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Can't stand this revisionist take on Shelley Duvall's performance here. This is especially common among the younger woke virtue signaling generations. Her performance ran the gambit between mediocre to lousy. And that doesn't change now because some documentary showed that Kubrick had her do numerous takes. Kubrick also has Tom Cruise do 95 takes of going through a door in the film Eyes Wide Shut. So what! Tom never cried about it, he was honored to be directed by a genius like Kubrick. Btw, you are one of the few human beings on the planet to ever utter these words about Shelley Duvall ~ "She's so gorgeous." . Oh yeah, Olive Oil is a real beauty.
"How can they feel that, long distance?" A thing King elaborates on in the book, but doesn't make it into the film, is that Dick Hallorann didn't just feel that Danny was in trouble in Colorado while he was in Florida. He literally heard him screaming in his head, constantly.
I used that car/zombie commercial you’re talking about to scare some people. I set them up for it by playing ghost videos without the jump scares. They cussed me out so bad. One spilled their drink.
This movie is a prime example of how important music and the score is to inciting emotion. The Shining was one of the first Stephen King books I ever read and it’s one of Stanley Kubrick’s best movies in my opinion. RIP Shelley Duvall
Stephen King hated Kubricks version of "The Shining". I agree on Kubricks use of music, even if I never got the chance to hear an audio-track edited by himself. Christopher Nolan did. He got the original audiotrack edited by Stanley Kubrick when he restored the Original - the Super Panavision 70mm Format - of "2001 A Space Odyssey". He describes it as physical. In some scenes the music was so loud that it became a bodily experience. I asume the original audiotrack of "The Shining" had such moments, too.
Another interpretation is that the viewer never actually sees what Jack Torrence really looks like. The viewer only sees the spirit of the original caretaker which took possession of Jack during his drive to the job interview. That would explain the ominous music and the flying camera footage (like modern drone footage), which at one stage swoops very close to the car (the moment the evil spirit enters Jack?). We never see the driver (Jack) pre-possession. So, the photo at the end does shows the original caretaker, who attended the party in 1921.
I think Jack Nicholson portrayed Jack Torrance better than anyone could've imagined. He _REALLY_ made you hate him. A lot of reactors questioned why Danny came back into the house after Wendy helped him out the window. You have to remember, it was below freezing outside. He _HAD_ to come back inside. They changed a lot of things from the book...and I mean _ALOT!_
Jack on the book makes you feel empathy for him. He saves Wendy and Danny and dick by messing with the boilers exploding the hotel. I like both portrayals
Changed for the better. Kubrick's vision is much better for a 2 hour movie than King's version. I know King was very critical of Kubrick's film, but go check out the 1997 miniseries version of The Shining. Even though King said he was very pleased with the miniseries version, it pales in comparison to this Kubrick Masterpiece. Don't take my word for it, compare the two yourself. Don't forget, Kubrick is considered by many, the greatest filmmaker of all time; King is not even in the top 5 writers of his generation.
@@johnnybmean74 I've seen both versions and like both of them. I don't know what gave you the impression I didn't like Kubrick's version. I thought it was great and made even better by Jack Nicholson's masterful performance.
In the book, Jack was the one taking care of the boilers/the hotel. His writing was part of it and you understand a lot more why he had such bad writers block...he becomes infatuated/obsessed with the hotel.
I think the idea is that the hotel wants Danny to be killed there so it can absorb his shining power. The hotel must choose which parent to use, and it chose Jack. That would be why Grady mocked Jack by talking about how much stronger Wendy is. This means the hotel was working on controlling Jack since the family arrived. The longer Danny was there, the more powerful the hotel spirits got. That would explain why Jack got crazier as time went on. On the ending, Jack died there. He's permanently haunting the hotel. That's why he's in the photo. He and Grady, and everyone else absorbed into the hotel, are now 'always' there. That's how I see it.
