Amelia mesmerized by THE SHINING (1980) Movie Reaction FIRST TIME WATCHING
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- The Shining (1980)
The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. It is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel of the same name and stars Jack Nicholson, Danny Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, and Scatman Crothers. Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, a writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a new position as the off-season caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. Lloyd plays his young son Danny, who has psychic abilities ("the shining"), which he learns about from head chef Dick Hallorann (Crothers). Danny's imaginary friend Tony warns him the hotel is haunted before a winter storm leaves the family snowbound in the Colorado Rockies. Jack's sanity deteriorates under the influence of the hotel and the residents, and Danny and his mother Wendy (Duvall) face mortal danger.
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Finally, a feel-good movie
Lol 😂
Lol, on brand.
He said, grab your things I’ve come to take you home…
*SHINING*
Do a search: The Shining, Wendy theory
Like Deadpool 2, its a family film.
"I'm not gonna hurt you, I'm just gonna Bash your brains in." My absolute favorite line in the entire movie. The way Jack executes this line is so amazing.
That scene is taken from a B&W movie, can't recall which, but late 50s early 60s.
Say whatever you will about Wendy, but her ash control is impeccable.
I will give her that any day of the week 😂
That ash does some impossible things.
That ash had a mind of its own, lol
18:00 “why don’t you start by getting the f**k outta here?”
‘He could at least say please’. 😂
Notice how when the little girls turn, they pivot as a single unit, rather than turning individually as normal people would.
It makes them that much more creepy 😰
But the Grady girls were age 8 and 7.
20:17 "At least the TV still works". Are you talking about the TV that isn't even plugged in? This movie has all kinds of creepy.
Have you seen what happens to the set just before and just after the freezer scene?
I never noticed before Jack's last words were "Help.. Please.."
Just a little trivia for anybody who doesn´t know: the hotel-manager in the purple trousers (who shows them around the hotel in the beginning of the movie) is actor Barry Nelson who was the first actor to ever play James Bond on screen. Yes.
In a lot of ways the film is about the incapacity to escape the past, using psycholgicmcal horror and ghostly imagery as the vehicle on which that constantly tracking camera rides. It's definitely a watch many more than once movie. Next time you see it watch how the camera represents the malevolent incarnation of the Overlook Hotel. The first opening shot is the camera "overlooking" Jack driving to the interview and descending down on him, the first suggestion that there is an uncanny power taking possession of him quietly and secretly. That sort of film language Kubrick excelled at. And notice how the camera is chasing or following or pushing Danny toward something. Danny is the protagonist and the malevolence of the Overlook is after him and using his father to accomplish it, but we sense it through how the camera itself is a actual charscter within the walls of the Overlook. Great reaction, Amelia!
I've seen this movie many times since it came out and only just noticed. When Danny and Wendy were in their room the TV was on, and we could hear the theme song for the cartoon "Roadrunner". We heard the iconic song line "If he catches you, you're through." I'm surprised I hadn't noticed that before.
Have you noticed the TV has no power cord?
@@88wildcat Yes...a lot of people have.
More Looney Tunes during the Mysterious Giant Bite scene.
@@88wildcat Yeah, we noticed this in '80 when the movie came out.
@@88wildcat no shadow of a power cord. No outlet. Just a magic tv on legs. That took work. That was at least half a day making that happen.
Happy birthday Jack Nicholson! April 22
Kids don't even get snow days around here. They have to do distance learning I've heard.
Jack was a teacher also.
When some friends of mine had a young son, the husband and I told the wife that we were going to teach their son the Tony voice. She said, “You . . . will . . . not.”
Enjoying this reaction Amelia...
This is Stanley Kubrick iconic version & his own interpretation of the novel written by Stephen King....however King personally greatly disliked this movie because it was such a departure & many things were changed from his novel. King himself did have it remade as a 3 part TV miniseries in 1997 (which was a lot closer to the novel than the Kubrick's film).
