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Jack also mentions his wife being a horror movie addict and her character is typical of a scream queen/damsel in distress (something out of a conventional 40s horror flick). Super Dark The Shining Theory Reveals The Story Is All In Wendy's Head. The ball itself is featured in another scene with Jack throwing it against a wall in the hotel lobby. Kubrick was never into the idea of making a typical horror film, and he certainly got what he wanted out of the film, even if Stephen King didn't like it. Here he is discussing said adaptation. Stephen King's Doctor Sleep follows an adult Danny Torrance after the events at The Overlook Hotel and his endeavor to find closure. The sequel to The Shining, 2019's Doctor Sleep movie managed to walk a delicate tightrope between adapting King's Shining sequel book and being a follow-up to Kubrick's Shining movie. Because what we really see are two different versions. Kubrick thought topiary animals might be too goofy and cute, but he always liked the idea of a maze." A visual medium requires visual methods. There were many controversies regarding the adaptation taking its own course halfway down the line, and is still lambasted by King and many bookworms. So how can you break put from the pack and get your idea onto the small screen? Perhaps the most analyzed part of The Shining is the ending; the final shot in the Stephen King movie adaptation is a 1921 photograph showing Jack with other guests in the hotels ballroom. You dont know Jack and neither do I. Dwarfed by the towering presence of the building, however, Jack soon becomes engulfed by an evil, violent presence, influencing his temper toward his wife and psychic son. Wendy and Danny lock themselves in the bathroom, and Wendy sends Danny through the window. At the time, the film made modest profits and was met with lukewarm reviews ("Even the film's most startling images seem overbearing and perhaps even irrelevant," shrugged . Wendy too looks in the mirror, and overlap the two scenes and you find Jack holding Danny while the mirror shows the filthiness of his atrocities. The particular scene from Summer of 42 that we see on the lobby television shows the older woman telling the young man to sit down while she makes lunch for him. Kubrick replaced the hedge animals in the book with a hedge maze, which like the movie offers endless possibilities but barely any solution. Others believe its the blood of all the lives claimed by the forces of the hotel, which might be the most convincing explanation. For example, during the scene where Danny is speaking to his psychiatrist, he is laying on stuffed bears. Traces of his films can even be seen decades after their release; Interstellar and The Tree of Life (2001 : A Space Odyssey), Trainspotting (A Clockwork Orange), almost every heist movie pays tribute to The Killing, Alice in Wonderland (The Shining) or House of Cards (Eyes Wide Shut). At the hedge maze, Danny manages to escape by laying a false trail to mislead Jack. Wendy distraught over Dannys deteriorating state goes looking for Jack and finds hundreds of pages by his typewriter, all of them clustered with the sentence All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. The Shining. Inside, a man in a bear suit is performing fellatio on one of the Overlook's guests. Who are these people? Its eyes are similar in design to the floor dials of the gaping mouth elevator, which weve already identified as symbolic eyes, and the teddys mouth is bright red, which again is similar to the gaping mouth doors of the elevator. The bear symbolizes homosexuality and sexual abuse. {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}Your submission failed. He also echoes back the same words the Grady twins say, forever and ever and ever. Both of them secretly despise their wives. Were here to help. Tonally, I didnt know if the film would survive that kind of speed bump," Flanagan admitted. Theres also a poster of bears right above Dannys bed with the smaller bear on its knees. Vitali became a close career-long collaborator of Kubricks and on the set of The Shining he was assigned to work closely with the young actor Danny Lloyd (there are several parallels in The Shining between actors first names and the first names of characters two Jacks, two Dannys and two Lloyds). Lets compare the two characters in more detail. The three remain close, and Hallorann comforts Danny over the loss of his father and teaches him to fish. A shift from dog to bear costume doesnt have any significant effect on the aesthetic scariness of the scene so there must have been some sort of logic at work in Kubricks decision. Unlike the film, Hallorann in the book doesnt die and helps Wendy and Danny escape. On the subject of wedding rings, a consistent detail is that none of the males in the film wear one. it is impossible not to mention the documentary Room 237. Meanwhile, Wendy runs through the hotel looking for her son. Here's The Shining bear scene explained. This appearance doesn't clear up the question about why Jack is seen in the 1921 photo at the Overlook, but it does suggest that the theory about his soul being somehow absorbed by the haunted hotel is actually true. Notice how we are shown a freaked out Jack through the mirror (reality) calling Danny to come to him. Watch my new Shining analysis video \"Danny's ordeal and the bear costumed man\" here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW2GrG7Zk0UMy written Shining analysis articles and videos are at: http://www.collativelearning.com/FILMS%20reviews%20BY%20ROB%20AGER.htmlRob Ager's analysis of The Shining was plagiarized in a video posted on the Screen Prism channel and credited to Jeff Saporito. Why does Tony stay in Dannys mouth? For a detailed