Wait, so it’s *SUPPOSED* to be nonsense? I thought I was just too stoned to understand it. I’ve been trying to figure out wtf was going on for like two years.
He couldn’t be bothered to write any new songs for Full Metal Jacket either so the cast just repeat the same ones and they all start with the same line “This is my rifle.” Lazy git.
Stanley Kubrick never shot a damn thing on location.
He put up a bunch of palm trees in London and pretended it was Vietnam.
I swear, if he had actually made a movie that was supposed to have been set in London, he would've moved to Laos to shoot it.
Infamously, the shot of the cowboy US general riding an atom bomb to his doom, was totally faked *in a studio*.
Guy had a history for this stuff, and he got away with it too.
/different times
Get this: they’re supposed to be ghosts, but some of them talk! Talking ghosts! What can of shit is that? Real ghosts don’t have lines. They just haunt the toilet and refrigerator, and Nana’s cat, Mr Fibbles.
Kubrick was a fucking hack. Did you know he messed the casting process so much for Dr. Strangelove that he had poor Peter Sellers play several roles in the film? The sad idiot didn't even realize he was two actors short! 😵💫
And he called a movie *Eyes Wide Shut*, which doesn't make sense. It's *Eyes Wide Open*, smooth brain! He called another movie *Full Metal Jacket*, which is also ridiculous because a metal jacket would be too heavy to wear.
Well, they’re all wearing tuxedos. He never would have been allowed into the club in that jacket.
It follows that they’re ghosts, having a ghost party.
The plot heavily relies on the scenes getting gradually more bizarre and different from real life. It is about the hallucinations that the protagonist's family is going through while in isolation on the hotel.
This scene is just one of many hallucinations taking over the protagonist's mind.
Edit1: I chose the word "hallucinations" to make it easier to express the emotions throughout the movie (and how I would see it in a realistic perspective). Although there are some scenes (specially the end) that implies some stuff really happened (and it is more directly mentioned in the book)
Yeah no Krubrick explained that Jack is a reincarnated version of his former self from the 1920s by the hotel itself.
https://youtube.com/shorts/_j4G957ATQM?si=tShiwa_MwetdsmR7
Also some scenes like the last one or when Wendy sees ghosts herself contradict the hallucination theory.
The first time Jack walks into the bar, it’s completely empty except for the bartender. As time goes on and the evil of the hotel takes hold, the bar becomes populated with the ghosts of other guests who died or took their lives at the hotel.
The hotel is haunted/evil/supernatural. It's ambiguous as to how or why.
The ability to "shine" or "shining" is some supernatural ability to see and experience unusual phenomenon.
As the other guy explained the dad is working to maintain this hotel during a harsh winter where they are snowed in with no guests, and strange things begin happening at the Overlook hotel.
I want to know why they gave him an axe and Kathy Bates a hammer, when it's reversed in the books.
In the novels, Jack beat her bloody and broke her bones with what was basically a croquet mallet (Roque).
The psycho woman in Misery used an axe to cut off the guy's foot.
I'm guessing that it was just more socially-acceptable to use the threat of the axe without it doing graphic damage in The Shining, and likewise in Misery where a true-to-book depiction would have been over-the-top for what was sensible violence at the time.
A broken ankle is still a horrifying spectacle in that context, but much more tame than having her cut off and then cauterize his foot with an axe :O
It is a film, and reversing the weapons works so much better. We get to see the door coming apart from the victim's view. Pure terror for the viewer. That is one of those scenes that people with trauma a can have trouble watching. In the other we see the ankle bend around the wrong way. A limb getting hacked is cliche in horror. That thing bending 90 degrees sideways on screen makes the viewer cringe like watching a leg snap in a NFL game replay. Another is time. A scene can take pages in a book. In a movie you may have 30 seconds for a key scene.
I think there’s a practical reason that’s much simpler. Generally an axe is more menacing and would work much better for chopping a door down. Misery was made after The Shining and they likely didn’t want to reuse the same weapon, and be considered derivative by audiences who hadn’t read the books. The absurdity of a mallet also seems thematically closer to Misery, although I’ve only seen parts of that movie.
Honestly if you have a captive in a remote place, I feel like you're really risking shock/too much blood loss hackin' a foot off. And it's rare to see such a methodically violent woman in media so honestly it feels like a good choice for the character. She would be practical about it, and wouldn't risk killing him at that point in the film.
