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The Shining today would look like this...

I've never seen The Shining, but I'm guessing the tone of that fake commercial was a bit different than the tone of the movie, because I remember seeing the 1st scene of that movie once, and it wasn't so quaint. :p
 
OMG that was too funny! :D

I guess the audience is in for quite a treat. :p
 
Awwww, am I the only one who thinks that would be a really cute movie? :eek:

So...were those clips remixed from actual Shining footage (plus new music, obviously), or where did the material for that "trailer" come from? :)
 
mkrishnan said:
Awwww, am I the only one who thinks that would be a really cute movie? :eek:

So...were those clips remixed from actual Shining footage (plus new music, obviously), or where did the material for that "trailer" come from? :)
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from what i remember of the movie those were real clips. right before bad things happened many times :)
 
LOL, that is hilarious. Yes, those are actual clips from the horror movie the Shining. However, they are all taken completely out of context. For example, when the kid is running down the hall, it is for his life. Also when they show him kissing that girl, it is actual the "ghost" or memory of a person who committed suicide there, that was a gross scene.
 
That was the funniest thing I have ever seen on MacRumors. I'm an ENORMOUS Kubrick fan and this made my day. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the clip.

:D :D :D :D
 
NY Times article on the editor

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29 — Robert Ryang, 25, a film editor’s assistant in Manhattan, graduated from Columbia three years ago with a double major in film studies and psychology. This week, he got an eye-opening lesson in both.

Since 2002, Mr. Ryang has worked for one of the owners of P.S. 260, a commercial postproduction house, cutting commercials for the likes of Citizens Bank, Cingular and the TriBeCa Film Festival.

A few weeks back, he said, he entered a contest for editors’ assistants sponsored by the New York chapter of the Association of Independent Creative Editors. The challenge? Take any movie and cut a new trailer for it — but in an entirely different genre. Only the sound and dialogue could be modified, not the visuals, he said.

Mr. Ryang chose “The Shining,” Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. In his hands, it became a saccharine comedy — about a writer struggling to find his muse and a boy lonely for a father. Gilding the lily, he even set it against “Solsbury Hill,” the way-too-overused Peter Gabriel song heard in comedies billed as life-changing experiences, like last year’s “In Good Company.”

Mr. Ryang won the contest, and about 10 days ago, he said, he sent three friends a link to a “secret site” on his company’s Web site where they could watch his entry (www.ps260.com/molly/SHINING FINAL.mov).

One of them, Mr. Ryang said, posted it on his little-watched blog. And that was that. Until this week, when he was hit by a tsunami of Internet interest.

On Wednesday, Mr. Ryang said, his secret site got 12,000 hits. By Thursday the numbers were even higher, his film was being downloaded and linked to on countless other sites, it had cracked the top 10 most popular spoofs on www.ifilm.com, and a vice president at a major Hollywood studio had called up his office, scouting for new talent.

“He said it’s being circulated everywhere in the film community,” Mr. Ryang said of the executive, not wanting to name the man for fear of alienating him. “He wanted to know who I was, and if I had any creative ideas. I told him I’d put together a reel.”

Mr. Ryang said that he was blown away by the experience, and that his boss wasn’t exactly angry, despite the computer system’s nearly having crashed, because of all the attention he had won for P.S. 260.

Though, it seems, the attention was directed more specifically at Mr. Ryang — who is suddenly being forced to rethink his future as an assistant.

“People have been calling producers here, asking about who made it,” he said. “I really didn’t realize how fast the world moves.”
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Haha.

I think the scariest part of the movie is the lady. I don't remember her name.
 
Shelly Duval?

I saw this movie when I was 8. You can't imagine how scary this movie was for me. :(
 
EJBasile said:
Haha.

I think the scariest part of the movie is the lady. I don't remember her name.
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I was going to say the same thing - her name's Shelley Duvall. There's one quick cut away to a close up of her that made me jump the first time I saw it. Scariest moment in the film.
 
OMG I saw a ghost today! I swear! I even took a pic.
ShiningShelleyMes.jpg

I can't even remember how long ago I saw that movie.
 
Heh. That's like Stanley Kubrick's most masterful cinematic shot. That image scared the s**t out of me when I was younger. No bloody gore but really really scary. Kubrick was a master at this. He kinda lost it with Eyes Wide Sh*t. :D
 
Brilliant! That made me laugh hard.

What's ridiculous, is that version would probably do pretty well in today's theaters.

Funny how those scenes take on a whole new light with that ultra happy song behind them....and the horrifying parts left out helps too.
 
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