tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56543229519610217292024-02-20T11:28:57.976-08:00Frequently Asked Questions in "The Shining"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-33191237332506221572010-02-15T19:26:00.000-08:002010-02-15T19:32:41.910-08:00DialecticsFrom Apocalypse Now, "Do you know what the man is saying? Do you? This is dialectics. It's very simple dialectics. One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions -- you can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, with fractions -- what are you going to land on, one quarter, three-eighths -- what are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something -- that's dialectic physics, OK? Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them."<br /><br />In this movie it has to do with truth. Dialectic logic is there's only truth and lies, you either believe somebody or you don't believe them."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-44569312605600771862010-02-14T17:47:00.001-08:002010-04-11T20:13:04.966-07:00The GollywogIn the novel The Overlook uses racism to scare Dick Hallorann. In the movie Stanley Kubrick hides the racism very well. If Grady is a figment of Jack's imagination, then it's Jack and not the "ghosts" inside the Overlook where the racism now lies. Someone else on another website noticed this and it doesn't belong in this movie;<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Gollywog.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Gollywog.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I would never know what this toy was as I'd never heard of or seen a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwogg"> Gollywog </a> before. But you have to believe that Stanley Kubrick added this little touch in Danny's toys to indicate that one of his parents might be a racist, as they were the ones that probably gave it to him. It might have something to do with Dick Hallorann's death but I don't believe it because Stanley Kubrick is a perfectionist and the Gollywog isn't even close to the spot where he is killed. The rabit on the tryke is but not the Gollywog. You'll have to be the judge but it is an interesting little visual tidbit that's been added to the film. Hidden very subtly just like everything else I've discussed.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-344249146188833892010-01-31T09:33:00.005-08:002012-03-11T09:45:10.729-07:00The Visions Seen In "The Shining"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br />My list of visions in "The Shining" are at the bottom of this page.<br /><br />A vision is similar to a hallucination or an illusion, and a ghost is an actual presence that becomes manifest to the living. It’s very interesting that Stanley Kubrick doesn’t use either word, ghost or vision, when he has Dick Hallorann explain “Shining”, and what he might be seeing inside the hotel, to Danny.<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> “Well, you know Doc, when something happens it can leave a trace of itself behind. Say like if someone burns toast. Well, maybe things that happened leave other kind of traces behind. Not things that anyone can notice, but things that people who 'shine' can see.”</span><br /><br />He’s talking about Danny’s ability to “see” past events that have happened inside The Overlook, and he doesn’t say a word about ghosts or that The Overlook is haunted. He’s describing visions to Danny here not ghosts, and he would have indicated so if he was. In Stephen King’s novel he doesn’t know about “ghosts” either. The spirits are aroused because Danny is in the hotel and they want his power. In Stanley Kubrick's Overlook it’s Jack that arouses the "ghosts" after he opens the scrapbook we see sitting on his desk throughout the film. Jack is the only cast member that knows what The Overlook's previous guests all look like; Dick Hallorann doesn't!<br /><br />In the movie Dick Hallorann doesn’t mention The Overlook being haunted, or that there are ghosts there, because he’s never perceived any of this himself and if he did know of these things he would have told Danny so (exactly like he explained his ability to “Shine”). What the Torrances’ are perceiving in The Overlook only happens after Jack arrives. To a screen audience a vision or a ghost would both appear the same. But if you look closely at the script Stanley Kubrick puts proof that characters can project these visions into each others minds. It appears that both Danny and Dick Hallorann experience the exact same vision of Jack entering room 237. Danny is in his room and Dick Hallorann is several thousand miles away yet they see the exact same thing. If it happens once it can happen many other times like when Jack kills Dick Hallorann, Danny sees it and screams while hiding inside the cabinet on the other side of the hotel.<br /><br />The visions that characters in the movie experience are interesting and important to look at and I’ve listed each of them. Jack is at the Overlook during every vision that Danny Dick or Wendy have, and we know from the dialogue the exact spot where he has the opportunity to peer into the Overlook’s scrapbook (5:26 into the movie, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“I’d like you to take him around the place soon as we’re through ... ”</span>). Visions begin appearing to the characters right after that. Stanley Kubrick tells us in the dialogue that these visions aren't real, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Remember what Mr. Hallorann said. It's just like pictures in a book, Danny. It isn't real.”,</span> and Dick Hallorann knows exactly what he’s talking about. In the movie the Torrance's see 21 separate visions. After Jack has the opportunity to open the scrapbook he knows exactly what all of The Overlook’s most notorious guests look like. The ones that didn’t make it onto the hotel’s walls, the ones that aren’t, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“all the best people”</span> that Mr. Ullman speaks about during their tour. The exact same guests that appear in their visions. If The Overlook was haunted Mr. Ullman would have been proud of it and told Jack that fact during the interview, after all he did tell him about the murders.<br /><br /><br /><br />Stanley Kubrick got an idea for using certain colors from Stephen King’s novel where Dick Hallorann smelled oranges when he “Shined”. Being that smell can not yet be adequately brought across to a theater audience Stanley Kubrick made the brilliant decision to use the two pigments a painter mixes together to make the color orange, then use those as a visual device to indicate “Shining”. Here’s my list of the visions and I've indicated where the color red, yellow, or the color produced if you mix them together (orange) is present in each. <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Danny sees 9 visions (the audience only sees 8 of them) and they are in dark red.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Jack sees 8 visions and they are in dark violet.</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Wendy sees 4 visions and they are in dark green.</span> With the final vision seen only by the audience. Danny sees the bloody elevators, the women in room 237, and “Redrum” all twice, and he sees the Grady twins four times. Lloyd and Grady both talk to Jack twice. And Wendy’s visions appear to her only once each.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jack arrives at the hotel and is taken on his first tour by Bill Watson where he has an opportunity to look into the scrapbook.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">1) :11 Danny has a vision of the bloody elevators (3X) and the Grady twins for the first time (1X). The elevator doors and the blood are red.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/TwinElivators.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/TwinElivators.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/Gradyschair1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/Gradyschair1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">2) :21 Danny has a vision of the Grady girls in the playroom (2X). Danny is throwing red darts.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">3) :39 Jack’s vision of the Hedge Maze Map. Jack is throwing the yellow ball and both Wendy and Danny are wearing red.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Twinsidesofhedgemaze.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Twinsidesofhedgemaze.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">4) :42 Danny has a vision of the Grady girls again as he looks at the door of room 237. Red shirt and red trike wheels (changed from white in the beginning of the film).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">5) :46 Jack has a vision of Danny and Wendy playing in the snow. Wendy’s red coat and Danny’s red boots.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">6) :49 Danny has a vision of the Grady twins in the hallway (6X) all hacked up (4X). Danny is wearing a red sweater.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">X) :58 Danny is strangled by his father but has a vision of being strangled by a woman (This is the only vision that Stanley Kubrick doesn't let the audience see). A red room key is in the door of room 237.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">7) 1:04 Jack has a vision of Lloyd for the first time. Both Lloyd and Jack are wearing red.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Lloyd.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Lloyd.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The middle of the film where Jack becomes totally </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">possessed by </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">evil (If you look closely at the time code, the shot where we hear Jack gulp down his first drink is exactly 66 minutes and 6 seconds into the movie).</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">8) 1:11 Dick Hallorann and Danny have the same vision of Jack walking into room 237. Dick Hallorann's room is orange and he has a large red picture behind his head. Danny is wearing red.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/RDHPicture.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/RDHPicture.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">9) 1:11 Jack has a vision of the women in room 237. Jack is wearing red.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Tub2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Tub2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">10) 1:19 Danny in his bedroom overhearing his parent’s conversation he has a vision of “Redrum” printed in red (1X), and the Bloody elevators (1X). Danny and Jack are both wearing red.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/YBathroomDoor.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/YBathroomDoor.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">11) 1:21 Jack’s vision of the party balloons. The other set of red elevators are seen.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/121.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/121.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">12) 1:22 Jack’s second vision of Lloyd at the party. Both Lloyd and Jack again are wearing red.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">13) 1:24 Jack’s vision of Grady at the party (he only talks to Lloyd and Grady at the party). Grady spills yellow advacot on Jack and they have a conversation in a red bathroom.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Grady2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Grady2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">14) 1:45 As Wendy swings the bat Danny has a vision of the Bloody elevators (2X) and “Redrum” (1X). “Redrum” is written in red on a yellow door.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">15) 1:54 Jack has an audio hallucination and imagines talking to Grady in the storeroom. Jack is wearing red and is surrounded by red Calumet cans and red Golden Rey boxes; all of which mysteriously move between shots without being touched.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">The final chase after Wendy looks into another important book on Jack's desk, "All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy", and she begins to see visions for the first time in the film.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">16) 2:08 After Jack swings the ax Danny has a vision the death of Dick Hallorann with red blood in an orange lobby".</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">17) 2:09 Wendy has a vision of the 2 gentlemen in the room. Dogman’s face is yellow.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/HoraceDerwent.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/HoraceDerwent.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">18) 2:12 Wendy has a vision of the old man who says, “Great party isn’t it” (2X) and has red blood on his head.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/212.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/212.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">19) 2:13 Wendy has a vision of the New Years Eve Party “skeletons” (4X). Wendy passes the red couch that disappears in the last shot of the movie. The three mirrors in the shot also disappear.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/NewYearsEveParty.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/NewYearsEveParty.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">20) 2:14 Wendy has a vision of the bloody elevators (2X). The hallway and elevators are both red.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jack is dead and everyone is gone. One last vision is seen by the audience who also have the ability to "Shine" and see visions that are like, "pictures in a book".</span><br /><br />21) 2:20 The July 4th photo appears on The Overlook’s wall for the first time in the final vision of the film (other photos are in it's place when ever else we see that spot). The conspicuous red couch under the pictures and the mirrors have also disappeared.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/21Pictures.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/21Pictures.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-31051416322799469652009-12-13T21:04:00.000-08:002010-11-14T16:32:16.336-08:00Indians in “The Shining”One of the most fascinating sideshows that accompanies this incredible movie is the Native American Indian connection. When I first started this blog I checked out several other “Shining” websites and one of the first ones I read was<a href="http://www.drummerman.net/shining/essays.html"> this one. </a>Even though there are a lot of hidden things pertaining to Indians in Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece for a long time I thought it was ridiculous. The Indian references are a visual lure but I still haven't found any link in “The Shining” to the Holocaust of The American Indian. I can now see where the seed for this "theory" came from though because it’s quite obvious that Stanley Kubrick wants us to notice Indians in “The Shining” the same way he wants us to notice his special set of numbers and <a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2009/06/stephen-king-does-not-use-doubling-in.html">obvious twins.</a> Many have picked up on this and come to the conclusion that “The Shining” is a metaphor for the Holocaust of the American Indian. I’m going to go through the reasons why people believe this than tell you why I don’t. It's a different Holocaust that Stanley Kubrick is pointing us to.<br /><br />In the movie we have;<br />1) Wendy brings up the Donner Party and Jack lovingly talks about cannibalism with Danny on their trip to the hotel. The Donner Party had nothing to do with Indians.<br /><br />2) Mr. Ullman talking about two Indian tribes during the tour at the beginning of the movie and Overlook hotel is full of Indian artwork and pictures from these <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"Navajo and Apache"</span> tribes. This in itself proves nothing and is exactly what you would expect to find in a hotel in Oregon.<br /><br />3) The Calumet cans that appear out of nowhere behind Dick and Jack’s head in the storeroom have an Indian chief on them. <a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2009/06/are-cast-members-who-can-shine-able-to.html"> Stanley Kubrick is showing us what happens when people "Shine".</a><br /><br />4) Danny’s subterfuge in the Hedge Maze at the end of movie as he uses an old Indian trick of retracing his footsteps to fool Jack. This seems to not only be an old Indian trick and it's hard to find where the actual origins of it lie.<br /><br />5) Wendy is seen in pigtails looking a little Indian-ish. I don't think so.<br /><br />6) The Indian Burial ground. Mr. Ullman tells us that,<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> “The site is supposed to be located on an Indian burial ground, and I believe they actually had to repel a few Indian attacks as they were building it.”</span> If you read the words very closely this sentence is obvious hearsay. Mr. Ullman has no firsthand knowledge of this. In the film it’s just a rumor that was obviously included by Stanley Kubrick to keep Indians in viewer’s minds. It's not in Stephen King's novel either, Stanley Kubrick added it. He also adds this in the dialogue so you'll know it's all a joke as Mr. Ullman tells them the year that The Overlook was built, <span class="style39"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“construction began in 1907 and was finished in 1909.”</span> There were no</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"Indian attacks"</span> in 1907 or 1909 and any explanation, like the website I mentioned before, that doesn't mention this fact is either intentionally or unintentionally incomplete.<br /><br />7) Wendy refers to the “Keep America Beautiful” Public Service Announcements (where Iron Eyes Cody sheds a tear over pollution) of the 1970’s as she says; <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“The loser has to keep America clean!”.</span> This is another sly joke on Stanley Kubrick’s part because Iron Eyes Cody isn’t even an Indian he’s an Italian. He's a cigar store Indian.<br /><br />8) July 4, 1921. It can't be overlooked, this date is meaningless in the history of the American Indian and the date July 4 is not the most important date in the Holocaust of the American Indian. The discovery of America by the Europeans would be the most important date.<br /><br />9) It's Indian blood that pours up from the graves of the ancient burial ground and out of the elevator shaft. If you look closely this is not what happens as the blood pours out of the top of the left elevator, not the bottom. This blood might be from some other Holocaust or even a future Holocaust, nothing links it specifically to the Holocaust of the American Indian. I believe Danny's vision of the bloody elevators is a premonition of Dick Hallorann's death and Wendy's vision of the bloody elevators is a premonition of Jack's death. The exact same vision seen by both Danny and Wendy at different times isn't real either, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Remember what Mr. Hallorann said. It's just like pictures in a book, Danny. It isn't real.”</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The idea to put hidden Indians in his movie is yet another thing that came directly from Stephen King's novel. If you didn’t read it you’ve probably never seen this line, <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">“Can you see the Indians in this picture?” (Page 133 - Chapter 21 & Page 196 - Chapter 34). </span>He took Steven King’s seemingly insignificant sentences and makes you <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">“strain and squint” (Page 133 - Chapter 21), than “you could see some of them”.</span> The source novel just can’t be ignored here.<br /><br />I’ve just listed where the obvious <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">“Indians” are “in this picture”.</span> Then there are the hidden Indians that most people have either missed or choose to ignore because they don't fit in with a preconceived interpretation.<br /><br />There’s the red <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"Golden Rey"</span> (the Spanish word that we now use for the Mayan Indian's kings) box pointing to the Mayan’s. A perplexing company added in between all the other brand names in The Overlook’s storeroom.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/DVDPlayerScreenSnapz001.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/DVDPlayerScreenSnapz001.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Mayan artwork is also seen here on the office wall at the beginning of the movie and it’s not mentioned by Mr. Ullman<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/MayanArtwork.