The Shining

-- Ehh, I rewatched this a few nights ago. When Shelley's running through the Overlook at the end of the film there's this sudden snap-zoom and all of a sudden a fat man in a bear-suit giving a bloody blow-job fills the frame. It lasts for about four seconds, and it's creepy as shit. I was with watching this with Jon William in Rochester a few years ago and I was stoned as could be and thought I was hallucinating the scene. No dice, though.

One good scene (the funeral argument) does not a good book make! I found the whole thing boring and stupid.

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Compared to the book, now, the only thing I miss is any sort of balance to Jack - even the minor moments of being a loving/caring human being. Everything else Kubrick changed or eliminated seem right on, though.

Seriously one of the most chilling movies right up through meeting Grady in the ballroom/bathroom - that kills all the momentum and drama (poss. I just know what's going to happen). The disassociation caused by the overacting music and framing create tension even in innocuous scenes, but it doesn't work when Kubrick tries to be more traditional, you just start noticing that Shelley Duvall has huge fucking eyes.

The naked black women in Scatman Crothers' bachelor pad are almost as great as the masked biker men in The Royal Tenenbaums.

And yeah, the aniaml-outfit-fellatio thing is really really freaky. In the book, it turns out the guy he's sucking off is the owner of the hotel. The owner of the hotel is called Horace Derwent. He's got the same (not particularly common) surname as me. So I shat myself when I read that.

yeah, i think it actually works better in the movie because its so inexplicable.

Well, I just disagree. I liked it because it was just a really creepy update of the monkey's paw. the parts with dead children and the nightime journey to the indian burial ground were really effective to me.

Also, this made the rounds WAY fast... everyone's seen this today (not on ILX, I mean)

Yeah, but the end results!

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/30/west_side_story_beco.html

http://www.boardsmag.com/articles/magazine/20050601/aice.html

http://www.aice.org/ ('Trailer Park' section)

The Shining Revised....oh my!

I appreciate the discussions above re: the casting of Nicholson and the difficulty of accepting him as "normal" at the outset. Even in the scene in the car on the way up, he radiates menace. Michael Keaton would have been good for that part, but probably equally unbelievable as descending into madness. It's hard to think of anyone who would have filled this role perfectly.

I still think this was one of Nicholson's best performances, if not the best.

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otm. that's the insufferable part. it's fine to notice details or to want to talk about movies on the internet

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It's hard to think of anyone who would have filled this role perfectly.

the answer to this in most contexts is michael shannon

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Interesting; I think it works as a particularly filmic subliminal indicator that the character is weird, estranged from his surroundings, and does things both the other characters in the film and "normal" characters from other films don't do.

― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:42

Could this be Rob Ager? His ‘subliminal’ analyses of both The Shining and Full Metal Jacket dig up a lot of hidden meaning in Kubrick’s work, well beyond the typical Room 237 speculation.

He’s “Collative Learning” on YouTube. Sadly he’s taken the majority of his most thorough analysis videos to his private website but there’s quite a bit of incidental work left in public. He deals a lot with the other disconcerting aspects of this film such as the impossible set design:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUIxXCCFWw

50 is… more than 20

Lol omg

a true poster (me) wd have noted (🧵 1/1) that you dont need to watch any of the THE SHINING (1980) when you can just view this gif

In films it works in the same way. It breaks the viewer’s so-called suspension of disbelief: we look at the fiction as if we are observing real events, until the actor breaks such illusion by looking directly at us.

🧵 20/50 pic.twitter.com/g7zl6AoiVY

— Filippo Ulivieri (@nessuno2001) May 31, 2023

what if i said things that are obvious to everyone, but in a smug and breathless tone

^ new board descrip pls mods

"you dont need to watch any of the THE SHINING (1980) when you can just view this gif"

That's tweet 20, genius

🧵 1/1, bonehead

20/50 morans

what if i said things that are obvious to everyone, but in a smug and breathless tone

I appreciate the discussions above re: the casting of Nicholson and the difficulty of accepting him as "normal" at the outset. Even in the scene in the car on the way up, he radiates menace.

I grew up watching this alongside a dad who thought Jack Torrance was a super cool character and who took maybe a few too many parenting cues from Nicholson's performance (that car trip was basically every car trip from my childhood) so it took me a long, long time to even recognize that Jack is itching to cast off his thin veneer of stability and sanity right from the start.

Ku brick-n-hour mess age

always thought this was a theremin

Wendy Carlos - The Shining Demo Score

Carlos demonstrates the Circon controller, which she created in 1978 to produce a demo score for the 1980 film
⚡️sound on⚡️ pic.twitter.com/Ux6YCe7Wqa

— psychotronica (@psychotronica_) November 22, 2023