I also recommend checking out the 2019 sequel movie 'Doctor Sleep: The Director's Cut' (the best version of that film in my opinion & closer to that novel), is worth reacting to. It was able to walk that fine line of respecting the iconic Stanley Kubrick film and remaing true to Stephen King's sequel novel....And King loved that movie & Mike Flanagan's direction (and one of my personal favorites as well 😁).
King dislikes it because it’s better than his story, everyone preferred the ending, and the characters had more layers.. also, the Jack character was king in his book, and Stanley was on point about king being a garbage human being.. the mini series is awful and you know it..
@@VictorLugosi Well that's a matter of opinion. I read the book long before the movie was produced. I was very excited to see the movie, especially because I like Kubrick films. As adaptation of the book the film was a disappointing joke. I can watch and enjoy it now only because I think of it as film as having no relation to the book.
You are right on every point. King famously said after seeing the film, "Giving The Shining to Kubrick to direct was like handing a hand grenade to child." The mini-series had its flaws, but it was indeed a more authentic adaptation. Dr. Sleep was a better film. I liked that one very much.
@@VictorLugosi - Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is one of my favorite horror films. Notice I refer to The Shining (1980) film as Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (not Steven King's The Shining) because the film is so vastly different from the book. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, the movie is vastly very different from the book because Stanley did his own thing with the material & made a very iconic entertaining film from the source material his own way. His own artistic vision. However it is missing many details from the novel, which were either omitted, glossed over or barely touched upon but that was Stanley's own choice when making his version of the story. (Also make no mistake, that isn't to say that Kubrick's Shining film isn't without its own set of flaws & issues of its own because the film does have quite a few in my eyes, which are too lengthy to get into here, as well as including that strange ambiguous ending, which was not in the book by the way. Plus the original ending that Stanley Kubrick wrote & filmed and was actually released into theaters, was even later recalled, removed & altered by Kubrick himself shortly after the film was already out into theaters - look it up.....I have several criticisms of many of Kubrick's films, not just with The Shining alone. He is very artistic director, credit where credit is due but he does have his own flaws as a director which I do notice). As much as I like Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, there are some things that even I would like to edit and/or change...but that subject is for another day.
King was able to make his version of his novel his own way (being executive producer on it) for the small screen in the 1997, 3 part TV miniseries - and that is Stephen King's The Shining (not Kubrick's The Shining) which the miniseries is much closer to King's own novel. And because it touches on the thematic elements that were closer to King himself. I appreciate how his vision affected the story the way King originally envisioned it to unfold and how the interactions of the characters are meant to relate in King's story. I can look at the miniseries as it's own thing apart from Kubrick's film & vice versa in relation to the book to Kubrick's film.
I could spend all day nitpicking both the film and miniseries, the flaws of both and the strengths of both. But I do have other things to do than play the pluses and minuses game (and besides, several channels & websites have already deeply analyzed both projects to death. If anyone is really interested, feel free to go seek them out). Now you have your own opinion and I have mine. You may think, in your own opinion, that the miniseries is awful, I respectfully disagree with your own opinion and state that I did enjoy watching the entire miniseries in my own opinion. For me personally, I actually like both versions of The Shining (having seen both and reading the book all several times). For me, they (the film and miniseries) both have their good points and flaws and they are both different enough, at least to me, to be two tonally different experiences and I can appreciate that. If you don't then, that's you.
Oh, and it is possible for a person to like both Star Wars and Star Trek equally, without hating one or the other. Yes, such people like me do exist out there. May the force be with you and live long and prosper 🖖
I do say that with 'Doctor Sleep: The Director's Cut' (2019), I recommend the Director's Cut over the theatrical because it was Warner Bros studio that re-edited the film, without director Mike Flanigan's involvement in order to shorten the film's run time (removing entire plot points & subplot points which then go unresolved due to the poor edits and the loss of great character moment scenes sadly). The Director's Cut is the richer experience that Mike Flanagan, the director, intended for audiences.