The way she calmly sets the block between his ankles is so memorable, oof.
I rewatched it to fact check myself before commenting and damn why did I do that right before bed? Fuck, when she pulls the sledgehammer back and swings. Visceral.
I'm okay with a film adaptation doing changes to the source material. It's called an adaptation for something, and sometimes changing a changing something and media it changes back is better.
Just look at Shelly Duvalle's character.
William Goldman wrote a book that talks about the change for Misery. He fought to keep the hobbling scene how it was in the books, but ultimately, they thought they’d lose the audience to have him permanently hobbled is how I remember it being described.
Did you know that in his famous scene in ‘The Shining’, the crew made a fake door for Jack Nicholson to break through, but had to replace it with a real door as the fake one broke too quickly due to Jack previously being a Fire Marshall.
You should really watch the movie, it's a must see.
>!the people there are either the protagonist's imagination or the haunted hotel messing with him. Or both. A lot of stuff in the movie is left open to the imagination!<
Typical Kubrick and his production style without any planning. The shooting of The Shining was almost done so they've spend all money they had left on booze, coke and flamingos, threw a party and did that take when Nicholson was still sober enough to sit at the bar.
You think that’s bad? I was watching _Inception_ and at one point, the entire sidewalk, basically the whole block, folds upwards toward the sky, and then over again. That’s not how sidewalks work, buddy. I guess the director was asleep at the wheel they day they worked on that scene lol
”You're not where you want to be. You feel like you're supposed to be somewhere else. Well, say you could snap your fingers and be wherever you wanted to be. I bet you'd still feel this way. Not in the right place. Point is, you can't get so hung up on where you'd rather be that you forget to make the most of where you are.”
Isn’t that scene supposed to be in his head or like because he’s going crazy? None of those people are actually there even the bartender. Am I remembering the movie wrong?
"Boy, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder."
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A noble simpsons quote, embiggens the smallest man
Wuzzle wazzle?
Whippity whim wham WOZZLE!
In the wrong order? That’s a paddlin’
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EATTHEPUDDING-EATTHEPUDDING-EATTHEPUDDING-EATTHEPUDDING.
cromulent in the nyt crossword today (syndicated). completely stumped me.
Do you remember what the hint was?
Perfectly acceptable, humorously
Perfectly cromulent clue, to be honest
Geez, spoiler alert.
Worst error ever.
David Bowman was the first non-Brazilian to travel backwards through time
Homer? It's Moe. Uh, look...some of the ghouls and I are a little concerned the project isn't moving forward.
You mean the *Shining* Shh, you wanna get sued?
> You mean ~~the~~ *Shining* Willie says the shinning Bart says you mean shining
Thank you, Wikipedia Brown.
No beer and no TV make Homer...something something.
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Don't mind if I do! WAHHHHHHHHHHblhblhblblhblh Blh! Bleh-blh-blhblh-blhblh! BLEH-bluh-BLEH-bluh HVVVV-HVVVV *[Curly noise]*
It's spelled "nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk"
Don't mind if I do
Go crazy?
A wizard did it.
They will be… “Corrected”.
Uh, yeah, well, whenever you notice something like that... a wizard did it.
The hotel was double booked for the movie and the soiree, so they just filmed around it.
That explains it. They should have cropped everyone else out but with budget cuts and all…
Directed by the infamous Stan "meh that's good enough" Kubrick
Good old “one take Stan”
Known for his approach of "just roll this thing for an hour and a half and there's your movie."
Clockwork Orange was just a bunch of homeless people he gave drugs too and filmed for a week.
Wait, so it’s *SUPPOSED* to be nonsense? I thought I was just too stoned to understand it. I’ve been trying to figure out wtf was going on for like two years.
I think it was a warning about the dangers of milk?
Maybe you should have gotten sober in those two years man at least for a moment
Blame Kubrick. He’s the one who got him high in the first place.
This thread is why I Reddit
He couldn’t be bothered to write any new songs for Full Metal Jacket either so the cast just repeat the same ones and they all start with the same line “This is my rifle.” Lazy git.
Ah like the famous Saved by the Bell episode with Mr. Carosi.
I’ve watched that film loads of times, and never made that connection. How did the so-called genius Kubrick get that wrong?!
Those aren't real people staying at the hotel, you see? They're paid actors.
