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Shining e l'Olocausto: Un'analisi delle interpretazioni e dei potenziali significati nascosti
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Shelley Duvall è l'unica ad aver interpretato un membro della famiglia Torrance il cui nome non è [...]
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Differenze tra romanzo, film, e miniserie
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The color red is visible, either overtly or subtly, in nearly every shot of the film. This is presum [...]
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Wendy Torrance says "like a ghost ship" when the manager Ullman tells her how deserted the Overlook [...]
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The miniseries and the novel goes into more detail about Jack Torrance's relationship with his fathe [...]
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To achieve the smoothness of the opening shots, cameraman Greg MacGillivray secured a wide angle Arr [...]
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Despite receiving generally unfavorable reviews upon its initial release, the film is now regarded a [...]
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Shelley Duvall suffered from several anxiety attacks and near mental collapse during the 56 weeks of [...]
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Shelley Duvall is the only actor or actress who played a member of the Torrance family whose charact [...]
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Stanley Kubrick also made casting decisions for dubbing actors in other countries. In Spain, actor a [...]
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Chevy Chase, Martin Sheen, Leslie Nielsen, and Christopher Reeve were considered for the role of Jac [...]
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The scrapbook that Jack finds in the novel makes a brief appearance next to his typewriter when Jack [...]
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Shelley Duvall has said that the incredible stress of filming under the direction of perfectionist S [...]
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Danny Torrance's imaginary friend, Tony, isn't given much of an explanation in the 1980 film, howeve [...]
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In the novel, Dick Hallorann's grandmother (and her great-grandmother) also had the Shining, and the [...]
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Vivian Kubrick: In the party scene. She wore a black dress and sat on the right side of the sofa clo [...]
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The book was written inside the Stanley Hotel. Stephen King stayed in the room that Danny is told no [...]
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Anjelica Huston lived with Jack Nicholson during the time of the shooting. She recalled that, due to [...]
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The hedge maze is original to the film. Though in 2015 the Stanley Hotel, the inspiration for Stephe [...]
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Jack Nicholson went to play the Joker in Batman (1989). Batman & Robin (1997) featured his cast mate [...]
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Longtime Denver-area television newscaster Bertha Lynn appeared in this movie, and the 1997 miniseri [...]
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Stanley Kubrick's first choice to play Danny Torrance was Cary Guffey, the young boy from Incontri r [...]
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This film is well known by fans for being one of the scariest and simultaneously greatest horror fil [...]
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The maze scenes took a month to film.
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The maze was constructed on an airfield near Elstree Studios, by weaving branches to chicken wire mo [...]
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For the scene in which Jack breaks down the bathroom door, the props department built a door that co [...]
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Approximately 4,000 people auditioned for the role of Danny Torrance over a six-month period. The in [...]
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As Hallorann's flight arrives in Denver just after eight a.m., this means that his flight from Miami [...]
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This film is one of the only adaptations of Stephen King's novels that King himself always remembere [...]
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The movie Doctor Sleep (2019) clarifies that Norman Gay's character, the "injured guest" is none oth [...]
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In the novel, the Overlook Hotel burned to the ground because of the boiler that Jack Torrance negle [...]
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The scene towards the end of the film, where Wendy is running up the stairway carrying a knife, was [...]
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The back-and-forth camera movement where Jack is breaking through the bathroom door mimicks the pan- [...]
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Most of the elaborate urban legends and conspiracy theories surrounding this film (ranging from it s [...]
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Early in the film, Danny leaves a doll lying around in the lobby of the hotel. It is black, and wear [...]
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Stanley Kubrick: [Bathrooms] Jack speaks to the ghost of Delbert Grady in the men's room. Later, Jac [...]
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Conspiracy theorists point to several symbols in the film as "evidence" that Stanley Kubrick was inv [...]
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Key scenes in this film are rendered in elaborate CG as being a level in the game that is central to [...]
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Many of the iconic scenes in the movie aren't in the book:-"Here's Johnny!"-Dick being killed.-Jack [...]
