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Post by the Scribe on Oct 7, 2016 14:46:53 GMT -5
HALLOWEEN is said to be America's FAVORITE day. I was going to say holiday but technically it isn't really a holiday.
Samhain/Calan Gaeaf marked the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or the 'darker half' of the year. Like Beltane/Calan Mai, it was seen as a liminal time, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld thinned. This meant the Aos Sí (pronounced ees shee), the 'spirits' or 'fairies', could more easily come into our world and were particularly active.
Probably the ultimate Halloween video:
Probably the ultimate Halloween album:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZZhp6nlQLKij-GwaIung6-VVoQDAvzED
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Post by erik on Oct 7, 2016 17:46:08 GMT -5
And then there's this disturbing scene from THE SHINING:
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 7, 2016 18:33:00 GMT -5
And don't forget the bathroom scene. I was only able to watch this movie twice. The movie was banned (I think) for a while and I rented it out to show it in the dorm for movie night but after that I was not able to watch it again. I don't remember half of these scenes but I do remember the kid on the bike scene. I can almost see Donald Trump in the Nicholson part.
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Post by erik on Oct 30, 2016 13:35:51 GMT -5
There's something to be said for THE SHINING, because it is probably the most enigmatic and least conventional horror movie ever made.
Re. the man in the beat costume: It likely has to do with the costume party that Jack walks into when he enters the Gold Room for a second time--a party that, incidentally takes place on July 4, 1921. And I don't know if it's appropriate to say this, but the man in the bear costume is actually, how shall we say, f***ing the man in the conventional suit.
I'd also point out that, when Jack lays down a five-spot on the bar in that second Gold Room scene, Lloyd tells him: "No charge to you, Mr. Torrance. Your money is no good here." He's using money that, at this particular party, doesn't exist yet.
It's really important, and even essential, to see this film (and others of Stanley Kubrick's, by the way) multiple times to really get it; but given what his colleagues in the film community, Steven Spielberg among them, have said about him, there's no other experience quite like it.
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Post by the Scribe on Nov 4, 2016 4:25:21 GMT -5
You are exactly right Erik as I don't even recall some of those scenes probably because at the time I didn't understand what was happening and was already on "edge."
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Post by erik on Nov 4, 2016 10:05:44 GMT -5
Quote by ronstadtfanaz:
Yes, Kubrick never makes things easy for the viewer, and this is true for virtually every film he ever made. THE SHINING, especially, stands out in this regard because of its genre, the way Kubrick constructed it, and the fact that it defies almost every perception of what a typical horror film should be.
One of the things that makes it so atypical of the horror genre is the fact that the Overlook Hotel set is brightly lit; there aren't that many shadows in the film. And yet you have the sense of something strange about it from the beginning, the all-encompassing nature of the hotel that is both immense and claustrophobic at the same time (especially once winter sets in, and things begin happening), and the perception that there are things that you sense but cannot see with your own eyes. Really, once you get beyond Nicholson's jarring performance, that's the whole attraction of THE SHINING; you are really not sure of anything, which not only builds a certain amount of suspense, but also makes it almost impossible to get out of your head once you've seen the film several times. I don't think I can say that of too many other horror films.
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