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"Seems like he created Tony to cope with being psychic." I've watched 20 reaction videos to this film, and this reactor was the only one to get it Correct. Props.
I call every bartender Lloyd, been doing it for years. Haven’t actually met one yet.
The female bartenders must love that. lol
Brilliant!
I can't believe how many people don't know that "Here's Jonny" was a reference to the way Ed McMahon introduced Jonny Carson on The Tonight Show.
He has been off air since the 1990s so makes sense. It was so relevant and made the film way more creeper if you understand that reference point.
@shawnshawnmoviereviews True but even people who don't watch The Tonight show know it's been on the air a long time, had other hosts, and at some point they have been mentioned more than once.
To quote Captain America ‘I get that reference’. I guessed I’m old enough to know HEEEERRRRREEEEEE’SSSSSSS JOOOOOHHHHHHNNNNYYYYY!!!!!
Dude, we're old. A lot of people in their prime these days aren't even old enough to remember Letterman, never mind Carson.
@devolve42 Speak for yourself! 😕 I'm only in my early 40's. Besides, thanks to the the internet, if we can find Crazy Rocket Man Bob Maddox by searching for something totally unrelated eventually they will stumble across previous hosts of a talk show thats still on the air.
" what are we seeing?"
" I don't know, but I feel like I shouldn't be seeing it . "
That cracked me up. Great reaction.
Jack was considered quite handsome in his day so its unreal how he could look utterly terrifying at the same time. My fav actor!
I was always amazed how NOT good looking Jack was for so many plum leading man roles. He was certainly no Paul Newman, Redford etc
Jack Nicholson is very good looking. It's his charm❤
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Janna, I'm better looking and more charming than Jack.
@@kbrewski1 Paul Newman is the best looking actor that ever lived, then Marlon Brando...
@@jannathompson2262 I don’t disagree but Robert Redford is a very close second place
I love the way Jack is more troubled that Grady is denying that he was the caretaker than that he's dead.
Back in those days, parenting was largely measured by how self sufficient your kids were. We were taught to take care of ourselves at a very young age. Also, parents didn't necessarily play with their children. I'm just a few years older than Danny in this and my mother never once played with me.
Same
This. Our generation's idea of bonding time with our parents is us holding a flash light for our dad while he jerry-ridded some repair and not being under our mom's feet while she was in the kitchen.
@@krisbrown6692 yep, and dad would complain if I didn't hold it the way he wanted me to hold it or I blinded him with the flashlight
The philosophy wrt childrearing at the time came from a very popular book: Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare. The main thesis of the book was to reject the discipline and strictness that defined parenting of previous generations and instead trust in common sense and in particular encourage children to explore their world.
True. We were raised like wild animals lol.
The guy who played Dick Halloran is Scatman Crothers. A legendary actor, musician, voice actor and pioneer!
Hong Kong Phooey!
He was also in One flew over the cuckoo's nest with Jack where they became good friends. Jack asked Scatman to be in The Shining.
Indeed he was. I remember him as the voice of Penrod Pooch, aka Hong Kong Phooey in the 1974 cartoon. 🙂
Had a great role in magnum pi TV show, 1 episode.
He also played Louie the garbage man in the 70's TV show Chico and the Man.
Jack types dead center in the room. Stephen King finds a quiet corner when he works. King was driving though the mountains and it was getting late so he decided to stay at the Stanley end of season. Everyone was packing up and leaving and they no longer accepted credit cards as everything was shutting down. King had cash. He stayed there with his wife, and was one of the only guests there. Very eerie. This gave King inspiration for the novel. If King had only plastic vs cash, he would have been turned away, and the Shining probably wouldn't have been written.
Follow up, there was some famous celebrity that stayed in the same room as King and left paranoid in the middle of the night and would never explain what happened to his rushed exit.
You all are the first reactors I've seen that were able to put this movie together on the first try!
Cause they are the smart ones. Greetings.
The hotel is real, it's in Colorado, called the Stanley hotel. Open and ready for guests. If you dare.
BUT it looks very different than the hotel used in the film. The hotel used as the exterior of the Overlook was the Timberline Lodge in Oregon. I don't know if there are rumors about the Timberline being haunted but there are definitely lots of stories of the Stanley Hotel being haunted. AND the miniseries actually used exteriors and interiors of the actual hotel! The hotel used in the film is so incredible that the real Stanley/miniseries Overlook is actually a bit underwhelming imo.