description of this subplot follow this link. The truth is, Stanley Kubricks The Shining could in no way be called a faithful adaptation of the source material. Kubrick was renowned for not allowing visitors during a shoot, but in the documentary we see James Mason and his family visiting the Torrance apartment set. However, there are two different levels to this theory, and one is far more apparent than the other. The Overlooks cook, Dick Hallorann, arrives to help Wendy and Danny after the latter reaches out to him through the shining, but is ambushed and killed by Jack. We see a disoriented Danny walking towards them and spot bruises on his neck, with Wendy putting the blame on Jack, eventually reminding him of his earlier physical assault on Danny. Surprisingly, Jack expresses nothing but anticipation towards the role of the caretaker. Subscribe for more filmmaking videos like this. That scene towards the end of The Shining where Wendy (Shelley Duvall) is navigating the hallways and sees a man receiving a bj from a person in a creepy bear suit. Well, a 102 minutes long documentary titled Room 237 was made focusing only on explaining the events that take place in the movie incorporating multiple perspectives, and yet I think it couldnt come to a totally justified conclusion. The layout of the hotel seeming to fluctuate throughout the film is also used as evidence toward this interpretation. In Kubricks version Tony is never shown and communicates with Danny through an involuntary movement of Dannysindex finger, since Kubrick never intended on giving a ghostly theme to the movie. Contrary to the novel, Danny is not super intelligent and watches The Roadrunner Show (foreshadowing). Danny's experience in Room 237 occurs when a ball rolls into the room, and Wendy then comes to his rescue after she hears him screaming punctuated with the claim that a "crazy woman" strangled him. At one point in the movie, there is an unexplained scene of a man in a bear suit performing a sexual act on another man. Therefore, it makes sense why Doctor Sleep didn't include The Shining bear man. Kubrick didnt just show us random footage from the set. One of the most chilling details about both the novel and film versions of The Shining is that the Overlook Hotel is based on a real (possibly haunted) location that Stephen King once visited. Please contact the developer of this form processor to improve this message. First few seconds and we are already given a taste of the mise en scne. Coming back to The Overlook, Jack then starts hacking through the main door of their quarters with an axe, while Wendy and Danny run into the bathroom. Even when looked at more literally, The Shining's meaning is still up for debate, as some fans disagree on whether the ghosts in The Shining are even real. All the aforementioned signs, and many more, point to the likelihood that Jack sexually abused Danny, making sense of the childs fragile mental state where he frequently has terrifying visions about the vast hotel. Of course, the ghost of Grady freeing Jack from the freezer remains hard to explain away, although that doesn't stop some from trying. the scene really doesnt make sense in the movie and i've never read the book so idk if its explained there. But it is clear that there is no Jack Torrance left, his insanity has reached its zenith. Netflix. In his theory, he states that, inside the room, Jack is face-to-face with the truth of what he's been doing to Danny after having been in a dissociative state, previously unaware of his own horrific actions. Yes! Here's the end of The Shining explained. The first thing to note is that in the film the guy is dressed in a bear costume instead of a dog costume. Rumor has it Kubrick himself typed those words. The Overlooks construction in the early 1900s and the photograph of Jack in the 1920s both pose interesting clues. Because the movie's Overlook Hotel was built on an Indian burial ground, the blood coming out from the elevator has been interpreted as that of the Indians buried there. Danny on the other hand after the physical trauma goes into a semi-conscious state, Tony taking hold of the reigns and keeps on repeating the word redrum in a very mechanical trance. Add to that the fact that he reads Playgirl magazine. Move forward, we see Wendy talking to the radio operator about the failed telephone connectivity because of the snow storm. This makes the scene even more baffling and the unknown even more frightening. And what is the meaning? In the kitchen, Halloran takes Wendy and Danny through a twisting-turning path and then opens the freezer room, shot cuts, and we see him opening the door on the wrong side contradicting the previous shot. Interestingly, in the 1997 Shining miniseries, which King himself wrote, there's a brief epilogue in which a graduating Danny is visited by the ghost of Jack, beaming with pride, suggesting that Jack's spirit was fully freed when the Overlook blew up. He chose each clip for thematic reasons. The Shining is a film about cyclical violence, and about how we can't escape the dark specter of history. Theres no doubt regarding his undisputed title of the greatest film maker in the history of cinema, and though people may point out Tarkovsky or Kurosawa or Bergman, none of them has influenced the art to such an extent. