Stephen King had issues with this take on his novel, because in the book Jack is trying his best to be better for Wendy and Danny and the force within the hotel wears him down over time. Nicholson looks like he was two seconds away from going off the edge since the start of the movie
Great movie but as a book adaptation it was pretty lousy, Jack is turned from a flawed and troubled man who loves his wife and son into a maniac even before the evil possession.
Exactly. I believe this is why Stephan King was pissed over Kubrick’s treatment of his work. Although the TV mini series didn’t do well it stuck more to King’s story about Jack’s alcoholism & his difficult relationship with his son as well as his sobriety. I did like the mini series & the movie for different reasons.
It makes sense why King took it so personally. Since it is in many ways a story of King's own fight with alcoholism. Having someone just perceive Jack to be an inhuman and irredeemable monster all along would have felt like an insult towards King himself.
*The villain is the hotel itself, not particularly the ghosts. You can see Delbert Grady not remembering that he hacked his wife and daughters to pieces. He thinks he "corrected" them. The hotel be manipulating them.*
The ghosts and the hotel are basically one and the same at that point. It's a poltergeist. And anyone who dies in there just adds to it making it more powerful.
Protip: If you are ever lost in a maze, put your left hand on the wall while walking along. Never take it off and you'll get out eventually. It may take a long time but you'll get out.
That's wrong. That only works in a labyrinth. Most mazes are not that. You could easily find yourself in an isolated section in which case you'll just be going round and round the single wall. If you think through the topology I think you'll be forced to agree.
@@30noir It would be impossible to find yourself in an isolated section though. Once you reach a dead end, meaning you took a wrong turn, simply keeping your hand on the left (or right) wall will turn you around and cause you to take a different path at the junction.
You guys might look it up later in the video but Shelley Duvall actually did play Olive Oyl in the live-action Popeye movie starring Robin Williams as Popeye.
Fun Fact: In the book IT, Dick Hallorann, the cook who also has the shining actually shows up in Derry at one point in time. It's through a flashback talking about this Squadron of only black soldiers who were treated like shit in Derry. One night, bigoted citizens of Derry set fire to a local bar that they like to hang out at, or their barracks while they slept. When this was happening....Pennywise showed up as a giant monstrous bat and Dick Hallorann saw him There's a lot different with the film compared to the book, the biggest difference being how Jack Torrence is viewed and the ending. In the movie, Jack Torrence is already looking unhinged from the start. In the book, Jack is a deeply flawed person, that does love his family, but has serious alcohol issues and is a mean drunk at that. He is trying to quit and do right by Danny and Wendy, but The Overlook has it's sights on Danny to take his energy and we essentially read on as the hotel slowly breaks a man into pieces in order to control him and get him to kill his family. Which is why it's so heartbreaking that in the end, Jack sacrifices himself by letting the Boiler blow and destroying the Overlook. In the end, even possessed by the evils of the Hotel, he still cared for his family. The other thing they do not go into in the movie, but I feel they should have, is Tony. Tony, Danny's imaginary friend, Is actually Danny from the future. Danny is so powerful that he can use his shine, which is basically psychic energy, when he graduates high school to talk to his younger self, so that he can warn himself of the Dangers of The Overlook Hotel and of what happens to his father. It's the building itself that is alive. Contaminated through decades of evil vile things happening on that spot even before the Overlook was built and continuing to be poisoned by the evil and vile things that happened in the hotel after. All that evil left a psychic trace or "shine" to The Overlook Hotel. Now it drives people crazy so it can take their souls or ghosts after they die and feed on them or use them to get more souls or people like Danny brimming with Psychic energy.
I've always struggled to put into words what the unsettling, fever dream vibe of this movie is, but Roger Ebert did it great: "The one observer who seems trustworthy at all times is Dick Hallorann, but his usefulness ends soon after his midwinter return to the hotel. That leaves us with a closed-room mystery: In a snowbound hotel, three people descend into versions of madness or psychic terror, and we cannot depend on any of them for an objective view of what happens. It is this elusive open-endedness that makes Kubrick’s film so strangely disturbing."
This movie is a masterpiece of liminal space horror and intrigue the endless hallways and little details u dont notice on the first watch is breathtaking this place is both creepy and interesting I’d love to roam this area for hours if i could ❤ this movie is way deeper than what ur brain could comprehend at first
Something I feel a lot of people miss about the Shining is that while it is about a supernatural haunting, it's not about ghosts. Dead people. It's about a building. A building that has seen much misery over the years, lying on stolen grounds that have seen even more misery. It's the hotel itself, the location, that is the source of everything. And it's a distinction you honestly don't see a lot in western horror. Another example that comes to mind is 1408 by Stephen King, appropriately enough. And to me that concept is infinitely creepier. The ghosts of people can potentially be reasoned with, appeased, fought, or expunged. But what is a person going to do about an evil building? Got a construction crew in your back pocket? It's just so much more inherently threatening to me.
They kinda seem like ghosts to me. After all, the caretaker, the woman in the tub and those creepy twins are all dead people who interact with Jack and the boy. Even Dick Halloren seems to know about them. If they're not ghosts, what are they?
What do you mean? It is an exploration of the concept of ghosts and how they might be created, albeit drawn into this world by a power centered within a place. The emotional connection between the living and those who died previously is central to how the spirits manifest themselves in both the movie and the book.
In the book I don't remember the building having anything to do with "stolen grounds" (kek, as if the people of that time didn't steal and conquer from each other all the time). It was originally just an actual, normal hotel, that became haunted normally due to a lot of people dying inside of it.
The first use of the Steadicam was in this movie, one of the cameramen invented it. Notice it's use in scenes like the maze and following Danny on his trike.
Danny's "TONY" is essentially his Shining's voice. Basically he's clairvoyant and can see the future; Tony is how his brain translates (or projects) it to Danny himself. I liken it to a mix between Jean Grey/Phoenix + Eddie Brock/Venom.
Shelley Duvall's acting was negatively criticized when "The Shining" premiered. She was nominated for worst actress in the first Golden Raspberry Awards; a nominee that would be later rescinded by their committee after learning her performance was impacted because Kubrick was terrifying her on set. As time has gone on, there has been a greater appreciation for her acting performance in this film.
It wasn't just Kubrick. She was also genuinely terrified of Jack because of how deranged he was the whole time. Kubrick's choice to use Jack to capture authentic terror from her only made it worse.
