10 MORE Things You Didn't Know About Shining

[@66Bunn]

I thought I knew everything about The Shining. I had no idea that Shellie Duvall was nominated for a Razzie. That blows my mind because it's of my opinion that she absolutely knocks it out of the park. I personally think it's one of the best acting performances I've ever seen in a horror movie. It didn't even seem like she was acting, that that was her real emotions happening in front of us.

[@alisdairmckenzie]

Cough cough....ever heard of a website called IMDB??

[@JennifuhhGilardi]

I mean, can’t agree there. And her acting seems so authentic because she was abused the whole time they were shooting for that reason.

[@derkeheath5172]

Her acting in Robert Altman's films is also incredible. I HIGHLY recommend Three Women and Thieves Like Us.

[@varanid9]

@@JennifuhhGilardi Supposedly.

[@IIISWILIII]

Outside of the film's climax, I found her performance to be weak and annoying. Perhaps it was more the character than her.

[@robertthienes7792]

I find the soundtrack and the complete chaotic vagueness part of what makes the film so unsettling. Not having read the book when I first saw it at ten years old, I found the flashes of the ghosts terrifying. Particularly because they were the ultimate unknown. Why were they there...what were they doing? The more I watch it, the more I appreciate the spiraling decent into madness.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

I first watched The Shining in 2004. It's a classic. Jack Nicholson gave an Oscar worthy performance as Jack Torrance and it's a shame he didn't get a Oscar nomination for his chilling portrayal of the recovering alcoholic writer gone psychopath. I like to believe Nicholson got cast as The Joker in Batman cos of his performance as Jack Torrance.

[@nsasupporter7557]

Nicholson has already won 3 Oscars for… One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Terms of Endearment and As Good As it Gets

[@danielwilliamson6180]

@@nsasupporter7557 So? He could had got an Oscar for The Shining.

[@nsasupporter7557]

@@danielwilliamson6180 oh of course 😉

[@danielwilliamson6180]

@@nsasupporter7557 My father is a Jack Nicholson fan. I like to think he named and my mother named me and my brother after Jack and Danny from the movie. My brother's middle name is Nicholas.

[@nsasupporter7557]

@@danielwilliamson6180 for real? That’s interesting lol 😂 I don’t know who I like better, him or Robert De Niro 🤷‍♂️

[@DungeonStudio]

For me, the scariest and most memorable part of the movie is the hotel itself. The production design and Kubrick's camera placements pretty well make every scene look like the hotel is 'enveloping' the characters. And yes, speculation in Room 237 claims Kubrick wanted this incongruousness layout to mystify the viewers. But I'm just amazed the vastness achieved in the confines that had to be worked in. And is interesting how after Jack kills Halloran, the shots and hotel get more confined and claustrophobic. Hallways, rooms, the maze all just become small and close to the characters. So again, pretty amazing how Kubrick minimized things at the end after such wide and open sets beforehand. Almost like the hotel and it's surroundings was an open mouth at first that slowly started closing around all the characters.

[@varanid9]

Huh, now I gotta go see this movie again. I love cinematic techniques like the one you describe.

[@thatcanadian6698]

I think it meant the madness and evil were closing in around them, especially Jack, and everything was coming to it's inevitable and bloody conclusion.

[@mikerohlfs2836]

The cig butt thing is a military deal, you do that so the enemy can't track your movement.

[@feck2594]

I still do it to this day .

[@skylined5534]

Shredding them into balls though? I get not discarding them but not that.

[@johnkean6852]

How ironic people are appalled at his balling habit but not his nicotine addiction LOL

[@AubreyTheKing]

Personally, that's my main reason why I love The Shining! Not everything has to be explained! It's all up to the viewers themselves to determine what's what. There's no right or wrong definitive answers to it. And the more times you watch it, you come up with even more theories to the solution. That's the beauty of this film for me. Nowadays with horror movies, they don't do this anymore. They have to explain everything in great in depth details to the audiences to what's going on. They never let the audiences try to solve or come up with theories themselves to speculate to what's happening. The film is a lot scarier when you don't explain everything. And The Shining is a perfect example of a film where it leaves you unanswered and wondering what happened. I LOVE THIS MOVIE!

[@Viking_Luchador]

Well, mainstream horror anyways. There's a lot of independently produced films that really strive to do something original

[@muskokamike127]

The other beauty about it is much of the "oddness" is subliminal. Like there's a scene when Jack goes into the office for an interview and there's a window with an outside view...considering the way he got to the office, there's no way that office would have a window. There's lots of that. Like when Billy is riding his big wheel...."how'd I end up back here"?

[@Viking_Luchador]

"Room 237" and the channel Collative Learning address this. The architecture of the Overlook as seen in the film is flat out impossible. Doors to rooms are close together, but inside they're so huge they should be spilling into each other. Mapping out what's seen when Danny is riding his Big Wheel only adds further confusion

[@muskokamike127]

@@Viking_Luchador It's like the tardus in Dr who lol....