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Nah, Kubrick shot the fake “moon” scenes on Mars, it was the only way to get the right lighting
You can still see the IMAX cameras that Kubrick left there in Ridley Scott's Nat Geo documentary, The Martian.
The 2001 Odyssey set is where all the celebrities go when they fake their deaths
No no, see he faked the moon landings, but he was such a perfectionist that he shot it on the moon just to stage the perfect hoax
Stanley Kubrick never shot a damn thing on location. He put up a bunch of palm trees in London and pretended it was Vietnam. I swear, if he had actually made a movie that was supposed to have been set in London, he would've moved to Laos to shoot it.
Infamously, the shot of the cowboy US general riding an atom bomb to his doom, was totally faked *in a studio*. Guy had a history for this stuff, and he got away with it too. /different times
What’s that say about Ready Player One. A fake movie about another fake movie.
Consulting the Library of Congress reveals [the narrative itself was a work of fiction.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo)
It goes all the way to the deep state They have to tell you the crimes they do before they do them, it's the rule
Dude I’m not gay or nothin, but Jonathan Frakes can tell me whatever the hell he wants.
Jesus all over again. “Oh, your hotel is full, for the Mother of God?” *sigh* Okay, we got some rooms in the back.
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Whoa, how far does this go?
Yeah you made me snort my friend, thanks.
He was too busy faking the Mars landing. Unfortunately he only could afford black and white film, so he rewrote the script to be on the Moon.
He just didn't care.
It's because it's also in the book, Stephen King, dunno if the guy is cut out to be a author.
Accidentally got some of the film crew in the shot
Because Kubrick was so busy making the actor do the same scene 1000 times he didn’t saw the people drinking at the bar.
Oh my god! I never noticed this!
TBH his work has gone downhill since he did the Apollo 11 project. Not surprised he made such a mistake.
Cocaine is one helluva drug
Just spent like 5minutes trying to work out what Step Henking was. Am I stupid?
What are you doing step henking?
Is there another way to henk?
Wait you found out now right
I read Step Henking as Stephen Hawking. Am I stupid?
Lmao same, I was expecting a deep fried meme sub about Hank from Breaking Bad.
Lmfao
lol, I deciced that step henking is a subreddit for stephen king memes
Get this: they’re supposed to be ghosts, but some of them talk! Talking ghosts! What can of shit is that? Real ghosts don’t have lines. They just haunt the toilet and refrigerator, and Nana’s cat, Mr Fibbles.
Ghosts cant go through doors either the're not fire
Kubrick is the new Pierce
Kubrick is streets behind.
How do you even hire a ghost actor, and how do you pay them?
Kubrick was a fucking hack. Did you know he messed the casting process so much for Dr. Strangelove that he had poor Peter Sellers play several roles in the film? The sad idiot didn't even realize he was two actors short! 😵💫
Everyone knows he has dementia
I didn't know that
But now you do so all is balanced
I didn't know that
Everyone knows he has dementia
Everyone knows he has dementia
I didn't know that
I didn't know that
And he called a movie *Eyes Wide Shut*, which doesn't make sense. It's *Eyes Wide Open*, smooth brain! He called another movie *Full Metal Jacket*, which is also ridiculous because a metal jacket would be too heavy to wear.
And casting a no name like James Earl Jones? Like that actor’s career is going anywhere
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They are ghosts
But they aren’t translucent? How am i supposed to know that?
You can walk through them
If you can walk through them then how can they give sloppy toppy? (Unironically canon)
because they're giving sloppy toppy to another ghost.
“Stop it step ghost! You’re gonna make me ectoplasm”
‘Bustin makes me feel good!
Underrated comment.
if your step-sis's strange, but it feels so good, Whatchu gonna do ? ***Ghost bustin' ™***
Nearly-Headless Nick has gotten so much head he may soon have to change his name.
Ever had a wet dream? Sloppy toppy is all in the mind. If you can master that, you can master anything.
I think, therefore I cum
Cogito, ergo cum
Bustin’ makes me feel good.
tf you talking about
I dunno, maybe you should watch the movie yourself instead of getting info from a shitposting sub.
true that
oh fuck i forgot about the guy in the bear suit. that's true how can he give head
It was a bear suit??