So Shelly has said and maintained all her life that the rumours were blown out of proportion and that she wasn’t terrorized, that rumour also lessens her acting ability. I prefer to believe the actor instead of what others said
@@blueyeshadow2738 Yes she did. But I feel like both can be true. By all accounts Kubrick was a monster towards her. But he felt like he had to be extra hard on her to get the performance he was looking for. To put her on edge so that it comes through in her acting. He was also a horrible perfectionist. Not afraid to shoot 100 takes to get it JUST RIGHT. Hell, he almost blinded Malcolm McDowell in Clockwork Orange. Said that it caused him more psychological damage than physical. But that was who you were getting when you signed up to work with him. And towards the end, he would refuse to work on location. Full Metal Jacket? Almost entirely shot in London, all of it filmed in England.
The Shining was actually filmed in the UK, just outside London. The exterior shots are from the timberline lodge in Oregon. The Grady "twins" were the children of a crew member. Stanley Kubrick saw them visiting the set one day and decided to use them in a way inspired by the photographer Diane Arbus (You can Google her famous twin photo). Hence why there are 2 little English girls haunting a hotel in the middle of Colorado, with a father that sounds like he is from the English nobility.
@@anironiccoolness I've never heard of any Montana connection to the book/movie or TV adaption. It was definitely filmed outside London though, at Ellstree studios.
As you know the book a lot is different. They did away with a lot of character development in the movie. King writes Jack as a flawed man who loves his family and ultimately is a victim of the hotel where Kubrick just has Nicholson portray him as straight evil. The hotel is more of a character and the evil it possesses is much more expanded upon. Wendy is less passive in the book. Halloran also DOESN’T DIE in the book, he helps save them actually. Danny also gets more focus on his shining and who Tony actually is. Overall the shining is a great movie but as an adaptation it does pale in comparison to the source material.
Yeah the book original Jack isn't evil, just flawed and with a problem with alcoholism. Danny even remarks how the hotel had to "get him drunk" to possess him, otherwise Jack would've been able to resist the haunting.
@lanolinlight yes, cinema is a different medium than a book. Pacing has to be different, and because of time the film needs to cut some parts out of the story. But something as essential as the characterization of the main characters doesn't need to be changed this much if you are trying to do a proper adaptation. Kubrick was just not interested in doing that and wanted to tell his own story in the basic framework of the book. As a film it is great, as an adaptation not that much. Not to mention that Jack is so much less interesting as a character in the film.
Wish they just continued on to Doctor Sleep when this movie is still very fresh on their minds so that they could catch all the callbacks. Especially since it popped up on their screen too.
No, Danny Lloyd isn't making movies these days he retired from acting while still a child. He did make a cameo appearance in the movie Doctor Sleep. He was the guy in the baseball stand at the little league game with the goatee.
1:09:06 There is no room 237 in the real hotel. They didn't want an actual room in their hotel to be associated with evil murder ghosts. The room in the book was 217, which the hotel actually has. But they wanted the number changed to a nonexistent one for the movie.
The documentary "237" is not about the room, but about behind-the-scenes trivia and theories that fans have created about themes they feel the film "The Shining" communicates.
Please watch "Doctor Sleep!" Even though Stephen King wrote a sequel to his book, "The Shining" called "Doctor Sleep", the movie is a sequel to Kubrick's "The Shining", not King's book.
Lol I love how Rana is saying she's been in this hotel and pointing stuff out in scenes when she never was even at this hotel. She was at the hotel where he wrote the book lmao
Did they remodel parts of the hotel to resemble the sets in the movie? If they're smart they should've done that to attract more people to their hotel.
The woman in the bathtub is called Lorraine Massey. She was an older women with a husband that didn't love her. She went to the hotel with her young lover who fled in the night with her possessions and car. She took a cocktail of drugs in the bath. I think it's implied in the book that people who die under traumatic circumstances are more likely to leave behind a dark shine.
"Here's Johnny!" was how Ed McMahon always used to introduce Johnny Carson at the start of every episode of The Tonight Show. Jack is a diminutive of John, somehow, so Jack Torrence's real first name was John, presumably.
I remember the first time I noticed the window trick in the film. When Jack is in the hotel manager’s office, there’s a huge window in the room. However, if you pay attention to the hotel’s layout, that window can’t actually be there. There are multiple instances where the layout of the hotel contradicts itself, adding to a sense of unease in the audience.
Her performance is, as the kids say, iconic. Her terror as Jack is chopping down the bathroom door is the most realistic depiction of fear I've ever seen
Shelly Duvall's reaction and expressions are authentic during the ax scene. Kubrick didn't tell her about Jack Nicholson decision to use the ax during the scene, so she was truly terrified and it changed her forever. Kubrick had her filming scenes over 100 times. Her hair was falling out and her hands were raw from gripping bats and stuff. Kubrick treated her differently to throw her off and put her into a fight or flight mode.... Filming took over 56 weeks and filming was like 14 to 16 hours a day...
There are 3 hotels associated with this movie. The first is the Stanley Hotel where Steven King stayed and was inspired to write this story. When they made the movie they used the exteriors of The Timberline Lodge in Oregon. The interior of the hotel is a very large sound stage in England and their design was based on The Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. That's where you'll see that distinctive lobby design with all it's native American motif, only in about 2/3 the size of the giant movie sets. So, to visit the hotels related to this movie, one will have to visit The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Colorado, The Timberline Lodge in Oregon and the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. Some smart travel agent should put together a tour package.
So Jack used to be used as a nickname for John. "Here's Johnny!" was how Johnny Carson was introduced every night on The Tonight Show which everyone would have known in 1980. Nicholson ad-libbed the line.
Was Spidey doing a bit when he said Shelley Duval looked like Olive Oyl or does he geuinely not know she was our one and only big screen Olive Oyl? It's always so hard for me to guess what these kiddos are or aren't familiar with from pop culture. EDIT: And also, "Why'd he say Johnny? I thought his name was Jack." To quote Lethal Weapon, I'm too old for this shit. 😅
Slight correction to the post-film discussion - "Room 237" is a documentary that interviews a series of people with interesting or outlandish theories about the movie, such as one conspiracy theorist who think Kubrick filled the film with hidden clues that he helped fake the moon landing.
First time I've ever seen a channel trash talk an author, these movies wouldn't exist without people like King in the first place, and there was a very good reason that you completely left out I'm sure because you don't know why King actually was upset about the changes because you just like to talk endlessly with no real knowledge.
Yeah, and she was saying the TV show sucked. That’s just HER opinion. Many fans actually prefer the TV miniseries because it was more faithful to the book. And honestly having randomly seen this channel’s stuff over the years, I find her reactions to be very weird and flaky. I’d take any opinion from her with a grain of salt! lol A lot of hyperbole in her reactions to stuff.
It doesn't quite come through the way it should, but Danny's Shining essentially went into survival mode because it knew the hotel was out to take it from him. "Tony" chanting "redrum" is the Shining sounding the alarm that Jack is loose and on his way to kill them. Tony is actually an ally.
