Tasha: The thing that most establishes that sense of dread for me is the way Kubrick uses Danny’s psychic abilities to put him in the middle of everything terrible that happens, even if he isn’t physically present, or it hasn’t happened yet. Now, it seems Wilson is a regular in room 217. Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter, Register to vote and apply for an absentee ballot today. According to people in this documentary, The Shining is, despite appearances, actually a movie about American imperialism and the genocide of Native Americans. Originally Answered: In the Shining, were there real ghosts, or was Jack simply going insane? The ghost is Delbert Grady, and the past caretaker was Charles Grady. Tasha: 1) No, I don’t. One of the most discussed shots in the film comes at the very end, after Jack has frozen to death and Wendy and Danny have escaped, when the camera slowly zooms in on a photograph from a July 4 party from 1921, which clearly shows Jack among the revelers in the ballroom. If the idea of The Shining is that the Overlook calls out to past inhabitants to test their moral mettle, we likewise have the decision between listening to our better angels, or, like Jack, giving license to our baser instincts. As King's criticism rightly points out, Kubrick's Jack is crazy and violent from the beginning. Specifically, staff says he’s often spotted in the hotel’s billiard room and bar. The number 217 refers to the infamous room from the Overlook Hotel in King's The Shining, where the most gruesome hauntings took place. Copyright 2019 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Instead, the shirt is meant to reference how the landing was one of the most-widely viewed broadcasts ever. King’s primary objections over the years have been that Kubrick’s versions of his characters are misguided. Additionally, unlike Stephen King's source novel, Kubrick's Shining tends to leave things more vague. We were combing through all the internet blueprints, Kubrick’s blueprints. The Shining has had so many theories written about what it "really" means that an entire documentary film, entitled Room 237, was released solely for the purpose of examining it. Dick Hallorann, now a benevolent spirit, explains that the hotel's ghosts feed on Danny's psychic ability, his "shining". What is it about the movie that causes it to linger so powerfully in the public consciousness? Part of HuffPost Entertainment. The way Danny’s silent-screaming terror-face pops up onscreen, edited into the middle of Dick Hallorann’s annoyingly senseless death, changes the sequence from another generic-shock ax-murder in a slasher movie into a primal horror seen from the point of view of a small child experiencing something so extreme and overwhelming, he can barely express a response. They’re plausible. The one place I would actually say King might have a point is regarding The Shining movie’s depiction of Jack’s descent into madness. It is your right and your responsibility. We had all of his design elements. But really, that’s just the most conspicuous of the odd narrative strategies Kubrick employs here. I think that’s why these theories have such legs. RELATED: The Haunting of Bly Manor's Heartbreaking Finale, Explained. While it seems at the end that Wendy and Danny have escaped Jack (and metaphorically the cycle of abuse), the track record at the Overlook seems to indicate that the lure of evil is hard to resist. The idea of reincarnation is not isolated to Jack. He also loves both Marvel and DC movies, and wishes every superhero fan could just get along. It was a physical feature that was there and he just absorbed it into his design. I love Room 237, both as a film experience and as proof that the artist can’t control how people take in the art, but it does make me feel like I’m taking crazy pills, or possibly just watching movies wrong. Scott: Many consider The Shining among the scariest movies ever made, myself included, but it’s also among the most mysterious and original in its effects, which are so unusual for horror that it seems at times like director Stanley Kubrick is making a joke at the genre’s expense. What will set my abuser off? 3) No, they don’t. If, for example, there are no ghosts in The Haunting, it becomes a story of a woman experiencing a mental breakdown after trying and failing to find her place in the world. On the other hand, that’s probably exactly what I would say even if I had, so it’s tough to say for sure. Somewhat ironically, the novel version of The Shining gives even more focus to the idea of the cycle of violent abuse by giving the story of Jack's father, himself a belligerent drunk who abused Jack. 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That said, there maybe weren't any ghosts in the Overlook Hotel. The book and film are different animals indeed, and King’s problem is that he’s unwilling to accept Kubrick doing what filmmakers should do: taking what they need to support their own interpretation and vision, and discarding the rest.

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