THE SHINING (1980) Breakdown | Ending Explained, Easter Eggs, Creepy Hidden Details & Film Analysis 

No, he pushed her to her limits. He got out of her what no other director could have!

@@zacrusk5274 Uhm no he didn't 💀 he exhausted her and made her work to her limits and then claimed she over acted, again the movie wouldn't be as scary with her "overacting"

What, by giving her the role of her lifetime?

@@nellsun2521 well he then publicly ridiculed her, she didn't get a lot of money, she didn't have a ton of roles after. Jack Nicholson got the praise which he deserved but so did Shelly and I'm sure all his comments affected that. Like I said if she didn't "over act" the movie wouldn't be as scary as it is

@@tiarasewlal7533 The horrors of being a Hollywood a-lister! She was free to get a 9-5 like the rest of us if it was really so bad.

"Endless corridors of loud carpeting"... you've just described the 70s.

I loved the sequel even more!!!

@@historyandhorseplaying7374 my high school was built in the 70s, when they thought fresh air and light would be distracting to kids…there was one tiny window about 2 ft wide and 5 ft tall at the very back of the room (which I climbed out of and onto the roof several times!) The 70s was a dark time for architecture indeed

@@lep8622 hadn’t heard of it, I’ll have to check out Dr Sleep

@@gildedpeahen876 Ha yes, and the colors of the carpets, wallpaper, decorations etc were always like lime green, puke orange, dirty yellow, etc.. like “Sesame Street” colors.

SAME!😂 I have never felt the same about topiary...😬😱😅

I can relate to both statements..years ago I worked security where you sit outside in a company car on this rich guy's property..it was all nightshift and during one snowy week I read the book there when sitting in the car with snow drifts up against the garage/ loft structure😳🥺😨...and the movie still gets to me too

Me three. I slept with the light on for a week after I read it!

The book is outstanding. Still I love the movie as much as the book. Same with Clockwork Orange.

​@@rdred8693I made a comment earlier saying the same thing. The movie is a masterpiece in terms of visuals, but the book's story is superior.

Very true. I realized watching this and the Exorcist, they are ridiculous films. This one especially. VERY campy. Should be on the level with Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Not the best movie to watch as a kid 😅

Yeah, I hate how exaggerated the fan theories for Kubrick's movies become. Kubrick definitely did some very creative things with his movies, but there is so much retconning by fans to try and make him look like an even bigger genius than he was that it takes away from what he actually produced, in my opinion. Not everything has to be a level 100 mindbender; some pieces can just be straightforward.

Yes-but that victim then became a victim before he even existed, because the Overlook always exists. So YES, he did become a vic-err ther caretaker. But he was ALWAYS the vic-eerr the caretaker. I like this theory, because it's not a huge stretch or doesn't plot twist what you describe, but explains the whole nostalgia timeless nature etc

That doesn't fit. The deja vu like no Deja Vu ever before. You've always been here. It could mean that the picture changes according to the current Reincarnation of that person like the next person to take the bartender's place or the caretakers place will suddenly take on their appearance. Hannah thought about it like that. The whole thing is he's been there before maybe not in his current incarnation. Fun fun fun

They do to Kubrick what rap fans do to Kendrick lol.

Jack looking at the camera actually happens thought the hole movie.... It's meant to f#$k with our subconscious. (And saying in some way that we are that's ones looking at everything in the movie and hoping for thing to go bad, we are part of the ghost) There's a video here on YT with a compilation of everytime he does.

Totally. I’ve tried to read likes without blinking. It’s damn near impossible for me.

I also like the Thing 👀

In Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkin's didn't blink either. He did it b/c he'd read that sociopaths don't blink as much

They don't blink, because the power of the shining is like someone going into a trance or catatonic state of being.

Irl a good witch never blinks.