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/MayanArtwork.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />There’s a perfect depiction of an ancient Mayan pyramid (top, sides and stairs) hidden in Jack’s dream of the hedge maze. Nothing else in the ancient world looks like this. The top, sides, stairway, it's all there – but it shouldn’t be; it doesn’t belong in this horror movie.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/MayanTemple.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/MayanTemple.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Taken all together what does this spell; the Holocaust of the American Indian? Not for me; it's obvious that the hidden Indians in "The Shining" are the Mayans. They are the Indians hidden <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">“in this picture”.</span> And we all know what very interesting number they're famous for; and what's right around the corner in a few years.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-719560147616150492009-11-22T19:36:00.000-08:002010-06-18T16:21:21.606-07:00Does Delbert Grady ever tell the truth in the story?It’s amazing how in “The Shining” Stanly Kubrick is able to manipulate the audience into believing that lies are the truth and that the truth is a lie. And this may be what the final picture in the movie is actually all about. Why do we believe what we believe? What I’m going to show you now has flown right over the heads of most viewers. It’s quite incredible when you think about it though. As you viewed “The Shining” have you ever thought about what Delbert Grady’s character is actually saying? Is he telling the truth? Of course he is everyone knows that Jack’s been in The Overlook before because Delbert Grady says so; no one ever asks this question about his truthfulness because we’ve been manipulated. Grady is an honest God fearing “ghost”. He may have had some problems with his family in the past but he “corrected” them. He even tries to convince Jack to kill his family but if you put all these shortcomings aside he has stellar credibility. As far as “ghosts” go he’s the top of the heap; honest and true. But it never dawns on us that something is tremendously wrong here. <a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2009/09/does-dick-hallorann-ever-lie.html"> Dick Hallorann never lies in the movie</a> and what he says is not believed yet Grady has no credibility at all and what he says is believed wholeheartedly. If you actually thought about it what seems right is where the truth ends up being; in the movie Grady lies about everything and Dick Hallorann never lies – it’s so obvious. But when you finally realize this it’s gonna’ make your head spin because it will change everything about how you perceive this movie.<br /><br />Look closely at the conversation Jack has with Delbert Grady as there is evidence in the dialogue that everything he says to Jack is a lie. And remember that I believe that Jack is talking to <a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-do-delbert-grady-and-tony-have-in.html"> his imaginary friend (his version of Danny's friend Tony)</a> as he looks into the mirrors, not a “ghost”:<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Grady</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: Grady, sir. Delbert Grady…. That's right, sir.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Jack: Delbert Grady?</span><br />At first this seems to be just one more of those enigmatic things that Stanley Kubrick placed in “The Shining”. Just a perplexing mystery with no real answer. But he doesn’t tell Jack his real name; it’s a lie as we know from the dialogue where Mr. Ullman tells us that his real name is Charles Grady, not Delbert Grady. In the novel there is no Delbert Grady, just Charles Grady. The name Delbert Grady is a lie.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Jack</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: Ah, Mr. Grady... haven't I seen you somewhere before?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Grady</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: Why no, sir. I don't believe so.</span><br />This is another lie as in the dialogue Jack tells us later on that he's seen his picture in the scrapbook we see opened on his desk and Grady would definitely know about the scrapbook.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Jack</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: Eh... Mr. Grady... weren't you once the caretaker here?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Grady</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: Why no, sir. I don't believe so. </span><br />Another lie as Charles Grady (as we know from the dialogue where Mr. Ullman tells us) was the caretaker of The Overlook in 1970.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Jack</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: You’re a married man, are you, Mr. Grady?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Grady</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: Yes, sir. I have a wife and eh two daughters, sir.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Jack</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: And, ah... where are they now?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Grady</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: Oh, they're somewhere around. I'm not quite sure at the moment, sir. </span><br />Another lie as Mr. Ullman tells us in the dialogue that Grady actually did hack them to death.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Jack</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker here. I recognize you. I saw your picture in the newspapers. You ah... chopped your wife and daughters up into little bits, and ah... and you blew your brains out.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Grady</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: That's strange, sir. I don't have any recollection of that at all. </span><br />Another lie as Mr. Ullman tells us that all this actually happened. We also now know that the "ghost" Jack is imagining looks exactly the same as the real Charles Grady.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Jack</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker here.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Grady</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: I'm sorry to differ with you, sir, but you are the caretaker. You have always been the caretaker, I should know, sir. I've always been here. </span><br />Another lie because if Delbert Grady had, “always been” in The Overlook his face would be in the picture at the July 4th ball in 1921 along with Jack at the end of the movie. They were both “caretakers” and he must be in that picture and must (like Jack) look exactly the same.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Grady</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: Did you know, Mr. Torrance, that your son... is attempting to bring an outside party into this situation? Did you know that? </span><br />Another lie as <a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2009/06/are-cast-members-who-can-shine-able-to.html"> it’s Jack with his ability to “Shine”</a> who alerts Dick Hallorann that something is wrong at The Overlook. If you find this hard to believe remember that Dick Hallorann knows something is wrong only when Jack walks into room 237 and not when Danny is strangled, which happened earlier. This is very important; as Jack meets the old woman he is “Shining” that image of room 237 into Dick Hallorann’s head. Danny never telepathically calls Dick Hallorann when he's attacked, in fact there is no place in the dialogue or on the screen that proves that he ever calls on him at all.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Grady</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">: Your son has a very great talent. I don't think you are aware how great it is, but he is attempting to use that very talent against your will. </span><br />This is an obvious lie as Danny never does anything except ride around The Overlook, play with his toys, watch cartoons, and escape from his crazy ax wielding father. Stanley Kubrick hides this extremely well but we hardly ever see Danny use his special ability in the movie. If you find this hard to believe, think about this. At the end of the movie as he's running for his life Danny uses his wits rather than his <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">very great talent</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"</span> to outsmart his father.<br /><br /><br />It’s an amazing example of manipulation we’re witnessing here and it has obvious parallels in human society. Because of the way the characters are presented the natural instinct after viewing “The Shining” is to believe all the things that the putative “ghost” Delbert Grady says and to ignore what the totally truthful Dick Hallorann says. It’s really unbelievable when you stop and think about it. Dick Hallorann never lies yet people don’t believe the obvious explanations he gives us about whether the “ghosts”in the hotel are real or not, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Remember what Mr. Hallorann said. It's just like pictures in a book, Danny. It "isn't real”</span> yet everyone believes that Jack has been in The Overlook before because Delbert Grady says,<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> “You have always been the caretaker, I should know, sir. I've always been here.”</span> This ends up being a study in mass manipulation on the highest level and has everything to do with <a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2009/07/is-there-explanation-of-july-4th-1921.html"> the final picture in the movie which is also not what it appears.</a> Ask yourself this question; why do you believe what you believe?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">*</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-44953086686091656012009-09-11T07:09:00.000-07:002010-06-27T21:45:49.037-07:00Does Dick Hallorann Ever Lie in the story?<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><br />If you truly want to understand Stanley Kubrick’s “Shining” you have to be able to decipher whether what the characters are telling you is the truth or a lie.<br /><br /><br /><br />One thing I never expected when writing this blog was that anyone would question the truthfulness of Dick Hallorann’s dialogue. For me it’s part of the explanation of this enigmatic movie and the meanings that Stanley Kubrick concealed in the script (like the pictures taken from the movie and the alterations he made to Stephen King’s novel) can’t be changed. Viewers will attempt to interpret things in their own ways but the words Stanley Kubrick placed in his finished film can't be altered. They are what they are. It’s like when Stanley Kubrick added this easy to miss statement in the dialogue as Dick Hallorann's explanation of why he returns to The Overlook, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Ullman phoned me last night</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">, and I'm supposed to go up there</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> and find out if they have to be replaced.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">”</span> It’s not a mistake to take his explanation along with the other things Dick Hallorann says in the film as the truth. I believe the statement for two reasons. 1) Because of the quality of the person who says it and 2) because there is a very good chance that it is actually what happened as it’s the only explanation Stanley Kubrick gives us in the dialogue of why Dick Hallorann returns to The Overlook. Whether people like it or not; his boss ordered him back to The Overlook. It's all about character, and Dick Hallorann has character. He's the hero of this story.<br /><br />In the novel Dick Hallorann lies several times about why he's going back to The Overlook. He tells variations of his story about his son being shot to the park rangers, to his boss, to the cop that pulls him over, and to Larry Durkin at the garage. They all ask him flat out the same question but he doesn't tell them the real reason for his return. He doesn't tell any of them that Danny uses the "Shine" to call him in Florida. But in the film Stanley Kubrick cleverly alters all this, his "Shining" is different from Stephen King's. If you can find any spot in the dialogue of this film where Danny calls on anyone for help please go back to my main blog and post it. You may feel in your bones that Danny is calling for help in the room 237 scene but he isn't. He doesn't call or ask for help when he's being strangled, at the end of the film when he's being chased by his father with an ax or at any other point in the story. This simply never happens in the film. In his movie Stanley Kubrick cleverly reverses what's happening and Dick Hallorann now only gives one reason for his return and it's either true or false.<br /><br />There's nowhere in the movie where Dick Hallorann lies, cheats, dumbs down, exaggerates, misleads or tells any falsehood to anyone at all. Any attempt at un-explaining this explicit statement that he makes to his friend Larry Durkin about why he’s returning to The Overlook and who sends him there is pure speculation and a fabrication from the mind of someone that has another agenda, someone who doesn’t want his statement to be true. But what Stanley Kubrick has him say is very explicit and we don’t have enough information to make a wild guess that contradicts what Dick Hallorann plainly states. In the end, as in life, we either believe what he says because of the type of person he is or we don’t. There's no other information to go by in the film. But what’s even more important is; his statement is either true or it isn’t as Stanley Kubrick gives us no other explanation in the movie as to why he returns to the hotel. If it’s true, the implications of the sentence on how we view this movie are immense. His statement totally changes everything about what's actually going on under the surface of this movie because the phones are out and the only way his boss could know something is wrong at the hotel is if he sees the exact same vision of Jack walking into room 237 as Dick and Danny see. There is no other way he could know and the only information we’re given from Stanley Kubrick about this is contained in that sentence. This is what totally frustrates so many of my readers who have a certain agenda. If you don't want to believe the obvious, that Stanley Kubrick gives the "Shine" to other characters in his film than you'll fight this sentence of Dick Hallorann's vehemently. But you can't change it.<br /><br />It’s obvious that this question must be answered. In the film does Dick Hallorann have any proclivity for lying? Some may think he was he lying to his friend like he did in the novel. He didn’t want to let Larry in on the exact reason for his return to The Overlook. Maybe he was afraid to tell anyone else about his supernatural ability to “Shine” and see visions. Maybe he was afraid to tell Larry about the vision he saw of Jack in room 237 because his friend would think he was completely crazy. But these are all just guesses because Stanley Kubrick only gives us one bit of information about this and it's different from the novel, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Ullman phoned me last night”</span>, and that’s it.<br /><br /><br /><br />A lot of what I’ve written about “The Shining” is only valid if Dick Hallorann is telling the truth as he’s the only character that knows anything about the “Shine”. We really need to know if he’s truthful or not if we ever want to truly understand this film. I was alerted to a spot in the movie where he appears, on the surface, to tell a lie so I investigated a little and ended up discovering one of the most important things about this movie that no one has ever realized. Just who and what can you believe.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Dick Hallorann: Well I think we can manage that too, Doc. Come along now. Watch your step.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Wendy: Mr. Hallorann, how’d you know we call’em 'Doc'?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Dick Hallorann: Beg pardon?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Wendy: Doc. You called Danny 'Doc' twice just now.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Dick Hallorann: I did?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Wendy: Yeah. We call him Doc sometimes, you know, like in the Bugs Bunny cartoons. But how did you know that?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Dick Hallorann: Well I guess I probably heard you call him that.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Wendy: Well, it's possible, but I honestly don't remember calling him that since we've been with you.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Later.... Dick Hallorann: Do you know how I knew your name was Doc? You know what I'm talking about, don't you? I can remember when I was a little boy; my grandmother and I could hold conversations entirely without ever opening our mouths. She called it shining, and for a long time I thought it was just the two of us that had the shine to us. Just like you probably thought you was the only one. But there are other folks, though mostly they don't know it, or don't believe it.</span><br /><br /><br />At first it appears he lies to Wendy by not telling her that the real reason he knows Danny’s nickname is “Doc” is because he has a supernatural ability called the “Shine”. If he’s deceptive here I can’t state that he never lies, and my belief in the sentence above, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Ullman phoned me last night...”</span> relies on his truthfulness. But again in Kubrickland all is not what it appears to be. This quote is actually a goldmine for proving that Dick Hallorann is not a liar at all. This is just what I needed even though I never thought I would have to prove that Dick Hallorann speaks the truth, being the hero of this story. It appears that Stanley Kubrick through his dialogue was well prepared for this conundrum and he has his characters give us the answers to our questions from their own mouths.<br /><br />The lie appears to be here; <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Well I guess I probably heard you call him that.”</span> He doesn’t tell Wendy that he has the ability to “Shine”. A lie of omission? Thinking his explanation is false is understandable because we know, or at least we think we know, that what he said can’t be true. We’ve been watching the movie from the start and we never actually see him hear Wendy call Danny “Doc”.<br /><br />But I thought about it for a while and it dawned on me; how on earth can anyone after watching the first few minutes of this movie know that he’s lying from that statement alone? We know Dick has the ability to “Shine” but when he uses his special gift this early in the story we don’t know yet how it actually works. And they do call him “Doc” all the time. When he "Shines" does Dick read Wendy’s mind or did it actually happen the way he said, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“I guess I probably heard you call him that.”</span> It has to be one or the other. If he’s able to read her mind than he’s lying but if he actually heard her call him “Doc” then he’s not. And if he actually heard her call him “Doc” then not telling her about his ability to “Shine” is not a lie of omission either as he answered her question simply yet truthfully. There was no implication in her question as to whether or not he possesses a supernatural ability, or which of his many supernatural abilities he might be using on that particular day.<br /><br />For these characters “Shining” is an unusual gift but I can’t think of anywhere in the movie where one of them uses it to read someone’s mind. It doesn’t mean it’s not there I just can’t think of any. It doesn’t matter anyway, it’s undeniable that there are several times in the film where people use it to hear conversations that are happening elsewhere. At 1:45 into the movie Danny, sitting in their apartment, is able to use his ability and listen to his parents conversation before Wendy clobbers jack with the bat. When Jack, inside the hotel, has his vision of Danny and Wendy walking in the center of The Hedge Maze at 00:39 he not only sees it but he’s also able to hear what they’re saying outside the hotel.