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The Shining YT Edit (Patreon)

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2025-01-12 09:02:31
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2026-06
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Hey! Here is the YT early edit!

I may change the intro outro but the reaction will stay the same!]

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The SHINING (1980) First Time Watching Movie Reaction

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Happy Hanukkah

🎶 Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine! 🎶

Clay F

"Have you ever thought, for a single solitary moment about my responsibilities to my employers?" "Hi, Lloyd. Little slow tonight, isn't it?"

Kinokind

So, I saw this film in the theater when it came out and was of two minds. I had read the book, and was impressed by Kubrick's fidelity to it up until about the last third, when it goes totally off the rails veering from King to Kubrick. I was annoyed. That's one reason King doesn't like the movie. But over the years and repeated viewings I have come to appreciate Kubrick's hidden genius. The film starts as King, but is its own thing. There is so much hidden within. First, lets dispense with missed references: Yes, Johnny Carson's co-host, Ed McMahon, always started the Tonight Show by saying "Here's Johnny!". Also, fun fact, the opening score as Jack drives through the mountains is the ancient "Dies Irae", from the latin mass for the dead (it also shows up in It's a Wonderful Life, when George Bailey runs back to the bridge over the river). About the filming: It's all a set. Even the snow. The exterior is an actual hotel in the aerial shot (note the lack of a maze), and the interior is a near duplication of another actual hotel elsewhere. But it's almost all sets (but with working light switches, etc., because. . . Kubrick). But what makes it really creepy and subconsciously disturbing is the impossible geography. The ballroom is impossibly big. Ulman's office has a window where there couldn't possibly be one. The TV has no power cord. Furniture appears and disappears during conversations and reverse shots (a chair is behind Jack when he's at the typewriter chastising Wendy, and then it's not). Light switches appear and disappear. The maze model and maps differ markedly. It's all impossible. But we don't consciously notice these things - just subconsciously. Kubrick was a notorious stickler for details, and snapshot are always taken by continuity people. These could not have been mistakes. It was Kubrick. There are a million other things one could say: Like how Nicholson had to slow his axing of the door, since he had been a volunteer fireman, and was too fast, but the whole film bears repeated viewing.

JM63

Haha, funny intro on YT! You should give people "the Tony" when they annoy you IRL There are tons of interpretations of this film (including some loony ones about Kubrick's faking of the moon landing). The one I like best is that it's an allegory about the foundation of the United States (often referred to by Americans throughout history as a "city upon a hill"). The hotel manager, Mr. Ullman, says that the hotel was built on an "old Indian burial ground" and that the building crew had to repel attacks by Native Americans (from what I understand, these details were not in the book and were added by Kubrick). I think the blood symbolizes the atrocities (slavery, killing of native peoples) that were part of the establishment of the US, and the "shining" of Danny (the next generation) and Dick are their insights into the country's traumatic past. (Wendy doesn't see visions until she discovers Dick's corpse.) Interestingly, the photo at the end shows that it's a July 4th party -- American Independence Day. Anyway, The Shining might be the most overanalyzed film in history, so there are plenty of other ways to think about it.

Don Dunco

It wasn't just the last third of the movie that Kubrick couldn't stand. In the book Jack was a loving, genuine family man. The dislocation of Danny's shoulder WAS a genuine accident, but he always felt guilt over the incident that it set up the events that followed. The point of the book was the descent of Jack into madness while his son was able to watch and track this happening because of his telepathic powers. Kubrick felt the movie made a better ghost story so filmed it that way.