[@Viking_Luchador]

Please edit that before I lose all respect for you Its TARDIS, always all capitalized, and Doctor Who, not Dr. Who

[@fredbloggs5902]

14:00 Nicholson getting ‘in the mood’ for the axe scene is the most memorable scene in the whole documentary.

[@skylined5534]

I also like that as a reserve fireman they had to use real doors and not lightweight props as he was buzz-sawing through them at a hell of a pace!

[@purpletomatocinema]

Cary Guffey's parents didn't want him to play in The Shining because it was too horrific. Yeah and him being kidnapped by aliens was not horrific

[@T-Bag13]

Robin Williams would of played a brilliant role as Jack.

[@skylined5534]

Definitely. Look at his performances in the likes of Insomnia and 24 Hour Photo! Being known more for comedy and yet him being a great actor made the times he darkened his acting for a serious role really have an impact!

[@Kendrix1]

Great idea. Agree with you 100%

[@johnc4462]

I was a little kid when this movie came out and it was loved by everybody. I remember it being a huge hit. Excellent video!!!!

[@troyarrington5485]

After 42 years,I still find this movie fascinating. In my opinion,Jack Nicholson's performance was brilliant! It made me a fan of his!

[@markpjf85]

The shining is a movie that you have to watch over and over to get what it’s about it’s totally a very good movie classic in it’s own way…👍

[@DrFunk-rk6yl]

It's also a movie that gets better every time you watch it.

[@markpjf85]

@@DrFunk-rk6yl totally 💯 agree with you

[@nicholas_scott]

I think the issue with King was that he based jack on himself, and his own problems. But jack in the movie is very different, and maybe that rubs him

[@Axolotl_Mischief]

Between the novel and the film the characterization for the entire family was off, I can totally understand why he hates it, it's a poor representation of the source material on many levels.

[@andrewgrove1691]

The book is completely different from the movie

[@neoasura]

I do wish they showed the more sympathetic side of Jack like they do in the book, you feel bad for him more. In the movie, he just starts off already unlikable and angry.

[@Viking_Luchador]

EVERY Stephen King protagonist is based on Stephen King! Oh look at that, a writer with a drinking problem! I wonder who could possibly have been his inspiration??

[@silvervalleystudios2486]

I thing that Kubrick is just as slow and poetic as King is with his method of storytelling.

[@LTPottenger]

I saw this with my mother and siblings while stopped on the way to staying in a cabin in the mountains, suffice to say we were quite terrified. I find it hard to believe anyone who saw it on the big screen disliked this masterpiece.

[@jwnj9716]

A masterpiece from start to finish. Shelley Duvall doesn't get a lot of credit. It's funny that in the beginning, they mention how much she is a fan of horror films...well, towards the end, she gets the horror movie of her life. I like the book but the film is more interesting. And yeah the TV miniseries is not the greatest thing but it has some decent moments here and there. Yeah, there are some interesting analyses about the Shining but the moon landing theory is just dumb.

[@rpc717]

I couldn't disagree more about the book vs. movie. The book is an absolute masterpiece of horror, but I found the movie to be a tremendous letdown in comparison. I agree completely about the moon landing theory, though. It's a ridiculous thing to think, BUT it does appear that Kubrick was trolling the conspiracy theory nuts. 😂😂😂

[@gokugoma3258]

The book is incredible

[@fcove5453]

I also like Dr. Sleep

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Poor Shelley Duvall got a Razzie nomination for The Shining.

[@Tenkai917]

Shelley Duvall has unfortunately become a real-life crazy person.

[@bpo1975]

Could you imagine trying to decide if you wanted to see THE SHINING or EMPIRE STRIKES BACK on opening weekend of 1982?

[@bonghunezhou5051]

NO! (Neither premiered in summer of 1982 ~

[@brandonpage7087]

It was opening weekend of 1980. What a year!! Empire Strikes Back, the Shining, & Friday the 13th, all in the same year!!!

[@hookybrickshooky9529]

The face in the Shining poster looks very much like a certain face featured a short moment in the movie The Exorcist. Considering that Kubrick was offered to direct The Exorcist, I think it's possible.

[@matthewalexanderlemma8000]

I do believe in the theory that there are undertones having to do with the Native American genocide. I also believe Jack Torrance was part of the Overlook Hotel in a previous life. This is implied when he’s eating breakfast in bed and says he seems to know what’s around every corner of the hotel.

[@brandonpage7087]

Not to mention when that "ghost" in the bathroom, tells Jack that he's always been the caretaker of the Overlook.

[@Viking_Luchador]

When Ullman is giving Jack & Wendy the tour, he casually mentions that the Overlook was built on a burial ground and that construction crews fought off raids. In the Colorado Room, he describes the art as being from various tribes that at best had nothing to do with each other, and at worst were enemies. So clearly there was no input, they just threw in whatever looked nice

[@pentelegomenon1175]

I heard a pretty good theory that Jack doesn't actually look the way he does in the movie, that he's possessed by the ghost of someone who looked like that, who is the guy in the picture.

