8 Completely Pointless Movie Details That Will Blow Your Mind

Stanley Kubrick is known for being a bit over the top on his film sets, drawing everything out in painstaking detail for ‘the perfect shot’. Shelley Duvall felt this probably the most during filming of The Shining, where she was forced to redo the bat swinging scene over 120 times in a row to get just the right amount of hysteria on screen.

Another suffering at the hands of the director’s plentiful meticulousness is his probably very tired assistant. Forced to write out ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’ over and over again, he sent her down the same rabbit hole Jack Torrance fell into, but in real life, for months, to get hundreds of unique pages to be used within the movie.

One can only hope he didn't make her do the same for the foreign language releases, or todo el trabajo y nada de juego realmente haría a Jack un chico aburrido...