![]() ![]() But in terms of why I really got obsessed, it got me wanting to understand how movies were made, and ‘The Shining’ was a good thing for me to think about. So I think that’s part of why it was important to me. And I’d never thought of it that way before. And it was ‘The Shining,’ and what subsequently led to in terms of seeing other Kubrick films and expanding my palette of cinema that made me see film as art and directors as artists. Prior to ‘The Shining,’ I think I just saw movies as entertainment and nothing more. One, which is a more surface thing: It really was the film that inspired me to make movies. “I think it really came down to two things. Read More: 23.7 Facts About Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ “ Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining” book Courtesy of Taschen On his decades-long obsession with “The Shining.” He spoke to IndieWire about the outsized influence the film has had on his life and career - and why the Guinness Book of World Records is wrong about “The Shining.” In any event, Unkrich can now put his obsession with “The Shining” to rest. All excised scenes were returned directly to Kubrick and were subsequently destroyed. It is speculated that audiences found it too confusing. and New York after the opening weekend and before wider release. Kubrick ordered the scene cut by editors in L.A. However, Unkrich’s search for the Holy Grail - the deleted hospital epilogue where hotel manager Ullman (Barry Nelson) visits Wendy and Danny and tells them that nothing out of the ordinary occurred at The Overlook - was unsuccessful, save for some rare color frames that have been restored and reproduced in the book. It took 12 years to complete, but the result is an invaluable resource that brings us closer to understanding Kubrick’s meticulous and idiosyncratic methodology - and debunks some entrenched myths about the set. Unkrich conducted most of the interviews (including Shelley Duvall and child actor Danny Lloyd) and paid Rinzler out of pocket to write the book. Rinzler (“The Making of Star Wars” and “The Complete Making of Indiana Jones”), so they joined forces. He pitched his proposal to the Kubrick estate but learned that he had a rival in the late J.W. Unkrich was like a kid in Kubrick’s candy store, and the seeds were planted for this definitive book. ‘It Wasn’t Just a Case of Doing Cool Sh*t’: Why ‘The Mother’ Fight Scenes Smart Then he visited the Kubrick Archive during the London press tour for “Toy Story 3.” But over the years, Unkrich became frustrated at the lack of information - and the surfeit of misinformation - about the making of the film. Not surprisingly, “The Shining” shaped his career when he joined Pixar as an editor on “Toy Story,” flourishing for 25 years as co-director (“Monsters, Inc.” and “Finding Nemo”) and director (the Oscar-winning “Toy Story 3” and “Coco”). The Kubrick film’s sense of the uncanny and bravura filmmaking (including the innovative use of Garrett Brown’s Steadicam) possessed Unkrich from his first viewing at an Ohio movie theater and ultimately led to decades of rewatching the story of the Torrance family trapped at the haunted Overlook Hotel. (A smaller standard edition has not yet been announced.) The three-volume collection includes hundreds of never-before-seen production photographs from the Stanley Kubrick Archive in London, interviews with cast and crew, and a deluxe set of facsimile reproductions of ephemera from “the masterpiece of modern horror.” After years of “The Shining” Easter eggs popping up in Pixar films, Unkrich’s fascination with Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror cult classic culminates in his monumental making-of book: “Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining” (Taschen), currently available in a Collector’s Edition of 1,000 copies ($1,500). “ The Shining” has obsessed Oscar-winning Pixar director Lee Unkrich since he saw it in theaters at the age of 12.
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