THE SHINING (1980) Breakdown | Ending Explained, Easter Eggs, Creepy Hidden Details & Film Analysis
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- THE SHINING (1980) Breakdown | Ending Explained, Easter Eggs, Creepy Hidden Details & Film Analysis, Making Of Things You Missed. In this video, we are gonna break down an all-time classic movie which is The Shining. There are hidden details, easter eggs, creepy subliminal images and lots of things Stanley Kubrick put in the movie to mess with your mind. We will be going through all the details within the movie that make this such a good film and point out all the easter eggs that make this so chilling and mind-bending. There are so many hidden layers to the film and throughout this video, we're gonna be breaking down all the subliminal ways that the movie messes with you along with its hidden meanings. Starring Jack Nicholson in one of his most iconic performances in this Stephen King novel adaption from director Stanley Kubrick, what more could you ask for!! There is a lot to get through so let's get right into it!
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Ok so the Shining is one of my favourite movies of all time. Depending on what day it is the top spot for me switches between this, the thing and the godfather. It's one of those movies that has stuck with me since the first time I watched it and I remember being about 8 years old scared out of my mind after my first visit to the overlook hotel. But why does it have this long lasting power and influence. I mean on the surface you could be forgiven for thinking that the movie is extremely simple. As a kid I thought it was pretty much just about a family who were given the job of looking after a hotel and the dad went crazy and tried to kill them. However there's so many hidden layers to the film and throughout this video we're gonna be breaking down all the subliminal ways that the movie messes with you along with it's hidden meanings.
Now the biggest head f**k is the hotel itself.
King came up with the idea for The Shining when visiting The Stanley Hotel out in Boulder Colorado. He and his wife booked it October 30th which was the night before it was just about to close for the season. They were the only two guests there and King spent the night wandering the long hallways of the hotel swept up in just how creepy a place like this could be if it wasn't teaming with guests.
Now the idea of Shining comes from the John Lennon song Instant Karma.
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This idea that people imprinted into something long after they're gone is what the Overlook embodies and it's seemingly filled with the souls of those that it's trapped along the way. Traumatic events leave longer lasting impressions and this is why it's teaming with all sorts of evil spirits.
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Also Shelley Duvall deserved so much better, without her performance the movie wouldn't be as scary, Kubrick mistreated her
No, he pushed her to her limits. He got out of her what no other director could have!
@@zacrusk5274 Uhm no he didn't 💀 he exhausted her and made her work to her limits and then claimed she over acted, again the movie wouldn't be as scary with her "overacting"
What, by giving her the role of her lifetime?
@@nellsun2521 well he then publicly ridiculed her, she didn't get a lot of money, she didn't have a ton of roles after. Jack Nicholson got the praise which he deserved but so did Shelly and I'm sure all his comments affected that. Like I said if she didn't "over act" the movie wouldn't be as scary as it is
@@tiarasewlal7533 The horrors of being a Hollywood a-lister! She was free to get a 9-5 like the rest of us if it was really so bad.
The shining is one of the best known mainstream films to use the concept of liminal space as a source of fear. Not dark shadowy corners, not cobwebby mansions, not an atmosphere of midnight…but brightly lit, endless corridors of loud carpeting, an empty space that should be busy, endless halls and doors…
"Endless corridors of loud carpeting"... you've just described the 70s.
I loved the sequel even more!!!
@@historyandhorseplaying7374 my high school was built in the 70s, when they thought fresh air and light would be distracting to kids…there was one tiny window about 2 ft wide and 5 ft tall at the very back of the room (which I climbed out of and onto the roof several times!)
The 70s was a dark time for architecture indeed
@@lep8622 hadn’t heard of it, I’ll have to check out Dr Sleep
@@gildedpeahen876 Ha yes, and the colors of the carpets, wallpaper, decorations etc were always like lime green, puke orange, dirty yellow, etc.. like “Sesame Street” colors.
The Shining is one of those rare movies that continues to be relevant as a person ages and gains more life experience and knowledge. Every time I watch The Shining I see connections I didn't notice when I saw it years ago as a kid. I guess that's what makes it such a great movie.
Very true. I realized watching this and the Exorcist, they are ridiculous films. This one especially. VERY campy. Should be on the level with Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Not the best movie to watch as a kid 😅
I read that book while trying to stay awake during night shift work and it scared the crap out of me......the moving topiary still gives me chills.
SAME!😂 I have never felt the same about topiary...😬😱😅
I can relate to both statements..years ago I worked security where you sit outside in a company car on this rich guy's property..it was all nightshift and during one snowy week I read the book there when sitting in the car with snow drifts up against the garage/ loft structure😳🥺😨...and the movie still gets to me too
Me three. I slept with the light on for a week after I read it!
The book is outstanding. Still I love the movie as much as the book.
Same with Clockwork Orange.
@@rdred8693I made a comment earlier saying the same thing. The movie is a masterpiece in terms of visuals, but the book's story is superior.
To me, Jack appearing in the photo at the end just meant that the hotel had once more successfully claimed another victim.
Yeah, I hate how exaggerated the fan theories for Kubrick's movies become. Kubrick definitely did some very creative things with his movies, but there is so much retconning by fans to try and make him look like an even bigger genius than he was that it takes away from what he actually produced, in my opinion. Not everything has to be a level 100 mindbender; some pieces can just be straightforward.
Yes-but that victim then became a victim before he even existed, because the Overlook always exists. So YES, he did become a vic-err ther caretaker. But he was ALWAYS the vic-eerr the caretaker. I like this theory, because it's not a huge stretch or doesn't plot twist what you describe, but explains the whole nostalgia timeless nature etc
That doesn't fit. The deja vu like no Deja Vu ever before. You've always been here. It could mean that the picture changes according to the current Reincarnation of that person like the next person to take the bartender's place or the caretakers place will suddenly take on their appearance. Hannah thought about it like that. The whole thing is he's been there before maybe not in his current incarnation. Fun fun fun
They do to Kubrick what rap fans do to Kendrick lol.
Jack looking at the camera actually happens thought the hole movie.... It's meant to f#$k with our subconscious. (And saying in some way that we are that's ones looking at everything in the movie and hoping for thing to go bad, we are part of the ghost) There's a video here on YT with a compilation of everytime he does.
The ghosts never blink, and when Jack interacts with the ghosts, he doesn’t blink either. I can see Kubrick telling them “don’t blink” just to make their lives miserable.
Totally. I’ve tried to read likes without blinking. It’s damn near impossible for me.
I also like the Thing 👀
In Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkin's didn't blink either.
He did it b/c he'd read that sociopaths don't blink as much
They don't blink, because the power of the shining is like someone going into a trance or catatonic state of being.
Irl a good witch never blinks.
These older movies have so much depth and purpose to them
The Shining didn't rely on shock and gore and guts splattered. Probably why it has stood the test of time and still remains one of the best horror films ever made. It told a story that people could relate to, maybe even see themselves in the same circumstances.
