The Shining: Ending Explained
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- What happened at the end of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining? Until the last minute, the plot seems to be wrapping up in a conventional way. But... Support us on Patreon (Thank you!): www.patreon.co...
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How is alcoholism supposed to be a factor when the alcohol is NOT REAL?
I think you're reading too much into a Stephen king story about madness and a haunted hotel. Jeez!
ScreenPrism ii
The cycle wasn't broken completely because Jack still was able to kill at least one person on Hotel grounds.
Is there a way to find out who the people are with Jack in that photo at the end? If possible the names would be awesome. I have heard theories on who they are but I need something to confirm it. Ty.
Another explanation I like for the Shining is that Jack says, "I'd give my goddamn soul for a drink and only then does Lloyd appear and give him a drink. After this he also can fade into the different timelines of the hotel. I believe that he sold his soul to the hotel and that the hotel is the vessel of some demon and Jack now has to do it's bidding.
good analysis
That actually makes a lot of sense.
I think that's a good interpretation, also as explained, the hotel shines. Danny and Jack both have the ability to shine as well. Jack interpets, and is influenced by what he sees quite differently than Danny. Jack thinks he is hallucinating, and he needs a drink. Inadvertently giving his soul for a drink. Things don't improve for Jack after that. Eventually even Wendy sees the shine on the hotel when she sees the bear costume guy and the hotel worker. Remember the hotel can show the past, the future, and can even communicate ideas to a person that also shines. Its up to the viewer, to decide what the hotel has shown to them. I think this is why this movie is so good. It needs the viewer to be involved, and also shine a little!
Well said, Dracula...
That's what I was thinking all the time
"I said I'm not going to hurt you. I'm just going to bash your brains in."
That is one of the most Jack Nicholson thing to say.
That is one of my favorite lines in the film.
Another is, "I'm the kind of man that likes to know who's buying his drinks..."
The other is JN's insistence that Wendy "check out the Snow Cat."
The butler in the bar had a couple of good lines as well.
Nicholson*
Hell yeah
Raident what are, some kinda of Suicide squad
Raident My FAVOURITE LINE in The movie
Wendy
Darling
Light of my life....
The photograph is the part of the movie that freaked me out the most.
not me. it was always the lady in the bathtub
for me it’s gotta be the guy in the dog costume.
Jack Miller that one was hilarious lol
Jack Miller those are called furries
Scariest part for me was the twins subliminal images and when they showed the twins chopped up
Scariest part in that movie is finding out Red Rum means Murder backwards
Bro, when I first watched this I was like WTF.
Bro, I was scared just finding that out in the book lol
im so mad that was spoiled for me before i watched the movie
Trevor g your own fault for watching a movie explanation video before watching the movie 🤷🏽
@@shawndurham297 lmao the video didn't spoil it its just an iconic part of the movie so I knew about it before watching
It's insane to think this story just randomly came to someone's mind. Kinda scary too.
Not really. Stephen King was inspired by a hotel in the mountains in Colorado.
Not really, I get really morbid story Ideas too. might say something about me though...
@@BuddysPersonalAccount make a movie!
The thing is these things are real. Too many real stories with supernatraul events.
@@sarahgm8996 no he wasnt in the book the very first thing says many of the most beautiful hotels in the world are in colorado the overlook is inspired by none of them
The fact this movie leaves a lot open to analysis and interpretation even 40 years later is a mark of a good film maker.
very ''vague'' movies tend to be classics because they're so vague people go mad over the theories, that sells, but it definitely is cool
@@OmfgHiii Seems like the producer of THIS video went mad inserting a lot of politically "correct" garbage I'm sure nobody was thinking of at the time this FILM was produced in 1979/80.
Universities could offer a PHD program in “The Shinning” Studies considering all of the various interpretations and analysis threads that can be formulated. The film leaves an indelible impression on the viewer.
@@Miniver765 No, Kubrick was fully intending to slip as many sumbliminal images as he could. Alot dealing with "politocal garbage"
@@psychosis345 M'kay. Guess it comes down to perspective.
theres no such thing as The Shining's ending explained.
It's a movie everyone knows it's not real . Dose every movie you watch have to be real .
@@robertrodriguez787 You missed what they were getting at.
r/woooosh
Dr sleep and the stand
I was thining I must be dumb cuz I still don’t get it lol
The best thing about the movie is the boy cycling. That's so damn satisfying.
And the villians in Doctor Sleep also "cycle"
Yeah and the sound between the carpet and floor, very satisfaying
I know ryt 😂
@@firhanhidayat2803 yesss it’s just so many small details that give to mood of the film and that was one of the biggest things in my opinion
Reminded me if an old cartoon named Bobby’s World!
*Overlook hotel yelp reviews*
⭐️
There was a hole in my bathroom door - a concerned Karen
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Great service from an employee that goes by the name Grady- a happy guest
⭐️⭐️
I was locked in a pantry - Jack Torrance
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There was a frozen body outside- one very concerned guest
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I was traumatized but I got out of an abusive relationship - Wendy Torrance
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wonderful alcohol and lovely but kinda creepy bar tender - satisfied alcoholi- I mean guest
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
There were two British girls that came to greet me when I was walking to my room? -a very confused guest
😂😂😂😂
now THIS is hilarious 😂😅 and realistic 😱
You sir are golden! 👍🏼🙌🏼 😁😂😂
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
a naked woman joined me in the bathtub....
⭐ ⭐⭐ I saw two guests doing something in their bedroom (I don't what) one was wearing a doglike costume. Was there a masquerade party I wasn't told about? ---- Confused Guest
I think the picture is of the souls that the Overlook has taken.
Yup. That's exactly what happens. As the title of the scene is called in the dvd cover: "The Hotel Claims Jack".
Easy-peasy.