I do the same with A CHRISTMAS STORY every Xmas..and NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO TURN IT OFF..it runs 24 hrs 🤣🤣🤣

The Shining didn't rely on shock and gore and guts splattered. Probably why it has stood the test of time and still remains one of the best horror films ever made. It told a story that people could relate to, maybe even see themselves in the same circumstances.

I watched this as a child, so at that time, I was more interested in riding one of those myself.

I saw that thinking thank pf I brew out of those

I agree!

I always loved that part 😂.

Happyness is a warm gun Mama 👈🕊️🎶"*RIP*" John Lennon 🌷🎸

In the book, it’s Horace Derwent, the original owner of the Overlook. He was one of the ghosts that attached to Danny after he and his mother left the Overlook. The other was Mrs. Massey (the old lady in the tub, whose story was actually really sad). Danny eventually learned to trap Derwent and Mrs. Massey in his mind, thanks to Halloran (who didn’t die in the book).

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@@heathermillsphantomlimb9314 ..you know that the film and the book are only casually related, yes? king HATES kubricks 'adaptation'

@@wrongfootmcgee he used to hate it. Absolutely. Over the years, he’s come to appreciate it for what it is, though. He’s said that in interviews and such. Either way, the ghosts and such in the movies can share the same backstories and such, even if the movie doesn’t delve into it.

I first saw this movie when I was about 7 or 8. The lady in the tub scared the living shit out of me and I was terrified of going into a bathroom with a closed shower door or curtain for years afterward. Second time I watched it was with my ex wife and we were doing other shit the entire time, so I barely paid any attention (aside from the "HERE'S JOHNNY" part. I decided to watch it again with my son tonight, and after watching this video I am only now realizing how fucking weird this movie really is.

I’m a 90s kid and this movie made me shit my pants lol

I was born in the 2000s and I was terrified when I watched as a kid too lol. For some reason the dog/bear mask scene always scared me the most.

@@okquentinshits real freaky

The one thing that infuriates me about the movie is his death.

The changes in the body language and speech of each character as the scene progresses is subtle but effective brilliance. At the beginning Jack is cocky and standing tall, acting like he's got it all figured out, while Grady is hunched over, apologetic and submissive in his role as one of the servants. Gradually this situation reverses as Jack becomes confused and much less certain which is mirrored in his body language of shrinking away from Grady while at the same time his vocal style becomes weaker and less commanding. In contrast, Grady stands tall becomes much more of an imposing physical presence while his voice deepens and becomes far more masculine and authoritative. Superb performances from both actors and brilliantly directed of course.

It's hogwash.

The moment the character realises, he is not shure if the hallucinations are more. real than himself.

I love it when Dick Hallorann says "It's Shining Time!" and then gets murdered with an ax.

I never noticed the difference in the names before (Charles vs. Delbert). Nor did I ever really grok that if Charles Grady was Ullmans predecessor, that would have put him there in like the 1950s. Delbert Grady's mannerisms and dress seem to put him in a time long before that, as do the dresses of his two daughters. They look like something out of a British Victorian seaside resort.

I felt like the color green means the character is in touch with reality. Red means they're not. I feel like Wendy was delusional about how bad things were for her and Danny at first.

It isn't just Wendy's color choice of red, then green. Many scenes where we're supposed to see from Wendy's perspective are slightly different from when viewed from the POV of someone else in the scene with her. Wendy's shift to reality completes when she reads the "...Jack..." pages. Definitely overlapping of POV's until we finally see the entire reality of what's been happening in the climax. Not necessarily everything spelled out, but much, in not all (up to that point) are skewed by many of the characters POV

ooooh!

Of course, he’s not going to mention it. Wendy is a woman.

​@@jennymunday7913Green is also a 'calm color' and red is often depicted as anger. While Jack and Danny's characters are explored, Wendy still remains a bit mystery. I have yet to read the book but IMO Wendy might not have been any better than Jack in her treatment toward Danny. Not saying she was like Jack but I get the feeling she crossed the line between shooing child away for being underfoot and actual neglect. How often did Wendy spend time with Danny before everything went sideways?