Jacks comment about "white mans burden", wasnt about white guilt. The bartender was pouring him a drink, he was referring to alcohol, which has been called the "white mans burden" for more than a century - because it was the burden that white man put on the natives. Its not referring to a burden the white man carries, its referring to burden the white man GAVE to natives. I grew up on the outskirts of an Indian reservation in a small town, and having alcoholics in the family, I heard that term many many times. Honestly, Occam's razor would have solved this... he's literally saying it as he's looking at the drink.
Thank you. I facepalmed so hard hearing him say that.
I disagree. 'The White Man's Burden', can be looked up on Wikipedia easily. The color red is significant throughout the film. The building was built upon Native Burial Grounds, has a blood-red themed elevator (elevators also go down), and the Hotel itself has a history of murders/murderers.
"White Man's Burden" is from Kipling.
Take up the White Man's burden-
Send forth the best ye breed-
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
It's not about alcohol, it's about colonialism.
'White man's burden' has no reference to America. It's Kipling about the British Empire.
This also corresponds with the idea that the a subtext in the film is the subjection of the native American
The sound of Danny riding his bigwheel on and off the carpet has always been a powerful example of building suspense.
I watched this as a child, so at that time, I was more interested in riding one of those myself.
I saw that thinking thank pf I brew out of those
I agree!
I always loved that part 😂.
Happyness is a warm gun Mama 👈🕊️🎶"*RIP*" John Lennon 🌷🎸
I’ve always had a fondness for the guy that says “Great party, isn’t it?”. It’s like the signal the hotel is fully powered up.
In the book, it’s Horace Derwent, the original owner of the Overlook. He was one of the ghosts that attached to Danny after he and his mother left the Overlook. The other was Mrs. Massey (the old lady in the tub, whose story was actually really sad). Danny eventually learned to trap Derwent and Mrs. Massey in his mind, thanks to Halloran (who didn’t die in the book).
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@@heathermillsphantomlimb9314 ..you know that the film and the book are only casually related, yes?
king HATES kubricks 'adaptation'
@@wrongfootmcgee he used to hate it. Absolutely. Over the years, he’s come to appreciate it for what it is, though. He’s said that in interviews and such. Either way, the ghosts and such in the movies can share the same backstories and such, even if the movie doesn’t delve into it.
I first saw this movie when I was about 7 or 8. The lady in the tub scared the living shit out of me and I was terrified of going into a bathroom with a closed shower door or curtain for years afterward.
Second time I watched it was with my ex wife and we were doing other shit the entire time, so I barely paid any attention (aside from the "HERE'S JOHNNY" part.
I decided to watch it again with my son tonight, and after watching this video I am only now realizing how fucking weird this movie really is.
Watching the shining is a tradition in my house. I watch it. When we have our first big snow of the year where I live.
I do the same with A CHRISTMAS STORY every Xmas..and NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO TURN IT OFF..it runs 24 hrs 🤣🤣🤣
I watched the movie on cable. The next night I walked into the King Cole room in the St. Regis hotel. Catman was seated at the bar, which really freaked me out. Catman in a hotel bar less than 24 hours after seeing the movie. Anyway, I asked him why Dick, who had the Shining, went back into the hotel. Scayman said,: "When Stanley Kubrick tells you to go back into the hotel, you go back into the hotel." I'll remember this forever.
The one thing that infuriates me about the movie is his death.
When Grady says "You've ALways been the Caretaker." So well done. That entire conversation between Jack and Grady is genius.
The changes in the body language and speech of each character as the scene progresses is subtle but effective brilliance. At the beginning Jack is cocky and standing tall, acting like he's got it all figured out, while Grady is hunched over, apologetic and submissive in his role as one of the servants. Gradually this situation reverses as Jack becomes confused and much less certain which is mirrored in his body language of shrinking away from Grady while at the same time his vocal style becomes weaker and less commanding. In contrast, Grady stands tall becomes much more of an imposing physical presence while his voice deepens and becomes far more masculine and authoritative. Superb performances from both actors and brilliantly directed of course.
It's hogwash.
The moment the character realises, he is not shure if the hallucinations are more. real than himself.
I love it when Dick Hallorann says "It's Shining Time!" and then gets murdered with an ax.
I never noticed the difference in the names before (Charles vs. Delbert). Nor did I ever really grok that if Charles Grady was Ullmans predecessor, that would have put him there in like the 1950s. Delbert Grady's mannerisms and dress seem to put him in a time long before that, as do the dresses of his two daughters. They look like something out of a British Victorian seaside resort.
You mentioned that when Jack finally shifts to losing his mind, he switches from wearing green at the beginning of the movie to wearing red. What you didn't mention is that Wendy does the opposite: in the beginning she's wearing red and switches to green.
I felt like the color green means the character is in touch with reality. Red means they're not. I feel like Wendy was delusional about how bad things were for her and Danny at first.
It isn't just Wendy's color choice of red, then green. Many scenes where we're supposed to see from Wendy's perspective are slightly different from when viewed from the POV of someone else in the scene with her. Wendy's shift to reality completes when she reads the "...Jack..." pages. Definitely overlapping of POV's until we finally see the entire reality of what's been happening in the climax. Not necessarily everything spelled out, but much, in not all (up to that point) are skewed by many of the characters POV
ooooh!
Of course, he’s not going to mention it. Wendy is a woman.
@@jennymunday7913Green is also a 'calm color' and red is often depicted as anger. While Jack and Danny's characters are explored, Wendy still remains a bit mystery. I have yet to read the book but IMO Wendy might not have been any better than Jack in her treatment toward Danny. Not saying she was like Jack but I get the feeling she crossed the line between shooing child away for being underfoot and actual neglect. How often did Wendy spend time with Danny before everything went sideways?
As a kid growing up in the 70’s early 80’s this movie had me terrified and is still one of my favorites
I’m a 90s kid and this movie made me shit my pants lol
I was born in the 2000s and I was terrified when I watched as a kid too lol. For some reason the dog/bear mask scene always scared me the most.
@@okquentinshits real freaky
22:30 9 blades above Danny's head echoes the 9 of Swords in Tarot. A card about nightmares, fears, horror, danger and how our mental state needs to be kept focused and restrained in the situation in question. There are a lot of Tarot symbols in his films, and Tarot is (just like Stanley's art works) filled to the brim with symbolism - both obvious and hidden. Jack falls due to his mental weakness and lack of nuanced discipline - alcoholism is also a 9 Swords related subject, as is unmanaged anger, and many mental illnesses. The Rider Waite deck has symbols hidden in textiles and furniture. Anywho, I hope this is interesting to someone out there.
Just added a comment about this and saw yours. Cheers, I was unsure if I was seeing 8 or 9 knives. Alternatively you could take the 4 on the left as the 4 of swords, and the right the 5 of swords.
One of my favourite parts was the sound of Danny’s bike going from wood to carpet to wood. It built up such a level of tension that I haven’t often seen in a film
Also the hand gestures is also ‘as above, so below’ which is a spiritual symbol for what happens above (higher realm/heaven) happens on the lower realms as well (could be earth, could be hell). Could be that it symbolises the loop of what’s happening or that the overlook is quite literally one of the circles of hell
It could. Anything could.
