THE SHINING Breakdown | Ending Explained, Easter Eggs, Hidden Details & Things You Missed

okay so The Shining is one of my favorite movies of all time depending on what day it is the the top spot for me switches between this the thing and also the Godfather like those it's one of those movies that stuck with me since the first time I watched it I remember being about eight years old scared out of my mind after my first visit to the Overlook but why does it have this long lasting power and influence I mean on the surface you could be forgiven for thinking that the movie is extremely simple as a kid I thought it was pretty much about a family who were given the job of looking after a hotel and the dad went crazy and then tried to kill him however there's so many layers to the film and throughout this video we're going to be breaking down all the subliminal ways that the movie messes with you along with its hidden meanings now the biggest head is the hotel itself you might not know but King came up with the idea for The Shining when visiting the Stanley Hotel out in Boulder Colorado he and his wife booked it October 30th which was the night before it was just about a close for the season they were the only two guests there and Kings spent the night wandering the long hallways of the hotel swept up in just how creepy a place like this could be if it wasn't teeming with guests now the name The Shining comes from the John Lennon song Instant Karma the idea that people imprinted onto something long after they're gone is what the overlooking bodies and it seemingly filled with the souls of those that it's trapped along the way traumatic events leave long-lasting Impressions and this is why it's teeming with all sorts of evil spirits now it's important to bear in mind that the hotel is supposed to be its own malevolent entity and it's very much alive when watching the movie for this breakdown I think two things became very clear and that is that the hotel itself didn't want jack it actually wanted Dany it also became clear to me that Jack has The Shining as well which is why he didn't lose his going into room 237 now we will talk about whether the ghosts are even real later on but taking at face value I think Jack was the easiest to manipulate and this is why it sort him out the hotel wanted to get Jack to kill Danny and this would be able to take his immense power Dr sleep also makes it clear that alcohol condol lists Sixth Sense and in that we join an elderly Danny Torrance who's hit the bottle hard potentially Jack was an alcoholic for the exact same reason and his months of sobriety ended up cracking him enough to the point that he could pick up the presence of the spirits should have hit the spirits hey interestingly there's this weird inconsistency in the movie where Jack says that he hit Danny three years ago which is when he promised to stop drinking however he also says here's to five miserable months on the wagon this implies that he kept drinking secretly and it was only his time in the hotel I cut him off from it completely makes into anything about it too as Jack only started to see the ghost deep into the winter and this time completely away from alcohol likely start up his senses in the end though Jack ends up perishing we get that horning photo of him on the wall at the July 4th ball in 1921 bring up this photo in full we can see that he's doing a pose with his right arm angled upwards and is left on pointing down this actually has links to Satanism and when searching satanic poses on Google the first result that comes up is Baphomet doing the exact same thing it's really chilling and the ending of the movie is something that stuck with me for decades now in discussing it keebrick suggested that this could hint at their Bing reincarnation within the hotel and certain aspects of the film definitely seem to suggest this for example we hear this story of Charles Grady who killed his whole family my predecessor and his job heard a man named Charles Grady is the winter caretaker and he came up here with his wife with two little girls who think about eight and ten and he had a good employment record good references and from what I've been told I mean he seemed like a completely normal individual but at some point during the winter he must have suffered some kind of a complete mental breakdown he ran a muck and uh killed his family with an ax now the important thing to bear in mind here is the name Charles Grady and the fact that his daughters were 8 and 10. we of course seem to meet these as they terrified Dany but these are clearly Twins and not sisters born at different times later on in the bathroom we also meet a man going by Grady who killed his family with an ax but he clearly says that his name is dalbot well they call you around here Jeezy great is a Delbert Grady this could show that there were two greaties at the hotel that matter their family and that they were reincarnations of each other in the time between them dying and them having to grow up the other one could have filled in and continued the cycle and this is why we have these errors in the name this would also explain the line you've always been the caretaker foreign I've always been here I would also explain why Jack says he feels like he has deja vu I came up here for my interview it was as though I'd been here before I mean we all have moments of deja vu but this was ridiculous there's also the idea that the twins want Danny to stay forever and ever and ever now in crafting the novel King said that