So there was some discussion about trying to find a way of ending it without a lot of blood. Any child can see that. Forget it! While he was alive all that was relatively quiet. After his death, these [theories] came out which were funny, and partly insulting. The most insulting one is the idea that The Shining is a film about the Holocaust. The other ideas are much more harmless, where continuity mistakes are attributed with deep meaning.
Two key scenes that heavily impacted the ending were actually shot and then deleted from the final cut. The photographs set up the final haunting image of Jack in the picture.
Johnson : There was a big length problem with Warner Bros. The film was too long and people said it had to be shortened. Some [minutes] came off the end and some came off of the beginning — they were expository and not really necessary. The scene that I thought was really necessary was the scrapbook scene.
I argued very strenuously [to keep it]. The second outtake was a two-minute hospital scene that was placed after Jack froze to death and before the final shot of the ballroom photograph. In the scene read the script pages , the hotel manager, Ullman Barry Nelson , visits Wendy and Danny after their ordeal and explains that no supernatural evidence was found to support their claims of what transpired. Johnson : In other words: All of this really happened, and the magic events were actual. It was just a little twist.
It was easy to jettison. Johnson has previously said Kubrick liked the scene because it reassured the audience that Wendy and Danny were okay. Echoing the rampage of Grady from years prior, Jack begins running amok in the hotel, attempting to kill his family with an axe a croquet mallet in the book.
Cornering them in a bathroom, his wife Wendy Shelley Duvall helps son Danny Danny Lloyd escape through the window which she is too big to fit through. Jack chops through the door but Wendy fends him off with a knife. He then pursues Danny into the hotel's outdoor hedge maze, and after hotly pursuing his boy's tracks, Danny fools his father by tracing backwards over his own tracks and then escaping.
Jack is misled through the maze, and winds up lost in the freezing cold. As Wendy and Danny escape in the snowcat that Hallorann brought with him, Jack slumps down amid the freezing maze, exhausted and muttering.
A jump cut shows him the next morning completely frozen, literally stone cold dead. The final shot has the camera gliding through The Gold Room out into the hallway where rows of photographs from the hotel's past are hung. As horror filmmakers have practiced time and time again, there's nothing like old music by dead people to set a mood. The key to understanding the ending lies in Grady's ominous portent to Jack in the bathroom midway through the film: "You are the caretaker.
You've always been the caretaker. I should know, sir The feature follows writer and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance as he becomes a caretaker at the Overlook Hotel in Colorado for its winter season, taking his wife Wendy and young son Danny, played by Shelley Duvall and Danny Lloyd, with him.
However, the troubled figure begins to lose his mind with the influence of supernatural entities that have taken up residence in the hotel and eventually attempts to murder his family. The film concludes when the ghost-possessed Torrance chases his wife and son, the latter of whom has psychic abilities, through a snowy maze and freezes to death. Claustrophobic reaction: The film follows a writer and recovering alcoholic who begins to lose his mind and endanger his family when he becomes the caretaker of a ghost-infested hotel.
Extraordinary talent: The Stanley Kubrick-directed feature was based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. The feature was released to an initially mixed critical reception, although it has been reviewed much more favorably since its initial debut. Many viewers have speculated that the photo from the feature's ending implies that Nicholson's character's soul has been taken into the hotel, among other supernatural occurrences.
Director Stanley Kubrick previously discussed the photograph and its implications, and according to The Take , he expressed that Torrance may have been at the hotel prior to his arrival as a caretaker. Specifically, the filmmaker remarked: 'The ballroom photograph at the very end suggests the reincarnation of Jack.
Staying forever: Following the feature's release, Kubrick stated that Nicholson's appearance in the photograph 'suggests the reincarnation of Jack'.
The media outlet also pointed out that the photograph that Kubrick used was really taken in , although Nicholson's head had been airbrushed onto the picture. Several Twitter users began to openly discuss their conclusions regarding the photo, and one specifically mentioned that Torrance was not the only individual who had a history with the Overlook.
The user wrote: 'I always though each person was a victim of the hotel. The hotel took a lot of people! Open speculation: On Sunday, several Twitter users took to the social networking site to express their opinions about the photo's implications.
Ideas: One user pointed out that Nicholson's character was 'bound to the eternal violent history of the hotel'. Others discussed the film's larger implications as a piece of social commentary regarding various atrocities committed in the past, and one person expressed that Torrance was 'bound to the eternal violent history of the hotel.
One user specifically pointed out that, over the length of his filmmaking career, 'Kubrick's attention to detail was to an insane level.
Another made the observation that Torrance was making a pose reminiscent of the devil in the Rider-Waite tarot deck. Infernal implication: One user expressed that Nicholson's pose reflected that of the devil in the Rider-Waite tarot deck, which led another to applaud the director's 'attention to detail'. The Shining is an interesting film. At first, it feels like a traditional horror set-up - a guy gets hired to spend the winter in an enormous hotel, secluded from civilization, where obviously something will go very wrong.
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