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Got busy yesterday and missed this, but I'm jazzed to be catching it tonight. Perhaps unsurprisingly 👀, this is my favourite Horror Movie of all-time. I didn't read the book 'til later, but in my defense, I was only nine or ten the first time I watched this Classic. 😉😆🪓 Also, great intro. 🤣
Fun fact: Steven King was an alcoholic. Don't take it from me, he wrote this immediately after days worth of writing was ruined by a bottle spilled by a playing toddler. Steven King was not a well man. Fun fact: Kubrick was into subliminal advertising. He heard you could manipulate people to the snack bar by inserting images only subliminally seen. Kubrick was trying to make a subliminal movie.
King has a… theme. IT, The Gunslinger series, Insomnia, Night Shift, The Langoliers, Salems Lot, Cujo, Pet Semetary, Carrie. A lot of his stories are centered in Derry and Bangor, or connected all together in a really wild web, that you don’t really notice till you’ve read a lot of his stuff. And for whatever reason The Talisman, with Peter Straub and the Allahambra always sort of tickled my remembrance of The Overlook hotel.
Kubrick really tortured her for this performance. He needed her fear to be real. She was literally losing her hair from the stress of this performance.
What most people overlook is the fact that the hotel is the actual villain. When you look at it from that perspective, everything else begins to make perfect sense, as the Overlook keeps adding "permanent guests" throughout the decades.
@@jdssurf Stephen King hates this movie and thinks it's a poor adaptation of his novel, which is more sympathetic to Jack and shows him as almost a victim descending into madness.
@@jdssurf I believe he did choose it. Jack wants to be one of the "best people" (as Ullman put it) and hates his failures and his wife, who is a constant reminder of his shortcomings. He's more than willing- with some encouragement from the satanic forces of the hotel-- to sacrifice his family to "join that club" and quench their thirst for "red rum".
YES !!! That's a definite YES!!! 'My all-time favorite movie. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975) Jack Nicholson, Will Sampson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Brad Dourif, Scatman Crothers Please react to this - 💙
@@VladislavBabbitt 100% correct. And sad, but rich. Deep. There's an unspoken theme about sacrifice that i find in other great films like Eastwood's MILLION DOLLAR BABY. It's just the best.
What I’ve always assumed is Jack is the reincarnation of the guy in the picture at the end. Just as Charles Grady was almost certainly the reincarnation Delbert Grady. The Hotel always manages to call them back so that they can cause more death.
One interesting fact from the end of King's book is that Danny's full name is Daniel Anthony Torrance -- meaning Tony is Danny's older self (from his older teen years), gone back psychically to help his younger self through a difficult period.
I may need to read the book again, but I’m pretty sure that was a King approved twist for the mini series with Steven Weber, not from the book itself. I did see that mini series and this movie before finally reading the book
@@00rabbit7 If I remember correctly, it's in the book in the part where Jack's chasing him at the end. Tony shows himself to Danny more clearly than before, and Danny sees him as an older version of himself, halfway between him and his dad in appearance. Tony gives him a pep talk to keep going. It's not blatantly revealed, just insinuated by giving the full name with Anthony the middle name, as a longer version of 'Tony'.
You are the first young reactor that got the connection of "Here's Johnny" with Johnny Carson. Ed McMahon used to say it to introduce Carson on every episode of the Tonight Show.
One of the best horror movies all time. 39 years later Mike Flanagan directed the sequel "Doctor Sleep" based on the novel Stephen King wrote after a fan asked him "Did you ever consider what ever happened to Danny Torrence?" One of my favorite sequels...a must watch!
Ha! Funny you mention that. My name is also Mike Flanagan, but not the same guy. I wonder how many of my old acquaintenances think I went on to a great career in film.
Ames is the most insightful reactors. She figures out plot points then takes it beyond. She reacted to Casablanca noting as Rick was introduced that he was playing 'chess'. In her wrap she brought up 'chess' was a metaphor of the complex story. She does the same here. Brilliant.
Kubrick was a master and this film is filled with purposeful continuity errors. My favorite is when Dick the chef opens the pantry to show Wendy. He starts pulling the door one way, then the scene cuts to inside the pantry and the door swings the opposite way he was just pulling. Chairs move around the bar scene, the door he breaks into goes from one hole to two. And yes, the mirrors. All intentional. A horror film that takes place entirely in well lit rooms until the very end. Genius
This is a film that MUST be seen in a theater. If you want an insane experience, sit in the 2nd or 3rd row from the screen. When you're that close to the screen, the moment Wendy looks down at the typewriter is overwhelming.
When I saw it in the theater back in the day, the audience was literally screaming in terror. Some people fled to the lobby because it was too intense for them. People were so much less jaded and numb to violence back then.
Yes, the "Here's Johnny!" was referring to Johnny Carson. Nicholson had been a firefighter and knew how to use the axe. He chopped through the doors much quicker than they had planned. The use of the Steadicam in the hallway and maze shots was used very effectively. Kubrick treated Shelley Duvall horribly during the filming. Such a powerful film and amazing acting.
Second hand smoke was the 6th food group for Gen-X'ers. If you think smoking at the table was something, try a 6 hour flight back when smoking was allowed on airplanes.
Jesus Christ. I never thought of it that way, but damn if you aren't right. Restaurants, planes, I can vaguely remember people smoking at the grocery store. It was literally everywhere.
@@reverendB Smoking was allowed in HOSPITALS. Not in the patient rooms that I can remember, but I know there were areas where it was allowed. Definitely it was allowed in the lobby. Now you're not supposed to smoke or vape even outside if you're on hospital grounds.
@@reverendB I just remembered another one. In my high school, seniors during lunch period were allowed to go outside the cafeteria to a patio area and smoke. In my particular school, I don't remember any smoking going on in the boys room, but every time a girl went into or out of the girls room the hall would get a hit of smoke.
“Lotsa mazes” Fun fact, the internal layout of the hotel is physically impossible, but it’s not a set design or continuity mistake. Just Kubrick being Kubrick. You go where the Overlook wants you to go.
@ the aesthetic was inspired by the Ahwahnee in Yosemite, but all of the interior shots were sets built at Elstree Studios in the UK. The documentary “Room 237” discusses the intentional spacial irrationality.
Exterior of the Overlook is actually Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood. Some interior shots were in Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite while the rest were shot on soundstages in Borehamwood England at EMI Elstree Studios.
Stanley Kubrick did not fly. Only the big views over the exterior were shot in the US by a Second Unit, everything else was made in London (where Kubrick lived), including the closer look at the hotel exterior and the maze.
@@Oxmustube The only other actor I could think of besides Phillip Stone (Delbert Grady) to appear in two different Stanley Kubrick movies post-Clockwork Orange was Anthony Sharp. He played the Government Minister of the Interior in 'A Clockwork Orange' and Lord Hallam in 'Barry Lyndon.'
But I wonder how many know that Barry Nelson, who plays Stuart Ullman, was the very first James Bond in moving pictures, in the 1954 adaption of Casino Royal, a life performance on TV. This was 8 years before Sean Connery.
If you watch again closely, you'll notice early that Jack is caught looking directly at the camera, a huge no-no in film. It's split-second, but as the film goes along it happens more and more. Kubrick had this done purposely to add an unsettling feeling to the film, like "Jack" was noticing an audience. Of course, he is staring directly at us from the photo at the end.
Great reaction! FYI - the best way to understand the ending is to realize that Jack wasn't in the photo at the finale until after he died. Anyone who dies in the Overlook has "always been there."
Says who? Jack even said he had crazy deja vu for his interview "like he knew what was around every corner"...the evidence suggests the hotel reincarnated Jack AND Grady to bring it more victims (as revenge for putting it on a burial ground).
Thank you so much for saying it, people don't get that. Those people in the photograph died in the hotel the date is incidental. It's the show that their spirits are trapped in the hotel.
In regards to Jack and the Shining, the movie doesn't really have include, but the book alludes to the idea that Jack has the Shining like Danny. However, he is unable to deal with it, and it leads to his drinking problem.
There are so many very good/excellent Nicholson performances. One would be "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), which won 5 Oscars (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, best Screenplay). Louise Fletcher's performance made her one of the most memorable movie villiains.
This is some fascinating trivia. The prop department required a more robust door for Jack's scene because he was breaking through it too rapidly. Given Mr. Nicholson's prior experience as a firefighter, he was able to demonstrate the most effective method. To maintain Jack's agitated state, catering was instructed to provide him exclusively with ham and cheese sandwiches, or perhaps just cheese sandwiches, for lunch, considering his known aversion to them.
