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Thursday, September 07, 2006

"Heeere’s Johnny!"

There are two types of fears, instinctive and induced. But when Stanley Kubrick humanizes fear, it’s the perfect concoction of both. In Shining, by horror king Stephen King yet again, the master enthralls with spine-chilling sound design. An instance of the fantastic sound effects is when Danny rides his tricycle on the rugs and wooden boards; the rhythm of the alternating materials is quite captivating. Jack Nicholson steals the show again with his natural ability to transmogrify into a monster quite effortlessly. The camera throughout the film, is either behind or bang in front of the actor, giving the illusion of flat, two dimensional imagery.

Sadly, a goof up put me off. In the opening scene the shadow of the helicopter doing the filming can be seen for an instant on the lower right corner. “Et tu Stanley?” Well, we all are human after all….

4 Comments:

  • The way you've put forth your thoughts actually took me back to those scenes. I applaud the fact that you have been able to catch the helicopter shadow even though its just for a few seconds. A soul like my own.

    Love,
    Shahrukh

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:48 PM  

  • Hey
    I have not seen the movie
    But reading ur Blog watching it....

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:40 PM  

  • I must say (though I didn't read much of text); some of the most amazing illustration I have ever seen coming from you...mood well captured. I got so lost in the Illustration that just cudn't read.

    By Blogger About Abhishek, at 12:26 PM  

  • Cool Blog...keep it up

    By Blogger Pradeep, at 3:24 PM  

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