Film psychology THE SHINING spatial awareness and set design 1of2
Category: FilmAuthor: robag88
Published (on YouTube): 2011-07-19
Published (here): 2012-04-18
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How Stanley Kubrick used Escher-styled spacial awareness & set design anomolies to disorientate viewers of his horror classic The Shining. This is a must for serious Kubrick fans and psychology students. Written, narrated and edited by Rob Ager Visit my website for more film and psychology related videos http://www.collativelearning.com/ My full analysis of The Shining can be found here: http://www.collativelearning.com/the%20shining.html My other analysis articles and videos include: Mulholland Drive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NinKN3n1uK0 A Clockwork Orange http://www.collativelearning.com/ACO%20expanded%20analysis%20.html 2001: A Space Odyssey http://www.collativelearning.com/2001%20analysis%20new.html Full Metal Jacket http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdfCTAqO9pw
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Comments on «Film psychology THE SHINING spatial awareness and set design 1of2»:
robag88 on 2012-04-09The video addresses ...
The video addresses that possibility. Give it a watch until the end :)
audengrey on 2012-04-09
Maybe it was just ...
Maybe it was just about time and money, I should imagine building these sets costs a fortune, so even the great Stanley might of cut a few corners ?
robag88 on 2012-04-03
Thanks. The room ...
Thanks. The room along the wall opposite room 237 have room numbers on them and its unlikely they'd all be utility closets and the boiler room is shown in the basement. The mirros doors inside Room 237 definitely lead into the apartment. We see them open behind Jack as he backs away from the old woman later and can see the hall outside.
lobstertexas on 2012-04-02
The Shining is my ...
The Shining is my most favorite movie of all time and I appreciate the time you took to make this, though if you will, some of your claims of impossibility are a stretch: Often times in older hotels, access to a larger room's hot water heater closet (taking up no more than 2 sqft) was via the hallway, so in actuality, the doorways you say are impossible could theoretically be a small utility closet. Also in Room 237, the mirrored doorway you say is impossible: why couldn't that be the closet?
87TheProdigy87 on 2012-04-01
It is too hard to ...
It is too hard to make a top ten, there are too many that would be left out. I could probably only make a top ten if it was put into genres, though it would still be hard to decide what's better than what.
robag88 on 2012-04-01
The films I make ...
The films I make videos out are mostly my favourites, though there are much more straight-laced films that I really like too, but too hard to pick a top ten.
87TheProdigy87 on 2012-04-01
you are unreal at ...
you are unreal at analyzing, also all the movies you've analyzed so far are epic. What are your top 10 films of all time? tough question i know
bakkabakka12 on 2012-03-26
Oh I get it. If ...
Oh I get it. If readers hit 'see all' they can view below the comments the author here didn't want them to. First he deleted them, then when i reposted he marked them as spam so I would still see them but they'd be hidden from everyone else.
longhorns13192 on 2012-03-25
the camera work in ...
the camera work in this movie is brilliant
Hyminym on 2012-03-25
This is incredible
This is incredible
calaphasto on 2012-03-22
This is amazing. ...
This is amazing. Well done, sir. On to part two!
bakkabakka12 on 2012-03-17
Yes.
Yes.
bakkabakka12 on 2012-03-17
Arbitary= no ...
Arbitary= no logical process or sequence of cause and effect presented between observation and conclusion. That doesn't apply to what I said, however what you just said is a shining example.
iluvgaara123 on 2012-03-17
I think when the ...
I think when the people come out of what was supposedly the exterior, it's a door. That seems simple enough to me. 
BocoCorwin on 2012-03-17
that's your ...
that's your arbitrary conclusion 
bakkabakka12 on 2012-03-10
How do you do that ...
How do you do that thing where you make my comments invisible to everyone but me? Since you tolerate simple abuse it must be that you don't have a defense against my observations that there is nothing special or unusual about set design that isn't architecturally logical. You make good observations in your videos but draw arbitrary conclusions.
LapisLazuliFMA on 2012-03-10
That's what I love ...
That's what I love about Kubrick movies.
BludtheThursty on 2012-03-10
Me either, and I've ...
Me either, and I've watched it, what? 6-7 times? It takes one part neurosis and one part OCD, with a dash of interest, to notice this kind of thing.
MarlonTeVrede on 2012-03-09
This is why the ...
This is why the shining is a piece of art! is anyone realy thinking that kubrick missed some... lol, c' mon,.. the guy's a genius... and topics like this,... so many years later,.. prove it :)
bakkabakka12 on 2012-03-09
Also.. if ...
Also.. if disorientation was Kubrick's goal he achieved it through more obvious means like the recurring motif of the maze in the architectural repetition of the halls and other rooms, and the pattern of the carpet, and the similarly styled steadicam travelling shots through both the halls and the hedge maze.
bakkabakka12 on 2012-03-09
What you're ...
What you're obsessing over is just part of filmmaking. There are unimportant continuity errors and cheats in every film. The underlying conspiracy? Time and money is saved.... Sure, Kubrick had far more resources and gave more attention to detail than most filmmakers but I suggest he had more important and interesting concerns than the ones you're attributing to him here.
LapisLazuliFMA on 2012-03-06
Whoa. I didn't ...
Whoa. I didn't notice any of this when I was watching it.