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― calstars, Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:15 (ten months ago) link
It's hard to think of anyone who would have filled this role perfectly.
the answer to this in most contexts is michael shannon
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:45 (ten months ago) link
-1
― calstars, Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:50 (ten months ago) link
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 21:42Could 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.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 1 June 2023 23:29 (ten months ago) link
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
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 1 June 2023 23:37 (ten months ago) link
50 is… more than 20
― michel goindry (wins), Friday, 2 June 2023 10:25 (ten months ago) link
Lol omg
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 June 2023 10:32 (ten months ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 2 June 2023 14:10 (ten months ago) link
what if i said things that are obvious to everyone, but in a smug and breathless tone
― budo jeru, Friday, 2 June 2023 14:43 (ten months ago) link
^ new board descrip pls mods
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 2 June 2023 14:55 (ten months ago) link
"you dont need to watch any of the THE SHINING (1980) when you can just view this gif"
That's tweet 20, genius
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 June 2023 15:00 (ten months ago) link
🧵 1/1, bonehead
― mark s, Friday, 2 June 2023 15:04 (ten months ago) link
20/50 morans
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 2 June 2023 15:07 (ten months ago) link
― calstars, Friday, 2 June 2023 15:23 (ten months ago) link
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.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 June 2023 16:20 (ten months ago) link
Ku brick-n-hour mess age
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 2 June 2023 16:38 (ten months ago) link
always thought this was a theremin
Wendy Carlos - The Shining Demo ScoreCarlos 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
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:59 (five months ago) link