Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.

Today we are looking at The Shining, the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film, written by Stanley Kubrick

and Diane Johnson based on the book The Shining by Stephen King.

I'm joined by the lessons from the screenplay team, writer Tricia Arand.

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Writer Brian Bittner.

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And editor Alex Cayeros.

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So The Shining is the most scary movie ever.

The end is my feeling anyway.

That was a short one.

So revisiting the video for The Shining is really interesting because it was, I think, the first, like, Halloween horror themed video.

It's video number nine also, which at the time felt like, oh, my God, there's nine of these already.

And 40 videos later, it's like, oh, this was at the beginning.

I was very afraid to tackle the

shining because it really does scare me. Like there's something just about the way it's made

that it gets beneath my skin and it's deeply terrifying. And I stumbled upon a video from a channel

that I love actually called V-sauce. So if anyone doesn't

know Vsauce, it's like this educational channel where the host kind of raises an idea. And then it's like,

but why is this thing that way? And then they start exploring it and they go on to all these

tangents. It's a really great channel and there was one

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