The interior hotel sets recreated the look of a hotel in Yosemite Park.
I went to work in Yellowstone National Park for the summer of 1991and I arrived before most employees and they put me up at Mammoth Hotel by myself for a couple of days. At the time the rooms didn't have private showers, you walked down the hall. I stayed in my room for a couple of hours before nighttime and I couldn't do it. I begged them to let me stay with another employee on their floor till my room for the summer was ready. There was no way I was staying in a 100 year old hotel by myself 😮
@@ScientificallyStupidThe maze is gone now. We went to The Timberline Lodge in '85 and played in the Maze.
@@benjaminbray9199 that's too bad, it looks like a remarkable feat of landscaping. What was it like? How long did it take to get to the center and back; do you remember? I've always wanted to try a hedge maze somewhere, there don't seem to be many in the Northeastern US.
When he's walking down the hallway after wendy accuses him of hurting danny, every time he has an anger spasm, he's walking past a mirror.
By filming, Jack Nicholson was already a volunteer firefighter. The first axe scene, took several takes, and several doors. He would take out the doors in one or two swings.
The kid who plays Danny is so unbelievably good.
I’m amazed you were able to put together how he was in the photo at the end. I honestly tried to think about he was “always there” for years, until it was explained to me that once you give yourself to that place, you automatically become always there.
Yes, it is a true story about the Donner Party. Interstate 80 heading east out of Sacramento, California passes near to where that occurred. It's covered in history classes here in California.
Shelly Duvall is such a polarizing actress. I used to not like her because she sounded so unnatural in her line deliveries. I kinda like it now though. It's like a sing-songy kinda rhythm the way she delivers her lines. Almost reminiscent of 1930s and 1940s actresses. It's a fun style. She also got extremely real when Jack broke into the bathroom. Her acting in that scene was top notch. Terrifying. Probably my favorite scene in the movie.
This is one of those movies I saw way too young when my sister rented it. It is firmly imprinted on my brain.
@@flyingardilla143 Same, age 7 and then the next year, I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre
My mom took me to see it in the theater when I was 12 back in 1980. My dad hated horror movies and that’s why she took me. One of my favorite movies of all time to this day.
One of the greatest Shining reactions, definitely one of the most intelligent and perceptive. You even pointed out a couple of things I never noticed: the knives above Danny's head, for instance. Love you guys, and love watching you check out classics. And specifically Kubrick! He only has about 9 movies, all worth watching: The Killing, Paths Of Glory, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and then the two you have already seen. (and Eyes Wide Shut, his least essential, final film). I'm DYING for you to see "Clockwork Orange"!
"If he catches you you're through, Roadrunner" excellent watch, thx guys from Arizona. Jack was a real life fire rescue volunteer, hence the magnificent swing of his axe.
"A Clockwork Orange" and this film alternate as my favorite Kubrick with each successive viewing.
I simply adore all his others, too, "Barry Lyndon" in third place, I reckon. Or "Strangelove."
Each time you watch one again, you pick up new things and reinterpret them.
He was a genius. Nearly every great film director worships him and marvels at his work.
Eyes Wide Shut is massively underrated and is in my top 2 of Kubrick films.
There are so many, but here are a few, "Network," The Elephant Man," and "Rainman," are just a few brilliant movies that should be on everyone's list. Happy watching!
Network is a masterpiece. Still got an old VHS copy somewhere.
The best Jack Nicholson movie to watch is 1974's "Chinatown"--everything about it is a film noir/detective classic.
One of the best and often referred to as the "greatest" screen play ever... Obviously that is subjective but I can't think of any film which I could definitively say is better written 👍
Jack told Wendy early on that he felt he'd been there before while having breakfast. Glad you picked up that Grady said, "You've always been the caretaker."
This film is almost sedate, compared to the book. As Danny's going through the Overlook, it's as if he sees a new horror around every corner. And it seemed like Dick Hallorann had "a feeling" that he had to get to the Overlook. In the book, he heard Danny's constant screams in his head from Colorado, while he was in Florida.
Even though I saw the Shining before the Simpsons existed, I can't watch this film without quoting from The Treehouse of Horror V.
"Hmm, that's odd. Usually the blood gets off at the second floor."
"All work and no play makes Homer Something Something" - "Go Crazy?" - "Don't Mind if I Do!"
"That's Wily's Time!"
"Ach, I'm bad at this!"
Yeah, as much as I like this movie, and the many levels of genius, the Treehouse of Horror is so good that it gets intertwined.