A little healthy, normal examination is usually in order before going full-blown tinfoilhat conspiarcy theorist..
This movie isn't exactly rocket science, even though there are plenty of lunatics believing otherwise.
How about this train of thought: "Hey, I'm gonna make a horror movie to mess with people's heads!"
Why isn’t dick in the picture then?
naw
Ltuck 23 well the two little girls aren't in the picture either. So maybe it's not just about dying in the hotel 🤷🏻♀️
but why is it from 1921 then
You know this movie is awesome if you're still talking about it 2017
you're*
Also, ScreenPrism's analysis is so much more coherent and watchable than that Room 237 documentary, which covers only the conspiratorial perspectives. Well done!
that as far as i know is a joke documentary, made to trick people into thinking it was real
Feik Neyme Grammar ploice?
Absolutely!!! One of my favorite classic thrillers!!!
This disagreement between King and Kubrick in terms of the hotel burning v. freezing is interesting to me, as it seems to reflect the differences in interpretation of hell by Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Dante’s hell burns, which is the more modern take; but Milton’s hell freezes.
Luke Wilson Dante's end layer of Hell is a frozen plane, consisting of frozen tears (sorrow).
Yeah, I'm aware of that. I guess that could mean that Kubrick wanted to highlight the final ring of hell, too, but because it's Kubrick it could very well be both or neither or drawing from a completely different influence.
Hah! I had paused this video for a moment and written my reply to Luke Wilson's comment . . . then resumed watching the video and BANG ZOOM, there it is, a mention of Theseus and the Minotaur! One comment, though: that Gustave Dore illustration from Dante's Inferno is of Minos, the Judge of the Damned, and not of the Minotaur.
Someone always has to bring up Dante.
Zzzzzzz
Milton was a stinking Protestant. Milton loses.
"You are the caretaker here. You've always been the caretaker, sir...."
haha!
Shut up moomin
that was a creepy scene
"The hotel's destructive cycle may be broken"
*laughs in Doctor Sleep*
@aiyaash-billa Damn
aiyaash-billa In the book? Pretty sure that isn’t what happens.
@@lunabangtan7 you've read iy? What happens
lilaaa x Since in the book Danny does burn down the hotel when he was younger he doesn’t need to all that sacrifice stuff as an adult. He simply meets up with Rose at the spot where the hotel once stood and with help of his fathers spirit pushes her off the cliff where she dies slowly. His father soul finally rests and Dan has a happy life afterwards.
@@lunabangtan7 He doesn't burn it down. It blows up from a bad boiler
Can’t believe she didn’t point out that Danny says “red rum” over and over for the alcohol example
that's a pretty good analogy! Now it makes it more creepier...
Murder murder murder murder murder murder murder
"You have always been the caretaker" for me it refers to his reincarnated spirit in a cursed and haunted place where bad things happened and were repeating again and again . Jack in fact speaks about deja vu'.
That's exactly what she said.
Sandro da Rimini are you dumb she literally says this foo ! 😂😂😂
Not Jack's spirit. His spirit was in his body at the time of the 1970 murders by Charles Grady. It was the Native American soul/demon that possessed Grady and Jack.
@@kentclark6420 The "always" part could be misleading, it can mean one of two things, always meaning hes a reincarnation or in the timeline of things he was always meant to be the caretaker. God is to see everything that has and hasn't he is not bound by time, so progression of time is irrelevant because it has already happened, will always happen, and is happening, he is always the caretaker.
So he’s trapped in an endless cycle of hell
Kubrick was never one to spoon feed emotions to his audience. Everything is up for interpretation. Having said that, what bothers me about the reincarnation angle is if Jack has “Always been the caretaker” of The Overlook since 1921 at least, how come he didn’t know his way through the hedge maze?
I think Jack Torrence was just a man with protruding character flaws which left his soul vulnerable to the dark malevolent demonic forces lurking throughout the hotel. He had a drinking problem which manifested into violence against his own son which in turn manifests into guilt. Also he was a struggling writer who took on teaching jobs “To make ends meet.” In short, a failed husband and father. These vulnerabilities opened the door to the dark forces who manipulated him.
Jack is just a consolation prize. Danny is the real object of desire. The hotel wants Danny because he has “A great talent.” Holloran has the shinning too but he’s too old and wise to be manipulated. With Danny however we have a child traumatized by the things Tony shows him and this makes him vulnerable. Fortunately Holloran assures Danny that the shinning is a gift, not a curse, then warns him by establishing boundaries (room 237). Ironically, the hotel ends up taking Holloran in the end.
The only character not affected by the hotel at first is Wendy. Why? Because she is level headed with no glaring character flaws. We really don’t know much about her so she has no vulnerabilities. It’s only after her husband becomes homicidal and Tony possesses Danny that she breaks down. And that’s when the dark forces make their move: “Great party isn’t it,” dog costume, lounging skeletons, and blood-filled elevators.
As for the 1921 photo, I think of it as a “Wall of Fame” in the halls of Hell. Look at our proud collection of souls we collected over the years. Look at all the fun we’re having. Come join us. Wouldn’t you rather party in Hell than serve in Heaven?
You are an educated person.
I love everything about this.
That's a really clever interpretation!
period
Come to the Dark Side where all the fun stuff happens
That's the genius of Kubrick that we're still debating it after 40 years
A movie being confusing is what makes a bad movie.
@@wtfyoutube4873 it is hard to use your brain, isn't it?
I can't believe hitler just roasted him lmao.
Adolf Hitler mind the gap
No it's because it is stupid and there is no answer to stupidity
There's one thing that's always bugged me about the idea of Jack Torrence already having evil tendencies, or lack of connection to his family before coming to the Overlook, and that's the scene when he has that terrible nightmare at his desk. He wakes up, clearly terrified of the visions of himself hurting his wife and son. He's even weeping, he's so distraught at the idea of harming his family. That alone seems to starkly contrast with his behavior in the rest of the film.