I’m one that subscribes to the theory that Jack “Shines” as well as Danny. Halloran’s conversation with Danny suggests the ability is one that is passed down. The hotel wants Danny (come and play with us..forever), but has found a way to get to him through Jack. Whether or not his previous alcoholism dulled his ability it is being awakened, yet he doesn’t know what it is and thus is driven mad.
This was the first Stephen King book I read. When I saw the movie. I realized how different it was from the book. At first, I didn’t like the changes. Then I gave it an another chance and liked the changes. Sometimes what works in a book doesn’t always work in the movies.
@ the hotel (or the spirits inside) are still violent entities reliant on consumption..so at the end of the film they expose themselves to Wendy, knowing/feeling she is screwed either way! Even if she sees them they know she has no power to fight them off, but alas Wendy has 0 shine.
@@TheSpookyBoiiThe novel implies that Wendy does have a shine. Not quite as strong as the others, but that means that Danny inherited it from both parents, which is why his is so strong
You may not notice but Kubrick did something cool. He moved furniture around in between shots or swapped furniture like you see a chair in the background, cut away and back, now it's a table. It was done to cause unease for the viewer.
Finally!!!! You're the first reactor I've seen that caught the large use of mirrors here! Using a large number of mirrors on the sets makes it very tricky to film scenes without catching reflections of the cameras or crew members
The mirrors seem to be a conduit to the evil spirits. They are prominent in the bedroom and at the bar. Even when Jack walks by them in the hallway to the Gold Room he is visibly angered.
One of the major changes from the book was that King made a big deal out of what Mr. Halloran had said -- that it's like pictures in a book. When Danny goes in to Room 237, the book follows him. He sees the lady in the bathtub, but (ISTR) doesn't freak out because he figures it's just an illusion. That's when he gets strangled.
That is a pretty terrifying scene. But I think Kubrick wanted to keep the audience guessing almost until the end if the evil spirits are all in Jack's mind. I think that was a good decision on Kubrick's part.
Ridley Scott didn't have enough money for helicopter footage for Blade Runner. So he phoned up Kubrick and Kubrick provided all unused portions of The Shining opening for Scott to use for free because he loved Scotts work so much. There are actually a few frames where part of the old beetle is visible in Blade Runner.
@@ripleyjlawman.3162To continue the point, Jack was relying on this cheap tactic to justify cutting him from the team, when confronted about it he’d denied it, but privately admitted to himself that if placed in front of God he’d insist he wasn’t doing it out of malice but out of pity, it’s only after Jack’s dishonest actions, that George does what the original commenter mentioned. Mickey 17 the creator
In the book (which I read before the movie came out) Scatman DOES save the family. So for those of us who read the book, it was quite a shock. Also, in the book, it wasn't a maze of hedges. It was hedges cut into the shapes of animals and they became animated.
'He almost looked at the camera', you said at one point. Someone recently analysed the film and Jack does this a few times so it must be deliberate - it's like we are the hotel ghosts and he knows we are watching him. Kubrick's so brilliant at making us feel uneasy throughout the film.
Kubrick pushed Shelly so hard she basically had a nervous breakdown while filming. There are tons of background ideas about this movie. Basically the hotel is so cursed and evil it traps the souls of any who die there. That's why Jack appears in the old picture at the end. The Overlook has him now. 😮 There's an interesting video looking at it all from Wendy's view. Won't spoil it, but it was a good watch.
@@tomyoung9049More like the I’m a huge misogynist who thinks I’m being clever by pulling a lame role reversal whilst I refuse to accept that the supernatural elements are real and not hallucinations or delusions of the ‘real’ abuser theory.
not a bicycle it's a Big Wheel and the front wheel would spin when you start so that's why he reaches back and pushes the back wheel to get it started ... and yes I am speaking from first hand knowledge as any kid from the 70's could tell you
2:39 Jack's background isn't explored in the movie like in the novel. Of course, given that the book and movie are very different (which Stephen King DEFINITELY didn't like), Jack's background in the movie may also be very different. But I figured I'd give you a little literary lesson. Jack was a prep school teacher in New England and a severe alcoholic (a trait he inherited from his abusive father). He finally quits drinking after he breaks Danny's arm and runs over a kid's bicycle on a dark road after a night of binge drinking with his friend Al Shockley. But the first few months off the bottle take a severe toll on his temper and mental health. During this time, Jack also coaches the debate team of his prep school, and he cuts a popular student named George Hatfield off the team due to a sudden stammer he develops while on the podium. Though Jack won't admit it, he really cuts George off the team out of jealousy for George's popularity and the bright future the rich boy has ahead of him. In retaliation, George knifes Jack's tires in the school parking lot and when Jack catches George in the act, he assaults George and is subsequently fired. Al Shockley is able to get Jack the job as the Overlook's winter caretaker since he sits on the hotel's board of directors. That's why his family is new to Colorado. They had to move there for the job.
@MATTHEW-rp3kq King basically laid everything out in the book, while Kubrick left pretty much everything to interpretation. I don't think either way is wrong and I think both the book and movie are effective in their own ways.
BS. You obviously don't know filmmaking. Why don't you look at the background in the movie and interpenetrate what you actually see? There is a lot there.
This is a great film, with amazing cinematography and direction. One particular technique was pointed out to me and I've never been able to forget it: when Jack is swinging the axe at the doors, the camera follows the axe swing back and forth, giving it a palpable weight and impact. Great stuff.
Shelley Duvall had a very difficult time emotionally making this movie, between the subject matter, the cast, and most of all the director. Stanley Kubrick could be a brutal task master in general doing take after take after take, could be dozens for one shot. It was so emotionally damaging for Shelley Duval on that set getting abused and gaslit over and over again, I think she actually had a breakdown. Thanks for your reaction Ames, always fun!
Part of this score was the Adagio of Bela Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; one of the genuine masterpieces of 20th Century classical music. It was written all the way back in 1937, yet works perfectly for a horror film made 40+ years later. Can't recommend the entire work enough. Bartok was one of those "way ahead of his time" guys.
Loved this reaction and your appreciation of Kubrick’s cinematography! You picked up on some great themes of the film. It’s a masterpiece and your reaction to it was so fun and satisfying. Thanks for being great! 🖖
Jack Nicholson ad-libbed the line "Here's Johnny!"-and yes, he got it from the Tonight Show. Kubrick said the photograph suggests Jack was the reincarnation of an earlier hotel official, so Charles Grady could have been the reincarnation of Delbert Grady. You have to love Jack as an actor.
i think the whole story was jacks book, charles grady was the name of the care taker according to the manager in the beginning, but changed it to delbert grady. seems to me if hes writing a book about a fictional story about a factual events he had to changes the name of the caretaker because of legal reasons
@@BubbaCoop a lot of them aren’t confirmed or can’t be confirmed, so we can’t call bs or not without knowing the truth from Kubrick. But yeah a lot of them sound like bs, like the film secretly being about the fake moon landing.
Yeah, for the exterior shots. Hardcore fans of the franchise need to visit the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, too, since it's the inspiration for the book. Plus, the miniseries was shot there. The Ahwahnee in California is a bonus since the movie sets were based on its interior.
The interior of the Overlook is based on/inspired by the Ahwahnee in Yosemite Valley which opened in 1927. I've never stayed there but I've had the Sunday brunch buffet in the dining room. It's as much of an attraction as Vernal Falls and Glacier Point.
The exterior of the hotel was shot at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in Oregon. I've been skiing there and it is tiny inside. And the exterior was rebuilt next to the hedge maze on a UK studio lot.
The Steadicam hand-held camera stabilization mount had been invented not long before production on this began. Kubrick had the camera mounted at the bottom of the rig, allowing a camera operator to move on foot at angles near the floor. He'd basically just jog along with the rig and be able to get smooth low tracking shots like following Danny on the tricycle or running through the maze without having to lay railroad-type tracks.
Yes but Akira Kurosawa is the one who first modified cameras to be able to make floor level shots to better capture two figures standing off in the same frame, then world’s later directors soon after all copied him
I wonder why they don't put a camera on a carriage with rubber tires so they don't have to lay track. It'd work great for indoor shots that have level floors.
Scatman Crothers is one to watch, I liked him in The Shootist, and that (IMO) is one of the few movies that John Wayne did a good job of acting in, plus it had Jimmy Stewart, Lauren Bacall and Ron Howard.
Jimmy Stewart was also good in The Man who Shot Liberty Valence, and Vera Miles did a good job as Jimmy's love interest, she was a great actress, she played a part in Psycho as well.
