The Shining: The Overlook Hotel - Shining: l'"Overlook Hotel"

The Shining: the Overlook Hotel

 

(from www.movie-locations.com )

Although the film was shot almost entirely in the studio at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England, where the hotel interior was constructed, the exterior of the ‘Overlook Hotel’ is the Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood in the Hood River area of Northern Oregon.

Built during the Depression, it’s 45 miles east of Portland, just east of Zig Zag on Route 26. There is no maze at the Timberline – this was built at the old MGM Borehamwood Studios, also in Hertfordshire.

The interior sets were partly based, not on the Timberline, but on the Ahwahnee Hotel, in Yosemite Park, California.

The opening helicopter shots, of Torrance driving to the Overlook, were filmed by a second unit on Going-to-the-Sun Road, running along the eastern shore of Lake MacDonald in Glacier National Park, north of Kalispell, Montana.

To complicate matters further, it’s sometimes claimed that the film was made at the Stanley Hotel, Estes Park in Colorado. This is the hotel in which King stayed in 1973, and which inspired the original story.
 

 

 

 

 

 Shining: l'"Overlook Hotel"

 

Nonostante il film sia stato quasi interamente girato negli studi Elstree Studios nell’Hertfordshire, Inghilterra, dove l’interno dell’hotel fu costruito, l’esterno dell’“Overlook Hotel” è quello del Timberline Lodge, a Mount Hood, nell’area del fiume Hood, nel nord dell’Oregon, USA.

Costruito durante la Depressione, si trova a 45 miglia ad est di Portland, giusto ad est del Zig Zag sulla Route 26. Non c’è nessun labirinto al Timberline – anche questo fu costruito, ma nei vecchi MGM Borehamwood Studios, sempre nell’Hertfordshire.

Alcuni set interni non furono preparati nel Timberline bensì nell’Ahwahnee Hotel, nello Yosemite Park, in California, USA.

Le sequenze iniziali in elicottero, mentre Jack Torrance guida verso l’“Overlook Hotel”, furono filmate da una seconda unità sulla Going-to-the-Sun Road, che corre a fianco alla riva est del Lago MacDonald nel Glacier National Park, a nord di Kalispell, nel Montana, USA.

Per complicare ulteriormente la verità, si dice ogni tanto che in realtà il film fu girato nello Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, nel Colorado, USA. Questo è l’hotel dove soggiornò Stephen King nel 1973, e che ispirò la storia originale.