time doesn't really exist in the hotel and this is how all the different decades seem to happen at the same time on top of this there was an alternative ending that containedly had seen that changed the way that the movie plays out in it Danny and when you were in the hospital and they were visited by Mr Ullman he said that none of the skeletons or rivers of blood were there when they inspected the hotel that it must have been because of their imaginations however he gives Danny a tennis ball which is the same one that rolled towards him from room 237 and the name Overlook 2 has its own secret meaning though it could be taken as meaning that it's overlooking the mountain range it could also be taken as meaning to overlook something we as the audience aren't seeing what's really going on in there and there's also the idea that swimming in the hotel is looking over the those inside Stanley Kubrick used a Steadicam technique throughout and this was a revolutionary way of filming at the time it allows you to follow the characters through the hotel and we get shots like this at several points giving the feeling that both Us in the hotel are stalking the family a huge shout out to Rob Asia for budding together several videos on the film and in those he talked about how the layout of it was actually impossible several people in the modding Community try to rebuild the Overlook in the Duke Nuka map but they found that when trying to recreate it they just couldn't do it without breaking the layout itself most of the rooms overlap and there's several doorways in Windows that actually lead to nothing for example just before Jack walks into Mr ullman's office we can see there's a large hallway that runs down the back behind it upon entering the office though we can see that there's a window directly behind elman's office that shows trees this view simply doesn't exist and subconsciously this is flagging up to us in the back of our minds there's also the bike ride that Danny takes and this happens just after the Tuesday chapter card pops up on screen now it's important about in mind that this all takes place on the second floor which we know because Danny rides past the balcony twice and we can see into the main hall as we start off we have an Elevator Shaft to the left and then an open door with a set of stairs on the right we then follow Danny at the corridor and watch as he turns left on the right we can see another set of elevator doors and these link to the ones in the main hall just below this which we see in later shots now this makes the previous pair impossible as the wall where the Elevator Shaft should be is actually the wall in the hall that has the Native American art on it the elevator behind it simply wouldn't fade and the open stairwell would also lead to Nowhere now let's go back to those elevator doors next to the balcony and as Dany continues to ride we see that on the left there is a place to look out over the main hall as we follow Dany he turns right and then right and then write again and this time we can catch him riding past the balcony once more this is impossible as it would mean that he's turned back on himself and he would be above the Colorado Lounge now look at the thickness of the wall just beside the balcony we can see that it's about a meter and a half wide and yet down the hallway we see several doors lining that side leading to Rooms that's simply aren't there now this cardo also contains room 237 later on when Dany approaches this we can see doors to the other rooms lining the walls beside it what about when we go into room 237 and see how big it is we know that these doors don't actually lead anywhere as they back right into the room itself when almond is showing the torrents is around just before they get to their room we can also see a door down the back and one to the right due to where the bedroom and bathroom are we also know that this doesn't lead anywhere and the window outside that leads to the snow slide also shows at the door down the bottom of the corridor doesn't go anywhere either something just feels up about the hotel itself and all these things add to its Mystique plus there's the fact that it's so brightly lit like how many other horror movies can you name that are this bright and it actually feels unnatural to have something like this it's also the fact that every room in the hotel feels different and we never really get a sense of place because we never know what the characters are walking into now if you've seen the documentary room 237 then you'll know there's lots of conspiracy theories surrounding the movie This covers things like Kubrick being the guy who faked the moon landing because of the Apollo 11 jumper the movie being a metaphor for the genocide of Native Americans and even the Holocaust I think with The Shining that some of these ideas can definitely be found in here but the incomplete and thus never fully formed because of this people can grasp at them and run off with their imagination which is another reason that people keep talking about the movie according to the now playing podcast when Tom Cruise was making Eyes Wide Shut he would see Kubrick still cutting and editing The Shining in his bed time to me that says that the movie was never really finished and because of this there's these half ideas formed throughout now the Holocaust idea links to the fact that Jack uses another typewriter this also changes color throughout the movie going from Light tan to a gray blue due to its use in the Holocaust to take