You MUST watch "Last Year at Marienbad". Kubrick himself said it really influenced him in making "The Shining". It's a BIG influence. Especially the centrality of a labyrinthine hotel. In and of itself, "Last Year at Marienbad" is a masterpiece. It won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival back in the early '60s. Very cryptic, very mysterious. Gorgeous. I think it's very close to being a perfect film. Highly experimental, people either love it, hate it, or both. One of the most radical films ever made. And Kubrick himself said it has a lot -- a lot a lot a lot -- to do with "The Shining."
It's funny how people react when the music crashes and the screen says "Tuesday." Has nobody ever felt like that on Tuesday before in real life? That's how I wake up. 😆
Reincarnation is not generally spoken of in the Western world, but King and Kubrick are specifically leading the viewing audience toward the obvious conclusion no matter how convoluted the story progresses. I remember bits and pieces of former lifetimes. So, this presentation appeals to me for the philosophy that Reincarnation does exist. 😮
In the 1989 BATMAN film, Nicholson again plays a man named "Jack" who goes through a psychotic transformation. In BATMAN, there is a scene at the chemical plant where Jack picks up an axe and swings it into a chemical vat. It was intentionally done as a fun imitation of his role in THE SHINING.
@@richardlukesh5807 fun fact: Nicholson didn’t wanna play Joker at first, so they teased Robin Williams with the role and he said yes. So they told Nicholson that Robin Williams was gonna take it so Nicholson accepted. So they just used Robin Williams as bait essentially 😞
The dramatic music that opens the film is an orchestral version of a Gregorian chant in Latin entitled the Dies Irae, which translates to “Day of Wrath.” It’s from the Catholic Requiem Mass for the dead. The heavy brass sounds at the beginning allude to the trumpet summoning souls before the throne of God for the Last Judgment.
DOCTOR SLEEP is an extraordinarily good sequel. It's amazing because the book is a sequel to the book and the movie is a sequel specifically to the movie (big differences in endings to The Shining). Both the book and the movie Doctor Sleep are incredibly satisfying.
The Shining was written by King with the title being an inspiration from John Lennon’s song, ‘Instant Karma.’ The song has the chorus, ‘And we all shine on…’ listen to it when you get a moment; it’s a banger. What I noticed by watching your reaction video that I hadn’t noticed before even though I’ve probably watched 90% or more of The Shining reaction videos on TH-cam, and having seen the film in its entirety 20 to 30 times: Wendy notices ghosts only after Halloran is axed. The Hotel’s strength to mess with the minds of people, to effect the material world increased after the murder. Before the axe murder, the Overllook could only be experienced by Danny, and Jack. Danny having the Shining, and Jack being of weak moral fabric, and a person already on the edge of evil. This ties in nicely with Jack and Danny having the same names in real life as their characters while Wendy is actually named Shelley. If you step into rabbit’s warren that is The Shining research hole, you may very well get lost and eventually freeze to death somewhere out there in that never ending labyrinth. The scale and scope of the myriad of theories and factoids is rivalled only by those of the Kennedy Assassination and the blurry world of Bigfoot. Thanks for making videos eh.
Very astute on the use of red. Most people don't notice that until doing deep analysis. So the idea is that something tragic happened in the Overlook in 1921 and that's the scene Wendy sees with all the corpses sitting dark room. Then in the winter of 1970-1971 Grady was hired to watch over the hotel and killed his family. Then he got incorporated into the photo and ballroom in 1921. Finally in 1979-1980 Jack became part of the hotel... But the hotel just absorbs them into its power so they were "always there" frozen in this 1921 image of the hotel July 4th ball. The shining in Kings universe allows people to communicate, see possible futures, connects people to nature and the multiple worlds, and in some worlds allows for extraordinary abilities. In the original work Danny has a very powerful shine that the spirit of the house wants to consume. Danny's shine is so powerful that it creates Tony, (which is Danny's middle name) which is actually described as a mirror reflection of Danny as an Adult. Tony takes over and safeguards Danny through the tragedy that he has to endure in life. After this story Danny's powers weaken or are repressed and he has a longer role in the King universe as Doctor Sleep. Many theorize that Jack and Wendy had some minor ability to shine, and that's why the hotel had some effect on them and why Danny has a strong power. The twins were probably also powerful shiners and their echo called out to Danny. Once Danny unlocked the door to 237 and entered the hotel fed off of Danny but Tony took over and got him out. But that gave enough power to enter Jack's mind to confuse reality and fantasy (that's the moment he has the vision of killing his family in the dream), and then the scene he sees Lloyd, and later Grady in cross from dream into Jack's reality. Jack first gives into the entity by drinking. Then he goes back for more "hair of the dog" letting them in more. Then you see he lets his psychosis take over in the restroom conversation. And then finally the moment he pledges fully to the entity the hotel unlocks the door and he has gone into complete mad bloodlust. Each of those stages requires Jack surrendering more to the hotel and giving it more power. Also notice the entity doesn't get into Wendy's head until the hotel has "fed" on Mr. Halloran. Of course the details of shining is of heavily built up upon in The Dark Tower series and a lot of the other King novels in the King universe. King actually hates this movie. He doesn't like how Kubrick told the story and switched its focus to be a psychological character progression of Jack and underplayed other characters in his universe. For King the focus was Danny, the shining, and the Hotel entities as the primary elements. This film was also an interesting departure for Kubrick. His other films all used a lot of very wide shots and heavy focus on geometry. Some of that geometry still exists in the sets, but he shot almost the entire film using steady cam and panning/tracking (the steadycam being just invented, and its inventor working as the DP on the film). In some ways it was the 'new toy' and discovering what it could do, but it also took Kubrick's usual grand space design and switched it from large wide establishing to much more panning and moving within those complex sets.
I love Scatman Crothers. He played a health inspector in Deadly Eyes from 1982, about a bunch of steroid ridden giant rats attacking the good folks of Toronto, played by wiener dogs in rat costumes. Scatman Crother’s is ironically wearing the same clothes as he did here when he gets attacked in that film. Fans of both films tend to point that out:) That being said, Stephen King had a few issues with Stanley’s film from Jack being a normal dude from the outset, to slowly going more insane, when in this film played by Jack Nicholson is a little eccentric to begin with. He also didn’t like the cold asthetic of the film, where his novel was warm. he even points out that the hotel freezes in the film, where the hotel burns in his novel. I love both the film and novel, and think they both have amazing things to offer:)
I wouldn't say book's Jack was just a normal dude. The alcoholism was there too, and he has more stories of violence in the book. The issue of the movie is not the script, it is that Jack was interpreted by Mr. Nicholson. It's true that King (having problems with alcohol himself) tried to portray Jack in a less negative light, but not everybody can buy that: according to what he did, he was equally derange, if not more, in the book as in the movie.
As I understand it the book (and made-for-tv movie) is all about the affect of alcoholism, and I think King didn't like the emphasis on the horror aspects. But it's been awhile since I read the book and watched his TV movie.
Holy crap - this reaction was damn perfect! I super enjoyed watching this on here! Had a great time. I first watched this movie when I was very young. I was such a youngster! Think that I was 10 or so. Another Kubrick film that I'd LOVE to see a reaction to would have to be A Clockwork Orange! Yes! Beware, the movie contains some very graphic scenes. If you can stomach those though - it's darn fine watch. An ex of mine back in high school brought it over to my place to watch with me. She super dug on it, I thought that it was crazy! :P
You're Awesome!! ❤ The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado was Kubrik's inspiration for the "Overlook Hotel" in the movie. The exterior shots were the Timberline Lodge in MT. Hood, Oregon. I've been told, the Stanley Hotel in Colorado is a great vacation spot if you're a fan of the movie. I have a friend that went, and I'd love to spends a week in the Winter there! 🌲❄🌲❄
Stellar work from one of the greatest directors of all time, Stanley Kubrick. Every movie he did was so uniquely different than the one that preceded it. He never was attached to one particular genre. This was his foray into horror, as '2001: A Space Odyssey is science fiction. The screenplay was an adaptation from Stephen King's novel. While the Stanley Hotel at Estes Park, CO is the inspiration for the book, the movie was not filmed there. Stanley Kubrick built the interior sets at EMI Elstree Studios in the UK. The exterior shots are of Timberline Lodge in Oregon, USA. The set for the Overlook Hotel was at the time the largest ever built at Elstree, including a life-size re-creation of the exterior of the hotel. The Colorado Lounge set at Elstree was badly damaged in a fire, causing a delay in the production. There are many cultural references and literary allusions such as 'Hansel and Gretel', 'The Three Little Pigs', 'Big Bad Wolf', the saying 'all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy', and 'here's Johnny', which was a homage to late night talk show host Johnny Carson, as to whenever Carson would start the show announcer Ed McMahon would announce 'here's Johnny' as he entered the stage. Great cast including Jack Nicholson, Shelly DuVall, Danny Lloyd as their son Danny Torrence, Scatman Crothers, and Phillip Stone as Delbert Grady, who was Alex DeLarge's father in the great Kubrick film 'A Clockwork Orange.' 'The Shining' was an inspiration for many films that came later which could be classified as 'psychological horror.' The Guinness Book of Records gave the record for the scene with the most retakes in cinematic history to the sequence where Wendy walks backward up the stairs fending off Jack with a baseball bat, at 127 times. Needless to say, Kubrick was highly dedicated to his craft.
