"What does it mean?" Some sites, like people, have something like "the shine." Think haunted house. The place absorbs souls/memories of its victims, and it hunts people, especially those with the shine. The picture/furniture is just part of the "estate," so it changes as the soul/memory is absorbed. good reaction hon.
Some people (me included) feel that Jack himself is a victim of whatever evil that lives at the Overlook. Some theorize that Jack quite probably has a similar “talent” to Danny’s but he may be unaware of it. That may have made him more vulnerable to the evil lurking there. Ultimately he may not have been responsible for his actions.
What's funny is, Jack wasn't the first to be approached by the Hotel (or ghosts)...it was Danny. Via the twins, it offered lonely, isolated Danny companionship ('Come play with us'). Danny rejected the 'offer'. THEN it approached Jack (via his resentment of Wendy). If Jack rejected the temptation...would the Hotel have approached Wendy? I wonder what her temptation would have been.
@@UncleQue the book makes it very clear that Jack wasn’t losing his mind from isolation, but the hotel was invading his mind and manipulating him. At the end, Jack was basically dead and was being controlled/ possessed by the hotel.
Nicholson is Legend ( ‘89 Batman as The Joker, A Few Good Men, Witches of Eastwick, The Departed and even Anger Management and As Good as it Gets!), Also Shelley Duvall is an “Unconventional” Beauty from Texas, and she was great as Olive Oyl in the PopEye movie with Robin Williams plus her cameo in the Sci-Fi comedy adventure film Time Bandits was hilarious! 😂 Too bad her career was short lived because she has a degenerative bone and muscle disorder/disease. 😢
nicholsons joker was amazing until heat legends and wahkeen phoenix's joker, then it became cartoonish in comparison, and not in a good way...otherwise, nicholsons rad. loved him in one flew over the cuckoos nest, chinatown, easy rider, this film obvi, and the departed. all great.
Kubrick's use of the "unreliable narrative" and "red herrings" are the keys to understanding that this film adaptation was not a ghost story as King wrote it to be in his book. Kubrick's film adaptation is a psychological thriller , focusing on each character in the storyline and thier different mental and emotional instability. A calm focused mind is needed to understand , there wasn't anything supernatural , paranormal, psychic abilities , spiritual , curses, or anything alluding to an afterlife or reincarnation in the film.... there are NO GHOSTS in this film adaptation . Merely Kubrick's artistic direction of showing what was going on in the four main characters minds in the film, and how each of them experienced thier own delusional disordered mental illnesses or traumatic conditions . Your reaction video was outstanding , even though you fell for Kubrick's traps like most viewers of the film do. If one stays calm minded and focused on the factual truths of reality , much like a detective does in solving a crime scene and reading clues, then one can watch this film adaptation with clear understanding of what's actually happening in each scene .
Sometimes you watch a film and things dont make sense and you just say, "Well that was weird." But with this film it really feels like there is a reason for everything, even if those reasons are unknowable and left to speculation.
38:20 You're right, I never even thought of that. Wendy could've potentially saved Mr. Hallorann by communicating with him from the window. But she didn't even bother to check. She definitely heard the snowcat pulling up outside the same as Jack did.
@@Letstunein You know, I like to try and make sense of things in movies that don't seem to make much sense. The only thing I can think of for this particular scene is that Wendy was so frightened and distraught that she didn't want to go to the window while Jack was still there at the door. Then when Jack left she could only really think about saving Danny. That was the immediate issue and her first priority, and so the thought of heading back to the window didn't really cross her mind; one of those "why didn't I think about that in the moment" type of things. Maybe that's a little weak... But it's all I've got. 😂
@@leniobarcelos1770 Hey! that’s really good! :) I like the analysis, because people really do get scattered when they are in crazy situations. She might have just been hoping for the rescue and wanting to get out of there!
Just for conversation...if she HAD warned him from the window, would he, as a slow-moving older man, have been immediately prepared or able to defend himself against a raging lunatic with an axe? He would need a gun at the very least, and there's no reason to think he had one on him. Perhaps a lodge like The Overlook would have a gun closet for recreational hunters...? Actually, if it had, the wife would probably have availed herself of it after locking up Jack. But this isn't really a "gun movie" anyhow. Maybe he could have "talked Jack down," so to speak, broken the spell and brought Jack back to reality before he killed anyone. But that darn GRADY (!) would probably have reappeared and told Jack to finish the job, to do what must be done!
The opening music is called “Dies Irae”, a medieval chant from the 13th century. It appears in many other works. The Georgia Bulldogs marching band plays it when their team is on defense.
1. Joe Turkel/Lloyd plays Tyrell in the original "Bladerunner" 😇 2. "Here's Johnny" was adlib by Nickelson. 3. It took 117 takes for Jack to chop through the doors. He used his voluntary firefighting skills to get through all the takes. 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 was abused on and off camera". 7. Jack Nicholson and Scatman worked together in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest". 8. The real villain here is the hotel itself. 9. Watch Dr. Sleep. Danny is an adult and many of the loose ends will be cleared up.