Yes, and also it is Right-hand Path and Left-Hand Path. Did you notice the folded piece of paper in Jack's raised hand? I seriously doubt that was an accident.
It also brings to mind the Magician from tarot! Seeing as it's a male figure focused on transformation, rebirth, and manifesting his own power, it really scraams Jack
Oh man, absolutely.. I could hear that for a couple weeks.. It was calming but also erie..
Exactly
Through the use of the shinning, Danny saw through the hotels warping of reality the whole time. He was seeing everything as it was happening. He resorted to Tony, his finger puppet, to keep his mind from being manipulated. He finally went catatonic from the relentless attack. He snapped out of it with the help of Tony, and was able to warn his mother of the impending attack. That kid was a hero.
100%
Excellent analysis.
"Dr Sleep"
It isn't explained in the movie, but in the book towards the end you discover Tony is Danny from the future helping himself survive the stay at the Overlook
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Interesting.
Thanks for sharing.
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Stephen King has written short stories that have kept me up at night . He's brilliant at grasping the imagination and bringing out every dark thing hiding in it. He makes your mind go boo and you shudder at every turn of the page .
Love how Paul begins all these videos with "ok" like he's sitting you down for a tough conversation
Loooooool I’ve tried to stop doing it but I can’t help myself
@@heavyspoilers never stop, its practically a staple at this point
That’s how I know it’s gonna be a deep one 😅
@@heavyspoilers can you do Explained for Infinity Pool please? That movie is so good
@@heavyspoilers it’s a fantastic start 👍🏼
If I have one criticism of this film, it's that Jack Nicholson already looks like he's about 1 hair from going insane/breaking right from the get go. I even thought that as a kid, and found him creepy and subconsciously knowing "yup, that guy is clearly going to go nuts". As always, great video.
That was the biggest problem Uncle Stevie had with Kubrick's mangling of his story. Jack was supposed to be ashamed of himself for all the stuff he put his family through when he gave in to his alcoholism.
He wasn't crazy, he was seeking redemption but the hotel got into his head.
Stephen King's version, the mini series, is very loyal to the book and I loved it. Being a big fan of King, and having read the Shining so many times, my book was worn out, I was shocked when I saw Kubrick's version, especially the end. Jack sitting there frozen with that idiotic face, was too much and I absolutely hated he called it the Shining. I like the movie but it isn't the Shining I know.
I agree, and I think he reveals this in the car on the way to the 'Overlook', with his slightly menacing parody of his son: "Hear that - he saw it on T.V."
All these years and I just realized that I don't quite like the movie, as good as it is. It's one of those fictions that is malevolent. Not good to have in my head. Perhaps that's the genius of Kubrick, but the book version has a moral quality that is lacking in the movie - in my opinion.
Either way, both versions of the story are classics in their own right.
@@smasome I do that. I will watch a movie that I later wish I could forget.
I loved Kubrick's version The King-approved version is just another in a long line of schlocky King book movies.
I think any large structure without people to fill it would become overwhelmingly creepy. It sort of feels like anything constructed that big must have something in it, and if there aren't people in it then it must be filled with something else. Something you don't want to be alone with. To this day I have trouble watching the scene where Danny is riding around on his big wheel, knowing that those two little girls will be appearing soon. Many is the time when I straight punk out and stop the film before that scene or jump to just after it because it terrifies me on some primal level.
When I drive by any huge McMansion on a dark rainy night, I wonder how the owner could stand being alone inside without freaking out.
I saw The Shining as a kid and that scene freaked me out too. We had an old creepy basement and I dreaded going down there after that movie. Those damn twins could've been waiting for me in a dozen different places in that creepy basement, wanting ME to play with them forever and ever and ever.
I've been in an empty, closed down hotel. It was a weird energy that made it impossible not to think of this movie.
20:10 Whenever the model of the maze transitions into this scene of the actual maze is one of my favorite shots in cinema. It's such a seamless transition that it made me feel as if Danny and Wendy are trapped in Jack's reality (or lack thereof). For a photographer, such as myself, this image is just terrific in its composition
The book had huge topiary animals that could move when you turned away from them and give chase rather than the static maze Kubrick used in the film.
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Yeah man. It worked so well when Stephen king did his mini series @ about being true to the book”
It wasn’t corny and terrible at all.
The topiary animals were very scary in the authors adaption tonin screen.
@@oldironsides4107what?? When did he do this? What’s it called?
@@ElDuderinohI want to say mid to late 90s. It was a 3 part series on tv made by king.
I love your description of how the transition made you feel, to be honest it confused me first time. i actually skipped back felt like i missed something, not shure if that's what the film was trying to do, confusing you to pull unsettling/paranoid feeling or make you feel as uncertain as to what is real and what is hallucination, like the characters in the movie are dealing/ living with.
About jacks sobriety timeline: when Shelly is talking with the doctor she also says that jacks been sober for about 5 months, or 6 or something, but she frames it like that he stopped drinking right after he injured Danny. So when jack says he injured Danny three years ago, we just learn that it took him a while after hurting Danny to stop drinking, but it wasn’t a secret to Wendy, cuz she gave the same sobriety timeline. She just hid from the doctor the fact that jack kept drinking after hurting Danny
Yes - and that makes us, the audience, dislike her even more, because she's making excuses for Jack - and presenting Danny's abuse as a hapless accident.
@@pawdaw it never made me dislike her. I see it as someone in an abusive marriage, trying to sugar coat the situation for this person who is a mandated reporter, out of fear of losing her son to social services. Wendy and jack are both guilty of putting Danny in wildly in appropriate situations, it’s more obvious in the book I think…but still jack is the most scary and abusive, and I think Wendy makes these excuses for him out of fear of family separation, as she waffles back and forth internally about whether the marriage is worth keeping together or not
@@pawdaw do you not know what it's like to be stuck in an abusive relationship?
@@technounionrepresentative4274It still doesn't excuse wendy from responsibility. Both things can be true. She was abused herself and was scared but also didn't make the best decisions for Danny.
That’s easy to miss good catch
Absolutely appreciate the breakdown!
If I may imply,
To be noted, the room/floor layout breakdowns are inconclusive since the scenes where Danny is big-wheeling, on the 2nd story, he clearly makes a long trek down the hallway adjacent to the Colorado Lounge long enough to where the first Elevator to the left of Danny may have been just to the right of the fireplace in the Lounge. Also, as Danny rounds the left corner passing the next elevator to the right with two balcony rails on the left, looking over the Lounge, he then takes a right turn, & another right thru a corridor that seems unlit in the other scenes of the Lounge. All scenes that have both balconies visible along with the elevator.
Danny makes his next right turn and continues his loop & passes his previous turn showing the balconies to the Lounge.
Hence the scene is complete, not at all impossible.
No tricks, just spacial awareness.
The scene in which Jack enters the bathroom beyond the ballroom/bar, we see that there is a wall that both men have to either round left or right in order to enter the full bathroom.