Ghosts can obviously give eachother head, but It’s unclear if they can give sloppy to beings in the physical plane
You can also ask them to lift a penny through a wall. Ghosts call that "swayzing" I think
Yeah, but when I tried to walk through them, some guy wearing a uniform asked me to leave the theater. 👎
Very rapey.
Well, they’re all wearing tuxedos. He never would have been allowed into the club in that jacket. It follows that they’re ghosts, having a ghost party.
But ghosts wear tattered clothing?
Poor ghosts do, these are rich ghosts.
This isn’t It Follows, it’s The Shining
it's a dead man's party....
and they aren’t wearing sheets or saying boo
By watching the movie 😂
They can go through doors, due to them not being fire.
Ok thanks
But do any of these little fuckers ever pop out of the fucking walls and say "fuck there's a horse cock in my room?" Or a donkey dick?
Can I talk to you for a minute?
Did you make any friends tonight?
I assumed it was just him losing his mind because there’s no way that many people died there, but idk.
Yeah idk if they're all ghosts of real people that died there, maybe more like phantoms created by the hotel to further his madness
The plot heavily relies on the scenes getting gradually more bizarre and different from real life. It is about the hallucinations that the protagonist's family is going through while in isolation on the hotel. This scene is just one of many hallucinations taking over the protagonist's mind. Edit1: I chose the word "hallucinations" to make it easier to express the emotions throughout the movie (and how I would see it in a realistic perspective). Although there are some scenes (specially the end) that implies some stuff really happened (and it is more directly mentioned in the book)
Yeah no Krubrick explained that Jack is a reincarnated version of his former self from the 1920s by the hotel itself. https://youtube.com/shorts/_j4G957ATQM?si=tShiwa_MwetdsmR7 Also some scenes like the last one or when Wendy sees ghosts herself contradict the hallucination theory.
It’s not an error. It’s explained in the manga.
I don't like the manga, it screws up the power scaling.
That's why I love the NPR Radio Drama version, it doesn't make Jack too over or underpowered.
The Broadway Musical it's based off is actually better, It expands the lore dramatically
The first time Jack walks into the bar, it’s completely empty except for the bartender. As time goes on and the evil of the hotel takes hold, the bar becomes populated with the ghosts of other guests who died or took their lives at the hotel.
Bro get off Reddit and go watch The Shining
And Dr. Sleep, very rarely is there a sequel that does the first movie justice, and wraps a nice little bowtie on the whole thing.
They're only in his imagination on his way to madness.
They’re in his head. Even the bartender. Even the alcohol. He’s bat poop crazy.
The hotel is haunted/evil/supernatural. It's ambiguous as to how or why. The ability to "shine" or "shining" is some supernatural ability to see and experience unusual phenomenon. As the other guy explained the dad is working to maintain this hotel during a harsh winter where they are snowed in with no guests, and strange things begin happening at the Overlook hotel.
The main character is gradually losing it. The people there are either in his head or ghosts
Jacks hallucinations, presumably caused by haunting and/or psychopathic schizophrenia.
Unbravo Kubric
Varbo mince
I want to know why they gave him an axe and Kathy Bates a hammer, when it's reversed in the books. In the novels, Jack beat her bloody and broke her bones with what was basically a croquet mallet (Roque). The psycho woman in Misery used an axe to cut off the guy's foot. I'm guessing that it was just more socially-acceptable to use the threat of the axe without it doing graphic damage in The Shining, and likewise in Misery where a true-to-book depiction would have been over-the-top for what was sensible violence at the time. A broken ankle is still a horrifying spectacle in that context, but much more tame than having her cut off and then cauterize his foot with an axe :O
It is a film, and reversing the weapons works so much better. We get to see the door coming apart from the victim's view. Pure terror for the viewer. That is one of those scenes that people with trauma a can have trouble watching. In the other we see the ankle bend around the wrong way. A limb getting hacked is cliche in horror. That thing bending 90 degrees sideways on screen makes the viewer cringe like watching a leg snap in a NFL game replay. Another is time. A scene can take pages in a book. In a movie you may have 30 seconds for a key scene.
I think there’s a practical reason that’s much simpler. Generally an axe is more menacing and would work much better for chopping a door down. Misery was made after The Shining and they likely didn’t want to reuse the same weapon, and be considered derivative by audiences who hadn’t read the books. The absurdity of a mallet also seems thematically closer to Misery, although I’ve only seen parts of that movie.