people's names before they were shipped off to the ghetto and concentration camps many of the eurizer that symbolizes this dark event in history the color change could potentially also show the darkness sweeping over the hotel it's interesting how this Alters throughout now I'm not sure how much Merit there is to it as it's the same model of typewriter that Kubrick used and he said in an interview that he he just liked using it now the character Jag was also very much a Stephen King's standing and this frustrated writer felt creatively bankrupt much like how Kubrick may have felt at the time so this typewriter could just be referenced to himself and him feeling like he's typing away and getting nothing done as we mentioned there's also the Native American genocide which I think holds far far more weight and almond is showing the family around he talks about the hotel itself and he says construction started in 1907. it's finished in 1909. the site is supposed to be located on an Indian burial ground and I believe they actually had to repel a few in attacks as they were building it he also mentions the Native American Art in the Colorado Lounge are all these Indian designs authentic yeah I believe the base mainly on Navajo and uh Patrick motifs there are theories that the Elevator Shaft itself leads directly on the ground and when building the hotel itself they had to shift corpses out the way this is what the river of blood could symbolize and it's bringing everything up buried beneath the surface there's also the music at the start which has whaling over the top of it foreign American chants this could be hinting at what's really going on now throughout the hotel we also have several pictures that signify this for example when Jack's about to enter Mr ullman's office we see a painting to his left and this is called the great mother there's also several paintings of Native Americans throughout the hotel and these pop up as the family gets shown about when we get to the fridge and Dick Halloran is talking away we can also see some food with a prominent Native American figure on it Wendy later on wears yellow coat with Native American images on it and there's also the tapestry in the main hall itself Jack constantly throws a ball at this and he ends up chucking this in a way that similar to the ax motion he makes when cutting down the door when drinking at the bar Jack also says White Man's Burden Lloyd my man white man's bird and many have theorized this is referring to white guilt again there's so many theories on this film and let me know your thoughts below now we start off can you can you believe that we're 12 minutes in 50 seconds into the video and we haven't done the first scene yet but we start off with Jack driving through the mountains to his job interview at the Overlook the footage was actually used at the end of any cuts of Blade Runner and the blue text popping up is something Jordan Peele also adopted for the start of get out the similar scene also happens in the sequel Dr sleep and I was gonna do all the callbacks to that and this but we'll end up with a two-hour video and I think instead I might just cover that movie in its own separate breakdown anyway over the top of this we hear the dies here a medley which spells Doom for the torrances this ancient song is a bad impending death and its notes are also used at the beginning of A Clockwork Orange [Music] Jack here is riding in a yellow Beetle and later on Dick hollaram passes a crushed red one in the snow this was actually meant to be Kubrick making a Jabba King because in the book Jack drives a red one it's sort of cubic saying we don't need your stuff we have mine now in adapting the novel Kubrick said that the shining isn't exactly a literary Masterpiece and it's from here that the uneasy rivalry kind of star between the two the majority of Kubrick's work adapted novels and these often had mixed receptions but he was able to take the elements that he liked and craft them into something new I actually like the book but this first shot is probably what caused them to start to dislike each other king had it set up contractually that if the book ever got adapted that he would get to create the first draft for this script but Kubrick ended up throwing this out upon release King said he didn't really like the movie The though over time he said he has come to appreciate it he actually ended up making his own Vision in 1997 that he said was the true one but the less sad about that is probably the better now he approached the car park and can count 42 cars parked by the Overlook 42 is a number that later appears on Danny's t-shirt in the bathroom and when we later cut to the TV scene we can catch them watching the summer of 42. this TV also doesn't have any electrical cables which adds an extra head to the scene as it's not plugged in also 42 million dollars is later mentioned and this could also link with a room 237 if you do two times three times seven then you get 42 and as I've been saying it's all connected now why could this be well again tying back to the Holocaust Theory 1942 is the year that the final solution was put in place and it could Kirby kibrick hinting to that Jack then goes into Mr Holman's office and this room is perfectly recreated in doctor's sleep on Allman's desk when we flip around we can also see that he has a red book this is by Carl Young And it deals with Shadow salves and double sides similar to what Jack has we can also see that he's wearing a green tie with several lines across it