The Shining: The office of Accountant Henry Callahan

In this Shining video we are going to explore the office of Accountant Henry Callahan.
Henry Callahan links:
Patrick Henry Callahan
www.lib.cua.edu/wordpress/new...
Henry Callahan - Store Display Designer
www.nytimes.com/1985/07/23/ny...
Henry Callahan - player and ambassador of ultimate frisbee
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_C...
Other analyses mentioned:
Eye Scream - eyescream237.ca/
The Object of Art (Miss M) - / @theobjectofart

[@kevinwilliams7778]

If you notice how many card slots there are next to the time clock, then consider how large the hotel is, it's easy to understand why there are two. It would take a very large staff to run the place.

[@tankardoftales4645]

My impression too. But I think both time clocks are the same. The areas are different because we are seeing them from a delusional perspective.

[@aburninglandfillofbadmovie2930]

The name callahan is sourced from gaelic 'caellachan' meaning 'bright-headed'.

[@tankardoftales4645]

Thanks 😊

[@richlinlaw]

Excellent thesis, strong argument! I think Kube knew that the game would be on, much as satoshi foresaw the significance of his own work. Part of that level of genius is projecting the future ripples of the stones they throw

[@richlinlaw]

most public schools bear a resemblance to an asylum just sayin

[@tankardoftales4645]

When you think about it, it makes total sense. To analyze a movie before the laserdisc, you would need expensive equipment and you're viewing on film.

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@richlinlaw That's interesting. Maybe the Overlook is a Public School from Danny's nightmare. :)

[@hermanhale9258]

@@tankardoftales4645 I had an old magazine of the sixties, and I remember a comment made in it that Paul McCartney had taped a Beatles performance off his TV with some new equipment. The Beatles seem to have been given experimental Sony movie cameras and VHS tape players in '65 or so. They may not have been the only celebs to get them. Also, people did have movie projectors and copies of movies, celebrities had movie playing equipment in their own homes, even in the fifties, if you go by Sunset Boulevard. Silent movies, anyway. My family had a little projector and some old silent Shirley Temple movies.

[@nickd4310]

Ullman is wearing shiny red pants because it's the 70s and that's how a cool guy would dress. Most likely he would have worn a suit, but the guests have all left.

[@tankardoftales4645]

Makes me think of Shaft... 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 Who's the 'General Manager at the Overlook Hotel' that's a sex machine to all the chicks? (Ullman) You damn right Who is the man that wears leather pants on closing day? (Ullman) Can you dig it Who's the cat that shows up in the deleted scene to invite Danny and Wendy to stay with him? (Ullman) Right on They say this cat Ullman is a bad mother (Shut your mouth) I'm talkin' 'bout Ullman (Then we can dig it) He's a complicated man But no one understands him but his woman (Stuart Ullman)

[@marcusmiller5443]

If the three movies are a trilogy: Danny loses his dad to insanity, as he works for 'a rich man' (Callahan, an accountant/accountant office also the chef office, where meals are planned) while ultimately failing to pursue his dream. War and terror has it's toll, but only on 'Dannys', not the 'Hotel owners'. Eyes Wide Shut...we rub elbows with those who never have to sacrifice anything of their own...the sick indulgence. And...scene.

[@watermelonlalala]

Since you bring up Eyes Wide Shut, here is my brand new interpretation of the movie that I just posted on another channel: Oh, I just figured it out. You see Alice sitting by the window, the window sill looks like a white face mask such as Bill and "Mandy" wore at the ritual party. Then "Mandy" recognizes Bill at the ritual party and sacrifices herself for Bill. (How could she recognize him?) Then Alice tells Bill she felt wonderful after he left her dream scene and she had sex with hundreds of men. It's like she's "Mandy" or somehow she did a mind meld with "Mandy". Took over Mandy's body. [Took the treatment they were going to give Bill after he took off his clothes.] Even though Bill was betraying her, she saved him through her mind.

[@tankardoftales4645]

Thanks something to start.

[@tankardoftales4645]

Have you seen Hour of the Wolf 1968, this seems more closer to EWS...

[@marcusmiller5443]

@@tankardoftales4645 checking it out, now. Janus (Jupiter) productions...already I know it's my kind of film

[@tankardoftales4645]

​@@marcusmiller5443what's your thoughts on the movie?

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

Henry Callahan reminds me a LOT of Harry Callahan, Clint Eastwood's character in all the "Dirty Harry" movies....