Although this was Jack Nicholson's first horror film after achieving stardom, he started out as an actor making low-budget horror films like THE TERROR, THE RAVEN, and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.
the music is done by wendy carlos she was Walter before she came wendy but that is another story best remembered with Switched on Bach and the Well Tempered Synthesizer and also did the music for the 1971 Movie A Clockwork Orange
Amazing how often Jack breaks the fourth wall by glancing at the camera several times throughout movie. I missed a lot of them as they are so subtle, but once they were pointed out I can't not see them
I've watched this movie periodically since it's release, and I only found out about this a couple of months ago! The most obvious is probably as Jack storms out of the apartment, also during the Grady conversation , I'm still working through to find more. On a kind of similar note, some youtuber has overlaid Jack's death face, with the one he pulls when he takes his first drink, and they are pretty much identical .
I really love all of your reactions to all of the movies.❤❤❤❤ And I really love your reaction to this movies and I really enjoy watching this movie with you. And the very first time that I saw this movie The Shining was when is came out on VHS and Home Video when I was only 4 years old with my parents. And this movie was first released 43 years ago in theaters when I was only 3 years old.❤❤❤❤
People like to give Kubrick shit for being hard to work with, but he got top-tier performances from every actor he ever directed, except that one kid from Barry Lyndon.
I didn't think about it before, but Jack Nicholsons character who already seemed annoyed with his wife before going to the overlook, never really considered what it would be like being alone with her & danny for that length of time. The rant after catching her reading what he wrote seemed to be pint up feelings that he never seemed to explore....until he got to the overlook.
In the 1920s, a beautiful young Starlet of Silent films stayed at the Overlook. She was gorgeous, rich and famous. ...After she retired, she took up residence there. When she grew old, one day her Boytoy/Escort left her, for a younger lady. In despair, the elderly Starlet drowned herself in her bathtub....in Room 237. Both naked ghosts are the same person
Bruh.. biggest and most compelling mystery to me in this movie is.. when Grady says "This situation".. what situation? There is like an urgency for people to die as part of a sacrifice? The ghosts aren't killing these people in the Hotel for nothing. What for then?? Hmm? Something very deep and evil is going on.
The back stories are not mentioned. The woman in the tub was Mrs. Massey who took her own life in the bathtub of 237. Her young lover ran out on her. Hallorann went in 237 and he ran into the long term resident that's why he sternly warned Danny to stay out! I think that was done deliberately to have people give their own interpretation of the film. Jack in the picture was added after his death. He joins the other who have died at the Overlook.
The Shining skips generations: Hallorann and his grandma, Delbert Grady in the 1930s and Charles Grady in 1970, 'Mister' Torrance in 1921, and Jack Torrance in 1979 or 1980, the 'present' in this movie. There's enough time between to skip a generation. Lloyd the bartender and Delbert Grady know a 'Mister Torrance', but the detail about both Gradys having a wife and two daughters, and Delbert saying he 'corrected' them all seems he has 'collected' Charles Grady as well. I wonder if Wendy's grandma was ever there? She starts to see the 'ghosts' when they are at their strongest.
Stephen should have submitted a "Joke" Novel... "The Shining by Jack Torrance"..... 10-40 pages of the start of a Novel, and as you read, bits and pieces of "All Work and no Play makes Jack a Dull Boy" start to quickly fill in, until it becomes exactly like the pages Wendy saw! hehehe
In the book, Jack finds a large white leather-bound book on the history of the Overlook Hotel. He abandons what he was writing which might have been the big success he wanted, and begins a play about the Hotel. He never gets to finish it, it's lost by the end, and may have been the success he so wanted. The hotel may have made him 'make itself more real' by this method, tapping his creativity. Oooo...
The same music is indeed used in Sleeping With the enemy. It is Symphonie Fantastique, and this particular movement is called March to the Gallows. The other creepy music is also classical, and I don't remember the title, but it is actually supposed to tell the story of a spider waiting to pounce on a fly. In a Kubrick movie, everything is deliberate and everything means something. This was Danny Lloyd's only movie. Its sad that we missed out on what movies he might have made, but then again, he grew up to be a normal person. One more thing, about the Donner Party. The people who ended up as dinner weren't murdered. They were already dead from starvation and the elements. If that makes you feel better 😊
There are hints in the book that the Overlook is indeed, only a short distance from where the Donner party got snow-bound. You need to know the history in some detail, but it's there.
The actor who interviews Jack at the beginning of the movie Has the distinction of being the first actor to be cast as James Bond. It was for a TV movie long before Sean Connery would take up the role.
Complexities in the movie draw folks in but the core is light vs. dark. shining, as Halloran's grandmother explained, is good and light, so when he explained to Danny the hotel has "something LIKE shining", he said it to not scare Danny. The hotel has the dark and bad opposite of shining, which has no name. Truly terrifying film. Thanks for making a reaction video about it.
The other thing I noticed today is you can really see light vs. dark in the maze. Where Wendy playfully pretended to chase her son into the maze, you can see the hedges were dark green-- but the interaction was light/good. When Jack really chased Danny into the maze, the snow was light-- but the interaction was dark/bad. So it's probably all throughout the movie (light vs. dark) but hard to pick up on. And of course the audience watches through to the end, to see if light wins.
Cami, you are funny. This reaction as well as your Conan the Barbarian reaction, are my favorites so far. You make yourself laugh a lot, which makes me not look at my life so seriously.
@@tideoftime The best one I've heard is that as Mr. Hallorann said, "some places can shine just like people can" so the hotel can shine somehow and used that to unlock the pantry. I think how humans use it, they can see places in different times, either the future or the past. The hotel can sort of mimic events taht happened in it from different times. For example, it can change the state of the door back to a time when it was unlocked. It can make the ballroom appear full of people from a time there was a party there. And when a person dies there they can also be manipulated through time in the hotel. That why Jack after he dies can be placed in the caretakers spot back in the early 1900s.
