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It's from this time at Conan that The Chickening began its gestation. Conanaco, Conan O' Brien's production company, wanted a demo reel to pitch to Warner Bros. for a potential TV show. The Shining was selected simply because DenBoer thought it was the most iconic film in Warner's catalogue. DenBoer flew Davy Force up, they watched the great documentary Room 237—about people obsessed with The Shining—got messed up, and began wreaking havoc on Kubrick's classic.The end result is five minutes of poultry-themed madness. There's all this crazy stuff like a gruff Italian man living in the tip of Danny's finger, and Dan Hallaron as a green-skinned alien. The bar where Jack is tempted by the spirits of the hotel is replaced by the ordering desk of the fast-food chicken restaurant in which the movie takes place, and every second of the five minutes is stuffed to the brim with chickens. The images are garish and frenzied, like if DMT made a short film. Your eye and brain struggle to take it all in, to make sense of it. Defining the aesthetic is tough. It's like if a professional wrestler tried to paint a masterpiece with a paintball gun, or if you tried to compose classical music with a dirt bike engine. It's nuts and absurd and it all takes place on the stage of one of the most iconic films of all time.Read on Motherboard: What Happens When Wes Anderson Meets 'The Shining'?
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