Look at the face Jack makes when he takes his first sip of bourbon. In that instant it's exactly like his face the morning after he was in the maze. Also, the noises he made in his nightmare are the same he made in the maze.
Rana: guess what, stephen king, it sucked Me: aww, am I really the only person that likes the mini series? 😢 The mini series was filmed in the actual hotel that inspired the book
The problem is that people are comparing of the greatest films ever made with a TV mini series. And I'll admit that I made the same mistake when it first came out. It's fine for what it is and I don't think I would say that it sucks or is bad.
Do you people not realize helicopters were used for wide shots by every single studio until just a few years ago? Most of LoTR was filmed in helicopters. Even the on-location shots in the Hobbit movies used choppers. That's not _astounding_ technology for the time this was made.
The Cook says that sometime inanimate objects shine too, I’m pretty sure the hotel is just attacking Jack psychologically the whole time. When it’s speaking to him as Grady that’s not Grady I don’t think, Instead I think it’s the hotel speaking through the image of Grady because he says I’ve always been here (alluding to the sacred land that they said the hotel was built upon and attempted to be reclaimed by the natives). That being said I do think Jack has abusive tendencies on his own but I also believe a lot of his actions can be attributed to this almost cosmic being (the hotel).
There are all kinds of timeline discrepancies in this film, the first when Wendy is nervously confessing to the doctors about Jack dislocating his kid's arm. This happened at least a couple of years ago (as Jack observes bitterly when he's talking to Lloyd) but poor Wendy tells the doctor her husband "hasn't had a drink in five months." IOW, Jack broke that promise at least once. Another thing to note. Those two little girls do NOT look like kids who died in 1970. They are dressed more like children from at least twenty years before. There are two "Gradys". Charles Grady, the caretaker who killed his family in the 1970s and had an older and younger girl, and Delbert Grady the waiter, -- who Jack meets -- who had twins, and likely lived in the 1920s.
22:13 In the words of Jon Mulaney, "13-year-olds are the meanest people in the world. They terrify me to this day. If I'm on the street on like a Friday at 3 PM and I see a group of 8th graders on one side of the street, I will cross to the other side of the street." Also, I choose to see "the caretaker" as just a role people are meant to play. Jack was always the caretaker because the Overlook made it so. He is the caretaker, and so he always was the caretaker. Grady used to be the caretaker, but he's not. He's the butler, and so he always was the butler.
Rana at the start of the video, "The Shining...and there's probably no ghosts in there"🤣Then Spidey with "She looks like Olive Oyl" (she is). Love this channels reactions. Doctor Sleep is an amazing sequel.
10:57 He was a school teacher from the 80's, a totally different era. 50:47 Jump from the top stairs, both knees in his back. Lmao! 57:32 He says Johnny because that's how Ed McMahon used to introduce Johnny Carson on the late night nbc talk show Johnny Carson Mr Halloran was an angel or martyr and he died like martyrs do. He was there to help Danny. and Wendy and he did. You guys will see this theme repeated in other popular Stephen King adaptation movies
By the way, Jack Halloran was played by Scatman Crothers, who got his name from "scatting," the half-speaking, half singing of nonsense syllables. He does a bit of that when he's reciting all the contents of the pantry with that musical lilt that makes it almost a song. "Rice Crispies, Post toasties..."
Jack has the shining. The hotel has the shining. It feeds on people with the shining. Drawing them in making them go crazy enough to kill more people within it's walls making it stronger.
Yes, there were ghosts in the hotel. Yes, they could move stuff around and tried to strangle Danny, freed Jack from the freezer and so on. Yes, Jack also had the Shining and passed it on to his son Danny, but Jack's version was weaker and remained dormant until he reached the infested hotel meanwhile Danny's was always active and powerful. No, the chef doesn't die in the book since he's the one who actually drives away from the hotel with Wendy and Danny in tow. Yes, anybody who dies in the hotel gets trapped in there as a ghost and becomes a slave to the hotel itself which is the real big bad, the ghosts are just prisoners, the actual _building_ is evil. The hotel's goal was to make Danny die inside the premises so he could get trapped as another ghost, together with his strong Shining powers, and make the hotel stronger. In the book Possessed Jack is so busy hunting down Wendy and Danny that "it" forgets about checking the boiler in the basement, which ultimately explodes destroying the evil entity and freeing the ghosts, unlike this ending where Jack is instead recruited into their fold and the evil hotel continues to exist.
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😲😲😲😲😲😲
Kurbick made Shellys life hell while filming and even instructed the crew to never console her when she was crying, she said she had days where she cried for 24 hours straight and her voice was hoarse from filming scenes over and over like the stair scene thay was filmed like 125 times. People think that filming this movie caused her mental health issues that eventually caused her to step away from her successful career. The kid didn't know they were filming a scary movie until he was on his way to the movie premiere because he was shielded from all the scary stuff. Scatman Crothers didn't want to do the movie because he had heard about Kubricks love of filming scenes over and over and he didn't think he could physically do it at his age but Jack Nicholson got Kubrick to agree to a maximum of ten takes of Scatmans scenes. Many people believe that Kubrick was leaving clues in this movie that prove he did help the U.S government fake the moon landing by directing it, they point out things like Danny's Apollo 11 sweater and there's a documentary about it here on RUclips where they point out all the clues.
... the only reason Halloran dies here in the movie is because Kubrick literally hated Scatman Crothers and kept trying to get him to quit but he wouldn't ... he made Scatman shoot the "Shine" reaction scene where he was in Miami something like 150 times
48:21 It was Stanley Kubrick's secretary's job to type all of it. 500 pages of the same phrase written over and over with different format, as if in a script. Typos were left in. But wait, there's more! Kubrick is the sort to get hung up on details. He wasn't satisfied with a single English phrase. French, German, Spanish...every language "The Shining" was released in got their own 500 pages. They weren't the same phrase in a different language either, they were ones more suited to the country in question. So that's thousands of pages typed up. And people wonder why Shelly Duvall's hair started falling out from stress during the filming of this movie. Kubrick was NUTS. And yet, the entire time, he kept Danny convinced that what they were filming was a family drama, not a horror/thriller movie.
In the book both parents have a twinkle (mom because of mom’s intuition) and that’s why the dad was affected by the hotel (made worse because of his anger issues + alcoholism)
To clarify, the hotel in Estes Park is the real hotel that Stephen King stayed at that inspired him to write the book, but the movie filmed at a different hotel.