<br /><br />Stanly Kubrick gives us plenty of evidence that people who possess the “Shine” can hear conversations that occur out of earshot so what Dick Hallorann tells Wendy is the truth. Dick did hear her call Danny, “Doc” before they met and Stanley Kubrick cleverly puts this into the dialogue so there’s absolutely no confusion as to when Dick hears her use the nickname “Doc”. She says, “I honestly don't remember calling him that <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">since we've been with you”</span>. His perfectionism is unbelievable as Stanley Kubrick has all the bases covered. Wendy obviously knows she said it earlier in the hotel before they all met.<br /><br />We know Dick Hallorann can hear conversations out of earshot but do we know for sure if he’s able to know the nickname "Doc" by reading Wendy’s mind? Well, rigorous logic won’t work here but it seems that Stanley Kubrick has also addressed this problem for us, and the answer is again in the dialog he wrote. This simple line is so easy to pass up as being unimportant. Jack says, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Mr. Hallorann, I'm Jack, and this is my wife, Winifred.”</span> In the movie (and novel) it's her real name and Jack never uses the nickname Wendy inside The Overlook before they meet Dick. Not only do we never actually hear the name but Stanley Kubrick shows us that example of how she's introduced and there’s no evidence that Jack doesn’t introduce her to everyone they meet in exactly the same way. Jack says, "Hey Babe" when he calls her up after the interview, and even Mr. Ullman never calls her Wendy as we always hear him call her Mrs. Torrance. The nickname Wendy is simply never heard in The Overlook until later. Knowing all this helps to explain this seemingly meaningless fluff sentence Stanley Kubrick added to the dialogue, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Mrs. Torrance, your husband introduced you as Winifred. Now are you a Winnie or a Freddie? - I'm a Wendy.” </span>It’s obvious that Dick Hallorann doesn’t know her nickname is Wendy and there’s only one reason for this; when he “Shined” he simply never heard anyone call her Wendy in the hotel. He doesn’t read her mind at all. There should be no confusion here; Stanley Kubrick alerts us to this by bringing up the two nicknames, Doc and Wendy and Dick heard only one, not the other; he knows Danny's nickname and doesn't know Winifred's. <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"Now what kind of ice cream do you</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);font-family:monospace;" ><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;"> l</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ike Doc? - Chocolate. - Chocolate it shall be."</span> It's so obvious, he doesn't read Danny's mind or he would have known the answer to that question.<br /><br />The dialogue is clear. We’re talking about Stanley Kubrick, a director who's inhumanly precise and in his movie (unlike in real life) Dick Hallorann never lies to anyone. Not Danny, not Wendy, not the forest rangers and definitely not his friend Larry Durkin. In asking for the Sno-cat he doesn't have to make up any story at all for Larry as to why he’s going up to The Overlook in a snowstorm. Not mentioning “The Shine” to Larry means nothing; it’s not a lie. Larry's question was, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“What’s the big deal about getting up there today”</span> and he answers truthfully. Larry didn’t ask about what supernatural ability Mr. Ullman possesses.<br /><br />He doesn’t lie to his friend and anyone that believes he does, is entertaining pure un-provable speculation as any proclivity for lying cannot be found in him in this story. He's the same as Olivia de Havilland's character in "Gone With The Wind". The purest soul in movies. Someone that doesn't exist in real life. But in film we find people like this. The only person who lies in the film is Jack. Anyone who puts forth another explanation as to why Dick Hallorann would lie by saying that his boss ordered him back to The Overlook (such as nonsense like we never actually see him get Mr. Ullman's phone call or he's confused or was scared to tell Larry that he “Shines”) are wrong. These are just wild unsubstantiated guesses by people who have other agendas to uphold. Like I said before, if you find a place where he lies or exaggerates post it on my blog otherwise he doesn’t and I believe him at his word. We have a movie about people who possess a supernatural ability enabling them to communicate with each other over great distances. I can't imagine how anyone cannot see that in “The Shining’s” reality another of Dick Hallorann’s lines <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"there are other folks"</span> is true and Mr. Ullman is included in that very small crowd (5 main characters) inhabiting this film's reality. It appears that Mr. Ullman knows something is very wrong at The Overlook. Something that could only be known if he uses the exact same supernatural ability that enables Dick Hallorann to know the exact same thing. There's no violation of the movie's reality in what I believe. Mr. Ullman "Shines" and sees the exact same vision of Jack in room 237 with the old woman as Dick and that’s how he knows what’s happening in “The Overlook”. Don't forget the phones are all out. The implications of this in the film are far reaching yet the dialogue Stanly Kubrick wrote is precise and cannot be altered - it's part of the explanation of this movie. It’s hard not to take Dick Hallorann’s statements as gospel truth when you can’t point to a single lie that he ever tells! <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Ullman phoned me last night.” </span>If he isn't lying then he's telling the truth. If you have concrete notions and all this rocks your perception of this movie, well that’s just to bad because you can’t change it and you'll have to live with it, even though you might never fully get it. But why doesn't Mr. Ullman, if he can "Shine", just talk telepathically with Dick Hallorann rather than phoning him? Again from the pen of the director who is ready for that question, "But <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">there are other folks though mostly they don’t know it</span></span>, or believe it. That's Mr. Ullman. The answers are all in the dialogue, Stanley Kubrick left nothing out.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Larry, just between you and me, we've got a very serious problem with the people who are taking care of the place. They've turned out to be completely unreliable assholes.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Ullman phoned me last night, and I'm supposed to go up there</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">and find out if they have to be replaced.”</span></span> Dick tells us exactly why he’s going back to the hotel and it isn't because Danny called - which he never does.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“But,</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">there are other folks</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">though mostly</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">they don’t know it, or believe it</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">”.</span></span> Dick tells us that others have the same ability that he has, and some don't know it.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“No,</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">I'm scared of nothing here.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">It's just that you know some places are like people, some shine and some don't. I guess you could say</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">the Overlook Hotel here has something about it that's like shining.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">”</span></span> He isn't scared because he's lived there and knows of nothing (especially in room 237) that can hurt Danny. If he did he would have told him so.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“You're scared of Room 237, ain'tcha?”</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“No I ain't.”</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Mr. Hallorann, what is in Room 237?”</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">“Nothing. there ain't nothing in Room 237.”</span> He never lies to anyone; there is absolutely nothing that he knows of in room 237.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"Not things that anyone can notice, but </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">things that people who shine can see.</span> Just like they can see things that haven't happened yet. Well, sometimes they can see things that happened a long time ago</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">.”</span> All of the Torrances see the same spook show because they all possess the same "Shine". They also have the ability to see the future and the past.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Remember what Mr. Hallorann said. It's just like pictures in a book, Danny.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">It isn't real</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">.”</span></span> The visions they're seeing in The Overlook aren’t real. Not one vision in particular, not every other vision, not just visions on Saturday or Thursday, but every vision they see.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Well I guess </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">I probably heard you</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">call him that.”</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span> They can hear conversations that occur well out of earshot.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“The Overlook Hotel here has</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">somethin' about it that's </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">like 'shining'."</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">"Somethin' about it that's like 'Shining'</span> again isn't the same thing as "Shining" - it's different. The Overlook doesn't "Shine".<br /><br />Dick Hallorann is the only character in the "The Shining" that knows anything about the special supernatural power that they possess. These statements are all from a board certified expert on the subject. A person who never lies or exaggerates, and in the framework of this movie's reality; I believe everything he says - his dialogue is not only the explanation of the "Shine", in it is the explanation of the entire movie itself.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html">Click here and go back to my blog with over 500 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-13559018273769504322009-07-01T19:37:00.000-07:002009-12-29T07:53:11.133-08:00Is Grady real or just in Jack’s imagination?<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br />This is a difficult question to answer. Either he’s a real spirit haunting The Overlook with the power to open a storeroom door or he’s a figment of the Jack Torrances’ own imagination. There is no in-between. I believe he's a vision produced in Jack's irrational mind but It’s hard to definitively prove this. Stanley Kubrick hides the answer to this question very well. But if you think about these seven points that he put into the movie it will help you to come to your own conclusion and you'll see why I believe Delbert Grady is a figment of Jack’s imagination. Click on each point for an explanation.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/c1.html">1) It’s well hidden but if you look at the dialogue Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson put the answer to this question right in the script and it can’t be changed.<br /></a><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/c2.html">2) Every time Jack sees a “ghost” he’s looking at himself in a mirror. </a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/c3.html">3) Who let Jack out of the storeroom if Grady is not real? </a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/c4.html">4) Why didn’t Grady “correct” Danny and Wendy himself?<br /></a><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/c5.html">5) Grady is not in the final photo. </a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/c6.html">6) How did Stanley Kubrick alter Stephen King’s novel? </a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/c7.html">7) We see him and hear him speaking to Jack.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/c8.html">8) What does Stanley Kubrick have to say about Delbert Grady? </a><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/c7.html"></a><br /><b><div><b><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"> Click here and go back to my blog with over 500 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more. </a></b></div><b></b></b></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-86895820361609828692009-07-01T11:52:00.000-07:002011-09-18T20:12:48.778-07:00Is there an explanation of the July 4th 1921 picture?<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br />The one question everyone who views “The Shining” wants to know is what does the black and white photo at the end of Stanley Kubrick’s film mean?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/FinalShot.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/FinalShot.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The answer to the question of what the final July 4th, 1921 photo represents is found in the novel. There’s only one important black and white photo in Stephen King’s novel. <a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2010/03/black-and-white-photo.html">It’s Jesus and you can read the excerpt from his novel if you click here.</a><br /><br />What he did to Stephen King’s novel is quite remarkable and has to be understood. In the film Stanley Kubrick is showing us the reverse of the novel as if it were being viewed in a mirror. It's exactly like the word, "Redrum". He was so bold in what he did that it starts in the very first shot of the film and no one ever noticed. The most obvious clue is in the colors he chose to use. Jack has an old red VW in the novel and it becomes a new yellow VW in the film. In the novel they’re saved in a yellow snowmobile and in the film it becomes a red Sno-cat. Danny plays with his red ball in the novel and it becomes Jack’s yellow ball in the film. <a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2010/10/a16.html">The colors being reversed is only the beginning of an incredible hidden alteration of the source novel. </a> Stanley Kubrick chose to create a mirror image of Stephen King’s novel and he altered Stephen King’s black and white photo of Jesus exactly the same way.<a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2010/03/black-and-white-photo-in-film.html"> In the film we’re viewing the opposite of Jesus. In the July 4th, 1921 photo Stanley Kubrick has Jack posed as the devil (click here).</a><br /><br /><br /><br />The photo is a purposeful paradox; a true visual enigma on the screen and audiences have been wondering about it for a very long time. Without looking at Stephen King’s source novel it’s an enigma with no possible correct explanation, and when you first view “The Shining” you'll leave with the impression that Jack Torrance has been in The Overlook before. But this assumption is way to simple and it’s also quite wrong. The July 4th photo is the most perplexing image in the history of cinema and everything we’re looking at in it is the opposite of what’s true. Not only is it the mirror image of the photo in the novel but several things about it must be pointed out and addressed before you realize the true extent of what’s been done here. The key line that Stanley Kubrick took from Stephen King’s novel about the photo is this, <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">“It was a big fake…”.</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Click on each line for a more detailed explanation.<br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/3.html">1) Stanley Kubrick has it say “Overlook Hotel” but the photo obviously is somewhere else. It’s not The Overlook Hotel.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/a6.html">2) The picture is not a July 4th party like it says. It’s a New Years Eve party.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/1.html">3) The final photo simply doesn’t exist until after Jack’s death. Stanley Kubrick has it magically appearing, “Shined”, on the wall only in the last shot of the movie. It’s not there at any other time in the movie.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/a5.html">4) Jack Torrance is not the caretaker in the picture, he’s the manager. </a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2010/03/a13.html">5) Jack doesn’t belong in that picture.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/2.html">6) Delbert Grady must also be there with Jack in the final photo; but he isn't.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/a4.html">7) Jack Torrance is not a reincarnation of the person in the photo.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/10/11.html">8) The party in the 1921 picture can't possibly have anything to do with the party Jack imagines in the Gold Room.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/11/f4.html">9) Jack and Charles Grady were obviously both alive at the same time in 1970. You can’t be the reincarnation of someone who is alive at the same time you are.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/a7.html">10) Where are all the other caretakers?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2010/09/a14.html">11) Stanley Kubrick has Jack singing a special song from the year 1921 just before he dies.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2010/10/a17.html">12) Who are the people in the photo with Jack?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2010/01/visions-seen-in-shining.html">13) The photo is a vision.</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2010/03/black-and-white-photo.html">Stanley Kubrick took Stephen King’s quote and has truly created, “a big fake…” in that final July 4th photo. </a> Jack isn’t the caretaker and shouldn’t be there, and what’s printed on the photo is totally wrong; it isn’t The Overlook we’re looking at, it isn’t July 4th, it isn’t 1921 and Jack isn't the caretaker. The entire photo was produced as a fake and we know this from<a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/12/12.html"> Stanley Kubrick’s interview with Michel Ciment. </a>Jack Nicholson's face was airbrushed onto someone else’s body. To quote Danny's imaginary friend Tony again, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“it's like pictures in a book “, "it isn't real".</span><br /><br />The July 4 photo is exactly the same as the most famous fake photo in history. Lee Harvey Oswald with his face purported to be airbrushed in by the CIA. When someone's face is airbrushed onto another body there’s only one way to describe the photo; it's an obvious fake and this is what Stanley Kubrick did.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Oswald.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Oswald.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The photo is a fake and is not proof that Jack has ever been in The Overlook Hotel in a previous life. <a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/a9.html">14) Take one last look. Jack is posed in the final picture and it’s an obvious clue from Stanley Kubrick as to what the July 4th photo represents.</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"> Click here and go back to my blog with almost 500 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more about the secrets held in the final picture from "The Shining".</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-82581427527303478642009-06-19T20:43:00.000-07:002009-08-07T19:13:00.349-07:00Examples of how meticulous Stanley Kubrick was in altering the novel.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br />Here’s a closer look at how meticulous Stanley Kubrick is as he inverts the entire scene with Danny and the pediatrician. It’s from chapter 17 “The Doctor’s Office” in Stephen King’s novel and it’s easy to spot how even the smallest details are reversed.<br /><br /><br /><ul><li>1st off, in the novel Danny blacks out in their bathroom in The Overlook, Stanley Kubrick reverses this and now it’s the bathroom at their apartment in Boulder before they get to The Overlook.</li></ul><ul><li>Tony tells Danny to lock himself in the bathroom. In the movie he doesn’t.</li></ul><ul><li>Danny’s pediatrician has a name, Doctor Bill Edmonds where in the movie this is reversed and we have an unnamed female Doctor.</li></ul><ul><li>The three have to go down to Sidewinder to see Doctor Edmonds in his office. In the movie this is reversed and the Doctor makes a house call.</li></ul><ul><li>Danny is “Stripped to his underpants, lying on the examination table”. In the movie Danny wears his “Bugs Bunny, what’s up Doc” sweatshirt.