Anodyne
Sunday, April 16, 2006
 

Kubrick Snow

BRAYSHAW: ....The North Shore hidden behind successive waves of blowing snow, like those shifting CGI curtains that seal Jack, Wendy and Danny off from the rest of Colorado.

TOLAGSON: CGI curtains?

BRAYSHAW: Ie., fake "curtains" of drifting digital snow. Also seen in that movie with the Statue of Liberty all frozen up in ice.

TOLAGSON: I'm lost. Are you talking about that TV movie of "The Shining?"

BRAYSHAW: Uh, no. Some screen grabs from the Kubrick film, which I saw online a while ago, showing the hotel with mega-snow dumping down all around, visually "isolating" the family from the outside world.

[emails JPEG as evidence]

TOLAGSON: [laughing his ass off] There ain't nothin CGI about that snow you see falling in that still. Kubrick would have had to have been quite the computer effects pioneer to pull something like that off in 1980. It's fake snow alright, but the kind that blows out of wind machines.

BRAYSHAW: You win. I suck.

JACK TORRANCE: It's all Danny's fault. Nothing but trouble, that kid.

- posted by cjb @ 3:02 PM


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