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Final film of Pauline Chamberlain.
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Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
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Stephen King was quite disappointed in the final film. While admitting that Stanley Kubrick's visual [...]
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Philip Stone recalled of his scene with Jack Nicholson, "We shot it 50 or 60 times, I should think - [...]
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Additional name anomalies: Jack's interview at the beginning is with 2 actors named Barry: Barry Nel [...]
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Although the Grady girls are often referred to as twins by outside sources, they are actually 8 and [...]
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Shelley Duvall appeared in two movies in 1980, this one and Popeye - Braccio di ferro (1980). This o [...]
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The famous line, "Here's Johnny," was originally removed in the Spanish dubbed voice-over, as Johnny [...]
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Stephen King has never understood why people find this movie so scary.
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Danny's Shining is more powerful than Dick's in the novel. Danny can get information about someone j [...]
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In the source novel, Dick Hallorann survives (though Jack attacks him with a roque mallet, not an ax [...]
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The skeletons Wendy sees are those of certain people and extras seen alive in the ballroom scene. In [...]
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When Danny goes to explore Room 237 (Room 217) in the novel, there's also a scary fire hose outside [...]
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Was selected for preservation in the National Film Registy by the Library of Congress in 2018 for be [...]
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When Steadicam inventor and operator Garrett Brown was hired to work on the picture, he was assured [...]
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The "snowy" maze near the conclusion of the movie consisted of nine hundred tons of salt and crushed [...]
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Filmmakers tend to strictly follow what is known as the 180-Degree Rule when filming two characters [...]
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In the British television ad for the film, Jack can be seen tearing through the second door panel, a [...]
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In the New Year's Eve 1921 photograph, there's a man standing a little ways behind Jack Nicholson in [...]
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When Wendy is at Jack's desk in the dark main lobby, it is seen through the balcony that the haunted [...]
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Upon seeing the movie, Stephen King reportedly said "I think he set out to make a film that hurts pe [...]
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During the scene where Wendy brings Jack breakfast in bed, it can be seen in the reflection of the m [...]
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In 2012, it was ranked the 75th greatest film of all time in the Sight & Sound directors' poll.
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Danny is five in the novel, but seven in the 1997 miniseries and this movie.
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There were so many changes to the script during shooting (a scene change was made almost daily) that [...]
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The scene where Jack is chasing Danny through the maze took over a month to shoot. During the shoot, [...]
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The "Making-of" documentary shot by Vivian Kubrick shows that the hedge maze set, while nowhere near [...]
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Lia Beldam, who plays the nude young woman in the bathtub, said in a 2018 interview that she was wor [...]
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The Louisville Slugger baseball bat, with which Wendy Torrance bludgeons Jack, was signed by Carl Ya [...]
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As he lived in England, Stanley Kubrick was not at all familiar with the "Heeeeere's Johnny" line (f [...]
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To get Jack Nicholson in the right agitated mood, he was fed only cheese sandwiches for two weeks, w [...]
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To construct the interiors of the Overlook Hotel, Stanley Kubrick and production designer Roy Walker [...]
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The exterior scenes were filmed at the Timberline Lodge in Oregon where the manager asked the film m [...]
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Wendy Torrance swung the baseball bat forty-one times on film.
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Room 237 (217 in the novel) continues a theme in Stephen King novels of rooms with numbers having si [...]
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Stanley Kubrick originally wanted Slim Pickens to play the part of Hallorann, but Pickens wanted not [...]
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The famous opening scene was shot in Glacier National Park in Montana just north of St. Mary's Lake. [...]
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Jack Nicholson plays a character named Jack, who, in the bar scene drinks Jack Daniels. The characte [...]
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Film debut of Manning Redwood (Forest Ranger 2).
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There was no air conditioning on the sets, meaning it would often become very hot. The hedge maze se [...]
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Stanley Kubrick wanted to shoot the film in script order. This meant having all the relevant sets st [...]