Possessed maybe? Or went absolutely crazy?
I think that works because not every abuser is happy about what they do. I suspect a lot of them actually hate themselves for it. An inability to control your emotions is a profound weakness. It is a shameful thing for a man.
Jack is profoundly upset because he knows it could happen. Not every abuser is a psychopath or a sociopath… they just lack the ability to curb their worst instincts under profound or prolonged periods or stress. Once they calm down from their anger ‘high’ they must face what they have done. It’s not pretty.
They are to be pitied in some ways…just not as much as the people they impose themselves upon.
Right? During that scene I was half expecting him to turn and become vile to Wendy as he was weeping. I feel like if Kubric wrote Jack to be a better man before Outlook, the initial reactions would be better
It could be that he has bipolar disorder. (Also, I love how the actual comment was 4y ago but the replies vary. Kinda ironic with the movie lol.)
He could also be putting on an act to give himself an alibi. Someone just got done choking Danny, and I think it was Jack. Wendy says Danny blames a woman in room 237 but Jack says he didn't see anyone in the room after checking it. You would think after his encounter with the hag, Jack would confirm Danny's story to at least some extent but he doesn't at all. He instead comes up with this insane theory that Danny did it to himself. I think the scene with Jack in Room 237 was another hallucination of his and he doesn't want to reveal that to Wendy. Danny probably knew what was in room 237 (it's like pictures in a book Danny, it isn't real) and lied to Wendy to protect his father. Kids with an abusive parent will often lie to protect themselves out of fear of reprisals (especially when they are secluded like this). Jack's little "dream" is also geared towards garnering sympathy with Wendy (how could he ever hurt his own family boo hoo hoo). Jack needs sympathy points now knowing Wendy will eventually want to know what happened to Danny.
Sad enough that poor Wendy was married to Jack.
Mmmmhm
Seems like Jack hated her and just tolerated her. Makes me feel like he married her bec she got pregnant. There's a part in the movie where he tells her he didnt see lady in room 347. Wendy then says they should leave for Dannys sake and he says"you've f*$& up my life already and you're not gonna do it again"
@@deed2157 That shit struck me the most. I really felt horrible for her. But I’m glad she was able to escape in the end with Danny
As I recall from the book, the more Jack drank, the more control the ghosts within the hotel had over him.
You’ve got 237 likes on your comment😮
Stanley Kubrick is a genius.
Rex Longfellow I agree
Of course but Christopher Nolan is one of the Genius now
Rex Longfellow Stanley Kubrick was a genius, he is dead,most likely murdered.
*was
Stanley Kubrick died of a heartache in 1999. He was 70 years old and he was famously overweight. Of course conspiracy enthusiast fans love to make a dramatic murder mystery out of his death because the great genius couldn't have died of such boring natural causes like a human being does, right.
Maybe Jack is stuck in some kind of purgatory and has been stuck in that cycle since the 1920's. Maybe "Jack" really is the Grady guy. And each time he goes through the "cycle" as a different person and will be stuck in this cycle until he finally "learns his lesson". So in other words, the entire film is Jack's/Grady's purgatory.
thats what i thought
@@webtoonanime4940 No Popery!
Or maybe everything we see is the novel jack is writing
Yesss i was looking for someone who said this
It vaguely reminded me of the dark comedy, Groundhog Day. He won’t escape the cycle until he can resist falling into the temptations of the ghosts of the hotel.
Jack and his family stayed in quarantine before it was cool.
The irony is that they even had all the resources
Jack's last thought was something along the lines of:
"They got out. Oh, thank god, they got out."
The most moving part of the book, and a perfect example of why the movie (though frikkin awesome) misses the point. The movie version of JT wouldn't have had those been his last thoughts.
I don't think the movie is missing the point but rather consciously makes a different one. Both the movie and the book work in their own way. I don't know if a straight adaption would have worked as well as Kubricks, because (if I recall correctly, it's been a few years since I last read the book) Kings version relies a lot more on the inner life of the characters, which is harder to pull off visually.
Hi ! I don’t believe the movie is missing the point. I believe Kubrick was inspired by the movie to make his own point, like he’s done in clockwork orange. Kubrick gets inspired by books however makes his own points and lessons. Hope that explained a bit
I don’t think Kubrick missed the point at all. I think he changed the point and made this story his own.
@@thatgirlreacts5465 @Armita Natura @Tim
You're all right, and i was wrong.
Not sarcasm, just to be clear.
Kubrick is obviously quite smart, so the point of it wasn't lost on him. I'm just kind of a sap, and i like a message that's a little more hopeful. Kubricks work is great, i even really like A Clockwork Orange, but it's doesn't really leave me with a good feeling. As someone with depression, i have a tendency to feel everything is hopeless and painful. Movie, games, books etc. that tell me that life is beautiful and the struggles we all go through are worth it, are what i the world needs. Or maybe just me. But definitely me.
When you learn about King’s past, particularly battles with addiction, it’s not hard to see why me made jack sympathetic and particularly didn’t like how Kubrick made him more evil. A part of king wants to remove the agency of his past and the harm he likely inflicted on his own son because for him it felt like possession, but Kubrick presents this as an outsider seeing a man harm his family and that’s why King sees it as “cold”.
The same thing can be said about “IT” in the way that you could make that whole movie about bad childhoods and sexual abuse of you reveal at the end that there was no supernatural force and the children imagined it as such because you can’t battle a society that looks the other way when a bully is beating the shit out of you, but blame it all on a monster and maybe you can kill the monster.
Good points. This sort of interpretive perspective can also be applied to some of the works of director David Lynch.