[@ingersollelliott]

Top notch! So glad you shared more from your collection - the key ring rocks! As always, exceptional work!

[@prompterbob]

I’ve been watching your videos for years and always wanted to drop you a note about how much I enjoy them. This one on The Shining is one of your best. So well researched and written. Keep them coming.

[@themetalone7739]

If you want to know what that weird, random scene with the dude and another dude in some weird animal costume was all about...here ya go: In the book, Jack spends a bunch of time in the basement of the hotel, going over old records and newspaper articles about the hotel. He learns a TON of stuff that has 0 relevance to anything beyond the page it is written on but, due to that section, we learn that the hotel has a shady past, mainly due to the people that owned it (pretty sure one previous owner had been a mob boss or something). Anyway, you see what I mean about useless info. So, it turns out that the son of the owner loves to throw parties in the hotel ballroom. The son is pretty much the stereotype of a spoiled son of someone wealthy, and he's gay. He has a boyfriend who dresses as a bear during a party in the hotel, acting like the animal. The spoiled son enjoys mocking his BF, who is likely with him for the money, and oh...apparently they're furries, as well. At least, on occasion. So what you caught a glimpse of, in that scene in the movie, was a man in a bear suit about to throw down mighty on that other man. (Read this one twice, but it's been like, 8 years since I last read it. Some details might be off, but the point is the same)

[@loboblanco4426]

Thank you for untwisting some of the plot spots for me.

[@EndlessLaymon]

The subplot of the Jack discovering the history of has lots of relevance in the book. 1 Jack decides to write and the book on the overlook and 2 uses his knowledge to get back at the owners of the Overlook who in the book detest Jack and didn't want him for the job.

[@brandonpage7087]

Thanks man. Finally, mystery solved. When I was a kid, upon seeing the Shining, for the first time, that scene freaked me out, & stuck with me for many years afterwards. Good to finally have some sort of explanation for the scene.

[@themetalone7739]

@@brandonpage7087 Yeah, I always thought it was a VERY weird choice for them to include that scene at all, as they literally give you no information in the movie that explains this in any way.

[@skylined5534]

Horace Derwent, the unsavoury entrepreneur.

[@pucknorris3473]

I'm pretty sure hanging out at your house and playing The Shining board game and watching sick ass movies out of your video store is probably the only thing there is to do in Australia... maybe one day I'll fly out

[@Thirdeye1001]

Oh, heck yeah, Minty! This is a great movie! Thanks for your post!

[@RDSwords]

It's really interesting to look back on The Shining now with the added story elements from Doctor Sleep

[@lasvegasnextexit1230]

I remember when The Shining came out, it didn't get much attention until it's video as well as it's cable TV release and was when I first saw it. I hear a bunch of people say they didn't like it on their first viewing BUT I think folks that feel that way, they totally get the movie without realizing it. The movie makes the viewer uneasy and since raises more questions than it answers in the viewers mind, they come away confused.....which was the point of the movie. The Shining is a true Psychological Horror film

[@tempestfury8324]

That's not true. The Shining was released the same weekend as The Empire Strikes Back (oops!) and only had a limited release. It wasn't that the film didn't get much attention, it certainly did! It was overshadowed by the most anticipated movie in the world. The film actually did fairly well despite it's competition and it's small distribution.

[@jetsons101]

The carped pattern at 18:10 looks a lot like the pattern of the hallway wallpaper seen in Sid's house in the first Toy Story Movie.

[@MrWoodMan23]

King is very accurate in saying that books and movies are indeed apples and oranges. 🍎🍊

[@fairera]

My first acknowledgment and memory of that movie was when I was a kid and the movie was airing on the tv set of the family we were paying a short visit, and the ambiant and the music of a corridor scene completely hypnotized me... i didn't know what it was but recognized the movie when I watched it years later

[@ytubeanon]

I just heard a podcast (who knows if this is true) that said Stephen King got the idea for the Shining while he and his family went on a vacation... King tried to do some writing, but his kid(s) were making too much noise, King imagined killing them for the sweet relief of silence, and from there that's how he got the idea for the Shining

[@TheInsultInvestor]

Uh, no. Weirdo

[@ytubeanon]

@@TheInsultInvestor you're the weirdo

[@TheInsultInvestor]

@@ytubeanon No, you.

[@thorsmith9545]

I personally love Doctor Sleep. What a great movie that captures the some of the essence of the original.

[@TravelingBuildingGrowing]

Too bad Kubrick's shining ruined the storyline of the Dr. Sleep movie.

[@saint.vitus.7775]

I never saw the Shining in theaters - but i would have seen it on cable - at around age 12 or 13 - probably alone while my Mom worked evenings. It scared the living crap out of me for years.That bathtub - as a young 13 year old - was one of the most enticing and terrifying things imaginable. And yet i kept coming back to it. It haunted me in more ways than one. I've seen this movie now dozens of times, and while the scare factor has decreased, the sense of dread and of psychological horror have never left. And now i'm better able to appreciate the sheer artistry involved in this films creation. Thanks for the fun video - i loved the bit about your memorabilia.

