I, along with other observant viewers and film nerds, have noticed a brief shadow of the filming helicopter at the beginning of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.  Some cry " blooper," but others wonder if the "mistake" had been left in by Kubrick to softly remind the audience of film's basic, multi-planed artifice - and the integral role of audience to art.  Some folks claim that Tom Cruise looks directly at us in a scene in Eyes Wide Shut for the same reason – as if to say, "You know I'm acting and I know you're watching.  Okay, my next line is coming up."

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