This is a privacy wall with no other doors. ( - ) As you enter you round the wall and continue in the direction you entered in as.
Straight back as it where.
So therefore the stalls have no contradiction to where they are in opposition to the back of the bar.
Also, I have a feeling that the dry storage in which Jack was locked in, did in fact have a second door, in which was pointed out as an inconsistency during the first walk thru tour.
Just thoughts and observations.
Thank you,
E. Duran
I would love to see Eyes Wide Shut here.
I feel the line "You've always been the caretaker. I should know, I've always been here." relates to the incarnation of Jack's vices. He's met the bartender, we know he's always been an alcoholic. He's met the lady in the bathroom, we know he's always been a womanizer. But there's been a murderous part of himself that has always been there though it's never manifested until now. Jack is the caretaker of his roster of vices. He's the main personality housing alcoholism, womanizing and murder. And while the first two have always been apparent, the murderous side has always been there hiding and now it's come out. Jack is the caretaker of his "three ghosts". It's like someone with multiple personalities having one of their personalities say to them: "I've always been here but you're in charge."
This makes more sense of anything I've heard about this movie.
That was an awesome assessment. That sounds like something I would come up with when I'm stoned.
Not to put the two movies in the same league but Inception is another movie that illuminates the complexities of a conflicted / fragmented personality & how it manifests into the final resolve
@@richardmarino2732
So are "Shutter Island" and "The Machinist".
And, of course, my most favorite movie ever: "Fight Club".
Very interesting observations.
Mr. Haloran didn’t give Danny the nickname ‘Doc’; his parents did. They called Danny ‘Doc’ because he loved Bugs Bunny cartoons.
Thank you. I noticed that too.
That’s right
With Bugs Bunny being another Warner Brothers property
Came to say the same
Directors like Kubrick have the best job in the world. Everyone assumes they're such geniuses that even mistakes get settled in people's minds as something so deep and layered that we just don't understand
Looooool
19:47 from the hotel, to the ladder, the triangular shape of the ladder represents a tipi hut which is also an accommodation. This ties back to the history of the hotel being built on a burial ground
Ultimately “The Shining” is about a haunted hotel that was built on an Indian burial ground. There are tons of references to this throughout the movie. Kubrick used multiple methods to establish an unsettling and unreal atmosphere to the film. One of the methods he used was that nothing in the background ever moved, not even trees. The only natural element that ever moved of it’s own accord was the fire in the giant fireplace. This lent a feeling of stillness and death to everything.
Also time standing still at this particularly place. Frozen in the past
What about the snow falling?
Nope
@@blahthebiste7924Ghost snow.
That’s an interesting idea I’ve never thought of before
I believe the reason this movie was so successful was that much of it worked on the unconscious level. Much work was put into messing with the mind, sort of like gaslighting, to make the ciewer feel confused, off balance, nervous and anxious. ALL WITHOUT A SINGLE JUMP SCARE. No feeble juvenile tactics to build tension, but a masterpiece of subliminal mind !uck.
I would say the dispatching of Scatman has a bit of jump scariness to it...
@@mateosalvaje9550 you got me there! But at least there was no actual CAT jumping from the sidelines.
@@lindas5964 The old woman is jump scare 101 as well as the axe murder obviously.
@@joepermenter7228also when danny turns the hallway corner and sees the grady twins-i’d argue that’s a jumpscare. especially if you watch the whole scene.
The bathtub scene made me nervous in a way that I never experienced in a movie before
Favorite movie of all time without a doubt. I especially like that, as with all great art, it's open to your interpretation. The Wendy theory, Danny as the unknowing villain theory, the theory of Jack abusing Danny, and many more all have plenty of ground to stand on. The film invites you to imagine the scariest explanation for the events that you can come up with. The sheer volume of breakdown videos and theories are a testament to the movie's status as a masterpiece.
One of my favorite movies… I’ve watched it several times over the years but have never caught a lot of what you pointed out. Now I need to watch it again! Timberline is also a few miles from me and I love seeing it on the big screen!
I dont know people notice or not in this movies the floor in average were always specky clean almost the whole time.. I come to notice Stanley even his other movies on average always mantain the floor clean and plain neatly perfect for ice skating im sure stanley have his own reason 😂
a few pieces of trivia;
I like the way the twin girls turn around by pivoting in a very strange way as if they're connected at the hip
the kid who played Danny didn't actually see any of the scary stuff like blood flying out of the elevator, etc. Stanley Kubrick just asked him to act scared and he didn't even know he was in a horror movie until he was in high school and happened to see it on TV
He had to have had some inkling, Considering everything that he did see and do.
Maybe his parents told him.
That's incredibly kind of Kubrick, tbh.
A lot of directors wouldn't have been so sensitive about the innocence of kids on set, assuming that they should be professionals. Look at the way Drew Barrymore and so many other contemporary child actors to him struggled and suffered and had to keep working anyway.
However, I would say that he could have extended that to other actors, adult or not, because at some point, you have to let people have their sanity.
@@azurephoenix9546 oh, I agree. He treated poor Shelly Duval abominably and I can't help wondering if that's part of why her career didn't last very long.
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Depends on what you mean by a long career. I loved fairy tale theater way more than the shining, if I'm completely honest. She was precisely the right person to produce it and to gather the wide array of actors who brought each story to life. It never would have been as amazing and amazingly funny as it was without her.
Well, now I’m starting to read into the movie. For example, when Shelley asks about the “Indian paintings” we hear a real description of opposite cultures. The Navajo were viewed as peaceful and non-threatening but the Apache were feared by all tribes, including the white man. They exist as one general theme of the hotel but it’s actually two themes of the hotel, running parallel to each other. One good the other not so much. This duality idea fits into the hotel as a portal that allowed Jack the Writer to descend to Jack the Hacker.
Check out the movie Room 237 if you haven't already!
@@chucklebutt4470 i have and its a very surface-level glimpse at the meanings of the movie
The ripper
Yesssss like mirror opposites! (keeping with the theme of mirrors throughout the movie)
@@DarthBane123 True, it doesn't go into a lot of detail but it was my first introduction to the kind of wild interpretations people have of the movie!
“ he ran a muck” 😅 that’s one way of explaining “axe murdering” the family lol
The fact this movie is scary isnt because of the main characters its the ghostly characters and also the LIMINAL SPACES this place had and is its an amazingly curious place to explore yet creepy at the same time
The scrapbook that Jack has open on his writing desk was a big plot point in the book. It contained the news clippings of all the events that went on in the hotel's history. Jack would spend hours pouring over it in the basement while he kept a watch on the boiler. "She creeps."
That seemed to go on forever in the book.
Interesting point, just read up on some deleted scenes that show Jack with the notebook a lot more. Even the extended version just shows it in one shot I think.
I loved the comic timing of Jack Nicolson in the scene where he says *Here's Johnny* , truly an iconic scene indeed btw I don't understand why Shelly DuVall's performance was hated her performance was really great as a scared and mentally tormented woman.
That’s because she was actually scared and tormented. By Kubrick. It looks odd on screen because she wasn’t really acting for the most intense scenes.