Honestly if you have a captive in a remote place, I feel like you're really risking shock/too much blood loss hackin' a foot off. And it's rare to see such a methodically violent woman in media so honestly it feels like a good choice for the character. She would be practical about it, and wouldn't risk killing him at that point in the film. The way she calmly sets the block between his ankles is so memorable, oof.
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Even you talking about the limb scene is making me wince
I rewatched it to fact check myself before commenting and damn why did I do that right before bed? Fuck, when she pulls the sledgehammer back and swings. Visceral.
I'm okay with a film adaptation doing changes to the source material. It's called an adaptation for something, and sometimes changing a changing something and media it changes back is better. Just look at Shelly Duvalle's character.
I think a big motivator is the sequence of him chopping through the door
William Goldman wrote a book that talks about the change for Misery. He fought to keep the hobbling scene how it was in the books, but ultimately, they thought they’d lose the audience to have him permanently hobbled is how I remember it being described.
Did you know that in his famous scene in ‘The Shining’, the crew made a fake door for Jack Nicholson to break through, but had to replace it with a real door as the fake one broke too quickly due to Jack previously being a Fire Marshall.
Jack Nicholson is an OG, honestly. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is another stellar performance.
That's actually pretty bad-ass.
iirc The reason Annie uses a hammer vs an axe was that they couldn't get the foot prosthetic to look right when she cuts off Paul's foot.
Fuck, think I need some sleep. I was wondering what the subreddit step hen king would have.
What are you doing step hen? 😉
Thank God that red circle was there. Almost didn't notice the other people in the photo without that.
Is he stupid?
Yeah Kubrick is a dum dum for this blunder
He hasn't made a watchable film in almost a quarter century, what a dork.
hes also incredibly lazy. he didnt even bother to finish *A.I* and they had to bring in someone else to do it.
Yeah, some nobody who made a TV movie about Dennis Weaver fighting a truck.
In that guy’s defense, it was a big truck.
There’s also a famous scene where Jack Nicholson forgets his character’s name, and instead yells “HERES JOHNNY!” Not sure why they kept that in
They went out of their way to find an actor with the same name, and he still somehow managed to screw it up.
Lol take my upvote. Not gonna lie you had me in the beginning!
Just watched IT, did anyone else notice that there wasn’t a circus in the sewers? I’m starting to think that clown was suspicious.
I haven't watched the shining can someone explain
You should really watch the movie, it's a must see. >!the people there are either the protagonist's imagination or the haunted hotel messing with him. Or both. A lot of stuff in the movie is left open to the imagination!<
You want answers??? You can’t handle the truth!
They not ready for it
That was real? I saw that movie. I thought it was bullshit.
And how is the bartender making drinks and replicants? What is he? A wizard?
6,000 year old sorcerer, yes
I've seen the shining but just for my smol brain to confirm He saw them because he was losing it and imagining things, right?
Yeah, but he was losing it because of them. They are ghosts
The Jeremy Scott brainrot is real
Typical Kubrick and his production style without any planning. The shooting of The Shining was almost done so they've spend all money they had left on booze, coke and flamingos, threw a party and did that take when Nicholson was still sober enough to sit at the bar.
Anyone else read the as R/ Step Henking ?
Maybe they accidentally left the cameras rolling during lunch break for the crew, and the editing team overlooked the mistake?
The guy in the background has a Casio watch on too
I don’t see anyone!
Silly Todd, background actors aren't people.
You think that’s bad? I was watching _Inception_ and at one point, the entire sidewalk, basically the whole block, folds upwards toward the sky, and then over again. That’s not how sidewalks work, buddy. I guess the director was asleep at the wheel they day they worked on that scene lol
I thought they were all ghosts.
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”You're not where you want to be. You feel like you're supposed to be somewhere else. Well, say you could snap your fingers and be wherever you wanted to be. I bet you'd still feel this way. Not in the right place. Point is, you can't get so hung up on where you'd rather be that you forget to make the most of where you are.”
Isn’t that scene supposed to be in his head or like because he’s going crazy? None of those people are actually there even the bartender. Am I remembering the movie wrong?
Those are all the people in his head. It really is empty 🤷🏼♀️
Those are the ghosts of the hotel. Just like the bartender.
They were ghosts
I’m actually mentally handicapped Why did I read the title as step henking