Nice reaction to a complex classic film. With the snowcat disabled and no radio/phones, there's no escape. They're completely isolated. They'd freeze to death, as the reactor noted later, in the snow if they tried to walk out. Although I don't often subscribe to his themes, I do recognize Kubrick as a great filmmaker, and "The Shining" (TS) is certainly a masterpiece of cinema. I like it very much even though I'm not a fan of Stephen King or his books. This must be due solely to Kubrick. Well, let's also give credit to the actors and the production crew, too. As great as Nicholson and Duvall were in the film, that little boy, Danny Lloyd, really made the movie for me. I think he was five when he started filming TS. For a child that age, he was just outstanding. He himself came up with the finger puppet for Tony, his alter ego. Kudos, also, to Philip Stone and Joe Turkel for being quietly sinister and menacing. I don't want to forget good-guy Scatman Crothers, either. Well-done Scatman. Then there's the Overlook. Not only is it alive, but it is the personification of evil. TS has all the Kubrick touches. All those long hallway and hedge maze shots are one-point-perspective. That's a Kubrick trademark. Also, don't some of those nighttime hedge maze shots remind you of HAL's "eye" in 2001 a bit? They do me. Another characteristic of Kubrick is his focus on intense person-to-person interactions. Yeah, TS has just a little bit of that. By the way, isn't it weird HAL in 2001 acts like a person, and the people act like computers/robots? Those long tracking-shots as people move about the hotel are another Kubrick trait. The musical score as an integral part of the narrative of TS is also textbook Kubrick. Kubrick was a perfectionist, and that is reflected in his films. For example, background is as significant as foreground. Why does Jack's typewriter change color? Is it because Jack has been transformed? Oh, "All work and no play" goes back to at least 1659. It didn't originate with TS although it certainly fits. Why do bits of the hotel, like the furniture, for example, appear, disappear or move about? Is it because the hotel is alive? The answer is yes by the way. It's definitely not due to continuity problems. Finally, Kubrick always forces the viewer to think about and dissect his films. That certainly happens in TS. As a result, we and Kubrick share in a common creative impulse when watching TS. The film becomes a living thing. Here are a few of the other things I've noticed about TS. The film is replete with mirrors. They're everywhere. Watch how they affect Jack. Are they how the hotel projects its power? A portal of sorts? Do they also absorb power? Are they its eyes as well? Likewise, there are mazes everywhere. There's the obvious hedge maze, but the hotel itself is a maze, and so is the hallway carpet. Early on, Wendy remarks on the need for breadcrumbs, a reference to Hansel and Gretel and the maze-like quality of the hotel. TS is a variation of Theseus and the Minotaur with Danny as Theseus, Tony as Ariadne etc. Wendy also says the hotel is like a ghostship. The hotel feeds off Danny and Jack's shining power and gets more powerful as time passes. The hotel wants Danny dead so it can absorb him and his power. Did you notice all the knives pointed at Danny's head on several occasions in the film? When Hallorann and Danny are talking in the kitchen bits of the conversation were telepathic. Numbers seem to come up a lot in the film. For example, Danny wears a shirt with 42 on the sleeve, the tv with no power cord is showing "Summer of 42," and room 237 is 2x3x7=42. I think Kubrick's wife said "Summer of 42" was one of his favourite movies along with "The Bank Dick." The later is a great movie with W. C. Fields. I love it when Danny asks Jack if he feels bad. That can be taken two ways as in do you feel evil or do you feel unwell. And, of course, Jack repeats the girls saying forever and ever, meaning I want to join with the hotel in death. Jack does, of course, sell his soul for a drink. Is that why Lloyd the bartender won't take his money? Jack's already paid in-full? The people and things Danny and Jack see are real, but only people with shining can see them at first. When Jack returns to the ballroom where the 1920s party is going on, a woman walks by him with a bloody handprint on her backside. This is about the time the advocaat is spilled on him. Jack also wipes some advocaat on Grady's back. In the bathroom scene, it's clear Grady's girls also had "the shine" and wanted to destroy the hotel, but they were killed instead and absorbed. Grady himself, probably like Jack, also had "the shine." In the conversation between Jack and Grady, Grady switches between Grady and the entity of the hotel. Jack may also switch with the "caretaker." When Jack and Wendy are being shown their apartment, Jack eyes the two departing young ladies. A sign of his lechery? Ditto the girlie magazine he's reading in the lobby early on. He definitely has a wandering eye. Even early on, he doesn't seem to hold Wendy in high regard. When Jack enters room 237, the carpet there is obviously suggestive of the sex act. Very phallic etc. Sex, in one way or other, features in many Kubrick films. Room 237 is the heart of the hotel. The nude woman represents the