Thank you. I facepalmed so hard hearing him say that.

I disagree. 'The White Man's Burden', can be looked up on Wikipedia easily. The color red is significant throughout the film. The building was built upon Native Burial Grounds, has a blood-red themed elevator (elevators also go down), and the Hotel itself has a history of murders/murderers.

"White Man's Burden" is from Kipling. Take up the White Man's burden- Send forth the best ye breed- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; It's not about alcohol, it's about colonialism.

'White man's burden' has no reference to America. It's Kipling about the British Empire.

This also corresponds with the idea that the a subtext in the film is the subjection of the native American

It could. Anything could.

Yes, and also it is Right-hand Path and Left-Hand Path. Did you notice the folded piece of paper in Jack's raised hand? I seriously doubt that was an accident.

It also brings to mind the Magician from tarot! Seeing as it's a male figure focused on transformation, rebirth, and manifesting his own power, it really scraams Jack

Oh man, absolutely.. I could hear that for a couple weeks.. It was calming but also erie..

Exactly

The book had huge topiary animals that could move when you turned away from them and give chase rather than the static maze Kubrick used in the film.

@kittenkorleone2918 Yeah man. It worked so well when Stephen king did his mini series @ about being true to the book” It wasn’t corny and terrible at all. The topiary animals were very scary in the authors adaption tonin screen.

@@oldironsides4107what?? When did he do this? What’s it called?

@@ElDuderinohI want to say mid to late 90s. It was a 3 part series on tv made by king.

I love your description of how the transition made you feel, to be honest it confused me first time. i actually skipped back felt like i missed something, not shure if that's what the film was trying to do, confusing you to pull unsettling/paranoid feeling or make you feel as uncertain as to what is real and what is hallucination, like the characters in the movie are dealing/ living with.

Just added a comment about this and saw yours. Cheers, I was unsure if I was seeing 8 or 9 knives. Alternatively you could take the 4 on the left as the 4 of swords, and the right the 5 of swords.

That was the biggest problem Uncle Stevie had with Kubrick's mangling of his story. Jack was supposed to be ashamed of himself for all the stuff he put his family through when he gave in to his alcoholism. He wasn't crazy, he was seeking redemption but the hotel got into his head. Stephen King's version, the mini series, is very loyal to the book and I loved it. Being a big fan of King, and having read the Shining so many times, my book was worn out, I was shocked when I saw Kubrick's version, especially the end. Jack sitting there frozen with that idiotic face, was too much and I absolutely hated he called it the Shining. I like the movie but it isn't the Shining I know.

I agree, and I think he reveals this in the car on the way to the 'Overlook', with his slightly menacing parody of his son: "Hear that - he saw it on T.V."

All these years and I just realized that I don't quite like the movie, as good as it is. It's one of those fictions that is malevolent. Not good to have in my head. Perhaps that's the genius of Kubrick, but the book version has a moral quality that is lacking in the movie - in my opinion. Either way, both versions of the story are classics in their own right.

​@@smasome I do that. I will watch a movie that I later wish I could forget.

I loved Kubrick's version The King-approved version is just another in a long line of schlocky King book movies.

100%

Excellent analysis.

"Dr Sleep"

It isn't explained in the movie, but in the book towards the end you discover Tony is Danny from the future helping himself survive the stay at the Overlook

@@robcarr9968 Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

When I drive by any huge McMansion on a dark rainy night, I wonder how the owner could stand being alone inside without freaking out.

I saw The Shining as a kid and that scene freaked me out too. We had an old creepy basement and I dreaded going down there after that movie. Those damn twins could've been waiting for me in a dozen different places in that creepy basement, wanting ME to play with them forever and ever and ever.

Loooooool I’ve tried to stop doing it but I can’t help myself

​@@heavyspoilers never stop, its practically a staple at this point

That’s how I know it’s gonna be a deep one 😅

@@heavyspoilers can you do Explained for Infinity Pool please? That movie is so good

@@heavyspoilers it’s a fantastic start 👍🏼

This makes more sense of anything I've heard about this movie.