The book is a much more tragic telling of this tale as Jack slowly sinks into the hotel's influence and you actually feel for the character as he seems just powerless against the will of the hotel. In this interpretation Jack looks friggin' nuts from frame one so, when he loses it and grabs the axe, it's hardly a surprise. Also, Doctor Sleep is a SUPERB sequel that dances the very difficult line of satisfying fans of both the book and the film.
This movie featured the first intentional use of infrasound in a soundtrack. Those are soundsoutside the audible spectrum, that are known to cause feelings of unesae, and, anxiety.
The Shelley Duvall performance was achieved from a lot of duress on Kubrick's part. He told the production staff to not talk to her or support her and he would berate her for doing a bad job so that she felt like she was alone and had nobody to turn to. It worked and it shows on the screen but she went though a lot, she had a nervous break down and her hair was falling out due to stress during production. It's wild what directors used to be able to do to their actors.
@@clarkness77 I take the phrasing that they've "always" been there as a destiny thing--Jack was always destined to become the caretaker and join the hotel, and his spirit is now trapped there with the other "partygoers."
why is jack in the last photo of the film the shining, one of the most popular explanations is that it represents the hotel “absorbing” Jack's soul. Although this makes sense, Kubrick himself has said the photo suggests Jack is a reincarnation of an earlier official at the hotel
Wrong. That was the case in the novel, yes. In the movie, Jack was evil from the start. We can clearly tell in the opening scene as they're driving to the hotel that he hates his family and has nothing but contempt for them.
I only saw this for the first time a couple of years ago. When I did, it totally blew me away. The cinematography is excellent. Sound design and score are great. The movie is just dripping with atmosphere. I love the design of the hotel, which was designed intentionally to be confusing. People have tried to map it out and they discovered that things don't match up the way they should. Definitely a bit of a creep fest, but it never horrified me like it did others. Probably because I waited to see it for so long.
Now watch DOCTOR SLEEP -and watch the directors cut. It's a spectacular film. And as someone who saw THE SHINING in the theater in 1980 and has loved it ever since - if you told me that a sequel to THE SHINING would be a good idea I would've thought you were crazy. But DOCTOR SLEEP is great and adds to the understanding of THE SHINING and it actually works on multiple levels as it brings King's book together with Kubrick's film (which King wasn't a fan of). Watch it soon with THE SHINING fresh in your mind. You'll LOVE it. D-
42:47 Dream role... If I heard correctly, Kubrick made this a nightmare for Duvall, on purpose. That it basically traumatized her. If I'm mistaken, someone please correct me.
Thanks so much, everyone for all your comments! It has been fun reading through them all!!!! Thanks so much for watching with me! so thankful to all of you guys!
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Got busy yesterday and missed this, but I'm jazzed to be catching it tonight. Perhaps unsurprisingly 👀, this is my favourite Horror Movie of all-time. I didn't read the book 'til later, but in my defense, I was only nine or ten the first time I watched this Classic. 😉😆🪓
Also, great intro. 🤣
The Dr. Sleep sequel is even better. Hope you check it out.
Fun fact: Steven King was an alcoholic. Don't take it from me, he wrote this immediately after days worth of writing was ruined by a bottle spilled by a playing toddler. Steven King was not a well man.
Fun fact: Kubrick was into subliminal advertising. He heard you could manipulate people to the snack bar by inserting images only subliminally seen.
Kubrick was trying to make a subliminal movie.
King has a… theme. IT, The Gunslinger series, Insomnia, Night Shift, The Langoliers, Salems Lot, Cujo, Pet Semetary, Carrie. A lot of his stories are centered in Derry and Bangor, or connected all together in a really wild web, that you don’t really notice till you’ve read a lot of his stuff. And for whatever reason The Talisman, with Peter Straub and the Allahambra always sort of tickled my remembrance of The Overlook hotel.
"Here's Johnny" was announcer Ed McMahon's introduction of Johnny Carson on the old Tonight Show.
Correct
And Jack Nicholson ad-libed that line himself (it was never in the original script).
Ed's nightly intro:
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That is right.
Rest in peace, Shelley Duvall.
Indeed yo…
Rest in pieces, little girls.
She was really great! I miss her 😢
Olive oil. In Popeye
Kubrick really tortured her for this performance.
He needed her fear to be real.
She was literally losing her hair from the stress of this performance.
"No beer, no TV, make Homer something something."
"Go crazy?"
"Don't mind if I do!"
Thank you!, I needed that laugh :)
"That's funny, usually the blood gets off on the second floor"
You stay in here until you're no longer insane. Mmm. Chili would be good tonight.
The Shinin'.
i need to re watch simpsons from the start! FR
What most people overlook is the fact that the hotel is the actual villain. When you look at it from that perspective, everything else begins to make perfect sense, as the Overlook keeps adding "permanent guests" throughout the decades.
I know, so many ppl just hate jack lol, like he chose to be like this
@@jdssurf Stephen King hates this movie and thinks it's a poor adaptation of his novel, which is more sympathetic to Jack and shows him as almost a victim descending into madness.
@@shawnpatrick1877 Yes the book is quite different and I can see why he hated it as an 'adaptation' of his work.
@@jdssurf To be fair, he had a history of abuse before he went up there.
@@jdssurf I believe he did choose it. Jack wants to be one of the "best people" (as Ullman put it) and hates his failures and his wife, who is a constant reminder of his shortcomings. He's more than willing- with some encouragement from the satanic forces of the hotel-- to sacrifice his family to "join that club" and quench their thirst for "red rum".
You know a horror movie is good when the audience is frightened by TUESDAY.
:D you have expertly distilled every The Shining reaction. Tuesday is effing TERRIFYING when it comes.
TUESDAY: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy the Jump Cut.
I don't know, Tuesday can be pretty scary
whoof! you got me there
@@markcarpenter6020 Yes... it is tomorrow... are we in Belgium?...
Another young Jack movie to check out is "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". All star cast and a great movie as well.
Which is also another movie in Scatman _Crother's_ filmography.
YES !!! That's a definite YES!!!
'My all-time favorite movie.
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975) Jack Nicholson,
Will Sampson, Louise Fletcher,
Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd,
Brad Dourif, Scatman Crothers
Please react to this -
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He was not young back then, LOL.
It is a very sad movie.
Nurse Ratched was the actual insane one.
@@VladislavBabbitt
100% correct.
And sad, but rich. Deep.
There's an unspoken theme about sacrifice that i find in other great films like Eastwood's MILLION DOLLAR BABY.
It's just the best.
“But don’t you be reading my mind between the hours of 4 and 5. That’s Willie’s time!”
Be careful quoting Willie, do you wanna get sued?
@@scottishfilmhistorianbeat me to it haha
@@scottishfilmhistorianWell played, sir.
The Shin ninn. Lol
Remember, Jack said he had amazing deja vu, when he first entered the hotel "like he knew what's around every corner".
YES
What I’ve always assumed is Jack is the reincarnation of the guy in the picture at the end. Just as Charles Grady was almost certainly the reincarnation Delbert Grady. The Hotel always manages to call them back so that they can cause more death.
Correct.
And Delbert Grady told Jack "You have always been the caretaker."
After this, you should watch Doctor Sleep. It's a sequel to The Shining, and it's really underrated
Yes indeed. The focus that evil seems to have on the innocent is chilling.
Yes. I didn't care for Doctor Sleep the first time I watched it. But I enjoyed it a LOT more on a second viewing.
It's nowhere near as good as Kubrick's masterpiece.
@@dan_hitchman007 Of course not. But I did like it a lot more on the second watch.
I think it's appropriately rated, fell asleep twice during it.
You like the mirrors. Every time Jack is talking to a ghost, he's actually looking at himself in the mirror.