hotel seducing Jack. The heartbeat we hear is the hotel's and signals the hotel's malevolent activity and increasing power. We hear it overtly later in the film but weakly earlier when Danny is riding the trike on/off the carpet and when Jack is bouncing the ball. The high-pitched tone indicates "shining" is happening. So, Jack clearly shines, too. He's one of those who doesn't realize he has it. Jack several times in the film exhibits the Kubrick glare or stare, a shot of a man glowering up at the camera from beneath lowered brows, an indicator of danger or madness. You see it in "Full Metal Jacket." And I think HAL in 2001 also shows it. Doesn't HAL's red pupil change size? When Jack goes on his rant about his obligations to the hotel before Wendy conks him, he's not talking about Ullmann and co. He's talking about "the hotel," the thing that's alive. That's who he's made the contract and sold his soul to. Remember Lloyd the bartender's ominous hotel remarks. REDRUM is MURDER backwards, and it signifies anti-murder. It's a totem that protects against murder. That's why Danny writes it on the bathroom door. Jack can batter the door, but he won't get in. Danny is also warning Wendy and arming her as a result of his REDRUM recital. The photos are part of the hotel like the typewriter and furniture. When Jack dies, he's absorbed by the hotel and winds up in the 1920s photo. Towards the end, the hotel's evil spirit, the caretaker, may have abandoned Jack to die in the maze. He did fail in his task. That ball in the photo was the same one where the advocaat was spilled. He was there in 1921, and he wasn't. Kubrick deleted a final scene from TS. Wendy was in hospital and Ullman was visiting. He told her all was normal at the hotel. No Jack. No Hallorann. At least, I think that's what I read once. Might be wrong about that. I've watched several reactions to TS, and I'm amazed at some of the observations. Got some beefs. A lot of people don't make a connection between Danny's first vision of the blood elevator, which signifies all the death at the hotel, and his passing out. They disassociate these two events when, clearly, they go together as the image of Danny's horrified face shows. From the get-go, it's clear Danny can see past events and future events. He knows Jack got the job and is going to call Wendy. He knows he doesn't want them to go to the hotel. He knows the hotel signifies danger. Why don't people notice that Danny's shirt and jumper are torn when he come to the Colorado Lounge after being strangled? Danny's clearly in shock, too. When Danny is foaming at the mouth and Hallorann is having his mini-fit, Danny is clearly communicating with Hallorann there is danger, come and help. How can Wendy be so sound asleep before Danny wakes her? Come on, the poor woman has been on edge for weeks. She hasn't been sleeping well. Now that she's locked crazy Jack up, she literally passes out, thinking they're safe. After Danny slides down from the bathroom window, why are people surprised he comes back into the hotel? It's freakin' cold outside. Do you live at the equator or something? After Jack kills Hallorann and Danny screams, why are people surprised when Danny bolts his hiding place? It's not a hiding place anymore, Jack knows where he is. Anyway, the hotel will lead him to Danny. Danny runs outside because he's actually luring Jack into the maze to meet his fate. Danny is the hero of TS, he's Theseus, who killed the monster in the maze.
1. Joe Turkel/Lloyd plays Tyrell in "Bladerunner" 2. "Here's Johnny" was adlib by Nickelson. 3. It took over 65 takes for Jack to chop through the doors. He used his voluntary firefighting skills to get through all the takes. They had to keep building doors. 4. The reason King didn't like this adaptation of the movie is because he didn't like the changes Kubrick made. This thing was remade just for King and although the remake was more in line with the book IMVHO it wasn't as good at this one. 5. Two of the changes he didn't like were Jack's decent into madness was too rapid, and Wendy wasn't such a patsy in the book. 6. Shelley Duval 😇said making this film was the worst thing she ever experienced in her life. She said she would never do it again. 7. Jack Nicholson and Scatman worked together in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest". 8. The real villain here is the hotel itself. TUESDAY😲
Love this one... first horror film I ever seen... when I was like 10 or 11 years old when it first came out. Started my love for horror! Thanks for a great reaction! 🙂
There's a sequel called DOCTOR SLEEP. It's actually fantastic, because you see what happened to Dick Halloran; I recommend the Director's Cut. When this came out, Shelley Duvall was nominated for a Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. Today, her performance is considered one of the best ever captured on film. Thankfully, she lived to see that shift in opinion. Kubrick was caught on audio admitting that Jack was likely a reincarnation of his previous self from another time, who was likely the person in the New Year's photo.
good reaction ! btw it looks like you watched the shorter european cut of this movie but theres actually a longer USA cut that is about half an hour longer and gives some more context to certain things !