[@a.d.l.r.4351]

Photo editing has been a highly skilled job for decades but Photoshop did not exist at the time this movie was produced. Love your work sir!

[@noninoni9962]

I think I read about every King book in my late teens and 20's I eventually stopped sometime after The Shinning, which I really liked, and a lot more than the movie... I hated the paranormal storyline being dumped in lieu of Jack "losing his marbles" arc...But then, there were all the other paranormal stuff going on, so it didn't make sense. It's been decades since I read the novel, but one thing I can remember, and upset they weren't in the movie, were the topiaries that "came to life." They were much cooler and scarier than the huge unimaginative maze... The Shining is one of the few stories where there was a great ending vs. most of his other book's endings seemed to just fall off the edge of Earth... Very disappointing to read 800+ exciting pages, only for the conclusions to be only a few pages long. The main reason I quit buying his books was the lousy endings... I liken them to "Dumb & Dumber's" excellerated, shorthanded writing of GoT's ending season... Like King wanting to hurry and finish his novels, so he could start another one (probably already in progress), they ended just as badly as GoT (LOL, well, maybe not THAT bad) as they all were in such a big dang hurry to move on.

[@matthewwankdog87]

i must have read about 20 king books so far and haven't yet come across a bad ending

[@jacobpitsenbarger4763]

I'm a huge Stephen King fan. I just finished The Stand. Currently reading IT. But I think this movie is a rare example of "movie was better than the book" and there's no way King doesn't secretly appreciate the artistic vision of this film. He's salty that his story had been changed so much. But they're all changes for the better. Maybe King is jealous that Kubrick did The Shining better than he did. Kubrick is simply a master and the best director of all time.

[@soitsanightmare]

Nahh, king hates it cuz it butchered his book. It has no heart and king is big on all his stories having that. Pubrick was good but way overrated for having 500 meanings in every science with no flaws. It's bullshit, eat it up buttercup.

[@troubleinbound]

That's the opinion I've held ever since reading the novel. I always thought it was a controversial opinion, too.

[@erikliljenwall8185]

Jack's over the top acting, as perfect as it is, usually gets all of the attention, but in my opinion, Shelley Duvall's performance is the real gem of the film. It's not obvious on first viewing, in fact I hated it the first time I saw it. But I eventually came to see the complexity and nuance of Duvall's Wendy: a woman who is regularly abused by her husband trying to remain hopeful while locked in a snow-bound hotel for months on end with the man she loves and fears, and her child who she has to protect. Being cheerful is about all she's able to do for most of the movie, so she lays it on thick. It comes off as corny sometimes, but that's how it would have seemed in real life. Also consider that this story takes place in 1979-1980 or so, when women had much fewer rights that today. (e.g., Women had only gained the right to have their own credit cards in 1974). With a good understanding of the world in which Wendy and her family live, the scene in which Wendy describes Danny's previous injury to the doctor becomes one the most terrifying scenes in the whole film. It's so deeply nuanced, and perfectly acted. I'm always struck by the way the word "alcohol" catches in Wendy's throat a the end of her monologue. And, of course, the doctor's shocked facial expression is priceless. I'm also glad you mentioned the fire. I've long had a theory about the fire, which I've never heard put forward by anyone. I think the fire and rebuilding of the set may explain many of the strange "continuity errors" throughout the film. Considering that most of these anomalies seem to occur in the very room that was destroyed in the fire, it's certainly possible. People have obsessed for years about the vintage typewriter changing to a different model, the (antique?) chairs appearing and disappearing, the large, one-of-a-kind driftwood sculpture vanishing, etc. If these props proved difficult or even outright impossible to replace after the fire, they would have had no choice but to make do with what was available. Continuity errors would have been unavoidable without re-shooting every affected scene, which would have been out of the question as the whole shoot was already months behind schedule. Also consider how much the movie-watching experience has changed in the last 40+ years. Today we can stream or download nearly any movie whenever we want or we can buy a copy on DVD, BluRay, or 4KBluRay and we can obsess over every frame if we want. These abilities were unimaginable in 1980. VHS and Beta was still a new and expensive medium so movies were shown in theaters for a few weeks or months and then likely forgotten. The idea of re-shooting anything after the set was rebuilt, just for the sake of continuity, would have been out of the question. It's doubtful anyone would have even argued for re-shoots then anyway. There would have been no payoff I don't know when in the shooting schedule that fire took place, or how much was shot prior to it, so this could be another nonsense theory. But I think it's worth taking a look at, if anyone has the documents needed for this kind of analysis.

[@Leelz247]

In the book Jack wasn't actually "always the caretaker" so making him a reincarnation or an immortal as seen is the photo is just a weird departure. I think there are just too many things things didn't fit for King that messed with the original intent. In the end of the book, Jack sacrificed himself for his son too. I would be pissed off too if a character I created had no redeeming characteristics. But I like both the book and the movie.

[@LawyerPanda]

I got to visit the Timberland Lodge where the exterior shots of the hotel were filmed back in 2015. Pretty neat to be there! I even bought a Christmas tree ornaments featuring the hotel exterior.

