00:00We're film nerds. So whenever you get to a drive-in movie sequence and you decide to put The Shining up on screen, you know, we all get a kick out of your choice of what film that's going to be. I'm just genuinely curious if there was a reason why you picked The Shining as the movie that was showing during the drive-in.
00:16And I had that in mind almost at the very beginning of the production process. And I told the studio, I want to see on that screen a part of The Shining where Nicholson with his axe breaks through the wall and comes right at it.
00:38Because I basically created five different tornadoes. The first one was kind of like a pretty boy, beautiful, but not knowing what to do. The second one was like basically always talking to each other. And they really, that became the double water tornado.
00:58You know, another one was the big bully and the big bully that was a second to my, that was him. And I wanted to see him as the big bully as his face comes through.
01:07And they said, oh, you never get that from Kubrick. But I had spoken to Kubrick once before and he had, by that time, seen Speed and he loved it. And he said, absolutely, you can do that. And no problem at all. And it was so great to really, because the studio absolutely didn't believe it.
01:32Because it was the same studio that represented his movies. And they said, no, no, you can't, let me try it. And he said, absolutely. It was so great.
01:44Did you call him or write a letter or?
01:47No, we have to, yeah. The first studio wrote very polite letters, but that's not how it really works. You have to really, and also, I mean, one of my childhood, when I was still living in Amsterdam,
02:02so the very first movie on the big screen I ever saw was 2001. I went to London in the first week of the opening of the movie. And I was totally blown away. Like that type of storytelling, that kind of visual storytelling was so revealing, so new, so exciting. And, and since then, I've been an eternal fan of Kubrick.
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