@@TR13400 I like those a lot. My personal favorite is that whenever Jack is wearing the burgundy suede jacket - that is the character Jack the writer is writing about in his book. Since Kubrick once stated there are no ghosts in The Shining, I believe the answer to the question “Who unlocks the pantry door?” Is very meta and in line with the idea that what we are watching is the storyline in the book. So . . . Jack the writer unlocks the door for Jack the character. And the final 1921 picture at the end, following a long shot of the room where we see the only evidence of sheets over furniture to keep the dust off indicating this is real and not the hotel in the book, is Kubrick showing the audience where Jack the writer gets the idea for what his character looks like. After all, we hear the audience applause during the credits so we know Kubrick is assuming we know the director knows this is a movie so why not the writer knows it’s a manuscript for a book? We are seeing the story he is working on while typing at the desk. 😃
@@TR13400 if you pay close attention, we see a caretaker in the very beginning during the tour of the hotel in the background. He is wearing the jeans and burgundy jacket that we later see Jack wearing. That would explain why he never seems to change his clothes. Whenever we see him wearing that, it’s not really happening. He gets the idea for the wardrobe from the caretaker he notices during the tour.
@@TR13400 when we see the Lloyd bartender scene, the bar if filled with supplies. When Wendy enters, the shelves are empty. Kubrick is showing the audience that some things are occurring in peoples heads. Remember what Tony says when the twins are introduced. It’s not real.
"Women: cant live with 'em, cant live without 'em" This movie actually made that line popular again. When it first came out in the theaters, I saw it several times in it's first release, the audience would laugh at this clever bit of male chauvinism, hearing it for the first time. I dont know when the phrase originated but the first time I ever heard it, and apparently the audiences I was seeing it with, was in this movie. I dont think it originated in this movie, but it certainly was not popular before this movie came out.
Cami, I'm new to the channel and a Jack Nicholson fan. If you haven't seen Nicholson in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "A Few Good Men," "As Good as it Gets," and "The Departed," then I highly recommend you watch them.
Very nice reaction to a complex classic film. You picked up on a lot of things that seem to confuse many other reactors. The opening tune is Dies Irae (Day of Wrath). TS has all the Kubrick touches. All those long hallway and hedge maze shots are one-point-perspective. That's a Kubrick trademark. Another characteristic of Kubrick is his focus on intense person-to-person interactions. Yeah, TS has just a little bit of that. 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? 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 may be something of a variation of Theseus and the Minotaur with Danny as Theseus, Tony as Ariadne etc. 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 when he and Hallorann were talking in the kitchen. 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. 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." Grady switches between Grady and "the Hotel," he gives voice to both. 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 wondering 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. We hear it early on when Danny is riding the trike on/off the carpet and when Jack is bouncing the ball. As the hotel becomes more powerful, we hear an actual heartbeat. 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. 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. Remember Lloyd the bartender's ominous hotel remarks. Lloyd represents a satanic demon. He shows up when Jack says he'd sell his soul for a drink. 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 with the knife with 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. 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. 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. 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 something dangerous. 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 the hotel's power is less outside. He's actually luring Jack into the maze to meet his fate. Danny is the hero of TS, he's Theseus, who kills Jack, the half-man half-demon.
Great reaction like always, i just discover your channel i follow a lot of reaction channels and this one is a must subscribe, your reactions are awsome and i like your personality and mood. 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, im sure this channel will have success, Cant wait for more reactions by you.
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He was reincarnated. That’s why jack mentions to Wendy that he feels like he has been there in the hotel before. Dalbert Grady mentions as well that Jack has always been the Caretaker.
Stanley Kubrick is the greatest American director of all time IMHO. And as brilliant as he and this film is, not to be ‘that person’ lol, but THE BOOK, is intense. Highly recommend
Even though it's not the theory I would personally apply, I applaud the recognition of the possibility that Jack's image may have appeared in the final photo only recently.
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Hi. I was wondering how you make your videos. I know you've got a camera pointed at you and one at the film but what are you watching the film on and what program do you use to edit your videos? It's very interesting.
Some say that the difference between the book and the film is that Book Jack was more 'normal' while Film Jack is nutso already. Nope. Book Jack was a philanderer and a drunk, he had a talent for writing which his 'errors' or personality prevented from ever succeeding, he got himself fired from his teaching job, all before the story really gets going.
A good way to put it is their "Past lives are intruding on their current subconscious". Jack's original Soul is Bound forever with the Hotel and must return. The Families are the Hotel's "Price for admission" to return.
Now that you've seen this you have to watch the sequel, Doctor Sleep, that came out a few years ago starring Ewan McGregor. One of the best sequels I've ever seen and will explain a lot about The Shining.
Try Google they'll try explain the end...no one knows exactly...no even mr. Kubrick could explain it..the remake of this movie is way closer to the book...
Now you need to follow up with Doctor Sleep. Danny is grownup and meets a young girl with the Shining. Both movies are based of books written by Stephen King.