[@ryangillis4626]

"I didn't hurt one hair on his goddamn head. I love the little son of a bitch " - Jack Torrens

[@Merylstreep1949]

Kubrick would win the argument simply by bringing up Maximum Overdrive Lol 😆

[@billg3356]

I prefer King's short stories and novellas to his full-length novels, so I've never read The Shining. But I remember reading The Body after seeing Stand By Me, and found them to be pretty close. So I think that King's admiration for Stand By Me has more to do with Reiner (and his screenwriters) not deviating too much from the source material, whereas Kubrick really made The Shining his own. Also King agreeing to Kubrick's version of The Overlook for the third act of Dr. Sleep seems like a begrudging acknowledgment that Kubrick's film is the more widely known version of The Shining.

[@georgejones3526]

Some of the most enjoyable writing I’ve come across was by Stephen King when he would just be telling a story. My examples are The Body, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and in the novel It, when he would write about events experienced by the children.

[@Viking_Luchador]

I wouldn't call It a simple story in the same vein as The Body or Rita Hayworth... Not counting the works of Richard Bachman, I'd say Misery is one of his most down to Earth novels

[@peterisnardi1197]

SK's Shining is a whole other animal from SK's Shining(interpret that how you will)...Kubrik's movie is like the book with its themes and emotions removed...its an adaptation on the surface, but its like seeing an act of violence without knowing the root cause and drawing one's own conclusion...

[@georgejones3526]

@@Viking_Luchador I guess the two novellas stand out for me because they weren’t about horror.

[@mikemcgill9874]

Almost all of Kings works stem from The dark tower series (which are based on the poem by the same name).Stephen is one of my top three authors. It is absolutely terrifying. One of the few books I've read more than once (3) .He can make you feel terror over the most mundane things.

[@Theggman83]

The remake is pretty good. Stephen Webber did a good job.

[@v-town1980]

I love the US cardboard vhs packaging. Something clean and personal about its texture and look. I remember watching this film as a kid in the early 80s. My parents watched it with me and made me turn my head from the tv when the nude scene was on. Classic film.

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

I love the movie, but I always cast William Hurt as Jack in my mind when I read the book.

[@skylined5534]

I would never have thought of that... Good choice!

[@SuperMarioBrosIII]

@TheSpaceBetweenOurHouses William Hurt is better then Steven Weber in the 1997 remake LOL! 🤔🗻⛰🚗

[@TheStrykerProject]

Well...one cool thing about leaving a movie open-ended is we all get to exchange wild ideas about it. I'm ok with supernatural-esque movie endings that kind of leave you guessing as what just happened or what some scenes meant, as long as there are some options and not just a jarring ending with no resolution. Initial reactions to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" were also pretty harsh...sometimes we just need to wait and digest the entertainment a little bit more before spouting off, eh?!

[@eeejaybee3137]

24:52 Shelly Duvall absolutely nails her character in this movie.

[@riicktann]

ive been watching some crazy youtube vids on the shining recently. funny how you posted this 4 days ago. but 1 video called the wendy theory truly blew my mind, and another showing how the movie can be played forward, backward and to the album abbey road, and it all links up, is another insane detail

[@kane4013]

I never knew that Kubrick turned down directing The Exorcist!? Friedkin and Kubrick were ruthless in getting the most out of their actors (abusive even, especially Kubrick), as well as being sticklers for detail, so it would have been fascinating to see if they came up with similar movies.

[@shoshanna428]

I wonder the reason he didn't want to film it....

[@tricivenola8164]

"...She was beginning to go into her croon now, the Wendy Torrance All-Purpose Croon, Pat.Pend." This sentence is why I fell in love with the book in 1977 when I was 3years off alcohol, as only another drinker could have written it. But I fell in love with the movie as well. I'm a King fan, but my fandom was dented when I watched the vapid TV version that he sanctioned, starring a horrible Hollywood kid. He always saw Wendy as a Strong Female Character. All these years later, I think Kubrick was right: Wendy IS a dishrag: only a dishrag would have stayed with Jack Torrance. The film gets better and better, and your video means I have to watch it again!

[@tattoou1222]

After reading my first King novel back in grade 8 (Cujo) 40 years ago, I've been hooked on his story telling ever since and have read almost every book he's written and own every movie that is based on his novels/short stories, I can honestly say there is only a small handful I watch over and over again because they were well made imo, although they are always different from the original stories. Others are absolute train wrecks such as Desperation, The Mist, The Dark Tower, Dreamcatcher just to name a few of the worst of the bunch. It is impossible to make a King book into a movie and make it anywhere near as good as the book.

[@mdturnerinoz]

I went to see this in Tulsa, OK, when it came out. In the scene where Danny was riding down the hallway, there were two grown men hunched down in their seats watching BETWEEN THEIR FINGERS as Dany encountered the girls! Funny! We laughed at ourselves when we got back, telling our wives (who didn’t want to see it) what we did! Hillarious!

