I work at the Ahwahnee. When I first started I was told that they originally wanted to film the movie there, but instead used it as inspiration. The other day some little kid was walking around the hallways yelling "redrum", I found it hilarious
I visited just a few days ago with my friend and her young son. My friend's boy had a wonderful time riding his Big Wheel around the hotel while wearing his blue Apollo 11 Danny Torance sweater. Good fun.
When I hear the first few piano notes of "Midnight, the Stars and You" something happens in my brain, a mix of happiness and utter fear. Thanks for this video. Nice to see images from the inspiration.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Now that piece gets under the skin, doesn't it. Kubrick used some, um, interesting music in this film. And it all adds to the ominous mood. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M8svwAX5J0g.html
That's a place I could stay in for ever and ever and ever 😉 Joking aside, the interior shots are beautiful, I love the warm earthy colours. Just looks warm and inviting, not to mention a bit of history would go with it.
Have just altered the video title to make the content more clear. These are NOT pictures of the sets used in The Shining. They are pictures of the hotel that inspired some of the set designs we see in The Shining - hence they are slightly different in design :)
I think the Stanley was shown, inside and out in that horrible remake. It's very small-looking and there isn't the vast space where you can't see things, so it didn't come off as scary.
Can you imagine if Jack Nicholson made a reservation here on a road trip in the '80s, not knowing what it looked like and walked in to check in? Didn't happen, but imagine the cosmic fortune to be a person in the lobby by the door had that happened.
I absolutely love the music. My feet want to dance to it. My grandmother, who raised me, was born in 1924. I know that it was her influence that taught me to love the early 1900s. Just wish more of my generation was taught from this magical time.♡
Jesus, they practically REBUILT the damn Ahwahnee in England. I'm amazed the Timberline gets all the recognition when the Overlook is practically a clone of the other one! I seriously hope they never remodel...they probably get SO much attendance because of the decor.
I've read elsewhere that that elevator, in the Ahwahnee Hotel, is the one "inspiration for 'The Shining' set" piece which is most often recognized. They regularly have traffic jams in front of it 'cause so many visitors want to take selfies there.
That Gold Room one definitely didn't fit; the Gold Room was based off of yet another different hotel. Altogether, there were quite a few real hotels used for the film; this one, the Timberline (for the exterior shots), one in Phoenix (for the Red Bathroom where Delbert Grady convinced Jack to kill Danny and Wendy), others were used for the different hallways of guest rooms, still another (this one, in the UK) was used for the Hedge Maze, and there were a few others. However, most of the movie was shot on sets in a sound-stage--Kubrick had them based loosely off of the real locations, but he also added his own modifications; he screwed around with the placement of things like doors, windows, and hallways in such a way that, if you were to actually map out the floor plans, it would be completely impossible that such a place could actually exist; doors that should logically go nowhere, doors that switch sides in hallways, windows that look outside, even though there should be rooms and hallways behind them--weird crap like that, all as a means of making audiences become subconsciously aware that this place was somehow "paranormal"; to quote Mike Stoklasa, "Now, you might not've noticed this... *but your brain did...*"
Like the window in the office, for example if you was to build the hotel in minecraft you'd have to make it look like the outside world, as you said, impossible
Viewing this, I realize that the real brilliance of this movie is the background music. Previous to the ending, the background music is emotional sound-effects (Bartok, Ligeti, etc.), not real background music. When this 20's dance music comes forth, suddenly the nostalgia of this music adds a sentimental dimension and an unbelievability missing from the previous background music. The music is giving comfort while what the movie is showing is sheer horror. Stanley was a genius!
Beautiful interiors. Not quite as big as the movie versions but more personable or cozy in scale. I like both interiors equally. I hope the Ahwahnee Hotel is going strong even in the years since this video was posted.
That's amazing, I read the description but I can see why so many ask if these are the sets. Even the lighting of the actual hotel interiors looks like the lighting of the sets based on them which only goes to show how impeccable the production design was.
oh, when I only remember how many nights I spent reading your Shining analysis...since then I wear glasses.... anyway it was lovely, so thank you once again
@milesmungo I'll have a new video about The Shining posted this coming week. Dr Strangelove analysis is well under way + new trailer for my feature and a load of other stuff. I've also just posted last week my new DVD set on ebay, which has a one hour video about Scorsese's Taxi Driver.