That was an awesome assessment. That sounds like something I would come up with when I'm stoned.

Not to put the two movies in the same league but Inception is another movie that illuminates the complexities of a conflicted / fragmented personality & how it manifests into the final resolve

@@richardmarino2732 So are "Shutter Island" and "The Machinist". And, of course, my most favorite movie ever: "Fight Club".

Very interesting observations.

What about everyone else involved. You think it’s just Shelly. There and not dozens of others involved in every scene?

@@oldironsides4107 Kubrick is the commander, the rest are just following orders.

Always in a state of terror and hysteria? Look at some clips of production you’re fooling yourself

@@jamesmcnaughton9939 Not literally, of course. But having to act that way over and over again.

Nonsense. Why don’t you do a search here on RU-vid for Shelley praising Kubrick after the film? She said it was the greatest experience of her life. Have you ever watched the documentary? It’s really nothing that he’s doing to her except pushing her a little bit. Your generation is doomed if you think he was abusive. He’s what you call a passionate genius who pushed everyone to their limits. Good God. Go read a few books already. And toughen up!

I would say the dispatching of Scatman has a bit of jump scariness to it...

@@mateosalvaje9550 you got me there! But at least there was no actual CAT jumping from the sidelines.

@@lindas5964 The old woman is jump scare 101 as well as the axe murder obviously.

@@joepermenter7228also when danny turns the hallway corner and sees the grady twins-i’d argue that’s a jumpscare. especially if you watch the whole scene.

The bathtub scene made me nervous in a way that I never experienced in a movie before

Yes - and that makes us, the audience, dislike her even more, because she's making excuses for Jack - and presenting Danny's abuse as a hapless accident.

@@pawdaw it never made me dislike her. I see it as someone in an abusive marriage, trying to sugar coat the situation for this person who is a mandated reporter, out of fear of losing her son to social services. Wendy and jack are both guilty of putting Danny in wildly in appropriate situations, it’s more obvious in the book I think…but still jack is the most scary and abusive, and I think Wendy makes these excuses for him out of fear of family separation, as she waffles back and forth internally about whether the marriage is worth keeping together or not

@@pawdaw do you not know what it's like to be stuck in an abusive relationship?

@@technounionrepresentative4274It still doesn't excuse wendy from responsibility. Both things can be true. She was abused herself and was scared but also didn't make the best decisions for Danny.

That’s easy to miss good catch

thank you

He had to have had some inkling, Considering everything that he did see and do.

Maybe his parents told him.

That's incredibly kind of Kubrick, tbh. A lot of directors wouldn't have been so sensitive about the innocence of kids on set, assuming that they should be professionals. Look at the way Drew Barrymore and so many other contemporary child actors to him struggled and suffered and had to keep working anyway. However, I would say that he could have extended that to other actors, adult or not, because at some point, you have to let people have their sanity.

@@azurephoenix9546 oh, I agree. He treated poor Shelly Duval abominably and I can't help wondering if that's part of why her career didn't last very long.

@Katie Allen Depends on what you mean by a long career. I loved fairy tale theater way more than the shining, if I'm completely honest. She was precisely the right person to produce it and to gather the wide array of actors who brought each story to life. It never would have been as amazing and amazingly funny as it was without her.

Thank you. I noticed that too.

That’s right

With Bugs Bunny being another Warner Brothers property

Came to say the same

Also time standing still at this particularly place. Frozen in the past

What about the snow falling?

Nope

​@@blahthebiste7924Ghost snow.

That’s an interesting idea I’ve never thought of before

Yes, one of my favorite scenes too. The actor that plays Grady was also in A Clockwork Orange, he plays Alex's dad.

The bathroom scene breaks the 180 degree rule in filmmaking, which adds even more of a disconcerting feeling to it.