[@tankardoftales4645]

It's odd how closely Harry Callahan to Henry Callahan. But the anagram wouldn't work with Harry.

[@akanthonycurtis47]

Allegedly when Stephen King saw the first few takes he was complaining that kubrick couldn't even get the colour of the car right it was red in the book and yellow in the film, this apparently got back to Stanley so towards the end of the film Halloran passes a wreck on the road and the car involved is a red volkswagon 😊 as if Kubrick was saying it's your book but my movie

[@tankardoftales4645]

I wish we had a tape recording of the King/Kubrick phone call.

[@marcusbillings1644]

That scene was scheduled from the start. It was not an afterthought. But you are correct in noting that it was Kubrick's way of saying that this was not the story of the book.

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@marcusbillings1644 lol... my gut feeling for the Playgirl magazine. Because David Soul was in an interview and David Soul starring in Salem's Lot (kind of suggesting that King was a reality in the Torrance world).

[@ultrawrestling]

9:50 - Hen-Rye-Call-A-Hen The book "The catcher in the Rye" and it's influence of people becoming violent and murderers. It would fit to that video: Part ONE Kubrick's 'Catcher in the Rye' Code in 'The Shining'

[@tankardoftales4645]

That's interesting. What about the other signs?

[@davegentry-pu9xm]

Your wife is just toying with you, Tankard. lol. She's brilliant! Maybe you'll catch up with her one day. 😅Anyway, nice video, man. I especially appreciate you pointing out the introduction of home movie playing devices at the beginning. That has to be factored into how Stanley made his last 3 movies. That alone makes them a type of "trilogy of style."

[@tankardoftales4645]

She's a great find! I know she doesn't buy into most of my stuff (except for 3 Faces of Eve), but I love her input. I've been trying to push her in doing her own channel. Thanks. The Laserdisc was a huge game changer, that eventually became the DVDs. There is a huge difference between Lolita and the Shining. Lolita was not setup for freeze frame, or James Mason moves his fingers way too fast. In Lolita James Mason wearing band-aids on his fingers and they keep changing between cuts.

[@hermanhale9258]

I find your ideas interesting. I'm thinking about them. Don't have anything coherent to say about them, right now.

[@tankardoftales4645]

Don't rush into it. Take your time and when you crack something please post it here or make a video and I'll be happy to watch it and endorse it.

[@marcusmiller5443]

Patrick Henry. Founding Father. Patrick Henry Callahan, of the Knights of Columbus order. Can't get much more templar/Illuminati.

[@tankardoftales4645]

Do you have a source I could look at, besides what I found.

[@marcusmiller5443]

@@tankardoftales4645 there were a few pages, other than the site you referenced. Patrick Henry, dropping Callahan, is different, of course, but another 'rabbit hole', altogether.

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@marcusmiller5443 rabbit holes can be fun and annoying. I'm not sure about digging in Patrick H C rabbit hole at this time. But I'll keep the name on my list.

[@VarsityBookworm]

You mentioned the use of slang in A Clockwork Orange. Not sure if you're aware, but most (maybe all?) of the slang terms used by Alex and his friends in the novel are derived from Russian words

[@tankardoftales4645]

Yeah, my wife remembers that the beginning of the book explains that. Lol... I have not read Clockwork Orange, but I just learned while making the video that my wife read it. 😅

[@VarsityBookworm]

It's a great book! One of my faves from high school. (Though I personally think Kubrick's ending was better than the book's). I'm going through a major "Shining analysis" kick right now, and I've been really enjoying your videos on it.

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@VarsityBookworm Thanks. I've been on a Lolita kick but the views have not been going my way, so I went back to the Shining. Shining is a very interesting movie. Id you watch Object of Art videos (Miss M) she does some really good analysis (they are long but they are very good)

[@gregcompton9759]

The slang was called Nadsat if I'm remembering correctly.

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@gregcompton9759 thanks

[@phyarth8082]

Accountant Henry Callahan is initials HC. This initial have Shining Cather in the Rye main protagonist Holden Caulfield. A caul or cowl (Latin: Caput galeatum, literally, "helmeted head") is a piece of membrane that can cover a newborn's head and face.[1]. is rare, occurring in less than 1 in 80,000 births. And associated with magical or superstition powers. In The Shining, Danny Torrance is born with a caul, possibly causing his clairvoyant abilities. Henry Callahan power is people who are pretentious and movie itself is act of pretentious (pretending) call them phonies. Which are two different things.