I've always felt like Jack being in the picture at the end means he's now one of the ghosts in the hotel. His soul is now trapped in there, like that of Mr. Grady and his girls. He's part of what makes the Overlook hotel shine. His life has been absorbed somehow... I know a lot of people view this like Jack keeps being reincarnated and he always end up being the caretaker at the hotel, and he always goes mad and kills or at least try to kill his family. That idea has never stuck with me. I really fee like Jack must now be trapped in the walls, like that old woman who died in the bathtub, like the people who are at the party in Jack's vision, or who are mere skeleton in the hallway that Wendy sees... I gues I just like more haunted hotels and ghost stories than reincarnation ones.
wow u r so cute ! i love this movie and love watching reactions to it and this one was v entertaining ! look forward to seeing u watch some other stuff :D
I saw this in the theater when it came out and multiple times since. And I’m still not convinced that it’s a good movie. I happen to share Stephen King’s assessment, that the casting and direction were completely wrong for this story. The book, however, remains one of my favorites.
I think Wendy reading what Jack has been typing is one of the best reveals of madness in a movie.
Truly!! That part was the moment!!
Yeah, it's 'show don't tell' that he's nuts.
The lead camera guy said it's one of the more stunning psychological reveals in cinema.
"What does it mean?"
Some sites, like people, have something like "the shine." Think haunted house. The place absorbs souls/memories of its victims, and it hunts people, especially those with the shine. The picture/furniture is just part of the "estate," so it changes as the soul/memory is absorbed.
good reaction hon.
Aw thanks so much! And for the info!!
Yeah, but if you look at the pantry, there are two doors. Wendy locked only one.
Some people (me included) feel that Jack himself is a victim of whatever evil that lives at the Overlook. Some theorize that Jack quite probably has a similar “talent” to Danny’s but he may be unaware of it. That may have made him more vulnerable to the evil lurking there. Ultimately he may not have been responsible for his actions.
What's funny is, Jack wasn't the first to be approached by the Hotel (or ghosts)...it was Danny. Via the twins, it offered lonely, isolated Danny companionship ('Come play with us'). Danny rejected the 'offer'. THEN it approached Jack (via his resentment of Wendy). If Jack rejected the temptation...would the Hotel have approached Wendy? I wonder what her temptation would have been.
@@UncleQue the book makes it very clear that Jack wasn’t losing his mind from isolation, but the hotel was invading his mind and manipulating him. At the end, Jack was basically dead and was being controlled/ possessed by the hotel.
Horror doesn't need to make sense, and maybe it is better if it doesn't. Evil is chaotic and nonlinear. Great reaction. Thanks.
To wit: the set just before the freezer scene ... then just after.
Notice the typewriter was off white at the beginning and turned dark blue the more the spirits took ahold of Jack? Vintage Kubrick.
Notice the set before the freezer .. then after?
Nicholson is Legend ( ‘89 Batman as The Joker, A Few Good Men, Witches of Eastwick, The Departed and even Anger Management and As Good as it Gets!), Also Shelley Duvall is an “Unconventional” Beauty from Texas, and she was great as Olive Oyl in the PopEye movie with Robin Williams plus her cameo in the Sci-Fi comedy adventure film Time Bandits was hilarious! 😂
Too bad her career was short lived because she has a degenerative bone and muscle disorder/disease. 😢
nicholsons joker was amazing until heat legends and wahkeen phoenix's joker, then it became cartoonish in comparison, and not in a good way...otherwise, nicholsons rad. loved him in one flew over the cuckoos nest, chinatown, easy rider, this film obvi, and the departed. all great.
Can't get enough of this movie (2023.10.25)
Kubrick's use of the "unreliable narrative" and "red herrings" are the keys to understanding that this film adaptation was not a ghost story as King wrote it to be in his book. Kubrick's film adaptation is a psychological thriller , focusing on each character in the storyline and thier different mental and emotional instability. A calm focused mind is needed to understand , there wasn't anything supernatural , paranormal, psychic abilities , spiritual , curses, or anything alluding to an afterlife or reincarnation in the film.... there are NO GHOSTS in this film adaptation . Merely Kubrick's artistic direction of showing what was going on in the four main characters minds in the film, and how each of them experienced thier own delusional disordered mental illnesses or traumatic conditions .
Your reaction video was outstanding , even though you fell for Kubrick's traps like most viewers of the film do. If one stays calm minded and focused on the factual truths of reality , much like a detective does in solving a crime scene and reading clues, then one can watch this film adaptation with clear understanding of what's actually happening in each scene .
Kubrick himself confirmed the supernatural aspect in interviews and that the movie was about an evil reincarnation
Sometimes you watch a film and things dont make sense and you just say, "Well that was weird." But with this film it really feels like there is a reason for everything, even if those reasons are unknowable and left to speculation.
Nobody can explain Danny's nibbling and then the whole sandwich gone in one second and in one bite.
38:20 You're right, I never even thought of that. Wendy could've potentially saved Mr. Hallorann by communicating with him from the window. But she didn't even bother to check. She definitely heard the snowcat pulling up outside the same as Jack did.
Right, she could have saved him😭
And you are right! She didn’t even bother to check, kind of strange actually 🧐
@@Letstunein You know, I like to try and make sense of things in movies that don't seem to make much sense. The only thing I can think of for this particular scene is that Wendy was so frightened and distraught that she didn't want to go to the window while Jack was still there at the door. Then when Jack left she could only really think about saving Danny. That was the immediate issue and her first priority, and so the thought of heading back to the window didn't really cross her mind; one of those "why didn't I think about that in the moment" type of things.