That one has been a lot of hard work to write. Most of it is already posted on my site, but I wanted to take a mental break from it because it's a very mentally taxing topic. It will def be finished though and a video version posted.
This is not called the Overlook Hotel which is a fiction name created by Stephen King. This is the Timberline Lodge. Stephen King stayed in the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, and created the fiction name Overlook Hotel.
Stupid me. I missed my chance to visit the Alwahnee when I was at Yosemite. It's only now that I'm back home that I've found out it was the inspiration for the Overlook.
It would be so cool to stay there. I'd wake up really early so that I could walk around the hotel while it's almost completely empty. Also, are you planning on doing a "There will be blood" analysis? What have you planned for your next analysis?
It is beautiful. I live near by and have gone to have lunch. Very fancy and pricey but totally worth it. Gotta go again! Imagine the backdrop is Yosemite.
I've stayed there several times. Just in case anyone is curious, there is no room 237 at the Ahwanhee. It's also WAY expensive. You're better off staying at the Yosemite Lodge and going to the Ahwanhee for lunch or/and cocktails.
A reverse example to this vid: watched 'Full Metal Jacket' directed by Kubrick and the Marine training station in that film was clearly a 1930s expansion period Royal Air Force airfield, dressed with details to suggest the Marines were in place. I believe, not certain, that it was RAF Binbrook. In some shots, the airfield control tower can be seen, draped in a camouflage net to disguise it. The rifle range seen in that film however is a mystery.
Nope. Every internal and majority of the external shots with the maze etc were filmed in the UK (were Kubrick lived). Ironically it would cost a lot more these days to film it on sets this big. Eastern Europe is still relatively cheaper to film in.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm in 8th Grade, and I'm doing a term Paper on Albert Camus! He is REALLY interesting! I'm so glad I am getting a mental break from him- before I have to do corrections on my rough draft. THX a lot for these vids!
Very interesting! I always knew the film was done on a set but I always thought the design was just thought up from scratch and closely based on the styles of the early 80s. It's kind of creepy to see that they are based on real interiors. I also must say the original Gold Room is much more interesting than the one in the film. Comparing everything to the book, the exterior seems to fit the veg description in the novel but the interior in the film seems a little to modern. :)
I realize these are old photos, but the only thing I'd change is not to use the flash. It washes everything out or makes it shiny. Ideally, get the rooms right at dawn or dusk just before the sun sets. You have an hour or so on either end. Then, the light's perfect on its own. Jmo Kubrick was a stills guy, too. Never used a flash on a camera. It does nothing any favors.
Bergen Børs Hotel in Bergen, Norway, reminded me a lot of the shining... has some long hallways with dark red carpet which seem to loop back on themselves and I was frequently getting lost... and the colour scheme in the rooms had patches of bright red (a red curtain, or a cushion or just one red wall)... I felt like I should've been riding round on a tricycle.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Such as a torrent of blood from the elevator!!... I waited outside one of the lifts day and night for three weeks, but no blood. 😕
thanks for the upload AGAIN.. I'm a big BIG fan of yours and turned a lot of people on to you.. Can't wait to see your movie. The parts I've seen were done really well.
It actually shows off a lot of the design elements that made it into the Shining film. (The red white and blue triangles specifically). So that might be why it was included in the montage.
It was only the inspiration for the set design for the film everything you see inside the hotel in the film is a set which is incredible when you realise the gold room was just a massive set.
It was filmed on a set In England inspired by this hotel. In the movie, it is mentioned that the hotel is built on an Indian burial ground so you have a good point
Don't tell me the elite don't dress up in bear costumes, drink Jack Daniels spiked with DMT, and chase children around with axes up there in the off-season- just kidding, but only slightly.
The movie was inspired from Kings book. Kings book was inspired from the Stanley hotel in Estes park Colorado. They scouted the timberline and used it for external shots bc it was better for filming. At the time of filming the Stanley hotel in Estes park was cake yellow. There’s only a few shots from the movie that are the actual hotel.most of the external shots are a set they made. There’s some good documentaries on RU-vid about it.
There are three references to going to the moon in the novel and fourth where it says that Wendy felt as if she had been dragged over the dark side of the moon.
edan mendelson,apparently it's called Midnight. Here's what I hear: Midnight with the stars and you. Midnight. A chance for rendezvous. Your arms held a message tender,saying I surrender all my love to you. 9-30-2017