"Was it schizophrenia? Was it a delusion? Does he shine?" As pointed, the hotel is alive. But, you could say there is a bit of everything: the hotel preys on psychic energy, and has predilection for those that have strong psychic abilities or that are, mentally, just too weak to withstand its power. Danny would be a huge meal for the hotel, that's why he wants him; Jack (while in the book he has some more context, and it's not exactly "the worst" person) is just too weak with the mixture of his alcoholism, guilt and self loathing. So, the hotel slowly is manifesting to him, in order to break him, using every insecurity and flaw he has. The hotel doesn't have the power to go into "full crazy mode" (that's why it needs Danny), but can seep enough ideas and vision through the cracks of Jack's mind. And there are quite some hints that Jack does have some shining skills, he just lost them or drowned them over time. Now, we have to keep in mind Stanley Kubrick just read a couple of pages, got the general points of the novel and then (for better or worse) went on to make his own plot; that's one of the main reasons the book and the novel are so far apart and many elements explained in the book are missing in the film. "Room 237" Indeed, as Navi pointed, the room has a long history that "too much has happened there", including the death of a woman that drowned in the tub (the naked girl in the kissing scene). The thing is this: those that die are collected by the hotel; they don't really die (and that's the reason why the hotel can invoke such characters as the Grady Twins, Delbert Grady, the woman in Room 237 and even the couple in costume; they were regulars of the hotel that used to have kinky adventures in the rooms... and eventually died there). As the hotel becomes more and more powerful, the visions are apparent to more people, not only Jack; and the hotel can distort its surroundings at will. "The Shining hotel" The location of the film is the Timberline Lodge, located in Oregon; as it's been mentioned in other comments, the Stanley Hotel was the location that inspired King to write the story, while he was there in a vacation (a hedge maze was added to the Stanley Hotel to satisfy customers, the film's maze was built in a studio in England; and it was the filming location for the TV Series, made by King to be more faithful to the book). Both are beautiful places... and both have some creepy story to tell (as many hotels with long histories may have): in the case of the Stanley Hotel, several paranormal reports began to happen after the onvel was published, an now it's mentioned as one of the most haunted hotels in the United States. Most reports might be coincidences, but there was a gas explosion in 1911 that, apparently, injured, at least, a maid and damaged the structure (news reports of the time differ in details, some mentioning up to eight injured, and the maid being hurled from the second floor to the ground). As for the Timberline Lodge, it was the place where director Boris Sagal died during the filming of af miniseries that used the hotel as a location in 1982; he went to the hotel in a helicopter that landed in the parking lot, but (apparently) he made a mistake when walking out of the aircraft and walked the wrong way, right into the tail rotor blades. He was declared dead in the hospital, five hours after the accident. So, yeah: you still have to go to one hotel related to The Shining. Nice reaction, see you in the next one.
You may not consciously noticed it but the layout of the hotel lobby was intentionally created to be impossible. For example, the office where Jack interviews has a window behind the desk. This is not possible because the office is near the middle of lobby. Other locations on that floor also can't exist where we see them. Kubrick did this to make the viewer feel uncomfortable and on edge. Even if your not aware of that feeling, it's there deep in the back of your mind.
How many memes did you catch from this movie?
Here's Johnny.
Hi Normies, will there be Always Sunny this week?
Doctor sleep next
All of them. They all came from too much all working and no playing, making us all dull boys. Thus was born the meme. For play.
Please react to kalki movie
Stephen King had issues with this take on his novel, because in the book Jack is trying his best to be better for Wendy and Danny and the force within the hotel wears him down over time. Nicholson looks like he was two seconds away from going off the edge since the start of the movie
yeah
Great movie but as a book adaptation it was pretty lousy, Jack is turned from a flawed and troubled man who loves his wife and son into a maniac even before the evil possession.
Exactly. I believe this is why Stephan King was pissed over Kubrick’s treatment of his work. Although the TV mini series didn’t do well it stuck more to King’s story about Jack’s alcoholism & his difficult relationship with his son as well as his sobriety. I did like the mini series & the movie for different reasons.
It makes sense why King took it so personally. Since it is in many ways a story of King's own fight with alcoholism. Having someone just perceive Jack to be an inhuman and irredeemable monster all along would have felt like an insult towards King himself.
I agree with Stephen King, I read the book before seeing the movie, and was disappointed how different it was from the book.
*The villain is the hotel itself, not particularly the ghosts. You can see Delbert Grady not remembering that he hacked his wife and daughters to pieces. He thinks he "corrected" them. The hotel be manipulating them.*
The ghosts and the hotel are basically one and the same at that point. It's a poltergeist. And anyone who dies in there just adds to it making it more powerful.
Shut up
Yup
In the novel it was made clear that the hotel was drawing power from Danny. The hotel was tapping into Danny's shining power.
IIrc all 3 of the family had psychic abilities. It's one of the things that made them susceptible.
THAT'S STUPID!!!
from Stanley Kubrick
Protip: If you are ever lost in a maze, put your left hand on the wall while walking along. Never take it off and you'll get out eventually. It may take a long time but you'll get out.
If you are lost in the forest, hug a tree.
That's wrong. That only works in a labyrinth. Most mazes are not that. You could easily find yourself in an isolated section in which case you'll just be going round and round the single wall. If you think through the topology I think you'll be forced to agree.
That's cool, I been using the right-hand method all my life for simple mazes.
Pro tip, if you're lost in a maze, follow Pat's advice and set the maze on fire. You will definitely not die from smoke inhalation or burn to death.
@@30noir It would be impossible to find yourself in an isolated section though. Once you reach a dead end, meaning you took a wrong turn, simply keeping your hand on the left (or right) wall will turn you around and cause you to take a different path at the junction.
You guys might look it up later in the video but Shelley Duvall actually did play Olive Oyl in the live-action Popeye movie starring Robin Williams as Popeye.
She was so good in Popeye. RiP Shelly Duvall
Is that why Peter Griffin hates her?
My other comment got deleted. I hope you guys watch Doctor Sleep
Definitely they should watch Doctor Sleep, I know I will get some hate for this but I liked Doctor Sleep more
@@TrentRushtonI agree the directors cut is what they should watch
I honestly like it more than The shining.
@@gibsonmunyi7225nah doctor sleep film didn’t satisfy well from first film this sequel isn’t great including female characters
Watch Directors Cut of Doctor Sleep please! It's the sequel and it's amazingly done!
Spidey really is the funniest sometimes. Man's got golden comedic instincts.
She IS Olive Oil in the Popeye film starring Robin Williams.
:-)
I’m glad someone said it!
She was so perfect for the Olive oil role it was scary
No TV and no beer make Homer something something.
Go crazy?
@@robertwilliams4486don’t mind if I do!!!!
@@robertwilliams4486 Don't mind if I do!