</li></ul><ul><li>Doctor Edmonds gives Danny a thorough examination with an EEG and TB test. In the movie the Doctor does the reverse and just asks him a few simple questions.</li></ul><ul><li>Doctor Edmonds seems to know something about “Shining” as he asks Danny if he smelled, "a funny smell, maybe like oranges”. In the movie the Doctor seems to know nothing about “Shining”.</li></ul><ul><li>Danny tells Doctor Edmonds all about Tony. In the movie this is reversed and he will not talk about Tony to the Doctor.</li></ul><ul><li>Danny “Shines” and reads Doctor Edmonds’ mind. In the movie this doesn’t happen.</li></ul><ul><li>Danny even tells Doctor Edmonds about “Redrum”. In the movie this is reversed and he doesn’t tell the Doctor or anyone else about “Redrum”.</li></ul><ul><li>Jack discuss Danny with Doctor Edmonds. In the movie only Wendy does.</li></ul><ul><li>Jack tells Doctor Edmonds the story about how Danny, “spilled some beer on a bunch of papers I was working on”. In the movie it’s Wendy who tells the Doctor that Danny, “had scattered some of his school papers all over the room”.</li></ul><ul><li>Jack, “broke his arm turning him around to spank him”. In the movie he doesn't break his arm he, “dislocated his shoulder”.</li></ul><ul><li>When they talk to Doctor Edmonds they both realize that Danny is able to read their minds as they never discussed “divorce” in front of him. In the movie this never happens and neither Wendy nor Jack has the faintest clue about his ability.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>Doctor Edmonds points out to Wendy and Jack why Danny’s imaginary friend is named Tony (his middle name). In the movie the Doctor doesn’t do this.</li></ul></div><ul><li>Wendy knows that Danny has “second sight” and he demonstrates it to Doctor Edmonds. In the movie we have a total inversion as Wendy doesn’t know much and Danny doesn’t demonstrate anything to anyone.</li></ul><ul><li>Doctor Edmonds says this, "Does the phrase 'the shining' mean anything to you?" In the movie the Doctor doesn't say anything about it as only Dick Hallorann knows about or utters that word.</li></ul><ul><li>In the novel Jack tells Doctor Edmonds that he hasn’t had a drink in 3 months. In the movie Wendy tells the Doctor that Jack hasn’t had a drink in 5 months.</li></ul><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"> Click here and go back to my blog with over 500 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-83963630525946831552009-06-19T11:11:00.000-07:002010-05-26T07:12:09.789-07:00What did Stanly Kubrick do to Stephen King's novel.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">..........</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“A film is not a book.” - Roger Vadim</span><br /><br /><br />What important visual message was Stanley Kubrick telling us in this shot filmed in the same mirror that Wendy later sees "Redrum" in?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/StovingtonVermont.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/StovingtonVermont.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The fictitious town of Stovington, Vermont is mentioned in 4 of Stephen King’s novels, and it’s the only direct visual link in the movie to his novel. What’s printed on Jack’s t-shirt is meaningless to moviegoers but it’s a well-known name in Stephen King circles. What’s interesting is that for some strange reason Stanly Kubrick shows it to us backwards, “NOTGNIVOTS”. It’s reversed because we’re looking at it in a mirror. The inverted word is a metaphor because as I will show you we’re viewing Stephen King’s entire novel the same way, in a mirror; Stanley Kubrick’s special mirror, his version of “The Shining” where everything may turn out to be the opposite of what you think.<br /><br />I can’t think of any other movie where reading the source novel was so enlightening. You cannot have a through understanding of Stanley Kubrick’s “Shining” without looking at what he did to Stephen King’s story. Viewers have often wondered why so much was changed from the novel but just exactly what did he do to alter the story? After reading it myself I discovered something else that’s been cleverly hidden in the same fashion as the numbers I spoke about in the last section. Something Stephen King has never said anything about even though he must have noticed right away. Stanley Kubrick, being one of the most intense perfectionists in modern cinema, didn’t just randomly alter things from the novel as many viewers think. He’s inverted them. It’s like looking at the image of Jack in the mirror, the image we see is the reverse of what’s real. I realized this with the colors of the two main vehicles in the story, and that's just the beginning. Stanley Kubrick meant for these color changes from the novel to be obvious and noticed and they’re a crucial part of the explanation of what’s happening in this movie. In the novel it’s not that easy to find the color of their VW as it is only mentioned once but just look at the VW in the opening credits of the movie; you’ll never forget that color. In the novel they’re brought to The Overlook in a red VW and have a yellow snowmobile at The Overlook. In the movie they’re brought to The Overlook in a yellow VW and have a red Sno-cat at The Overlook. They're also saved in a red Sno-cat. In the movie Jack plays with his yellow ball and in the novel Danny plays with his red ball. The colors Stephen King uses in the novel for these major props have been inverted by Stanley Kubrick.<br /><br />He even does it with the sets. Except that they’re in the same hotel (or are they?) Stanley Kubrick was very meticulous in changing all the places from the novel where the scenes in the movie occur. The location of The Overlook has even been altered. In the novel the Torrance’s are in Colorado. In the movie The Overlook is in Oregon as we see early on when we’re shown The Timberline Lodge, which is located on Mount Hood in Oregon. Don’t let the Colorado State Flags all over the Colorado Lounge fool you. What we see in the beginning of the movie and when Dick Hallorann returns near the end is in the state of Oregon, not Colorado. Not one major thing happens in the movie’s Overlook in the same place it did in the novel’s Overlook (room 237 and 217 are different in each, the VW’s are different and change from red to yellow, Jack works in the basement in the novel and in the movie there is no basement, there’s no Gold Room in the novel and Jack meets Grady and Lloyd in the Colorado Lounge not The Gold Room. In the end of the novel Wendy and Jack have their knock down fight in the hallway not in the apartment. The final chase takes place inside The Overlook in the novel, not outside like the movie. Even Mr. Ullman's office was changed. In the novel Jack has his interview in the Manager's office and the story starts there, in the movie Mr. Ullman has been changed to the General Manager and the story starts in Jack's VW.). When he didn’t change the exact location, like Larry Durkin’s Conoco or the pantry, he alters something else about it. He did a perfect job and these inversions can’t be ignored. As I’ll discuss later, he’s also done this with the plot. He’s turned the novel inside out. Stanley Kubrick has taken Stephen King’s work and held it up to a mirror, and what we’re seeing in the movie is that reflection. A reflection where, in typical Kubrick fashion, just enough obvious changes are puzzlingly noticeable (The Hedge Maze and colors) and just enough is left alone (names and places), not being so obvious as to give it all away; the alterations are hidden exactly like the numbers he wants us to notice.<br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/12/differences-between-novel-and-movie.html">If you're interested in looking at more of the differences I've noticed between the novel and the movie, and how closely they relate to each other click here.</a><br /><br />If you have preconceived ideas the reversals I’ve noted that he made to the novel are shocking. Especially when you think of how he was able to hide all this in plain site. But if you “go check it out” what I’ve writen is quite correct. It’s not only correct but it can’t be debated, altered or most importantly dismissed. It is what it is. In the novel he noted that readers would never know what “Redrum” meant without looking at the word in a mirror and he created a movie that can’t be truly explained without looking at it in a mirror. Red is yellow and yellow is red, a true reversal of the source material and, as I show throughout this article, these reversals are crucial to understanding many of the mysteries this movie holds.<br /><br />Perfectionism without attention to detail can be a real train wreck but when a true perfectionist works average people look on in wonder at the world wind of intensity they create. When you think about the scope of the reversals here, the minute details that were altered and the time it must have taken, it’s a marvel to see and should be appreciated by all. Stanley Kubrick’s “Shining” may truly be The Eighth Wonder of the world of cinema. Here’s an interesting example of the inversions (and doubling) Stanley Kubrick made to the novel. The Grady girls, the most famous twins in history, never appear in the novel. This can't be ignored. Danny only meets up with the lonely invisible spirit of one single child in the playground in Chapter 34 (page 197). “... Now, in spite of the snow-dazzle, he thought he could see something there. Something moving. A hand. The waving hand of some desperately unhappy child, waving hand, pleading hand, drowning hand. (Save me O please save me. If you can't save me at least come play with me... forever, and forever, and forever.)” In the movie instead of one unseen child we now see two children who repeat the line together, twice, “Come and play with us. Come and play with us, Danny, For ever and ever, and ever.” Here’s another interesting example of the inversions. In the novel Danny sees but doesn’t understand what “Redrum” means and he mentions it to several people throughout the story. In the movie this is all reversed and Danny never sees “Redrum”. If you look closely at the movie it’s Tony that sees it, keeps repeating it, and writes it on the bathroom door. Totally reversed; and Stephen King’s fans never noticed. The chapters and page numbers I’ve included are all from Stephen King’s 307 page version.<br /><br />It’s impossible to pinpoint when Stanley Kubrick decided to alter the source novel the way he did but Stephen King’s style of adding many details to his work may have been part of it’s appeal to him. He definitely had a brilliant source novel providing him a lot to work with. Here’s another great example indicating how Stanley Kubrick shows us inverted mirror images of plot points from the novel. Take a look at the entire scene with the old woman in the bathroom. In the novel it’s Danny who disobeys Jack and Dick Hallorann by walking into room 217 where he sees a dead women in the bathtub. In the movie we’re shown an entire reversal of this. If you look very closely Danny never disobeys anyone, as he doesn’t walk into the room. It’s Jack that walks in and sees not 1 but 2 women in the bathroom of room 237. In the novel Jack never sees anyone as he enters the bathroom only to find an empty tub with no woman in it. He only thinks he hears her after shutting the front door, and she rattles the doorknob. He never sees her. It’s obvious everything in this scene except the names of the characters has been inverted. Even the bathrooms are in different rooms. In the novel it’s 217, but in the movie they’re in 237. It’s so subtle and barely noticeable unless you stop and really think about it, and the entire movie is like this from beginning to end. Stanly Kubrick is beyond meticulous, even the person who pulls the shower curtain in the bathroom is reversed, in the novel it’s Danny but in the movie he never touches it, it’s the woman who does. The movie’s dialogue is also inverted. In the novel Dick Hallorann says this, “People who shine can sometimes see things that are gonna happen, and I think sometimes they can see things that did happen. But they're just like pictures in a book.” In the movie this line is very cleverly reversed because when Danny, after the beating, is in his catatonic state it’s Tony who says, “Remember what Mr. Halloran said. It's just like pictures in a book, Danny. It isn't real.” We never hear Dick Hallorann speak this line in The Overlook’s kitchen. In the novel the place where Danny and Dick Hallorann have this conversation is outside of The Overlook in Dick’s car, it's now been reversed to inside The Overlook’s kitchen while Danny has ice cream. It just goes on and on.<br /><br />Tony is Danny’s subconscious mind that protects him just like any other normal person’s subconscious does. What’s unusual in the story is that Danny has the ability to “Shine” therefore his subconscious also has that special power. Stanley Kubrick made a huge inversion here as now Tony can’t be seen, in Stephen King’s novel he can. In the novel Lloyd the bartender and Grady never speak to Jack with a mirror present. In the movie this is also reversed as Jack speaks directly to both while looking directly at himself in a mirror. Stanley Kubrick’s attention to detail is unbelievable.<br /><br /><a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2009/06/examples-of-how-meticulous-stanley.html"> You still may not agree with me that the movie is an inversion of the novel but (click here) take a look at how meticulous Stanley Kubrick is as he inverts the entire scene with Danny and the pediatrician. It’s from chapter 17 “The Doctor’s Office” in the novel and it’s easy to spot how the details are reversed.<br /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2008/06/crushed-red-vw.html"> Not only did he alter Stephen King’s novel but it appears that Stanley Kubrick may have left a special message just for him in the middle of the movie. Click here for one of the more interesting hidden shots you’ll ever come across in a movie.</a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/StovingtonVermont.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/StovingtonVermont.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I feel this shot is a very special visual message “Shined” from Stanley Kubrick to the readers of Stephen King’s novel. He’s telling you what he did to ‘The Shining?’ Just like 'Redrum' only makes sense when seen in the reflection of Wendy’s mirror Stanley Kubrick created a movie that’s the same as the word “Redrum”. It will never truly make sense unless viewed in the genious director’s special mirror”. He even placed that reverse image of Stovington, as viewed by us, in the opposite side of the exact same mirror where we later see "Redrum" as the word murder. It's clear; we must also watch the movie's mirrors as something important is hidden in their reflection.<br /><br />Sometimes it’s shocking to see how a screenwriter changes your favorite novel for the big screen. I remember reading “To Kill A Mockingbird” and being surprised to find out that Arthur 'Boo' Radley talked to the children. They changed this in the screenplay and I believe not having him speak throughout the story created a mystery that added much to the movie’s appeal. I can see how fans of the novel could be a little perplexed at what Stanley Kubrick did but you must admit he did an unbelievable job and Stephen King really couldn’d say much about the alterations.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x98qcNZ8Fz0"> Here’s a great clip of Stephen King talking about Stanley Kubrick on You Tube. </a>Again after seeing it he described Kubrick’s film as “a big beautiful Cadillac, with no engine.” Recently a question was posed to Stephen King in USA Weekend (March 6-8 2009); I have always heard that you never really liked Stanley Kubrick’s version of “The Shining”. He answered; “My problem with ‘The Shining’ was never the adaptation. I certainly didn’t mind the idea that it was more psychological than supernatural. What I didn’t like was that I thought it was cold, and I always resented that. I’m an emotional writer. I think that’s why I’ve written so many things that people term “scary” or “horror”. I’m not that interested in what you think all the time, but I am interested in what you feel.” I feel both stories are brilliant in their own special ways.<br /><br /><a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2008/10/where-is-actual-overlook-hotel-located.html">I’ve looked into the rumors of where the actual Overlook Hotel from the novel is located? Click here.</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"> Click here and go back to my blog with over 500 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-82348695928965920522009-06-14T16:15:00.000-07:002010-03-21T14:35:37.996-07:00Does Danny actually go into room 237?<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span></span><br />In the movie we never see Danny in room 237 and there is a reason.<br /><br />You may be wondering how I’m so sure that Danny didn’t go into room 237 because if you listened closely to the dialog Wendy tells this to Jack, “No. It's the truth, really. I swear it. Danny told me. He went up into one of the bedrooms, the door was open, and he saw this crazy woman in the bathtub. She tried to strangle him.” But you must think about this for a moment. Danny “Shines” and sees visions throughout the movie, how can we know for sure that what he tells Wendy wasn’t a vision of a woman in 237 while he was standing there at the doorway or while he was somewhere else in the hotel? <a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2009/06/are-cast-members-who-can-shine-able-to.html">After all this statement is no stretch of the movie’s reality because when Jack walks into room 237 and “Shines” the vision of what he’s seeing into both Danny’s and Dick Hallorann’s minds, they see it as real even though they’re nowhere near that room (click here).</a> Danny is beat up by something yet there’s nothing in room 237 that can hurt anyone and the proof of this is in this statement by a person who has spent a lot of time in The Overlook, can also “Shine” and knows exactly what he's talking about;<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“You're scared of Room 237, ain'tcha?”</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“No I ain't.”</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Mr. Hallorann, what is in Room 237?”</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Nothing. there ain't nothing in Room 237”</span><br /><br />Stanley Kubrick is explaining everything for us in the dialogue. Dick Hallorann’s statement is crystal clear and can’t be changed; if there was anything that could hurt Danny in room 237 he would have told him so and the fact that he doesn’t is very telling;<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Remember what Mr. Hallorann said. It's just like pictures in a book, Danny. It isn't real.”</span><br /><br />"It isn't real" and what "isn't real" simply can't beat you up. There isn’t anything in that room but an echo of a past event that only a person who “Shines” can see. Stanley Kubrick plainly tells us this in the dialogue. <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br /><br />“Not things that anyone can notice, but things that people who shine can see"</span><br /><br />Jack obviously “Shines”. That's why he can also see the woman. He’s the only person out to hurt Danny. He beats him up during his nightmare and has the ability to make his son think it was a woman in “one of the rooms”. <a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-did-stanly-kubrick-do-to-stephen.html">Stanley Kubrick cleverly makes you think Danny went into room 237 but he never does and this is another reversal of Stephen King’s novel where he certainly does go into the room (click here). </a>There’s a reason we never see Danny in 237 and anyone who really believes he does go in should go to the end of my main blog and produce a screen shot of him in room 237 to prove it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"> Click here and go back to my blog with almost 500 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-36022650627276383902009-06-14T12:21:00.000-07:002010-03-30T15:42:19.054-07:00Examples of Doubling in Stanley Kubrick's "Shining".<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/10/doubles-in-stephen-kings-novel.html">There are no important examples of doubling in Stephen King’s novel; they were added into the movie. But doubling is mentioned in the novel and I believe it's where Stanley Kubrick got the idea from (click here).</a> I've shown some of the obvious visual examples that he include in his film<a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-do-delbert-grady-and-tony-have-in.html"> ... and a not so obvious hidden example of doubling (click here) he secretly included.