Overhead maze shot was actually done on a crane, believe it or not. Kubrick is certainly not the best overt storyteller😅, & art of course is subjective, but Kubrick is the bonafide GOAT film-maker & was most powerful director in Hollywood before his "heart attack". He started as a photographer & won an award for his work in top NY magazine before he was 18. He was a genius. If interested in the craft, hes the one to study. Was involved in every aspect. He had NASA build special cameras for his previous film, period piece, "Barry Lyndon" to shoot inside castles via candle & natural light the way it was back then. Saw this in theater when i was 9. See ya. ✌️🌎❤️
Pawxpi, check out the movies Halloween(1978), Misery(1990), Hereditary(2018), The Lost Boys(1987), Get Out(2017), Friday the 13th(1980), and Creepshow(1982).
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The story can be seen as an allegory about alcohol-fueled domestic abuse. Stanley Kubrick was known for being hard on his actors. He shot more than 200 takes of the scene on the stairs. Poor Shelley Duvall was so stressed that her hair started to fall out. The usual explanation is that the hotel itself has a soul that feeds on the souls of people like Danny and Jack. At the end, when Jack dies, he is absorbed into the hotel and becomes not just part of it, but part of its history. As Delbert Grady said, Jack has always been the caretaker. And once Jack's soul is absorbed, he becomes part of the photo from 1921.
That would be awesome to have the shining, wouldn't it? Especially when you'd have to warn somebody about what's coming. Those ghost guests were something. Have you seen An American Werewolf In London? It was an 80's classic. Maybe sometime you could do a reaction video of it? I'm sure you would love it.
I like your enthusiasm for the movie and Duvall. I do not like you watching a scary movie in a very brightly lit room. Ambiance is important! Also, there were no drones used for movies back then. Those arial scenes at the beginning would have been shot from either an airplane or a helicopter.
Stephen King didn't like the moviev. He said the director ruined it. The whole point was to have sympathy for Jack & his family. There was no axe in the book . A croquet mallet was used. Jack broke Wendy's back with it, broke the cooks teeth into a millions pieces with it. And when it came time for Jack to kill Danny , he couldn't do it. So he bashed his own head in with the croquet mallet . And the hotel boiler explodes. Also there was animal hedges coming to life protecting the evil hotel.
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Can't stand this revisionist take on Shelley Duvall's performance here. This is especially common among the younger woke virtue signaling generations. Her performance ran the gambit between mediocre to lousy. And that doesn't change now because some documentary showed that Kubrick had her do numerous takes. Kubrick also has Tom Cruise do 95 takes of going through a door in the film Eyes Wide Shut. So what! Tom never cried about it, he was honored to be directed by a genius like Kubrick.
Btw, you are one of the few human beings on the planet to ever utter these words about Shelley Duvall ~ "She's so gorgeous." . Oh yeah, Olive Oil is a real beauty.
"How can they feel that, long distance?"
A thing King elaborates on in the book, but doesn't make it into the film, is that Dick Hallorann didn't just feel that Danny was in trouble in Colorado while he was in Florida. He literally heard him screaming in his head, constantly.
Yes. Danny was calling Mr. Halloran.
He isnt awful he is possessed to do these things by the hotel. He is actually a good man.
I used that car/zombie commercial you’re talking about to scare some people.
I set them up for it by playing ghost videos without the jump scares.
They cussed me out so bad.
One spilled their drink.
This movie is a prime example of how important music and the score is to inciting emotion. The Shining was one of the first Stephen King books I ever read and it’s one of Stanley Kubrick’s best movies in my opinion. RIP Shelley Duvall
Stephen King hated Kubricks version of "The Shining". I agree on Kubricks use of music, even if I never got the chance to hear an audio-track edited by himself. Christopher Nolan did. He got the original audiotrack edited by Stanley Kubrick when he restored the Original - the Super Panavision 70mm Format - of "2001 A Space Odyssey". He describes it as physical. In some scenes the music was so loud that it became a bodily experience. I asume the original audiotrack of "The Shining" had such moments, too.