Maybe that's a little weak... But it's all I've got. 😂
@@leniobarcelos1770 Hey! that’s really good! :) I like the analysis, because people really do get scattered when they are in crazy situations. She might have just been hoping for the rescue and wanting to get out of there!
Just for conversation...if she HAD warned him from the window, would he, as a slow-moving older man, have been immediately prepared or able to defend himself against a raging lunatic with an axe? He would need a gun at the very least, and there's no reason to think he had one on him. Perhaps a lodge like The Overlook would have a gun closet for recreational hunters...? Actually, if it had, the wife would probably have availed herself of it after locking up Jack. But this isn't really a "gun movie" anyhow.
Maybe he could have "talked Jack down," so to speak, broken the spell and brought Jack back to reality before he killed anyone.
But that darn GRADY (!) would probably have reappeared and told Jack to finish the job, to do what must be done!
I don't see the front doors near that window.
The Shining is a flawless horror film and it’s the perfect example of one
The *twins* in this movie are 8 and 10.
@@thebestpill4947 Yeah King didn't like it either, but nobody cares. Kubrick's Masterpiece.... Rated as the Top Horror movie along with The Exorcist
@@thebestpill4947 I'll never understand people who want to argue because they have different tastes in art
Something I've always wondered: Who's face is that meant to be on the poster?
@@thebestpill4947Bad adaptation doesn't mean bad movie lmao
I love both, but I like the movie better than the book.
The opening music is called “Dies Irae”, a medieval chant from the 13th century. It appears in many other works. The Georgia Bulldogs marching band plays it when their team is on defense.
True, and as such, is not subject to copyright violations.
Thank you for the info on it!!! :)
Its also the opening theme in Kubrick's prior film, A Clockwork Orange.
@@susanb4213 The music _performance_ is owned by WB.
1. Joe Turkel/Lloyd plays Tyrell in the original "Bladerunner" 😇
2. "Here's Johnny" was adlib by Nickelson.
3. It took 117 takes for Jack to chop through the doors. He used his voluntary firefighting skills to get through all the takes.
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 was abused on and off camera".
7. Jack Nicholson and Scatman worked together in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest".
8. The real villain here is the hotel itself.
9. Watch Dr. Sleep. Danny is an adult and many of the loose ends will be cleared up.
117 takes! I wonder how many doors they had to use to get the scene?
At least I'm not repeating everything others post.@@grosbeak6130
Please dont watch “dr sleep”. You might as well watch “Terminator 5” or “The Mask 2: Son of Mask” with Jamie Kennedy instead of Jim Carey
It's not that bad. Just different@@ilearncode7365
@@johnnie2638 The lead photographer said eight.
Although this was Jack Nicholson's first horror film after achieving stardom, he started out as an actor making low-budget horror films like THE TERROR, THE RAVEN, and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.
The director's last name is pronounced Koo - brick. Good reaction and observations.
6:54 My first thought: "I don't remember there being train noises in that part of The Shining"...
the music is done by wendy carlos she was Walter before she came wendy but that is another story best remembered with Switched on Bach and the Well Tempered Synthesizer and also did the music for the 1971 Movie A Clockwork Orange
Amazing how often Jack breaks the fourth wall by glancing at the camera several times throughout movie. I missed a lot of them as they are so subtle, but once they were pointed out I can't not see them
I've watched this movie periodically since it's release, and I only found out about this a couple of months ago!
The most obvious is probably as Jack storms out of the apartment, also during the Grady conversation , I'm still working through to find more.
On a kind of similar note, some youtuber has overlaid Jack's death face, with the one he pulls when he takes his first drink, and they are pretty much identical .
I really love all of your reactions to all of the movies.❤❤❤❤ And I really love your reaction to this movies and I really enjoy watching this movie with you. And the very first time that I saw this movie The Shining was when is came out on VHS and Home Video when I was only 4 years old with my parents. And this movie was first released 43 years ago in theaters when I was only 3 years old.❤❤❤❤
People like to give Kubrick shit for being hard to work with, but he got top-tier performances from every actor he ever directed, except that one kid from Barry Lyndon.
It's a myth that he was abusive. Kubrick knew that actors became _players_ after the fifteenth take. He was after what was interesting on-screen.
The picture at the end is hinting that he's connected to the hotel and has been there the whole time.
Jack walks past those doors at the start.
I didn't think about it before, but Jack Nicholsons character who already seemed annoyed with his wife before going to the overlook, never really considered what it would be like being alone with her & danny for that length of time. The rant after catching her reading what he wrote seemed to be pint up feelings that he never seemed to explore....until he got to the overlook.
In the 1920s, a beautiful young Starlet of Silent films stayed at the Overlook. She was gorgeous, rich and famous. ...After she retired, she took up residence there. When she grew old, one day her Boytoy/Escort left her, for a younger lady. In despair, the elderly Starlet drowned herself in her bathtub....in Room 237. Both naked ghosts are the same person
Mrs. Massey, yes. A creative person drained of her talent...
In the film, she's a figment of Jack's imagination. He read about her in the scrapbook then hallucinated her in the mirror. Same with Grady, Lloyd ...
