{"id":380487,"date":"2021-12-13T17:16:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-stanley-kubrick-used-music-to-make-the-shining-so-scary\/"},"modified":"2021-12-13T17:16:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:16:42","slug":"how-stanley-kubrick-used-music-to-make-the-shining-so-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-stanley-kubrick-used-music-to-make-the-shining-so-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Stanley Kubrick Used Music to Make The Shining So Scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e6dfbbd6a0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e6dfbbd6a0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-stanley-kubrick-used-music-to-make-the-shining-so-scary\/#Watch_%E2%80%9CThe_Invisible_Horror_of_the_Shining%E2%80%9D\" >Watch \u201cThe Invisible Horror of the Shining\u201d:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-stanley-kubrick-used-music-to-make-the-shining-so-scary\/#Who_made_this\" >Who made this?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-stanley-kubrick-used-music-to-make-the-shining-so-scary\/#More_videos_like_this\" >More videos like this<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#How Stanley Kubrick Used Music to Make The Shining So Scary<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;\u201cMickey Mousing\u201d doesn\u2019t sound like it should be terrifying, and yet here we are.&lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/the-shining-1.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"The Shining\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/the-shining-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/the-shining-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Warner Bros.&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Meg Shields\u00a0\u00b7 Published on December 13th, 2021 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    &lt;em&gt;Welcome to The Queue \u2014 your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we\u2019re watching a video essay about the eldritch horrors hidden in Gordon Stainforth\u2019s music editing in The Shining.&lt;\/em&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Just when you think there\u2019s nothing left to say about <strong>Stanley Kubrick<\/strong>\u2018s\u00a0<strong><em>The Shining<\/em><\/strong>, someone comes along and proves you dead wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the 1980 Stephen King adaptation continuously proves that it\u2019s never quite ready to divulge all its secrets. Something nefarious and slimy always lurks in the labyrinthian halls of the Overlook Hotel, whispering in vulnerable ears, and teasing violence out of uncanny symmetry.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, such half-heard metaphors are wholly <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriate for a movie bound up in residual hauntings, psychic phenomena, and drunken stupors. Jack Torrance and his family are spending a winter at a remote resort as caretakers. Almost immediately, an unseen force sinks its hooks into Jack\u2019s bubbling temper, escalating his cabin fever into an ax-wielding frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>As the video essay below teases out, one element of\u00a0<em>The Shining\u00a0<\/em>is especially responsible for the omnipresent sense of unseen horror: the music. And thanks to the man behind its deployment \u2014 music editor <strong>Gordon Stainforth<\/strong> \u2014 <em>The Shining\u00a0<\/em>transforms the eerie drones of Hungarian composer <strong>B\u00e9la Bart\u00f3k\u00a0<\/strong>into the avatar for the evils of the Overlook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mickey_Mousing\"><strong>Mickey Mousing<\/strong><\/a>\u201d is a technique honed in the early days of animation. It describes a synergy between the musical cues, chords, and notes with the motion taking place on-screen. Mickey Mouse throws a punch and a cymbal clangs. Each step from a cartoon cow is punctuated with a drum beat. That kind of thing.<\/p>\n<p>The technique has strong connotations with slapstick and comedy. But in Stainforth\u2019s hands, Bart\u00f3k\u2019s symmetrical arrangments take on the aspect of a corrupting influence. Inquiring strings become sinister whispers in Jack\u2019s mind. Plodding percussion and deep bass cellos become an unseen manipulator, a puppeteer whose strings we cannot see but can most assuredly hear.<\/p>\n<p>As the below video essay underlines, the fact that Bart\u00f3k\u2019s music synchs up with the action on-screen is nothing short of a miracle \u2026 or something more sinister. Stainforth wasn\u2019t just working with pre-existing compositions, he was attempting to underlay those unaltered musical pieces with, effectively, the final cut of the film.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, as you\u2019ll see \u2014 and hear \u2014 the music in <em>The Shining\u00a0<\/em>feels baked-in. As if it had always been that way. Forever and ever and ever.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Watch_%E2%80%9CThe_Invisible_Horror_of_the_Shining%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>Watch \u201cThe Invisible Horror of the Shining\u201d:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Invisible Horror of The Shining\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b7-1gCc0Vnw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_made_this\"><\/span>Who made this?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This video essay on the invisible horror of <em>The Shining <\/em>is by <strong>k<\/strong><strong>aptainkristian,<\/strong>\u00a0a YouTube-based video essay channel that peddles in visual love letters to filmmakers, musicians, and syndicated cartoons. The account is run by <strong>Kristian T.<\/strong> Williams, whom you can follow on Twitter\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaptainkristian\">here<\/a>. You can subscribe to kaptainkristian, and check out their back catalog on YouTube\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuPgdqQKpq4T4zeqmTelnFg\/videos\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_videos_like_this\"><\/span>More videos like this<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: The Queue\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/meg.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Meg Shields is the humble farm boy of your dreams and a senior contributor at Film School Rejects. She currently runs three columns at FSR: The Queue, How&#8217;d They Do That?, and Horrorscope. She is also a curator for One Perfect Shot and a freelance writer for hire. Meg can be found screaming about John Boorman&#8217;s &#8216;Excalibur&#8217; on Twitter here: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWorstNun\">@TheWorstNun<\/a>. (She\/Her).        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<pre><code>    &lt;!-- START RECOMMENDED READING 1 --&gt;\n                                &lt;section class=\"recommended py-5\"&gt;\n            &lt;h3&gt;Recommended Reading&lt;\/h3&gt;\n\n\n        &lt;\/section&gt;\n            &lt;!-- END RECOMMENDED READING --&gt;\n\n\n\n\n&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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