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According to Shelley Duvall, the famous "Here's Johnny!" scene took three days to film and the use o [...]
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Stanley Kubrick had envisioned Shelley Duvall as his more timid, dependent version of Wendy Torrance [...]
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In the German-language version instead of "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," Kubrick used [...]
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As Jack creeps towards Wendy in the baseball bat scene, he is traveling in a counter-clockwise circu [...]
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In the novel and the film, people are still checking out of the Overlook Hotel when the Torrances ar [...]
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Delbert Grady, the waiter and butler from 1921, spills Advocaat (a yellow liqueur) on Jack in the Go [...]
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Jack Nicholson and Scatman Crothers had previously appeared together in Qualcuno volò sul nido de [...]
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During this grueling shoot, the Wimbledon tennis tournament was in full swing in the UK and Jack Nic [...]
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When discussing the original Stephen King book in an interview with critic Michael Ciment, director [...]
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When Danny is eating his sandwich after the first scene of Jack's interview, Wendy is reading The Ca [...]
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The events that take place in Room 237 with the nude woman do not occur in the novel.
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There are relatively few murders onscreen in the Shining; just one, Hallorann; and two if you count [...]
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Scatman Crothers was friends with Jack Nicholson, and when he heard about the role of Dick Hallorann [...]
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Along with "Questa terra è la mia terra (1976)," "Il maratoneta (1976)," and "Rocky (1976)," this [...]
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This movie, after Carrie - Lo sguardo di Satana (1976), is the second theatrical adaptation based of [...]
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The film was released in the United States on Scatman Crothers' seventieth birthday.
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Judging by the size of the stack of the manuscript, Jack has typed approximately four hundred pages [...]
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Neither Lia Beldam (young woman in bath) nor Billie Gibson (old woman in bath) appeared in another m [...]
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In the novel, Wendy is first attacked by Jack with a roque mallet. In the movie, she serves the firs [...]
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According to Vivian Kubrick in her "making of", Stanley Kubrick's secretary spent weeks, if not mont [...]
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Garrett Brown accomplished many of the ultra-low tracking corridor sequences from a wheelchair, on w [...]
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Saul Bass reportedly produced around three hundred versions of the film's poster before Stanley Kubr [...]
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Stephen King tried to talk Stanley Kubrick out of casting Jack Nicholson in the lead, suggesting, in [...]
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This is the second movie in which Jack Nicholson's character is kissing a beautiful woman as she tur [...]
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Jack Black has stated that this movie is his favorite.
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This was the first horror film starring Jack Nicholson since Roger Corman's "La vergine di cera (196 [...]
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For the scenes when Jack can be heard typing, but what he is typing is off-screen, Stanley Kubrick r [...]
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James Mason can be seen visiting the set of Stanley Kubrick's Shining (1980) in Arena: Making 'The S [...]
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The role of Lloyd the Bartender was originally to have been played by Harry Dean Stanton, who was un [...]
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Stanley Kubrick, known for his compulsiveness and numerous retakes, got the difficult shot of blood [...]
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According to Stephen King, the title is inspired by the refrain in the The Plastic Ono Band's song, [...]
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In their 1985 song "Last Time Forever", which was about domestic violence , British pop group Squeez [...]
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In the original screenplay, Jack Torrance was to say "That's all, folks!" rather than "Here's Johnny [...]
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According to Variety Magazine, the film took almost 200 days to shoot. However, according to assista [...]
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Stephen King got the idea for the book while his family were staying at the Stanley Hotel in Estes P [...]
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There is a character named Richard Haloran (slightly different spelling) in the film Terrore alla 13 [...]
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During filming, Stanley Kubrick made the cast watch "Eraserhead - La mente che cancella (1977)," "Ro [...]
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According to 2nd unit cameraman Jeff Blyth, a scene was filmed on the Pacific Coast Highway in which [...]
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John Williams was initially set to provide the score, until Stanley Kubrick decided to go with a sel [...]