Wtf I literally just watched this movie again like 10minutes ago
Same shit I watched it like 3 hours ago hahaha
You're in a simulation
Kelpy G wake up
Kelpy G I saw it on wednesday
Kelpy G same
At the end he's clearly became part of the hotel's ghosts.
Just saw this for the first time on Netflix. Been so aware of the "Here's Johnny!" phrase yet never seen the movie up to know. I was so confused at the end, glad I found this video.
veronica carlson He just said he did?
Wiz Khalifa used "Here's Johnny" line in "Goodbye".
"How do you like it, Marge? All it needs is a title. I was thinking along the lines of 'no tv and no beer make Homer something something.'"
"Go crazy?"
"Don't mind if I do!"
Omg, my professor was telling me today that she saw this movie in theaters and her entire family was out of town, so she was alone in her large old house in the middle of nowhere, Texas completely alone. And she wasn’t able to sleep for TWO DAYS bc of how bad it fucked her up. 😂👌🏼
My mother was also scared when she saw the movie . She was alone and it started snowing like in the shinning so that scared her more .
I'm 37 yrs old and I saw this movie for the 1st time yesterday. I slept with my lights on in my bedroom last night. I don't scare easily.
@@Rosegold90 I would burn the whole house down.
It isn’t scary at all though..?
Dunno if scary is the right word more like creepy as hell
Hands down this is one of the best films ever made.I first watched it when I was around 13 and even now at the age of 37 when I watch this film I am still ingrosed in it.
mr offkey marc I first saw this film at the theater at age 4. Guess my parents couldn't bother with a babysitter. Of course, I could not follow the story, but certain images are scarred into my brain tissue and I have had an abject terror of this film my entire life. I had nightmares for years. I hate huge hotels. I hate patterned carpets. And have genuinely hated all of Kubrick's films because of it. They all give me nightmares because well Kubrick's work is so distinct. I've tried throughout the years to face my deeply bedded irrational fear of this movie by approaching it logically. It kinda works. I'm determined to watch it again, but really fear what this will to do my psychology. In short, I saw this film too young and it fucked me up.
Me too! I've watched it so many times I can't even count!
@Mooky Blaylock do you not like The Shining or something, if so why are you here? It's one of the greatest films of all time imo, and definitely one of the greatest horror films.
The greatest horror film of all time...imo
his opinion is on point.
ok so tell me what some good ones are?
exactly he cant
the best horror movie which is not even horror. Stephen King is a king of writing novellas
This film isnt scary so i wouldn't call it a horror film
The line that Jack said to Lloyd the hotel bartender "Here's to 5 months of misery and all the irreparable harm that's caused me." was his way of projecting and scapegoating his family. His addiction caused them misery and irreparable harm.
When the cook got there, it showed him walking away from the snowcat. I thought, "I'm going to be so disappointed if this is just used as an excuse to give them a vehicle to escape in." Boom, the cook instantly dies and the only thing he was good for was delivering the snowcat. I was most disappointed indeed.
This is the best analysis of The Shining I’ve ever seen.
I agree, it stuck to the facts and didn't dish out the conspiracy theories. I actually agree with everything said for once..
Then you havent seen the one where its shown that Jack going crazy etc is just the character in HIS NOVEL...the original Grady had daughters age 8 and 10 not twins and their names are different Delbert and Charles Grady...all the subtle differences from real life to novel are there for the sharp eyes...during his interview he was given the idea for his novel and we then see it played out
JoeyMunson ... spot on
What video game Dunkeys review of the shining
Not the best analysis but lacking.
Maybe the twins aren't Charles Grady's daughters, we are told earlier in the film that the daughters were different ages but the girls seem to be twins, maybe they are the original murderous caretakers daughters or some other earlier murder, the girls dresses could easily be from a more historical period than merely the previous caretaker,
They are meant to be clones
@veronica carlson I had never heard the term Irish twins so I googled it. Going down the rabbit 🐇 hole 🕳 discovering new terminology I realise that my sister and I were Catholic twins because we were a year apart
@veronica carlson Well I never knew a youtube comment can teach me something, thanks! Irish twins indeed. Though I guess it's non-PC today. 🤔
Once I learned more about the novel, I always saw the film as, not just a departure, but almost a deliberate reflection of the novel. So many small details in the film are reflected as the opposite of the novel. Even the color of the car being switched with the color of the snow-plow. Very interesting film. So much detail and symbolism put into it.
“Light of my life.
Wendy! I’m not gonna hurt cha.
I’m just BASH your brains in.”
(Some of the best words uttered on screen EVER)
"Im gonna bash 'em right the fuck in"
I just watched it on Netflix and noticed that some scenes were missing? Fuuuck
Edit: Netflix probably had a cut version...there’s definitely scenes missing....aaaaaargh
qadri rulzdood there’s a good British guy who has explained this film is about sexual abuse and Jack sexually abuses Danny.
james lyddall who? sounds interesting
james lyddall wait, whaat?
The version on Netflix is the British version, which is around 2 hours while the American cut is around 144 mins
I always got that impression that Jack was a reincarnated character, repeating a cycle of violence, over and over again....Mr. Grady said as much to him in the bathroom,
'I have always been here, (at the hotel) he said, 'you are the caretaker, you've always been the caretaker'
that was some pretty scary shit right there, a true horror-movie classic like no other....
the words 'all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy' that Jack's been typing all along, showing that Jack's been 'taken' by the hotel again, was truly frightening, you don't need gore to achieve that just the right setting/music/atmosphere, Wendy's horror etched in her face at looking at the same sentence over and over again was awesome in it's scope conveying it....just a fantastic piece of horror genre
THIS IS HOW MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO VOTE FOR TRUMP!
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** i hear
@meow bastard All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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@@ThaloniusPFunk
How do you like it honey?
For real lmao
Thalonius P. Funk glad to know how your stay at the overlook hotel went
I love how you analyze every part of film because I would never notice the details and I see how it relates to violence in that is exist whether though History or U.S. Your UA-cam Channel is Amazing.
anyone in quarantine loosing their mind yet?