Don’t forget the part about the hotel being on top of Indian burial grounds. Compare that with the date on the picture at the end (July 4), the date that forever sealed the fate of the American Indian.
I read Jack was so in character during filming she was literally terrified For half of the filming. He had her so scared so she’d react believably. It worked!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☑️
Jack and the director badgered Wendy to make the great reactions in the film. She even lost hair while filming from all the abuse. I think she had PTSD from the film, but those reactions are so damn good.
You guys are just about the only reactors who instantly understood that the hotel itself was evil and that Jack sold his soul to the hotel for that drink. Good job 👏
The movie "The Talented Mr Ripley" with Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Phillip Seymour Hoffman is one of the Best Thrillers of all time! Besides a great story and Score the Cinematography is outstanding and beautiful.. Its almost like a film that Alfred Hithcock would have made in more Modern Times..
Phenomenal film, hope they do a reaction vid to it.
Love this film and wonderful reaction. Scatman Crothers, who plays Halloran played a health inspector in a movie called Deadly Eyes from 1982, which was a Canadian horror nature run amok movie about a bunch of steroid ridden giant rats, played by wiener dogs in rat costumes no less, for the overhead shots, and angry rodent puppets for the up close and personal shots. They end up attacking the good folks of Toronto, and it’s quite a campy good time, based on a truly terrifying novel. Fans of both films can’t help but notice that Scatman’s basically wearing the same clothes when he gets attacked in that film as well. It’s worthy of checking out for cheesy good time:)
I saw this in the theater when it came out, having read the book, and was first impressed by its fidelity to the book, and then annoyed by how it suddenly veers off into Kubrick land, ignoring the book's structure and resolution. All these years later I appreciate the film for the masterpiece that it is - although it is not the book. So, so, much has been written about this film its hard to know where to begin. A few things: Kubrick, famous for his attention to the minutest details, is messing with us. In one scene, while Wendy and Jack are talking, a chair behind him appears and disappears. A light switch outside the food storage rooms appears and disappears. The TV they are watching isn't plugged in - there isn't even a power cord. Rooms, such as the manager's office, are located in geographically impossible places with window outside where there should only be building. The ballroom is impossibly large - the size of an entire wing of the building. During the helicopter approach to the (real) hotel we can see there is no maze. Grady's first name changes from "Charles", in the manager's story, to "Delbert" in the restroom. Light fixtures move around, and so on. Kubrick admitted, without specifying, that he did things to make the viewer uncomfortable and disoriented. He succeeded. More fun facts: The creepy music playing over the arial shot of the car driving through the mountains is the "Dies Irae", from the old Latin mass for the dead. The color scheme for the rest room where Grady is encountered is the same as the interior of the space station in "2001: A Space Odyssey". Jack Nicholson, who had been a volunteer fireman, had to be encouraged to slow down, as he was axing through the doors too quickly. The exterior of the hotel as seen in several shots is the Timberline Hotel, in Oregon. The interior is a copy of the Ahwahnee Hotel, in California. The soundstage containing several sets, including the lounge where Jack types his novel, was destroyed by a fire late in production. And much, much more. . .
Also, several times Jack glances directly at the camera - so quickly that you barely notice. But as you say, Kubrick is such a detail obsessive that it must be deliberate, sub-conciously it makes the viewer one of the Hotel ghosts so we feel directly involved.
38:32 Another point about the mirror shots. The first time we hear from Tony, Dannys friend who lives in his mouth, it was while Danny was looking into a mirror.
Fun Facts: The Exteriors are of Timberline Lodge on Mt Hood here in in Oregon. The interior of the hotel was the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemitte, but it wasn't filmed there, Kubric recreated it almost identically on a sound stage in England.
8:49 Good catch! There is a TON of foreshadowing in this movie. I also enjoy how the plot and events can be interpreted different ways, much like 2001, because Kubrick loved making the audience think.
The carpet in the Overlook hallways was included as an homage to 'The Shining' in 'Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas' (1998) starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro. Which is an absolute acid trip of a movie that is totally worth checking out.
fun fact: as crazy as it sounds every indoor shot in this movie was on a sound stage, there was no indoor shots on location.
Also, the hotel exterior was a facade; it's not shot at location apart from the helicopter overview shot of the hotel (which doesn't feature the maze).
Great job! You knocked this out of the park, so enjoyable to watch, I laughed out loud several times (y'all are clever). Thank you.