Which she was, the poor thing! But she’s incredible, if she wasn’t an amazing actress she’d just be a scared woman, but she’s got such impact.
Probably because she wasn't like the young victims in most horror films especially at the time they are always sexy or at least pretty
Shelley had really tears and exhaustion Kubrick terrorized her to the point she was so stressed she was losing hair
Her performance wasn't acting she was genuinely terrified and exhausted
@@turkishcoffeeguy “wasn’t acting” is a huge stretch lmao
@@HealthyObbsession lmao no she was not. Exhausted from Kubrick’s long hours? For sure. Verbally berated multiple times? Almost definitely. Genuinely terrified and scared for her life? Nada.
For all the scary scenes, Delbert telling Jack he’s always been the caretaker was terrifying.
I seriously don't know how Stephen King hated this movie. It's one of the best movies of all time. If you watch it with a decent headset on it's mind blowing.
The book's good but the movie's great. It usually doesn't happen that way around.
The reason why was Kubrick took libertys with the story , the book was written during his own alcohol issues and Kubrick made the story sterilized and you can't feel the tortured characters own fight for sanity. Watch his interview why he was not impressed.
One of my favorite scenes of this whole movie, and it actually follows the book well in this scene, is the bathroom moment with Grady. It is sooo well done and gives you this ever increasing unsettling feeling. I was so excited when I came to this scene in the book too. It's interesting because Grady actually was a gruff alcoholic like Jack, it's only after the hotel obtains Grady that he becomes this proper speaking/looking gentleman.
"I corrected them, sir." One of the most chilling lines in any horror movie ever.
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Yes, one of my favorite scenes too. The actor that plays Grady was also in A Clockwork Orange, he plays Alex's dad.
The bathroom scene breaks the 180 degree rule in filmmaking, which adds even more of a disconcerting feeling to it.
@@Arkansmith The bathroom is eerily similar to the bathroom in Full Metal Jacket.
@@MrColin159no,...it isnt at all...its a hotel bathroom, compared to the latrine in a barracks.....
@@Arkansmith what's the 180 degree rule in filmmaking??
I was pretty shocked that Doctor Sleep wasn't a bigger hit. Fantastic film.
I thought that movie was great aswell...underrated for sure!! Many hidden undertones...
Totally under rated and good as a stand alone as well
My exact same thoughts. Criminally underrated.
Sleep didn’t really feel scary. It was basically an action flick
As I remember it, the shining wasn't a big hit either....at least not at first.
I absolutely believe that Shelley Duvall was driven literally to psychosis by Stanley Kubrick. Hundreds of takes every day and always in a state of terror and hysteria. No mind could withstand that.
What about everyone else involved. You think it’s just Shelly. There and not dozens of others involved in every scene?
@@oldironsides4107 Kubrick is the commander, the rest are just following orders.
Always in a state of terror and hysteria? Look at some clips of production you’re fooling yourself
@@jamesmcnaughton9939 Not literally, of course. But having to act that way over and over again.
Nonsense. Why don’t you do a search here on UA-cam for Shelley praising Kubrick after the film? She said it was the greatest experience of her life. Have you ever watched the documentary? It’s really nothing that he’s doing to her except pushing her a little bit. Your generation is doomed if you think he was abusive. He’s what you call a passionate genius who pushed everyone to their limits. Good God. Go read a few books already. And toughen up!
So much I didn't know about this movie! Thanx a million! Great job! 👏
thank you
I've always known the skeleton scene. I always believed it meant Wendy was finally able to see the hotel in it's truest form but could be wrong. Yes, if you've never seen it before it could be a little jarring, I'd imagine.
Exactly, she is finally seeing the things her husband and son have been seeing. The building is revealing it's self to her.
@@FerstErndFuriersbut that’s not the true form of the Hotel. The police searched the Overlook and they found nothing. The Hotel is not showing it’s true form, it’s scaring them into insanity with illusions while feeding off their fear and pain.
@@FerstErndFuriersin the books, that’s basically what the hotel does. Obviously, the movie didn’t have enough time to delve into it, but it slowly revealed itself as it went along. At first, she’d just notice little things, like confetti in the floor of the elevator. After a while, the elevator’s started moving on their own, she’d hear laughter and voices talking about a party in the hallways, and it was actively trying to keep Danny (and her) inside so Jack could kill him/them (the hedge animals surrounded the exits, elevators stopped working, etc.) In the movie, I think the hotel was just showing her a bit of what it really was to scare her and feed off her negative emotions.
Jack Nicholson is such a phenomenal actor. His career is littered with so many sensational performances.
My favorite scenes; Redrum, Jack meets Lloyd the bartender, Grady talks with Jack in the bathroom, and Wendy runs in panic through the hotel while witnessing various terrifying visions, after Jack kills Dick.
I hope you do Eyes Wide Shut next!
The reason Danny is called Doc is clearly explained in the movie, and the"twins" are credited as Grady's daughters at the end.
And halloran knew he was nicknamed doc by his parents too
I think the Overlook Hotel is like the monkey's paw in that it gives each person who enters it what they want, but always in a twisted fashion. Recall Danny told Wendy he wanted someone to play with in Boulder; now he gets the twins saying, "come play with us, Danny." Wendy is a confirmed ghost story and horror film addict, so now she gets the full horror story treatment, complete with cheesy skeletons. Jack wanted a second chance and to be respected for his achievements, so the hotel gloms onto that and gives him the "mission" of killing his son. I'm not sure what Dick Halloran wants--maybe he's special because he can resist the hotel's attempts to tempt him. BTW, in addition to the nude photos in the boiler room, there's instructions on how to help someone who is choking--and someone chokes Danny around this time. One question I do have is what is the significance of the little piece of paper Jack is holding in his hand when he's in the Baphomet pose in the 1921 picture at the end of the film--some kind of magic spell, maybe?
Not only was someone choking Danny they were nude also.
I really enjoyed reading this comment. No sarcasm.
I always thought when Jack says Wendy is a ghost and horror film addict, he was clearly lying, to reassure the manager. Wendy is passive and easily scared and Jack knows if she knew the truth, she wouldn't go anywhere near the place.
Perhaps his soul contract now that he's been claimed and the dept paid?
Wild guess, maybe a broken treaty with a native American tribe?
The 1997 miniseries horribly miscast Jack Torrence with Steven Weber who, known more for his comedic roles, totally lacks the sublime menace of Jack Nicholson's lead in Stanley Kubrick's version. It is truer to the novel but I could not overlook this glaring mistake in casting
The shining has always been one of my most favorites movies of all time. Their's so much to that movie then just what you can watch.
Definitely , I am sure that anybody who has had an alcoholic in their family knows that when a person is drunk they act like exactly as if they were possessed by some sort of evil power. It manifests either when they are drunk, or when they try to convince everyone why they need to drink more.
That’s where the word spirits come from when u drink spirits it kinda possess u
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Because they are
...it's just the alcohol talkin'.
Years ago a good friend of mine says, "I hate quitters. I quit one time. Worst 20 minutes of my life."
