So Why The Hell Was Nicholson In The Hotel Picture In 1921?- Page 3

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 11:54am

Yes, that REALLY is interesting but that answers no questions. If anything it poses an absolutely new batch of them.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:02pm

Yeah, that blogger's whole theory is that the picture is quite obviously a "fake" in the movie. It's meant to deceive and be flagged as a falsehood ... all linking back to Hallorann's dialogue about "shining" just being fake and all "pictures in a book."

I'm not buying that. At this point, Jack is dead, so who is "faking" this photo, and in who's mind? It's not Jack's.

Danny's? He's left the hotel with his mother. The theory just doesn't hold up.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:05pm

I'd say it is possible that the Overlook "faked" the photo, adding Jack to its collection of lost souls. Just like the Overlook puts a piece of paper in Jack's typewriter at one point.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:13pm

Ooh, does it? I missed that.

I want to go home and watch "The Shining" right now. With all you guys!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:14pm

Did the Overlook also make Paul Ryan forget he asked for stimulus money?

[Roscoe]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:17pm

Reg -- yes it does. There's that scene that begins with Jack typing, and the Bartok is on the soundtrack, and Wendy approaches him to tell him about the weather, and the music reaches a climax with a clash of cymbals as Jack rips the paper out of the typewriter. There's that ugly little scene where he really brutally tells her not to bother him when he's working ("Why don't you start now and get the f*ck out of here?"). As she leaves, Jack starts typing on a piece of paper that seems to have materialized out of nowhere.

Very scary Boys And Girls!!!

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:20pm

That scene

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:21pm

I think I know what I'm watching tonight.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:21pm

FOX News?

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:27pm

I went to watch a clip on Youtube, and it was preceded by a commercial featuring the Jenner girls. The twins are back!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:30pm

So do we think that thing with the paper is hotel spookiness or a continuity glitch?

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:31pm

I vote glitch.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:32pm

Only with a Kubrick movie will there ever be a heated debate over that. lol

[Roscoe]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:34pm

I vote deliberate. It works too well to be accidental.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:35pm

Coincidentally, I started rereading "The Shining" just yesterday. I read it as a teenager--honestly can't remember if it was before or after the film--but I'm finding I don't remember anything of the novel. The film has so firmly lodged itself in my brain.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:39pm

Someone brings up an interesting point on Youtube about this scene. You never see Grady let Jack out of the pantry. You never even see the door open. You just hear the locks.

And someone commented that Jack could have let himself out.
The scene

[silversurfer2]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:47pm

I have scratched my head over this eversince I first saw this AWFUL version,} I could give you numerous reasons why I dislike this film} IMO of King's Classic novel. It makes no sense.
But more importantly JORDAN, who the Hell is "THAT" in your Avatar?

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:54pm

Another highly (maybe overly) analytical website
I wish I had this much free time

[Roscoe]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 12:57pm

There was even a film made about these SHINING fanatics, I seem to remember...

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 1:24pm

http://badassdigest.com/2012/01/25/sundance-review-room-237-a-documentary-about-the-shining/

[wexy]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 2:49pm

The floor below mine in my office builing reminds me of the The Shining" the hall is so loooooong, I expected 'redrum' things to happen every time I go down to personel.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 3:04pm

FOX News?

No way! I know my limits when it comes to horror.

I'll stick to "The Shining." Far less disturbing and frightening.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 3:08pm

Yenmor! Yenmor! YENMOR!

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 3:14pm

Because destiny inexorably drives us back to where and to what we have always been meant to be.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 8/17/12 at 3:15pm

So we beat on, boats borne ceaselessly into the hedge maze...