[@tankardoftales4645]

That's something I've didn't think of. Catcher in the Rye is oozing in the movie.

[@hermanhale9258]

Maybe everyone already knows this, but in somebody's video I saw a photo of the cast/crew, I am pretty sure outside, and there was a big No Smoking sign behind them, but the letters SMO happened to be blocked by something, and I wondered if that was done as a joke, "NO KING". No Stephen King.

[@tankardoftales4645]

lol... I saw the picture. I've sent that picture to a huge Shelley fan on twitter (I believe this person sees Shelley regularly.) I got no answer and I was blocked from the account. LOL

[@BurningMan-gc3uk]

Oh yes definitely miss M from the object of art talks about this a lot

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@BurningMan-gc3uk we got the impression (because of Kings interviews) that something happened on the set with King and Kubrick. We don't know what happened but it must of been bad, very bad. Especially when King in a 1978 interview (which I did talked about in a video) that he thew everyone working on the Shining under the bus.

[@watermelonlalala]

@@tankardoftales4645 Oh. Sorry you got blocked.

[@watermelonlalala]

@@BurningMan-gc3uk OK. I never heard her say that, but I might have seen the photo in one of her videos.

[@GenerateGoodInformation]

What about Dirty Harry Callahan played by Clint Eastwood?

[@tankardoftales4645]

We thought about the Harry/Henry. I left it for Eyescream. My opinion is Harry/Henry is like Rich/Rob it don't seem like the same name. Sure we could be wrong but that's why we decided to not suggest it.

[@watermelonlalala]

@@tankardoftales4645 I have always thought Henry and Harry are basically the same name for the same kind of character in movies. Harvey, too. They are all "white rabbit" names, most movies have one. My father was called Harry and his twin brother was called Henry, but that was not their real names. Good twin names for the twenties era.

[@GenerateGoodInformation]

@@watermelonlalala Dirty Harry was such a an iconic character when the Shining came out, so a connection would have been there. The movies had many scenes that took place inside police inter-offices. I'm sure there's something there but is there something everywhere? Lol.

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@watermelonlalala lol... if we walked down the Henry/Harry path we wouldn't approach the sign as an anagram.

[@watermelonlalala]

@@tankardoftales4645 I know, I'm just saying in old movies in general, those names come up a lot. I think maybe HC is a friend of Kubrick's and he put his name in there for fun. Like, in Eyes Wide Shut, he has some real crew members' names in some shots, and he used his driver and his driver's wife as extras.

[@annodomini1991]

Interesting.

[@tankardoftales4645]

Thanks.

[@Birddog8]

13:23 2 different offices, color on wall is different

[@tankardoftales4645]

True both areas are slightly different. I did mention that I dont believe the kitchen is real as we are seeing it because the kitchen has both air vents and radiators. I know I didn't explain why I thoughts are this in this video. But I'll explain it in a future video. I'm kind of waiting on Miss M (Onject of Art) to go into more details about the radiators and air vents.

[@marcusbillings1644]

This movie was Kubrick's confession, plain and simple. Danny is the young, naive Kubrick, Jack is the older, experienced Kubrick. No accidents here at all. Remember, he even added a scene showing the original red Volkswagen bug crashed, in order to let Steven King and his fans know that this was his creation and not an interpretation of king's book. You're scratching the surface, keep working at it, and you might understand the message.

[@watermelonlalala]

Just spit it out. What is the message?

[@tankardoftales4645]

Confession? To what? Maybe...

[@tankardoftales4645]

😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣

[@pegacorn13]

Kubrick's film is not a confession. He made it very clear from the start that he was changing the story from the book so there's no "confession" be made. The definition of "confession" is "a formal statement admitting that one is guilty of a crime." Kubrick never felt guilty and he never thought his reimagining of the story was a "crime". King was pissed and there are some digs in the movie about their spat over the matter (including the crashed bug scene). That being said, Danny is not a young naive Kubrick and Jack is not the older experienced Kubrick. In the film, Jack is the embodiment of the inherent evil of humanity: he's not some secret autobiographical character at all. So sorry but no.