these are actually patterned to look the same way that the maze does which is of course a big location that pops up in the movie Jack wears something green throughout every scene early on in the film however he later switches to Red after having the dream about murdering Danny and Wendy this could show a shift in his mindset and red is of course a color that pops up in key horror scenes a Jack's home we meet the pair and we can catch Wendy reading The Catcher in the Rye this is a highly controversial book and it basically centers around the loss of Innocence the book has had a lot of debates surrounding it and it was even since it in school so I think Kubrick put it in for a reason now in a strange coincidence a month after this movie's release Mark David Chapman murdered John Lennon and he sat down and read this whilst he wait for the police I know Cuba couldn't have predicted this but it's Eerie seeing this now and we then meet Tony when Danny Lloyd auditioned for the part of Tony he actually came up with it then and Kubrick loved it so much that he cast him in the film in the book we learned that it's his adult self and the clue is that Danny's full name is Danny Anthony Torrance back at Allman's office we also get some dialogue that touches upon what happened in the source material Jack ended up attacking a student while still worked as a teacher and thus he had to seek employment elsewhere this could be linked in with his alcoholism and it also explains the rage that he busts out later now after the interview scene we get a very important moment that foreshadows a lot of what's coming down the line we see Dany bent over the bathroom sink and slowly approached your bath with a shower curtain pulled this also foreshadows what to come in room 237 with a curtain also being pulled over the bathroom net little side note this room was recreated for the tv show Hannibal along with the carpet in the hotel it's one of the most referenced things in cinema on the wall we can also catch a sticker of Dopey from the Seven Dwarfs after his vision this disappears potentially signifying that Danny's no longer Dopey when it comes to the hotel he also gets nicknamed doc by dick Halloran Doc is the wisest of the seven dwarfs and this nickname could have been chosen for a reason I don't think that the sticker disappearing is an accident and Kubrick was famous for layering his films with details like this there are theories that the way Dany is leaning over here is meant to be similar to show later on with the guy in the dog seat many have stayed that this is dissignified that Dany was abused by his father and later we see Dany lying on a bear pillow which is thought to also be a nod to this the child psychologist that comes to visit them probes Wendy later on and she seems to suggest it but it's important to bear in mind this only appears in the longer versions of the film that were released in the US Kubrick actually cut out 23 minutes from the movie for the UK's release and it's difficult to discern what his actual intentions for the film were I don't subscribe to that theory and honestly I don't really like thinking about when watching the movie but I feel like I have to touch upon it though because it's such a popular Theory and it's believed that the things that happen in room 237 are actually carried out by Jack to Danny when the room calls him in the tennis ball rolls to him on the floor and this is also the same ball that Jack scene throwing throughout the hotel I'm sure everyone watching this also knows that when he sat down in the hotel that we can see him reading a Playgirl magazine later this one specifically had an article about incest which many have said ties into this Theory again not really my interpretation of it but I thought if I didn't bring it up I'd be skipping over one of the most common theories on the film now Dany is of course lurking in a mirror when this happens and it's important to bear in mind that a mirror appears in every scene that a ghost does it's possible that these could reveal the truth and be gateways to a mirror world that we often overlook this could be where the spirits inhabit and it could also explain why Tony uses one to write murder it of course comes out backwards as red rum and this idea of it being a mirror could be represented in that on the road Jack tells Danny of the donor party and the cannibalism They carried out in order to stay alive this will Shadows the impending isolation and the family are going to be facing another thing they're headed for a fun trip there is Darkness to it now from here we get some masterful editing by Kubrick as we watch the exterior of the hotel and then this transitions in the shape of a ladder in the lobby not a crazy detail just just a nice bit of editing after a tour of the lounge we cut to Danny who's in The Game's room at this point he meets the twins for the first time and this once more ties in with the idea of mirrors kibrick included a lot of symmetrical shots throughout the movie and I think he was hinting that everything has a double side to it up in the top left we can also catch a poster of a man's skiing the way great shot though has had many thinking that it makes his leg seem like their ankle backwards this would be similar to a Minotaur and with the maze at the end there could be this tie to ancient Greek mythology this idea of doubles carries across to the next scene as we see two girls that look extremely similar passing behind the three next we have the Hedge maze which wasn't in the