The Shining

said it before but wendy near-singlehandedly saves her life and her son's life in this movie. the misogyny criticism seems to rest on the notion that she screams and cries too much while doing it. if only there was a word for the belief that a woman's emotions make her stupid and weak.

i only just noticed for the first time that when jack is going insane, before he's actually homicidal, wendy has basically taken over all the major responsibilities for the hotel - she's working the boilers to make sure they don't all freeze to death during the storm.

isn't that like saying mommie dearest is cynical abt motherhood

Both movies are awesome at moviehood.

yes! it's notable that wendy does ALL the work in the hotel, including the work of parenting, but her work is never mentioned. jack's work - talked about so much in the movie, and the whole point of their being there - finally amounts to typing the same complaint about work over and over for pages. def intentional, def important.

i feel sorry for the assistant who actually had to type all those pages

http://www.thefoxisblack.com/2013/12/12/siri-bunford-takes-us-behind-the-scenes-of-stanley-kubricks-the-shining-in-this-clever-commercial/

Saw Room 237 the night before last - loved it. Went in kind of hoping for total crazies, came out glad that it wasn't actually like that at all (except for moon-landing hoax man). Just revelled in the micro-analysis and pattern-finding.

Also, this is great:

yes! it's notable that wendy does ALL the work in the hotel, including the work of parenting, but her work is never mentioned. jack's work - talked about so much in the movie, and the whole point of their being there - finally amounts to typing the same complaint about work over and over for pages. def intentional, def important.

― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, December 10, 2013 10:05 PM (4 weeks ago)

OK, the conspiracy guy's thing about the carpet pattern actually made my jaw drop. It proves nothing, but damn.

Otherwise, thought that the moon stuff was actually the weakest part of the film; would have liked either him or the movie to make some kind of link between such a conspiracy and what's going on in the film thematically. The rest of the participants made much stronger arguments for their cases (though the stuff about the genocide of Native Americans was nothing new--I thought this was a fairly common and popular reading of the film).

MOON ROOM

lool that was the funniest part for me

i'm still impressed by that woman's detailed map of the hotel

Anybody read the BFI bk on The Shining yet?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/15/shining-roger-luckhurst-review

I'm saving it for a snowy day.

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/the-shining-twins-attend-kubrick-screening-in-london-121249287.html

aw!

pretty reprehensible to use a national enquirer article as yr sole source for where-is-shelley-duvall-now, not that i know where shelley duvall is now

absolutely true but this photo is riveting to me
http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/I.XF94HokYUNU_.ZulxuuA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http%3A//l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/movies/2014-01-29/2b3a2799-0692-47ac-bf86-2bf8904e2eac_danny-torrance-the-shining.jpg

Feel like I would be remiss if I didn't post a link to this Shining tee a local printing company released this month.

http://pizzapartyprinting.com/collections/t-shirt/products/the-shining-t-shirt

his mouth looks totally different, eyeballs the same!
weird

tbf he evicted Tony so you'd expect some changes mouth-wise

lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNicTi9FWY

hope he spent his money wisely

i love that clip so much. he has the best smile

kurbrick selfie

http://postgradproblems.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/e73cc5a7ea318313163f465f4a8e2a43.jpg

that's cute! it's missing a hint of shelley but otherwise perfect.

is that his daughter?

Yeah, think that's Vivian, who shot the 'Making Of' docu

http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/stanley-kubricks-annotated-copy-of-stephen-kings-the-shining.html

filled with macgruber-esque insanity

oh that's rad. i like where he highlights the explanation of cabin fever and writes "this is the 1st thing the audience will worry about."

driving me crazy that i can't read the note just below that, on jack's unadapted remark about how "a stupid man is more prone to cabin fever": "[something] should say this? it seems [something something something] to say it." it seems like bad job interview technique is what it seems like.

oh it's "ullman should say this".

ullman shouldn't say it tho because the only point of it is to hint (like the "shovel out driveways" fight much later) at how important it is to jack to feel intellectual, like a writer not a hotel caretaker. the line from this page i would have cut out last is jack's question "was he a high school graduate?" anyway nobody ends up saying any of this; good call prob.

No PDF of the annotation? :(

Talking of "what they look like now":

http://i.imgur.com/1nDQPmv.jpg

https://twitter.com/kubrick_fan/status/428390226545750016/photo/1

One of the left looks like Elisabeth Moss, in fact.

Ha - they have Twitter and FB pages http://www.facebook.com/ShiningTwins

Yeah the one on the left is pretty attractive?

nice to see both went on to impressive accomplishments.

Lisa earned a degree in literature, and Louise has become a microbiologist.

awesome.

(usually the story concerning child-actors of any sort seems pretty grim).

In Room 237, I like the moment of screening The Shining simultaneously from the beginning and end. Would like to see a bunch of movies this way.

things i hadn't noticed before pt xlviii: the fine print on the sign for THE GOLD ROOM as jack enters cursing at the air advertises "the unwinding hour"

Ha, me neither.

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/04/24/return-to-the-overlook-hotel-with-these-shining-polaroids-1370180?lt_source=external,manual

http://www.mondotees.com/

I totally want the area rug. It's color scheme is pretty much the same as the area rug that I have in my music/guest room right now, so it would fit in perfectly, except I don't know where I'd put the rug I already have.

I would actually love that cardigan, but all of these things are so expensive.

I really like the sweaters, but don't think I can pull them off

I hate to break it to you guys but the pattern they are using is a wrong and lousy knock-off of the original design. But nice try.

Looks pretty close to me?

http://www.macleans.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/the-shining-carpet1.jpg

http://www.mondotees.com/assets/images/237_2x3Rug_home.png