Fun Fact: In the book IT, Dick Hallorann, the cook who also has the shining actually shows up in Derry at one point in time. It's through a flashback talking about this Squadron of only black soldiers who were treated like shit in Derry. One night, bigoted citizens of Derry set fire to a local bar that they like to hang out at, or their barracks while they slept. When this was happening....Pennywise showed up as a giant monstrous bat and Dick Hallorann saw him
There's a lot different with the film compared to the book, the biggest difference being how Jack Torrence is viewed and the ending. In the movie, Jack Torrence is already looking unhinged from the start. In the book, Jack is a deeply flawed person, that does love his family, but has serious alcohol issues and is a mean drunk at that. He is trying to quit and do right by Danny and Wendy, but The Overlook has it's sights on Danny to take his energy and we essentially read on as the hotel slowly breaks a man into pieces in order to control him and get him to kill his family. Which is why it's so heartbreaking that in the end, Jack sacrifices himself by letting the Boiler blow and destroying the Overlook. In the end, even possessed by the evils of the Hotel, he still cared for his family.
The other thing they do not go into in the movie, but I feel they should have, is Tony. Tony, Danny's imaginary friend, Is actually Danny from the future. Danny is so powerful that he can use his shine, which is basically psychic energy, when he graduates high school to talk to his younger self, so that he can warn himself of the Dangers of The Overlook Hotel and of what happens to his father. It's the building itself that is alive. Contaminated through decades of evil vile things happening on that spot even before the Overlook was built and continuing to be poisoned by the evil and vile things that happened in the hotel after. All that evil left a psychic trace or "shine" to The Overlook Hotel. Now it drives people crazy so it can take their souls or ghosts after they die and feed on them or use them to get more souls or people like Danny brimming with Psychic energy.
Dr. Sleep is such a good movie, too! You should definitely react to it!
It’s not shit female didn’t punch to first one
YES! PLEASE!
Another vote for Doctor Sleep! Such an awesome underrated movie by Mike Flanagan!
It's not very good at all.
I hope they do that movie next
@@MontgomeryWenisYou're right it's actually absolutely stellar.
Hopefully the Director cut version.
Oh had no idea Flanagan did that one too! Dude is super talented.
Spidey's reaction when he realized Dick was getting killed was fucking hysterical
Pat side-eyeing the TV during the scary scenes is comedy gold
I've always struggled to put into words what the unsettling, fever dream vibe of this movie is, but Roger Ebert did it great: "The one observer who seems trustworthy at all times is Dick Hallorann, but his usefulness ends soon after his midwinter return to the hotel. That leaves us with a closed-room mystery: In a snowbound hotel, three people descend into versions of madness or psychic terror, and we cannot depend on any of them for an objective view of what happens. It is this elusive open-endedness that makes Kubrick’s film so strangely disturbing."
This movie is a masterpiece of liminal space horror and intrigue the endless hallways and little details u dont notice on the first watch is breathtaking this place is both creepy and interesting I’d love to roam this area for hours if i could ❤ this movie is way deeper than what ur brain could comprehend at first
Something I feel a lot of people miss about the Shining is that while it is about a supernatural haunting, it's not about ghosts. Dead people. It's about a building. A building that has seen much misery over the years, lying on stolen grounds that have seen even more misery. It's the hotel itself, the location, that is the source of everything. And it's a distinction you honestly don't see a lot in western horror. Another example that comes to mind is 1408 by Stephen King, appropriately enough. And to me that concept is infinitely creepier. The ghosts of people can potentially be reasoned with, appeased, fought, or expunged. But what is a person going to do about an evil building? Got a construction crew in your back pocket? It's just so much more inherently threatening to me.
They kinda seem like ghosts to me. After all, the caretaker, the woman in the tub and those creepy twins are all dead people who interact with Jack and the boy. Even Dick Halloren seems to know about them. If they're not ghosts, what are they?
You'd think people would learn not to build on top of Indian burial grounds.
What do you mean? It is an exploration of the concept of ghosts and how they might be created, albeit drawn into this world by a power centered within a place. The emotional connection between the living and those who died previously is central to how the spirits manifest themselves in both the movie and the book.
In the book I don't remember the building having anything to do with "stolen grounds" (kek, as if the people of that time didn't steal and conquer from each other all the time). It was originally just an actual, normal hotel, that became haunted normally due to a lot of people dying inside of it.
@@Mant111 In the movie it was hinted to this. Which actually gives it a plausible reason why there's so many concentrated spirits there.
The first use of the Steadicam was in this movie, one of the cameramen invented it. Notice it's use in scenes like the maze and following Danny on his trike.
Danny's "TONY" is essentially his Shining's voice.
Basically he's clairvoyant and can see the future; Tony is how his brain translates (or projects) it to Danny himself.
I liken it to a mix between Jean Grey/Phoenix + Eddie Brock/Venom.
Tony is actually visualized as an older version of Danny, it's how he imagines himself as a "grown up"
"Show Mrs. Torrance the kitchen."
Spidey n Rana: Damn.. Misogyny!
Navi: I mean, food be there.
1:02:05 That's odd. Usually the blood gets off at the second floor.
The Simpsons Tree House of Terror.
Shelley Duvall's acting was negatively criticized when "The Shining" premiered. She was nominated for worst actress in the first Golden Raspberry Awards; a nominee that would be later rescinded by their committee after learning her performance was impacted because Kubrick was terrifying her on set. As time has gone on, there has been a greater appreciation for her acting performance in this film.
even back than it was dumb, her acting is perfect for the rule, only thing that changed is that now we know way
Yeah, I couldn’t watch the Shining the same way after I learned about what Shelley Duvall went through
It wasn't just Kubrick. She was also genuinely terrified of Jack because of how deranged he was the whole time. Kubrick's choice to use Jack to capture authentic terror from her only made it worse.
So Shelly has said and maintained all her life that the rumours were blown out of proportion and that she wasn’t terrorized, that rumour also lessens her acting ability. I prefer to believe the actor instead of what others said
@@blueyeshadow2738 Yes she did. But I feel like both can be true. By all accounts Kubrick was a monster towards her. But he felt like he had to be extra hard on her to get the performance he was looking for. To put her on edge so that it comes through in her acting.
He was also a horrible perfectionist. Not afraid to shoot 100 takes to get it JUST RIGHT. Hell, he almost blinded Malcolm McDowell in Clockwork Orange. Said that it caused him more psychological damage than physical.
But that was who you were getting when you signed up to work with him. And towards the end, he would refuse to work on location. Full Metal Jacket? Almost entirely shot in London, all of it filmed in England.
The Shining was actually filmed in the UK, just outside London. The exterior shots are from the timberline lodge in Oregon. The Grady "twins" were the children of a crew member. Stanley Kubrick saw them visiting the set one day and decided to use them in a way inspired by the photographer Diane Arbus (You can Google her famous twin photo). Hence why there are 2 little English girls haunting a hotel in the middle of Colorado, with a father that sounds like he is from the English nobility.