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment [deleted] One of the most memorable scenes from The Shining is the blood coming out from the elevator. Elsewhere in the documentary there is an emphasis on sexual behaviour from Jack. Based on the book of the same name by Stephen King, The Shining follows Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic who takes a job as the off-season caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. Decoding this puzzling moment, superfans of The Shining have long pointed to the relevance of bears throughout the film, with several references being made throughout the movie that each build to one likely explanation. Danny escapes the maze and reunites with Wendy, and they escape in Hallorans snowcat. The following video is based upon chapters 16 & 17 of this analysis, though both the video and article equivalents For more information, please see our Notice how we are shown a symmetrical window centered shot, this is because the placement of the window is impossible. In the scene, Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) is roaming through the halls of The Overlook Hotel with a knife when she approaches a door at the end of. All Rights Reserved. The main headlines of the 1978 issue involve two key sections, reading as follows: Incest: Why parents sleep with their children, and, How to avoid a dead end affair. Here's The Shining bear scene explained. Learn More{{/message}}. Connecting the dots, The Shining bear man and his partner could be stand-ins for Danny and Jack. The bear man appears to be giving felatio to the man on the bed, just as the dog man in the book was carrying out a sexual submission role with his partner. With a booming siren in the background conveying the initiation of an emergency, we are in the yellow car and we come to know Danny watched something about cannibalism on T.V, and earlier Jack mentions his wife being a horror addict and shes also seen smoking with quivering fingers. There is also Jack and Danny's conversation in the apartment suite with Danny on Jack's lap. There seems to be many hints in the film that Wendy is aware of her sons abuse and is covering up and denying the issue. The visual imagery along with the symbolism, sound and production design, character mannerisms or dialogues have their own story to telland every single one of them could take you down through a different path, like a maze except theres no area of convergence. This fan theory posits that Danny is Theseus and Jack is the minotaur in Kubricks extended metaphor. Copyright 2023 Metaflix Media LLC. Jack is left in the snow and freezes to death, and its implied that the Overlook Hotel continued with its cycle of murder by bringing in more reincarnations of past workers. Look carefully at this teddy pillow. There are also various historical parallels that support the theory that Kubrick wanted to express subtle themes surrounding the genocide of Native Americans. She also finds Hallorans body, while an injured and weak Jack is chasing Danny through the maze. Kubrick deliberately left many things unexplained, including many details from the third act he did, however, explain why Jack Torrance appears in The Shining picture at the end. Along with a painting on the wall of the Overlook that could be interpreted as the head of a bull atop the body of a man, though not in a literal sense. He also extended the closing date of the hotel to October 30, to welcome the series of Halloween events. Further evidence includes the cases of Tang in the Overlooks pantry and the otherwise innocuous change from Room 217 in the novel to Room 237 in the film. We are given a tour of The Overlook, and in these long takes Kubrick covers every detail and clue that is crucial to the story, a prime example of his unparalleled intelligence, something that left me shell-shocked on a second watch. Breaking the cycle. Kubrick was responsible for such awkward structuring, mainly because he wanted to instill horror through ambience. Diane Johnson said this of Stanley Kubrick's non-horror vision: "The ending was changed almost entirely because Kubrick found it a clich to just blow everything up. Directly above Dannys bed is a framed picture of two bears, one standing and one sitting. The shot of the bathroom door with Danny bending is very similar to the shot of the room with the bear man performing fellatio on an unknown man in a posture similar to Dannys. The novel decided to show all the images at the beginning, while Kubrick decided to use the conventional step by step process to create suspense. At The Overlook Hotel, there is a picture of two bears above Danny's bed, and there's a prominently featured bear skin rug in the lobby. There are emotional passages and images and spaces in his films that have an inexplicable power, with a magnetic force that draws you in slowly, mysteriously: the boys rides on his Big Wheel through the endless corridors of the hotel in The Shining; the monumental silence of outer space in 2001: A Space Odyssey; the inhuman pace of the first half of Full Metal Jacket, building up to its logical, murderous conclusion; the grandeur of the war room in Dr. Stanley Kubrick's iconic Stephen King adaptation is intentionally dense and even nonsensical at times. This scene is during the most climatic part of the movie. While Danny's barbs do eventually seem to wake up part of Jack's consciousness from inside his Lloyd identity, whatever good he had left in him was clearly erased once Jack was fully taken over. King famously hated the adaptation in Kubricks film because it was such a far cry from his original story. He thought there might be something else that would be metaphorically and visually more interesting. In particular, we see Jack Nicholson and James Mason having a personal chat, while the rest of Masons family meet Kubrick himself. Most recently, Pennywise was portrayed byBill Skarsgardin Demons, ghosts, and serial killers all make for frightening movie subjects. While he may be one of the weirdest Overlook Hotel ghosts in the movie, Mike Flanagan decided to keep all the ghosts that would've stuck with Danny the most, and that wasn't the bear man. While some fans felt this missed an opportunity to add some meaning to The