Hi there!
The fact that I'm reading comments this far down and replying to some of them says yes...
DON'T MIND IF I DO!!!!!
All play and no work make milla07 a dull girl.
Nah I’m smoking some bud and binge watching movies
Jack: I'm not going to hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence! I said, have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight!!
Did anyone read Dr Sleep? It's a fairly new sequel to The Shining and it's excellent. It would make a great movie..
I've just finished it, and it's a very good book! However, it has a very different atmosphere when compared to The Shining. For me, it felt more like a action/thriller than the horror we find in The Shining! Nevertheless, it would be awesome to watch a movie based on it!
GerryBolger It's my first Stephen King novel I've read (yeah I read Doctor Sleep before The Shining), now I hardly remember what happened in that book despite of the characters: Abra, Danny (Dan) and Rose from the True Knot.
Definitely!!!
GerryBolger I have and it’s amazing!
I heard that there's a Doctor Sleep movie in development right now
The more I see their videos, the more I start to think that Screenprism is my favourite channel on UA-cam. Please continue to make these videos
Need more Kubrick's movie analysis. I propose Full Metal Jacket for next.
Yes Please
Croz Raven I only liked the first half of the movie
Pls, Dr. Strangelove
I propose Killer's Kiss, or The Killing, or To Kill or Kill Not.
I vote for 2001: A Space Odyssey, personally :)
I adore Jack Nicholson, what a legend. Love him
Anybody else agree that Kubrick is the king of cliffhangers at the end. Leaving us to interpret our personal meanings. I think the real true talent from a producer/writer giving us the choice to come to our own conclusions. Love that! I could watch movies over and over and reach my interpretation, but find another meaning!
Does Alcoholism have anything to do with the 1920s prohibition? Especially since the photograph was during the 1920s.
Prohibition didn't really impede the rich from being able to get their alcohol in any amount at any time.
I wondered that also...since at the beginning it was said there is none there...so it could be the last party before the prohibition
@@dreyadumas438 they said they store the alcohol away in their off seasons everytime not that they'll just stop having it
Wine and champagne were not outlawed during prohibition.
Mike Bush the overlook is literally hell, jack says he’d give his soul for another drink but after he fails he’s stuck in the 1920s with no liquor in the prohibition
There are countless analysis videos on The Shining on UA-cam, But you are the only one to hit the nail on he head. I'm sure this is exactly what Kubrick intended. You always have to figure it out yourself, like in 2001. This is why Kubrick is the greatest director of all time bar none.
"He's all aggression, stress and angst, and that's all he offers the family." I think it makes the story a disservice to reduce Jack to a one-dimensional villain. It's far scarier to imagine someone who's a good person deep down falling prey to the power of the hotel.
Mrs. Hopwinkle but he still gives that illusion. You can tell he was off and a little angry but was trying to be a good person. Such as not drinking after he hurt Danny but before he snapped I got the sense he never liked Danny and was forced to because that was his son. He was human so he tried but the ghosts in the hotel tipped him over.
@@2020history That's what I mean, though. I adore the movie, I truly do, but I think the movie fails in that regard. Jack never hated Danny. He loves Danny, and has a strong desire to be a good husband and father. That's what makes the story so terrifying, that despite Jack's love for his family, he's still corrupted by the hotel.
Mrs. Hopwinkle yea that’s true. Makes it even more scarier because he was corrupted by the house but unfortunately not all movies do the books justice 😢
Well, it's two fundamentally different stories, the one which blames all the problems on the outside forces ("it's not me hitting my son, it's the alcohol, poor me"), and the one which does not let the protagonist off the hook for his choices.
Interesting, I lean in the opposite direction: I find the idea of a person trying to be good but who has seriously deep flaws that can surface & be exploited scarier than a “good person” falling victim to an evil force. I guess for me the former sounds more grounded in reality than the latter, which makes it more unsettling. People have inner demons and destructive, selfish tendencies... so the idea that those flaws will overwhelm and consume someone trying to be good (especially a FATHER & HUSBAND) is frankly terrifying.
Stanley Kubrick was so hard on Shelley Duvall Jack's wife while filming The Shining he caused her to have a mental breakdown that's why you didn't see her in the movies we're so long the poor thing is a complete basket case thank you Kubrick
Leafy IsHere it’s true tho
I my self, as a recovering addict, (clean and Serene since June 10th 2017😀) can absolutely attest to the alcohol theory. Although my D.O.C was alcohol AND heroin addiction is addiction. And one thing about addiction is that it turns you into a monster. It takes away the emotional and civilized side of us as human beings and turns us into animals. Relying and surviving on animalistic behavior and in doing so drastically and SEVERELY destroying the loved ones in your life. The effects that addiction can leave on the loved ones of the addict can be irreparable and devastating. Also, unfortunately most people lose their battle with addiction and die Young as jack does. His family lives on, while still traumatized, but still they carry on. But, addiction kills the addict and leaves the loved ones alive to suffer but leaving them alive non the less.
hey! I just noticed jack has the same hairstyle as penywize 2017!!
Ha
@@thetake lmao
Waahaa
Receding hairline is not a hairstyle...
He reminds me of Trevor of gta 5
Trevor can wear the same sweater as jack, also it's called overlooked sweater or something like that
Overlooked sweater? Lol, never heard of that.
@@juanmartin6710 It's clearly not the same sweater.
I was about to say the same thing. The last movie clip in this video really reminded me of Trevor Philips from GTA V.
oh my god my friends told me I was stupid for thinking that
This movie is the greatest horror film of all time!!
