This was insane. The acting was STRONG! Any Easter Eggs we missed on this iconic film? Also what do you think about it? If you checked this out in theaters please let us know ! Thanks for watching ❤
Oh there is a huge deep dive into background Easter eggs. One is that the layout of the building itself doesn't make sense. One instance is in the bosses office in the beginning that window shouldn't be there. There are hundreds of videos that can explain it better than I can but this movie is a trip 😂
yea there is a whole documentary on it, because Kubrick was pretty intense and a perfectionist, so there is a lot of deliberate stuff in every detail, down to the patterns on the carpets and Kubrick would sometimes shoot dozens and dozens of takes for a single shot during the filming, even if it was just to get the ball rolling the perfect way for the camera to follow, or to torment the lead actress and literally put her under duress. This movie is notoriously different from the book, but the level of attention that the director gave it made it into it's own thing that lives and breathes (imo)
The use of color was a really big deal... and the way this gets into your "psyche" I was 10 years old and I watched this on HBO with my mom and dad....
I'm binge-watching your videos and I want to suggest something Psycho 1960 original.. that's also a psychological deep-thinking movie in the same genre of The Shining
A couple of trivia tidbits. 1. The child actor who played Danny came up with idea of using his finger to talk as Tony all by himself during his audition. 2. Toy Story pays homage to The Shining by using the same carpet pattern in Syd's house as the one in the Stanley Hotel.
@@TheOctobersReactAnother fun fact: Jack Nicholson was a volunteer firefighter. So the scene where Jack is hacking through the door with an axe became a problem, as due to his experience, he was completely obliterating the prop doors with just a couple of swings. Kubrick had to have two solid oak doors constructed for the scene to draw out the suspense and so it took him a bit longer to get into the room.
Jack was not hired as a repair man, he was hired as a caretaker (a caretaker does not have to be a repairman) to watch the place. Turn the lights on and off, heat on and off etc., probably water on and off on a daily basis. Make sure everything is working and report anything that goes wrong. This way the place is already operational when the season starts.
I agree with All of you! Jack and Shelly were so great in this movie! So was Danny Lloyd...the little boy. They were so talented and beautiful. What a classic horror movie!
“Heeerrree’s Johnny” is was what Johnny Carson’s sidekick Ed McMahon on The Tonight Show said at the beginning of ever show after he listed the guests on that night’s episode. After Carson (1962-1992) was the host of the Tonight Show, it was Jay Leno (1992-2009, 2010-2014), then Conan O’Brien (2009-2010), and now Jimmy Fallon (2014-present).
Hallorann warned Danny to stay out of 237. In the novel he went in the room and confronted the ghost of Mrs. Massey. A lot of backstories got ignored allowing the viewer to create their own hypothesis.
I was 5 when this movie was released. My two older sisters and I went to the movies to see, “the black stallion,” but snuck in to see this instead. I was traumatized, lol. It was such a good era….wish you guys could have experienced. Thank you for your reaction.
In the book, Jack was a more sympathetic character. He wasn't nuts from the start. He did have a severe anger problem and alcoholism that cost him his job and almost his marriage. The Hotel exploited that to turn him insane.
personally it isnt worth it at all its okay as a film but as a sequel it might be the worst sequel I've seen EVER like genuinely as the same level of bad as something like American psycho 2
Dr. Sleep and Kubrick's The Shining are not the same universe. Unfortunately Dr. Sleep was an attempt to appease Stephen King who hates Kubrick's version and ruin the intentional ambiguity of Kubrick's version with NPC exposition. Don't think Dr. Sleep is even getting close.to.what Kubrick is implying in this film. Not the same thing at all.
Nicholson is AMAZING! If you want to see another side of him watch *As Good As It Gets,* the title does not lie. He and *Helen Hunt* won *Oscars* for their lead roles, *Greg Kinnear* was nominated as supporting actor, *Cuba Gooding Jr.,* another Oscar winner, is also in the cast and the movie itself was nominated for Best Picture. Can’t go wrong.
One of his worst movies, jesus christ, get some taste. (and don't hide behind the Oscars when I'm SURE you're the first to complain about them. Love Nicholson, love that he has three Oscars, I love the speech he made that year, but Duvall was the one who should have gotten the Oscar that year, not Jack) HIlarious that of all the many Jack Nicholson classics, THAT'S the one you pick.
