The Shining (1980) | One of the greatest horror films ever made, Kubrick's masterpiece!

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J W Rinzler has a pretty extensive book out on The Shining and he refutes a lot of the notions about the production of the movies especially the treatment of Duvall. He has the famous baseball bat scene as way fewer takes and nowhere near the over 100 and world record shots that is purported. I actually think the most takes were with Scatman in one of his scenes. It was a very stressful set. There's a really good little scene in the doc that Kubrick's daughter made during the shooting where Nichalson is joking that the script is unimportant because every day Stanley hand him the revised scene to be shoot with all new dialog that he's gotta learn immediately. Truly the only happy and unstressed person had to be Danny Lloyd who didn't know he was in an iconic horror movie til years later.

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In terms of the number of scenes shot the most, the baseball bat scene is often cited in various sources with 127 shots, but you're right, Scatman Crothers and Danny Lloyd's conversation about shining was shot 148 times. The world record for reshoots of a scene without dialogue is Charlie Chaplin's City lights (1931) with 342 takes. Shelley Duvall herself has said in various interviews that her mental well-being suffered significantly during the filming process of The Shining. "From May until October, I was really in and out of ill health because the stress of the role was so great. Stanley pushed me and prodded me further than I've ever been pushed before." The actress remembered enduring exhausting 15-hour days filming the horror scenes, she have to cry 12 hours a day, all day long, the nine months straight, five or six days a week. It is often misunderstood that Stanley Kubrick behaved badly towards Duvall. Kubrick, as a perfectionist, pushed Duvall further in scenes, but he did not misbehave towards Duvall or anyone else. Although according to reports, Kubrick subjected Duvall to bullying on set and treated her differently compared to other actors. Later, Shelly Duvall has said that her memories of Stanley Kubrick are good.