I agree
Gaming Gnomes the thing and nightmare on elm street would like to have a word with you
@@tounsi_m7ashesh the thing was bs and to be honest nightmare on elm street was rather boring
@@rhiannon5649 would you please elaborate on your statement
@@tounsi_m7ashesh well the thing about "the thing" is that in my opinion the story is just bullshit. And it was really disgusting... but maybe I think that cause I dislike science fiction horror movies (mostly including aliens) and think they are just boring and repetitive and disgusting. And as I said to be honest I think nightmare on elm street is really boring. The story is pretty good but I just think that the movie is boring. But I guess everyone has a different taste. I'm more into psychological horror movies or thrillers.
A theory about how Jack gets out of the storage room is that there is a set of doors behind the shelves where Jack is sitting and hears Grady's voice.
Jack hears and sees Grady when looking into mirrors and reflective surfaces. He's actually talking with himself.
But Grady physically opens the cooler pantry door. Jack appears in the last photograph. Jack isn't talking to the mirror. He sees himself and Grady (the former caretaker) there together. I think the theme of the film is that the Ghosts and murderous hauntings are REAL. That is what makes the Shining so scary. The concept even scares Stanley Kubrick, and Danny's fears are his too. Kubrick knows and has seen too much!
@@stevestars303 The theory I mentioned came from the documentary Room 237. Have you seen it?? 😀
@@stevestars303 And I'll add my personal fan theory no one mentions is Allllll the black and white photos are all the ghosts still there haunting. So my theory aligns with yours.
There's also a theory that Danny or Wendy is making it all happen to get rid of Jack in their current situation.
@@jooliagoolia9959 I think I saw the 237 documentary but I may have to review it again. Most of the film Kubrick made were actually about the same theme. Insane and deviant controllers who manipulate peons below them, even to killing.
Yeah Steven King's version would have gone direct to video vs. Kubrick's iconic blockbuster and one of the greatest horror films of all time.
That TV movie he did was 1/10 as good as Kubrick's version. And that's being generous.
Is the one dislike from Stephen King himself!? :)
Why would he dislike it?
he hated the movie!
304 dislikes as of 8/20/2018 :)
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Speaking of which...
There are haters that made me believe I look like a "FAKE-ASS STEPHEN KING". Hell no, THEY do. Ex: Thiti2000, who will soon die like Jack Torrence in the frigid wintry outdoors.
For me, The Shining is an excellent film and one of my favourites, but comparing it to the source material is a little too apples to oranges. They are wholly different creatures, and each has its own merits, flaws, and insights. Without rehashing what others have already pointed out, I think one of the few things the movie really stumbled on was the reduction of Wendy. In the novel she is a truly three dimensional women, haunted by her childhood and experiences with her mother, and an active participant in the story whereas the film's Wendy is more akin to a bystander or audience surrogate.
I completely agree, especially when it comes to Wendy. In the novel Wendy goes as far as to give Jack an ultimatum, long before the Overlook even became a possibility: this caretaker hotel job is Jack's final strike. If he does not shape up she will leave him and take Denny with her. The way she comes to this decision is something the reader gets to experience for themselves and shows that Wendy is perfectly capable to being more than the tag-along wife.
Wendy's love for Jack is also much more present in the novel.
@@Nocturnalux Yes this is true about Wendy but according to Kubrick he wanted her to be submissive because he felt that a woman that was more head strong would be less likely to put up with Jack from the beginning.
@@rexpipin08 Very much so but here too there was quite a shift in terms of character dynamics as Jack, in the novel, starts out as a decent guy whose alcoholism consumes him even as he struggles against it. In the movie we hardly get to see this caring side of him, he comes across as borderline crazy almost from the very first scene.
I suspect these differences come, at least partly, from the necessary compression that Kubick added to the movie in which The Overlook is everything. The novel has a fairly detailed history of the family before the hotel ever came up in their life, such as Wendy issues growing up with a very demanding and mother, who has made her feel like an inadequate mother herself; and Jack's long, long struggle against addiction and the way it all came to a head when he run over an empty tricycle while driving after a booze orgy. Had the tricycle been occupied...he would have killed the child; which is also brilliant foreshadowing as it lets us know that Jack already feared hurting children long before the Overlook.
I think Kubrick's choice of compressing the events was for the best but the novel also has much to offer in terms of letting us fully understand the family.
@@Nocturnalux That's a very good way to analyze it and I have to admit I haven't yet read the novel. After reading the way you describe it to me I can see now how vastly different Kubrick's interpretation was to the original novel. It would be an interesting read to find out more relating to the family's past as you mention it.
I can see now how Wendy and Jack's past can be seen to rise up again in the movie and uncover the very things that haunted them. Having only seen Kubrick's movie and witnessing the not so pleasant side of Jack from the beginning I would be interested to learn what his more pleasant side might have been like. Thank you I'll make a start on the novel as soon as I can get a copy.
In Dr. Sleep (the sequel novel to the shining), there is a camping ground at the location where the Overlook once was and the finale of the book happens there. It is hinted at in the book, that these circles are broken at that time, so they live past the destruction of the hotel.
(oh, and yeah, the hotel gets destroyed in the book)
Like Jack, who has “ALWAYS been the caretaker,” You and I are guests of the Overlook. We’ve “ALWAYS been guests of the Overlook.” We watch the film time and again looking for some nook and cranny of meaning within the frame that we missed the last umpteen times we’ve seen it. We search for some hidden clue that nobody else caught and yet we’re still fascinated by other people’s interpretations. Personally I check in the Overlook Hotel during October, around Halloween, as part of my horror movie binge watching marathon. I bet you didn’t even know that you were a guest of the Overlook and will ALWAYS be a guest. And that, my fellow guests, is the brilliance of Kubrick.
After watching this and reading many of the comments, I have some theories about the theme of alcoholism in the movie.