@@TTM9691 You don’t have to agree, I couldn’t care less, and I’m not hiding behind the Oscars, they suck NOW but they didn’t use to, perhaps it’s time you went back to bed and maybe take your meds too, tantrum child.
@@nsasupporter7557 It was shitty in '97, and yeah, it hasn't aged well (we knew that back in '97, anyone with a brain). What hotbed of mediocrity suburb do you hail from? if you think THAT is what living in Manhattan is like, please allow me to laugh you off the face of the internet. It's all Hollywood players (cast, director) making a movie about NYC for dummies from the suburbs, this is an (embarrassing) suburban fantasy of what living in NYC is like, it's so cringe. AND YOU YOURSELF SAY: IT HASN'T AGED WELL. SO WHY WATCH IT??????!!!!!! PS: "Shut up"? What are you 13 years old? Grow up, and get some taste. And stop telling reactors to watch movies that "haven't aged well", when there are COUNTLESS Nicholson movies that have. Imbecile.
Great movie. The photo at the end is just meant to show those that the hotel had absorbed, almost like an unending purgatory. I read that filming this was brutal for the actress playing Wendy Torrence. The director kept her terrified so that she'd give an authentic performance.
Jack Nicholson is known for playing a creepy, weird, strange kinda person. He was in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Crazy movie. He was in "As Good As It Gets" as a major OCD weird guy. LOL.
Unfortunately, one of the reasons Jack Nicholson was so convincing as crazed and corrupt characters like The Joker, Jack Torrance and Frank Costello was because he was kinda an abusive dick in real life known to insult female costars on set and sexually harrass them off set, smoke in front of costars, make racist, ableistic, homophobic and misogynistic remarks towards costars in interviews and enable abusive behavior on the part of the directors and producers, particularly directed at female costars.
The stair scene was reshot 137 times, with Kubrick and the other crew shouting obscenities at Shelley Duvall as Jack was doing in the scene, to get the right reaction out of her. Kubrick was a great director but that doesn`t mean he was the nicest guy. Like William Friedkin, Michael Bay and Fritz Lang, he could be downright "dictatorial" at times especially to women. Kubrick was extremely sexually repressed and conservative for his day. That likely played a big role in how paranoid he was , ironically he inspired many conspiracy theories of his own.
1. Joe Turkel/Lloyd plays Tyrell in the original "Bladerunner" 😇 2. "Here's Johnny" was adlib by Nickelson. 3. It took 117 takes for Jack to chop through the door. He used his voluntary firefighting skills to get through all the takes. 4. The reason King didn't like this adaptation of the movie is because he didn't like the changes Kubrick made. This thing was remade just for King and although the remake was more in line with the book IMVHO it wasn't as good at this one. 5. Two of the changes he didn't like were Jack's decent into madness was too rapid, and Wendy wasn't such a patsy in the book. 6. Shelley Duval said making this film was the worst thing she ever experienced in her life. She was abused on and off camera". 7. Jack Nicholson and Scatman worked together in "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest". 8. The real villain here is the hotel itself. 9. Watch Dr. Sleep. Danny is an adult and many of the loose ends will be cleared up.
So yeah basically, if You die within the hotel, you become part of the collective of ghosts which are frozen (no pun intended) in time in the 1920's. But yeah there's a documentary called "Room 237" that gives some interesting (if not completely plausible) theories into the symbolism of The Shining. Awesome reaction from two also 😎🤓👍
At 20:20 I had to laugh. How you started one-uping each other about room 237. "I wouldn't even go by it...", "I wouldnt even look at it.!", "I'd stay away from that side of the hotel!" I thought for sure it was going to escalate from, "I wouldn't stay in the hotel at all." to "I'd build an igloo outside!" Lmao! Great reaction you two!
I've seen a number of these shining reactions and it always amazes me that so many people make a fuss about them leaving Danny with Mr. Haloran. He's the head chef of a fancy hotel; not some hooligan who just wandered in off the street, for God's sake. What's he going to do? Do you actually think he would risk all that by doing something 'bad'? ... when he can't even run away if he wanted to? Where's he going to go? Sorry, but this has become a sore point for me.