Ik Kubrick resided in London, but I thought The Shining was actually filmed in Montana.
@@anironiccoolness I've never heard of any Montana connection to the book/movie or TV adaption. It was definitely filmed outside London though, at Ellstree studios.
Best part of the reaction👇🏿
Pat: "NOT TWINS!!!"
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The old Doublemint gum commercials would finish him.
As you know the book a lot is different. They did away with a lot of character development in the movie. King writes Jack as a flawed man who loves his family and ultimately is a victim of the hotel where Kubrick just has Nicholson portray him as straight evil. The hotel is more of a character and the evil it possesses is much more expanded upon. Wendy is less passive in the book. Halloran also DOESN’T DIE in the book, he helps save them actually. Danny also gets more focus on his shining and who Tony actually is. Overall the shining is a great movie but as an adaptation it does pale in comparison to the source material.
yes like it's a good movie and it's creepy but as an adaptation kinda sucks
Yeah the book original Jack isn't evil, just flawed and with a problem with alcoholism. Danny even remarks how the hotel had to "get him drunk" to possess him, otherwise Jack would've been able to resist the haunting.
I just read the book. The movie is way better
The movie is cinema. Wanting the movie to be like the book is like asking a jazz record to be a sonnet.
@lanolinlight yes, cinema is a different medium than a book. Pacing has to be different, and because of time the film needs to cut some parts out of the story. But something as essential as the characterization of the main characters doesn't need to be changed this much if you are trying to do a proper adaptation.
Kubrick was just not interested in doing that and wanted to tell his own story in the basic framework of the book. As a film it is great, as an adaptation not that much. Not to mention that Jack is so much less interesting as a character in the film.
I really hope Doctor Sleep is a watch we'll see. Such a good movie.
Wish they just continued on to Doctor Sleep when this movie is still very fresh on their minds so that they could catch all the callbacks. Especially since it popped up on their screen too.
No it's not. 😂
I remember liking Dr. Sleep, but I don't remember what happened at all.😆 Very forgetable.
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No, Danny Lloyd isn't making movies these days he retired from acting while still a child. He did make a cameo appearance in the movie Doctor Sleep. He was the guy in the baseball stand at the little league game with the goatee.
He’s a school teacher now
@@selinakyle2368Thanks.
White man's burden is a poem by Rudyard Kipling
8:51 She WAS the wife from Popeye. Olive Oil. 😂
*Olive Oyl
the shining is one of the best horror movies
The 'sperm bank' discussion was gold. Rana acting it out for Navi, then going '...only here for the cookin and the spermin' XD
1:09:06 There is no room 237 in the real hotel. They didn't want an actual room in their hotel to be associated with evil murder ghosts. The room in the book was 217, which the hotel actually has. But they wanted the number changed to a nonexistent one for the movie.
The documentary "237" is not about the room, but about behind-the-scenes trivia and theories that fans have created about themes they feel the film "The Shining" communicates.
if mickey says one more time "I cOuLd StAy hErE fOr fIvE mOnThS" so help me god.
This is a real Horror movie, not all the slasher films. Its the genuis of Stanley Kuberick's vision on Steven Kings' book.
'So he was a ghost this whole time?' What? He was married with a kid. What on earth are you talking about?
It’s amazing to me how much Rana resembles Shelly Duvall in this movie
The movie wasn't set at The Stanley in Estes Park. It just inspired the book.
Right! And the exterior shots shown in the film are actually the Timberline Lodge in Oregon.
They find that out later in the video
Groundskeeper Willy: Boy... you read my thoughts! You've got the Shinning.
Bart: You mean "Shining".
Groundskeeper Willy: Shh! You wanna to get sued?
bruh... memes and pop culture have completely ruined this movie for people
Everything is a joke.
Shelley Duvall played Olive Oye, with Robin Williams playing Popeye. It was a musical, and it’s awesome.
Please watch "Doctor Sleep!" Even though Stephen King wrote a sequel to his book, "The Shining" called "Doctor Sleep", the movie is a sequel to Kubrick's "The Shining", not King's book.
It bridges the two masterfully. It's clear that the horror GOAT loves both.
It's a sequel to both
@pbear1988 I guess having not read neither of King's novels, it was wrong of me to post that comment. I was going by what I heard.
The movie was intentionally made to be a sequel to both. Very well done.
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"Stephen King hates black people" i think you mean Stanley Kubric because this does not happen in the book.
If the girls were "8 and 10" they WOULDN'T be identical twins now would they? 🤔
Lol I love how Rana is saying she's been in this hotel and pointing stuff out in scenes when she never was even at this hotel. She was at the hotel where he wrote the book lmao
Did they remodel parts of the hotel to resemble the sets in the movie? If they're smart they should've done that to attract more people to their hotel.
The woman in the bathtub is called Lorraine Massey. She was an older women with a husband that didn't love her. She went to the hotel with her young lover who fled in the night with her possessions and car. She took a cocktail of drugs in the bath. I think it's implied in the book that people who die under traumatic circumstances are more likely to leave behind a dark shine.
The hotel in Estes parks is where King was when he wrote the book. The filming location was a different hotel. Sorry you weren't there lol
"Here's Johnny!" was how Ed McMahon always used to introduce Johnny Carson at the start of every episode of The Tonight Show. Jack is a diminutive of John, somehow, so Jack Torrence's real first name was John, presumably.
I think Pat and Rana would just chop up twins on principle.
19:48 Pat, who brushes BEFORE they eat?
They are too young to know the American treasure that was Scatman.
I remember the first time I noticed the window trick in the film. When Jack is in the hotel manager’s office, there’s a huge window in the room. However, if you pay attention to the hotel’s layout, that window can’t actually be there.
There are multiple instances where the layout of the hotel contradicts itself, adding to a sense of unease in the audience.
@48:19 Stanley Kubrick typed all of those pages himself. Literally.
A nice way to pay tribute to Shelly Duvall
Her performance is, as the kids say, iconic. Her terror as Jack is chopping down the bathroom door is the most realistic depiction of fear I've ever seen
Definitely check out Doctor Sleep next
Shelly Duvall's reaction and expressions are authentic during the ax scene. Kubrick didn't tell her about Jack Nicholson decision to use the ax during the scene, so she was truly terrified and it changed her forever. Kubrick had her filming scenes over 100 times. Her hair was falling out and her hands were raw from gripping bats and stuff. Kubrick treated her differently to throw her off and put her into a fight or flight mode.... Filming took over 56 weeks and filming was like 14 to 16 hours a day...