@@Arkansmith The bathroom is eerily similar to the bathroom in Full Metal Jacket.

​@@MrColin159no,...it isnt at all...its a hotel bathroom, compared to the latrine in a barracks.....

​@@Arkansmith what's the 180 degree rule in filmmaking??

That’s because she was actually scared and tormented. By Kubrick. It looks odd on screen because she wasn’t really acting for the most intense scenes.

Which she was, the poor thing! But she’s incredible, if she wasn’t an amazing actress she’d just be a scared woman, but she’s got such impact.

Probably because she wasn't like the young victims in most horror films especially at the time they are always sexy or at least pretty Shelley had really tears and exhaustion Kubrick terrorized her to the point she was so stressed she was losing hair Her performance wasn't acting she was genuinely terrified and exhausted

@@turkishcoffeeguy “wasn’t acting” is a huge stretch lmao

@@HealthyObbsession lmao no she was not. Exhausted from Kubrick’s long hours? For sure. Verbally berated multiple times? Almost definitely. Genuinely terrified and scared for her life? Nada.

Check out the movie Room 237 if you haven't already!

@@chucklebutt4470 i have and its a very surface-level glimpse at the meanings of the movie

The ripper

Yesssss like mirror opposites! (keeping with the theme of mirrors throughout the movie)

@@DarthBane123 True, it doesn't go into a lot of detail but it was my first introduction to the kind of wild interpretations people have of the movie!

Looooool

I dont know people notice or not in this movies the floor in average were always specky clean almost the whole time.. I come to notice Stanley even his other movies on average always mantain the floor clean and plain neatly perfect for ice skating im sure stanley have his own reason 😂

That seemed to go on forever in the book. Interesting point, just read up on some deleted scenes that show Jack with the notebook a lot more. Even the extended version just shows it in one shot I think.

Not only was someone choking Danny they were nude also.

I really enjoyed reading this comment. No sarcasm.

I always thought when Jack says Wendy is a ghost and horror film addict, he was clearly lying, to reassure the manager. Wendy is passive and easily scared and Jack knows if she knew the truth, she wouldn't go anywhere near the place.

Perhaps his soul contract now that he's been claimed and the dept paid?

Wild guess, maybe a broken treaty with a native American tribe?

I thought that movie was great aswell...underrated for sure!! Many hidden undertones...

Totally under rated and good as a stand alone as well

My exact same thoughts. Criminally underrated.

Sleep didn’t really feel scary. It was basically an action flick

As I remember it, the shining wasn't a big hit either....at least not at first.

Exactly, she is finally seeing the things her husband and son have been seeing. The building is revealing it's self to her.

@@FerstErndFuriersbut that’s not the true form of the Hotel. The police searched the Overlook and they found nothing. The Hotel is not showing it’s true form, it’s scaring them into insanity with illusions while feeding off their fear and pain.

@@FerstErndFuriersin the books, that’s basically what the hotel does. Obviously, the movie didn’t have enough time to delve into it, but it slowly revealed itself as it went along. At first, she’d just notice little things, like confetti in the floor of the elevator. After a while, the elevator’s started moving on their own, she’d hear laughter and voices talking about a party in the hallways, and it was actively trying to keep Danny (and her) inside so Jack could kill him/them (the hedge animals surrounded the exits, elevators stopped working, etc.) In the movie, I think the hotel was just showing her a bit of what it really was to scare her and feed off her negative emotions.

That’s where the word spirits come from when u drink spirits it kinda possess u

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Because they are

...it's just the alcohol talkin'. Years ago a good friend of mine says, "I hate quitters. I quit one time. Worst 20 minutes of my life." RIP Joel. No one could ever fill your shoes.... If this much fuss was put to the task, I bet they could figure out who shot president John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Obviously someone knows because they pulled the trigger. They could still be alive. Shine on you crazy diamond, give us all you got, show us the shining one more time......

Yes. The drink is the key to him turning evil in here too.