@glennkonklin2926 I hear you, man. It seems as if the younger generation's minds automatically go there, and not just in _THIS_ movie. The scene in "An American Werewolf in London" , where David wakes up naked in the zoo, that scene where he tries to coax the kid closer to the bush, so he can steal his balloons, is a perfect example. When we watched this movie back in the 80s, it was just funny. Younger people doing reactions now. inevitably make comments about a naked man approaching a little boy in sexual terms. Nothing could've been further from our minds when _WE_ first saw it. It's like they're being brainwashed to think of _EVERYTHING_ in sexual terms, even when it has nothing to do with it.
@@taylortyler1867 it wasn't our intention for it to be ANYTHING sexual. We have 2 kids and never in a million years would we leave them with someone we do not know regardless of how nice or prestigious they are, maybe we're over protective or maybe we just don't want to put my trust in someone to watch our kids.
This is risking me getting attacked in the comments, so I want to preface by saying this movie is fantastic and the tension and suspense is amazing The only thing I wish was different is how Nicholson's Jack Torrance is seemingly unhinged from the start. In the book, there's a much more slow build up where he starts off pretty reasonable and it very slowly escalates, which is what I prefer. But like I said, fantastic movie regardless.
More trivia... Barry Nelson, who played Mr Ullman, was the 1st actor to portray James Bond, in the "Casino Royale" episode of "Climax", a television anthology series, in 1954... eight years before Sean Connery made his name in the role
There are tons of references to colonialism and taking land from natives in the wall art, food cans etc. So, in that sense, the film reminds me a bit of Poltergeist and that idea of a site being built over the bodies of ancestors. The ghosts making references to having "always been here" etc I think supports that. I get the strong sense that the blood and horror runs deeper than just back to 1921. That the more recent ghosts are feeding off that older energy.
Advocaat - the drink spilled on Jack - is an eggnog drink popular in the 1920s, and also made earlier. Basically hootchy eggnog, typically mixed with bourbon. My family's adult eggnog recipe was a bit like that, featuring equal parts whiskey, brandy, and rum. This style differs from modern horror in that the music is what drives the anxiety, and as you go, you collect information, but nothing is really explained, which is another source of anxiety. The sequel is "Doctor Sleep" which is a modern thriller.
@@TheOctobersReact It's good stuff. As a tiny kid they gave me a sip expecting me to not like it, but I was like "Yum! Can I have more?" and they realized they had a problem. lol Fortunately our homemade kids' eggnog was also super good.
Still very popular with Dutch people (my ex was one). My parents threw a cocktail party in the 60s and everyone got violently ill on concoctions made with that stuff. 🤮
@@TheOctobersReact Fun fact: someone decided to make the mix that would result from the drinks spilled over Jack Torrance in the party scene. The cocktail is, named, no wonder, The Jack Torrance. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f5XNyh_Z4nY.html
One of the Greatest Horror movies ever. I would place it in the top 5 of all time, but i left it off this list. (my opinion obviously) 1) The Thing (1981) 2) Rosemary's Baby (1968) 3) Night of the Living Dead (1968) 4) Evil Dead (1981) 5) Alien (1979) 6) The Exorcist (1973) 7) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 8) Psycho (1960) 9) Train to Busan (2016) 10) Drag Me to Hell (2009)
Another thing about that scene at 23:37 with the twins, the hotel was giving Danny access to areas that were sealed off and closed for everyone else, but gave Danny access because of the shining he had
Its funny you mentioned Jack smiling too much. The book opens on the interview as well, with Jack giving a "big, toothy, PR" grin to the hotel manager to get the job, while inside Jack's calling the manager an "officious little prick." 😊
That bathroom scene laugh would be the greatest ringtone ever. Red shows up on scenes foreshadowing blood. Scat nan on the phone heading to the Overlook, red shirt. Red on the planes seat backs. Red on the chairs, etc. Red is everywhere in the film
Kubrick innovated so many techniques in film. This was the first film to use steadycams. Seeing the fluid motion of the camera movement was a new experience in itself for the audience. Kubrick's ambition was to make the best film of every genre.