The best way to understand the 1921 portrait at the end is to realize that Jack wasn't in that photo until after he died.
Another interpretation is that the viewer never actually sees what Jack Torrence really looks like. The viewer only sees the spirit of the original caretaker which took possession of Jack during his drive to the job interview. That would explain the ominous music and the flying camera footage (like modern drone footage), which at one stage swoops very close to the car (the moment the evil spirit enters Jack?). We never see the driver (Jack) pre-possession. So, the photo at the end does shows the original caretaker, who attended the party in 1921.
Makes perfect sense haha⚛️❤
Gotta admire how stunning that hotel looks, also the green and red bathrooms.
It's amazing how Jack can twist his features and look utterly terrifying cuz he was considered quite handsome back in his day
Instead of saying "Boo!" this Halloween, I'm saying, "TUESDAY!!" 😂
I think Jack Nicholson portrayed Jack Torrance better than anyone could've imagined. He _REALLY_ made you hate him. A lot of reactors questioned why Danny came back into the house after Wendy helped him out the window. You have to remember, it was below freezing outside. He _HAD_ to come back inside. They changed a lot of things from the book...and I mean _ALOT!_
Jack on the book makes you feel empathy for him. He saves Wendy and Danny and dick by messing with the boilers exploding the hotel.
I like both portrayals
Changed for the better. Kubrick's vision is much better for a 2 hour movie than King's version. I know King was very critical of Kubrick's film, but go check out the 1997 miniseries version of The Shining. Even though King said he was very pleased with the miniseries version, it pales in comparison to this Kubrick Masterpiece. Don't take my word for it, compare the two yourself. Don't forget, Kubrick is considered by many, the greatest filmmaker of all time; King is not even in the top 5 writers of his generation.
@@johnnybmean74 I've seen both versions and like both of them. I don't know what gave you the impression I didn't like Kubrick's version. I thought it was great and made even better by Jack Nicholson's masterful performance.
@@taylortyler1867 I never said you did, I was merely stating that the "Change" was for the Better.
@@johnnybmean74 I don't want to split hairs, but it seemed implied to me. Sorry if I was wrong.
In the book, Jack was the one taking care of the boilers/the hotel. His writing was part of it and you understand a lot more why he had such bad writers block...he becomes infatuated/obsessed with the hotel.
I think the idea is that the hotel wants Danny to be killed there so it can absorb his shining power. The hotel must choose which parent to use, and it chose Jack. That would be why Grady mocked Jack by talking about how much stronger Wendy is. This means the hotel was working on controlling Jack since the family arrived. The longer Danny was there, the more powerful the hotel spirits got. That would explain why Jack got crazier as time went on. On the ending, Jack died there. He's permanently haunting the hotel. That's why he's in the photo. He and Grady, and everyone else absorbed into the hotel, are now 'always' there. That's how I see it.
Jack also has the shinning ability he just never realized it.
Non military drones are at least a decade away. These are helicopter shots in the beginning of the film.
Opening shot was done with a helicopter. They didn't have drones back then.
Nice reaction to a complex classic film. With the snowcat disabled and no radio/phones, there's no escape. They're completely isolated. They'd freeze to death, as the reactor noted later, in the snow if they tried to walk out.
Although I don't often subscribe to his themes, I do recognize Kubrick as a great filmmaker, and "The Shining" (TS) is certainly a masterpiece of cinema. I like it very much even though I'm not a fan of Stephen King or his books. This must be due solely to Kubrick. Well, let's also give credit to the actors and the production crew, too. As great as Nicholson and Duvall were in the film, that little boy, Danny Lloyd, really made the movie for me. I think he was five when he started filming TS. For a child that age, he was just outstanding. He himself came up with the finger puppet for Tony, his alter ego. Kudos, also, to Philip Stone and Joe Turkel for being quietly sinister and menacing. I don't want to forget good-guy Scatman Crothers, either. Well-done Scatman. Then there's the Overlook. Not only is it alive, but it is the personification of evil.