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Right when he was offered to make the film, Stanley Kubrick already knew that he wanted to change th [...]
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Following the film's initial mixed reception, "The Shining" was nominated for two Golden Raspberry A [...]
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The exteriors of the Overlook Hotel where shot at Borehamwood Studios outside London.
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In the party scene, Stanley Kubrick told the extras to mouth their words.
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Italian censorship visa # 75969 delivered on 10 December 1980.
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Stanley Kubrick considered Robert De Niro and Robin Williams for the role of Jack Torrance, but deci [...]
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The scene where Wendy is running and sees a room where a man in a bear costume is having sex with th [...]
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On the DVD commentary track for Arena: Making 'The Shining' (1980), Vivian Kubrick reveals that Shel [...]
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Early on, Danny is watching a Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner cartoon on TV. Fans of the cartoon se [...]
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The iconic scene where Jack Torrance goes into Room 237 and finds a naked and attractive woman only [...]
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Stephen King said Stanley Kubrick's version of Wendy Torrance is one of the most misogynistic charac [...]
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A lot more of the most iconic moments in the film, including the elevator full of blood and the line [...]
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Every time Jack talks to a "ghost", there's a mirror in the scene, except in the food locker scene. [...]
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Billie Gibson, the old woman in the tub, is often confused with Ann Gibson, Mel Gibson's late mother [...]
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Outtakes of the shots of the Volkswagen Beetle travelling towards the Overlook Hotel at the start of [...]
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At the time of release, it was the policy of the MPAA to not allow the portrayal of blood in trailer [...]
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In an edition of Radio Times, in his Film of the Week column, Andrew Collins reviewed this movie. An [...]
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The throwing around of the tennis ball inside the Overlook Hotel was Jack Nicholson's idea. The scri [...]
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One of Stanley Kubrick's favorite films was Eraserhead - La mente che cancella (1977), directed by D [...]
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While director Stanley Kubrick was famously very demanding and intimidating on set, to the point of [...]
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In the bar scene where Jack has some bourbon, the dialogue includes: "I like you Lloyd. You wer [...]
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Dick was pushing sixty in the novel, but Scatman Crothers was 69 going on 70.
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David Baxt, the forest ranger that talks to Wendy over the radio was also in Batman (1989) with Jack [...]
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Bill Watson was the caretaker at the Overlook Hotel the rest of the year in the novel. There is a "B [...]
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The movie has achieved the status of classic and is generally considered a horror masterpiece in spi [...]
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Prior to hiring Diane Johnson as his writing partner, Stanley Kubrick rejected a screenplay written [...]
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Shelley Duvall suffered from nervous exhaustion throughout filming, including physical illness and h [...]
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The MPAA did not allow blood to be shown in any trailers that would be seen by all ages. Stanley Kub [...]
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In a recent interview, Stephen King said that although there were bad feelings and a lot of bitterne [...]
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Stanley Kubrick was very unimpressed with Stephen King's writing right after he saw Carrie - Lo sgua [...]
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Steven Spielberg praised the scene in which Wendy finds Jack's "novel" and is confronted by him, as [...]
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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the film, for a television commercial in 2010 for Premier Inn h [...]
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When Jack uses an axe to break through the bathroom door, he shouts "Here's Johnny". This was a refe [...]
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The scene of Hallorann approaching the hotel in the snowcat was shot in real snow approaching the re [...]
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A lot of the incidental music is very similar to that used in 2001: Odissea nello spazio (1968). Spe [...]
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This was voted the ninth scariest film of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
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Jack Nicholson and Stanley Kubrick both worked with several actors and directors on other films conn [...]
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There is a great deal of confusion regarding this film and the number of retakes of certain scenes. [...]
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According to Vivian Kubrick in her commentary on Arena: Making 'The Shining' (1980), Margaret Adams, [...]
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When Hallorann makes the phone call, the set is very dark and with eerie blue overtones. In the back [...]
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Stanley Kubrick had always made many changes to all of his films that were based on books.
