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Chris_morris (Chris_morris)
Username: Chris_morris

Registered: 04-2008
Posted From: 12.165.240.116
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2011 - 05:12 pm:   

Maybe it's me, but I find this fascinating ...

http://www.collativelearning.com/the%20shining%20-%20chap%204.html
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Kate (Kathleen)
Username: Kathleen

Registered: 09-2009
Posted From: 86.131.51.242
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2011 - 05:46 pm:   

So did I, Chris! Someone posted it on FB a while back and I was captivated by the whole thing. Obsessive and strange but very interesting!
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.176.250.238
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2011 - 05:51 pm:   

Very obsessive indeed! I suspect a lot of it is down to economics and available space, rather than Kubrick deliberately misleading his audience.
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Kate (Kathleen)
Username: Kathleen

Registered: 09-2009
Posted From: 86.131.51.242
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2011 - 05:57 pm:   

With any other director I might think that, Mick. But it's Kubrick.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.66.23.11
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2011 - 06:07 pm:   

I think he's just filmed in random corridors not thinking that anyone would be quite anal enough to go into that kind of analysis of the film...
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.66.23.11
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2011 - 06:08 pm:   

and who's to say there's not an enclosed courtyard in the hotel... that would account for the window behind the bosses office where allegedlt there should be corridors.
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Joel (Joel)
Username: Joel

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.37.199.45
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2011 - 08:07 pm:   

This is the kind of mentality that gave us Rear Window: from 'He's a foot higher in the kitchen' to 'That's where he buried his wife'. We should not be ungrateful.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.176.250.238
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2011 - 09:45 pm:   

With any other director I might think that, Mick. But it's Kubrick.

Yerse, but pretty much any film you can think of has some minor (and in some cases, major) continuity flaws. In the 'eighties and 'nineties I read everything I could find about Kubrik, and not once did I come across this; most of the stuff I read concerning THE SHINING was from folk who'd worked on the film but I don't recall anyone mentioning this. That said, I'd love to be proved wrong as it is, admittedly, most intriguing.
However, the (tiny) sensible part of my brain keeps insisting it's down to nothing more than the logistics of cramming as much "hotel" as he was able to in the space in which Kubrik had to film. Some of the maze stuff could be down to continuity, particularly the changes between the maze as shown early in the film, and how it looks later, as a lot of the snowy maze was shot indoors, whereas the earlier scenes were outdoors.
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Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 178.118.74.64
Posted on Monday, August 15, 2011 - 11:36 pm:   

One thing I've always found disconcerting in 2001 is the spacious living quarters located in the Discovery's carrousel, for diametrically speaking this carrousel appears to be much wider than the sphere it's supposed to be housed in. When the ship's spherical head is seen from outside, one definitely cannot help but wonder where this carrousel is located. To compound matters when one of the pod bay doors is open you get a clear view of the 'garage' with the three pods in it, and this room alone takes up a considerable amount of space; where is the carrousel?
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.176.250.238
Posted on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 12:17 am:   

I guess it's always possible that it's horizontal, Hubert, but I know what you mean about the size...
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 109.145.132.240
Posted on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 12:20 am:   

20,000 Leagues under the sea - unless the Nautilus has Tardislike properties the dimensions Jules Verne describes cannot possibly contain the rooms contained within...

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