</a><br /><br /><br />The 2 Grady girls who are different ages in the novel inexplicably become twins in the movie (played by Lisa and Louise Burns).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/TwinGirls.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/TwinGirls.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />1 single elevator in the novel becomes twin elevators in the movie.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/RElevators.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/RElevators.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />1 single boiler in the novel becomes twin boilers in the movie.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/TwinsBoilers.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/TwinsBoilers.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />And don't forget room 237's double door (most of the other rooms have single doors).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/DoubleDoors.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/DoubleDoors.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />There are twin sides in Jack’s symmetrical vision of the hedge maze.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Twinsidesofhedgemaze.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Twinsidesofhedgemaze.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />1 woman from the novel in the bathroom of room 217 becomes 2 women in the bathroom of room 237.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Tub2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Tub2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/TheOldWoman.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/TheOldWoman.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />1 typewriter in the novel becomes 2 different colored typewriters in the movie and the paper Jack’s novel is typed on is 2 different colors seen in 2 different boxes on his desk.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/TypewriterBack.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/TypewriterBack.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Typewriter1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Typewriter1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />In the novel 1 door is unlocked by a supernatural power (the storeroom). In the movie 2 doors are unlocked by a supernatural power (the storeroom and room 237).<div><br /></div><div>1 vision of “Redrum” in the novel's bathroom mirror becomes 2 separate visions of “Redrum” on the bathroom door. Not only are the doors different, but "Redrum" is printed 2 different times (look closely at the M and the middle R).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Redrum1-1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Redrum1-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Redrum2-1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Redrum2-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />1 Grady from the novel (Delbert) becomes 2 in the movie (Charles Grady and Delbert Grady).<br /><br />There are also Danny's double trikes. On one the wheels are white and the other red.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Trike1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Trike1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Trike2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Trike2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This is all so obvious. Even the vision of the bloody elevators that Danny and Wendy both see is a double. Stanley Kubrick goes way beyond meticulous here and you have to observe this scene very carefully. The scuff marks on the floor in front of the elevators show us that the point of view is different both times we see the bloody elevators so even though they're seeing the same thing frame for frame each vision is totally unique to that character; they are seeing twin visions of the same thing. The scene was shot with two adjacent cameras (Wendy’s on the right and Danny’s on the left) giving each character their own unique point of view.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/Floor2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/Floor2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/Floor1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/Floor1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Doubling is shown in the dialogue. “White man's burden, Lloyd my man. White man's burden” is doubled and repeated twice and “For ever, and ever and ever” is also doubled. Jack also has 2 $20's and 2 $10's in his wallet.<br /><br />Doubling is even in the music we hear. The movie starts and if you listen very closely to the theme song it begins with a 20 note sequence followed by a 13 note sequence, doubled by being played twice. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrezpUWIY98">The theme song is a loose adaptation of this, “Symphonie Fantastique- 5th Movement” by Berlioz, and starts at 3:20 into the song (click here).</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/b1.html">There just happen to be 21 double letters </a><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/b1.html">(click here) </a><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/b1.html">seen in the cast member’s names in the credits. Even actors from the deleted scene are included.</a><br /><br />42 is the double of 21 and 24 is the double of 12.<br /><br />And lastly the number 11 on Danny's sweater. An important double number and mirror image of itself (12 + 12 = 24, 21 + 21 = 42, 1 & 1 = 11).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/11Apollo11.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/11Apollo11.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/e-1.html"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Here are some less obvious examples of what might be loosely considered doubling that Stanley Kubrick includes in “The Shining”.</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"> Click here and go back to my blog with over 500 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more.</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-67838698989096100702009-06-07T21:38:00.000-07:002010-05-18T22:14:09.855-07:00Do cast members who can “Shine” possess a supernatural ability to alter things in the movie?<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br />“The Shining” is one of the most enigmatic movies in history and the obvious visual images Stanley Kubrick placed in it can't be ignored. There are hundreds of continuity errors in this movie but some of them were placed there on purpose and need to be looked at closely.<br /><br />There’s no question that Dick Hallorann has a special supernatural ability. He “Shines” and talks telepathically to Danny in the storeroom and as he does a red Calumet can appears out of nowhere right next to his head, only to disappear in the very next shot when he stops "Shining".<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Calumet1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Calumet1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/NoCalmuletcan1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/NoCalmuletcan1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Unless you look closely you'll miss this. When Jack talks to Delbert Grady the exact same thing happens as, now, several red Calumet cans appear out of nowhere right next to his head. They also weren’t there when Wendy dragged him in. They just appear out of thin air the same way.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Calumet2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Calumet2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/NoCalmuletcans2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/NoCalmuletcans2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Think about the similarities in the two scenes;<br /><br />They’re both in the same place.<br />They’re both talking to someone in a supernatural way.<br />And the same red Calumet cans appear out of nowhere on the shelves behind their heads.<br /><br />The red Calumet cans that appear out of nowhere are not some common run of the mill movie mistake, they're important to the story. You can’t say Dick Hallorann is “Shining” and Jack is not when the exact same bizarre thing happens to both of them. Stanley Kubrick has hidden something in these movements.<br /><br />They both have the same ability and it’s no stretch of the movie's reality to see that Jack also “Shines” in the storeroom. The increase in the number of cans indicates how much more of this ability Jack has over Dick Hallorann. This helps answer one of the most perplexing plot errors of this movie. How is it that Dick Hallorann, inexplicably, doesn’t know that Jack is hiding around the corner with an ax at the end of the movie? Jack can simply out ”Shine” Dick Hallorann who is unable to utilize his special ability to foresee the end his life.<br /><br />Don’t forget the little hints that Stanley Kubrick sprinkles around the movie that point to Jack’s ability to “Shine” like Wendy bringing him breakfast in bed and we hear the obvious play on words, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“I made ‘em just the way you like ‘em, sunny side up.”</span> and Stanly Kubrick placing a red box from the <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">"Golden Rey"</span> company (pronounced ray), another play on words, that also appears out of nowhere between shots in the same scene next to his head.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/DVDPlayerScreenSnapz001.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/DVDPlayerScreenSnapz001.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/BoxesMove2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/BoxesMove2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />There’s something else in this scene that lets us know that Jack has the ability to “Shine” as we look at Danny obviously posed next to a different red <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Golden Rey”</span> box of sliced pineapples as he "Shines". Get out your copy of the movie and listen to the sound effect we here during this scene (:27 into the movie).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/DannyShining.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/DannyShining.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/JackShining.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/JackShining.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />There’s no doubt that Danny is “Shining" as he talks telepathically with Dick Hallorann in the storeroom. The weird sound effect we hear, as well as the red box, alerts us to this and is also part of the scene like the moving Calumet cans I just showed you. How can you say that Jack is not doing the same thing when Stanley Kubrick lets us hear the exact same weird sound as he visions Wendy and Danny playing outside throwing snowballs at each other in the snow (:46 into the movie)? When Dick Hallorann sees the vision of room 237 again we hear a similar sound effect (1:11 into the movie).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/RDHPicture.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/RDHPicture.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />When Danny sees his vision of the bloody elevators we know it’s a product of his ability to “Shine” (:11 min. into the film). This is never disputed, then how can it be any different when Wendy has frame for frame the exact same vision of the bloody elevators at the end of the movie (2:14 into the film).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/42.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/42.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/TwinElivators.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/TwinElivators.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Wendysurrondedbyred.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Wendysurrondedbyred.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />This is so obvious. They're seeing exactly the same vision of the bloody elevators and you cannot say that Danny is “Shining” when he sees his vision and Wendy is not “Shining” when she sees her vision. It’s exactly the same. Danny doesn't "Shine" it into her head either. Stanley Kubrick goes way beyond meticulous here and you have to observe this scene very carefully. The scuff marks on the floor in front of the elevators show us something important. The point of view is different each time we see the bloody elevators so even though they're seeing the same thing frame for frame each vision is totally unique to that character; they are seeing twin visions. The scene was shot with two adjacent cameras (Wendy’s on the right and Danny’s on the left) giving each character their own unique point of view. Can you think of any other scene in the history of moviemaking that was shot like this?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/Floor2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/Floor2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/Floor1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Aditional/Floor1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Wendy's ability becomes more apparent in direct proportion to her state of mind, but they are still doing the exact same thing and the pictures Stanley Kubrick placed in his finished work don’t lie and can’t be changed just like the ones of Dick Hallorann and Jack in the storeroom. They both prove the same thing.<br /><br /><br /><br />Mr. Ullman’s tie changes color right before our eyes in these two sections of the same scene.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Tie3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Tie3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/Tie2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/Tie2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />In the novel Dick Hallorann says this to Danny, "If there is trouble ... you give a call.” and Danny calls him several times. In the movie Dick Hallorann never says this line and Danny never calls him. There’s another reason why Dick returns to The Overlook from sunny Florida. Stanley Kubrick gives this explanation in his dialogue in Dick Hallorann's phone call to Larry Durkin at the gas station, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“They've turned out to be completely unreliable assholes. Ullman phoned me last night, and I'm supposed to go up there and find out if they have to be replaced.”</span> What he says is crystal clear and must have an explanation. Dick Hallorann never lies or exaggerates anything to anyone in the film (or the novel). How can this statement be true? It can't be debated, he says that Mr. Ullman ordered him to go back to The Overlook but how on earth does his boss know what’s happening at the hotel; the phones are out? Mr. Ullman knows because he has the same ability to see visions as the others. There’s absolutely no violation of the movies reality here. Stanley Kubrick simply makes an alteration from the novel and has another person viewing the same vision as Dick Hallorann, at the same time. It’s just been hidden from the audience. Like John Lennon sang in the song, "Instant Karma", that inspired Stephen King’s novel.... <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">“We all ‘Shine’ on!”</span> He’s taken those words from the song and turned them into the movie's reality. In Stanley Kubrick's Overlook that means Mr. Ullman too. He “Shines” and sees the exact same image of Jack in room 237 with the old woman that Dick Hallorann is seeing. In "The Shining's " reality there’s no other explanation as to how he would know something was wrong and order Dick Hallorann back to The Overlook. It’s now Stanley Kubrick’s "Overlook" and he can give that special supernatural ability to any character he wishes. Stanley Kubrick even puts this in the dialogue so there is no confusion of this fact, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“But, there are other folks though mostly they don’t know it, or believe it”.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2009/09/does-dick-hallorann-ever-lie.html">But what if you believe Dick Hallorann is lying to Larry Durkin about Mr. Ullman calling him, or lying or exaggerating about anything else in the movie (click here if you believe this could be true)?</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">How much proof is needed? Wendy, Jack and Mr. Ullman can also "Shine".</span><br /><br />You might not feel it in your gut (yet) but can anyone prove that they don't have this ability? Give it some time. At first this seems shocking as it's so cleverly hidden from the audience but you must remember it's Stanley Kubrick’s "Overlook" and he can do anything he wishes to alter the story; no matter what opinion viewers may have. He can hide anything he wishes but the pictures don’t lie. Again, he even tells us in the dialogue what he’s doing as Dick Hallorann says this to Danny about other people with their special gift,<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br />“But, there are other folks though mostly they don’t know it,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">............................</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">or believe it”.</span><br /><br />There are only a few characters in this movie, who do you think Stanley Kubrick was talking about when he wrote this? In the novel The Overlook covets Danny for his power and uses Jack to get it. What does it covet in the movie? Think about it for a second The Overlook is trying to kill Danny and ends up with Jack on the wall. It’s obvious that in the movie this time, if it wants anything at all, it wants Jack. Why would The Overlook want him if he didn’t have the most power to covet?<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">At this point you may be wondering why Dick Hallorann only seems to pick up on Danny’s special ability if these other people also have the “Shine”?</span><br /><br />Stanley Kubrick lets us know, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“there are other folks”</span> but why does Dick Hallorann only seem to pick up on Danny’s special ability if these other people also have the “Shine”? In the novel Dick Hallorann meets several people that have the “Shine”. He knows it right away and so do they <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">(“A Shine knows a Shine”, page 217 Chapter 38)</span>. Stanley Kubrick reverses the novel again. In the movie ‘a Shine doesn’t know a Shine’. The others don’t know that they have this ability and he plainly tells us this in the dialogue, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Though mostly they don’t know it”</span>. Dick Hallorann is obviously not able to perceive it in them, and in the film he’s the only one we know of who knows he has the “Shine”. Then I realized that I had a huge problem to solve because it appears that he knows right away that Danny possesses the “Shine”. How could he not know about the others the same way? At first I thought that Danny’s age has something to do with him picking up on it. But that’s not it. Then I thought when Danny “Shines” in the game room seeing the twins, maybe that’s when Dick picks up on his ability. But that’s not right either. I went back to look at the scene again because I knew Stanley Kubrick wouldn’t leave out the answer. I couldn’t believe what I found; Dick Hallorann doesn’t know that Danny “Shines” at all. This seems crazy because it’s so incredibly well hidden by Stanley Kubrick in the dialogue. Look again at the question Dick Hallorann asks Danny in the kitchen, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“Do you know how I knew your name was Doc?”</span> The obvious question should have been, do you know how I spoke to you in your thoughts and said, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">“How'd you like some ice cream, Doc?” </span>But he doesn’t mention the obvious elephant in the room. Because of the director’s brilliant manipulation we all just assume that Dick Hallorann starts the thought transfer between himself and Danny. This isn’t the case at all, if you look at the film it’s Danny that “Shines” first and Dick Hallorann is then able to pick up on the boy’s ability. That’s when he knows for sure and transfers the thought into Danny’s mind for the first time. In the film this is so important; Dick Hallorann only knows someone possesses “The Shine” if it’s directed at him. Again we know from Stanley Kubrick’s dialogue that there are others. And in a story with only five main characters it doesn't leave many for you to choose from.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">How do you think those red Calumet cans behind Jack and Dick Hallorann’s heads appear right out of nowhere? And how about Mr. Ullman's tie?