The Shining

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