One interesting fact from the end of King's book is that Danny's full name is Daniel Anthony Torrance -- meaning Tony is Danny's older self (from his older teen years), gone back psychically to help his younger self through a difficult period.
Dr. Sleep foreshadowing.
@@aftonair Correct.
In the novel, Tony is the name of a man killed in the Overlook by gangsters.
I may need to read the book again, but I’m pretty sure that was a King approved twist for the mini series with Steven Weber, not from the book itself. I did see that mini series and this movie before finally reading the book
@@00rabbit7 If I remember correctly, it's in the book in the part where Jack's chasing him at the end. Tony shows himself to Danny more clearly than before, and Danny sees him as an older version of himself, halfway between him and his dad in appearance. Tony gives him a pep talk to keep going. It's not blatantly revealed, just insinuated by giving the full name with Anthony the middle name, as a longer version of 'Tony'.
You are the first young reactor that got the connection of "Here's Johnny" with Johnny Carson. Ed McMahon used to say it to introduce Carson on every episode of the Tonight Show.
I just made the same comment. That piece of pop culture seems to have died mid-Gen X!
Yes it’s so strange to think that everyone heard that intro every night for 30 years, and now it’s no longer common knowledge.
It also works without that context since the actual name of the character is _John_ Daniel Torrance.
One of the best horror movies all time. 39 years later Mike Flanagan directed the sequel "Doctor Sleep" based on the novel Stephen King wrote after a fan asked him "Did you ever consider what ever happened to Danny Torrence?" One of my favorite sequels...a must watch!
Ha! Funny you mention that. My name is also Mike Flanagan, but not the same guy. I wonder how many of my old acquaintenances think I went on to a great career in film.
@mwflanagan1 haha nice...just go on and sign autographs 🤣
Ames is the most insightful reactors. She figures out plot points then takes it beyond. She reacted to Casablanca noting as Rick was introduced that he was playing 'chess'. In her wrap she brought up 'chess' was a metaphor of the complex story. She does the same here. Brilliant.
Kubrick was a master and this film is filled with purposeful continuity errors. My favorite is when Dick the chef opens the pantry to show Wendy. He starts pulling the door one way, then the scene cuts to inside the pantry and the door swings the opposite way he was just pulling. Chairs move around the bar scene, the door he breaks into goes from one hole to two. And yes, the mirrors. All intentional. A horror film that takes place entirely in well lit rooms until the very end. Genius
This is a film that MUST be seen in a theater.
If you want an insane experience, sit in the 2nd or 3rd row from the screen. When you're that close to the screen, the moment Wendy looks down at the typewriter is overwhelming.
Saw it at the cinema a few months ago. Totally mind blowing.
When I saw it in the theater back in the day, the audience was literally screaming in terror. Some people fled to the lobby because it was too intense for them. People were so much less jaded and numb to violence back then.
aw dam, I've never seen it in the theater, I would love to! I know the actually big screen changes the whole experience! Yer lucky!
@norwegianblue2017 kind of like the reaction to The Exorcist.
To be fair, Jack is still a better writer than the current incumbents working on Doctor Who.
Yes, the "Here's Johnny!" was referring to Johnny Carson. Nicholson had been a firefighter and knew how to use the axe. He chopped through the doors much quicker than they had planned. The use of the Steadicam in the hallway and maze shots was used very effectively. Kubrick treated Shelley Duvall horribly during the filming. Such a powerful film and amazing acting.
Second hand smoke was the 6th food group for Gen-X'ers. If you think smoking at the table was something, try a 6 hour flight back when smoking was allowed on airplanes.
IKR
Jesus Christ. I never thought of it that way, but damn if you aren't right. Restaurants, planes, I can vaguely remember people smoking at the grocery store. It was literally everywhere.
@@reverendB Yes, I know.
My parents were specialist doctors who knew how bad it was but kept doing it anyway.
@@reverendB Smoking was allowed in HOSPITALS. Not in the patient rooms that I can remember, but I know there were areas where it was allowed. Definitely it was allowed in the lobby. Now you're not supposed to smoke or vape even outside if you're on hospital grounds.
@@reverendB I just remembered another one. In my high school, seniors during lunch period were allowed to go outside the cafeteria to a patio area and smoke. In my particular school, I don't remember any smoking going on in the boys room, but every time a girl went into or out of the girls room the hall would get a hit of smoke.
“Lotsa mazes” Fun fact, the internal layout of the hotel is physically impossible, but it’s not a set design or continuity mistake. Just Kubrick being Kubrick. You go where the Overlook wants you to go.
real hotel but not named the overlook,
@ the aesthetic was inspired by the Ahwahnee in Yosemite, but all of the interior shots were sets built at Elstree Studios in the UK. The documentary “Room 237” discusses the intentional spacial irrationality.
Exterior of the Overlook is actually Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood. Some interior shots were in Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite while the rest were shot on soundstages in Borehamwood England at EMI Elstree Studios.
@@MATTHEW-rp3kq Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood just for exterior shots.
Stanley Kubrick did not fly. Only the big views over the exterior were shot in the US by a Second Unit, everything else was made in London (where Kubrick lived), including the closer look at the hotel exterior and the maze.
Fun fact: the actor playing Lloyd also played Mr Tyrell in _Blade Runner_
And Grady is played by the actor who played Alex's father in a clockwork orange.
Holy crap, I recognized the Clockwork Orange character years ago, but not the Blade Runner one.
@@Oxmustube The only other actor I could think of besides Phillip Stone (Delbert Grady) to appear in two different Stanley Kubrick movies post-Clockwork Orange was Anthony Sharp. He played the Government Minister of the Interior in 'A Clockwork Orange' and Lord Hallam in 'Barry Lyndon.'
But I wonder how many know that Barry Nelson, who plays Stuart Ullman, was the very first James Bond in moving pictures, in the 1954 adaption of Casino Royal, a life performance on TV. This was 8 years before Sean Connery.
idk how i never noticed that wow
If you watch again closely, you'll notice early that Jack is caught looking directly at the camera, a huge no-no in film. It's split-second, but as the film goes along it happens more and more. Kubrick had this done purposely to add an unsettling feeling to the film, like "Jack" was noticing an audience. Of course, he is staring directly at us from the photo at the end.
Great reaction! FYI - the best way to understand the ending is to realize that Jack wasn't in the photo at the finale until after he died. Anyone who dies in the Overlook has "always been there."
Says who? Jack even said he had crazy deja vu for his interview "like he knew what was around every corner"...the evidence suggests the hotel reincarnated Jack AND Grady to bring it more victims (as revenge for putting it on a burial ground).
Thank you so much for saying it, people don't get that. Those people in the photograph died in the hotel the date is incidental. It's the show that their spirits are trapped in the hotel.
Damn interesting. Never thought about it that way..
No, that's not it.
There's no way those thousands of people died in that hotel
In regards to Jack and the Shining, the movie doesn't really have include, but the book alludes to the idea that Jack has the Shining like Danny. However, he is unable to deal with it, and it leads to his drinking problem.
Read the book again. It does not allude to the idea that Jack has the shining. It actually states that Jack does have the shining. Big difference.
There are so many very good/excellent Nicholson performances. One would be "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), which won 5 Oscars (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, best Screenplay). Louise Fletcher's performance made her one of the most memorable movie villiains.
This is some fascinating trivia.
The prop department required a more robust door for Jack's scene because he was breaking through it too rapidly. Given Mr. Nicholson's prior experience as a firefighter, he was able to demonstrate the most effective method.
To maintain Jack's agitated state, catering was instructed to provide him exclusively with ham and cheese sandwiches, or perhaps just cheese sandwiches, for lunch, considering his known aversion to them.
I’m one that subscribes to the theory that Jack “Shines” as well as Danny. Halloran’s conversation with Danny suggests the ability is one that is passed down. The hotel wants Danny (come and play with us..forever), but has found a way to get to him through Jack. Whether or not his previous alcoholism dulled his ability it is being awakened, yet he doesn’t know what it is and thus is driven mad.
This was the first Stephen King book I read. When I saw the movie. I realized how different it was from the book. At first, I didn’t like the changes. Then I gave it an another chance and liked the changes. Sometimes what works in a book doesn’t always work in the movies.
Jack Torrance also has the Shining.
Jack has psychic abilities that interact with the hotel's, causing his mind to break.
Yes and his son Inherited the ability. Early on we should've known if Danny had it, then daddy must have it too.
Yes!, and Jack used his addiction to alcohol to dilute his “shine” which is why Dick couldn’t tell for sure.
Okay, so why does Wendy start seeing things near the end? She doesn't have The Shining.