[@jollyjohnthepirate3168]

I remember the Mad magazine parody The Shinner. The end scene with a frozen Jack, as Danny asks for something to eat. Wendy says she has some frozen ham......priceless.

[@ufarkingicehole]

The Wendy Theory is very likely. Its very possible Wendy was the crazy one and after watching several videos on it, it absolutely fits.

[@ArrogantAngel]

i feel like i am a bit crazy for seemingly being the only person who watched the shining movie by stanley kubrick and saw a movie about a family falling apart in isolation because the father was tempted to molest his son and the mother desperate to prevent that. the maze seemed more symbolic of being lost and looking for an escape of some kind. there are several symbols to hint at it too including seeing women as repulsive and penetration as well as a loss of innocence and a breakdown of a facade. it would also explain why king hated the movie. i swear this movie can be seen in many different ways but i don't know, it was always kinda easy to see it the way i understood it as.

[@chatanugadotorg]

The Shining is one of those movies that you have to see more than once to really begin to understand/interpret. For me, I see the Overlook as a portal to a nightmare dimension. Things seem normal when you see them, but something isn't quite right, like in a nightmare when we're asleep. Look at when Jack and Wendy are talking about the approaching storm and interruptions. The chair in the background disappears briefly between shots of Jack. When Halloran is showing Wendy and Danny the store room, they pass a door before going around the corner to go into the store room. However, that door isn't on the inside of the store room. Same thing with the window in Ullman's office. That window shouldn't exist as it's facing either the elevator or a hallway.

[@brandonpage7087]

Yeah, I think those were put into the film on purpose. Minty touched upon these issues with the structure of the hotel, in his first 10 Things video, on the Shining.

[@poindextertunes]

yeah i saw room 237 too

[@alleahsasseville]

Your book is BEAUTIFUL!!! 🧡🖤❤

[@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ]

Greek here, the reason it seems a bit off is because we tend to import used or half defective (such as the case) products and sell them to our people at full price. On the other hand we sell half price our products to abroad

[@pucknorris3473]

Check out taxi driver, Wizards, Bedknobs and Broomsticks... Darby O'Gill and the little people... The Star Wars holiday special! You have probably done these I don't know LOL

[@zonesproductions]

I saw those alternate posters for real at a Kubrick exhibition in London a few years back. Great art, even when unused. Being able to get right up close to all the props and scripts was awesome!

[@jamesgarner8262]

"Here's Johnny!"

[@oneandonlyJonnySad]

Stephen King doesn’t like The Shining and yet he gave a thumbs up to the utterly abysmal butchering of his greatest work, The Dark Tower.

[@thecinematicmind]

Including the god awful book adaptation mini series which showcased as iconic as his book is it doesn’t translate well at all.

[@jamestsitiridis5172]

I think King felt threatened by the movie in a way.

[@erikthompson619]

@@jamestsitiridis5172 Oh jeez... is the guy not allowed to have an opinion about an adaptation of his own work without being psycho-analyzed for it being the "wrong" opinion? I agree with him, I don't really like the movie either.

[@filmbuff2777]

@@erikthompson619 No, he is entitled to an opinion, but not when he is constantly whining about it & spews ignorance nonsense, like when he wrote in The Outsider that Kubrick wasn't taking any risks creatively on The Shining & Barry Lyndon. He is bitter that Kubrick's film has eclipsed his garbage cheesefest in culture, with the many iconic images that either weren't in his book (Here's Johnny), or done in a better way (Redrum). He should hold the garbage to the same standard as he does with Kubrick, but he doesn't because he is a hypocrite. The book is a conventional, run of the mill ghost story only considered a classic by people that don't know much about literature.

[@spyderjerusalem997]

What always gets me is the scene where the manager asks jack if his luggage was brought up & he points to a pile the same size as his VW bug that they drove up in.

[@tariqxl]

Never read the book as I'm not a fan of King, he doesn't write people so well. But did like the movie and if the difference of ideology is the true case, I agree with Kubrick in stance of the movie as I like the ambiguity and whether you believe in ghost or not, I like the that it lets you choose. I do like phsycological horrors like Jacobs ladder etc.

[@KattMurr]

I love your memorabilia collection!!!

[@dianecaldwell1831]

Another great Part Deux, Minty. Please keep ‘em coming!

[@scottewing2031]

Seen heaps of your vids ~ this is my fave so far 👍

[@LittleBlueOwl318]

Love your sign off for this one, Minty! 💖

[@markfrancis1369]

I,just came back from snowboarding in alaska. At a resort called alyeska. The hotel is eerily similar to the overlook hotel!!!

[@zillsburyy1]

minty i have done background acting work with boston casting. going to the set at 5am and getting home at 9pm. its unbelievable how much time and effort goes into doing a scene and when you see the actual film its only a few seconds. is room 237 a red flag that kubrick filed the moon landings as the earth is 237,000 miles from earth.