The photo is dated 1921, and American prohibition of alcohol began in 1920. For the photo to make sense, assuming people are enjoying cocktails as the movie shows, it would have to have been done in secret because of the law. There’s the theme of hiding alcohol use, a common behavior for alcoholics. Many alcoholics and non-alcoholics use holidays and special occasions as a celebratory reason, or excuse, to consume alcohol. They hide behavior, and put on a happy face for the world to see. The photo is of a large group of people, smiling, and celebrating when it could have only been done in secret in 1921.
We can see, taste, smell, and touch a drink, but we cannot hear it. It is believed this is where “clinking” originated when we cheers and make a toast. The idea is that by creating sound, we satisfy all five senses in the enjoyment and consumption of the drink. The hotel is also missing this one sense of sound; it’s very quiet, and Jack’s five senses are not completely satisfied without it. Only Jack seems to be plagued by this silence. In order for the hotel to have sound, it must be created by the people who are there. By giving into his destructive alcoholism, Jack has caused much of the sounds to be those created by his own desperation - his yelling and Wendy’s cries. He’s hellbent on making as much noise as possible.
REMEMBER: The shining is done in silence. Whole conversations happening without either person saying a word?! The shining is the ability to understand and connect with others without requiring actual sounds. Although it is entirely possible to drink alcohol without clinking glasses, Jack believes he must have this noise in order to be fully satisfied and to remain in denial that his drinking isn’t a problem - it’s merely used in celebration, a common excuse for consuming alcohol. Wendy and Danny can’t provide that sound he truly craves, in the form of enabling his alcoholism; however, the supernatural figures can because Jack is the one who sees and interacts with them. He says he would give his soul for a drink, and the bartender appears. Jack feels disconnected from his family and resentful at their ability to communicate in a way he cannot. He feels isolated, as alcoholics do, and he recluses further.
The silence of “the shining” is deafening to the desperate and resentful Jack.
When we cheers, we are making a toast, or toasting. Jack has no one to toast with but himself (maybe that’s why in King’s version, the hotel burns). It finally and literally toasts Jack.
Jack is told he has always been “the caretaker.” The cycle of addiction and the psychological harm inflicted on the children of an alcoholic parent creates the unhealthy codependent - deemed literally “the caretaker.” It is safe to assume that Jack comes from a family of an alcoholic himself, backing the idea of repeated cycles of violence mentioned. Codependents or “caretakers” often cope with alcohol and drugs into adulthood, perpetuating the cycle. In the novel, Jack says thank God that Danny got out. Jack dies before the cycle could be repeated, which would have likely caused Danny to become a codependent, a caretaker - and more likely to become an alcoholic.
Lastly, the last shot of the wall of photos show 21 pictures hanging on the wall. Remember the year 1921 and the picture states it was the 4th of July ball, keeping with the theme of America and patriotism, and the Overlook Hotel (overlook is an appropriate name) is located in Colorado.
Colorado was unique in its passing of alcohol laws in regards to legal age for consumption. To put it briefly, it had the lowest age in the country of 18, which only a handful states also had. Just a FEW years after these states dropped their legal drinking to 18 (in response to people being able to vote at age 18 🇺🇸) thirty US states then raised their ages to 19 to combat drunk driving fatalities. Colorado did not. It wasn’t until four years after this movie that 21 become law across country. When this movie was made, the most common ages in states across the country were either 19 or 21. Colorado kept theirs at 18. Most states actively tried to curb consumption of alcohol in this way, but Colorado didn’t. And it was one of the only states with NO minimum drinking age after prohibition. Colorado did not budge from the age of 18 until the federal law was passed in 1984 that made 21 the legal minimum age nationwide.
As Jack says, “Bourbon - the White Man’s Burden.”
One of the rare occasions where i liked the book, but loved the movie....
DE DUTCH KIDS People should stop comparing books and movies, they both work different
I literally watched this movie 3 hours ago
I just finished it's great
Me too
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Yeah, me too
I finished it 10 minutes ago.
Jack wasn’t talking to any ghosts, Delbert and Lloyd were manifestations if Jacks own personality reaffirming his past/present choices because Jack can Shine too he’s just not self aware of it
Nick Mattio I agree
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I'm disagree. When he is locked in the store room something freed him; we never seen the shining as telepathic.
Also by the end Wendy start to see the ghosts.
Its the hotel shining to them. Showing them what it sees when it shines
Gold Monkey, if you had read the book then you'd know that even Danny suspected that Jack had some of the Shining. So before you go calling people retards, you may as well know what the fuck you're talking about.
I have to hand it to you: there's a lot of pretentious videos discussing this film on UA-cam, but this is one of the better ones I've seen. You actually use the film to analyze the film, instead of reading into it a lot of outside influences that often feel very convenient or outright ridiculous. I've seen people read Holocaust/Nazi influence in this film, or even argue that Kubrick left hints that he filmed the moon landing, which range from somewhat interesting to batshit insane. I really like that your theories were grounded in a lot of what can actually be proven by an examination of the script or images on the screen, and based on what those involved in the film have said about their intent. Well done!
Still talking about it in 2019" can't beat out a classic like THE SHINING 😈
This movie is a pure gem. Wish horror movies nowadays has this kinda depth
Through the artistry of Stanley Kubrick, the effectiveness of the actors and actresses, and the over-powering realism of the cinematography, just as you said in your commentary: "We are trapped in the Outlook Hotel forever!!!
Yes, this cycle began with the writer, Stephen King with a well-written, effective book, but Kubrick pulled the plot of the book out of King's some-what scary world of vivid characters and scary plot twists and put the movie version into a vividly compelling and horrifying universe of ultimate terror and fascination.
Because of the depth of expertise of Stanley Kubrick's version of the Stephen King novel, we are thrown into a universe of levels of possibilities.
It is obvious that Stanley did not want us to figure-out his movie because once something is predictable and understandable, we are not trapped by it.
