Traces of his films can even be seen decades after their release; ‘Interstellar‘ and ‘The Tree of Life’ (2001 : A Space Odyssey), ‘Trainspotting’ (A Clockwork Orange), almost every heist movie pays tribute to ‘The Killing’, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (The Shining) or House of Cards (‘Eyes Wide Shut‘). You have always been the caretaker. Well, a 102 minutes long documentary titled ‘Room 237’ was made focusing only on explaining the events that take place in the movie incorporating multiple perspectives, and yet I think it couldn’t come to a totally justified conclusion. Wendy distraught over Danny’s deteriorating state goes looking for Jack and finds hundreds of pages by his typewriter, all of them clustered with the sentence “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. Having that said, the family was completely isolated in such a big place over the winter. Danny on the other hand after the physical trauma goes into a semi-conscious state, Tony taking hold of the reigns and keeps on repeating the word “redrum” in a very mechanical trance. The biggest reason for the sideways panning when Ullman shows the hotel is to let the viewers sink in every corridor and direction, before he changes the set design completely, creating an anomaly to disorientate the viewers.There’s also an EXIT sign cleverly put on the left end of the hallway leading to Torrances’ apartment where the bathroom is, strange foreshadowing. The only time in the film when Jack shows any pride in his son is during this conversation when Danny says he knows what cannibalism is because he learned about it on television. A rotating shot followed by a hawk-eye shot of pine forests that point out of the screen like needles with the nerve-wracking high pitched background score. The Shining. Someone has to stay and look after the place, of course, but maybe Ullman (Barry Nelson) would be open to some kind of alternative caretaker system. It has been made into an iconic horror movie of the same name, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall film and a miniseries that was aired on TV in the 90's. The “Here’s Johnny”meme is based on a famous scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror movie “The Shining”. Les sens cachés de « Shining » Dans « Room 237 », cinq fans de Kubrick exposent leurs théories déjantées sur le sens caché du film (vendredi 8 janvier, à 22 h 40, sur Ciné+ Club). After a hole is formed in the door, Nicholson places his face through and says the phrase “Here’s Johnny,” intentionally dragging out the vowels of both words. Jack hadn’t slid a single drop of liquor for the past 5 months, a vow out of guilt. Kubrick replaced the hedge animals in the book with a hedge maze, which like the movie offers endless possibilities but barely any solution. Because what we really see are two different versions. Surprisingly, Jack expresses nothing but anticipation towards the role of the caretaker. The puzzled look on Jack’s face can be interpreted as an effort to get his mind straight, and notice him using slurs every time he talks to Wendy. Move forward, we see Wendy talking to the radio operator about the failed telephone connectivity because of the snow storm. In Doctor Sleep, when Dan returns to an Overlook that was left to rot after his father went insane, he finds the old ghosts are still there and that his father is now among them. It's time to talk about those questions, and perhaps even arrive at some answers. Hedge animals and objects coming to life, Grady’s ghost, generalized and plot favored characterization, the spirit of the Overlook Hotel and playing safe with the gore; stuff like this grows campy over time and Kubrick turned this into an atmospheric psychological horror. The scene dissolves and we can feel the frustration dripping out of Jack, which is brilliantly conveyed through the thumping rebounds of the tennis ball. This is backed up by the conversation in the red bathroom, when Grady tells him he's "always been the caretaker," and it seems the most likely explanation. It’s understood for people to develop a separate identity as a result of trauma, with the identity built upon the very details of such incidents, i.e, Tony living in Danny’s mouth and Danny’s reluctance to talk about it. She looks at the inscription through the mirror which reveals itself to be “MURDER”. I think Kubrick’s version is more matured and tries to be realistic about itself, while keeping intact his use of underlying themes. This is the ending of The Shining explained... or, at least, as close to an explanation as we can get without making a documentary of our own. Contrary to the novel, Danny is not super intelligent and watches The Roadrunner Show (foreshadowing). The Overlook's mythology is simply kept too vague for us to be sure, but it's very possible that Ullman isn't telling Jack everything he really knows about the place. Jack Torrance has always been the caretaker. Why does Tony stay in Danny’s mouth? The Overlook is still very much intact, and grisly murder aside, its owners will likely want to keep it in business after they manage to thaw Jack's body and clean up the mess he left. Talking about The Overlook, the epicenter, Ullman’s room is very strange. Le film "The Shining" est une horreur psychologique, dans le genre. Any child can see that. In Danny's case, the future is perhaps even more murky, because he's just a boy unprepared to decide his own destiny. Eclipsed perhaps only by its 1980 film adaptation, the novel is one of the most popular and enduring horror stories of all time. As Jack (Jack Nicholson) begins his descent into madness, she's the one holding her family unit