New The SHiNiNG interpretation

[Eyepokesftw]

Maybe you should read the book? Kubrick did whatever he wanted to the story and completely changed the most important parts in the book and the ending.

 

[xenomorph4prez]

Maybe you should read the book? Kubrick did whatever he wanted to the story and completely changed the most important parts in the book and the ending.

I've read the book and even though it and the film differ greatly I think both are great.

The difference between the two is the driving force behind all the theories.

Was Kubrick trying to slip in some secondary themes with the changes or were the changes purely for aesthetics and to make the transition to film easier?

 

[xenomorph4prez]

I was just looking at the Wiki for The Exorcist when I stumbled onto this.

Kubrick screened movies for the cast of The SHiNiNG to show them what kind of film he wanted to make and one of those films was The Exorcist.

Knowing that could this be a coincidence or clarification for Jack being the Devil.

Pazuzu is the main antagonist in The Exorcist horror novels and film series, created by William Peter Blatty. Blatty derived the character from Assyrian and Babylonian mythology, where Pazuzu was considered the king of the demons of the wind, and the son of the god Hanbi. In The Exorcist Pazuzu appears as a demon who possesses Regan MacNeil.

Pazuzu is often depicted as a combination of animal and human parts with its right hand pointing upwards and its left hand downwards. It has the body of a man, the head of a lion or dog, eagle-like taloned feet, two pairs of wings, a scorpion's tail, and a serpentine penis.

 

[Gored Matador]

I was just looking at the Wiki for The Exorcist when I stumbled onto this.

Kubrick screened movies for the cast of The SHiNiNG to show them what kind of film he wanted to make and one of those films was The Exorcist.

Knowing that could this be a coincidence or clarification for Jack being the Devil.

Pazuzu is a demon and not the devil. also i don't think Pazuzu was like king of the demons

 

[xenomorph4prez]

Pazuzu is a demon and not the devil. also i don't think Pazuzu was like king of the demons

Things get interesting when you add these images to the mix though.

Baphomet

Pazuzu

Jack Torrance

Satan goes by many names.

And He (Jesus) asked him (the man), "What is thy name?" And he answered, saying, "My name is Legion: for we are many."[1]

Regan MacNeil calls him Captain Howdy in The Exorcist.

Captain Howdy

Look at the above pictures and try to figure out how the name came to be.

 

[xenomorph4prez]

I think it's also interesting that the guy in the photo behind Jack has his hand on Jack's arm almost as if he is trying to push it down which reminds me of this scene from Dr. Strangelove.

The right arm pointing upward and the left arm pointing downward body language that Jack and the statue of Pazuzu are making can also be found in pictures of Baphomet and the Devil's Tarot card. I feel like the body language could be symbolic of the Devil's fall from Grace. The right gesturing to Heaven and the left to Hell. Could this body language have some connection to the Nazi salute that Strangelove has to restrain himself from doing?

More answers = more questions

 

[xenomorph4prez]

This could be sheer coincidence but I thought it was interesting nonetheless. The name Halloran is one I can't recall hearing outside of The Shining. Did Stephen King take the name Halloran from the case that inspired The Exorcist?

Walter Halloran SJ (September 21, 1921

 

[Anung Un Rama]

I love how much research you've put into this Xeno.

 

[xenomorph4prez]

I love how much research you've put into this Xeno.

Thanks. Wikipedia is your friend and a little Apophenia goes a long way too.

Apophenia /

 

[johnny5isalive]

What about the theory that everything is explained psychologically? That the true horror was that Jack was sexually abusing Danny.

psychoanalytically is more like it. Freud's explanation of the uncanny is similar to the events in The Shining.

 

[johnny5isalive]

I think it's also interesting that the guy in the photo behind Jack has his hand on Jack's arm almost as if he is trying to push it down which reminds me of this scene from Dr. Strangelove.

The right arm pointing upward and the left arm pointing downward body language that Jack and the statue of Pazuzu are making can also be found in pictures of Baphomet and the Devil's Tarot card. I feel like the body language could be symbolic of the Devil's fall from Grace. The right gesturing to Heaven and the left to Hell. Could this body language have some connection to the Nazi salute that Strangelove has to restrain himself from doing?

More answers = more questions

Some interpretations see the picture as representing or mirroring the wasps from the book. They end up being WASPs, and the Gold Room is the WASPs nest. Four of the "WASPs" resemble the very highest ranking Nazis, and the Gold Room has two golden swastikas on the far wall.

Kubrick talks about rarely using dissolve shots, which seemed to me to be a clue that he did use them. In the last scene the dissolving shots reveal a person with a third eye and another with a devils moustache.

 

[tomjones]

Take a basic movie like the Shining and allow conspiracy theorists to make a documentary out of it, resulting in the most asinine bullshit ever researched from a film.
You could make up hidden bs from any movie with conspiratards and people would buy it.

I agree, I could for example make a movie and leave it vague and lacking some vital info and it could leave people debating the film for decades. People need to understand that making a film ambiguous is a genre just like any genre (e.g horror or comedy etc).
But theres just something about the Shining and how it left viewers wondering. I think people felt that it touched on interesting topics

 

[oscerthegrouch]

i had fun reading your interpretation
xeno good work even pissed off a guy or two

 

[Pittie Petey]

I watched Room 237 yesterday
Seems to me those people got too much time and drugs on their hands

 

[Firestarter101]

Too many werds. Me no likey read lots

 

[That Idiot Tibor**]

Take a basic movie like the Shining and allow conspiracy theorists to make a documentary out of it, resulting in the most asinine bullshit ever researched from a film.
You could make up hidden bs from any movie with conspiratards and people would buy it.

It's so bad.

 

[xenomorph4prez]

Some interpretations see the picture as representing or mirroring the wasps from the book. They end up being WASPs, and the Gold Room is the WASPs nest. Four of the "WASPs" resemble the very highest ranking Nazis, and the Gold Room has two golden swastikas on the far wall.

Kubrick talks about rarely using dissolve shots, which seemed to me to be a clue that he did use them. In the last scene the dissolving shots reveal a person with a third eye and another with a devils moustache.

Good stuff, I don't recall reading anything about the wasps interpretation.

 

[xenomorph4prez]

i had fun reading your interpretation
xeno good work even pissed off a guy or two

Thanks for reading. Some people absolutely hate people having opinions about art for whatever reason.

 

[xenomorph4prez]

Too many werds. Me no likey read lots

There are a few pictures scattered about here and there.

 

[Kamishiro Yuu]

This thread is populated by reptilians, bro.