She looks pretty like a young Geena Davis
...I was thinking Stevie Nicks...! 😊
Bruh.. biggest and most compelling mystery to me in this movie is.. when Grady says "This situation".. what situation? There is like an urgency for people to die as part of a sacrifice? The ghosts aren't killing these people in the Hotel for nothing. What for then?? Hmm? Something very deep and evil is going on.
Jack is talking to himself in a mirror.
39:34 'ewwwwwAH what is this??' LOL such a cute reaction to something so disturbing.
Already at 5:12 i have to say: good cutting (not to fast) and we got here the slightly green tint moovie "footage". Thanx ...
And good commentary
Aw yay! I love to hear this! Thanks for watching:)
The back stories are not mentioned. The woman in the tub was Mrs. Massey who took her own life in the bathtub of 237. Her young lover ran out on her. Hallorann went in 237 and he ran into the long term resident that's why he sternly warned Danny to stay out! I think that was done deliberately to have people give their own interpretation of the film. Jack in the picture was added after his death. He joins the other who have died at the Overlook.
The Shining skips generations: Hallorann and his grandma,
Delbert Grady in the 1930s and Charles Grady in 1970,
'Mister' Torrance in 1921, and Jack Torrance in 1979 or 1980, the 'present' in this movie. There's enough time between to skip a generation.
Lloyd the bartender and Delbert Grady know a 'Mister Torrance', but the detail about both Gradys having a wife and two daughters, and Delbert saying he 'corrected' them all seems he has 'collected' Charles Grady as well.
I wonder if Wendy's grandma was ever there? She starts to see the 'ghosts' when they are at their strongest.
Here's Johnny 🎥
The reason he’s in the picture at the end is because of what Grady said in the bathroom… “You’ve always been the caretaker”
But that was Delbert Grady.
The music at the beginning is the Dies Irae. It's a Gregorian Chant from hundreds of years ago. It's usually used in media to represent death.
I'm not a big horror guy but I love this film.
You seem genuine and real, and I'm a little bit in love.
Of course I'll follow you.
Kubrick is king!
Stephen should have submitted a "Joke" Novel... "The Shining by Jack Torrance"..... 10-40 pages of the start of a Novel, and as you read, bits and pieces of "All Work and no Play makes Jack a Dull Boy" start to quickly fill in, until it becomes exactly like the pages Wendy saw! hehehe
In the book, Jack finds a large white leather-bound book on the history of the Overlook Hotel.
He abandons what he was writing which might have been the big success he wanted, and begins a play about the Hotel.
He never gets to finish it, it's lost by the end, and may have been the success he so wanted.
The hotel may have made him 'make itself more real' by this method, tapping his creativity. Oooo...
Don't look up what the Shining means on the internet, it is a rabbit hole you will never escape from
And the Oscar for Best Supporting Eyebrows goes to...
Somehow, Stanley Kubrick was able to keep from Danny Lloyd that they were making a horror film as they were shooting his scenes
The same music is indeed used in Sleeping With the enemy. It is Symphonie Fantastique, and this particular movement is called March to the Gallows.
The other creepy music is also classical, and I don't remember the title, but it is actually supposed to tell the story of a spider waiting to pounce on a fly.
In a Kubrick movie, everything is deliberate and everything means something.
This was Danny Lloyd's only movie. Its sad that we missed out on what movies he might have made, but then again, he grew up to be a normal person.
One more thing, about the Donner Party. The people who ended up as dinner weren't murdered. They were already dead from starvation and the elements. If that makes you feel better 😊
There are hints in the book that the Overlook is indeed, only a short distance from where the Donner party got snow-bound. You need to know the history in some detail, but it's there.
The actor who interviews Jack at the beginning of the movie Has the distinction of being the first actor to be cast as James Bond. It was for a TV movie long before Sean Connery would take up the role.
There's another odd connection in that Nelson once played a pilot who lands a passenger jet in a raging snowstorm.
Complexities in the movie draw folks in but the core is light vs. dark. shining, as Halloran's grandmother explained, is good and light, so when he explained to Danny the hotel has "something LIKE shining", he said it to not scare Danny. The hotel has the dark and bad opposite of shining, which has no name. Truly terrifying film. Thanks for making a reaction video about it.
The other thing I noticed today is you can really see light vs. dark in the maze. Where Wendy playfully pretended to chase her son into the maze, you can see the hedges were dark green-- but the interaction was light/good. When Jack really chased Danny into the maze, the snow was light-- but the interaction was dark/bad. So it's probably all throughout the movie (light vs. dark) but hard to pick up on. And of course the audience watches through to the end, to see if light wins.
This is the perfect Covid 19 film. See what happens when a group of people are stuck inside together for a year. 😂
Or people stuck alone for a year. I know one woman who has become a shut-in.
Believe it or not Shelly Duvall was a quirky sex kitten in the 70s.
She has a 237 key on the table to her right.
Good catch! You are the only one who noticed:)
Cami, you are funny. This reaction as well as your Conan the Barbarian reaction, are my favorites so far. You make yourself laugh a lot, which makes me not look at my life so seriously.
It has a few loose ends, but a horror classic and with a completely unique soundtrack. And you are lovely.
To me, who unlocks the pantry door is the secret to understanding the real story within this film.
Which (of the numerous film analyses) theories do you favor, relative to the pantry "release"?
@@tideoftime The best one I've heard is that as Mr. Hallorann said, "some places can shine just like people can" so the hotel can shine somehow and used that to unlock the pantry. I think how humans use it, they can see places in different times, either the future or the past.
