First line: Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick. Summary: When Jack Torrance gets the job as caretaker of the Overlook Hotel it seems to be a dream.
Between its infamous phrase, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," and the haunting imagery of the Overlook Hotel (plus, its creepy, nightmare-inspiring twins), The Shining is an iconic film, and it has since made its mark on our culture in various ways, including with a sequel book and film, Doctor Sleep.
Jack Torrance: Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in. Not by the hair of your chiny-chin-chin? Well then I'll huff and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in.
The Shining, gothic horror novel by Stephen King, first published in 1977. Eclipsed perhaps only by its 1980 film adaptation, the novel is one of the most popular and enduring horror stories of all time.
This shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you land, you must remember that it is sacred, and that each ghostly reflection in the clear water of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people.
—42. And midway through the film, Wendy and Danny watch The Summer of '42 on a television set which, by the way, isn't even plugged into the wall! Cocks says all of this half-hidden numerology is meant to evoke the year 1942, the same year the Nazis launched their campaign for the Final Solution.
The naked old woman mythology dates back to an Overlook Hotel guest named Lorraine Massey, a woman who seduced young employees. In The Shining, she exists to remind Jack of his flimsy morals, and also plants a seed of doubt in young Danny's head.
Perhaps the mirrors were added by Kubrick to show how Jack was becoming one with the hotel, as a mirror of his inner demons, or maybe they were a way to show Jack's affinity with the ghosts and further accentuate how distant he was with his family – ultimately, it's up to every viewer to choose the interpretation that ...
Moments later, he would improvise the “Here's Johnny!” line, which was a reference to the intro of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Interestingly, Kubrick originally shot the scene with a fake door, but Nicholson – who once trained as a fire marshal – chopped it down too quickly.
In The Shining, Jack feverishly types "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over. Here's the proverb's meaning and origin explained. What does the phrase “all work and no play” mean in the context of Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's masterful rendition of Stephen King's The Shining?
In this isolation every day becomes the same for Jack as his writer's block becomes quotidian. The combination of isolation, monotony, creative frustration, and supernatural forces extract Jack's insanity. As the insanity sinks in he strays from his male roles as provider and attempts to murder his wife and son.
The room was inhabited in the past, by a Lorraine Massey who would usually seduce young bellboys who would visit her room. One time Danny Torrance visited this room after a ball strangely rolled to him from its open doors. Later, he claimed that a "crazy woman" tried to strangle him.
The Shining was a fictional tale, but the setting was inspired by the true hauntings within Colorado's Stanley Hotel. Stephen King's The Shining book was the basis for Stanley Kubrick's 1980 masterpiece film.
The Shining follows Jack Torrance, a man recovering from alcohol use disorder, who has delusions and develops psychosis over the course of the film. Although this movie attempts to explain the delusions by using spirits, audiences widely regarded Jack Torrance as the "crazy" axe-murderer from The Shining.
There are several types of schizophrenia experienced by Jack Torrance, including schizophrenic simplex, schizophrenic hebephrenic, schizophrenic catatonic and schizophrenic paranoid.
The theory claims that Jack going crazy and attacking his family happened before the events of the movie. The movie is actually Jack repeating that winter over and over for all eternity.
Jack Torrance : [to Lloyd] I just happen to have two 20s and two 10s right here in my wallet. I was afraid they were going to be there until next April. So here's what: you slip me a bottle of bourbon, a little glass and some ice. You can do that, can't you?
There were many parts but the three that stand out most for me were the bees all coming back out of that hive on the dresser, the hose coming alive and chasing Danny, and the ultimate and probably creepiest part of any book I've read, that “thing” inside the playground cylinder that he got trapped in by the snow.
The ending of The Shining, particularly the photo of Jack in the 1921 ballroom, suggests that Jack is a reincarnation of a former hotel employee, although this explanation is not explicitly stated in the film.
