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Post by erik on Oct 31, 2018 12:38:13 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 2, 2018 20:48:28 GMT -5
The Shining stands above MOST horror and suspense movies. It was a popular request in the residence halls on weekend movie nights. I wonder if there are scenes that were edited out? |
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Post by erik on Nov 2, 2018 21:33:30 GMT -5
There were a number of scenes that were excised by Kubrick, including an epilogue that has Wendy and Danny being visited in a hospital in Sidewinder (25 miles down the road from the Overlook) after their nightmare by Stuart Ullman (Barry Nelson), and others that Kubrick thought a bit superfluous in the end. He also realized that he had created a very lengthy horror movie at a length of two hours and 25 minutes, not to mention an extremely unconventional one at that.
But beyond all that, there are several scenes in that film, the blood spilling like a tsunami out of the elevator being one of them, that are genuinely disturbing and which leave an imprint on the mind years, even decades later: Danny encountering the two dead girls in the narrow hallway; Jack's visitation to Room 237, where he sees the woman; Wendy discovering her husband's "manuscript" ("All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"). And indeed, the whole film, from the very point that we first see the three of them alone in the Overlook to the nightmarish end, there is a distinct sense of things happening outside of the eye's range throughout the corridors of that hotel. You always feel like there's something there that is unnerving but you are not sure of what it really is. That to me makes THE SHINING such an absolute masterpiece of the horror genre.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 3, 2018 7:04:19 GMT -5
What does its title THE SHINING mean?
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Post by erik on Nov 3, 2018 11:15:51 GMT -5
I believe it is the ability of those who have it to be able to see things both in the past and perhaps things that have yet to happen--to illuminate or to "shine" (Scatman Crothers' character Halloran explains it to Danny in the scene in the kitchen when they're having ice cream). "Shining", in this context, would be a slang term for what we would call Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP).
Of course, for Danny, it doesn't exactly help his state of mind when he and his family find themselves in a hotel where certain "bad things" happened in the past, and which still linger long enough for him to sense them.
As Crothers says: "I Think a lot of things have happened in this particular hotel over the years, and not all of 'em was good."
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