So the actress who plays the mom is Shelly Duvall. I found it very amusing that you said she looked like a Tim Burton character to you. Shelly Duvall is actually the first actress Tim Burton ever worked with. She was a great supporter Tim Burton early in his career as an animator. She really believed in him as an artist. Tim Burton was working as animator for Disney at the time. He made a stop motion/claymation 5 minute short film narrated by legendary horror icon Vincent Price. The short animated film is titled “Vincent” A few years later Burton would make his first live action short film. “Frankenweenie” Basically the story of Frankenstein but with a little boy whose dog dies tragically. The boy brings his dog back to life via Frankenstein like experiments. And Shelly Duvall paleyd the mom in this short film. And understand, at this point, Tim Burton was a nobody. Completely unknown anonymous animator just venturing out with his personal projects. And Duvall was a known actress who worked with big directors, like Kubrick. Shelly Duvall really believed in Burton and even hired him a couple years later to direct an episode of a fairy tale anthology TV show she had at the time. The short film “Frankenweenie” starring Shelly Duvall elevated the film’s reach and prestige. It came to the attention of a comedian named Paul Reubens AKA Pee Wee Herman. Reubens/Pee Wee was so impressed with this short film that he wanted Burton to direct his first movie for his famous character, Pee Wee Herman “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” That was Tim Burton’s first feature film. And the rest is history. The short films “Vincent” and “Frankenweenie” are both available here on RU-vid. You might consider recording a reaction to them. But really I think you psychically intuited Shelly Duvall’s connection to Tim Burton. Because it is a peculiar thing to say LOL
wow that is so crazy. maybe he tried to make sally or coralline kinda favor her? she does have the vibe not saying anything bad about her but that’s pretty cool!
@@TheOctobersReact The way she moved around listlessly with the knife, she was moving like a puppet or marionette. Her physical movements were very Sally like. As his first leading lady, perhaps she did leave an subconscious impression on Burton that would influence his future female characters.
@@TheOctobersReact Burton had nothing to do with "Coraline" aside from a slight stylistic influence on the film and Henry Selick directing both "Coraline" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas" which was based on concept art and a book Burton was planning to write but he decided to just make it a film(Or rather have Selick, Chris Sarandon and Danny Elfman make it a film for him) instead as that`s what he knew best. "Coraline" was based on a book by Neil Gaiman(The comic book writer of "The Sandman", "Good Omens"(Both of the latter with fellow English socialist Terry Pratchett) and "American Gods". The book was even darker and more nihilistic than the film adaptation.
@@aspieanarchist5439 Henry Selick was hired on Nightmare Before Christmas as a director to facilitate Tim Burton’s vision. Burton worked closely with Danny Elfman in developing all the songs before any screenplay was ever written. Burton had already created and deigned all the characters and look of the world years before. Nightmare Before Christmas took well over a couple years to shoot due to the nature of the medium and what Burton was envisioning. Burton had just completed Edward Scissorhands and was under enormous pressure to return to Warner Brothers for the sequel to Batman. The only reason Henry Selick has a career and ever had the opportunity to direct a film like Coraline is because of the opportunity given to him by Tim Burton. Tim Burton had the power and juice to get an entire stop motion feature film greenlit when no one else had the power or drive to do so. And all The Nightmare Before Christmas IP was owned by Disney as he created all of it when he worked for them as an animator. Burton’s name had enough clout that Disney took a huge chance on a very unorthodox film in every way. From the story to the medium of stop motion. When The Nightmare Before Christmas was originally released, it was not released as a Disney film. But as a Touchstone Pictures film. A subsidiary of Disney. It was only once it became and established and embraced holiday classic was it that Disney began openly claiming the film.
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It would be classic if when the pediatrician asks Danny, "If you were to open your mouth, could I see Tony?" and Danny opened his mouth and there was a miniature little boy in there. Okay, I know I be trippin....lol
Saw this in the theaters at age 14. The bathroom scene was life changing scary. The first time I ever saw a naked female, and then she turns into a rotting crone.
Putting Jack in the place she couldn't afford to put him, in with the food. She was going to use the radio and sno-cat to escape. Well, there's that bit about the Donner party to remember, and that there was a cold meat store where Jack would freeze, and the dry goods was perhaps more merciful, where he would die of thirst before he'd die of hunger. Being in the canned goods might have been the worst though (no can-opener), so Wendy wasn't going crazy, just sayin' - and without phones, radio or sno-cat, she's just delivering him to the hotel anyway.
The music playing during the opening credits is a variation of the 'Dies Irae', a Gregorian chant asociated with funerals since at least the thirteenth century. It's usually heard in films to indicate a dire situation or the nearness of death.