Much appreciated, thank you for the comment

In doctor sleep, Danny explains that most people have shinning, but to a very weak degree and without knowing it's the shinning. He uses as examples husbands who come home with flowers when their wives coincidentally are sad, or when sometimes someone does well on a test even without having studied. So I think that's a very valid theory.

In the book it's explained that Wendy has it a bit because she's a mother and I guess most mother's shine a bit and the novel also heavily implies Jack shines too but he's so broken as a person and has shoved it away so much that he isn't aware of it nor can he actively use it. I really do highly recommend reading the book cuz it actually answered a lot of questions I've always had about the movie. You even find out who the people are in the scene with the dogman.

Not quite. According to King, all mother's shine a lil. Mother's intuition.

@@lio1788 But remember people with really strong Shine. Like telekinesis end up going crazy.

Jack didn't have it. That's why he was easy for the hotel to control.

And halloran knew he was nicknamed doc by his parents too

Ah thanks so much, glad you’re enjoying us going back to older films

Me too thanks Paul!

Me too!!!!

Whhhhhhaaaaaa!?!? You've never seen the shining? You may be in for a treat.

I watch the breakdowns for movies I haven't seen and decide if it sounds like it's worth watching. Or revisit old favorites

thank you

I can hear it now. 😱

It wasn't written on the mirror. It was written on the wall. She saw the reflection in the mirror which showed it backwards. Revealing redrum is murder spelled backwards.

covid vaccine @@JoeOvercoat

Thanks! I’ve always wondered about that moment, most especially.

Ahhh.... Good point!! Thank you

Wendy's, Jack-In-The-Box, where... Oh different Movie. What was in the Briefcase, The Shining? It was all about your mind. It was trapped, now IT is coming... 🍒 ▫ ▫ ▫ ⬜ ▫ ▫ ▫ 🟡

The ciggarette in the ashtray appears and disappears throughout that scene as well .

10 of swords is the outcome. O V E R

Significant, indeed. He may have only been trying to evade, but... I imagine that, regardless of intent, patricide would certainly compound the haunting effects of any prior events.

I bet you didn't notice the entrance to the maze had moved! I never did.

When Wendy leaves Danny at the table watching Roadrunner to go talk to Jack, the song on the TV says, "his idea of fun" at the time she walks away. Then she picks up the bat, slowly, like she doesn't want Danny to notice. But I think Danny has had the idea to overcome Jack at that moment and is telling his mother to take the bat.

The shining, the thing and silence of the lambs are my top three! It’s interesting that we can watch this movie over and over and have such different take away from it. To me the movie is actually three movies tied into one. Know who else did the as above so below pose? George Washington

It's like the roadrunner leading the coyote to his demise. Beep beep,blip

Absolutely agree with you.. I'm not a Kubrick fan, still don't understand Eyes Wide Shut, but The Shining is brilliant...

​​@@Swnsasyi feel ya. im not a Tarantino fan. but pulp fiction was great

@@carbine090909 Have you seen From Dusk to Dawn? That's the first movie I had ever heard of QT and still on my list of movies I can watch over and over of 5. My son, now 29, was 6mths old and I loved George Clooney so thought, HELL YEA, SEXY MAN, he's a bad guy robber and action.... I was shocked, loved, loved the absolute nobody saw it coming. That's when I started watching his movies.. I love majority of his movies, BUT, I also see him as a Rob Zombie director, who btw I learned who he was from his song in the movie Matrix.. I'm a black woman, yes but I love hard rock, some metal, alternative, grunge than my hip hop so yea, friends call me a Rocker.. What do you think of Rob movies? Anyway, what I mean by QT & Rob is that they are predictable in a specific genre

Finally... I've literally never seen anyone say this about anything lol

The mini tv show its great too!! The woman of the rooms 2 3 7 in that show scare me so much when I was a child...