@ the hotel (or the spirits inside) are still violent entities reliant on consumption..so at the end of the film they expose themselves to Wendy, knowing/feeling she is screwed either way! Even if she sees them they know she has no power to fight them off, but alas Wendy has 0 shine.
@@TheSpookyBoiiThe novel implies that Wendy does have a shine. Not quite as strong as the others, but that means that Danny inherited it from both parents, which is why his is so strong
You may not notice but Kubrick did something cool. He moved furniture around in between shots or swapped furniture like you see a chair in the background, cut away and back, now it's a table. It was done to cause unease for the viewer.
The recent sequel Doctor Sleep was really good, far better than I was expecting. Not on the level of this movie but a solid thriller/horror.
Personally, I felt it was unnecessary.
@@kiillabytez Telling Stephen King he shouldn't continue his own story is unnecessary.
Finally!!!! You're the first reactor I've seen that caught the large use of mirrors here!
Using a large number of mirrors on the sets makes it very tricky to film scenes without catching reflections of the cameras or crew members
The mirrors seem to be a conduit to the evil spirits. They are prominent in the bedroom and at the bar. Even when Jack walks by them in the hallway to the Gold Room he is visibly angered.
There's obviously a lot of self interpretation with this one but in short, Jack is part of the hotel. Past, Present, and Future.
Alcohol made Jack weak. The evil in that place preyed on that.
@@haitolawrence5986 but....there was no alcohol
I agree, and same for Grady....the Hotel used them to bring it fresh victims (as payment/revenge for building it on a burial ground).
How does a ghost get married tho?
@@clarkness77 Jack and Grady were reincar-nated by the Hotel
One of the major changes from the book was that King made a big deal out of what Mr. Halloran had said -- that it's like pictures in a book. When Danny goes in to Room 237, the book follows him. He sees the lady in the bathtub, but (ISTR) doesn't freak out because he figures it's just an illusion. That's when he gets strangled.
That is a pretty terrifying scene. But I think Kubrick wanted to keep the audience guessing almost until the end if the evil spirits are all in Jack's mind. I think that was a good decision on Kubrick's part.
Ridley Scott didn't have enough money for helicopter footage for Blade Runner. So he phoned up Kubrick and Kubrick provided all unused portions of The Shining opening for Scott to use for free because he loved Scotts work so much. There are actually a few frames where part of the old beetle is visible in Blade Runner.
And I’m so glad they got rid of that asinine ending for the director’s cut of Blade Runner that the studio made them tack on the theatrical release.
In the book, Jack had to leave Vermont because he assaulted a student who vandalized his car.
How dare he.
@@jeffreiland7463He’d been setting the clock ahead during debates so that the kid wouldn’t be able to finish, (because he stuttered.)
@@ripleyjlawman.3162To continue the point, Jack was relying on this cheap tactic to justify cutting him from the team, when confronted about it he’d denied it, but privately admitted to himself that if placed in front of God he’d insist he wasn’t doing it out of malice but out of pity, it’s only after Jack’s dishonest actions, that George does what the original commenter mentioned.
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In the book (which I read before the movie came out) Scatman DOES save the family. So for those of us who read the book, it was quite a shock. Also, in the book, it wasn't a maze of hedges. It was hedges cut into the shapes of animals and they became animated.
'He almost looked at the camera', you said at one point. Someone recently analysed the film and Jack does this a few times so it must be deliberate - it's like we are the hotel ghosts and he knows we are watching him. Kubrick's so brilliant at making us feel uneasy throughout the film.
Can't believe you cursed out Tony. Not Cool, He helped comfort Danny when sh*t was going down, way more than Wendy.
But Wendy is a woman and that's more important in this reactor's mind.
Kubrick pushed Shelly so hard she basically had a nervous breakdown while filming.
There are tons of background ideas about this movie. Basically the hotel is so cursed and evil it traps the souls of any who die there. That's why Jack appears in the old picture at the end. The Overlook has him now. 😮 There's an interesting video looking at it all from Wendy's view. Won't spoil it, but it was a good watch.
What is the name of the movie and where can I see or buy it?
@ElectroT0y saw it on TH-cam, called the Wendy theory .
@@tomyoung9049More like the I’m a huge misogynist who thinks I’m being clever by pulling a lame role reversal whilst I refuse to accept that the supernatural elements are real and not hallucinations or delusions of the ‘real’ abuser theory.
not a bicycle it's a Big Wheel and the front wheel would spin when you start so that's why he reaches back and pushes the back wheel to get it started ... and yes I am speaking from first hand knowledge as any kid from the 70's could tell you
2:39 Jack's background isn't explored in the movie like in the novel. Of course, given that the book and movie are very different (which Stephen King DEFINITELY didn't like), Jack's background in the movie may also be very different. But I figured I'd give you a little literary lesson.
Jack was a prep school teacher in New England and a severe alcoholic (a trait he inherited from his abusive father). He finally quits drinking after he breaks Danny's arm and runs over a kid's bicycle on a dark road after a night of binge drinking with his friend Al Shockley. But the first few months off the bottle take a severe toll on his temper and mental health. During this time, Jack also coaches the debate team of his prep school, and he cuts a popular student named George Hatfield off the team due to a sudden stammer he develops while on the podium. Though Jack won't admit it, he really cuts George off the team out of jealousy for George's popularity and the bright future the rich boy has ahead of him. In retaliation, George knifes Jack's tires in the school parking lot and when Jack catches George in the act, he assaults George and is subsequently fired. Al Shockley is able to get Jack the job as the Overlook's winter caretaker since he sits on the hotel's board of directors. That's why his family is new to Colorado. They had to move there for the job.
like the ending . jack didnt freeze to death, he died when the furnace exploded
@MATTHEW-rp3kq King basically laid everything out in the book, while Kubrick left pretty much everything to interpretation. I don't think either way is wrong and I think both the book and movie are effective in their own ways.
BS. You obviously don't know filmmaking. Why don't you look at the background in the movie and interpenetrate what you actually see? There is a lot there.
That's a pretty good background synopsis. The book really has a different tone when Jack is interviewing for the job.
@@torbjornkvist Why don't you learn what words exist and don't exist before you lecture someone?
This is a film that rewards you for watching it again. There are so many hidden things in the background and themes to uncover.
This is a great film, with amazing cinematography and direction. One particular technique was pointed out to me and I've never been able to forget it: when Jack is swinging the axe at the doors, the camera follows the axe swing back and forth, giving it a palpable weight and impact. Great stuff.
It's pretty much a recreation of a scene in, The Phantom Carriage. There is, or was, a side by side comparision video on youtube.
Shelley Duvall had a very difficult time emotionally making this movie, between the subject matter, the cast, and most of all the director. Stanley Kubrick could be a brutal task master in general doing take after take after take, could be dozens for one shot. It was so emotionally damaging for Shelley Duval on that set getting abused and gaslit over and over again, I think she actually had a breakdown.
Thanks for your reaction Ames, always fun!
Part of this score was the Adagio of Bela Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; one of the genuine masterpieces of 20th Century classical music. It was written all the way back in 1937, yet works perfectly for a horror film made 40+ years later. Can't recommend the entire work enough. Bartok was one of those "way ahead of his time" guys.
Mr. Hallorann is played by Scatman Crothers, one of the singers/cats in 'Everybody wants to be a Cat' from Aristocats.
And the original voice of Jazz from Transformers, among other roles.
Loved this reaction and your appreciation of Kubrick’s cinematography! You picked up on some great themes of the film. It’s a masterpiece and your reaction to it was so fun and satisfying. Thanks for being great! 🖖
Thank you so much
Jack Nicholson ad-libbed the line "Here's Johnny!"-and yes, he got it from the Tonight Show. Kubrick said the photograph suggests Jack was the reincarnation of an earlier hotel official, so Charles Grady could have been the reincarnation of Delbert Grady. You have to love Jack as an actor.
Think bodily fluids when you see red and white. Kubrick sends so many message within a film. It is amazing.
i think the whole story was jacks book, charles grady was the name of the care taker according to the manager in the beginning, but changed it to delbert grady. seems to me if hes writing a book about a fictional story about a factual events he had to changes the name of the caretaker because of legal reasons
Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" and "Barry Lyndon" are must-watch. Please don't sleep on those.
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The documentary "Room 237" is a must watch.
It is a lot like The Shining. It pulls you further into madness the longer you watch it.
I love that documentary! I recommended it too.
Though the fan theories are 99% BS
@@BubbaCoop a lot of them aren’t confirmed or can’t be confirmed, so we can’t call bs or not without knowing the truth from Kubrick. But yeah a lot of them sound like bs, like the film secretly being about the fake moon landing.