And it is a movie that has the best of both worlds, in my opinion, references & connections to Stanley Kubrick's version and direct connection to Stephen King's novel of Doctor Sleep and even his Shining novel (including its ending). So much so, that even King was happy with that director's cut of the film (he was only marginally satisfied with the Warner Bros re-edited theatrical). And if all the people and reviewers who analyzed the director's cut vs the theatrical version, the vast majority of them do say (myself included), the director's cut of Doctor Sleep is the superior version of the two...🐈
There's isolation and isolation without internet nowadays
Lol...some people would freak out 😱 without internet 💻😂
Yeah, I was thinking if I had internet it wouldn't be a problem.
growing up without the net even into my adult hood, and not being the biggest fans of people give me 5 books to read and i would be happy, they even had a tv
Isolation with Internet is probably one of the WORST diseases humanity has inflicted upon itself.
Trying not to spoil anything, but in another movie that's an adaptation of a Stephen King novella. There is another "room" 237
It's a Stanley Kubrick film and people have been trying to figure it out for over 40 years!
Altitude , or elevation, sickness is a very real thing. I spent seven years as a cold climate wilderness survivalist and extreme long distance hiker/backpacker on the National Scenic Trails of the United States . Mount Whitney on my PCT thru-hikes was a side trip a lot of PCT hikers make as a extra challenge..... It's 14,508 feet to the summit and due to increasing one's elevation within the time frame it takes to summit and descend , the effects of altitude sickness are varied but for me it was a migraine headache and nausea . The effects can be managed by stopping every so many feet in elevation and letting one's body adjust and acclimate...... But most don't do this since its a day trip up and down the mountain . I've summited most of the highest elevations in the US ,not including Alaska. (Alaska has the ten highest summits in the US. )
I've been to two of "The Shining" filming locations, being in Colorado and Oregon..... The one in Oregon on the PCT is the Timberline Lodge. Most thru-hikers like to stop here for the breakfast buffet. (It's awesome) .... The other sight is in Estes Park in Colorado.... It's more like the Overlook Hotel in the movie. Was a lot of fun on the guilded tour.... No ghosts though since ghosts are not factual truth of reality within the forces of Nature.
For any younger viewers who don't know, the "here's Johnny" was the famous intro to every episode of Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show (1962-1992) at the time that this film was released (1980). LOL!
It’s all in the delivery. I can certainly see why Ed McMahon was chosen for the announcer/co-host instead of Jack Torrance.
Oh no! Hahaha why’d they give this sweet young woman a terrifying movie
Technically, it was our Subscribers who gave this sweet young woman a terrifying movie so you only have yourselves to blame! lol
Hi Amelia, I loved your reaction to this horror classic, it really is so creepy, Jack Nicholson & Stanley Kubrick did a great job with it. It's cool you like horror movies, please react to Aliens (1986) soon & I highly recommend An American Werewolf In London (1981) for you to react to, it's a fun scarefest with freaky jumpscares, humorous moments and incredible academy award winning special make up/practical effects including the GOAT werewolf transformation scene! Please check that out for the channel soon. You're one of my favourite Popcorn Roulette reactors and I'm subscribed & have the notification bell on :)
I recommend Jack Nicholson again in A Few Good Men & Anger Management.
'Wolf' with him & Michelle Pfeiffer was pretty good too as was 'Chinatown' with Faye Dunaway. He played an awesome Joker with Michael Keaton as 'Batman'.
I'm telling you right now I will be doing a reaction to WOLF and I don't care if nobody on RUclips watches it because I just love that movie, lol
One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is an incredible movie with Jack Nicholson also! It even features the actor who played Dick Halloren.
Five easy pieces is a personal favorite of mine . 👍 The scene with his father shows what a great actor he is . 😀
“It’s so far back doctors smoked” my doctor smokes lol you clearly don’t live In England.
So far back for *American doctors hahaha. I’ve been to a doctor in Europe and what you said definitely checks out lol
"God, I'd give anything for a drink. I'd give my god-damned soul for just a glass of beer."