Stanley has successfully trapped us with this movie and though he is gone from the earth, nothing we can do will solve the mystery of the Overlook Hotel and free us from reliving what happened in the Overlook Hotel over and over and over again!!! What a marvelous work of art!
Based upon the perspective of the book, Jack submits to the evil in the hotel and becomes a part of the haunting.
This is one of the best approaches I've seen/heard about the film.
Yet although there are many levels to consider, there is only one explanation that covers and contains them all.
It even explains what the "shining" means exactly.
This is even in consideration of unconscious intentions from the directior, because the symbolisms he uses, are simple accurate.
There is a clear meaning that connects all the dots.
I always thought jack was absorbed into the 1920s and is living in that time period now.
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What I took away from the book is that you don’t get sucked in, you’re always part of it hence one of the main lines of the book “all times are one”. I believe that jack was a reincarnated version of the overlook to do the bidding of the building itself.
Maybe that's why he sayed the n word
@@andreaswesterveld they said it in the 80’s too
@@andria8279 Yeah some people say it nowadays too
I really just came here to learn what the picture meant but thanks for an entire presentation.
The photo at the ending is his soul in the hotel forever hence him in the photo.
Finally someone who actually explained what happens in the movie instead of their opinion.
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This is an incredible analysis of this movie. Gave a lot of insight. Honestly this movie is so brilliant on so many levels. I especially love the "impossible" architecture of the hotel, with impossible hallways and door placements. Thanks for your work!
1) I think Jack has the ability to shine, but represses it. That's why he's so able to go through all these things, and be manipulated so easily. Because his abilities are very weak. Thoughts?
2) I've been trying to abstain from seeing this movie for the 40th time but now I have no choice.
3) Stanley Kubrick is a cinematic genius. King though a good author, Kubrick made a masterpiece.
Actually Jack's Shine is the strongest in the movie. How else would he have been able to catch Dick off guard at the end?
9 people disliked this video, I should correct them.
I’ve seen this film numerous times. I saw it when it came out in the theater when I was 5 years old. I have to say that people sometimes miss some obvious points in the film. Jack shouldn’t be carrying the entire load here. His whole family went mad - Wendy is on edge and hysterical, Danny stopped talking, and Jack keeps going on about his responsibilities, never mind that Wendy is the only one working while he uses his typewriter to lie to his family about his writer’s block. Those repetitive sentences and the constant report of the typewriter always struck me as a way to keep his family away from him while hiding his inability to provide for them. Jack didn’t do anything violent until after Wendy gave him a brain aneurysm with a baseball bat to the head. Wendy killed Jack, not the cold. He was slurring his words and swinging an axe only after his brain injury.
I love it when you let people's imaginations run wild by creating a huge vehicle like this for them, but specifically for horror. Makes people appreciate life.
Another one in video games is the original trilogy of Splatterhouse games by Namco.
It has multiple meanings. That's why it's so good. Many interpretations. Awesome flick.
I saw this in the theater in NYC during it's original release. I love horror and this movie scared the crap out of me. Now, at age 60, it is still the best, most horrifying film I've ever seen. Funny, I was planning a trip to Oregon earlier this year and wanted to see the Columbia River Gorge area - I was looking at hotels the the Timberline Lodge came up. Something about the pics of the exterior gave me the creeps and I couldn't understand why. A bit later I discovered it was used as the exterior for the Overlook. All those years and still a shot of the exterior of the filming location creeped me out. I don't know a better testimony to the power of a film - at least for me.
I always assumed he was just withdrawing from alcohol & going mad ,rather than a supernatural figure.
the most horrific part was the "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy"
The most scary part is the amount the narrator cares about the colours red, white and blue
First time I saw this movie was when I were alone in my room at midnight. I ce only seen the last 30 minutes. And I realized this is kind of master piece of art ever seen. The golden room, how sublime of the image and all cinematography still in my brain. Ambiguity ending made this film more and more interesting to analyze.
Anyone who's a fan of The Shining, check out the music video from 30 Seconds to Mars : The Kill. A great homage to a great film.
That was a neat music video I never would have watched if it weren't for your comment. Thanks for sharing.
I swear, Stephen King is truly a freakin’ mastermind. The stories he has come up with & all the movies that have been made due to him, always blow me away.
It’s not always horror tho either. He’s amazing at so many different genres. But, that being said, horror is my favourite of his.
This is possibly his only complete horror film. And as much of a genius he is, the credit for this should be given to Stephen King and the cast too.
Here’s my explanation i think when he entered the hotel and stayed for months at the overlook hotel made him start hallucinating previous events in the hotel and playing mind games on him believing he was always the care taker of the overlook hotel. Then he got possessed and tried to kill his family. Then when that picture showed at the end was all the souls that died in the overlook hotel.
Now i know why this movie with its advance cinmetography , sound design and offcourse direction laid the foundation of all the supernatural, psycho , horror thriller that we see today.Truly a masterpiece ! Long Live Kubrick's Legacy !
Oh thank you thank you thank you wise people of THE TAKE because us mere viewers of the movie would never be intelligent enough to figure out a friggin' movie ending without your help. Because working for a you tube channel means you are so much smarter than the every day movie goer.
"I'm not going to hurt you, I'm just going to bash your brains" WOW!
Here's my theory:
Jack is a reincarnation of Delbert Grady, and the quote "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy" is suggesting that Delbert (Jack) has gone too long without murdering someone, and that the "Work" is his family and job, and the "play" is the murdering he does. Might also be alcohol...
"Im not gonnna hurt ya, Im just gonna bash your brains in", got me lolling so hard lmao
Kubrick ELEVATED King’s simple story into something otherworldly, transcendent, terrifying, unsettling, cyclical; Kubrick is a king among Kings.
This has to be the most concise overview of this classic of movies.