Fact About The Shining

ER · October 09, 2019, 03:58:25 PM

News to me though being as into film as many of you are you may already know, but if you look closely at Jacks's typing, scattered throughout his ".... all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" are numerous sentences that read ".... all work and no play makes Jack adult boy." It's in there more than a few times.

Kubrick's meticulous perfectionist streak would never have left those in if they'd merely been typos. He definitely knew about it.

An Easter egg or do you think this changes things at all in any way?

Trevor · October 09, 2019, 05:42:57 PM

I always get into trouble with younger film fans who love this film as I tell them it's the worst horror film I have ever seen and then I have to duck a hail of thrown shoes. Now I say: if you haven't read the book, it's a great film but if you have read the book, the film is crap city.

RCMerchant · October 09, 2019, 06:50:14 PM

^ I think they are both great in the medium they use.
Comparing books and movies is like apples and oranges. The HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE by Shirley Jackson is my favorite fiction book of all time, but the 1963 movie is great on it's own terms.

RCMerchant · October 09, 2019, 06:58:06 PM

ER- Watch this movie! It's about all the subliminal stuff in the SHINING. Pretty cool!

It's called ROOM 237 (2012)

http://youtu.be/gL1fTlH81gU

Svengoolie 3 · October 09, 2019, 08:59:37 PM

I never noticed that some of the lines were "adult boy".

As to it in general I thought it was well filmed and atmospheric. I kinda like King personally but can't really read his work. I have tried. So I hav no bias based on the novel.

Honestly I get the idea King and some other Hollywood types seem to believe the only reason pre European americans existed was to leave behind cursed graves and artifacts to xxxx with the white man centuries later...

chainsaw midget · October 09, 2019, 09:01:15 PM

Quote from: Trevor on October 09, 2019, 05:42:57 PM
I always get into trouble with younger film fans who love this film as I tell them it's the worst horror film I have ever seen and then I have to duck a hail of thrown shoes. Now I say: if you haven't read the book, it's a great film but if you have read the book, the film is crap city.

I actually think the movie is better than the book. The movie really goes off the rails towards the end.

Svengoolie 3 · October 09, 2019, 09:03:15 PM

Speaking of going off the failed, the pic at the end? Whiskey tango foxtrot.

bob · October 09, 2019, 09:22:21 PM

more hilarious fact about The Shining that kind of puts the film in a more interesting light

when Jack is waiting in the hotel he is reading a magazine

this is the magazine

Svengoolie 3 · October 09, 2019, 09:36:24 PM

He was reading it for the articles.

Gabriel Knight · October 10, 2019, 06:04:04 AM

Here's tons of trivia from the movie:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv
Apparently, those pages were typed manually one by one, so it's expected that there are some typos after doing the same thing over and over.
I do love the conspiracy theories about the covering of the Moon landing tho. Tinfoil hat intensifies!

Regarding the movie itself, I remember being extremely scared of it as a kid, but after watching it recently I discovered it's reeeeeally boring and unnecesary long. It takes forever to pick up the pace, and some things, like the power that gives the movie its name, never really pay off. Not to mention, if you take Jack Nicholson out of the equation, the movie just falls apart and nobody would give a flying f**k about it.
Having said that, I do think it's a good movie, although it gets too much praise just for being Kubrick, as usual.

Svengoolie 3 · October 10, 2019, 03:15:55 PM

Being a stickler for realism, kubrick demanded real blood be used for the infamous blood flooding the hallway scene.

Allhallowsday · October 10, 2019, 10:10:50 PM

Quote from: Gabriel Knight on October 10, 2019, 06:04:04 AM
Here's tons of trivia from the movie:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv
Apparently, those pages were typed manually one by one, so it's expected that there are some typos after doing the same thing over and over.
I do love the conspiracy theories about the covering of the Moon landing tho. Tinfoil hat intensifies!
Regarding the movie itself, I remember being extremely scared of it as a kid, but after watching it recently I discovered it's reeeeeally boring and unnecesary long. It takes forever to pick up the pace, and some things, like the power that gives the movie its name, never really pay off. Not to mention, if you take Jack Nicholson out of the equation, the movie just falls apart and nobody would give a flying f**k about it.
Having said that, I do think it's a good movie, although it gets too much praise just for being Kubrick, as usual.

I see your point, but I liked the novel also though the movie is different. I think there is more bloodshed in the movie than the book. I also think the movie improves a bit on the novel. That's true for at least one other movie based on a STEPHEN KING novel,

The Burgomaster · October 12, 2019, 05:35:12 PM

Quote from: Trevor on October 09, 2019, 05:42:57 PM
I always get into trouble with younger film fans who love this film as I tell them it's the worst horror film I have ever seen and then I have to duck a hail of thrown shoes. Now I say: if you haven't read the book, it's a great film but if you have read the book, the film is crap city.

I'm not a big fan of the movie, either. It's not the worst horror film I've ever seen, but it didn't scare me at all. Nicholson was creepy, but he couldn't save the movie. Everything that made the book scary was completely ignored in Kubrick's film.

zelmo73 · January 01, 2020, 05:18:46 AM

My parents took me to see the movie in the summer of 1980 when I was 6 years old. I remember it being very slow and I didn't understand the movie enough at the time to be scared of it, just that the blood coming out of the elevator and the two little girl ghosts were fascinating, and the old lady coming out of the tub was freaky. I've seen the movie too often over the years to be scared of it as well, so I guess I never had time to appreciate it as a horror movie, only as a particularly good one. I finally read the novel in 1987 when I was 12 going on 13, however, and it scared the s**t out of me! I had nightmares for two weeks while reading it and one night I swear that the dead lady from the bathtub was standing in my bedroom in the dark just staring at me laying there, to the point where I had to run out of my bedroom and spend the rest of the night in the living room with the light on because I *swear* that there was someone else in my bedroom in the dark, and it wasn't my folks because they were sound asleep in their bedroom. I've never read a book before or since then that affected me like that.