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Denver media was used twice in the film. While driving up to Sidewinder in a blinding snowstorm, Dic [...]
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Despite his reported abuse of Shelley Duvall on-set, Stanley Kubrick spoke very highly of her abilit [...]
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The 7 minute scene where Hallorann discusses with Danny when he first arrives at the hotel about the [...]
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Less than a year after The Shining was released, director Boris Sagal was severely injured and later [...]
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The book that Jack was writing contained the one sentence ("All work and no play makes Jack a dull b [...]
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Jack tells Lloyd in the bar that Danny once messed around with his work papers. This mirrors an even [...]
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In the scene where Wendy and Danny are watching TV; they are watching Summer of 42.
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As Jack enters the hotel for the first time and stops at the Reception desk, he walks right in front [...]
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Danny hid the Shining from Jack and Wendy in the book.
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Like a lot of critics, Stephen King included, Pauline Kael marvels at the technological accomplishme [...]
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Blizzards are in both The Shining and Misery, another Stephen King novel. Incidentally, the weapons [...]
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Warner Bros. previously offered Stanley Kubrick the chance to direct L'esorcista (1973). As well, th [...]
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Stanley Kubrick decided that having the hedge animals come alive (as they do in the book) was unwork [...]
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Steven Spielberg visited Elstree Studios to prepare to film I predatori dell'arca perduta (1981), an [...]
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The two Ray Noble and His Orchestra songs used were not actually from the 1920s: "Midnight, the Star [...]
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Danny Torrance puts his hands over his face and then peeks through his fingers when he sees the ghos [...]
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Scatman Crothers plays a character called Turkel in Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo (1975). Act [...]
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Jack Nicholson portrayed Jack Torrance in this movie. Carel Struycken portrays Grampa Flick in Docto [...]
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The kitchen set was actually just a backstage area at Elstree Studios, and Kubrick's personal office [...]
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Subtle foreshadowing: Jack's tie is the hedge maze.
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The snow began to bury the Overlook Hotel in the novel.
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One of the shots in the part where Jack is bouncing a ball against a wall took several days to film. [...]
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Stephen King was disappointed in this film. In an interview in the June 1986 issue of American Film, [...]
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Lloyd the bartender shares an old adage with Jack, "Women - you can't live with them; you can't live [...]
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Since Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall spoke in thick New Jersey and Texas accents respectively, Ku [...]
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Jack Nicholson and Scatman Crothers appeared in Il re dei giardini di Marvin (1972), Due uomini e un [...]
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This film was shot in the same film studio that was used for L'Impero colpisce ancora (1980). In fac [...]
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In the novel, the woman in the bathtub (in room 217) had killed herself because she was abandoned by [...]
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The eerie "music for strings" section of the soundtrack was previously used in two Doctor Who (1963) [...]
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Alcohol consumption was a federal crime between 1919 and 1933. The year Jack appears to have photogr [...]
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According to the time line presented the film (the closing date of the hotel is Oct. 30, according t [...]
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When first released, the film had an alternate ending. After the shot of Jack's body, the film disso [...]
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There are 200 extras in the party scene.
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At the same time that Wendy and Danny walk around the maze, Jack is seen looking at a scale model of [...]
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Danny riding his tricycle down the hallway is a nod to Il presagio (1976).
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Peter Straub says The Shining "is obviously a masterpiece, probably the best supernatural novel in a [...]
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The Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood, Oregon, was used for the front exterior, but all of the interior [...]
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The axe Jack, portrayed by Jack Nicholson, hits Hallorann with in the movie was a prop axe, so Nicho [...]
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Jack Nicholson claimed that the scene where Jack snaps at Wendy for interrupting his writing was the [...]
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Tony Burton, who had a brief role as Larry Durkin the garage owner, arrived on-set one day carrying [...]
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Music would often be played on-set to help Danny Lloyd get into the right spirit for each scene.
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Stanley Kubrick was involved in the casting of the German dubbing of the movie. He chose Jörg Ple [...]