RIP Joel. No one could ever fill your shoes....
If this much fuss was put to the task, I bet they could figure out who shot president John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Obviously someone knows because they pulled the trigger. They could still be alive.
Shine on you crazy diamond, give us all you got, show us the shining one more time......
Yes. The drink is the key to him turning evil in here too.
Kubrick, in his own words, mentions the moment the locked pantry door opens releasing Jack, is the moment you know there's a supernatural component at work.
Thanks! I’ve always wondered about that moment, most especially.
Ahhh.... Good point!! Thank you
Wendy's, Jack-In-The-Box, where... Oh different Movie. What was in the Briefcase, The Shining? It was all about your mind. It was trapped, now IT is coming... 🍒 ▫ ▫ ▫ ⬜ ▫ ▫ ▫ 🟡
I agree with you. The shinning is one of my favourites aswell. The sheer size and 70s decor really amazes me. Just the size of the kitchen and explaining how much food is there really hits you how alone they are there. And they could live there for a whole year and never have the same meal twice. It's brilliant.🙏
That was an awesome explanation video! Thanks! ❤😊❤
If you look closely at the girls in the hallway you can see they’re NOT twins and could have easily been two years apart in age, making it entirety possible that they are indeed Grady’s children.
They were twins in real life. I think everyone might be misinterpreting what he said. Maybe he didnt mean they were "8 *and* 10". He was guessing their age as twins being *around* 8 and 10? He wasnt sure.
@gravityslave6277 except he very clearly says, "I think about 8 and 10." Which is their ages in the book as they are not twins. You can also tell when they stand next to each other they are different heights
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Then they wouldnt be twins would they? Looked it up. They were just sisters of 8 and 10 in the book. Kubrick cast twins and made them twins. So what ever
@gravityslave6277 that response makes absolutely no sense based on what either of us said
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I'll help you with the tough part sport. The book says that they were 8 and 10 separately. They were just referred to as "sisters". Remember I said I just looked it up. (That part you're correct).
But Stanley Kubrick meant for them to be *IDENTICAL TWINS* for the movie to add a creepy factor. That means they should be the *SAME* age. That's how twins work.
(FYI...the girls were actual twins in real life. Both 12 years old.)
Yet he (Kubrick) allowed/forgot that book line to still be put in the movie script for character Stuart Ullman even though it contradicted his movie adaptation for having *twins* in the role. Twins can't be different ages. So that line doesn't make sense.
Get it? Take aspirin for any headaches.
The Stanley Hotel is in Estes Park, Colorado, not Boulder. It has super creepy stories. Some celebrities have stories to tell.
Great insight multiple watched video! Love it!
just realized there are ten knives over Danny's head in the kitchen scene. The ten of swords in a tarot deck signifies that things can't get any worse, and the outcome will be bad.
10 of swords is the outcome.
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I watched this yesterday after originally seeing it in a theater in 1980. I like how Danny leaves his kitchen hiding place to draw Jack outside. Danny then again reveals himself to Jack and runs into the maze, with Jack following. Danny takes control and leads Jack to his death outside the hotel, which is perhaps significant.
Significant, indeed. He may have only been trying to evade, but...
I imagine that, regardless of intent, patricide would certainly compound the haunting effects of any prior events.
I bet you didn't notice the entrance to the maze had moved! I never did.
When Wendy leaves Danny at the table watching Roadrunner to go talk to Jack, the song on the TV says, "his idea of fun" at the time she walks away. Then she picks up the bat, slowly, like she doesn't want Danny to notice. But I think Danny has had the idea to overcome Jack at that moment and is telling his mother to take the bat.
The shining, the thing and silence of the lambs are my top three! It’s interesting that we can watch this movie over and over and have such different take away from it. To me the movie is actually three movies tied into one.
Know who else did the as above so below pose? George Washington
It's like the roadrunner leading the coyote to his demise. Beep beep,blip
My mind was blown watching you breakdown how the hotel layout doesn't make sense. I have seen this movie several times and never really noticed it.
That played in my discomfort in those scenes as I knew it without knowing it.
This saying, “As above, so below; as below, so above" comes from The Kybalion. It does not always means the forces of darkness. This Principle suggests that there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the multiple planes of Being and Life.
I honestly like how different the book and movie are from each other. It’s two completely different stories in my opinion, they are both great.
Absolutely agree with you.. I'm not a Kubrick fan, still don't understand Eyes Wide Shut, but The Shining is brilliant...
@@Swnsasyi feel ya. im not a Tarantino fan. but pulp fiction was great
@@carbine090909 Have you seen From Dusk to Dawn? That's the first movie I had ever heard of QT and still on my list of movies I can watch over and over of 5.
My son, now 29, was 6mths old and I loved George Clooney so thought, HELL YEA, SEXY MAN, he's a bad guy robber and action.... I was shocked, loved, loved the absolute nobody saw it coming. That's when I started watching his movies.. I love majority of his movies, BUT, I also see him as a Rob Zombie director, who btw I learned who he was from his song in the movie Matrix.. I'm a black woman, yes but I love hard rock, some metal, alternative, grunge than my hip hop so yea, friends call me a Rocker.. What do you think of Rob movies?
Anyway, what I mean by QT & Rob is that they are predictable in a specific genre
Finally... I've literally never seen anyone say this about anything lol
The mini tv show its great too!! The woman of the rooms 2 3 7 in that show scare me so much when I was a child...
I'm in the opinion that pretty much everyone in the film has the Shining. The hotel attracts them like a magnet.
Wendy has it, but it only works when she is afraid. Note the line where Jack says she's a horror movie buff.
So when she's freaking out she Shines the Overlook into a haunted house full of skeletons and spider webs.
In doctor sleep, Danny explains that most people have shinning, but to a very weak degree and without knowing it's the shinning.
He uses as examples husbands who come home with flowers when their wives coincidentally are sad, or when sometimes someone does well on a test even without having studied.
So I think that's a very valid theory.
In the book it's explained that Wendy has it a bit because she's a mother and I guess most mother's shine a bit and the novel also heavily implies Jack shines too but he's so broken as a person and has shoved it away so much that he isn't aware of it nor can he actively use it. I really do highly recommend reading the book cuz it actually answered a lot of questions I've always had about the movie. You even find out who the people are in the scene with the dogman.
Not quite.
According to King, all mother's shine a lil.
Mother's intuition.
@@lio1788 But remember people with really strong Shine.
Like telekinesis end up going crazy.
Jack didn't have it. That's why he was easy for the hotel to control.
9:21 I have a theory that the Overlook Hotel is the same species of entity as the Church from The Borderlands. Both buildings seem to feed on people (the church much more literally), and the impossible rooms and strange layout could be the hotel constantly switching appearance and being unable to completely settle on a set form.
Fantastic job, showing how complicated and meaningful this movie was.
My favorite scene is when Wendy visits Jack in the big, empty room where he is supposed to be writing his book. This is the first time Wendy and the audience get a glimpse of Jack becoming insane. Shelley Duvall and Jack Nicholson were amazing together.