TS has all the Kubrick touches. All those long hallway and hedge maze shots are one-point-perspective. That's a Kubrick trademark. Also, don't some of those nighttime hedge maze shots remind you of HAL's "eye" in 2001 a bit? They do me. Another characteristic of Kubrick is his focus on intense person-to-person interactions. Yeah, TS has just a little bit of that. By the way, isn't it weird HAL in 2001 acts like a person, and the people act like computers/robots? Those long tracking-shots as people move about the hotel are another Kubrick trait. The musical score as an integral part of the narrative of TS is also textbook Kubrick. Kubrick was a perfectionist, and that is reflected in his films. For example, background is as significant as foreground. Why does Jack's typewriter change color? Is it because Jack has been transformed? Oh, "All work and no play" goes back to at least 1659. It didn't originate with TS although it certainly fits. Why do bits of the hotel, like the furniture, for example, appear, disappear or move about? Is it because the hotel is alive? The answer is yes by the way. It's definitely not due to continuity problems. Finally, Kubrick always forces the viewer to think about and dissect his films. That certainly happens in TS. As a result, we and Kubrick share in a common creative impulse when watching TS. The film becomes a living thing.
Here are a few of the other things I've noticed about TS. The film is replete with mirrors. They're everywhere. Watch how they affect Jack. Are they how the hotel projects its power? A portal of sorts? Do they also absorb power? Are they its eyes as well? Likewise, there are mazes everywhere. There's the obvious hedge maze, but the hotel itself is a maze, and so is the hallway carpet. Early on, Wendy remarks on the need for breadcrumbs, a reference to Hansel and Gretel and the maze-like quality of the hotel. TS is a variation of Theseus and the Minotaur with Danny as Theseus, Tony as Ariadne etc. Wendy also says the hotel is like a ghostship. The hotel feeds off Danny and Jack's shining power and gets more powerful as time passes. The hotel wants Danny dead so it can absorb him and his power. Did you notice all the knives pointed at Danny's head on several occasions in the film? When Hallorann and Danny are talking in the kitchen bits of the conversation were telepathic. Numbers seem to come up a lot in the film. For example, Danny wears a shirt with 42 on the sleeve, the tv with no power cord is showing "Summer of 42," and room 237 is 2x3x7=42. I think Kubrick's wife said "Summer of 42" was one of his favourite movies along with "The Bank Dick." The later is a great movie with W. C. Fields. I love it when Danny asks Jack if he feels bad. That can be taken two ways as in do you feel evil or do you feel unwell. And, of course, Jack repeats the girls saying forever and ever, meaning I want to join with the hotel in death. Jack does, of course, sell his soul for a drink. Is that why Lloyd the bartender won't take his money? Jack's already paid in-full? The people and things Danny and Jack see are real, but only people with shining can see them at first. When Jack returns to the ballroom where the 1920s party is going on, a woman walks by him with a bloody handprint on her backside. This is about the time the advocaat is spilled on him. Jack also wipes some advocaat on Grady's back. In the bathroom scene, it's clear Grady's girls also had "the shine" and wanted to destroy the hotel, but they were killed instead and absorbed. Grady himself, probably like Jack, also had "the shine." In the conversation between Jack and Grady, Grady switches between Grady and the entity of the hotel. Jack may also switch with the "caretaker." When Jack and Wendy are being shown their apartment, Jack eyes the two departing young ladies. A sign of his lechery? Ditto the girlie magazine he's reading in the lobby early on. He definitely has a wandering eye. Even early on, he doesn't seem to hold Wendy in high regard. When Jack enters room 237, the carpet there is obviously suggestive of the sex act. Very phallic etc. Sex, in one way or other, features in many Kubrick films. Room 237 is the heart of the hotel. The nude woman represents the hotel seducing Jack. The heartbeat we hear is the hotel's and signals the hotel's malevolent activity and increasing power. We hear it overtly later in the film but weakly earlier when Danny is riding the trike on/off the carpet and when Jack is bouncing the ball. The high-pitched tone indicates "shining" is happening. So, Jack clearly shines, too. He's one of those who doesn't realize he has it. Jack several times in the film exhibits the Kubrick glare or stare, a shot of a man glowering up at the camera from beneath lowered brows, an indicator of danger or madness. You see it in "Full Metal Jacket." And I think HAL in 2001 also shows it. Doesn't HAL's red pupil change size? When Jack goes on his rant about his obligations to the hotel before Wendy conks him, he's not talking about Ullmann and co. He's talking about "the hotel," the thing that's alive. That's who he's made the contract and sold his soul to. Remember Lloyd the bartender's ominous hotel remarks. REDRUM is MURDER backwards, and it signifies anti-murder. It's a totem that protects against murder. That's why Danny writes it on the bathroom door. Jack can batter the door, but he won't get in. Danny is also warning Wendy and arming her as a result of his REDRUM recital. The photos are part of the hotel like the typewriter and furniture. When Jack dies, he's absorbed by the hotel and winds up in the 1920s photo. Towards the end, the hotel's evil spirit, the caretaker, may have abandoned Jack to die in the maze. He did fail in his task. That ball in the photo was the same one where the advocaat was spilled. He was there in 1921, and he wasn't. Kubrick deleted a final scene from TS. Wendy was in hospital and Ullman was visiting. He told her all was normal at the hotel. No Jack. No Hallorann. At least, I think that's what I read once. Might be wrong about that.