"Hi, Lloyd. Little slow tonight isn't it?"
And isn't Lloyd wearing a lovely velvet red jacket? He sure is.
"Good evening, -Dave- Sir."
Have you seen doctor sleep ? it's about as good a sequel as u could have done for this movie I really liked it 🤷
Surprisingly, the most uncomfortable and creepy scene is when Danny comes to sit on his father's lap. Bartok's music also makes it extremely unsettling and tense. Nothing is more chilling and scary, traumatizing and awful than the notion of your closest people abusing you, those who you are supposed to trust fully... Kubrick is an absolute genius and the greatest director out there, IMHO. This movie proves it once again. It's astounding how much is really going on in every scene and on so many levels.
First time watching your channel, i enjoyed your reaction to it dude. Not sure if you watched other Kubrick movies but pretty much everything after Lolita is a unique masterpiece. All his movies have different layers that can't be explained in just "one theory" like people want to do. Nobody has been able to make movies like this. Kubrick is living in the 5th dimension while we are here stuck in our boring 3rd. Hope you review his other movies!
Thanks so much! We can certainly add some more Kubrick movies to the queue! Glad you enjoyed! 😁
""Loosely" based on the Stephen King book "The Shining'. 😉 Great movie nonetheless!
My favorite movie of all time! I saw it for the first time as a teenager in the mid 80's and I was totally mesmerized by the whole atmosphere, and especially Nicholson's performance. This is the first video of yours I've ever seen, and I really enjoyed watching you react! Your facial expressions are really interesting. Guess I need to subscribe now! 😉
Kubrick made a decent film out of a shit novel from one of the worst authors ever... IMO.
The *HEEERE'S JOHNNY" line is from the Johnny Carson show. Ed McMahon would introduce Johnny with the phrase "and now, HEEEEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!". that's where Jack got it from. And by the way, Jack is doing the infamous Kubrick stare in your thumbnail.
Educating the under-40 crowd, are ya?
I never realized the 237 connection with Poltergeist!!! Holy cow you learned me today! SUBSCRIBED!
In the cult horror film Messiah of Evil, which has some parallels with The Shining, there is a motel room 237 which plays a part in the story. That film was made in 1973, well before the film, and the book by Stephen King. Would Stephen King have possibly seen that film and picked up the idea. Or is it just some really creepy coincidence?
@@littleghostfilms3012 Thanx for the heads up, never seen that one. I'll have to try to find it somewhere.
@@littleghostfilms3012 There was a more mundane reason according to commentators on my DVD.
avocado bathrooms ...big in the 70s ; )
THE SHINING is the only horror novel I've ever read that has a jumpscare on the page.
Finally, a romantic comedy.
🤣🤣🤣
OH it’s a romcom! My only thought throughout the entire movie was ‘This is the weirdest dystopian future sci-fi movie I’ve ever watched.’ 🤣
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I HIGHLY recommend reading the book. Kubrik doesn't follow it with authenticity. Stephen King has made public mentions that this is his least liked movies of any of his books. Its still a great movie and a great book. Then read Doctor Sleep to find out what has happened to Danny into his adulthood. A great follow up.
So, what? King liked the films Lawnmower Man and that weird cat people movie better than this? Sounds like he just got butthurt because Kubrick ADAPTED his story into a masterclass film and not just some coke-fueled plodding tale of hedge maze monsters and wasps nests.
@@robovike Newsflash: there would be NO Shining movie had King not written it. King can hate all he wants. He wrote the book, not Kubrick.
Greatest horror movie ever made.
If you want to keep a child out of room 237 tell him there's homework in there!
Or cauliflower.
Definitely check out the sequel: Dr. Sleep.
Both movies have a scene I actively repress :p
Shout out to my high altitude people. Salt Lake City, Utah here...