I like that scene and noticed the chair behind Jack kept disappearing.
I noticed today that in that scene, the first view from faraway has Jack sitting in front of the staircase, which looks pretty dark on my TV, and above it there is a crown shaped light hanging and together they kind of look like the monolith with the sun over it in 2001.
@@watermelonlalala wow pretty cool. I'm going to have to look at that scene again.
The filming process made her physically ill, kubrick put her under so much strain as he wanted the very best out of her ....
@@jimmyj8161 I also read that Kubrick was known for many re-takes which meant really long days for the actors/actresses. But besides the physical strain put on the crew, it seems like Nicholson and Duvall liked and respected Kubrick.
One of those movies you can watch 100 times and find something new every watch...love it..
Feel for Shelly
Great video. Love hearing different takes on this movie!! The thing about Jack's posture in the final photo being like Baphomet was something I've not heard anyone mention before; good eye!
You know how the window in the office makes it a spatial paradox? You said both Jack and his son had the shining, and the boy says it lives in his stomach, i was wondering if that office was suppose to represent the stomach/inside/subconscious, its painted a very fleshy pink color, the manager gives Danny a pink tennis ball, and maybe the impossible window is like the esophagus/mouth, and its also their communication point with the radio.
I met one of the Women in that picture,she was a resident at these apartments I worked maintenance at.
She had the photo hung up in her living room,she seemed very proud to be part of this.
Nope. Too soon. Maybe just me? But if I walked into a room to *that* photo and someone starts like, 'look there I am...', I'm not hanging around for the story
Dang! She and you were very Lucky indeed! I’d love to have a picture like hers!
There is a great scene when Jack and the family are being taken on a tour of the hotel.There’s a man cleaning a cabinet or something and he is dressed exactly like Jack when he tries to murder everyone.The interesting thing is when Jack walks past the man he looks over at him and then starts limping.Check it out,.I Love iT!..X
Thanks for your work. This was fun.
Watched it when I was around ten years of age on an old Thorn, black and white TV, when it was shown on one of the four terrestrial channels we had at the time in the U.K.
My favourite film of all-time. I must watch it at least three times a year, but always love to watch it in the winter.
Not sure why but the part of this movie that haunts me the most from when i was a kid is danny saying "red rum" and shelly seeing it written on the mirror. I literally hear it in my head every once in a while. This is a great movie.
I can hear it now. 😱
It wasn't written on the mirror. It was written on the wall. She saw the reflection in the mirror which showed it backwards. Revealing redrum is murder spelled backwards.
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The hotel has two sides? Maybe one side is guiding Wendy and Danny towards how to escape knowing the other side is planning Jacks attack. The bats in the perfect place, Danny’s trike trips are actually him unknowingly practicing maze patterns, Danny wakes Wendy with a knife and message he was given of redrum to signal to her of the incoming threat. I think the hotel plans to take Jack while the innocents who were just collateral of evil acts in the past are working to save Wendy and Danny.
I like that
That's brilliant, I love that angle.
that's a interesting take
It also summons Dick, so that Wendy and Danny have a way to escape
I loved Shelly Duvall in this movie. She was the best. And I loved and coveted her wardrobe. Still do!
When Jack first sets up writing shop in the symmetrical room the typewriter is set off to one half of the room. Later on when Wendy finds out what he has been typing the typewriter is set so that it matches the symmetry of the room.
I love when people do a deep dive into Kubrick’s movie’s. There’s a lot more going on when you really analyze each scene. Kubrick was a master
He was also extremely difficult to work under and his attention to detail to his vision was borderline insanity.
@@UberStarFkr - although plenty of people loved working with him; for many it was a career highlight. Malcolm McDowell only wishes he could have been in another Kubrick film. Kubrick got on with Peter Sellers so well he cast him five times in two films. Leon Vitali quit acting after Barry Lyndon to be Kubrick's full-time assistant. Jack Nicholson never had a bad word to say. Lee Ermey said he had no problems working with Kubrick because unlike SOME actors he knew all his lines.
I can’t think of another movie that has this complete unsettling eeriness.
Yes, whatever ghosts lurking in your soul will make themselves known.
@21:37 they enter the freezer on one side of it and come out the other side. It probably had two doors, one in the front and one in the back, hence the different corridors. Especially when we notice that both doors don't open on the same side: the front door opens from the right and the back door from the left.
I like how Kubrick managed to incorporate so many elements into his movies. He really stands out as possibly the greatest director of all time. There is a layer in The Shining that often goes overlooked (no pun intended) and that is that Jack is not only abusive towards his son, but also his wife. You can actually watch the whole movie as a metaphor for the tyrannical husband. Every frame a painting, this is a masterpiece.
the scene in which Jack explores Room 237 and finds a nude woman is not a literal event, but Danny’s repressed version of the molestation as he communicates it telepathically to Dick Hallorann. (Remember that during that scene, there are intermittent shots of a trembling Danny and a horrified Hallorann.) The Room 237 scene is the fire truck scene, viewed through Hallorann’s mind as he “shines” it from Danny, who has repressed the literal events. In this repressed version, Danny has been replaced with Jack, and Jack has been replaced by the “crazy lady.”
For evidence, consider the many parallels between the Room 237 scene and the fire truck retrieval scene. Both scenes take place in rooms with the same layout. Both scenes involve an entrant progressing through the layout and seeing someone unexpected-Danny sees Jack awake, Jack sees a woman in the bathtub. Next, this unexpected person makes the same exact motion: Jack’s “come here” gesture to Danny is exactly the same as the bathtub woman’s moving away the curtain. Then, the entrant approaches the unexpected person and the two interact: Danny sits on Jack’s lap, Jack embraces the nude woman.
The fire truck scene cuts here, but we can infer from the Room 237 scene what happens next. In that scene, Jack, after embracing the young woman, sees the woman rotting in the mirror, and he recoils in horror. Symbolically, this is what happens to Danny: he readily approaches his father and then, upon being assaulted, realizes the repulsive side to the initially appealing figure.
There’s a mirror at the foot of Jack’s bed that Kubrick emphasizes with fancy camerawork in multiple scenes. Danny would have seen his own molestation in this mirror, which is why in the Room 237 scene Jack first sees the ugliness of the woman in a mirror. There’s also an editing choice toward the end of the Room 237 scene that shows the old woman rising from the bathtub, which is odd given that our first sight of the woman was as a young woman, not old. This represents Danny’s realization that the figure he approached (his father) was evil all along-that his initially favorable impression of his father was incorrect.
The old woman rising from the bathtub therefore represents Jack waking up from his nap as an ugly, evil person. The shot only comes late in the scene because Danny only realizes too late that he was fooled by his father’s reassuring demeanor.
The brief scene in which an unseen presence rolls a ball toward Danny while he plays with cars is the initiation of Danny’s telepathic communication to Hallorann. Danny is noticeably missing his fire truck in this scene, an indication that his entering Room 237 represents his entering his apartment to retrieve the toy. The scene cuts as Danny enters Room 237 because at this point Danny begins to repress the events; when we next see Room 237, Danny, in his “shining” rendition of events, has replaced himself with his father, and has altered and repressed the sequence as previously described.
