filmography: the shining

Jack Torrance moved with his wife and seven year old son to the impressive Overlook Hotel in Colorado to take over the maintenance of facilities during the winter season, when they closed and isolated by the snow. His goal is to find peace and quiet to write a novel. However, shortly after his arrival, while Jackbegins to suffer disturbing personality disorders, begin to produce strange and spooky paranormal phenomena.

Facts about this film:

1. Popularized the use of the Steadicam (a device that allows you to move without the camera shake).
2. In the famous scene of river of blood falling from the elevator doors (known as The River of Blood) you can see a strange object falling near the blood and remains at the entrance of the elevator while the blood continues to fall and flooding the place, it has been several explanations could be a body or a person who just fell off the elevator because of the blood (the latter is unlikely). Only the team knows that Stanley Kubrick filmed that scene repeatedly and that object could have been placed there intentionally.
3. Furthermore, it is unknown exactly what that scene is the elevator doors, but could represent the face of Danny screaming (as you can see him crying when he has the vision of the elevator).
4. The film's final scene (Scene of the table) leaves some doubt about the meaning of seeing the protagonist, Jack in the box. Stanley Kubrick said that that person in the picture is not Jack, but his ancestor.
5. Jack wrote the book that contains a single sentence (All work and no play Makes Jack literally dullboy All work and no distraction makes Jack a dull boy), but this changes depending on the country. The pages of it were written by Kubrick himself using a programmable typewriter. Spanish versions usually choose to translate the phrase "Not by much earlier wakes up early."
6. The poster PPV Backlash 2007 WWE wrestler Edge's face is going through a door, such as when Jack chases Wendy with an ax.
7. The Simpsons also made a parody of the film in an episode of "Night Witches" called The resplandior (according to them, to avoid paying royalties).
8. In a survey in England, The Shining was voted the second scariest movie of all time, behind The Exorcist.
9. The voice actors in the Spanish version were selected by Kubrick himself.

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filmography: A Clockwork Orange

Britain in the indefinite future. Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is a very aggressiveyoung man with two passions, unbridled violence and Beethoven. Is the head ofthe gang of droogs, who indulge their wild instincts beating, raping andterrorizing the population. When the escalation of terror comes to murder, Alex is arrested and in prison, he voluntarily submitted to an innovative rehabilitationexperience that aims to dramatically cancel any hint of antisocial behavior.

Facts about this film

1. In 1971, Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), a charismatic and sociopathic criminal, leader of a small gang called the "droogs" first came to the silver screen to become a social and even political icon with his strange love Beethoven, sex and ultraviolence in the film "A Clockwork Orange."
2. The original title of the film is "The Clockwork Orange". "Orange" in English, means "orange", but in reality, the origin of the title comes from the word "Ourang" Malay speech, Anthony Burgess, author of the book, took from his days in Malaysia, and literally means "person". Thus, the writer made a pun, so the true meaning of the title is "mechanical man". That is, after applying Alex Ludovico treatment.
3. In the scene where Alex envisions a movie for the first time as part of treatment "Ludovico" is the image of Roman Polanski being beaten.
4. To select U.S. theaters where it premiered "A Clockwork Orange", Stanley Kubrick did a market study was to average the number of spectators who received the screening room with the kind of films that were there.
5. When Alex enters the room and enter the tape of the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven on his stereo, a tape previously extracted Giorgi Lyghety composer, who also wrote the soundtrack of "2001: A Space Odyssey"
6. While filming the sequence where Alex is subjected to the Ludovico treatment, Malcolm McDowell suffered a little damage to their corneas, the same which left him blind for a few days. During filming, also crack ribs, though this time in the scene where he is beaten and humiliated on stage.
7. During the classic sequence where Alex beats Mr. Alexander (Patrick Magee), Kubrick told McDowell: "As long as you hit it, sing something, anything you like, whatever." McDowell then began to sing the song "Singin 'In The Rain", as it was the only song she knew the words.
8. The sequence in which snake appears called "Basil" was introduced stealthily by Kubrick when he learned that Malcolm McDowell will have a phobia of reptiles.
9. By 1968, Mick Jagger, leader of the legendary "Rolling Stones", was interested to film "A Clockwork Orange." The Alex would play while the rest of the "Stones", Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards and Brian Jones were the "droogs". Anthony Burgess declined sharply.
10. Alex's suicide was achieved by pulling the camera from the roof of a roof. On the 6th attempt in front of the camera fell as intended and the engine was in perfect condition and be used to stage it.
11. Stanley Kubrick based the screenplay of "A Clockwork Orange" in the American edition of the book by Anthony Burgess, obviated the same as Chapter 21, where Alex was tired of ultraviolence, considering the possibility to marry and settle down.

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filmography: 2001: A Space Odyssey

The science fiction film par excellence of the film narrates the history of various periods of history not only of past but also the future. Millions of years ago, before the appearance of "homo sapiens", some primates find a monolith that leads to a state of higher intelligence. Millions of years later, another monolithburied on a moon, is attractive to scientists. Finally, during a NASA mission, HAL 9000, a machine with artificial intelligence, is responsible for controlling all systems in a manned spacecraft.

Facts about this film

1. Kubrick didn't use credits at the beginning of the film, something quite unusual at the time of its release (1968).
2. In the beginning of the film, "The Dawn of Man", initially were not monkeys but a kind of "Peking Man", that is the predecessor to Homo Sapiens, so Stuart Freeborn (the make up of the film) made some awesome designs of half-naked men. The problem was that they saw Kubrick wanted to be totally naked actors, but the censorship did not allow MGM, which made Freeborn a prosthetic make up for those sexual parts, but not convinced Kubrick. He thought of putting on a loincloth, but was out of style, so I told Kubrick to Freeborn, to return to do all the make up on the basis of apes.
3. When HAL is being disconnected, sings the song "Daisy". "Daisy" was the first song played by a non-mechanical computer
4. the film "WALL-E" (2008) is a tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey, because of the large ships and relationships of certain characters, such as FSC (both the name and appearance is the same) The pilot AUTO AXIOM is similar to HAL 9000, the nave and other datos.También could be taken as a tribute to the total absence of dialogue until after the half hour movie.
5. In the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Tim Burton, in the scene where Wonka shows his chocolate transmission system for television signals, chocolate appears replacing the monolith of 2001: A Space Odyssey at the scene of "dawn of man ", background sounds Thus Spoke Zarathustra
6. In Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange, in the scene where the protagonist Alex is in a record store, appears in the central desk in the window the cover of one LP, 2001.
7. In the television series Futurama and The Simpsons (Halloween Special The Simpsons XII) are often made this film parodies.
8. In the television series South Park is a parody of "The Dawn of Man" in the episode "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society".
9. The episode entitled UHG (SpongeBob BC) of the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. The episode shows how the characters were in the stone age.Perhaps the most obvious similarity is the scene in which SpongeBob having an idea about how to use fire, background sounds Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

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