There are 3 hotels associated with this movie. The first is the Stanley Hotel where Steven King stayed and was inspired to write this story. When they made the movie they used the exteriors of The Timberline Lodge in Oregon. The interior of the hotel is a very large sound stage in England and their design was based on The Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. That's where you'll see that distinctive lobby design with all it's native American motif, only in about 2/3 the size of the giant movie sets.
So, to visit the hotels related to this movie, one will have to visit The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Colorado, The Timberline Lodge in Oregon and the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. Some smart travel agent should put together a tour package.
So Jack used to be used as a nickname for John. "Here's Johnny!" was how Johnny Carson was introduced every night on The Tonight Show which everyone would have known in 1980. Nicholson ad-libbed the line.
Was Spidey doing a bit when he said Shelley Duval looked like Olive Oyl or does he geuinely not know she was our one and only big screen Olive Oyl? It's always so hard for me to guess what these kiddos are or aren't familiar with from pop culture.
EDIT: And also, "Why'd he say Johnny? I thought his name was Jack."
To quote Lethal Weapon, I'm too old for this shit. 😅
I honestly got addicted to y’all’s reaction pls do keep reacting to amazing movies I can’t wait to watch
Larry looks familiar to your all because he is Apollo Creed's trainer in the Rocky movies.
Slight correction to the post-film discussion - "Room 237" is a documentary that interviews a series of people with interesting or outlandish theories about the movie, such as one conspiracy theorist who think Kubrick filled the film with hidden clues that he helped fake the moon landing.
First time I've ever seen a channel trash talk an author, these movies wouldn't exist without people like King in the first place, and there was a very good reason that you completely left out I'm sure because you don't know why King actually was upset about the changes because you just like to talk endlessly with no real knowledge.
Yeah, and she was saying the TV show sucked. That’s just HER opinion. Many fans actually prefer the TV miniseries because it was more faithful to the book. And honestly having randomly seen this channel’s stuff over the years, I find her reactions to be very weird and flaky. I’d take any opinion from her with a grain of salt! lol A lot of hyperbole in her reactions to stuff.
Incidentally that adorable 7-year old in this movie is now a college biology professor in his mid-fifties.
Its the maintenance of the hotel I'd struggle with. That's the real horror movie
It doesn't quite come through the way it should, but Danny's Shining essentially went into survival mode because it knew the hotel was out to take it from him. "Tony" chanting "redrum" is the Shining sounding the alarm that Jack is loose and on his way to kill them. Tony is actually an ally.
Mickey not understanding whats going on the whole movie is so funny.
Dude refuses to pay attention.
Look at the face Jack makes when he takes his first sip of bourbon. In that instant it's exactly like his face the morning after he was in the maze. Also, the noises he made in his nightmare are the same he made in the maze.
Rana: guess what, stephen king, it sucked
Me: aww, am I really the only person that likes the mini series? 😢
The mini series was filmed in the actual hotel that inspired the book
The problem is that people are comparing of the greatest films ever made with a TV mini series.
And I'll admit that I made the same mistake when it first came out. It's fine for what it is and I don't think I would say that it sucks or is bad.
Do you people not realize helicopters were used for wide shots by every single studio until just a few years ago? Most of LoTR was filmed in helicopters. Even the on-location shots in the Hobbit movies used choppers. That's not _astounding_ technology for the time this was made.
He said "Here's Johnny" as a reference to the introduction from Late Show with Johnny Carson.
Oh man you stole my thunder (😊) I thought I had , in referencing Johnny Carson
the group's slow-dawning realization that somehow the Black Guy Dies First trope is going to unfold here too-incredible stuff lol
I'm all for The Normies reacting to Dr. Sleep. Mike Flanagan only produces gold. And for me, it's even better than The Shining.
Heresy. It's like a TV movie, stuffed with plot and explanations in a very pedestrian style. Kubrick made masterpiece.
I 100% agree.
I thought, what his name quit?
The Cook says that sometime inanimate objects shine too, I’m pretty sure the hotel is just attacking Jack psychologically the whole time. When it’s speaking to him as Grady that’s not Grady I don’t think, Instead I think it’s the hotel speaking through the image of Grady because he says I’ve always been here (alluding to the sacred land that they said the hotel was built upon and attempted to be reclaimed by the natives). That being said I do think Jack has abusive tendencies on his own but I also believe a lot of his actions can be attributed to this almost cosmic being (the hotel).
58:20 - 59:40: omg that was freaking hilarious. Loved this whole reaction, gonna be one of my all time faves, but that part had me in tears 😂😂
There are all kinds of timeline discrepancies in this film, the first when Wendy is nervously confessing to the doctors about Jack dislocating his kid's arm. This happened at least a couple of years ago (as Jack observes bitterly when he's talking to Lloyd) but poor Wendy tells the doctor her husband "hasn't had a drink in five months." IOW, Jack broke that promise at least once.
Another thing to note. Those two little girls do NOT look like kids who died in 1970. They are dressed more like children from at least twenty years before. There are two "Gradys". Charles Grady, the caretaker who killed his family in the 1970s and had an older and younger girl, and Delbert Grady the waiter, -- who Jack meets -- who had twins, and likely lived in the 1920s.
The photograph at the end symbolizes the hotel receiving Jack's soul, absorbing and incorporating it... That's how I see it.
22:13 In the words of Jon Mulaney, "13-year-olds are the meanest people in the world. They terrify me to this day. If I'm on the street on like a Friday at 3 PM and I see a group of 8th graders on one side of the street, I will cross to the other side of the street."
Also, I choose to see "the caretaker" as just a role people are meant to play. Jack was always the caretaker because the Overlook made it so. He is the caretaker, and so he always was the caretaker. Grady used to be the caretaker, but he's not. He's the butler, and so he always was the butler.
Rana at the start of the video, "The Shining...and there's probably no ghosts in there"🤣Then Spidey with "She looks like Olive Oyl" (she is). Love this channels reactions. Doctor Sleep is an amazing sequel.
10:57 He was a school teacher from the 80's, a totally different era.
50:47 Jump from the top stairs, both knees in his back. Lmao!
57:32 He says Johnny because that's how Ed McMahon used to introduce Johnny Carson on the late night nbc talk show Johnny Carson
Mr Halloran was an angel or martyr and he died like martyrs do. He was there to help Danny. and Wendy and he did. You guys will see this theme repeated in other popular Stephen King adaptation movies
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By the way, Jack Halloran was played by Scatman Crothers, who got his name from "scatting," the half-speaking, half singing of nonsense syllables. He does a bit of that when he's reciting all the contents of the pantry with that musical lilt that makes it almost a song. "Rice Crispies, Post toasties..."