The hotel can sort of mimic events taht happened in it from different times. For example, it can change the state of the door back to a time when it was unlocked. It can make the ballroom appear full of people from a time there was a party there. And when a person dies there they can also be manipulated through time in the hotel. That why Jack after he dies can be placed in the caretakers spot back in the early 1900s.
@@TR13400 I like those a lot. My personal favorite is that whenever Jack is wearing the burgundy suede jacket - that is the character Jack the writer is writing about in his book. Since Kubrick once stated there are no ghosts in The Shining, I believe the answer to the question “Who unlocks the pantry door?” Is very meta and in line with the idea that what we are watching is the storyline in the book. So . . . Jack the writer unlocks the door for Jack the character. And the final 1921 picture at the end, following a long shot of the room where we see the only evidence of sheets over furniture to keep the dust off indicating this is real and not the hotel in the book, is Kubrick showing the audience where Jack the writer gets the idea for what his character looks like. After all, we hear the audience applause during the credits so we know Kubrick is assuming we know the director knows this is a movie so why not the writer knows it’s a manuscript for a book? We are seeing the story he is working on while typing at the desk. 😃
@@TR13400 if you pay close attention, we see a caretaker in the very beginning during the tour of the hotel in the background. He is wearing the jeans and burgundy jacket that we later see Jack wearing. That would explain why he never seems to change his clothes. Whenever we see him wearing that, it’s not really happening. He gets the idea for the wardrobe from the caretaker he notices during the tour.
@@TR13400 when we see the Lloyd bartender scene, the bar if filled with supplies. When Wendy enters, the shelves are empty. Kubrick is showing the audience that some things are occurring in peoples heads. Remember what Tony says when the twins are introduced. It’s not real.
"Women: cant live with 'em, cant live without 'em"
This movie actually made that line popular again. When it first came out in the theaters, I saw it several times in it's first release, the audience would laugh at this clever bit of male chauvinism, hearing it for the first time.
I dont know when the phrase originated but the first time I ever heard it, and apparently the audiences I was seeing it with, was in this movie. I dont think it originated in this movie, but it certainly was not popular before this movie came out.
It was used in _Animal House_ (1978).
RIP Shelley Duvall (1949 - 2024) 🙏
1:20 aha Sleeping With The Enemy😂😂
Jack would def. lose his sht over which potatoes she used.😅😅
Cami, I'm new to the channel and a Jack Nicholson fan. If you haven't seen Nicholson in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "A Few Good Men," "As Good as it Gets," and "The Departed," then I highly recommend you watch them.
Love your reactions to this movie, it was creepy.They have a remake of this movie thats pretty good too. Also love your smile doing this reaction !
You liked her laughing and giggling throughout?
@thewalruswasjason101 she's cute so she can get away with it 😅
Great job loved your reaction.
Glad you enjoyed
Very nice reaction to a complex classic film. You picked up on a lot of things that seem to confuse many other reactors. The opening tune is Dies Irae (Day of Wrath).
TS has all the Kubrick touches. All those long hallway and hedge maze shots are one-point-perspective. That's a Kubrick trademark. Another characteristic of Kubrick is his focus on intense person-to-person interactions. Yeah, TS has just a little bit of that. 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? 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 may be something of a variation of Theseus and the Minotaur with Danny as Theseus, Tony as Ariadne etc. 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 when he and Hallorann were talking in the kitchen. 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. 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." Grady switches between Grady and "the Hotel," he gives voice to both. 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 wondering 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. We hear it early on when Danny is riding the trike on/off the carpet and when Jack is bouncing the ball. As the hotel becomes more powerful, we hear an actual heartbeat. 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. 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. Remember Lloyd the bartender's ominous hotel remarks. Lloyd represents a satanic demon. He shows up when Jack says he'd sell his soul for a drink. 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 with the knife with 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. 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. 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. 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 something dangerous. 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 the hotel's power is less outside. He's actually luring Jack into the maze to meet his fate.
Danny is the hero of TS, he's Theseus, who kills Jack, the half-man half-demon.
The music which was muted at the beginning is the Dies Irae from the mass for the dead.
Delbert Grady said, "You've always been the caretaker." explains the 1921 photo.
But it was Charles Grady in reality ... so--?
If you want to keep a kid out of room 237 tell him there's homework in there!
This is a great reaction to The Shining. Have a wonderful and blessed night. ✌
"What does it mean?" It's a Kubric film. Thin k about it. There are so many interpretations. That's kind of the point.
Great reaction like always, i just discover your channel i follow a lot of reaction channels and this one is a must subscribe, your reactions are awsome and i like your personality and mood. 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, im sure this channel will have success, Cant wait for more reactions by you.
This was a terrible reaction.
The award goes to Wendy's cigarette ash, which held it together longer than she did.
Great Reaction on The Shining and Popcorn Roulette Since It s October Halloween month another Suggestion Highly Recommend to Watch John Carpenter s Masterpiece The Thing 1982 Starring Kurt Russell Fantastic SciFi Horror Movie Classic
Aw thank you! Glad you enjoyed! I actually just watch “The Thing” the other day. It’s one the way! :)Thanks for the recommendation
He was reincarnated. That’s why jack mentions to Wendy that he feels like he has been there in the hotel before. Dalbert Grady mentions as well that Jack has always been the Caretaker.