I've watched several reactions to TS, and I'm amazed at some of the observations. Got some beefs. A lot of people don't make a connection between Danny's first vision of the blood elevator, which signifies all the death at the hotel, and his passing out. They disassociate these two events when, clearly, they go together as the image of Danny's horrified face shows. From the get-go, it's clear Danny can see past events and future events. He knows Jack got the job and is going to call Wendy. He knows he doesn't want them to go to the hotel. He knows the hotel signifies danger. Why don't people notice that Danny's shirt and jumper are torn when he come to the Colorado Lounge after being strangled? Danny's clearly in shock, too. When Danny is foaming at the mouth and Hallorann is having his mini-fit, Danny is clearly communicating with Hallorann there is danger, come and help. How can Wendy be so sound asleep before Danny wakes her? Come on, the poor woman has been on edge for weeks. She hasn't been sleeping well. Now that she's locked crazy Jack up, she literally passes out, thinking they're safe. After Danny slides down from the bathroom window, why are people surprised he comes back into the hotel? It's freakin' cold outside. Do you live at the equator or something? After Jack kills Hallorann and Danny screams, why are people surprised when Danny bolts his hiding place? It's not a hiding place anymore, Jack knows where he is. Anyway, the hotel will lead him to Danny. Danny runs outside because he's actually luring Jack into the maze to meet his fate.
Danny is the hero of TS, he's Theseus, who killed the monster in the maze.
Excited to watch this reaction. I loved this movie.
This recently became my 13yo's favorite movie. She and I are dressing up as Wendy and Jack for Halloween 😁
1. Joe Turkel/Lloyd plays Tyrell in "Bladerunner"
2. "Here's Johnny" was adlib by Nickelson.
3. It took over 65 takes for Jack to chop through the doors. He used his voluntary firefighting skills to get through all the takes. They had to keep building doors.
4. The reason King didn't like this adaptation of the movie is because he didn't like the changes Kubrick made. This thing was remade just for King and although the remake was more in line with the book IMVHO it wasn't as good at this one.
5. Two of the changes he didn't like were Jack's decent into madness was too rapid, and Wendy wasn't such a patsy in the book.
6. Shelley Duval 😇said making this film was the worst thing she ever experienced in her life. She said she would never do it again.
7. Jack Nicholson and Scatman worked together in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest".
8. The real villain here is the hotel itself.
TUESDAY😲
Love this one... first horror film I ever seen... when I was like 10 or 11 years old when it first came out. Started my love for horror! Thanks for a great reaction! 🙂
There's a sequel called DOCTOR SLEEP. It's actually fantastic, because you see what happened to Dick Halloran; I recommend the Director's Cut.
When this came out, Shelley Duvall was nominated for a Raspberry Award for Worst Actress.
Today, her performance is considered one of the best ever captured on film.
Thankfully, she lived to see that shift in opinion.
Kubrick was caught on audio admitting that Jack was likely a reincarnation of his previous self from another time, who was likely the person in the New Year's photo.
Dick doesn't die in the book.
@@meggo329 Yes, but the movie changes things and she has questions.
good reaction ! btw it looks like you watched the shorter european cut of this movie but theres actually a longer USA cut that is about half an hour longer and gives some more context to certain things !
There is a shorter version. That's disgusting to shorten this movie.
This film and Texas Chainsaw Massacre have my favorite unsettling soundtracks.
Other actors considered for the part of Jack Torrance were Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, Robin Williams.
Now you should check out Doctor Sleep the sequel.