In the axe scene thru the doors, I think Jack was a firefighter once before becoming and actor, so he teared thru the prop doors so easily that they had to use real doors.
For the photo at the end......This scene has been interpreted in many ways, and one of the most popular explanations is that it represents the hotel “absorbing” Jack's soul. Although this makes sense, Kubrick himself has said the photo suggests Jack is a reincarnation of an earlier official at the hotel.
Bridge on the river Kwai. Great film with Alec Guiness and William Holden.
Also The sand pebbles with Steve McQueen.
@@jeffivens9410 Papillon with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman
Now that you've seen The Shining, you should watch Dr. Sleep. It's the sequel... starring Ewan MacGregor was an adult Danny.
The shorter cut was Kubrick's wish, he thought it didn't need as much background story.
He was wrong the European version makes it even more confusing
I've watched both versions & in my opinion the shorter version just cuts out the bits that aren't necessary for the storyline, not scary, gory bits.
"Here's Johnny" is one of the oft repeated lines. Its taken from the Johnny Carson Show (TONIGHT SHOW). The most famous late night talk show. Carson was introduced by sidekick Ed McMahon every night by
"Here's Johnny!!"
Hey guys! Great reaction. I just wanted to let you know that when we see Jack at the end in the old photograph, there is a very simple explanation, and I'm basing this on both the book and the movie :
You got the ending right! So many people get confused at the end : yes, once you're part of the Overlook's shining, you were always part of it. There is no sense of time. You were, are and always will be part of of the Overlook.
This, The Thing, The Exorcist. It's like a whole thing where the most triggering and disturbing horror movies yet at the same time some of the most adroit writing and best overall compositions. With films like this I have problems immersing myself in the story because I so captivated just by set design, the score usage, the camera work, the acting. I have such a love-hate relationship with this. Hate how the context makes me feel but damn it is a beautiful production.
They dont make them like this anymore
You two give excellent content love your reaction. Keep up the amazing content
One of the first movies where the Steadicam, which had just been invented not long before, is used. Operated by the inventor himself. And boy do they use it a lot: Kubrick is like a kid with a new toy with it in this movie. It's what allows those steady tracking shots around corners and such. Previously you wouldve had to compromise: if you wanted a steady tracking shot, it would have to be on dolly tracks; and if you wanted a tracking shot following someone around corners and such, it would have to be a shaky handheld shot. The Steadicam was a real game changer, and added to the creepiness in this movie, not least because it was something audiences werent used to seeing. So those close following shots behind Danny on his trike or in the maze wouldve probably felt extra eery somehow without people necessarily knowing exactly why.
34:30 Thats just the BJ Bear. All the fanciest hotels had one, back in the day.
😂😂😂
The storyline behind that in the book is really disturbing. It's all about power and control and servitude. What am I saying, the whole book is disturbing.
Most people are against Wendy for being mousy and Jenny in Forest Gump for always running. I like both for doing the best they can with the cards they were dealt.
Cards they were dealt.
@@frankmartin3600 fixed it. thx
in this film there are many elements that add suspense
the almost silent ambient background tone
the sound of jack’s typewriter
the sound of danny’s little bike going from carpet to hardwood
the carpet pattern
the almost impossible route that danny takes as he rides around in the corridors
the top down view of the hedge maze
the aerial shots of the hotel
If you love amazing sound design, I recommend watching Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). If you'd love a movie with an amazing script and outstanding acting, then it's 12 Angry Men (1957).
The hedge maze doesn't exist in real life. Once of the curious things about the movie is that the overhead shots of the hotel not only don't show the maze but don't any place the maze could be. If you look up all the conspiracy theories about The Shining, things that don't fit in the hotel play a big part of them.
I live in Colorado and have visited the Stanley Hotel many times. It was the inspiration for Stephen King’s novel The Shining. It was not used in the movie but the hotel puts on various related events. It is very interesting.
Dude you’re so intelligent and perceptive.
Agreed.
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Paths of Glory (1957) is another great by Stanley Kubrick, about a French colonel in World War one defending troops accused of cowardice.
What a masterpiece of a film. Glad you finally watched this one! The film makes me feel claustrophobic. The hotel is massive but there are still moments where things feel closed in. Just brilliant direction from Kubrick.
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest - Jack with Scatman making an appearance
Christopher Lloyd is also in it.
In my opinion the manager caused most of the problem by talking about cabin fever and what happened to the last caretaker's family. It starts a slow burning fuse in their minds.