Jack has the shining. The hotel has the shining. It feeds on people with the shining. Drawing them in making them go crazy enough to kill more people within it's walls making it stronger.
Yes, there were ghosts in the hotel.
Yes, they could move stuff around and tried to strangle Danny, freed Jack from the freezer and so on.
Yes, Jack also had the Shining and passed it on to his son Danny, but Jack's version was weaker and remained dormant until he reached the infested hotel meanwhile Danny's was always active and powerful.
No, the chef doesn't die in the book since he's the one who actually drives away from the hotel with Wendy and Danny in tow.
Yes, anybody who dies in the hotel gets trapped in there as a ghost and becomes a slave to the hotel itself which is the real big bad, the ghosts are just prisoners, the actual _building_ is evil.
The hotel's goal was to make Danny die inside the premises so he could get trapped as another ghost, together with his strong Shining powers, and make the hotel stronger.
In the book Possessed Jack is so busy hunting down Wendy and Danny that "it" forgets about checking the boiler in the basement, which ultimately explodes destroying the evil entity and freeing the ghosts, unlike this ending where Jack is instead recruited into their fold and the evil hotel continues to exist.
Fun fact: the final scene in BladeRunner used extra B-Roll from the opening of this film
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.
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Kurbick made Shellys life hell while filming and even instructed the crew to never console her when she was crying, she said she had days where she cried for 24 hours straight and her voice was hoarse from filming scenes over and over like the stair scene thay was filmed like 125 times. People think that filming this movie caused her mental health issues that eventually caused her to step away from her successful career.
The kid didn't know they were filming a scary movie until he was on his way to the movie premiere because he was shielded from all the scary stuff.
Scatman Crothers didn't want to do the movie because he had heard about Kubricks love of filming scenes over and over and he didn't think he could physically do it at his age but Jack Nicholson got Kubrick to agree to a maximum of ten takes of Scatmans scenes.
Many people believe that Kubrick was leaving clues in this movie that prove he did help the U.S government fake the moon landing by directing it, they point out things like Danny's Apollo 11 sweater and there's a documentary about it here on RUclips where they point out all the clues.
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... the only reason Halloran dies here in the movie is because Kubrick literally hated Scatman Crothers and kept trying to get him to quit but he wouldn't ... he made Scatman shoot the "Shine" reaction scene where he was in Miami something like 150 times
43:49 the Ric Flair chop Rana gave Spidey 😂
mickey is so wrong. you absolutely need ALL the details.
It’s so spooky to me how the ghosts were attracted to him because of his power I never realized it until I rewatched it lol
48:21 It was Stanley Kubrick's secretary's job to type all of it. 500 pages of the same phrase written over and over with different format, as if in a script. Typos were left in. But wait, there's more! Kubrick is the sort to get hung up on details. He wasn't satisfied with a single English phrase. French, German, Spanish...every language "The Shining" was released in got their own 500 pages. They weren't the same phrase in a different language either, they were ones more suited to the country in question. So that's thousands of pages typed up.
And people wonder why Shelly Duvall's hair started falling out from stress during the filming of this movie. Kubrick was NUTS. And yet, the entire time, he kept Danny convinced that what they were filming was a family drama, not a horror/thriller movie.
In the book both parents have a twinkle (mom because of mom’s intuition) and that’s why the dad was affected by the hotel (made worse because of his anger issues + alcoholism)
Not quite the shining but close which is why Danny shines so much
To clarify, the hotel in Estes Park is the real hotel that Stephen King stayed at that inspired him to write the book, but the movie filmed at a different hotel.
"Was it schizophrenia? Was it a delusion? Does he shine?"
As pointed, the hotel is alive. But, you could say there is a bit of everything: the hotel preys on psychic energy, and has predilection for those that have strong psychic abilities or that are, mentally, just too weak to withstand its power.
Danny would be a huge meal for the hotel, that's why he wants him; Jack (while in the book he has some more context, and it's not exactly "the worst" person) is just too weak with the mixture of his alcoholism, guilt and self loathing.
So, the hotel slowly is manifesting to him, in order to break him, using every insecurity and flaw he has. The hotel doesn't have the power to go into "full crazy mode" (that's why it needs Danny), but can seep enough ideas and vision through the cracks of Jack's mind. And there are quite some hints that Jack does have some shining skills, he just lost them or drowned them over time.
Now, we have to keep in mind Stanley Kubrick just read a couple of pages, got the general points of the novel and then (for better or worse) went on to make his own plot; that's one of the main reasons the book and the novel are so far apart and many elements explained in the book are missing in the film.
"Room 237"
Indeed, as Navi pointed, the room has a long history that "too much has happened there", including the death of a woman that drowned in the tub (the naked girl in the kissing scene).
The thing is this: those that die are collected by the hotel; they don't really die (and that's the reason why the hotel can invoke such characters as the Grady Twins, Delbert Grady, the woman in Room 237 and even the couple in costume; they were regulars of the hotel that used to have kinky adventures in the rooms... and eventually died there).
As the hotel becomes more and more powerful, the visions are apparent to more people, not only Jack; and the hotel can distort its surroundings at will.
"The Shining hotel"
The location of the film is the Timberline Lodge, located in Oregon; as it's been mentioned in other comments, the Stanley Hotel was the location that inspired King to write the story, while he was there in a vacation (a hedge maze was added to the Stanley Hotel to satisfy customers, the film's maze was built in a studio in England; and it was the filming location for the TV Series, made by King to be more faithful to the book).
Both are beautiful places... and both have some creepy story to tell (as many hotels with long histories may have): in the case of the Stanley Hotel, several paranormal reports began to happen after the onvel was published, an now it's mentioned as one of the most haunted hotels in the United States. Most reports might be coincidences, but there was a gas explosion in 1911 that, apparently, injured, at least, a maid and damaged the structure (news reports of the time differ in details, some mentioning up to eight injured, and the maid being hurled from the second floor to the ground).
As for the Timberline Lodge, it was the place where director Boris Sagal died during the filming of af miniseries that used the hotel as a location in 1982; he went to the hotel in a helicopter that landed in the parking lot, but (apparently) he made a mistake when walking out of the aircraft and walked the wrong way, right into the tail rotor blades. He was declared dead in the hospital, five hours after the accident.
So, yeah: you still have to go to one hotel related to The Shining.
Nice reaction, see you in the next one.
You may not consciously noticed it but the layout of the hotel lobby was intentionally created to be impossible.
For example, the office where Jack interviews has a window behind the desk. This is not possible because the office is near the middle of lobby. Other locations on that floor also can't exist where we see them.
Kubrick did this to make the viewer feel uncomfortable and on edge. Even if your not aware of that feeling, it's there deep in the back of your mind.
lmfao pats reactions are killing me dude is naturally funny af