The tension felt when jack jack nicholson chases danny danny lloyd through the hotel grounds is incredible. It was adapted for the screen by directorproducer stanley kubrick and novelistacademic diane johnson. For the first time, the shinings producer and cowriter explain in detail why the horror tales ending changed from stephen kings novel and how it evolved again and again during the filming. By this point, almost every scene is so iconic, the experience of watching it truly watching it feels something like devouring a greatest hits collection. The final shot of the shining, its ambiguity forever helping stanley kubricks most popular film carry on its enduring legacy for nearly thirty years.
In an interview with the new york times, nicholson explained, thats what i was. Published in 1977, it is kings third published novel and first hardback bestseller. Doctor sleep comes out this friday, the sequel to the 1980 iconic horror masterpiece the shining from director stanley kubrick featuring jack nicholson in one of the most grandiose wildeyed. Theres plenty of speculation surrounding hidden meanings and conspiracy theories of the shining a featurelength documentarys worth, to be exact but the strangest part of the film may forever be wendys sudden discovery of a man in a work suit receiving fellatio from a man in a bear suit. At the end of the shining, why is jack in the photo of the. As the film develops, it becomes more mysterious, ambiguous, threatening, and hallucinatory. The final, terrible shot of jack on the ground, his frozen face forever stuck in its maniacal, upwardlooking openmouth gaze, instantly freezes itself into the brain of anyone who. Rejecting the sterile settings of most contemporary sciencefiction films, denis wanted. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. Subscribe to our youtube channel to see the bloodcurdling lengths kubrick put his crew through in 7 movies that put insane amounts of work into small details, and watch other videos you wont see on the site. Ilgwang tells jonggoo a lie that the stranger is the good guy and that he was wrong about him. Buy a book on film making from any part of the world, either russia or japan or sweden, and youll find this name mentioned not once but in every chapter, ranging from minutely monumental details like.
At first, it feels like a traditional horror setup a guy gets hired to spend the winter in an enormous hotel, secluded from civilization, where obviously something will go very wrong. Was it absorbed into the past and does that explain jacks presence in that final photograph of a group of hotel. How the shining movie s ending differs from the book. The shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by stanley kubrick and cowritten with novelist diane johnson. Kubricks adaptation of the original story makes some drastic changes, leaving the movies danny not necessarily bound to the same fate. How does the ending of the shining differ from stephen. The popular interpretation is that the scene is a throwback to a subplot of stephen kings book, in which a party guest in a dog costume has a homosexual relationship with one of the hotels former owners. How doctor sleep connects to the shining, explained collider. Kubrick later told a friend that he wanted to make the worlds scariest movie. But kubricks original version of the film included another scene inserted between these two iconic.
Johnson said because the shining was a horror movie somebody should. The shining, one of the stephen kings bestselling novels and the film that has had a huge impact in pop culture, finally has the ending explained. One of the most frequent questions ive received about the shining is what does the guy in the bear costume mean. Seriously exhaustive analysis of the shining shows. The shining is a film about cyclical violence, and about how we cant escape the dark specter of history. The highlyanticipated followup to stephen kings iconic haunted hotel film, the shining, has just earned a release date. What we know for sure is that kubrick wanted the hotel to look authentic rather than like a traditionally spooky movie hotel. It is explained more in the book but since holloran has the shining as well, they are linked.
The documentary room 237 has been called a diy mashup of the many theories put forward over the years as interpretations of stanley kubrickss 1980 horror classic, the shining. The movie came out in 1980, but my interconnect with the kubrickian kube. Stanley kubricks the shining is widely praised as a brilliant film, but not by the man who wrote the book it was adapted from. In the movie, dannys parents dont know about his supernatural ability but in the book they do. Until the last minute, the plot seems to be wrapping up in a conventional way. Doctor sleep, based on the king novel of the same name, will land in. Kubrick was originally going to make a film called the aryan papers but he got too depressed by the holocaust to continue. With jack nicholson, shelley duvall, danny lloyd, scatman crothers. The whole thing would be beautiful if it werent for the super creepy music playing in. Blood flows throughout this film literally in several notorious scenes. Stephen kings hatred for stanley kubricks the shining.