Also the ghosts and demons who live in the hotel
Kubrick pulled a lot of tricks to make us feel uneasy. In the hotel he slightly moved furniture in between shots. So subtle you only notice it subconsciously. In the beginning when Wendy is talking to the doctor her cigarette ash is really long, about to fall. I suspect that was intentional.
There are also corridors with way too many doors, and doors that seemingly lead to nowhere as there is just a wall on the other side but it's done in such a subtle way you don't really notice it.
Jack Nicholson was actually a former fireman, and knew how to swing an axe. They had to replace the door, because it originally was pretty thin. He chopped through it on one swing... I thing destroyed it. So they had to replace it with a standard, hard door.
I swear I read somewhere that he also ripped through THAT door, so they had to tell him to take it easy, lol. But it might not be accurate (though still believable).
Hot tip: never, ever build anything on a Native American burial ground. It never works out.
5:39 Yes Kubrick loves his tracking shots, almost as much as I do
I was born in 1965 so I grew up on Saturday morning cartoons in the 70's And a huge part of that was the Bugs Bunny Road Runner show which is the cartoon Danny was watching.
Watch some more of Nicholson's Oscar winning work: Best Actor wins for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (outstanding film) and As Good as it Gets (also outstanding).
Chinatown
Yes they need to see this
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is one of my all time favourite movies.
@@magicbrownie1357 That diner scene from Five Easy Pieces 🤌
I don’t understand why The Last Detail seems to just be forgotten.
Halloran was a shock because although he was badly hurt he saved them & survived in the book.
The difference between getting hit in the chest with a croquet mallet vs. an axe.
The interiors are all sets. Was filmed at Pinewood in England. Hedge maze was also shot at Pinewood. The exterior of the hotel is the Timberline Lodge in Oregon (my home state ;)
The shot with the blood coming through the elevator doors is a small scale shot done with a model.
Of course if you continue down the Jack Nikelson rabbit Hole, you will not be disappointed. All his films are interesting, unique, memorable.
There’s a scene in Ready Player One that makes SOOO much more sense if you’ve seen this first.
Let's not sully this comment section by discussing a massively inferior film.
They had to rebuild and reshoot the bathroom door scene. Jack is a former firefighter and hit it so hard and well he smashed through too fast.
The Beetle that was crushed was the color the Torrances were driving in the original novel by Stephen King, which Kubrick largely tossed aside.
I enjoyed your reactions to this classic. The Omen 1 & 2, plus The Sixth Sense would be great
Jack's terryfing stare was echoed by Gomer Pyle in Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. You should watch The Hitcher (1986) as that is a great thriller with an amazing Rutger Hauer villain. Grady was the British Officer in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. South Park did a spot on Shining episode called Nightmare on Face Time with Randy going full Jack.
aka the "Kubrick stare."
There’s an album thats a mix / collection of music put together with effects on top called An Empty Bliss Beyond This World by The Caretaker. It’s a project by Leyland Kirby based on the ballroom scenes of The Shining and other pre war music
Fun reaction. Movie and book are both good in their own right. Movie makes Jack seem pretty crazy throughout (pretty scary to see a husband/father do such bad things to his family). Book shows more of how the hotel is the source.
Movie suggestion - "The Omen" 1976.
Read the book in 79, loved it, saw the movie in the theater, great to look at but didn’t enjoy nearly as much, book much better, thanks yall!
Book is better, but - as always - Kubrick captures the tone of the writing, he cinematically renders the mood of the book. Both capture the spookiness of a haunted hotel. The images of the movie are seared in the brain after a first watch.....that's nothing to sneeze at. But the book is fantastic, totally agree.
Robert De Niro and Harrison Ford were considered for the role of Jack Torrance in The Shining.
Also Robin Williams.
Stephen King wrote "The Shining" after staying in a hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, with his wife and child. They were the last ones to spend the night there that year because the hotel had to close during the winter snows. He was told about the winter caretaker that would be snowed in there for the winter. While walking the mostly empty hotel, King developed the idea for this story and wrote part of it before he even left the hotel. I know this because I write books about "The Andy Griffith Show." I also contribute to a podcast about the show. I often take a person, place or thing from Mayberry, connect it to something outside of Mayberry and continue my connections until I return with a different "thing" back to Mayberry within six degrees. I connected the actress who played Charlene Darling on the Griffith show to the hotel where she used to play music with her trio when she was younger. That was the same hotel in which Stephen King stayed. Then I went from King to the book, from the book to the movie, and from the movie to Jack Nicholson, which brought me back to Mayberry because Nicholson was in two episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show.".