[@christermyrberg3661]

Slightly overrated but it's still pretty good psychological thriller anyways though I've always considered the miniseries & Doctor Sleep to be way better than this

[@skylined5534]

Doctor Sleep was very good. The miniseries whilst closer to the book was pretty naff, the shocking bad 90s CGI was the lid on it for me.

[@SuperPhilly5]

How is rhe mini series better 🤔

[@derekroberts6654]

i read somewhere that Candy Clarke (“American Graffiti”, “The Man Who Fell To Earth”) was considered for Wendy.

[@kellywolfe5930]

Your collection is awesome I love it thanks for sharing it 💙💛❤💚💜

[@patricktilton5377]

My take on Kubrick's version is that the man in the photograph at the end -- "July 4, 1921" -- died and was reincarnated as Jack Torrance. When Charles Grady murdered his own wife and 2 daughters in the winter of '70/71, it made the papers, and Jack happened to see newspaper articles about it -- including Grady's picture. This led to a flood of past-life memories in Jack's mind -- he suddenly remembered the great life he had once lived as one of "the best people" back in the Roaring Twenties, when he himself would stay at the Overlook during the winter season. Jack wants to go back to live in his beloved Overlook Hotel again -- this time permanently -- and he knows what it'll take, the same kind of sacrifice Grady made: murder his wife and kid(s). The only trouble is, Jack doesn't HAVE a wife and kids -- not yet. So, after reading about the Overlook and the 'Grady Incident' of '70-to'71, Jack seeks out a meek woman -- someone whom he will be able to dominate -- and settles on the mousy, bookish Winnifred. She probably is fooled into believing that he really loves her, but he DOESN'T. His only love is for himself and the hotel. He gets her pregnant, and becomes the father of Danny. Jack knows he can't seek out the winter caretaker job at the Overlook until Danny is no longer a toddler, so he bides his time . . . until Danny's old enough, in 1980. Jack lies to Ullman, pretending he knows nothing about "the tragedy" from ten years back -- but he actually knows all about it. He knows what Grady looks like -- he tells 'Delbert Grady' (who looks just like 'Charles Grady') that he recognizes him, having seen his picture in the papers -- just as WE recognize 'Jack Torrance' in that 1921 photo: that man BECAME Jack Torrance via reincarnation, just as Delbert Grady BECAME Charles Grady via reincarnation . . . and found out how to become a permanent 'presence' at the Overlook, by offering up human sacrifices, his wife and children. Grady no longer has to worry about continuing on in the relentless cycle of Death and Rebirth, finding a diabolical 'nirvana' of Life Everlasting at the Overlook, which was built atop an Indian burial grounds -- a 'holy' site now desecrated by the slaughter of those Indians who tried to fight off the White Men expropriating their sacred lands. Jack fails to murder -- or 'sacrifice' -- Wendy and Danny, true, but he does manage to murder Hallorann, so by committing a human sacr4ifice, he attains his 'position' there at the hotel, presumably. Why didn't Jack murder Wendy and Danny the day after Ullman and the rest left on Closing day? Well, in order to 'season' the sacrifice -- to make it "a sweet-smelling oblation to the Lord" (i.e. to the Powers-That-Be that invisibly run the hotel, "the House" as Lloyd refers to 'Them') -- Jack needs to ramp up their FEAR. The evil spirits at the hotel want the victims to be scared witless and shitless, and Jack's way is to set up a situation where Wendy will be reeling with horror all-of-a-sudden . . . hence Jack's typescript, which he hides from her until he allows her curiosity to get the better of her. She discovers that he's been typing that same sentence over and over again, and naturally she believes that Jack has not only lost his mind, but that he lost it the moment they were left up there all alone -- just as Jack intended for her to think. He planned it all along, though. He needed to trigger her into a state of mind-reeling terror, knowing that when he kills her the Hotel will enjoy the 'taste' of her fear. He's like Wile E. Coyote in the cartoons we hear off-screen, when Danny's watching the BUGS BUNNY / ROADRUNNER SHOW, plotting to get the best of her (and of Danny) -- but they end up foiling him in the end. Danny even mimics how Jack got away from the Dead Hag in Room 237 -- by walking BACKWARDS -- after having 'seen' the incident via his "shining" abilities. Those Roadrunner cartoons are in the movie for a reason, folks!

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Interesting ideas. 🤔

[@poindextertunes]

TL;DR

[@tempestfury8324]

Whew! Try paragraphs!

[@patricktilton5377]

There WERE paragraphs, only I didn't put spaces between 'em. I've done that now, so maybe you'll find it easier...?

[@jessicaizard7630]

Brilliant. You should write a book of your own!

[@DiogeneDeSin0pe]

I must have been just a bit older than Danny when I first saw the movie, I was a bit scarred but that was overshadowed by the fact that he had a big empty hotel to ride is tricycle in, how amazing.

[@steved7872]

I learned a new word today. "Interpretating" I feel smarter already. Thank you MCA!!!!

[@markfrancis1369]

LOVE the new logo minty!!! 🤘🏼 genius!!! Keep up the stellar work dude!!!