book and Kubrick had this created solely for the movie in the source material hedge animals came alive and this appeared in the 1997 adaptation which again less less said about that the better now lastly we see the Gold Room how he watches Wendy does a little dance across the floor this is semi Jack does later on mirroring the move that set up here but then introduced to Dick finally and he shows Wendy and Danny about the hotel's kitchen think everyone at this point knows the hell that Kubrick per both Shelley de Valens Catman gorilla's true answer and he had them doing hundreds of takes which broke them mentally carrillas would be on the verge of tears when talking about the film and so on the scenes held the Guinness World Record for the amount of takes They carried out his scene in the kitchen was apparently shot 148 times the holding the Guinness world record for the most amount of takes now at this point we're disorientated even more as dick enters the freezer when they enter it we can see an office to the side as they go inside when they exit though things that had just been in the scene before are no longer there and though it's something you might not notice your subconscious will probably be thrown off are they shown about the dry storage and Jack is later locked there he's seemingly freed by the ghosts and for many this breaks a theory that it's all in their heads however there is a possible explanation for how he escaped if you want to keep that theory in your mind when the three leave the Frieza they pass a secondary door and the position of this means that it would be in the pantry somewhere this Jack could use this to get out on his own accord I've always been someone who doesn't like when things are completely spelled out and I do kind of like the ambiguity you have for thinking the ghost may not even be real dick then looks after Dany and he feeds him ice cream whilst telling him about The Shining this scene signals the incoming danger Danny's gonna have to face and Kubrick has the shot set up so the knives are above Danny's head pointing down at him dick says that he used a whole entire conversations in his head with his grandma and this speaks to the familial hereditary ability that The Shining could have he also says if someone Burns toast well maybe things that happen the other kind of Chase is behind it's just like pictures in a book candy it isn't real this is why the girls have to use Jack and why they manipulate him throughout it could allowing Credence to the fact that Jack was the one who heard Danny in room 237 but with that room being the hotel's heart and maybe why he was able to harm him could also explain why dick tells Dany not to go into room 237 because that could be the one place Daddy can be harmed at this point we could have the hotel empty all except for the three members of the family who follow Danny as he rides around the hotel and this Steadicam movement as he Glides is very similar to the shot setup that we get when he's running through the maze the son of The Wheels on the floor and carpet are also repurposed later on with the noise of them playing into the score itself foreign [Music] [Music] we see Jack in bed being brought breakfast by Wendy on his T-shirt we can see the word stubbington and this is the high school that Jack taught at in the book now from here we go to a typewriter with a blank piece of paper Jack later ends up constantly writing the words all work and no play make Jack adult boy and people have actually analyzed this sound when we catch him typing and you can hear him basically typing this phrase out over and over again foreign [Music] Ty and Danny then run into the maze with a former chasing him and saying this is very much foreshadowing the chase that will happen later on with his other parent running after him in the maze at the end of the film back in the hotel we see a cuddly toy in the floor and Kubrick purposely put this here to set up Dick's death which happens in the same place jack also walks past the sofa and if you look closely at it you can actually see the baseball bats sticking out that Wendy will later use Jack looks down over the Maze and in an amazing bit of superim position we can see Wendy and Danny walking in it this was a model but I think going from the could object to them here is meant to hint at him overlooking them there's also theories that this is the moment where we switch to the book story and that Jack is simply typing away writing this book as the rest of the events play out anyway after this point we catch Jack typing away in the Colorado Lounge he hides his paper from Wendy because this would give away that he's just been using Bots to type out the same comment over and over again also there's a couple of important aspects of this scene and the first of these is the urban book on the table this contains newspaper clipping and the reason Jack recognizes Dell but later on is because he saw his photo amongst these this scene also contains a disappearing chair that many suspects been put in to mess with our minds Kubrick was Notorious for going on set and messing with things in between takes when this is the clearest example of that happening in the movie over Jack shall though we can spot a chair and smaller table and this constantly disappears and reappears whether this is a continuity error or not we'll never know this feels like something too obvious for them to not pick up when editing now from here we go to Jack staring out looking like a nutcase guys lost it but I bet he'd