It is not surprising, then, to know that the Guinness World Record for "Most Retakes for One Scene With Dialogue" belongs to Kubrick's The Shining with a whopping 148 takes.
The most retakes for one scene with dialogue is 148, and was achieved by the 'shine' scene during the filming of The Shining (USA, 1980) by Stanley Kubrick (USA). The total was first reported by the film's Steadicam operator Garrett Brown (USA).
CinemaTyler breaks down Kubrick's method of 30 takes per scene, and why his method always got some of the best performances in cinema. Let's get into what this method can teach us about directing actors.
The staircase scene from The Shining (1980) was shot 127 times due to director Stanley Kubrick's perfectionism, making it the scene with the most takes ever with spoken dialogue, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
How many takes did the bat scene in The Shining take?
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the scene where Wendy is backing up the stairs swinging the baseball bat was shot 127 times, which is a record for the most takes of a single scene.
Fincher isn't the only director to ever endlessly obsess over of the same scene. Charlie Chaplin once did 342 takes of a single scene while making the 1931 classic "City Lights," and multiple takes were practically a trademark of legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.
When filming a scene, it's not uncommon for it to take several attempts to get it just right. The filming of each scene is called a "take". While some scenes can be shot in one or two takes, some scenes are more difficult to get just right, and may take up to several hundred takes.
How long does it take to film a 30 minute episode?
It takes six days to film a 30-minute television episode, and it is an exhilarating and exhausting scramble from start to finish. There's only three of us in Europe, and we generally shoot from 9 a.m. until it's too dark to shoot any more. Then, about half the evenings are spent shooting after-dark segments.
How many lines do actors have to memorize per scene?
This depends on the actor and the script. Frequently making a movie an actor is handed a page of dialogue, has about three minutes to read it and shooting begins. In a case like that the scene may consist of only five lines and they'll try them six or seven times until the director has what's wanted.
Originally Answered: How many scenes are required to make a regular movie of 2 hours duration? In an average two hours long film there are 40 to 60 scenes as an average scene last for 2 to 3 minutes long. But number of scenes are not set as their numbers can be more than 100 or less than 20.
Kubrick said: "I was excited by everything about it: the plot, the ideas, the characters, and, of course, the language. The story functions, of course, on several levels: political, sociological, philosophical, and, what's most important, on a dreamlike psychological-symbolic level."
Kubrick was an utterly ruthless and demanding task master, who generally asked the impossible, and often showed no regard or remorse for the very real psychological and physical damage his absurd demands caused his actors. He was inconsiderate in the extreme, and sometimes sadistic to the point of wanton cruelty.
When production began, the hotel expressed concerns that people wouldn't want to stay in its Room 217 if they associated it with a horror story. Kubrick changed the number to 237, since the Timberline doesn't have a Room 237.
It is no secret that Stanley Kubrick mistreated Shelley Duvall on the set of The Shining. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Duvall recounts the traumatic times on set that led her to eventually flee Hollywood.
Kubrick antagonized his actors, and Kubrick and Duvall argued frequently. Kubrick intentionally isolated Duvall, and went through exhausting shoots, such as the baseball bat scene, which she had performed 127 times.
Effectively tying for the title, though, is Marilyn Vos Savant. Her recorded IQ in the Guinness World Records was 228, awarded between the 1986-1989 editions until the record was discontinued in 1990, with IQ scores deemed too unreliable to document.
Some people reported to have very high IQs include: Marilyn vos Savant, a magazine columnist, with an IQ score of 228. Dr. Evangelos Katsioulis, a Greek physician, with an IQ between 198 and 205.
Born in Moscow in 1976, Nadia Camukova was estimated to have an IQ of 200. The Brain Research Institute located in Moscow reported later on that she had the highest IQ in the world. She can speak seven languages and eight Turkish dialects.