The hotel's supernatural power gets stronger as the movie goes on. First only Danny sees the ghosts, then Jack, finally Wendy. The book makes it clear that the hotel is feeding off Danny's shining power.
I have read the book and it has some similarities, but the book is way better. First off, in the book, Jack the dad loved his family a lot. Not like in the movie that he already looks psychotic. Wendy was experiencing the hauntings from the beginning. She would hear conversations and the parties in the ballroom. She even found confetti and told Jack that they aren’t alone. Also, there was no maze in the book. It was hedges shaped into animals like lions and rabbits, that moved. The hotel manager that hired Jack was an A-hole. In the movie when Jack is in the 1921 picture, i think it's because his soul is now trapped in the hotel. I recommend that you read the book. Stephen King wanted to help Stanley Kubrick make the movie, but he declines because he had his own vision of how he wants it. The Shining from the book was remade in adaptation for a TV mini-series. You could check that out as well.
It underscores how evil the hotel was because it seemed able to undo psychic power and helped the dad pinpoint where Halloran was. it also unlocked the pantry door and room 237
King makes it clear in the book (and the TV miniseries version of this) that Tony is Danny from the future. Danny is a powerful psychic and Tony is acting as his "control:" a sort of entity that helps psychics process information. When he says, "Danny's not here Mrs. Torrance," it's because Danny left to go and seek help from Halloren (by sending terrifying images).
Nicholson's character was normal UNTIL they got to the lodge. . .Then the creepy "influence" came over him and completely changed him. NO, he wasn't originally taking his family up there to kill them. . .NO he wasn't.
The thing I like about Kubrick's "Easter Eggs" is that I think he deliberately put some of them in just to play with the audience. He knew some people would spot them and start jumping up and down about what they mean. Kubrick was way ahead of those who saw a special meaning in most of them. I think he enjoyed knowing they'd get a reaction, and he loved pulling the audience's strings. The trick is to decide which of them actually may contain a hidden message, and which do not. Not easy to do since some of them seem way too obvious. . .But who knows? That's part of the fun of a Kubrick film.
No, they didn't torture poor Shelly. The Steadicam is going up the stairs BACKWARDS. In 1979! If anyone was being "tortured" it was the Steadicam operator! THAT'S why the scene took so long to shoot! Yet another person just babbling crap he heard, rather than using his brain. Yes, it was a tough shoot for Shelley, it was a tough shoot for EVERYBODY! It was a tough shoot for Scatman Crothers who had to get axed in the chest over 60 times! Nicholson himself got back to California to start shooting "Reds" and he told everyone about working with Kubrick "That was tough duty." Shelley Duvall next made Popeye and she was fine, then went on to produce "Fairy Tale Theatre" for the rest of the 80s, unheard of for a woman back then. She's not some kind of victim, nor does she want to be seen like that. Years later she had mental issues and everyone starts pretending it's because of The Shining. It had more to do with the REACTION to The Shining, where people maligned her performance (and Jack Nicholson's) for YEARS. Great everyone likes her now, but at the time....and for decades people were beating up on her performance. Before The Shining, she had only had accolades.
I don't think y'all realize how hard it would be to kick a solid window frame in. Esp. when Jack is tearing through those doors like cardboard Also, some people freeze up when terrified. The 4 fear responses are: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn (appeal to the aggressor).
The sets on this film were Awesome they were all built they used photos from other Hotels the exterior shots were from The Timberline lodge The Shining is just a Masterpiece in my opinion.
It took me over 20 years, multiple watches and learning things about it and what things mean to grow my appreciation. look up rob ager and his explanations about the bear scene. Then watch whatever you want of his explaining stuff about the Shining. He is the most legit source you will likely find. He declined to participate in the 237 movie/documentary that was made talking about the movie and all the different theories and meanings because he knew some of the participants didn't have things right.
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What about the fact that no character “sees” the ghosts until Jack kills Mr Halloran. Once this happens, Shelly Duval sees the bear scene, the dead guy with the cut on his head and then all the skeletons. Once the house gets its blood, the masks come off
Except Hallorann doesn’t die in the book. He survives alongside Danny and Wendy. But in Doctor Sleep, Danny still has a lot of ptsd from the events of this movie.