</span><br /><br />The assumption that what I just showed you are accidental continuity errors is nonsense. There are many explanations that could explain individual shots but taken as a whole it’s pretty obvious with going on here - it's intentional. Stanley Kubrick places them up front to be noticed. They're part of the movie and within the framework of "The Shining's" reality they must have an explanation. Either The Overlook does it or they did it themselves but whatever the answer; a supernatural power is involved. There's no other answer yet many viewers form their own rock solid opinion's choosing to ignore the pictures that Stanley Kubrick placed within the movie, or choosing to ignore the dialogue he put into the movie, or not reading Stephen King’s novel and understanding the alterations that were made to it. Like the magically appearing Calumet cans and Mr. Ullman’s tie changing color before our eyes, a supernatural power is involved.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">How can I proove that there are supernatural movements in Stanley Kubrick's Overlook?</span><br /><br />There were supernatural movements in Stephen King's Overlook also. After all this is where Stanley Kubrick got the idea for the movie from and we must look there for some answers - and not ignore what we find.<br /><br />For me the best and creepiest part of the novel was when The Overlook animates certain objects for its guests. It’s classic horror and Stanley Kubrick wouldn’t leave out such a great plot point from the novel. You just have to look very very closely if you want to see what actually moves.<br /><br />Three items move through supernatural power in the novel. The Overlook animates The Hedge Animals, the fire hose, and the elevators. They’re all possessed by the hotel and scare the crap out of the Torrance’s because they obviously can move on their own. But what Stanley Kubrick did to these three items in the movie just cannot be denied or ignored. <a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-did-stanly-kubrick-do-to-stephen.html">He’s totally inverted Stephen King’s novel and no one can dispute that these three items, glaringly if not hauntingly, remain totally motionless throughout the entire movie instead of moving by themselves (click here).</a> Stanley Kubrick is “Shining” a vision right into our heads. Look at them all you like, because, in the movie, they will not move an inch (the elevator doors only move in the visions - not in the hotel). This is telling us something important.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/TwinElivators.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/TwinElivators.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/HedgeMazeMapMoves1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/HedgeMazeMapMoves1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/TheHose.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/TheHose.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Stanley Kubrick reversed what moves by supernatural powers in the novel and this leaves it open for anything other than these three items to move under mysterious supernatural circumstances; and in Stanley Kubrick's Overlook that's exactly what happens.<br /><br /><br /><br />While he's scolding Wendy Jack pulls the sheet of paper out of the typewriter. After he's finished he makes another sheet appear back in the carriage again right out of thin air without touching it and without the audience hearing a thing.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Paper2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Paper2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Paper3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Paper3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">So many items move when they shouldn't how do I know that it's not spooks inside The Overlook that are doing this?</span><br /><br />Over ninety five percent of the movie is shot inside the hotel but there are scenes that take place outside of the hotel and these supernatural movements also happen in them. After Danny "Shines" and sees the vision of the bloody elevators watch the yellow and red dwarf Dopey as he makes it disappear from his bedroom door long before he enters the hotel.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Dannysvisioninhisbathroom.jpg"><img src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Dannysvisioninhisbathroom.jpg" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Smurf1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Smurf1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Smurf2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Smurf2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />In sunny Florida, Dick Hallorann "Shines" when he sees room 237 and makes the red painting above his headboard dissappear.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/RDHPicture.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/RDHPicture.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/DickH-1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/DickH-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />There's no other explination as the exact same thing happens outside of the hotel and well before Danny ever gets there. The characters posses a supernatural ability that also enables them to alter their surrondings. This is what the movie is about a supernatural ability; "The Shining". What a brilliant way Stanley Kubrick chose to alter their special ability from the novel. He works in the visual realm and made these character’s supernatural ability look like a common movie mistake. Again, Stanley Kubrick tells us others have the ability to “Shine” in the dialogue.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><br />“But, there are other folks though mostly they don’t know it,</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">............................</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">or believe it”.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.....................</span>And one of them is insane.<br /><br />What's happening couldn't be more obvious. In the reality of the movie this must have an explination. The definition of psychokinesis (aka. telekinesis) is: the power to move a physical object by thinking about it without the application of physical force. Stanley Kubrick has made it quite obvious that when they "Shine" cast members in his movie also possess the ability to supernaturally move or change the color of items.<br /><br /><br /><br />There's so much to show. As he tries to save himself from his father, Jack "Shines" and moves the entrance of the hedge maze closer to Danny in order to entice and trap his son in the maze. (Early on when we see this area several times, and in the hedge maze maps, there’s only one entrance to the maze and it’s not on the wall facing the hotel. Later the entrance moves from its original position to the wall 90 degrees to the left, and we now see it facing The Overlook. This can be seen best just before they escape the hotel as Danny walks straight into Wendy’s arms at the end of the movie. She’s standing right in front of the rear entrance of The Overlook where Dick Hallorann parked the Sno-cat. Earlier we see this same spot and there’s no entrance there.)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Entrance1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Entrance1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Entrance2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Entrance2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Entrance3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Entrance3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Skeptics say Stanley Kubrick didn’t alter the novel and give these characters the additional ability to psychokinetically move things but they'll have to have a good explanation for what happens in this picture. It's so obviously playful and also very well hidden - right in plain sight.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/unnaturallylargepileofluggage.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/unnaturallylargepileofluggage.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Jackconstantlylooksintherearviewmir.jpg"><img src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/Jackconstantlylooksintherearviewmir.jpg" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a><br />We see their trip up the mountain and they're the only ones on the road heading toward The Overlook. Just like when he moves the Calumet can, the Golden Rey box and opens the latch of the storeroom, Jack "Shines" and uses psychokinesis to move the unnaturally large pile of luggage on the right that couldn't fit in a VW if the engine and passengers were removed. It just appears at the end of their journey (without any indication of any outside help or a shred of luggage on or in the car). A supernatural power is involved, there's no other explanation of how the luggage got there. They had no other help.<br /><br /><br /><br />People who “Shine” emit psychic energy and are able to power the TVs in The Overlook and again outside of The Overlook, at Dick Hallorann’s house, with no visible wires coming out of them.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/TV3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/TV3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/TV2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/TV2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/TV1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/TV1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/TV4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/TV4.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />You may have noticed as Jack gets crazier and crazier, whenever we see the outside of The Overlook different sets of lights are on each time. Especially in the end where no one ever flicks a light switch. Throughout the chase scene different lights go on and off by themselves even though no one is inside the hotel. It’s a no-brainer to say that the hotel is haunted and the spooks are causing this to happen but if you look deeper it’s not the case at all. It's like I showed in a previous section, the TV sets, Jack’s lamp on his desk, the clocks on the walls all have no wires coming out of them, these people have a special energy around them. Jack's descent into madness combined with his power to “Shine” can also cause odd things to happen like lights turning on and off by themselves.<br /><br /><br /><br />Many items change color when they shouldn't. Danny didn't bring 2 trikes with him yet the wheels change color from white to red.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Trike1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Trike1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Trike2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Trike2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Jack didn't bring 2 typewriters either yet it also changes color.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/TypewriterBack.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/TypewriterBack.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Typewriter1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Typewriter1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Their room, same thing. They didn't repaint it durring their stay.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Room2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Room2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Room1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Room1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> </a><br />It's been painted a different color (by Stanley Kubrick's crew) as the back wall is also the same color.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/ProofthattheRoomHasBeenPaintedaDife.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/ProofthattheRoomHasBeenPaintedaDife.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The hallway in the final chase.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Chase2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Chase2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Chase1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Chase1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /> </a><br />It's all a result of "Shining". That's what this movie is about.<br /><br /><br /><br />Her state of mind is desperate and after Wendy drags Jack into the storeroom she changes the direction that the knives are facing. How many times does Stanley Kubrick have to make the knife reverse position or dissapear?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/WendyKnives1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/WendyKnives1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/WendyKnives2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/WendyKnives2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Later in the bathroom, she moves the same knife again. She throws it in the sink with the handle to the right, yet later when picking it back up she reverses the handle’s position to the left without ever touching it.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/WendyThrowsKnife1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/WendyThrowsKnife1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/WendyThrowsKnife2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/WendyThrowsKnife2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>In the end when she doesn't need it anymore Wendy throws the knife down into the packed snow and now it disappears.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/WendyThrowstheKnifeDownandItDissape.jpg"><img src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/WendyThrowstheKnifeDownandItDissape.jpg" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/WendyThrowstheKnifeDownandItDiss-1.jpg"><img src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/WendyThrowstheKnifeDownandItDiss-1.jpg" alt="" style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The knife also reverses position between shots when Danny "Shines" and Tony writes "Redrum" on the bathroom door.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 255, 128);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/TheKnifeReverses1.jpg" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 236); text-decoration: none;"><img src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/TheKnifeReverses1.jpg" alt="" style="border: 1px solid rgb(55, 0, 255); padding: 4px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;font-size:13px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 255, 128);"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/TheKnifeReverses2.jpg" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 236); text-decoration: none;"><img src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/TheKnifeReverses2.jpg" alt="" style="border: 1px solid rgb(55, 0, 255); padding: 4px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a></span></span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">You might be wondering about this; how could the characters not know that something moves around them?</span><br /><br />The answer is found in Stephen King's novel when Danny talks about the Moving Hedge Animals and says, <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">"It only happens when you're not looking.”</span> Stanley Kubrick makes this sentence come alive in the movie. If you observe the characters closely they're never looking directly at the object that moves. Most are directly behind their heads and you must also remember it's a movie about a supernatural power, stuff happens. The movements are for the audience not the characters in the movie. Stanley Kubrick works in a visual realm, he reverses the sentence from the novel and now in the movie, <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">"It only happens when [the audience is] looking.”</span> But you do have to know where to look.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">But Dick Hallorann doesn’t say anything to Danny about telekinesis as they speak about the "Shine" in the hotel's kitchen.</span><br /><br />Hiding things must be something Stanley Kubrick enjoyed and making it overly obvious would have spoiled his fun. It's been hidden. Dick Hallorann simply doesn’t know about it, again, "It only happens when you're not looking.” If he knew everything there would be no movie and the fact that he doesn't means nothing. This is discussed by Stanley Kubrick in his interview with <a href="http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/interview.ts.html"> <span style="font-family:helvetica,arial;">Michel Ciment </span></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;">.</span> "If Danny had perfect ESP, there could be no story. He would anticipate everything, warn everybody and solve every problem. So his perception of the paranormal must be imperfect and fragmentary. This also happens to be consistent with most of the reports of telepathic experiences." <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">The same applies to Dick Hallorann.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-do-delbert-grady-and-tony-have-in.html"> There's something else Dick Hallorann doesn't know about; he also has an invisable friend (click here) that Stanley Kubrick didn't tell Michel Ciment about. </a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><div><div><br /><br />The July 4th picture (the most enigmatic image in the history of motion pictures) just appears the same way on the wall in the final shot of “The Shining”. When we see that spot several times earlier in the movie, it isn’t there. It isn't hung on any other wall of The Overlook either, it just appears out of nowhere exactly like the Calumet cans. There's no evidence that any other supernatural power other than "Shining" is going on in this movie either. This is what the story is about and it's no stretch of the movie's reality to come to the correct assumption that someone "Shined" it onto that wall.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/PicturesChange2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/PicturesChange2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/PicturesontheWallAreDifferent1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/PicturesontheWallAreDifferent1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/PicturesontheWallAreDifferent2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/PicturesontheWallAreDifferent2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/20People.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/20People.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>It’s Jack who puts the key into the lock of room 237, turns it, and opens the door.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/237.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/237.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />It's Jack who "Shines" the image of the woman into Danny, Dick Hallorann and Mr. Ullman's minds.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/YBathroomBorder.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/The%20Shining%20IV/YBathroomBorder.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />It’s Jack who beats up Danny during his nightmare.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/DissapearingRugs2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/DissapearingRugs2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />And it’s Jack who unlocks the storeroom and he does it all by psychokinesis.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/BoxesMove1.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/BoxesMove1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/d1-pictures.html">There are so many continuity errors in "The Shining" and there are a myriad of explanations as to why they appear here (as well as in every other movie ever made). Stanley Kubrick goes to the next level though, and includes some that are actually intended to be a part of the movie. I've just shown them to you and here are some others for you to look at and wonder about.</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"> Click here and go back to my blog with over 500 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more.</a><br /><br /><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-89587886982732579602008-12-07T22:06:00.000-08:002009-07-01T11:52:28.241-07:00OLD Is there an explanation of the July 4th 1921 picture?