I stayed in SLC and Park City in the same trip once, and even that difference was VERY noticeable to me
12:32, In the book, the room number is actually 217. Kubrick changed it. From an article by Far Out magazine: In the book- Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (yes, Kubrick released his book but only 1000 copies were produced), editor Lee Unkrich explained that Kubrick had used the Timberline Lodge hotel in Clackamas Country, Oregon, to film the exteriors of his film adaptation. The manager of the Lodge fully expected there to be an influx of bookings to arrive after the movie was released. However, the manager was also concerned that guests would not want to book into Room 217 after Kubrick’s film was screened because they might be “afraid of being chased by the bloated body of the bathtub lady”. So the manager actually requested that Kubrick change the number of the room. He proposed that Kubrick change the room number to 237, 247, or 257 because none of those numbers were actual rooms at the Timberline Lodge. In the end, Kubrick settled on 237 because it reflected a piece of history from one of his previous films. 237 is, in fact, the number that needs to be entered into the computer in Dr. Strangelove in order to begin a nuclear holocaust.
Redrum....Redrum ...
Hereeee’s Johnny!
I think having dreams of being chased is something a lot of people experience. I know I do. Mine are in the zombie apocalypse, usually. I flee from zombies and everytime I think I might have found a hideout, the zombies burst through and I have to run all over.
Jack Torrance in the photo at the end refers to Grady telling him that he has always been the caretaker.
That alcove is right there at the start of the film.
If you haven’t seen these movies check them out: Halloween(1978), Misery(1990), and Friday The 13th(1980).
20:17, if anyone is curious, the movie that Wendy is watching on TV is Summer of '42 (quite a contrast since they're getting ready to go into winter) and the movie is very inappropriate. I'm not going to reveal what the movie is about. You'll have to Google it.
You really should see this video titled The Wendy Theory. Very enlightening!
Good reaction Amelia. This movie does ratchet up the creep factor. And yes, I watch this every Halloween season.
There are definitely Stephen King books that got more faithful adaptations. I would recommend Misery, Pet Semetary, Cartie, and The Stand.
Great reaction Amelia like always, love this movie. And some fun-facts about this Kubrick master piece of cinema that is a addaptation of Stephen King’s novel, Stephen King was "disappointed" in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining. In 1983, King told Playboy, “I’d admired Kubrick for a long time and had great expectations for the project, but I was deeply disappointed in the end result. Parts of the film are chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fell flat.” In the book, the spooky events are set in Room 217, not Room 237. Oregon's Timberline Lodge, which was used as the hotel’s exterior for some shots, is to blame for this swap. The Lodge’s management asked for the room number to be changed so that guests wouldn’t avoid Room 217. There is no Room 237 in the hotel, so that number was chosen. The website of the Timberline Lodge notes, “Curiously and somewhat ironically, room #217 is requested more often than any other room at Timberline.” Danny Lloyd (the child) didn't know he was making a horror movie while shooting The Shining, and to protect Lloyd, who was 5 years old when he made the film, Kubrick told him that they were filming a drama. He didn’t even see the actual film until he was 16. “I just personally don’t find it scary because I saw it behind the scenes," Lloyd later said. "I know it might be kind of ironic, but I like funny films and documentaries.” Jack Nicholson improvised The Shining’s "Heeere's Johnny" line. Nicholson is responsible for the only line from The Shining to make it onto AFI’s Top 100 Movie Quotes. While filming the scene in which Jack breaks down a bathroom door with an ax, Nicholson shouted out the famous Ed McMahon line from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. The catchphrase worked and stayed in the film. Keep up the good work.
A complex classic film, obviously. Oh, I like twinkies. ;-)
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 latter 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. So, 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 (except for Hallorann, I suppose) at the hotel. No Jack. 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.
Funny that you call *_Shining_* TS. Kudos.
Going for your doctorate?
@@ApartmentKing66 Already got one.
The overlook exterior shot was filmed at the Timberline lodge at the base of Mount Hood in Oregon.