Sad how you two reacted to the parents leaving their son with the head chef. Back in the sixties and seventies life was different and we trusted people. Not like the over cautious paranoid young adults we have today.
I never had an imaginary friend, but I had dreams that would come true in real life. My mother stopped asking about my dreams when they predicted many things that came to happen later on after I told her what I dreamed...I still have the ability to uncannily predict many things, but it is very hit and miss...slightly better than 50%...but never about major world stuff...only personal life.
That opening road is NOT in Hawaii! Saint Mary Lake and Wild Goose Island in Glacier National Park, Montana was the filming location for the aerial shots of the opening scenes, with the Volkswagen Beetle driving along Going-to-the-Sun Road.
The Shining is indeed a horror film--what gave you the silly idea that it wasn't? it is a psychological paranormal horror film; in fact, there's nothing really thriller about it, just suspense and dread with some violence sprinkled in. Do you have an extremely limited concept of what constitutes horror?
The real horror is the hairstyle of those two little girls. It still freaks me out. The only other hairstyle more frightening was John Ritter's in Sling blade.
I like astronaut Buzz Aldrins response to a Moon landing conspiracy nut who followed him around and harassed him in public. Buzz punched him in the mouth.
In the book people who shine are like power packs that power the hotel and Danny is the most powerful that's why the events get stronger and its hold on his father gets tighter.
The Hotel feeds off psychic energy and Danny is a powerful psychic. The longer he stayed there, the more powerful the Hotel became and the ghosts became more alive. When Dick Hollaran was killed, a powerful psychic, the ghosts really became alive, which is why the Hotel wanted Jack to kill Danny. The reincarnation part, yeah you got it. Remember when Jack told Wendy it felt like he has been there before? Jack had low levels of psychic energy which is why he saw the ghosts. And yes Jack died in the snow from exposure, hypothermia. As someone who is from one of the northern winter states, you won't last long, like how Jack was dressed, in the cold with temperatures in probably the negatives since this was Colorado, in the mountains, in winter. This is one of my favorite horror movies, even if it doesn't hold true to the book, which would be impossible to translate to film to begin with.
so there is more to danny’s skills than the movie kinda told us, maybe it did by symbolic things but it didn’t really flat out give danny credit for his skills. or maybe it did, now i have to rewatch it bc wow makes sense
@@TheOctobersReact I should have said his skills are undeveloped. Dr. Sleep, the next movie shows off his talents. Even though in this movie his abilities are undeveloped, the energy itself is still strong and the Hotel wants it. Dr. Sleep is a good sequel, explains more on what happened in this movie, goes into better detail about psychics and is a little bit more horror disturbing than this movie
Run to the bedroom in the suit case on the left you'll find my favorite axe - - don't look so frightened cause it's just a passing phase, one of my bad days - - pink floyd
Grady was the scariest. Saying he'd always been there is beyond creepy because the audience is supposed to infer an 'eternal' aspect, but at the same time distrust an evil spirit-- like, they're evil and are going to tell you blatant lies or partial truth. The hotel hated families and togetherness. When Wendy was frantic and running trying to find Danny, the hotel showed her "togetherness doesn't matter if you're dead" hence the skeletons in the ballroom. Very scary film
For my money the best performances in the film are Scatman Crothers and Philip Stone. Nicholson and Duvall have their moments, but there are also a number of groan-worthy lines/deliveries scattered throughout by each.
They filmed Danny on his Big Wheel using the wheelchair from the movie, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and created a new camera device (first time used in filmmaking) that placed the viewfinder of the camera inches off the floor mounted on the front of the wheelchair.
A Steadicam is a harness worn by a cameraman, that can balance a large camera above or below the normal point of view of a camera, and can be moved rapidly (by a strong operator) to film more fluidly than is usual. Steadicam harnesses were employed to create the wearable machine guns in the film 'Aliens'. This was also tested by the US Army, but it's hard for anyone to horse around so much weight, and it's hard to lay down and get up again, so soldiers do not use this cool idea.
@@TheOctobersReact It didn't. It had been around for four years already, and was first used in Bound for Glory. Halloween was another film to use it before The Shining. There is so much nonsense attached to this film it's insane. (People will also tell you that Kubrick did over a hundred takes of the shot of Wendy backing up the stairs with the bat, and she went nuts from it. Never happened. She denies it, and the camera logs from the production show that no shot's take count went that high...most topped out at around fifteen.) Don't trust people online about this film (including me)...do your own research.