In an interview with ew, producers jan harlan and diane johnson explain the steps that were taken in making the film, and the decisions made by director stanley kubrick to create the final ending. Stanley kubrick remains one of americas strongest filmmakers best known for classics such as 2001. For starters, the end of the shinings novel saw the overlook hotel burning. The shining crew reveal why stanley kubrick didnt blow up overlook hotel, chose second fatality for film adaptation. The victim danny can be viewed as the inner child of jacks spouse, wendy torrance, which means that the abuse is a traumatic.
In the end of the wailing, ilgwang, who is trying to leave town passes through a swarm of locusts and is forced to turn back. I knew that the movie holds the record for the most number of takes for a. With the movies ambiguities, it is not known how kubrick felt about or if he agreed with this proclamation. The shining has lost its shine kubrick was slumming it in a genre he despised. Stanley kubricks the shining has one hell of an ending. This is why stephen king hates the shining so much. Its no secret that stephen king disliked the changes director stanley kubrick made for the shining. At first, it feels like a traditional horror setup a guy gets hired to spend the winter in an enormous. He had the opportunity to make the shining and used it as. Stanley kubricks the shining is widely considered to be among the best bigscreen. The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.
And learn which pixar movie is basically an ode to the shining in 6 mindblowing easter eggs hidden in famous movies. I wasnt the only one to do a 180degree turn and decide the shining was a. The newest movie, directed by mike flanagan geralds game, the haunting of hill house, is the cinematic telling of kings 20 sequel novel which revisits the. The movies highly specific design elements are essential to its peculiar, haunting vision of space travel. The shining summary we watch a car drive up a long and windy road to a fancylooking hotel way up in the mountains. When buying the movie online, you pick the theater you want to support, and they will get a split of the money, starting with cannes winner bacurau. The true story behind the legendary lost ending of the. The film is based on stephen kings 1977 novel of the same name. And there is good reason for viewers to puzzle over the film 33 years after its release.
One of the many mysteries of stanley kubricks the shining is why jack appears in the photo at the end, and it actually has a semisimple explanation. The shining has lost its shine kubrick was slumming it. An alternate adaptation written by king himself, the. At the end of the shining, why is jack in the photo of. Just days after the film opened, however, kubrick decided the epilogue needed to be excised. The shinings 1980 hedge maze chase is one of the most iconic endings in horror history. The shining 1977 is a novel by american author stephen king. The shining sequel doctor sleep movie adaptation gets. As mentioned above, the film ends with wendy and danny. The overlook is built on the sacred lands of native americans slaughtered by white. The director explained in an interview with film critic michel. Why that bear performed fellatio on that guy in the shining.
The shining crew reveal why stanley kubrick didnt blow. Why is the cinematography of the shining so unsettling. A space odyssey and a clockwork orange, kubrick works across genres and his movies come with impeccable directing, atmosphere and a sense of intelligence. A theory that will change how you watch the shining. The shining, one of kubricks later movies, is now widely considered one if not the greatest horror movies. Parents need to know that the shining is the classic 1980 stanley kubrickdirected film based on the stephen king novel about a man hired to be the caretaker of a hotel deep in the mountains of colorado who develops severe dementia from a combination of cabin fever and the dark and haunted past of the hotel. The film is based on stephen kings 1977 novel of the same name and stars jack nicholson, shelley duvall, scatman crothers, and danny lloyd the film s central character is jack torrance nicholson, an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a.
The reason the shining is so horrifying is because of references to genocide. At first, it feels like a traditional horror set up a guy gets hired to spend the winter in an enormous. The shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by stanley kubrick and. The shining tends to be opaque, even though its corridors are welllit. Maybe he didnt know, when the shining started its way to the screen several years back, that the horror genre would be in full cry, the most marketable field in filmmaking, by the time his movie was ready for delivery.
As amazing as the ending to doctor sleeps movie sounds, the ending for stephen kings book was way different. How the shining movies ending differs from the book. What does that famous final shot of stanley kubricks the shining really mean, and what happens to the traumatized characters left alive. The shining is about physical and sexual abuse perpetrated on young danny boy by his father jack torrance. The title of the novel was inspired by the john lennon song instant karma. When the shining premiered in limited release in may 1980, the hospital scene was still there. The shining is a horror novel by american author stephen king. The shining is een amerikaansebritse horrorfilm uit 1980, geregisseerd door stanley kubrick. What happened at the end of stanley kubricks the shining.
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