together, checking on the Overlook's heating systems and communicating with the forest service when the phone lines go down. If you watch The Shining all the way through, get to that final shot of Jack in the photo, and then rewatch it, you will notice something that particularly stands out about the Overlook. The interaction between Tony and Danny takes place with the camera focused on a mirror in the bathroom and the shot composition is similar to the bear man shot later on in the movie. Kubrick was responsible for such awkward structuring, mainly because he wanted to instill horror through ambience. Interesting. The Shining. Perhaps a team of people will take the job rather than one man and whatever family he cares to bring with him. Danny goes back to his room to get his firetruck and sees a grim looking Jack, his face shown through the mirror again. Shining ([ ʃ a ɪ n ɪ ŋ] [1] Écouter) (The Shining), ou Shining : L'Enfant lumière [2] au Québec, film d'horreur psychologique américano-britannique sorti en 1980, est le onzième long métrage réalisé par Stanley Kubrick, avec Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall et Danny Lloyd dans les rôles principaux. Wendy calls a doctor who checks Danny and asks about some sort of trauma Danny may have suffered that may have caused him to make up his “imaginary friend”. On the way to the hotel, the Torrances are having a conversation in the car. Kubrick's adaptation of the original story makes some drastic changes, leaving the movie's Danny not necessarily bound to the same fate. He also informs Jack about Danny involving an outside party (Halloran) in the situation and stresses on words like will, to upset Jack. We have no way of knowing what direction Wendy's life will take from here, but Jack does indicate early in the film that she's a "confirmed ghost story and horror film addict." If the fallout from the latest Overlook tragedy goes on long enough, those photos will likely mean something to someone, and that will set off an entirely different kind of investigation. Jack admits to having underestimated the task and promises to go to any length to finish it, and his door unseemingly gets unlocked. He will be looking for others who can shine, whether consciously or not, and he will eventually try to find out how many of them have had similar experiences to his own. Though she may not always seem it at first glance because she spends much of the film in a state of dread or outright terror, Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) is the heart of The Shining. 13 minutes into the movie when Danny wakes up in his bedroom, his head rests on a bear pillow and very surprisingly 13 minutes from the end we encounter the bear man. An entire documentary, Room 237, rose out of this subset of Shining fan culture, and over the years, these theorists have posited any number of ideas about what the film "really" means. Even the Gold Room is spatially impossible due to its enormous size, a beautiful irony of the vastness of the effect of claustrophobia. The scene was parodied in popular … For nearly 40 years now, The Shining has reigned as one of the most acclaimed and terrifying horror films ever made. And Stanley's explanation was, 'It's a ghost film! We are no more shown the mirror, questioning the accuracy of the depiction, while he makes Danny sit on his lap and this is when Jack abuses him (the bathroom door is open and there’s no toilet paper). That doesn't mean the ghosts are gone, though, as the film also confirms that they can still find the people who visited them if given enough time. Jack has clearly gone haywire and absent-mindedly proceeds to the Gold Room. There’s an evil side to it. Coming to Room 237 again, it was Jack who physically assaulted Danny and not the old lady, who serves as a metaphor for the disgusting act carried out by Jack on Danny, and this is exactly why it is shown through a mirror. Lee Unkrich runs The Overlook Hotel, which contains tons of pictures and behind-the-scenes information about the film. In The Shining, when Jack Torrance has clearly gone mad and is chopping down the bathroom door with an axe to get to his wife, why does Jack Nicholson say "Here's Johnny!" Since the movie is so extensive, let’s discuss about three independently primary talking points : Jack, Overlook Hotel and the Bear Man. This gave the now-adult Dan Torrance a chance to go back and to see what had become of his old man. A previous caretaker Charles Grady had killed his family, including his two daughters and himself after a claustrophobic breakdown. He also extended the closing date of the hotel to October 30, to welcome the series of Halloween events. In Kubrick’s version Tony is never shown and communicates with Danny through an involuntary movement of Danny’s index finger, since Kubrick never intended on giving a ghostly theme to the movie. In 2016 the Minnesota Opera Company stag… It’s hard to write about Wordsworth’s poetry without discussing Romanticism. The sequence dates from at least the thirteenth century, though it is possible that it is much older, with some sources ascribing its origin to St. Gregory … The scene involves the main character Jack Torrence (played by Jack Nicholson) breaking through a door with a fireman’s ax. What’s the fun in a horror movie if the characters could just run through corridors swiftly and escape through the main door without any hindrance. If you want to go with Stephen King's version of events, Danny's future is at least partially written. Also to be noted, this is the first time we see Jack in the burgundy jacket, the color similar to that of the liquid gushing out of the elevator in Danny’s vision.