I was 10 years old and can remember laying in bed at night and hearing the TV play the commercial for this and I could see in my bedroom mirror the bloody... elevator
@@TheOctobersReactThe original trailer for The Shining uses a piece of music written by Wayne / Wendy Carlos called 'Timesteps' it's worth finding here on yt. Decades later, the same music was used for the trailer for the film '2012', as well.
Danny used the shinning to tell Mr. Hollerance in Miami all the way from Colorado. That is how powerful Danny is. That is why the hotel wanted him to stay there. If he dies there, his soul would be trapped. Then the ghost there get to absorb his power
Traveling Doctors in Boulder? It’s a city if several hundred thousand people. This is what used to be called a ‘house call’ sone doctors used to do that until the 80’s. “My wife’s the scarecrow” - epic. Keep posting!
Interesting reaction. Hopefully, the following may help explain some things. Although I don't often subscribe to his themes, I do recognize Kubrick as a great filmmaker, and "The Shining" (TS) is certainly a masterpiece of cinema. I like it very much even though I'm not a fan of Stephen King or his books. This must be due solely to Kubrick. Well, let's also give credit to the actors and the production crew, too. As great as Nicholson and Duvall were in the film, that little boy, Danny Lloyd, really made the movie for me. I think he was five when he started filming TS. For a child that age, he was just outstanding. He himself came up with the finger puppet for Tony, his alter ego. Kudos, also, to Philip Stone and Joe Turkel for being quietly sinister and menacing. I don't want to forget good-guy Scatman Crothers, either. Well-done Scatman. Then there's the Overlook. Not only is it alive, but it is the personification of evil. TS has all the Kubrick touches. All those long hallway and hedge maze shots are one-point-perspective. That's a Kubrick trademark. Also, don't some of those nighttime hedge maze shots remind you of HAL's "eye" in 2001 a bit? They do me. Another characteristic of Kubrick is his focus on intense person-to-person interactions. Yeah, TS has just a little bit of that. By the way, isn't it weird HAL in 2001 acts like a person, and the people act like computers/robots? Those long tracking-shots as people move about the hotel are another Kubrick trait. The musical score as an integral part of the narrative of TS is also textbook Kubrick. Kubrick was a perfectionist, and that is reflected in his films. For example, background is as significant as foreground. Why does Jack's typewriter change color? Is it because Jack has been transformed? Oh, "All work and no play" goes back to at least 1659. It didn't originate with TS although it certainly fits. Why do bits of the hotel, like the furniture, for example, appear, disappear or move about? Is it because the hotel is alive? The answer is yes by the way. It's definitely not due to continuity problems. Finally, Kubrick always forces the viewer to think about and dissect his films. That certainly happens in TS. As a result, we and Kubrick share in a common creative impulse when watching TS. The film becomes a living thing. Here are a few of the other things I've noticed about TS. The film is replete with mirrors. They're everywhere. Watch how they affect Jack. Are they how the hotel projects its power? A portal of sorts? Do they also absorb power? Are they its eyes as well? Likewise, there are mazes everywhere. There's the obvious hedge maze, but the hotel itself is a maze, and so is the hallway carpet. Early on, Wendy remarks on the need for breadcrumbs, a reference to Hansel and Gretel and the maze-like quality of the hotel. TS is a variation of Theseus and the Minotaur with Danny as Theseus, Tony as Ariadne etc. Wendy also says the hotel is like a ghostship. The hotel feeds off Danny and Jack's shining power and gets more powerful as time passes. The hotel wants Danny dead so it can absorb him and his power. Did you notice all the knives pointed at Danny's head on several occasions in the film? When Hallorann and Danny are talking in the kitchen bits of the conversation were telepathic. Numbers seem to come up a lot in the film. For example, Danny wears a shirt with 42 on the sleeve, the tv with no power cord is showing "Summer of 42," and room 237 is 2x3x7=42. I think Kubrick's wife said "Summer of 42" was one of his favourite movies along with "The Bank Dick." The latter is a great movie with W. C. Fields. I love it when Danny asks Jack if he feels bad. That can be taken two ways as in do you feel evil or do you feel unwell. And, of course, Jack repeats the girls saying forever and ever, meaning I want to join with the hotel in death. Jack does, of course, sell his soul for a