the scene in which Jack explores Room 237 and finds a nude woman is not a literal event, but Danny’s repressed version of the molestation as he communicates it telepathically to Dick Hallorann. (Remember that during that scene, there are intermittent shots of a trembling Danny and a horrified Hallorann.) The Room 237 scene is the fire truck scene, viewed through Hallorann’s mind as he “shines” it from Danny, who has repressed the literal events. In this repressed version, Danny has been replaced with Jack, and Jack has been replaced by the “crazy lady.” For evidence, consider the many parallels between the Room 237 scene and the fire truck retrieval scene. Both scenes take place in rooms with the same layout. Both scenes involve an entrant progressing through the layout and seeing someone unexpected-Danny sees Jack awake, Jack sees a woman in the bathtub. Next, this unexpected person makes the same exact motion: Jack’s “come here” gesture to Danny is exactly the same as the bathtub woman’s moving away the curtain. Then, the entrant approaches the unexpected person and the two interact: Danny sits on Jack’s lap, Jack embraces the nude woman. The fire truck scene cuts here, but we can infer from the Room 237 scene what happens next. In that scene, Jack, after embracing the young woman, sees the woman rotting in the mirror, and he recoils in horror. Symbolically, this is what happens to Danny: he readily approaches his father and then, upon being assaulted, realizes the repulsive side to the initially appealing figure. There’s a mirror at the foot of Jack’s bed that Kubrick emphasizes with fancy camerawork in multiple scenes. Danny would have seen his own molestation in this mirror, which is why in the Room 237 scene Jack first sees the ugliness of the woman in a mirror. There’s also an editing choice toward the end of the Room 237 scene that shows the old woman rising from the bathtub, which is odd given that our first sight of the woman was as a young woman, not old. This represents Danny’s realization that the figure he approached (his father) was evil all along-that his initially favorable impression of his father was incorrect. The old woman rising from the bathtub therefore represents Jack waking up from his nap as an ugly, evil person. The shot only comes late in the scene because Danny only realizes too late that he was fooled by his father’s reassuring demeanor. The brief scene in which an unseen presence rolls a ball toward Danny while he plays with cars is the initiation of Danny’s telepathic communication to Hallorann. Danny is noticeably missing his fire truck in this scene, an indication that his entering Room 237 represents his entering his apartment to retrieve the toy. The scene cuts as Danny enters Room 237 because at this point Danny begins to repress the events; when we next see Room 237, Danny, in his “shining” rendition of events, has replaced himself with his father, and has altered and repressed the sequence as previously described. So Jack indeed inflicted the bruises on Danny’s neck during the off-screen molestation. Jack denies this to Lloyd, but he does so right before exclaiming that the last time he hurt his son was “three goddamn years ago,” demonstrating that at this time he is personifying his “past” 1920s-30s incarnation, and his recounting doesn’t apply. Danny attempts to deal with the traumatic event in various ways, firstly by creating the childlike story that his aggressor was a “crazy lady in one of the rooms” and secondly by succumbing completely to Tony. As the psychologist had deduced earlier, Tony had helped Danny to cope with prior violence from his father. Now, as the harm from his father escalates, so does Danny’s reliance on Tony. The final question to be answered about the Room 237 scene is: why, if it’s Danny’s psychological invention, does it feature such adult content? The answer is that Hallorann also influences what we see, since he receives the vision. He sees Danny’s “crazy lady” fabrication through his own personal lens. Note the two conspicuous pictures of naked women on Hallorann’s bedroom walls immediately before he “shines” the scene from Danny. It makes sense that the molestation as visualized by Hallorann would feature nudity, rather than fatherly love, as the initial “attractor.” shining3 The 237 scene can be watched, therefore, as a blend between 1) the actual event of Jack molesting Danny, 2) Danny’s childish coping story, and 3) Hallorann’s adult perspective. Truly an original, complex piece of filmmaking that demands even more analysis than I have room for here.