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Stanley Kubrick: [faces] Jack, as he chases his son through the maze.
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The only shot in the film not achieved in-camera was the slow zoom in on the model of the maze, with [...]
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Stanley Kubrick included a lot of Native American imagery, as well as stories of the hotel having to [...]
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The Overlook is built on one (Indian burial ground). In 1987 San Francisco Chronicle columnist Bill [...]
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Released just two weeks after Venerdì 13 (1980).
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James Brolin and Harrison Ford were considered for the role of Jack Torrance. Ford was probably not [...]
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This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.
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After Barry Lyndon (1975), Stanley Kubrick started researching his next project by reading a lot of [...]
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Wendy, at the breakfast scene in the beginning of the film, is reading "The Catcher In The Rye" by J [...]
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The 1921 photograph prop still survives, intact, and can be seen in Stanley Kubrick exhibitions. It [...]
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Knowing of his interest in the paranormal, then-Warner Bros. president John Calley sent Stanley Kubr [...]
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Jack's typewriter was an Adler Eagle.
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Even though it is a horror film, there are only two deaths in the film. Dick is killed with an ax to [...]
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There is only one on-screen murder in the film.
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Stanley Kubrick's perfectionism extended to insisting that the cast members be on-set to be measured [...]
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Stephen King said that he really loved all of Stanley Kubrick's films a lot except for this one, the [...]
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Danny's middle name in the novel is Anthony, from where "Tony" was derived.
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There are a lot of comparisons between this movie and Session 9 (2001), but blink and you'll miss it [...]
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The title theme is an expanded version of a specific excerpt in the Arancia meccanica (1971) main th [...]
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The original theatrical aspect ratio for this movie is 1.85:1, however the film was shot using the e [...]
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Body Count: 2
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The outtakes link between this movie and Blade Runner (1982) was not the only element that connected [...]
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Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind wrote and performed a full electronic score for the film, but Stanley [...]
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The ghost of an injured guest says "Great party, isn't it?" In the book, the ghost of Horace Derwent [...]
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Stanley Kubrick was a huge fan of David Lynch's Eraserhead - La mente che cancella (1977). Lynch's a [...]
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Danny was five in the novel, and eight by the time of the sequel, Doctor Sleep. In this film, he suc [...]
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The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.
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The magazine that Jack reads in the lobby and tosses back onto the chair when arising to greet Stuar [...]
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Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall have expressed open resentment against the reception of this film, [...]
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It is possible that Stanley Kubrick had repeated the takes of scenes over a hundred times because th [...]
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Jack asks the bartender for "hair of the dog that bit him" (slang for a strong drink to try and alle [...]
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The most accurate model of the famous maze prop that Jack looks over in the lobby was made by Adam S [...]
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In the book and the 1997 miniseries, Jack is writing a play, but it's not known if that's what he ca [...]
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Regarded as the greatest horror film ever made by some and the most overrated horror film by others.
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Much like the casting of the character Jack, Stephen King also disliked the casting of Shelley Duval [...]
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This is the first film of Stanley Kubrick's to include the use of a Steadicam. He found the current [...]
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As Jack's sinking into the alternate world increases, his financial situation appears to change. Whe [...]
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In the mid 2000s, there was a trend of editing trailers for famous movies which drastically changed [...]
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In 2015, visual effects creators Adrien Dezalay, Emmanuel Delabaere, and Simon Philippe directed a d [...]
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All of the interior rooms of the Overlook Hotel were filmed at Elstree Studios in England, including [...]
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Jack Nicholson suggested Scatman Crothers for the film. Crothers had a tough time on this movie, wit [...]
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The film shows an upbeat relationship between Stuart Ullman and Jack Torrance, in contrast to the no [...]
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In the French language dub of the movie, Jack says "Coucou Chérie!!" instead of "Heeere's Johnny! [...]
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During an interview for Britain's The 100 Greatest Scary Moments (2003), Shelley Duvall revealed tha [...]