be having a great time out there if they could get internet to subscribe to the heavy spoiler show new video every day you never get bored but anyway the days are done and we get a real sense of isolation with each character being in different parts of the hotel Wendy isn't able to reach out at others with the radio and with her we go to ullman's office we can see the storm outside beating down again highlighting the fact that this is a real view behind behind it even though it shouldn't exist now we get a lot of weird creepy scenes such as the TV one and then Danny and Jack sitting in a room together Jack Nicholson's performance is so unhinged in the movie and like from the first scene I was I was thinking Geisinger anyway we then cut to Danny playing with his toys on the infamous carpet almost maze-like we see as the line leads towards him that the tennis ball perfectly rolls along well we're in the next shot we can see that the line has switched points to now being behind him when we go back to him that Line's completely gone in front of him almost leaving him trapped in the pull of room 237 interestingly the bug originally had the rumors being 217 but the hotel owners asked them to change it because they were worried no one would ever bucket all the exterior shots of the hotel are of the real-life Timberline Lodge and being associated with a movie about murder made them worry it could cause issues missed a trick there though mate I bet tons of people would have loved to have booked a room there after seeing just how popular the movies become and next we cut to ending the boiler room and in a black and white photo above the fridge we can see two twins probably gonna have to blur out the entire wall above the desk as well as there's tons of nude women in the photos but when he just passes by as if nothing's wrong and next we see Jack slumped over his desk almost having a nightmare where he kills Wendy and Danny this ties in with the theory before and some are suspected that the show's Jack is using his powers of shining to project his Consciousness into 237 but when he runs over to him we can also see a chair against the pillar to the left but when Jack's on the floor this completely disappears Danny walks in with his shirt torn and at this point Wendy suspects Jack did it and we then catch Jack walking towards the girl room along the way we can see there are several mirrors and an important thing that happens here is that Jackal lashes out every time that he passes one this is almost like the mirrors are triggering him and he goes into the bar and sits in front of a mirror we then get a change of the camera angle so that Jack's staring directly at us when he's in fact fact looking in the mirror at this point the bartender appears the movie really starts to escalate moments before Jack said he'd sell his soul for a drink and this is when Lloyd shows up Jack also says I like you Lloyd I always like you you were always the best of them and again this plays into the idea that this is something that's always happened and always will happen at this point Wendy interrupts things and Jack goes to 237 inside the room we meet a woman and who else has gone to bed with a 10 and woke up with a one my wife for stars are you having that having that an obviously can't show that scene but there's something very hypnotic about it with a score just drowning away in the background and almost playing out in slow motion in the book this woman was a guest who ended her life in the bathtub and she's very much a metaphor for the hotel itself she seems beautiful on the surface but once you get in close you start to see the Decay and rot at the center of it slowly everything starts crashing down and we get rivers of blood as Jack loses it at the idea of taking Danny to a hospital he storms out the room looking directly at the camera and this unnerving forth wall break is almost like he's looking at the hotel and us who are watching him now from here we get the girl room ball scene and the person that Jack passes at the doorway is the same one as the man that later says great party isn't it inside we also meet dalbet and he spells Advocate over Jack's jacket this looks like egg and eggs actually an ingredient that's in the drink nice little visual gag here with Jack wiping his hand and his back as a sign of contempt now Grady takes him to the red bathroom and something about this may throw you off beyond the garish color scheme we know from the way they enter this bathroom it's located behind the bar however as we go further into it we can see that there are cubicles that stretch out past the urinal the width of this means that if it actually existed then it would be over the bar itself so this once more is an impossible room the red paint is almost like blood and this is potentially linking back to the elevator scene now Delbert uses the n-word to describe dick and the Rachel undertonesier could link back to the white man's burn line the ball's scenes are very much a throwback to White affluence and these Sinister undertones with the racial comments could be Kubrick showing how he thinks the characters viewed minorities Delbert tells Jack that he corrected his two dollars after they attempted to set fire to the hotel and this was likely the location acting in self-defense they were a threat to it and this had left into action using their father to take out the children dick makes his way to Colorado and we catch Jack once more typing away the room is also shown to be symmetrical adding to the