drink. Is that why Lloyd the bartender won't take his money? Jack's already paid in full? The people and things Danny and Jack see are real, but only people with shining can see them at first. When Jack returns to the ballroom where the 1920s party is going on, a woman walks by him with a bloody handprint on her backside. This is about the time the advocaat is spilled on him. Jack also wipes some advocaat on Grady's back. In the bathroom scene, it's clear Grady's girls also had "the shine" and wanted to destroy the hotel, but they were killed instead and absorbed. Grady himself, probably like Jack, also had "the shine." In the conversation between Jack and Grady, Grady switches between Grady and the entity of the hotel. Jack may also switch with the "caretaker." When Jack and Wendy are being shown their apartment, Jack eyes the two departing young ladies. A sign of his lechery? Ditto the girlie magazine he's reading in the lobby early on. He definitely has a wandering eye. Even early on, he doesn't seem to hold Wendy in high regard. When Jack enters room 237, the carpet there is obviously suggestive of the sex act. Very phallic etc. Sex, in one way or other, features in many Kubrick films. Room 237 is the heart of the hotel. The nude woman represents the hotel seducing Jack. The heartbeat we hear is the hotel's and signals the hotel's malevolent activity and increasing power. We hear it overtly later in the film but weaker earlier when Danny is riding the trike on/off the carpet and when Jack is bouncing the ball. The high-pitched tone indicates "shining" is happening. So, Jack clearly shines, too. He's one of those who doesn't realize he has it. Jack several times in the film exhibits the Kubrick glare or stare, a shot of a man glowering up at the camera from beneath lowered brows, an indicator of danger or madness. You see it in "Full Metal Jacket." And I think HAL in 2001 also shows it. Doesn't HAL's red pupil change size? When Jack goes on his rant about his obligations to the hotel before Wendy conks him, he's not talking about Ullmann and co. He's talking about "the hotel," the thing that's alive. That's who he's made the contract and sold his soul to. Remember Lloyd the bartender's ominous hotel remarks. REDRUM is MURDER backwards, and it signifies anti-murder. It's a totem that protects against murder. That's why Danny writes it on the bathroom door. Jack can batter the door, but he won't get in. Danny is also warning Wendy and arming her as a result of his REDRUM recital. The photos are part of the hotel like the typewriter and furniture. When Jack dies, he's absorbed by the hotel and winds up in the 1920s photo. Towards the end, the hotel's evil spirit, the caretaker, may have abandoned Jack to die in the maze. He did fail in his task. That ball in the photo was the same one where the advocaat was spilled. So, he was there in 1921 and he wasn't. Kubrick deleted a final scene from TS. Wendy was in hospital and Ullman was visiting. He told her all was normal (except for Hallorann, I suppose) at the hotel. No Jack. At least, I think that's what I read once. Might be wrong about that. I've watched several reactions to TS, and I'm amazed at some of the observations. Got some beefs. A lot of people don't make a connection between Danny's first vision of the blood elevator, which signifies all the death at the hotel, and his passing out. They disassociate these two events when clearly they go together as the image of Danny's horrified face shows. From the get-go, it's clear Danny can see past events and future events. He knows Jack got the job and is going to call Wendy. He knows he doesn't want them to go to the hotel. He knows the hotel signifies danger. Why don't people notice that Danny's shirt and jumper are torn when he come to the Colorado Lounge after being strangled? Danny's clearly in shock, too. When Danny is foaming at the mouth and Hallorann is having his mini-fit, Danny is clearly communicating with Hallorann there is danger, come and help. How can Wendy be so sound asleep before Danny wakes her? Come on, the poor woman has been on edge for weeks. She hasn't been sleeping well. Now that she's locked crazy Jack up, she literally passes out, thinking they're safe. After Danny slides down from the bathroom window, why are people surprised he comes back into the hotel? It's freakin' cold outside. Do you live at the equator or something? After Jack kills Hallorann and Danny screams, why are people surprised when Danny bolts his hiding place? It's not a hiding place anymore, Jack knows where he is. Anyway, the hotel will lead him to Danny. Danny runs outside because he's actually luring Jack into the maze to meet his fate. Danny is the hero of TS, he's Theseus, who killed the monster in the maze.