@@alexanderdumas-Alexandrey Dum-as…………..Dumbass……….🤣 Sorry, I saw your screen name and had to throw that line in from another King film. Lol

@@alexanderdumas-you need to publish this lmao

You've only scratched the surface of that next layer

@@lloydmullins6335 And that is why I love Kubrick so much. The world needs more like him, especially today.

I like that scene and noticed the chair behind Jack kept disappearing.

I noticed today that in that scene, the first view from faraway has Jack sitting in front of the staircase, which looks pretty dark on my TV, and above it there is a crown shaped light hanging and together they kind of look like the monolith with the sun over it in 2001.

@@watermelonlalala wow pretty cool. I'm going to have to look at that scene again.

The filming process made her physically ill, kubrick put her under so much strain as he wanted the very best out of her ....

@@jimmyj8161 I also read that Kubrick was known for many re-takes which meant really long days for the actors/actresses. But besides the physical strain put on the crew, it seems like Nicholson and Duvall liked and respected Kubrick.

Nope. Too soon. Maybe just me? But if I walked into a room to *that* photo and someone starts like, 'look there I am...', I'm not hanging around for the story

Dang! She and you were very Lucky indeed! I’d love to have a picture like hers!

Yes, whatever ghosts lurking in your soul will make themselves known.

So true! We grew up watching some of the wildest things. Probably why modern movies have no effect on us, other than thinking most of them suck and are just remakes.

Creeped me out as an adult.

Saaammmmeeeee!

Me and the kids found a vcr tape in a fleamarket and unfortunately watched Terrorvision. Which I highly recommend 10/10. The kids never forgot it. I'm a bad mom.😁

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They were twins in real life. I think everyone might be misinterpreting what he said. Maybe he didnt mean they were "8 *and* 10". He was guessing their age as twins being *around* 8 and 10? He wasnt sure.

​@gravityslave6277 except he very clearly says, "I think about 8 and 10." Which is their ages in the book as they are not twins. You can also tell when they stand next to each other they are different heights

@@airduke13 Then they wouldnt be twins would they? Looked it up. They were just sisters of 8 and 10 in the book. Kubrick cast twins and made them twins. So what ever

@gravityslave6277 that response makes absolutely no sense based on what either of us said

@@airduke13 I'll help you with the tough part sport. The book says that they were 8 and 10 separately. They were just referred to as "sisters". Remember I said I just looked it up. (That part you're correct). But Stanley Kubrick meant for them to be *IDENTICAL TWINS* for the movie to add a creepy factor. That means they should be the *SAME* age. That's how twins work. (FYI...the girls were actual twins in real life. Both 12 years old.) Yet he (Kubrick) allowed/forgot that book line to still be put in the movie script for character Stuart Ullman even though it contradicted his movie adaptation for having *twins* in the role. Twins can't be different ages. So that line doesn't make sense. Get it? Take aspirin for any headaches.

I agree too. Its also not obvious the hotel is more than just haunted in the film or that the hotel wanted Danny. In the book its explicitly explained. I also hate the choice to kill Hallorann or leave out the hedge animals.

King can hold his breathe till he's blue in the face for " hating" Kubricks version, but in all honesty Stanley Kubrick's The Shining made Stephen King a house hold name.

In the book Jack wasn’t the one who went crazy it was like the Overlook was wearing Jack as a mask and slowly controlling his body and using him to get to Danny and become stronger. The real Jack was long dead before he did any harm. The book is very sad tbh

@@mo3bo Especially considering at the end Jack was able to break through and say goodbye.

Yes. I totally agree with that. They didn’t give jack a slow character development. He just went crazy right off. I kinda didn’t like the movie just cuz of that tbh.

I like that

That's brilliant, I love that angle.

that's a interesting take

It also summons Dick, so that Wendy and Danny have a way to escape

The reason why was Kubrick took libertys with the story , the book was written during his own alcohol issues and Kubrick made the story sterilized and you can't feel the tortured characters own fight for sanity. Watch his interview why he was not impressed.