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@pegacorn13 I think this is how a lot of people see the film. I believe that Stanley Kubrick didn't want to make a horror movie. His horror movies were Lolita (believe it or not - HH is a psychopath necrophilia - in the book and Kubrick movie) and 2001. I'm slowly exploring lolita. I think Kubrick was playing with secret movie in the Shining.

[@charlesco7413]

TOMY BOY has Callahan auto parts. Dan Aykroyd is a conspiracy aficionado.

[@tankardoftales4645]

Thanks I'll have to check it out.

[@watermelonlalala]

Anyone have any thoughts on the workman standing at the dishes counter at 5:32? Also, regarding Ullman's outfit in the same shot, I always thought in this outfit he looked like a successful actor making a guest appearance on a TV talk show of the era. So, he always meant politics and show biz, to me. What is this about holes in the Overlook? What kind of holes?

[@tankardoftales4645]

The workman is something I like to analyze in the future. Ullman does look like a gameshow host. Lol. Miss M (Object of Art) goes into great details how Ullman looks like a pimp. And the holes (lol) are the ladies of the night.

[@watermelonlalala]

@@tankardoftales4645 Oh, I thought you meant space wormholes to travel back and forth. hahaha. Well, I don't agree with Miss M, but I did have my own theory that because Ullman invites Wendy and Danny to visit him in Malibu in the deleted scene, he did have his eye on trafficking Danny in Hollywood, or abusing Danny himself. If that scene had stayed, that is what I would have thought, and it would have been similar to the imaginary ending of EWS where people think Alice sold or gave her kid to the cult. And I think that is an appropriate ending for EWS, but I resent Kubrick making us do all the work to end the picture when he could have explained it all.

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@watermelonlalala we don't have to agree with anyone theories. The fun part is making the theories and see if there are some merits. I'm pleased Stanley ended the Shining as he did. Most mind-f movies are one trick ponies and not often rewatchable. Who's rewatching sixth sense or high tension?

[@watermelonlalala]

@@tankardoftales4645 Yeah, but nobody told us, buy a ticket for this movie and you are going to be playing a game Kubrick set up for the rest of your life. It's like this old horror movie trailer I saw: "If you enter this house, you will never get out!" Kubrick should have called The Shining "Do Not Enter".

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@watermelonlalala because Stanley Kubrick is dead, I doubt we will ever find a satisfying answer.

[@Gershom.]

💎Anagrams are def in play💎

[@tankardoftales4645]

Thanks. I've spent a few weeks searching this and so far we (my wife and I) have found the anagram. I could be wrong, but so far we didn't find anybody else saying it.

[@Gershom.]

💎Saying the anagram you showed or anagrams in general? 💎

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@Gershom. Mostlikely the sign: ACCOUNTANT HENRY CALLAHAN Is an anagram that says: "Hallorann can teach u, can'ty?" And I believe some of the other signs are also anagram.

[@Gershom.]

@@tankardoftales4645 💎Yes. I have solved some too. And other word games.💎

[@Gershom.]

@@tankardoftales4645 💎Nabokov placed acrostics in his texts. I haven’t found any in Kubrick, but an AI might be helpful.💎

[@BurningMan-gc3uk]

Tankard play McCartney over the first minutes of the film

[@hermanhale9258]

Why McCartney? And what is that clip with the monkey in the sailor suit?

[@tankardoftales4645]

LOL. The music was from some "AI" free use music I got from my editing program. The intro clip was a Buster Keaton movie "The Cameraman" 1928

[@BurningMan-gc3uk]

@@tankardoftales4645 dude back to the egg synchs up I personally believe

[@BurningMan-gc3uk]

@@tankardoftales4645 but I’d also like to say you’ve great taste in films I love old films and you reminded me about three faces of eve, one movie you might like is the uninvited (1944)

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@BurningMan-gc3uk thanks I'll check out out the movie.

[@jotun.616]

Its not necessarily a sign of incompetence to have continuity errors. Scorsese admits he doesnt care about them as much as the vibe of the scene. Which i think is dumb, but you get my point. There are "good" directors who dont care about the details.

[@tankardoftales4645]

Let's look at the disappearing chair behind Jack. For this to be a mistake would suggest Stanely Kubrick was incompetent behind the camera.

[@watermelonlalala]

They have a person on the set whose JOB is to make sure there are no continuity errors.

[@tankardoftales4645]

@@watermelonlalala yep.

[@fmills1583]

Dirty Henry Callahan.

[@tankardoftales4645]

Lol... its Harry... 😀