So Jack indeed inflicted the bruises on Danny’s neck during the off-screen molestation. Jack denies this to Lloyd, but he does so right before exclaiming that the last time he hurt his son was “three goddamn years ago,” demonstrating that at this time he is personifying his “past” 1920s-30s incarnation, and his recounting doesn’t apply.
Danny attempts to deal with the traumatic event in various ways, firstly by creating the childlike story that his aggressor was a “crazy lady in one of the rooms” and secondly by succumbing completely to Tony. As the psychologist had deduced earlier, Tony had helped Danny to cope with prior violence from his father. Now, as the harm from his father escalates, so does Danny’s reliance on Tony.
The final question to be answered about the Room 237 scene is: why, if it’s Danny’s psychological invention, does it feature such adult content? The answer is that Hallorann also influences what we see, since he receives the vision. He sees Danny’s “crazy lady” fabrication through his own personal lens. Note the two conspicuous pictures of naked women on Hallorann’s bedroom walls immediately before he “shines” the scene from Danny. It makes sense that the molestation as visualized by Hallorann would feature nudity, rather than fatherly love, as the initial “attractor.”
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The 237 scene can be watched, therefore, as a blend between 1) the actual event of Jack molesting Danny, 2) Danny’s childish coping story, and 3) Hallorann’s adult perspective. Truly an original, complex piece of filmmaking that demands even more analysis than I have room for here.
@@alexanderdumas-Alexandrey Dum-as…………..Dumbass……….🤣
Sorry, I saw your screen name and had to throw that line in from another King film. Lol
@@alexanderdumas-you need to publish this lmao
You've only scratched the surface of that next layer
@@lloydmullins6335 And that is why I love Kubrick so much. The world needs more like him, especially today.
I don’t know about anyone else but I’ve been using these videos as a book club for movies I haven’t seen and some I want to revisit. Thanks Paul!
Ah thanks so much, glad you’re enjoying us going back to older films
Me too thanks Paul!
Me too!!!!
Whhhhhhaaaaaa!?!? You've never seen the shining? You may be in for a treat.
I watch the breakdowns for movies I haven't seen and decide if it sounds like it's worth watching. Or revisit old favorites
I always marvel at those who notice small on-set details like missing chairs, disappearing office windows etc. I think it requires a special kind of mind.
This movie has always been on my list of great horror movies along with Alien and the thing, but watching this video has indulged me even more to the shining,as many times as i have watched the shining all these Easter eggs have made me want to watch it again ,an absolute classic.
Thanks for covering that window in Ullman's office, I remember watching the movie in my teens and feeling so unsettled by that scene, but I couldn't pinpoint WHY it left me that way. Everything you went into about the impossible layout and the unconventional use of light in the film, makes perfect sense.
The ciggarette in the ashtray appears and disappears throughout that scene as well .
Thanks. I love videos about this brilliant film.
Much appreciated, thank you for the comment
i always loved that the shining was playing at the drive in movie scene in twister
just a note on the steadicam you mentioned. Brown (who invented the steadicam) had sent kubrick a sizzle reel of him using the rig as well as film he'd shot with it asking for feedback. kubrick said that he has a film in mind where he would love to use it but asked if it could go lower and almost hover over the ground. brown then adjusted the steadicam as per his request and thats how we got the shots of danny on his bike riding around the hotel.
One piece of criticism King had for the movie that I totally agree with: the way they did the father was wrong, in that it makes the character crazy for most or even the whole time he's at the hotel, rather than having it be a slow decline to insanity. Jack Torrence is supposed to be a regular guy at the beginning-a recovering alcoholic, with a dark past, but not actually insane. He goes insane through the slow torture of the hotel, which is something else the movie kinda does poorly. There aren't really a whole lot of incidents that precipitate his madness in the movie; they basically move in and he's staring like a zombie out the window with no context behind it...we're just supposed to accept, and say "oh, ok...I guess Jack is full-on crazy now."
I agree too. Its also not obvious the hotel is more than just haunted in the film or that the hotel wanted Danny. In the book its explicitly explained. I also hate the choice to kill Hallorann or leave out the hedge animals.
King can hold his breathe till he's blue in the face for
" hating" Kubricks version, but in all honesty Stanley Kubrick's The Shining made Stephen King a house hold name.
In the book Jack wasn’t the one who went crazy it was like the Overlook was wearing Jack as a mask and slowly controlling his body and using him to get to Danny and become stronger. The real Jack was long dead before he did any harm. The book is very sad tbh
@@mo3bo Especially considering at the end Jack was able to break through and say goodbye.
Yes. I totally agree with that. They didn’t give jack a slow character development. He just went crazy right off. I kinda didn’t like the movie just cuz of that tbh.
Simply the best in my time. And thank you ❤
I love your analysis with the strange construction of the hotel and the use of mirroring because the sense of walls closing in, dead ends (fake rooms) and disorienting routes mirrors the maze itself
I feel sorry for Shelley and Scatman for the number of takes both were either on the verge a mental breakdown or were so worn-out that they collapsed after multiple reshoots yes I consider this one of Shelley's best roles but she went through hell for the right to call herself the safest horror movie mom ever
You have to wonder why they didn't just refuse. What was Kubrick going to do, fire them?
I'm not sure I feel sorry for them....from what I've read (and in some "making of" video clips you can see it) shelley was being annoying and childish....and scatman was Known for being TOTALLY unprepared for whatever shooting he was to do on any given day on any given movie....not knowing his lines etc
....so maybe it was Kubricks passive aggressive way of getting back at them??
or of actually Forcing a decent performance out of them??
in a behind the scenes interview scatman said it was tears of joy
@@manuelkong10 have you watched Vivian Kubricks Documentary on the Making of?
Kubrick was a Dick to her. It's apparent
It was intended.
I think the shape of the hotel shot jumping to the ladder shot is supposed to imply the shape of a teepee. The hotel is evil because it’s on a Native American burial ground, that’s canon from the book. Also, it’s implied in the book that because the hotel is alive, the hotel can “move” or “shapeshifter,” hence the appearance/disappearance of different hallways, rooms, doors throughout the movie.
Yeah, the whole Native American burial ground is the thing that ruined King's story for me. Most tribes would leave the body to naturally decompose in a tree or on a funeral platform, or by leaving an opening in the burial chamber so the spirit could escape, not below ground like the book implies for a hotel to built upon.
The indian burial ground thing is just in the movie. Its not in the book
I'm native so Indian burial grounds just don't scare me at all..if anything I'm afraid of white man burial ground...just kidding but trust me indians aren't scary.
@@SmartCookie2022I like that you wrote that comment acting like you’ve read the book when you clearly havent, if you had youd know the Indian burial ground plot point was put in by Kubrick just for the movie and had nothing to do with Stephen Kings book….
Yeah different shots with furniture disappearing then reappearing,lights to
We def need a prequel wit the gradies.