Shining bear suit, Flanagan felt trying to give the bear from The Shining a backstory would disrupt the rest of the movie. Jack takes his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and their son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), with him, but little do they know, the Overlook has some dark secrets of its own. The hallucination ends when an hysteric Wendy comes running in and informs Jack about a woman in Room 237 who tried to strangle Danny. Few films inspire as many diverse fan theories and interpretations as Stanley Kubricks The Shining. Wednesday, and Danny finds the Room 237 ajar and we see him walking towards it because a red ball rolls upto him out of nowhere from that direction. The Shining bear suit scene is one of the most confusing and mysterious in the movie. Supporting this theory are the way Danny/Theseus overcomes Jack/the minotaur which parallel each other to a certain degree but not explicitly. In an interview (via Huffington Post), Doctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan discussed why he didn't include this particular character, and his reasoning makes sense. A flustered Jack heads to the empty Gold Room, where he starts talking to the bartender Lloyd and opts to drink. It's no secret that Kubrick's take on The Shining deviated largely from Stephen King's novel in fact, Stephen King hates The Shining, somewhat notoriously but film scholar Rob Ager delved deep into what Kubrick may have been implying with The Shining bear man, that the novelization didn't clear up. The scene dissolves and we can feel the frustration dripping out of Jack, which is brilliantly conveyed through the thumping rebounds of the tennis ball. In the book, the man dressed in a suit is actually Horace Derwent, the mysterious owner of the Overlook Hotel, and the man in the costume (which is a dog in the book) is Roger, a one-time lover of his. Interesting. Coming to Room 237 again, it was Jack who physically assaulted Danny and not the old lady, who serves as a metaphor for the disgusting act carried out by Jack on Danny, and this is exactly why it is shown through a mirror. The easiest one to notice is in the scene of Danny talking to the psychiatrist. Learn More{{/message}}, {{#message}}{{{message}}}{{/message}}{{^message}}It appears your submission was successful. Related: IT Chapter Two's Shining Reference Hints At Stephen King's Shared Universe. This gives you an inkling of the absurd lengths Kubrick will go to make a tiny subliminal detail that will go unnoticed by almost everyone watching the picture. It. Your email address will not be published. The scene with the man in the dog costume and the man in a tuxedo is the one used to support this theory, which says the dog represents young Danny Torrance (who earlier in the film is shown to have a plush toy) and the man in the tuxedo represents Jack. Her relationship with Jack seems to be totally lacking in intimacy. Introducing aspiring bodypainterCharrar.basPennywise the Dancing Clownfrom Stephen Kings It, the hit book, television adaptation, and film adaptation. The video was called The Shining Who is the man in the bear costume. The Overlook is built on the sacred lands of Native Americans . The aforementioned Room 237 doc covers this theory and the following video digs even deeper into this Native American genocide interpretation. Coming to Grady, who I think like Lloyd was a fragment of representation of the hotel that would explain his statement I have always been here and look how throughout the scene Jack looks right in the direction of the mirror, almost like envisioning himself. Yes, one involves the furries. With a narrative that's as puzzling and confusing as the hedge maze found in the terrifying climax, The Shining has led fans to rack their head for it's various meanings for the past 40 years. Jack gets annoyed by Wendy coming in while he was working and tries hard not to completely lose it. Related: The Shining Has An Alternate Ending You Will NEVER See. Although King didnt oppose to that at the time, he wasnt expecting Kubrick to go as far as to change the essence of the book. I dont go for number interpretations generally, but here Ill make an exception. and our When Jack walks from the reception to the room, the camera travels in a perpendicular fashion highlighting the angle of the room and the apparent absence of a wall behind Ullmans room. We see this relationship between Vitali and Danny when shooting the scene of Danny looking for a hiding space. But there was always one particular scene in the movie that left me with an unsettling feeling: the bear man scene. Sam Kench is an internationally-awarded screenwriter, independent filmmaker, and film critic. On the way he passes by a red VW crushed by a truck, a sweet tongue in cheek dig at the source material. Its rumbling overcome by Jacks maddening bellows, who eventually freezes to death. Is The Shining a film that can be definitively explained? Parallely, Halloran borrows a snowcat to get to the Overlook in time. Danny goes back to his room to get his firetruck and sees a grim looking Jack, his face shown through the mirror again. It's considered one of his best novels to date and one that has gone through all types of analysis thanks to the various themes it addresses, such as family, addiction, isolation, and mental health. The server responded with {{status_text}} (code {{status_code}}). Wendy calls a doctor who checks Danny and asks about some sort of trauma Danny may have suffered that may have caused him to make up his imaginary friend. Without wasting more time, lets revisit The Shining by quoting Kubrick. Its now even more clear why Kubrick chose such a sombre piece of music for the fatherly love scene. 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