Overhead maze shot was actually done on a crane, believe it or not. Kubrick is certainly not the best overt storyteller😅, & art of course is subjective, but Kubrick is the bonafide GOAT film-maker & was most powerful director in Hollywood before his "heart attack". He started as a photographer & won an award for his work in top NY magazine before he was 18. He was a genius. If interested in the craft, hes the one to study. Was involved in every aspect. He had NASA build special cameras for his previous film, period piece, "Barry Lyndon" to shoot inside castles via candle & natural light the way it was back then.
Saw this in theater when i was 9.
See ya.
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Pawxpi, check out the movies Halloween(1978), Misery(1990), Hereditary(2018), The Lost Boys(1987), Get Out(2017), Friday the 13th(1980), and Creepshow(1982).
Movie Recommendations:
The Hitcher (1986)
GATTACA
Haunting of Hill House (TV Series)
The Maze Runner (trilogy)
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others 2006)
Goodbye Lenin! (2003)
Der Untergang (Downfall 2004)
Rebecca (1940)
Suspicion (1941)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)
Rope (1948)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Vertigo (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)
The Talented Mr Ripley (1999)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979 tv series)
Forbidden Planet
Maurice (1987)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dark City (1998)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Minority Report (2002)
Inception (2010)
Manhunt (2019-2021 tv series)
Airplane (1980)
Dr. Strangelove
A Shot in the Dark
Groundhog Day
Some Like it Hot
Galaxy Quest
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Alien (1979)
Blade Runner
Aliens (1986)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Starship Troopers (1997)
The Time Machine (1960)
The story can be seen as an allegory about alcohol-fueled domestic abuse.
Stanley Kubrick was known for being hard on his actors. He shot more than 200 takes of the scene on the stairs. Poor Shelley Duvall was so stressed that her hair started to fall out.
The usual explanation is that the hotel itself has a soul that feeds on the souls of people like Danny and Jack. At the end, when Jack dies, he is absorbed into the hotel and becomes not just part of it, but part of its history. As Delbert Grady said, Jack has always been the caretaker. And once Jack's soul is absorbed, he becomes part of the photo from 1921.
The hotel is a true knot
29:22 "Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in"
29:32 "Oh he's the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood" 🤦🏽♂️
"Wendy, I'm home" LOL
the intro song is an ancient classic
If you're a reader, you ought to read the book too. The movie differs significantly from it, but it is an amazing novel
This is cool. I've never seen someone react to movies from the backrooms.
That would be awesome to have the shining, wouldn't it? Especially when you'd have to warn somebody about what's coming. Those ghost guests were something. Have you seen An American Werewolf In London? It was an 80's classic. Maybe sometime you could do a reaction video of it? I'm sure you would love it.
Halloween month is almost over. Keep the "creep factor" going with "The Exorcist" and 1976's "The Omen".
Girl, are you watching movies in a morgue?
Have you watched Shelley Duvall in her award winning performance with Sissy Space in 3 WOMEN? It is so creepy and wonderful!!!!
Great movie. Criminally under recognized. Robert Altman is one of my favorite directors.
32:43 I don't remember the blood ever being purple. It's grape juice in your version lol. Kinda neat, though. I like it.
When it comes to Stephen King movies , best to read the book first. It's a whole diff experience.
I like your enthusiasm for the movie and Duvall. I do not like you watching a scary movie in a very brightly lit room. Ambiance is important! Also, there were no drones used for movies back then. Those arial scenes at the beginning would have been shot from either an airplane or a helicopter.
Came here to say this. They were all helicopter shots back then. Drones are new.
You always pick the good ones, The Shining was amazing, Stephen King hated this movie believe it or not
nevermind danny and his talking finger, lets make some hot cocoa and walk around barefoot on the furry rug
Stephen King didn't like the moviev. He said the director ruined it. The whole point was to have sympathy for Jack & his family. There was no axe in the book . A croquet mallet was used. Jack broke Wendy's back with it, broke the cooks teeth into a millions pieces with it. And when it came time for Jack to kill Danny , he couldn't do it. So he bashed his own head in with the croquet mallet . And the hotel boiler explodes. Also there was animal hedges coming to life protecting the evil hotel.
Yes just shows King didn’t know crap about how to make a great movie⚛️❤
I like when she reacts