When it comes to Stephen King movies , read the book first. It's a whole diff ride. For instance Stephen King hated the movie. The movie made Wendy such a crybaby - in the book she was a strong woman - Jack never used said " Here' s Johnny - an ax was never used - the weapon was a croquettes mallet - jack breaks Wendy's back - breaks the cooks teeth- and when it comes time to kill Danny , he can't come to do it. So he bashes his own brains in. And the hotel explodes bc of the boiler.
46:40 I don't know if you follow these comments anymore, but I personally perceive Stanley Kubrick's The Shining as a narrative about how the past, especially past horrors, is always present. Not everyone is constantly aware of them, but they are still there. This applies to both nations and individuals. History often influences today's politics as much as, or even more than, current events.
The photograph seen at the end symbolizes to me that through his death, Jack became part of the endless chain of ghosts, the chain of horrors, at the Overlook Hotel. The horrors experienced in the past (such as the treatment of Native Americans, in the context of the movie) have always been present and are inherently ahistorical. Through his death, Jack became a part of that mass of terrible events that has only grown over time. The timeframe doesn't matter; a certain "cloud of horror" has covered the hotel from its establishment through the 1920s and the 1970s, and even into the 2020s.
7:25 I went skiing this past January at Keystone Colorado and I got altitude sickness also. 24 hours of throwing up bile since nothing was in my stomach. Not fun
it’s cute that you like to watch horror films but at the same time horrified by it; me too😅. You’re a rare gem of a minority of women who’s into watching horror films; hope to meet someone like u.
BTW, kudos to you to get the REDRUM before the actual reveal in the film.
If you haven’t seen the Exorcist, could you react to it? Personally, I think it’s the greatest horror film of all time; then try the Babadook if you have time.
In 1998/99, I was in college, living in an apartment with a roommate. One evening my roommate was out, I was feeling bored, so went to the local video rental place and picked up The Shining, which I had never gotten around to seeing, yet. Popped it in my tiny little TV/VHS combo with the 14" screen, prepared some microwave popcorn: and watched, for the first time, in a tiny apartment, in the middle of Chicago, alone, by myself, at night, in the dark: "The Shining." What. a fantastic. idea.
I've watched it several times since, and find new things, details, nuances of performance, easter eggs, foreshadowing, call-backs, etc. Kubrick could be a helluva not nice guy, on set; apparently he caused poor Shelly Duvall (Wendy) to have a nervous breakdown. But ya gotta admit, that his techniques got results! (One can debate whether the ends justify the means in one case or another. Did Shelly really have to go through all that? I don't know.) But once she grabs onto that knife to defend herself, the look of absolute wide-eyed terror as she finds some new horror around every corner: wow. Nobody before or since looks quite like Shelly Duvall; her frail, thin frame, those enormous, expressive eyes. And set that against the pointy grin, pointy eyebrows, and pointy hairline (and pointy axe!) of Jack Nicholson's completely unhinged Jack Torrence? Wow. And young Danny Lloyd (Danny) may not have known *exactly* what was going on, on other parts of the set on other shooting days, or what he was really reacting to (that would be filled in later by edited cutaways) but when he was in front of the camera, he performed his little heart out, and was the heart and soul of the film! I feel really bad for Scatman Crothers (Dick Hallorann); did he really need to die? But he turned in a great performance, with warmth and charm and showed real care for Danny.
The slow build of suspense, the impending knowledge that SOMETHING is going to happen and it is going to be HORRIBLE, but we don't know what or when or how, but we know it is coming: Kubrick definitely put in a Hitchcockian amount of suspense and dread. We the audience feel- we experience- the slow descent into madness that "cabin fever" isolation, combined with supernatural malevolent forces, can inflict. The very beginning of the film is almost pleasant, with only a hint or unease. Soon the suspense begins to build, and build: honestly the first two thirds of the film are the tensest part, and almost nothing really *happens* yet! Once the horrors really start to fall like dominoes, it's almost (almost) a relief! But even now- even in this edited reaction video: those moments of Hallorann getting it, and the guy in the hallway with blood dripping down his face, and the dog-man costume, and Wendy's looks of terror right into camera- right into our own eyes: shivers. I can still feel the blood leave my face with every scene. It still packs a punch, even after all these times, even in a heavy edit with sidebar commentary! A classic horror film, whose reputation is WELL deserved.