Jack Nicholson played himself in this movie.
They say he refused to live on-set and got a car from town, sleeping on the way out and back in, arriving just in time for his call.
Rob Ager's Collative Learning channel has the best videos analyzing this movie (incl. the picture at the end).
Stanley Kubrick is the greatest American director of all time IMHO.
And as brilliant as he and this film is, not to be ‘that person’ lol, but THE BOOK, is intense.
Highly recommend
I think yes the building / picture absorbed Jack after he died.
Great reaction! Next up, Dr. Sleep!
Even though it's not the theory I would personally apply, I applaud the recognition of the possibility that Jack's image may have appeared in the final photo only recently.
That alcove is closed at the start of the film. Jack walks right past it.
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Although Kubrick's version is iconic, I feel that the recent remake is even scarier and more true to the original Stephen King story.
Hi. I was wondering how you make your videos. I know you've got a camera pointed at you and one at the film but what are you watching the film on and what program do you use to edit your videos? It's very interesting.
Some say that the difference between the book and the film is that Book Jack was more 'normal' while Film Jack is nutso already.
Nope. Book Jack was a philanderer and a drunk, he had a talent for writing which his 'errors' or personality prevented from ever succeeding, he got himself fired from his teaching job, all before the story really gets going.
Kubrick was said to have _agonized_ over the perfect colour for his opening text crawl. That hue shows up in the film later on.
The 👗 the girls wear? Good trivia!
@@popcornroulettereactions Jack's 'Stovington' T-shirt and the colour of light from the basement doors.
@@popcornroulettereactions Also, Jack's frozen face is the same green. It's said to be the hotel's colour of 'shining'.
He became part of the Overlook, the hotel is an evil entity.
So Cami, if someone says they want to correct you, run the other way.
This girl is a cutie
A good way to put it is their "Past lives are intruding on their current subconscious". Jack's original Soul is Bound forever with the Hotel and must return. The Families are the Hotel's "Price for admission" to return.
Or, it's all going on in Jack's head. He's always looking at himself in mirrors--every time.
I made the huge mistake at 12 years old reading this book at night in a small trailer camping upstate ny.
Now that you've seen this you have to watch the sequel, Doctor Sleep, that came out a few years ago starring Ewan McGregor. One of the best sequels I've ever seen and will explain a lot about The Shining.
Oh I didn’t know he was in it! I really Ewab McGregor. I’ll have to look this up! Thank you!
Try Google they'll try explain the end...no one knows exactly...no even mr. Kubrick could explain it..the remake of this movie is way closer to the book...
Now you need to follow up with Doctor Sleep. Danny is grownup and meets a young girl with the Shining. Both movies are based of books written by Stephen King.
Yur the best Cami, great reaction
Aw thank you, I’m really glad you enjoyed it!
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If you aren't quite sure what the ending of this film means then the ending of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey is really going to confuse you !
Red Rum
hector berlioz symphonie fantastique
They tortured poor Shelly devall, she did the stair scene 127 times.
Nobody tortured anybody. Kubrick wanted the best take he could get and he got it.
How the hell does this place manage to make a profit if it’s closed half the year???
I haven't seen this for thirty years. I ought to be wiser now but alas...
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
I've always felt like Jack being in the picture at the end means he's now one of the ghosts in the hotel. His soul is now trapped in there, like that of Mr. Grady and his girls. He's part of what makes the Overlook hotel shine. His life has been absorbed somehow...
I know a lot of people view this like Jack keeps being reincarnated and he always end up being the caretaker at the hotel, and he always goes mad and kills or at least try to kill his family. That idea has never stuck with me. I really fee like Jack must now be trapped in the walls, like that old woman who died in the bathtub, like the people who are at the party in Jack's vision, or who are mere skeleton in the hallway that Wendy sees... I gues I just like more haunted hotels and ghost stories than reincarnation ones.
Or that's his grandfather in the photo.
My favorite review of this movie said “you try spending five months alone with Shelly Duvall and not going insane.”
As funny as this is, that might actually be the point of the movie. I wonder if her character is based on someone stanley knew in real life.
Oh, and YOU are so perfect and wonderful to spend time with I guess. . .Actually I guess NOT!
Wendy does all the work at the Overlook.
Hey, what's Cami doing?
Heya Matt!! 🙌🏻
Why did you cut out the "Cuss" Words for ???
Dumb and Dumber was filmed at the same hotel.
wow u r so cute ! i love this movie and love watching reactions to it and this one was v entertaining ! look forward to seeing u watch some other stuff :D
Aw so glad you enjoyed this one! Thanks for joining me:)
Classic movie
I love this movie but it might be the worse poster ever. Looks like an ultrasound done on a banana.
I saw this in the theater when it came out and multiple times since. And I’m still not convinced that it’s a good movie. I happen to share Stephen King’s assessment, that the casting and direction were completely wrong for this story. The book, however, remains one of my favorites.
U weren’t that scared. Maybe u needed to watch it in a dark room. Lol
you are the only reactor of The Shining that told Danny to enter into room 237. That's creepy...😮
Lol I know, I was curious. 😮 I quickly changed my mind when the door was actually open 😂
@@Letstunein I mean, that carpet ...
When the "bear" scene came on screen, the reactor said, "Ew" a few times. Were those homophobic ews or a furry-kink-shaming ew?
Probably because they left the door open.