Another movie from Kubrick is: A Clockwork Orange (1972), a bit controversial, though.
I live in Colorado where this movie was filmed. It’s in Estes Park and is called the Stanley Hotel. Stephen King stayed there and believed the hotel was haunted.
That’s when he apparently got the idea to write the Shining. I’ve gone to the hotel and did the haunted tour which was actually pretty creepy to hear the decades of hunted stories.
You guys should look up the Stanley Hotel which the movie called the Overlook and read some history.
The movie was not filmed in Colorado. The exterior shots were filmed at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood here in Oregon, and the interiors were filmed on soundstage in England.
Might I recommend the documentary Room 237. It is all about the making of and the analysis of this film. It is probably not for your RUclips channel but just to explore the film deeper.
Please see how he was the first to use handheld gimbled cameras.
If anyone mentions this firefighter thing again, Ima do something to myself
Who's Ima?
@ „I‘m gonna“
I read the book when it came out and when I heard they were making the movie I was really anxious to see it. It did not disappoint. Great reaction y'all.
If you watch again notice how many shots are symmetrical, like Danny sitting on the carpet, the girls in the hallway or a head shot of Jack. Very precisely done.
You two are GOOD! Took me several viewings to pick up on 1/2 the stuff you did on your first! Well done.
I think some of the people who die there become ghosts there. That means they are always there. Jack died there so I think he appears in the photo because now he is permanently there. If someone with the shining goes to that hotel they might see Jack's ghost there, in the same way that Danny saw the two girls who were killed.
Jack Nicholson was a volunteer firefighter in the California Air National Guard, which is why he looked so legit when he swings the axe
Hi Maplenuts. I've seen this film a dozen times (or more) but both of you pointed out a few things I've never noticed before. This was fun! Thanks.
Danny Lloyd made a cameo appearance in the movie Doctor
Sleep, sequel to The Shining. ✌🏻
Ravenous (1999) is loosely inspired by The Donner Party... it stars Guy Pearce (The Count of Monte Cristo) and Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting)... also featuring Neal McDonough (Band of Brothers' Lieutenant "Buck" Compton), among others. Directed by Antonia Bird, with a musical score by Damon Albarn (Blur / Gorillaz)... it's a horror comedy Western cannibal film. Cheers!
The super low angle camera shots, like the one following Danny on his Big Wheel, was created by making a special bracket and mounting it 4 inches off the floor in front of a wheelchair. Great piece of trivia, is it's the same wheel chair used in the filming of "The One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" also starring Jack Nicholson.
The hotel was built on an Indian burial ground
Solid reaction, i liked it a lot!
Theres a ton of rewatch value in The Shining, Kubrick is bombarding viewers with a ton of stuff on a not altogether conscious level.
The impossible architecture, like the two freezer doors. The 'continuity errors' that are intentional like the chair that disappears and reappears during the rule change scene. The number 42 makes a number of appearances....42 cars in the car park, the film Danny and Wendy watch, is, The Summer Of '42, amongst others. The other twins, there's a picture of twins in the power room and Ullman says goodbye to a set of twins as he shows the Torrances their apartment. Jack breaks the fourth wall several times with glances at the camera, perhaps the most obvious is when Jack storms out of the apartment. The rhythm of Jacks typing through the film is, all work and no play..the typewriter itself changes colour. Ullman says there is no skiing, but there's a poster in the games room advertising skiing. The use of symmetry and mirrors, and so much more.
A couple of films worth a look that are partial inspirations for The Shining, are, The Phantom Carriage, where Kubrick takes the scene where Jack chops through the door from, almost shot for shot. The other is, Last Year At Marienbad, which has a sort of visually similar hotel, lots of symmetry and that kind of liminal space feel that The Shining has
The scene where the VW is crushed by the diesel gas truck is a nod to the movie Dead Zone, based on another of King's films.
I scanned the comments to make sure I wasn’t duplicating but didn’t see one: they had to install real doors for Jack to break down with the axe because Nicholson was a former firefighter and was breaking them down too fast for filming. So that’s him getting through real doors that quickly.
Really recommend checking out Shelley Duvall (the mom), playing Olive Ole starring opposite the late- great Robin Williams in “Pop-eye”. One of the first cartoon to live-action adaptations.