43 min. mark, - Amelia .."Her face is like the image of petrified..." Really? LOL!! Girl, you should look at your face in this reaction because that's the look of petrified, you look like you could literally jump right out of your skin and I'm beginning to worry about you watching these horror movies. It's one thing to be involved in movies and love them for the cinematic value they offer but dang girl, you look like your going to have a heart attack while losing your mind.
What woould have happened if Jack was there alone, without his wife & son?
Would the ghosts drive he bonkers, or not...?
Has anyone ever told you that you sound JUST like, and have soen of the same mannerisms, as Anna Faris? 😂 Not saying you guys look alike, but i cant help but hear her character in Scary Movie, when you talk 🤣
IMO, this movie is far better than the novel. Kubrick is a much better film maker than Stephen King is a writer. But I will give King credit for such a fantastic premise for a horror story.
Possibly before you read "The Shining," you might want to watch the sequel "Doctor Sleep." There are differences between the movie and book versions of "The Shining."
I enjoy this channel and the reactions but I'm not sticking around for this one.Wait...you just pulled out the Twinkies..never mind..you're not eating them.And you just said you were going to download the Stephen King novel.My suggestion exactly.First time I read it scared the hell out me.This movie just changed and altered,added and left out too much Didn't even recognize it.But that's just my opinion..watch the movie,read the book,see what you think.And eat a Twinkie.
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Ok, now you have to do the part 2 to this movie, Dr Sleep!!!
I've lived for years without talking to anyone. You get used to it.
And yes, I've had altitude sickness.
Her complacency to the horrible way Jack speaks to Wendy makes me feel like she has experienced this sort of thing in her life. Hope I am wrong.
Or it works in reverse, too, all too often.
Never met anyone else who's like me, but I enjoy nightmares, especially ones based around xenomorphs.
I wish there was more of a backstory on Bill Watson. He seems to have that "just shoot me" look working for Ullman.
10:08 they wouldn't have all that meat if they're closing for months.
i don't get that part?
when I was little, I always had this reoccurring dream that a witch was after me and I would have to run and hide under a chair that my mom was sitting over and she would have her dress over to cover the legs of the chair so that the witch couldn’t find me.😅
Nice reaction, He has always been the care taker.
Hi. Watch another fun Jack Nicholson movie: Witches of Eastwick. 🎉
" Zombieland " is a cool movie about Twinkies. I hope you haven't seen it yet.
The hotel is real, is called The Stanley hotel, it’s in Colorado.
That hotel is what the book is based on, but no what you see in this movie. The exterior is the Timberline Lodge in Oregon. The interior is an exact replica of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite Park in California. The entire movie (except for the aerial shots) is shot on soundstage in England.This includes the scene where they are running in front of the lodge trying to escape from Jack. The snow is actually Styrofoam.
The scene with the little girls standing at the end of the hall appears in my dreams/nightmares every once in a while since i saw this as a kid at the theater.
But you're okay with Mrs. Billie Bathtub?
@@RideAcrossTheRiverOkay with it? How did you come to that retarded conclusion? Didn't mention it because I've never had a dream with that scene.
You should watch Dr. sleep, which is a sequel 40 years later
A Masterpiece of a movie!
It seemed like Kubrick used some of Sergio Leone's style of long, slow, building shots, and lots of straight-on face shots.
Lots of Robert Altman 'hot winter' lighting ... and the ending is a direct copy of an Altman film.
RIP Shelley Duvall (1949 - 2024) 🙏
Came back to this react for her 💔
hilarious that Tony is the least creepy thing about this movie
You should watch the sequel, Doctor Sleep (2019).
The big shot of the lodge and mountain top is Mt Hood and Timberline Lodge in Oregon
How do you decide who watches what movies?
