |
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bentley22
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
245 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:31:18 PM
that was so lame. So so lame. I've never been so bored. |
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 survivalist
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
32 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 1:18:31 PM
now why didnt he get blue prints of the stanley hotel? or rather just visit it? its right here in estes park colorado, still standing! |
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 scarstar
Male, 30-39, Western US
8 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:36:31 PM
I think the narrator needs to take a page from the MST3K handbook and realize, "Repeat to yourself, 'It's just a show', I should really just relax." |
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 Finker
Male, 40-49, Europe
482 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:35:59 PM
At least conspiracy theorists have some ambition in their elaborate fantasies. |
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 asurazero
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
185 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:23:39 PM
i suppose it was never meant to be functional...
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23998 Posts
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:07:40 PM
Well some movie directors are smart, is it safe to say that about him |
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