feeling that the hotel has a double side to it who follow dick as he makes his way out there and the journey is long and tedious I think it's purposely done this way as well as we have a massive long drawn out build up that settles us into feeling like nothing is gonna happen that's when Jack attacks from behind a pillar and it comes out of nowhere completely catching you off guard now back in the room with Wendy and Danny we can hear them watching Roadrunner cartoons on TV Maybe this cartoon is of course about a coyote trying to catch the Roadrunner which could be foreshadowing the chase that comes at the end we then get the staircase scene which apparently had 127 takes some have said this was an exaggeration but either way there were a ton carried out and you can tell just how exhausted Shelley Daval is the real exhaustion here was the person who had to type out at all work and no play for 400 times felt sorry for them because they didn't have copy and paste back then and Jack is then dragged into the pantry and I love the little stumble he does as he tries to get up he damaged his ankle during the stairfall and for the rest of the movie we watch his elimse after his prey to me this is Nicholson's most memorable performance and watching him turn into a violent psychopath that is arguably the best thing he's done as when he discovers the destroyed snow cat we see as a title cards change from days to hours showing how little time is left Jack is freed by Delbert and from here we catch Danny in a trans saying Red Rum which leads into the of the infamous mirror scene this then goes into another classic moment which Jack chops down the door to the bathroom riffing on Johnny Carson he says here's Johnny brick had never actually heard this catchphrase before and thus he didn't know it was related to the TV hosts so they left it in it's probably more known for being in this movie now rather than belonging to Carson and it shows just how much of an impact this scene has [Music] don't yes Jackie here's Jackie here's Johnny [Music] here's Danny this scene actually took three days and sixty dollars to film as the production team had ordered Breakaway doors however Nicholson had volunteered as a firefighter so he knew the correct technique to use meaning that the doors didn't take long to get through this was actually almost shot for shot the same as the scene in the Phantom Carriage you should adds to ready Rick on Reddit for putting this together and the movie was coincidentally released in 1921 which is the air on the photo at the end Danny runs through the kitchen and he ends up hiding in a cabinet this actually ended up inspiring long-term friend Steven Spielberg to do something similar in the kitchen scene that pops have been Jurassic Park and then Jack chases his son whilst Wendy runs through the hotel we hear chance of the spirits making this scene become even creepier [Music] here we get the dog costume scene and this pause from the buck with someone in one of these doing what we see here don't know how they got around doing it with the mask on but but moving on now Wendy's Journey Through the hotel was actually cut out of the UK version for about 20 years of watching this movie I'd never seen the skeleton scene and honestly I feel like it should have been left out the skeletons they don't look good um and it's not really what I think this movie was going for amongst them though we can see several people that popped up in the Gold Room including Delbert Grady serving drinks at the top of the table when he then runs along a red Corridor and we get the blood scene which so far has only shown up in Visions outside we see is Jack closes in on Danny but he outsmarts his father to lead him astray this is the best use of the Steadicam for me with a Chase feeling almost like what Jack running behind his son Dany manages to escape with his mother Raz Jack is stuck in there and we end with him sitting down and panting a cubic was known for doing jump cuts and this one was most notably seen at the start of 2001 however I feel like this moment is another of his best with this cutting to the Frozen corpse of Jack in the morning huge it out to depression Obsession on Reddit for bothering out that this expression here is the same one that he has when he has his first drink the user even plays the two moments over the top of each other and we can see how perfectly It lines up you then go to the photograph and see Jack perhaps hitting at the cycle of violence being something that's ongoing we close out to midnight the stars are new and this ends the movie on a very haunting note anyway that's all breaking in the film and I hope you liked it add a blast going back through the movie and I know there's so much to unpack that we probably didn't even touch upon because of that I'd love to see you coming so make sure you drop them below and let us know if there's anything we missed or just talk about your favorite detail and also love to hear your thoughts on what you want us to cover next so make sure you drop it below if you want to be able to watch them make sure you check out our Brighton of Event Horizon which will be linked on screen right here right now obviously after this if not though I understand because it's been a long video and yeah I'll see you next time you take care yourself I've been Paul you've been the best next one bye

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Id: eh-5fQEG_6g

Length: 36min 54sec (2214 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 04 2023