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Because Danny Lloyd was so young, and since it was his first acting job, Stanley Kubrick was highly [...]
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In the original novel, Bill Watson is described as a heavy set, foul mouthed older man. Here, he's p [...]
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Wendy sees the bruises on Danny's neck and thinks that Jack did this. Later, when Danny tells her it [...]
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The shot of the tennis ball rolling into Danny's toys took fifty takes to get right.
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Jack Nicholson was Stanley Kubrick's first choice for the role of Jack Torrance.
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The paintings of topless African American women with huge afros on the walls of Hallorann's bedroom [...]
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In Stanley Kubrick's original treatment, the resolution was completely different. Originally, instea [...]
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Barry Nelson, the interviewer at the start of the movie, was the first to play James Bond. Climax!: [...]
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The drinks that are spilled on Jack are advocaat (sometimes called advocatenborrel, which means "law [...]
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Stephen King references 2001: Odissea nello spazio (1968), another Stanley Kubrick film, on page 98 [...]
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The story was eventually re-adapted as a 1997 miniseries that followed Stephen King's book more clos [...]
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Jack Nicholson and Joe Turkel rehearsed the "Gold Room" scene for six weeks. Turkel said it was his [...]
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Jack's car is a 1973 Volkswagen Sedan 'Beetle' [Typ 1].
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The two daughters of Delbert Grady (the caretaker from 1970) speak in British accents, as does the w [...]
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Stanley Kubrick: [zoom] When Dick Hallorann is on his bed watching television.
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Stanley Kubrick: [three-way] Danny vs. the Overlook Hotel vs. Jack.
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Various critics have pointed out how this might be a coming of age story for the characters; particu [...]
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Final film role of Pauline Chamberlain. She has an uncredited appearance as the woman in the black g [...]
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The scene where Jack Nicholson is in the enormous hotel lobby, throwing a ball while he seeks inspir [...]
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Norman Gay: The injured guest who frightens Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) by saying "Great party, [...]
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The 1921 photograph at the end of the film was a genuine 1920s photo, with Jack Nicholson's head air [...]
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A prominent piece of music used in the film, Utrenja Ewangelia composed by Krzysztof Penderecki, is [...]
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Danny rides in circles around the Overlook hallways, including the Colorado Lounge and the room 237 [...]
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Stanley Kubrick personally panned the camera during the famous shot of Jack swinging the ax into the [...]
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Danny Lloyd grew up to be a professor of biology at a community college in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
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Stanley Kubrick originally wanted approximately seventy takes of the scene where Dick Hallorann (Sca [...]
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Despite Stanley Kubrick's fierce demands on everyone, Jack Nicholson admitted to having a good worki [...]
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Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American M [...]
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Danny croaks "redrum" forty-three times before his mother wakes up, and Jack starts to break into th [...]
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Wendy (Shelley Duvall) smokes Virginia Slims Full Flavor 120s in the scene where she and the doctor [...]
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A stack of records can be seen on the floor beside Dick Hallorann's TV in his room. The record at th [...]
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During the making of the movie, Stanley Kubrick would occasionally call Stephen King at 3:00 a.m. an [...]
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Stephen King was first approached by Stanley Kubrick about making this movie via an early morning ph [...]
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Although a key point in the novel, the hotel boiler is only mentioned and shown once in the film.
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The two tracked vehicles in the movie are the Activ Fischer VW Powered 4 Speed Snow-Trak (referred t [...]
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During the Closing Day segment of the movie, Dick Hallorann talks to Danny and Wendy extensively abo [...]
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Monday, September 29th, 1980 was the night of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)'s annua [...]
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Jack Nicholson and Joe Turkel were both in The St. Valentines Day Massacre (1967), although they did [...]
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The movie's line "Here's Johnny!" was voted as the #68 movie quote by the American Film Institute (o [...]
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Kubrick e Lynch. 'Shining' e 'Eraserhead - La mente che cancella'
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Nicholson, Turkel e Il massacro di San Valentino
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