The Shining (Kubrick)

[pokerfan]

As a King fan I have a love/hate relationship with this film.

Yet, watching tonight on A&E, even though it's edited for cable, it still blows me away. Some of the camera angles make me gasp with astonishment and the musical score is awesome. Them miniseries was closer to the novel, but Kubrick's interpretation is still the best, IMO.

Nicholson and Kubrick at their best.

Your thoughts?

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"Wendy, I'm home."

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

1. One of my favorites --- a quite interesting fact

(TV edited stuff aside) there are two versions of this movie - US & European. Kubrick, apparently, preferred the European even though it loses almost 30 minutes of footage. A list of what is cut can be found here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/alternateversions

Kubrick also re-edited the film a week after it was released, cutting out what was to be the ending:

"The party photos shot (now the last shot in the film) dissolves to a scene in a hospital, where Wendy is resting in a bed and Danny is playing in a waiting room. Ullman tells her that they have been unable to locate her husband's body anywhere on the property. On his way out, Ullman gives Danny a ball - the same one that mysteriously rolled into a hallway earlier in the film, before Danny was attacked in room 237. Ullman laughs and walks away while Danny "shines" the Overlook Hotel."

[CatWoman]

2. *shhhhhhhhh* ya want to be sued?

[DS1]

3. BWAHAHAH

You fucking rock!

[ulysses]

5. The Shinning!

:D

[ghostsofgiants]

4. I love that film...

I've never read the book, and I'm not a huge Stephen King fan, though.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

6. Don't forget the "remake"

The trailer for "Shining" as if Cameron Crowe had made it: www.ps260.com/molly/SHINING%20FINAL.mov

(It's been posted before, but it's still funny)

[jayctravis]

10. Don't forget the 30 second bunnies version:

THE SHINING, in 30 seconds...with bunnies.

[leeroysphitz]

11. My god that's a RIOT! n/t

[Taxloss]

7. Great, great film.

I once watched it with Mrs T at a slightly seedy hotel in Cornwall, out of season. It was the first time she had seen it. She was freaked. It brown-trousered me when I first saw it, but I was only 14 or 15.

[XemaSab]

8. Danny riding his big wheels

through the hallways.... awesome, awesome scenes.... simple, yet totally suspenseful.

[jayctravis]

9. Kubrick's interpretation was very different...

from the novel. The book and that movie are both scary in separate and similar ways. The only "actual" manifestation of real supernatural activity in the movie (other than Danny summoning Halloran with his shining powers) is the fact that the pantry door is unlocked for Jack. In the book there is a creepy scene with the elevator which travels to different floors on its own -- Wendy shuts it down between floors, climbs inside and hurls out confetti and a party mask that has appeared to convince her husband that something is going on.

Oh...and the book includes the series of intense sequences of Danny's fear of a fire hose. I don't know if that's ever been filmed or if it would be work anywhere but in prose form.

Kubrick skipped the long disturbing sequence of a weakened and stabbed Jack beating Wendy with the roque mallet and their long slow deliberate stumbling low-speed chase through the hotel - instead he gives him a fire axe and her a knife and a baseball bat. In the book Wendy loses the knife (I think Jack has it in his back but won't go down) and in the infamous door-bashing sequence (Danny's off on his own in the book and not involved) she only keeps him at bay by using a disposable razor blade to slash his hand whenever he reaches through to unlock the door.

One scene that stands out in my head from the book also is when they are on the hotel tour at the beginning, Danny glances aside and sees a picture of a man's screaming face painted on a wall in what can only be blood with flecks of brain material. Danny describes this much later in detail to his mother, which is probably the most disturbing thing possible to her at that point in the story.