<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><br />Everyone who views this movie wants to know what the final photo in “The Shining” represents. Unfortunately it’s a purposeful visual enigma placed there by Stanley Kubrick and it has no simple explanation. When you first view the movie you will leave with the impression that Jack Torrance has been in The Overlook before, but this is one of the most perplexing images in the history of cinema and it must be looked at carefully before what it actually represents is fully understood. I believe the photo depicts Jack Torrance’s future, not his past, and it's been “Shined” onto that spot on the wall at the end of the movie by someone else who also posses this special power. <a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2009/06/are-cast-members-who-can-shine-able-to.html">Someone that has the ability to move things by telekinesis (click here). “Shining” is precisely what Stanley Kubrick’s movie is about and someone uses this special power to make that picture appear at the end of the movie.</a> The picture is a paradoxical enigma and there are several things that you must look at and address before you attempt any explanation of it.<br /><br /><br />1) The most intriguing fact about the final photo is that it simply doesn’t exist until after Jack’s death. Stanley Kubrick has it magically appearing on the wall only in the last shot of the movie. You can have any opinion you like but it must include why the photo is nowhere to be found either on that wall, or any other in The Overlook at any other time in the movie. Could Stanley Kubrick have just forgotten to hang the 1921 picture up? Many viewers have missed this. Every other time we see those 21 pictures in the movie they’re different and the July 4th 1921 picture simply isn’t there. It doesn’t exist until the end of the movie.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/PicturesChange2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/PicturesChange2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/PicturesontheWallAreDifferent1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/PicturesontheWallAreDifferent1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/PicturesontheWallAreDifferent2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/The%20Shining%20II/PicturesontheWallAreDifferent2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />2) In the dialogue Delbert Grady says, “I'm sorry to differ with you, sir, but you are the caretaker. You have always been the caretaker, I should know, sir. [I've always been here.] ” If he’s "always been" there why is he not in the final photo? If he is real and not a product of Jack’s imagination, he must also be there with him in the final photo; but the fact is that he isn't there.<br /><br />3) The ballroom depicted in the final picture is not The Overlook’s. It may say “Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921” but the party depicted in the picture is quite simply somewhere else and this cannot be ignored. It isn’t in any room of The Overlook. We see all the big rooms in the hotel and there's absolutely no indication of another one either in the movie or the novel. There should be no confusion about this fact as even Stanley Kubrick states that it’s not The Overlook in his interview with <a href="http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/interview.ts.html"> Michel Ciment</a>. In the photo Stanley Kubrick obviously has Jack standing somewhere else, other than The Overlook.<br /><br />4) In the final shot we see Jack’s image in a picture that's dated 1921. Many believe Jack Torrance, the caretaker in the movie, is a reincarnation of the person in the photo. This cannot be for 2 very good reasons 1) the definition of the word is very precise; reincarnation - the rebirth of a soul in a [new] body. Jack is still the same person. 2) Stanley Kubrick makes it obvious that it’s not The Overlook. The photo is not proof that Jack has ever been there before because the place depicted isn’t The Overlook.<br /><br />5) Jack Torrance is the winter caretaker and he would not be working in the summer and the person depicted in the photo is not the caretaker, he’s the manager. We must look at the the novel to understand this because in Chapter 48 (Page 261) we find out that Jack strives to become the manager of The Overlook, but he obviously doesn’t make it.<a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/12/differences-between-novel-and-movie.html"> The way in which Stanley Kubrick altered Stephen King’s novel (click here) becomes a tremendous help in understanding the final picture. In the movie we’re seeing a mirror image, an inversion, of what happens in the novel and after his death Jack does become the manager of The Overlook in the final picture. And it's, “for ever, and ever, and ever”. </a><br /><br />6) Stanley Kubrick creates an obvious visual paradox for the audience in the picture. The date says it’s a summer party but the only item that can be picked out in it indicates it’s a New Years Eve party; the opposite time of year.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/NewYearsEveParty.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/NewYearsEveParty.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />7) And this obvious question must be answered; what happened to all the other caretakers that had to have worked in between and before Jack and Grady? Who and where are they and why didn’t they try to kill their families? Have they been “reincarnated” also?<br /><br />8) We should think about where Stanley Kubrick got the idea for the July 4th picture? The only black and white photo in Stephen King’s novel ends up being of tremendous importance in understanding Stanley Kubrick’s ending. It’s mentioned in Chapter 33 (page 191) of the novel. It tells us exactly what that enigmatic photo depicts at the end of his movie. Here is an excerpt from Stephen King’s novel; “In that instant, kneeling there, everything came clear to him… In those few seconds [Jack] understood everything. There was a certain black-and-white picture he remembered seeing as a child, in catechism class… a jumble of whites and blacks… Then one of the children in the third row had gasped, "It's Jesus!" …. "I see Him! I see Him!" … Everyone had seen the face of Jesus in the jumble of blacks and whites except Jacky… when everyone else had tumbled their way up from the church basement and out onto the street he had lingered behind… He hated it… It was a big fake… [But] as he turned to go he had seen the face of Jesus from the corner of his eye… He turned back, his heart in his throat. Everything had suddenly clicked into place and he had stared at the picture with fearful wonder, unable to believe he had missed it… Looking at Jack Torrance. What had only been a meaningless sprawl had suddenly been transformed into a stark black-and-white etching of the face of Christ Our Lord. Fearful wonder became terror. He had cussed in front of a picture of Jesus. He would be damned. He would be in hell with the sinners. The face of Christ had been in the picture all along. All along.”<br /><br /><a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2009/06/examples-of-how-meticulous-stanley.html">Unless you’ve read Stephen King's novel you may not have realized what Stanley Kubrick has done to it. The picture is an exact and purposeful reversal of the novel.</a> The black and white photo we all see at the end of “The Shining” is the mirror opposite of what only Jack sees in the novel. In one black and white photo we have the ultimate good that is inverted now becoming in the second black and white photo the ultimate evil. It’s the devil! Jack represents the devil! The Manager or Master of Ceremonies in hell.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/741921.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/741921.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />9) You may not agree with what I’ve written but take one last look at this because Jack is obviously posed in that final shot as<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">................................</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet">Baphomet</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html">Who do you think “Shined” Jack’s picture onto the wall? My explanation of the last shot in “The Shining” includes all of these facts and can be seen if you click here.</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/1.html">1) The final photo simply doesn’t exist until after Jack’s death. Stanley Kubrick has it magically appearing on the wall only in the last shot of the movie. It’s not there at any other time in the movie.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/2.html">2) Delbert Grady must also be there with Jack in the final photo; but he isn't there.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/3.html">3) In the photo Stanley Kubrick obviously has Jack standing somewhere else. It’s not The Overlook.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/4.html">4) Jack Torrance is not a reincarnation of the person in the photo.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/5.html">5) The image of Jack Torrance is not the caretaker in the picture, he’s the manager. </a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/6.html">6) The picture is not a July 4th party. It’s a New Years Eve party.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/7.html">^7) Where are all the other caretakers?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/8.html">8) The black and white photo in Stephen King’s novel must be looked at.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://frequentlyaskedquestions2.blogspot.com/2009/07/9.html">9) Jack is posed in the final picture and it is an obvious clue as to what it represents.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-5187716516788672432008-11-28T19:30:00.000-08:002009-06-14T12:20:48.651-07:00The ShiningSome of the things You Learned from Watching The Shining.<br /><br /><br />1.REDRUM is MURDER backwards<br /><br />2.Guys in bear suits are usually gay<br /><br />3.A hotel can make you have a nervous breakdown<br /><br />4.Never have items that can be used as weapons in a hotel<br /><br />5.Jack would sell his soul just for some beer.<br /><br />6. Don't build on top of Native American burial grounds<br /><br />7. Don't use the elevator - it's full of blood<br /><br />8. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy<br /><br />9. Most people don't keep spare ignition cables for the Sno-cat<br /><br />10. Don't kiss sexy women that mysteriously appear in bathtubs in an empty hotel, as they're most likely dead and rotten<br /><br />11. People who have The Shining gift can sense when there's trouble 1000's of kilometers away but don't know when someone's around the corner with an axe<br /><br />12. When chasing someone through a maze with an axe make sure you dress accordingly, or you might freeze to death<br /><br />13. If you are an alcoholic writer with an annoying wife and a weird kid that has an imaginary friend, just leave...leave town, maybe go out east, relax, and have a drink. Write that novel and pay some child support. Do not take them to live at a mountain hotel that is closed for the winter. Some things in life just can't be corrected.<br /><br />14 Stephen King is very precious about his work, even when one of the best film directors in the history of cinema makes a masterpiece of horror from one of his books he's not happy. He prefers un-cinematic hackwork obviously.<br /><br />15 Advocaat will remove from jackets with plenty of water being applied by an unctuous toady.<br /><br />16. If you can't think of anything original and cool to say, simply say: "Here's Johnny."<br /><br />17. Never stop drinking<br /><br />18. Ghosts can unlock food store cupboards<br /><br />19. Tennis Balls are sinister<br /><br />20. Crazy murderous people are unintentionally amusing.<br /><br />21. Kids with creepy talking fingers should be avoided at all costs.<br /><br />22. Bashing someone's brains in is different than hurting them.<br /><br />23. When a man refers to his son as "The little son of a bitch" it means that he loves him.<br /><br />24. When you're told not to go into a room, you'd better not, or else you'll subjected to the horror of... The door being locked.<br /><br />24b. Things are not always what they seem. I think Jack may have had to much of that bourbon from the bar because I don't see how he could kiss some strange woman in the hotel when he should have realized they were the only ones there, or how he could talk to Lloyd and not think this is a bit strange.<br /><br />25. The best way to correct someone is to chop them to pieces with an axe.<br /><br />26. Philip Stone is cool. Who woulda thought, based on The Clockwork Orange.<br /><br />27. Joe Turkel is cool. Who woulda thought, based on Paths Of Glory.<br /><br />28. Wendy and Danny are gonna love it<br /><br />29. Wendy is a confirmed ghost story addict<br /><br />30. jack's credit is fine here<br /><br />31. the Torrance’s bring baseball bats to secluded Colorado hotels built hills<br /><br />32. Al work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.<br /><br />33. When two twin girls ask you to play with them, they may expect you to play with them forever... and ever... and ever...<br /><br />34. Some people shine and some people don't shine.<br /><br />35. When you hear a typewriter clicking in the next room it means you're not allowed to enter.<br /><br />36. You can write a book in which you repeat the same sentence over and over, as long as you type that sentence in interesting ways.<br /><br />37. There's no harm in letting your kid watch a TV program about cannibalism.<br /><br />38. Whoever loses a race inside a hedge maze has to keep America clean.<br /><br />39. It's better to freeze to death than to break through a beautifully trimmed hedge maze with your axe<br /><br />40. Secondhand smoke doesn't harm kids that "shine"<br /><br />41. Apparently, if you SHINE, you like to have naked women with Afros bigger than their bodies hung up on your wall.<br /><br />42. Men in bear costumes should not be trusted.<br /><br />43. If you don't fit through the bathroom window, and your husband is trying to kill you with an ax, take the knife and break the effing window.<br /><br />44. Wendy likes making sandwiches.<br /><br />45. Mom did not roll the tennis ball to you.<br /><br />22. is very hard to beat. Kudos.<br /><br />46. A Costco-size can of fruit cocktail feeds three people.<br /><br />47. When taking on the job of looking after an enormous hotel for the winter season, let your wife do all the work while you sit at a typewriter and type the same sentence over and over and over.<br /><br />48. Someone by the name of Tony could be residing in your mouth right now.<br /><br />49. Watch out, that hot girl you have your eye on might turn into an old lady.<br /><br />50. NEVER say "I'd sell my soul for a drink"......<br /><br />51. When your son becomes possessed by his 'imaginary friend', putting him in front of a TV to watch the Roadrunner is a great way to ease the tension.<br /><br />52. After locking your crazy husband in the pantry and finding your only mode of transportation destroyed, it is a mighty good time to take a nap.<br /><br />53. The black guy really does always die first.<br /><br />54. If Jack couldn't honor his obligations to the Overlook, he would be shoveling driveways in Boulder.<br /><br />55. There's a difference between Jack being grouchy and him just wanting to finish his work.<br /><br />56. If you need to vent about your home life, the hotel bartender is as good a person to talk to as anyone.<br /><br />57. Shelley Duvall has a hard time pronouncing the word "alcohol."<br /><br />58. "Women---can't live with them, can't live without them" are words of wisdom.<br /><br />59. She's had her whole *beep* life to think.<br /><br />60 all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy<br />all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boyall work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boyall work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy all work and no play makes jake a dull boy<br />the risk always lives * who’s Jake?<br /><br />61. Pink and gold are Wendy's favorite colors.<br /><br />62. French fries and ketchup are Danny's favorite food.<br /><br />50. People in bear suits are FAR more terrifying that axe wielding husbands.<br /><br />51. Apparently, there is no skiing in Colorado during the winter months.<br /><br />52. Even if you ask nicely, your wife and child will not lay down and let you chop them up.<br /><br />53. When your husband tells you that he had a dream in which he cut you and your child into pieces, there's no cause for alarm. Simply tell him that "everything's going to be all right" and go about your business as if nothing has happened. Even if he's been acting increasingly hostile towards you as of late and you're completely alone in an isolated location.<br /><br />64. A dish of chocolate ice cream makes you shine.<br /><br />65. The guy who hires you to look after a hotel during the winter is a liar. He said it was Charles Grady who killed his wife and kids. You know it was really Delbert Grady who did it.<br /><br />66. Make sure you're not the lucky son of a bitch who gets to trim those hedges.<br /><br />67. Your twitchy wife accuses you of attacking your son then suddenly trusts you again and believes it was someone else in the hotel.<br /><br />68. Don't tell your wife that you almost had sex with a corpse. Just tell her there was nothing in Room 237 - nothing at all.<br /><br />69. Moldy, cobwebbed skeletons are the life of the party. Mingle with them!<br /><br />70. Next time, just shut up and allow your husband to bash your brains right the *bleep* in. It might save a lot of hassle later. After all, he allowed you to *bleep* up everything else in his life.<br /><br />71. When having your crazy husband break down the door to the bathroom you're hiding in, the best plan is to watch it up close and scream a lot. Don't attempt to defend yourself, but if you do, make sure it's one slash of the knife across the hand. Then he'll leave you alone and chase your son.<br /><br />72. Ghostly bartenders always have the best bourbon.<br /><br />73. "Correcting your family" is ghost talk for terrorizing them, murdering them, and chopping them up into neat little piles.<br /><br />74. Wendy Torrance interferes.<br /><br />75. There ain't nothin' in Room 237. But you ain't got no business goin' in there anyway. So stay out. You understand? Stay out.<br /><br />76. Wendy is very confused and wants to go back to her room.<br /><br />77. Wendy thinks maybe Danny should be taken to a doctor as soon as possible.<br /><br />78. Danny doesn't want to talk about Tony anymore.<br /><br />79. It could have happened to anybody.<br /><br />80. The apartment is cozy.<br /><br />81. Hotels need an abundant supply of Tang.<br /><br />82. Wendy has a big surprise coming to her.<br /><br />83. Watch out for twins who ask you to come and play with them forever and ever. They were actually murdered by their dad.<br /><br />84. Don't open the elevator because its filled with a million gallons of blood for no reason at all.<br /><br />85. Watch out for dog dressing men performing fellatio on other men with doors wide open...completely terrifying.<br /><br />86. If you suddenly get the urge to leave the warm Florida sun to go off in a blizzard to a secluded hotel in Colorado, be sure to check around dark corners for lunatics with axes....and for gosh sakes, don't yell out, "Is anyone here?"<br /><br />87. When you're riding your plastic tricycle around, be sure not to run into dead bodies who want you to play with them.<br /><br />88. If you're chasing someone through a hedge maze in the bitter cold, and their tracks abruptly stop in the snow, its obvious they've vanished into thin air.<br /><br />89. Ghosts can actually open up locked doors.<br /><br />90. Some people shine and some don't<br /><br />91. If you're locked in a store food closet, there’s nothing better to do than take a nap on bags of rice.<br /><br />92.Danny's room is perfect for a child.<br /><br />93.Jack should've brought his own booze.<br /><br />94. Don’t be alarmed—that’s just kool aid pouring out of the elevator.<br /><br />95. Carry lube around cuz you’ll never know when you have to squeeze out a window<br /><br />96. If you’re black then don’t try to help white people—you’ll just be the first to die.<br /><br />97. Don’t go into room 237<br /><br />98. Ruuun! B itch Run!!<br /><br />99) How to cast a movie.<br /><br />100) How to hide something in plain site so that even if you show it to someone, they still won’t believe it.<br /><br />101) If your dad unexplainably starts chasing you with an axe, don't hide in a drawer full of pots and pans, FRICKING RUN!!