I find it ranges from kinda interesting, to downright insane. Worth a watch overall though.
Yes it is a real Hotel. Timberline Lodge at Timberline ski resort Mt. Hood Oregon. Always been my favorite place to ski/snowboard.
Yeah, for the exterior shots. Hardcore fans of the franchise need to visit the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, too, since it's the inspiration for the book. Plus, the miniseries was shot there. The Ahwahnee in California is a bonus since the movie sets were based on its interior.
The sets built for this movie are beyond incredible. Ps - when the !!!TUESDAY!!! title card came up - your reaction was priceless! :D 13:39
got me like JAWS! LMAOOO
The interior of the Overlook is based on/inspired by the Ahwahnee in Yosemite Valley which opened in 1927.
I've never stayed there but I've had the Sunday brunch buffet in the dining room. It's as much of an attraction as Vernal Falls and Glacier Point.
The exterior of the hotel was shot at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in Oregon. I've been skiing there and it is tiny inside. And the exterior was rebuilt next to the hedge maze on a UK studio lot.
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This is literally my favorite movie ever. It’s a masterpiece. Timeless gem 💎
Jack Nicholson DEFINITELY looks right at the camera a few times and its so quick but so creeeeepy, its brilliant.
He did it on purpose.
@@dan_hitchman007 Yes that's what I'm saying.
One of the best reactions I’ve seen to ‘The Shining’, easily one of my favorite films.
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The Steadicam hand-held camera stabilization mount had been invented not long before production on this began. Kubrick had the camera mounted at the bottom of the rig, allowing a camera operator to move on foot at angles near the floor.
He'd basically just jog along with the rig and be able to get smooth low tracking shots like following Danny on the tricycle or running through the maze without having to lay railroad-type tracks.
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Yes but Akira Kurosawa is the one who first modified cameras to be able to make floor level shots to better capture two figures standing off in the same frame, then world’s later directors soon after all copied him
There are photos of it and him. For anyone curious about it.
@@holddowna I never made the connection between the maze on the hotel grounds and the confusion in Jack's mind. Good insight.
I wonder why they don't put a camera on a carriage with rubber tires so they don't have to lay track. It'd work great for indoor shots that have level floors.
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The kid Danny Lloyd was great in this movie, especially that scene with Scatman Crothers where they're talking about those who "Shine".
Scatman Crothers is one to watch, I liked him in The Shootist, and that (IMO) is one of the few movies that John Wayne did a good job of acting in, plus it had Jimmy Stewart, Lauren Bacall and Ron Howard.
Jimmy Stewart was also good in The Man who Shot Liberty Valence, and Vera Miles did a good job as Jimmy's love interest, she was a great actress, she played a part in Psycho as well.
You MUST watch "Last Year at Marienbad". Kubrick himself said it really influenced him in making "The Shining". It's a BIG influence. Especially the centrality of a labyrinthine hotel. In and of itself, "Last Year at Marienbad" is a masterpiece. It won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival back in the early '60s. Very cryptic, very mysterious. Gorgeous. I think it's very close to being a perfect film. Highly experimental, people either love it, hate it, or both. One of the most radical films ever made. And Kubrick himself said it has a lot -- a lot a lot a lot -- to do with "The Shining."
It's funny how people react when the music crashes and the screen says "Tuesday."
Has nobody ever felt like that on Tuesday before in real life? That's how I wake up. 😆
Reincarnation is not generally spoken of in the Western world, but King and Kubrick are specifically leading the viewing audience toward the obvious conclusion no matter how convoluted the story progresses. I remember bits and pieces of former lifetimes. So, this presentation appeals to me for the philosophy that Reincarnation does exist. 😮
In the 1989 BATMAN film, Nicholson again plays a man named "Jack" who goes through a psychotic transformation. In BATMAN, there is a scene at the chemical plant where Jack picks up an axe and swings it into a chemical vat. It was intentionally done as a fun imitation of his role in THE SHINING.
The next time you watch Toy Story pay attention to the carpet in Sid's house.
@@88wildcat Will do. Thank you.
@@richardlukesh5807 fun fact: Nicholson didn’t wanna play Joker at first, so they teased Robin Williams with the role and he said yes. So they told Nicholson that Robin Williams was gonna take it so Nicholson accepted.
So they just used Robin Williams as bait essentially 😞
@nsasupporter7557 Wow, that's crazy! I never knew that. LOL!!! Thanks. 😊
@@richardlukesh5807 yes, it’s so screwed up what Hollywood does to some people
That opening scene alone sends shivers up your spine!!!
The dramatic music that opens the film is an orchestral version of a Gregorian chant in Latin entitled the Dies Irae, which translates to “Day of Wrath.” It’s from the Catholic Requiem Mass for the dead. The heavy brass sounds at the beginning allude to the trumpet summoning souls before the throne of God for the Last Judgment.
Kubrick's daughter wrote the score to the film under a different name.
DOCTOR SLEEP is an extraordinarily good sequel. It's amazing because the book is a sequel to the book and the movie is a sequel specifically to the movie (big differences in endings to The Shining). Both the book and the movie Doctor Sleep are incredibly satisfying.
The Shining was written by King with the title being an inspiration from John Lennon’s song, ‘Instant Karma.’ The song has the chorus, ‘And we all shine on…’ listen to it when you get a moment; it’s a banger.
What I noticed by watching your reaction video that I hadn’t noticed before even though I’ve probably watched 90% or more of The Shining reaction videos on TH-cam, and having seen the film in its entirety 20 to 30 times: Wendy notices ghosts only after Halloran is axed. The Hotel’s strength to mess with the minds of people, to effect the material world increased after the murder. Before the axe murder, the Overllook could only be experienced by Danny, and Jack. Danny having the Shining, and Jack being of weak moral fabric, and a person already on the edge of evil. This ties in nicely with Jack and Danny having the same names in real life as their characters while Wendy is actually named Shelley.
If you step into rabbit’s warren that is The Shining research hole, you may very well get lost and eventually freeze to death somewhere out there in that never ending labyrinth. The scale and scope of the myriad of theories and factoids is rivalled only by those of the Kennedy Assassination and the blurry world of Bigfoot.
Thanks for making videos eh.
Very astute on the use of red. Most people don't notice that until doing deep analysis. So the idea is that something tragic happened in the Overlook in 1921 and that's the scene Wendy sees with all the corpses sitting dark room. Then in the winter of 1970-1971 Grady was hired to watch over the hotel and killed his family. Then he got incorporated into the photo and ballroom in 1921. Finally in 1979-1980 Jack became part of the hotel... But the hotel just absorbs them into its power so they were "always there" frozen in this 1921 image of the hotel July 4th ball.
The shining in Kings universe allows people to communicate, see possible futures, connects people to nature and the multiple worlds, and in some worlds allows for extraordinary abilities. In the original work Danny has a very powerful shine that the spirit of the house wants to consume. Danny's shine is so powerful that it creates Tony, (which is Danny's middle name) which is actually described as a mirror reflection of Danny as an Adult. Tony takes over and safeguards Danny through the tragedy that he has to endure in life. After this story Danny's powers weaken or are repressed and he has a longer role in the King universe as Doctor Sleep.
Many theorize that Jack and Wendy had some minor ability to shine, and that's why the hotel had some effect on them and why Danny has a strong power. The twins were probably also powerful shiners and their echo called out to Danny. Once Danny unlocked the door to 237 and entered the hotel fed off of Danny but Tony took over and got him out. But that gave enough power to enter Jack's mind to confuse reality and fantasy (that's the moment he has the vision of killing his family in the dream), and then the scene he sees Lloyd, and later Grady in cross from dream into Jack's reality. Jack first gives into the entity by drinking. Then he goes back for more "hair of the dog" letting them in more. Then you see he lets his psychosis take over in the restroom conversation. And then finally the moment he pledges fully to the entity the hotel unlocks the door and he has gone into complete mad bloodlust. Each of those stages requires Jack surrendering more to the hotel and giving it more power. Also notice the entity doesn't get into Wendy's head until the hotel has "fed" on Mr. Halloran. Of course the details of shining is of heavily built up upon in The Dark Tower series and a lot of the other King novels in the King universe.
King actually hates this movie. He doesn't like how Kubrick told the story and switched its focus to be a psychological character progression of Jack and underplayed other characters in his universe. For King the focus was Danny, the shining, and the Hotel entities as the primary elements.
