00:00Filming for The Shining lasted a total of 11 months, from May 1978 to April 1979.
00:06And on this set, Stanley Kubrick would establish his reputation as a tyrant.
00:12Many accounts agree that he gave a lot of attention to Danny Lloyd,
00:16that he took great care of him and took care of him.
00:18He even went so far as to organize an Easter egg hunt for the children present on set.
00:22The former actor, now a biology teacher, has fond memories of the shoot and says this.
00:27“Stanley was great, I remember him playing catch with me, catching the ball, stuff like that.
00:33He was a tall guy with a beard.
00:35But I don't remember being afraid of him, being intimidated or anything like that."
00:41At the time, Jack Nicholson was a star, one of the most prominent actors in Hollywood.
00:45And Kubrick, who already wanted to make him his Napoleon in the director's aborted project,
00:49gives him plenty of room to maneuver and gives him his full attention.
00:52Despite this, Nicholson was still challenged by the director's working methods.
00:56And with all the irony he is known for, he did not hide the fact.
01:26Because yes, contrary to what many people think, Kubrick is not a perfectionist.
01:31Quite often chooses his camera angles by feeling and very often leaves it to his imagination
01:35drastically modify a scene at the last minute to the great ladies of the actresses and actors
01:39who have to juggle multiple scripts.
01:41But what the actresses and actors who have worked with Stanley Kubrick since Lolita have experienced,
01:58It's his very particular method which consists of shooting more than 50 takes of a scene, even the most ordinary one.
02:03This is what Nicholson said about it.
02:05It will restart a scene 50 times and you have to be good at doing it.
02:09There are so many ways to get into a room, order breakfast
02:12or being afraid of dying in a closet.
02:14Stanley's approach is as follows.
02:16How can we do even better than anything that has been done before?
02:19It's a huge challenge.
02:20Many actors give him what he wants.
02:22If you don't, he'll give you a hard time.
02:24With a velvet glove, of course.
02:27So what's behind it?
02:29Exaggerated perfectionism?
02:30Or a simple lack of confidence in his ability to direct his actors?
02:34Hard to say, but many have lost their minds on set with this method.
02:37Scatman Cruises in particular, who plays Dick, the chef of the Overlook,
02:4270 years old at the time of filming and who suffered greatly at the hands of Kubrick.
02:46The scene where he explains The Shining to Danny has been shot over a hundred times,
02:50same for the scene where he presents the pantry.
02:52And besides, during the filming of this scene, he cracks,
02:55bursts into tears and clearly asks the director what he wants
02:57and where it is in his interest to go so far.
02:59An excerpt from the making-of directed by Vivian Kubrick, the director's daughter,
03:03shows this poor Scatman on the verge of burnout,
03:06who starts to cry while explaining what a wonderful experience it was.
03:09But his eyes don't lie, he is mentally exhausted.
03:29Thanks for watching this video!
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