<br /><br />102) if something is hard to beleive, especially since it happened here, face the facts and accept that it did, and appreciate why someone tells you these things, and understand why their people in Denver left it up to them to tell you<br /><br />103) changing your jacket before the duck and goose something is very wise<br /><br />104) a few more minutes is no good when you've had your whole life to think things over<br /><br />105) when you are chasing someone because you are possessed by demons, and you can't find them, lie and say you're right behind them, and if you give up, it helps to shout nonsense words in the air, then after a good chase, its a good thing to sit in a snow bank and cool down, it eases the tension and relaxes the muscles, side affects may include death and/or being claimed by a bunch of ghosts from the past.<br /><br />106) never let a woman have a baseball bat!<br /><br />107) it’s ok he watched it on the TV..<br /><br />108) the higher you go the thinner the air gets..<br /><br />109) When riding up a steep mountain road that drops off with no guard rails, you should always let your child ride in the back seat, hanging over the front seat.<br /><br />110) Delbert Grady's ALWAYS been there.<br /><br />111) Danny's not a-sposed to talk about Tony.<br /><br />112) Sometimes a job interview can go too well<br /><br />113) Doc likes ice cream<br /><br />114) Jack is going to "huff and puff and BLOW your house in"<br /><br />115) The random seizures of a despondent child suggest he's perfectly fine and suited to spending a winter in isolation sans medical care.<br /><br />116) If you are in a haunted hotel make sure you get drinks from the bartender, they are on the house!<br /><br />117) Never chase your son into a maze, especially on a snowy night; he will make you freeze to death.<br /><br />118) Black chefs from ski resort hotels like to have naked picture frames on their bedrooms.<br /><br />119) It's okay if your 8-year-old son knows about cannibalism as long as he gets the information from the TV.<br /><br />120) Those twin girls really do just want to play teatime.<br /><br /><br />121) Somehow white mother and child always seem to escape bad circumstances and live.<br /><br />122) Therefore if you're in horror film always stick with the white mother and child.<br /><br />123) If Tony knows something he really should speak up.<br /><br />124) All problems can be "corrected.”<br /><br />125) A thread can die quicker than Scatman Crothers...<br /><br />126) You gotta stay regular if you wanna be happy.<br /><br />127) Spectral bartenders can be a great source of "words of wisdom.”<br /><br />128) The people in Denver who "highly recommended" an alcoholic with serious wife and kid issues for the job of taking care of a haunted hotel during the winter should be axed (pun intended).<br /><br />129) Don't steal any sheets or towels from the Overlook hotel. It could cost you your soul.<br /><br />130) If you're going to bonk naked girls in bathtubs, at least close the door first and put up the "Do Not Disturb" sign.<br /><br />131) Jack's the kind of guy who likes to know who's buying his drinks.<br /><br />132) We all have our urges to get it on with men in dog suits, but at least close the door beforehand.<br /><br />133) Grady WAS the caretaker here.<br /><br />134) Don't screw with Indians. Build a hotel on their burial grounds and evil ghosts will run wild on you, brother!<br /><br />135) If your husband is staring at you and your son with his head titled slightly downwards from behind a window, all does not bode well for you (In fact, this could be used for almost any Kubrick film).<br /><br />136) Jack's idea of living up to his responsibilities is killing his family and the hotel's cook.<br /><br />137) Grady is racist.......and he WAS the caretaker here.<br /><br />138) British butlers will politely disagree with you after you accuse them of brutally slaughtering their family then turning a gun on them self.<br /><br />139) Be wary of women in bathtubs. They'll try and choke your son, and that is not a euphemism for masturbating you.<br /><br />140) Did I mention that Grady WAS The caretaker here?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-16299677931342900922008-10-22T21:33:00.000-07:002010-03-02T09:49:23.263-08:00Where is the actual Overlook Hotel located?In the movie this is an easy question to answer. The long shots of The Overlook were taken at the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon and the interiors and hedge maze scenes were shot on set at Elstree Studios in London, England. As for the novel everyone knows that The Stanley Hotel in Colorado is supposed to be the actual place that Stephen King based The Overlook on. What’s unusual is that at a second hotel (the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York) old timers will tell you that Stephen King stays there and that it’s the hotel that The Overlook from the novel is based on.<br /><br />I don’t really care if there’s an actual Overlook or not but it would be nice if my favorite hotel and a place I visit often, The Mohonk Mountain House, were it. But what’s the reason behind two hotels that are rumored to be The Overlook from Stephen King’s novel, and which one is the right one?<br /><br /><br />Using Wikipedia as a source it’s easy to find where The Stanley Hotel rumor started. Everything points back to the work of an author named George Beahm who has written several books on Stephen King.<br /><br />In "The Stephen King Companion" (1989) it’s obvious to me that George Beahm is trying to start a rumor that he thinks will morph into The Stanley hotel in Colorado being accepted by fans as the actual Overlook (as it obviously has). What better way to get in tight with the Stephen King crowd that to tell everyone where the actual Overlook is. Upon reading his book he obviously doesn’t know this for sure so he’s cautious as he discusses it in a rather cagey way on page 268. He puts two related paragraphs together so readers will connect the dots themselves. You can’t miss his point and he didn’t have to directly come out and say it. He definitely thinks The Stanley Hotel is The Overlook.<br /><br />In "The Stephen King Story" (1991) George Beahm goes even further by embellishing his fictional story about The Stanley but again he falls short of coming right out and saying it. And, probably fearing legal action or loss of access, he wisely includes what the boss himself says about the subject. Stephen King is and will always be where the buck stops on this subject and he emphatically states in the beginning of the paperback version of the novel that, "Some of the most beautiful resort hotels in the world are located in Colorado, but the hotel in these pages is based on none of them. The Overlook and the people associated with it exist wholly within the author's imagination.” Whatever the reason may be, he wrote this in direct response to the rumor that The Stanley is the fictions Overlook; which it is not. He even mentions the state by name so there will be no confusion about it. But there still is confusion; fans try to get by this statement by saying The Stanley is the “inspiration” for the Overlook but Stephen King’s statement is very clear and precise.<br /><br />Aficionado’s can ignore his statement if they like but “the hotel in these pages is based on none of them” is exact and goes right to the point of the subject. A dozen other real hotels may have also inspired the Overlook across the world; one may have inspired a hallway, one a fire hose, one a hedge maze, one a basement or one an elevator. We just don’t know until Stephen King tells us, and he hasn’t yet. Any hotel, like The Stanley, that is rumored to be The Overlook is just that; a rumor.<br /><br />I wish I could say that I slept in the real Overlook Hotel but until Stephen King says different these rumors are all unfounded. But here are some pictures anyway for my pick of the hotel that most resembles The Overlook; The Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York. It’s got everything, long winding road, hedge maze, creepy basement and elevators, grandfather clock, long corridors, and even old fashioned fire hoses that look like snakes. It truly has the feel of The Overlook.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/MohonkMountainHouse.jpg%20"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/MohonkMountainHouse.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Mohonkgood.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Mohonkgood.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/IMG_2117.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/IMG_2117.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Mohonk2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/IMG_8233.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/IMG_2124.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii273/photojonny2007/Extras/IMG_2124.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Mohonk8.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Mohonk8.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Mohonk6.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Mohonk6.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Mohonk3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Mohonk3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Mohonk1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Mohonk1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Mohonk7.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa110/bucket53/Mohonk7.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"> Click here and go back to my blog with almost 500 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-17762376552075257682008-08-27T20:35:00.000-07:002008-08-27T20:42:44.323-07:00Where are the Hedge Animals from the novel?<a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2008/01/where-are-hedge-animals-from-novel.html">Click here to see the Hedge Animals from the novel.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-21696437911151321612008-08-26T20:19:00.000-07:002008-08-26T20:21:50.743-07:00Who beat up Danny?In the movie, Jack has the same ability as Danny and therefore both are able to telepathically “Shine” images into the minds of other people. This is exactly what Danny does to Dick Hallorann in his bedroom in Florida when he needs his help. When Danny is beat up Jack is having a nightmare and his power to “Shine” combined with his increasing madness is what makes him able to lash out at Danny without being physically present. It couldn’t have been the old woman in 237 because, as Dick Hallorann tells Danny over ice cream, she’s only a vision of the past and not real. Having this special ability enables them to “Shine” these images into each others minds. <br /><br /><a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2008/08/who-rolls-yellow-ball-to-danny-as-he.html"> Click here and read more about Jack’s ability to “Shine”. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-55282267893997736182008-08-26T13:54:00.000-07:002009-12-23T19:05:09.362-08:00Why are there so many references to Native Americans and what do they mean?I feel these references, which are seen in just about every shot of the movie, are only meant to throw off anyone trying to figure out the meaning of this movie. The only important Indians here are the well-hidden Mayan’s and their prediction of the end of the world, 12/24/2011. The rest is a con unless someone can prove different.<br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"> Click here and go back to my blog with almost 400 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-44898460569108252572008-08-26T13:51:00.000-07:002008-11-10T08:10:44.591-08:00Are the ghosts in the movie real?No! Not a one and that’s the beauty of Stanley Kubrick’s unbelievable deception. What the audience thinks are “ghosts” are visions from the Overlook’s guests who all have this very special supernatural ability to “Shine” that enables them to see these visions. I’ve often thought that in the movie version of this story The Overlook may have been a place that attracted people with this special power to “Shine”. It appears to be quite obvious, <a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-do-delbert-grady-and-tony-have-in.html"> and it also seems that people who “Shine” have invisible friends by their sides. </a><br />I believe the ghosts that everyone believes haunt The Overlook are actually the Doppelgangers of the current residents, and there’s no solid evidence that I can find to the contrary. Everything they see are visions, whether they be of the past, future, or of their deepest fears. No one is there except the Torrance family. It’s brilliant how Stanley Kubrick gave each cast member powers that make it appear to the audience that The Overlook is haunted, when it actually isn’t.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"> Click here and go back to my blog with over 450 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-30828210770495788472008-08-26T13:49:00.000-07:002008-11-03T20:35:33.948-08:00Who lets Jack out of the storeroom?In the movie Jack has the ability to “Shine” and therefore he's able to supernaturally move objects. Charles Grady is a real person, who worked in The Overlook in 1970, but the other one Delbert Grady is a product of Jack’s mind and as he speaks to him in the storeroom he’s really talking to himself. But it’s his power to “Shine”, that’s so well hidden in the movie, which enables him to unlock the storeroom door and get out by himself.<br /><br /><a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2008/08/who-rolls-yellow-ball-to-danny-as-he.html"> Click here and read more about Jack’s ability to “Shine”।</a><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/12/differences-between-novel-and-movie.html"> In the novel a ghost does let out Jack out of the storeroom. But this is another obvious reversal Stanley Kubrick made from the novel as he turned it inside out.<br /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-26121790627825622052008-08-24T22:02:00.001-07:002008-10-19T20:43:34.740-07:00What book does Jack have opened on his desk?This is not explained in the movie. In Stephen King’s novel it’s a scrapbook kept in the basement of The Overlook where Jack does most of his work. It’s what he plans to use as a source for a novel he plans to write on The Overlook.<br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/12/differences-between-novel-and-movie.html"> Click here! Stanley Kubrick adds another obvious reversal to Stephen King’s novel here as Jack is only working on one book; in the novel he is working on two projects 1) a play and 2) planning a novel on the history of The Overlook.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"> Click here and go back to my blog with almost 400 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-82817926580065108792008-08-24T21:57:00.001-07:002008-09-21T19:51:26.702-07:00Who are the women in room 237?This is not explained in the movie. In Stephen King’s novel, the woman's name is Mrs. Massey and she committed suicide in the bathtub of room 217. Cast members who “Shine” can see visions of what happened there in the past and are able to see her in that bathroom. Stanley Kubrick doubled much from the novel and we now see 2 woman in the bathroom of a different room, 237.<br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"> Click here and go back to my blog with almost 400 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-33282825510555571102008-08-24T21:47:00.001-07:002008-10-19T20:50:27.466-07:00Who is Tony?In Stephen King’s novel Tony is Danny's subconscious mind protecting him just like any other person's subconscious mind would do. Danny's difference, from most of us on this site, is in his ability to "Shine".<br /><br />In the novel Tony is also Danny’s imaginary friend and he can talk to him face to face, but <a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/12/differences-between-novel-and-movie.html"> Stanley Kubrick reverses this in the movie </a> and we don’t see him because he’s invisable. We just hear him talking through Danny in a strange voice. Another thing Stanley Kubrick changed in the movie is that other people can “Shine” and they also have invisible imaginary friends. <a href="http://faqtheshining.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-do-delbert-grady-and-tony-have-in.html">Now how on earth could he show us an invisible entity on a movie screen? Just click here and find out.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654322951961021729.post-47969034500807238932008-08-24T21:30:00.000-07:002008-09-21T19:52:22.091-07:00How have the cast members power to “Shine” been changed from the novel?Anything we know about this special ability come from two sources, Dick Hallorann’s mouth or observations of the two characters in the story who we are 100% positive have this ability, Danny and Dick Hallorann. In Stephen King’s novel people who “Shine” have the supernatural ability to do 2 basic things 1) they can see into the past and the future and 2) they can speak to each other telepathically over any distance. To understand “Shining” in Stanley Kubrick’s movie it’s essential to look at how he altered Stephen King’s source novel. Anyone who attempts to explain this special power without mentioning these alterations is committing a grave error on the reader, and quite possibly doesn’t know anything about what they’re talking about. The changes he made are easily found by reading it and they’re not an object of speculation and conjecture. They are what they are and can’t be changed.<br /><br /><a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/12/differences-between-novel-and-movie.html">You can look at how he altered the source novel here and give special attention to what’s reversed and what’s doubled.</a><br /><br />For me one of the best and creepiest parts of the novel was when The Overlook animates certain objects for its guests and special attention should be paid to the 3 items that move by supernatural means. It’s absurd to think that Stanley Kubrick would leave out such a great plot point from the novel, and if you look closely; he doesn’t, he just reverses it like so much else from Stephen King’s novel.<br />The three items that moved by themselves in the novel are the Hedge Animals, the fire hose, and the elevators. They all move because they’re possessed, but what Stanley Kubrick did to these three items in the movie cannot be ignored. There’s an obvious reversal and no one can dispute that these three items, glaringly if not hauntingly, remain motionless throughout the entire movie <a<br />href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2008/01/where-are-hedge-animals-from-novel.html">(The Hedge Animals are there if you know where to look).</a><br /><br />In the novel all three were possessed by the hotel and it’s clear that what The Overlook moves in the novel doesn’t move in the movie. Not only has Stanley Kubrick reversed colors and plot points from the novel he has also change the location of every major scene. Except that they are in the same hotel (or are they?) not one major thing happens in the movie’s Overlook in the same place it did in the novel’s Overlook (room 237 and 217 are different in each, Jack works in the basement in the novel, there’s no Gold Room in the novel and Jack meets Grady and Lloyd in the Colorado Lounge, in the end of the novel Wendy and Jack fight in the hallway, the final chase takes place inside The Overlook in the novel, etc., etc., etc.). The reason I bring all this up is because after looking at all he altered from the novel it would be inane to think that he wouldn’t alter this very special power mentioned in the title of the story, “Shining”, in the same fashion.<br /><br />Much from the novel has also mysteriously been doubled (2 women are in the bathroom of room 237 the novel has only one. 2 elevators, the novel has only one. 2 typewriters, the novel has only one). Stanley Kubrick also doubles the amount of this special power to “Shine” that cast members in the movie possess. In addition to 1) seeing into the past and the future and 2) speaking to each other telepathically over any distance, they also have the ability 3) to change the color of items and possessions, and 4) to supernaturally move objects, making them disappear than reappear between shots. They are the ones who have the power in the movie, not The Overlook and this is yet another reversal from the novel. How do I know this? The objects that move and change color not only happen inside The Overlook but also in Danny’s condo and Dick Hallorann’s apartment in Florida. <a href="http://jonnys53.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-you-may-or-may-not-have-seen.html"> These movements are obvious and I have extensively documented what moves supernaturally in “The Shining” in my blog. Click here and go back to look at almost 400 interesting pictures from the movie, and read more. </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com