This film was also an interesting departure for Kubrick. His other films all used a lot of very wide shots and heavy focus on geometry. Some of that geometry still exists in the sets, but he shot almost the entire film using steady cam and panning/tracking (the steadycam being just invented, and its inventor working as the DP on the film). In some ways it was the 'new toy' and discovering what it could do, but it also took Kubrick's usual grand space design and switched it from large wide establishing to much more panning and moving within those complex sets.
I love Scatman Crothers. He played a health inspector in Deadly Eyes from 1982, about a bunch of steroid ridden giant rats attacking the good folks of Toronto, played by wiener dogs in rat costumes. Scatman Crother’s is ironically wearing the same clothes as he did here when he gets attacked in that film. Fans of both films tend to point that out:) That being said, Stephen King had a few issues with Stanley’s film from Jack being a normal dude from the outset, to slowly going more insane, when in this film played by Jack Nicholson is a little eccentric to begin with. He also didn’t like the cold asthetic of the film, where his novel was warm. he even points out that the hotel freezes in the film, where the hotel burns in his novel. I love both the film and novel, and think they both have amazing things to offer:)
I wouldn't say book's Jack was just a normal dude. The alcoholism was there too, and he has more stories of violence in the book. The issue of the movie is not the script, it is that Jack was interpreted by Mr. Nicholson. It's true that King (having problems with alcohol himself) tried to portray Jack in a less negative light, but not everybody can buy that: according to what he did, he was equally derange, if not more, in the book as in the movie.
Jack Nickleson is such an amazing actor with so many memorable performances. ThIs one and him in One Flew Over the Cockoo's Nest are two of his best.
For better or for worse, Nicholson's portrayal of Jack Torrance reminds me exactly of my father.
As I understand it the book (and made-for-tv movie) is all about the affect of alcoholism, and I think King didn't like the emphasis on the horror aspects. But it's been awhile since I read the book and watched his TV movie.
Holy crap - this reaction was damn perfect! I super enjoyed watching this on here! Had a great time.
I first watched this movie when I was very young. I was such a youngster! Think that I was 10 or so. Another Kubrick film that I'd LOVE to see a reaction to would have to be A Clockwork Orange! Yes! Beware, the movie contains some very graphic scenes. If you can stomach those though - it's darn fine watch. An ex of mine back in high school brought it over to my place to watch with me. She super dug on it, I thought that it was crazy! :P
Great intro!!! 🤣🤣🤣
LMAOO TONY!
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You're Awesome!! ❤ The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado was Kubrik's inspiration for the "Overlook Hotel" in the movie. The exterior shots were the Timberline Lodge in MT. Hood, Oregon. I've been told, the Stanley Hotel in Colorado is a great vacation spot if you're a fan of the movie. I have a friend that went, and I'd love to spends a week in the Winter there! 🌲❄🌲❄
Not a drone either , old school helicopters. For opening
Stellar work from one of the greatest directors of all time, Stanley Kubrick. Every movie he did was so uniquely different than the one that preceded it. He never was attached to one particular genre. This was his foray into horror, as '2001: A Space Odyssey is science fiction. The screenplay was an adaptation from Stephen King's novel.
While the Stanley Hotel at Estes Park, CO is the inspiration for the book, the movie was not filmed there. Stanley Kubrick built the interior sets at EMI Elstree Studios in the UK. The exterior shots are of Timberline Lodge in Oregon, USA. The set for the Overlook Hotel was at the time the largest ever built at Elstree, including a life-size re-creation of the exterior of the hotel. The Colorado Lounge set at Elstree was badly damaged in a fire, causing a delay in the production.
There are many cultural references and literary allusions such as 'Hansel and Gretel', 'The Three Little Pigs', 'Big Bad Wolf', the saying 'all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy', and 'here's Johnny', which was a homage to late night talk show host Johnny Carson, as to whenever Carson would start the show announcer Ed McMahon would announce 'here's Johnny' as he entered the stage.
Great cast including Jack Nicholson, Shelly DuVall, Danny Lloyd as their son Danny Torrence, Scatman Crothers, and Phillip Stone as Delbert Grady, who was Alex DeLarge's father in the great Kubrick film 'A Clockwork Orange.' 'The Shining' was an inspiration for many films that came later which could be classified as 'psychological horror.' The Guinness Book of Records gave the record for the scene with the most retakes in cinematic history to the sequence where Wendy walks backward up the stairs fending off Jack with a baseball bat, at 127 times. Needless to say, Kubrick was highly dedicated to his craft.
The hotel is possessing him from the beginning
The 'making of' material is excellent. U see kubrick, shelly and jack speak freely. Fascinating stuff. REDRUM!
Thanks to Vivian Kubrick
The book is a much more tragic telling of this tale as Jack slowly sinks into the hotel's influence and you actually feel for the character as he seems just powerless against the will of the hotel. In this interpretation Jack looks friggin' nuts from frame one so, when he loses it and grabs the axe, it's hardly a surprise. Also, Doctor Sleep is a SUPERB sequel that dances the very difficult line of satisfying fans of both the book and the film.
This movie featured the first intentional use of infrasound in a soundtrack. Those are soundsoutside the audible spectrum, that are known to cause feelings of unesae, and, anxiety.
I think you'd enjoy The Witches of Eastwick (1987). Jack eats up his role!
I cant think of another film where zooming is so terrifying!!
The Shelley Duvall performance was achieved from a lot of duress on Kubrick's part. He told the production staff to not talk to her or support her and he would berate her for doing a bad job so that she felt like she was alone and had nobody to turn to. It worked and it shows on the screen but she went though a lot, she had a nervous break down and her hair was falling out due to stress during production. It's wild what directors used to be able to do to their actors.
55:37 “is that why he’s there?”
He’s always been there.
I don't get that theory...how did he get married if he's a ghost lol
@@clarkness77 I take the phrasing that they've "always" been there as a destiny thing--Jack was always destined to become the caretaker and join the hotel, and his spirit is now trapped there with the other "partygoers."
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thanks so much!!
why is jack in the last photo of the film the shining, one of the most popular explanations is that it represents the hotel “absorbing” Jack's soul. Although this makes sense, Kubrick himself has said the photo suggests Jack is a reincarnation of an earlier official at the hotel
I've heard that in Japan, real-estate agents have to disclose if a property has a history of being haunted. It can greatly effect the sale price.
I hope you realize the evil in the hotel was affecting Jack. He's not really a jerk. None of this is his fault.
Wrong. That was the case in the novel, yes. In the movie, Jack was evil from the start. We can clearly tell in the opening scene as they're driving to the hotel that he hates his family and has nothing but contempt for them.
@@eeaa-hl9iu Ahh, but he had already spent time in the hotel during the interview before then so the hotel could have already been affecting him.
@@eeaa-hl9iunah, he was kind of an ass, but not like after being there, and like the other person replied to you as well
i love the camera work in this movie. its like youre right with him
Doctor Sleep is well worth a watch. A well done sequel to this movie that expands on the story and actually makes it more terrifying.
I only saw this for the first time a couple of years ago. When I did, it totally blew me away. The cinematography is excellent. Sound design and score are great. The movie is just dripping with atmosphere. I love the design of the hotel, which was designed intentionally to be confusing. People have tried to map it out and they discovered that things don't match up the way they should. Definitely a bit of a creep fest, but it never horrified me like it did others. Probably because I waited to see it for so long.
Great reaction! OK, now you HAVE to watch/react to Doctor Sleep, Mike Flanagan's adaptation of King's sequel. Best. Sequel. EVER!!!
Now watch DOCTOR SLEEP -and watch the directors cut. It's a spectacular film. And as someone who saw THE SHINING in the theater in 1980 and has loved it ever since - if you told me that a sequel to THE SHINING would be a good idea I would've thought you were crazy. But DOCTOR SLEEP is great and adds to the understanding of THE SHINING and it actually works on multiple levels as it brings King's book together with Kubrick's film (which King wasn't a fan of).
Watch it soon with THE SHINING fresh in your mind. You'll LOVE it.
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42:47 Dream role... If I heard correctly, Kubrick made this a nightmare for Duvall, on purpose. That it basically traumatized her.
If I'm mistaken, someone please correct me.
He broke her. She was never the same again.
Yes, you are correct in my understanding. Kubrick was a real bully from my understanding. He was apparently as bad as his art is magnificent.
@@ElectroT0y And at the same time he protected Danny Lloyd so well that Lloyd never knew Kubrick was doing a horror film.
@@88wildcat I actually prefer the TV mini series version The Shining (1997) [Blu-ray]
@@ElectroT0yboo hoo. Some ppl are just mentally fragile.
Doctor Sleep is really good. I never thought a sequel to this would ever happen but it's definitely worth the watch.