[@danielroncaioli6882]

Minty rules

[@rsine100]

Jack wasn't Photoshopped into the final image of the movie. He was airbrushed in. Photoshop didn't exist back then.

[@wyattearp2833]

Would do a 10 thing you don’t know about 20,000 leagues under the sea by Walt Disney from 1954

[@denise-comicnerd-bray]

Even to this day, those twins still creep the fuck outta me

[@aprilskutt974]

I was 12 years old when this movie came out. I was about 13 when it was on HBO close to 1981. The movie scared the hell out of me! I have loved it ever since.

[@axelfoley20]

The very first VHS release of the Shining came in a clamshell case. This is a newer issue, circa 1985. I had this copy too.

[@shanewalley4878]

Love your vids man !! Keep up the awesome work !!

[@aindovin]

Thank you so much for all your videos! They are truly a pleasure and one of my favorite channels Im subscribed to! I thought I heard everything about the Shining but you offered some new facts! Awesome!

[@susandemetry7158]

When I read the book, I found the part about the hedge animals coming to life hokey. I'm glad Kubrick changed it to a maze which was far more frightening.

[@lexiburrows8127]

I never understood why Mr. Hallorann was killed in the movie. Not only did he survive in the book, he also appeared in the beginning of the much later sequel, Doctor Sleep. Halloran's death in the movie did not even make any sense as all he did was turn up at the hotel and get killed. What was the point of that?

[@icebergthegamer]

Even know I knew all of these things, I can keep watching. Can never get enough of the shining content lol

[@gorfulator]

It took me years to warm up to Shining. I saw it in Theater summer 1980 when I was 13. One thing that bugged me on my first watch were those dates that would flash on screen with blaring music. I'm used to them now, but I did find them distracting. I

[@RoutierNordAmericain]

Critics probably said the same thing about Kubrick's 1968 film, "2001: A Space Odyssey" when it 1st came out. I had to watch that film 2 more times to get the meaning of it, because of the very minimal dialogue compared to other movies at the time, the beginning scenes with the apes, neanderthals, & that monolith in the Prehistoric Era, & the movie score using Johann Strauss' compositions.

[@StevenMichaelCunningham]

Any haunting is a cry for help as a group or no. They must take rest in the world as we knew it when homes were made well & good as well as practical. A wilderness with fresh water streaming through it's valley as well.

[@AlejandroPacifico]

One of my favourite film of all times! Great chapter!

[@mpd42781]

Please do this for Doctor Sleep! I love how it is tied to The Shining and it made me go back to rewatch The Shining again!

[@kellywolfe5930]

I wish someone would make a movie out of Stephen King's insomnia ... Great video always a like 👍👍

[@splatter639]

Btw always loved your cop/Silvester Stallone cobra sun glasses

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

have you seen the follow up movie '' doctor sleep'' ? that is freakin awesome ! and it really does answer things and ties up the lose ends and gives a nice follow up on how the character Danny fared after his ordeal with jack, and the overlook hotel.

[@efnissien]

Regarding Shelly Duvall's treatment by Kubrick. He could be a vindictive bully, in 'Full Metal Jacket' when Dorian Harewood complained that the shoot was over-running - Kubrick re-wrote the script to kill off Harewood's character "Eightball" and then had him lying soaking in the freezing mud (it was filmed in London in winter- not some tropical locale!) for five days while he did numerous re-shoots of 'eightball's' death (including numerous 'squib's' being used - which can be painful)

[@oliverpony]

R.I.P Shelley Duvall

[@marcusaureliusRomanEmperor]

MINTY!!! Your awesome movie trivia has once again saved me from another boring Sunday morning. I was able to make my homemade pancakes while watching this video. Yes, I know what you’re thinking - the pancakes turned out great! I bought a fancy raspberry jam all the way from France. They tasted were great together and reminded me of the blood (or rust water) coming out of that awesome miniature lift (or elevator) in the movie. I thought about this all through breakfast. As always it is great to see all your awesome collectables related to the movie - I have that Mad magazine too. I’m always torn about doing the fold-in or keeping the magazine in pristine shape. Did you do yours? Finally, Keep up the good work and enjoy rocking those aviators. Do it!!!! ODB.

[@SonnyGTA]

Minty! Did you ever watch that recut of The Shining trailer where they made it seem like a family movie? You’d love it!

[@stephenwest6738]

I'm not sure if it's accurate as far as it being intentional from day 1, or a welcome consequence of production issues, but the architecture of the hotel as seen from the outside being completely impossible to exist together with interior shots is such an intensely detailed and subtle way to give the audience an uneasy and surreal feeling, even if it's not a conscious that. It's quite shocking how much our brain can analyze input and make some surface level judgements, even if we are unaware of it. Best example is that gut feeling we get about situations or people. It's not magic or angels, it's our brain running some programs in the background, and then sending the results to our consciousness so we can refine our judgment algorithms. Very few filmmakers have the ability to manipulate our algorithm so precisely and subtley

[@marknesium]

12:05 I think I heard he improvised the "Here's Johnny" line on set.