It varies depending on interest, what we have or haven’t seen, and the film’s popularity. Some of the reactors will even do the same movie if it’s a classic or popular one!
Notice: The TV was not plugged into anything.
Every time the blood cones out, I can't help but remember The Simpsons: "That's odd, the blood usually gets off on the second floor." ;)
Jack Started to become possessed by the hotel, it tempted him with drink, then sex,
then with a typewriter line...
Amelia must be a California girl.
@26:42 It's no fair when you hide your eyes. LOL.
The novel is so much better than the movie. But Stanley chose his characters very well.
The book is all cheap melodramatic backstory.
@ 21:31 you missed the ball that led him into 237 😱
The hotel is the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. I’ve been to the hotel for a tour, and it’s really eerie. I refuse to stay at the hotel because I was constantly on edge the whole time I toured. Random spots would just get cold then return to normal temperature. The one spot that I remember being the coldest, was room 217. The room Stephen King stayed in and inspired the Shining book. Very very creepy hotel.
The Stanley Hitel inspired his book but the movie was filmed at a hotel in Oregon.
@@charissakington606 yes I know that. I was saying the hotel in the movie is supposed to be the Stanley Hotel. They mentioned that during the tour.
This movie as you know is based on the novel by Stephen King. Stephen King claims to have had haunts when he stayed in the room 237 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. He also had a drinking problem when he was a younger author and I know a lot of his stories do have a reflective aspect of his personal life. Not sure what deeper meaning it could also have. I'm not sure if he had a very strong connection with his father growing up so that could be part of it as well.
Twinkies used to be so much better.
Scott Ian of Anthrax just had a guitar made for him by the Jackson Custom Shop and it's finish is that rug pattern from that hotel. Every time I see it now, all I can think of is that guitar.
I have always hated vanilla cake. My mom would always get me chocolate for my birthday
Read the book, girl.. :)
The woman in the tub was Lorraine Massey. She took her own life in the tub when her lover who was much younger ran out on her. This back storyline was not included. It makes you wonder about her demise. This was to let the viewer use their imagination.
No, the woman in the tub is whoever you want her to be, this isn’t kings garbage novel, either a half assed ended and bland characters..
@@VictorLugosi Stephen King's _The __-Shining-__ Useless Backstories_
10:44 Same. Served chilled. ❤
"Сияние" Кубрика мне очень нравится.
While there are several themes throughout the movie (alcoholism, child abuse, the past controlling the future, just plain going stir crazy), the overall interpretation that I subscribe to (lately, anyway) is this:
Part of what we see are actual events, and part of what we see is the story that Jack is writing, based on actual events. (By that I mean the story that Jack is actually writing, not the "All work and no play..." madness.)
Jack is a struggling writer and a recovering alcoholic with an anger management problem. In the beginning, while he's on the lookout for an idea for a new writing project, Mr. Ullman tells Jack the tragic story about a previous caretaker, Charles Grady. Jack's response is "Well... that's quite a story."
Later, when Jack is throwing a tennis ball around while his typewriter sits idly by, he strolls over to the tabletop model of the hedge maze. Looking down at it, he smiles as if he's coming up with an idea. We then see a brief scene of Wendy and Danny, wandering through the maze, that ends with the biggest jump scare of the movie: TUESDAY. (Jack has begun to write.)
From this point forward, reality and fiction start to intermix. The real-life Charles Grady, who had two daughters, aged 8 and 10, in the winter of 1970, becomes Delbert Grady, with twin daughters, in the year 1921. Jack's inpulses to abuse his wife and son turn into a cartoonish murderous rage.
In the real world, Jack abused Danny in room 237 (bruising his neck and ripping his sweater). But Danny, not wanting to out Dad, told Mom a tall tale about a crazy woman in the hotel. So, the scene in 237 with Jack and the young woman/old hag was Jack's re-imagining of Danny's story.
Anyway, I think that's a fun way to think about it. But how much of the movie is a ghost story, a hallucination, a story within a story, or just a story about three people going stir crazy is up to you. 👉👱♀