Stanley Kubrick Explains the ENDING of THE SHINING
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David Lynch: It’s better left unexplained, so I refuse to explain it.
Stanley Kubrick: It’s better left unexplained, but since you asked me I’m trying to explain.
Kubrick never, ever said anything near to your fudge.
@@garylampkin4288 Huh?
@@garylampkin4288 did you have a stroke? What does this comment mean
@@garylampkin4288take your medicine old man.
@@garylampkin4288Uh, yes, he did. In the video. You know, the one we're commenting on?
The hotel is a repository of souls. The wall at the end, it's a trophy case of all the souls the hotel has claimed over the years. Fun fact, that is a real 1920s photo that Jack was edited into!
You're comment made me shiver!!! Bravo. Sounds similar to Burnt Offerings as well.
@@puplover7991good movie?
@@juliandelapena4293 Yes! Burnt Offerings is disturbing as hell.
Great movie.@@juliandelapena4293
Same as earth.
Everyone and their mother will exclaim they know exactly what Kubrick's The Shinning film is all about, while ignoring the filmmaker himself stating that "It's better left unexplained". It is a moving Rorschach inkblot test. Everyone's individual interpretation is valid. This is the very definition of artistry.
Ah yes, including the part where he filmed some space scenes...
Rob Ager's analysis is correct...
You mental patients are funny
@@kxkxkxkx You mean the ability to think critically and not pass off everything as a coincidence? Ah, yes such things are too for much pea-sized brains.
Imagine playing mental gymnastics in one end and simultanously not being able to comprehend that rich people can also conspire. Funny that.
@@amxaas4450 Yes exactly. If a viewer watches the Shining and thinks Danny's Apollo 11 sweater means Kubrick (a revolutionary free spirited anarchist artist) helped the US Government fake the moon landings, then that is what the sweater means to said viewer. Ofcourse it doesn't mean that is what Kubrick meant by having Danny sport the sweater, but that's just it, it's all in one's individual interpretation, which like a Rorschach inkblot test, will always reflect on their own mental state. It makes perfect sense that someone with an uneducated, paranoid and wholly subjective perception of life, of whom follows other conspiracy theorists off the edge of reality to validate their own paranoid delusions, would adopt a conspiracy theorists skewed, narrow view of reality, and assume that Danny's shirt equals Conspiracy. Just like the belief in a God or any other subjective belief, If this is what the sweater symbolizes to said viewer, then that is one humans valid take on a piece of art.
I was actually close to this explanation when we watched it in school, I don't often brag, & I'm no creative person, but good at analytics, but feel a bit smug now
You can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave
Welcome to the Hotel California
It’s called the hotel 🏨 Californiasatanification.👺👺
I was under the impression that the hotel claimed his soul and that's why he was in the picture at the end. I suppose I was close
I've seen it explained numerous times as the various phases of Jack's demonic posession.
Because he was there from the beginning and he's probably still there now I absolutely love this movie
If you’ve read the book, that’s pretty close.
Yes, reincarnation is a key element to this movie. "I've ALWAYS liked you Lloyd"!;) And, of course, a repeated subplot of racism is also very clear. That's why the Ball room atmosphere and the White decadence era which is the main timeframe of the movie. Where White people built a massive hotel on an Indian burial ground, just for White folks to party, but the oppressed really gets the last laugh!;)
If most of the people have the same similar impression, then it's probably wrong
The Shining is an absolute classic I love it
Kubrick was the shit! Truly a genius in film making
Not according to suspension king, but yes
he isn't even able to fully articulate what his movie's ending is about but sure...genius
@@kurtsudheim825King is a leftist coke head that doesn't know shit about anything. I doubt he wrote most of his books himself.
@@kurtsudheim825what-
@@cinesanti7he articulated it just fine, maybe you just didnt understand what he said
Not to mention the whole time he’s talking to Grady, he’s literally facing athe mirror, essentially talking to himself
But then Grady knew that Danny was telepathically calling Dick for help. Jack didn't even know that Dick had the shining. And Grady even let Jack out of the pantry.
@@bodd-energon5502 I don’t get what you’re trying to say at all
@@RIPbennyharveyLet me quote another interview Kubrick did explaining The Shining:
Michel Ciment: So you don't regard the apparitions as merely a projection of his mental state?
Stanley Kubrick: For the purposes of telling the story, my view is that the paranormal is genuine. Jack's mental state serves only to prepare him for the murder, and to temporarily mislead the audience.
@@RIPbennyharveyhe’s referring to one of the many mysteries of the film. Specifically, the fact that when Jack makes it out into the hedge row maze, he had naturally gotten out or had been let out of the pantry which he was locked in from the inside - by Wendy.
How would you explain who let him out if Wendy and Danny had fled already. Many people have theorised it was Grady who let him out, since Grady knew that Danny and dick were conspiring to save Wendy and Danny from Jack
@@brendanfoley1593 no shit, the entire point of the Grady arc is to imply that Jack will be reincarnated as Grady, thus implying that Jack is already going through the transformation by talking to Grady/himself. It’s not even a mystery they literally show you that shit at the end of the movie.
That ball room music and connection to that era was always very unnerving and frightening for me!
It was the most chill part for me. The movie had a terrifying atmosphere and I simply relaxed when he was in that room filled with people and chilling with Loyd
I love that song.
It's called Midnight With The Stars And You.
First time i hear his voice...it seemed very beautiful
First time for me too, but some people here said that this is NOT Kubrick's voice.
"You were always the caretaker"
So why the need for the interview?
@@TheWaynos73 He was in a new body. When we experience deja vu, you’ve undoubtedly heard that the experience is derived from our supposed past lives. We can’t remember our past lives, but deja vu tries to remind us. The only issue with my theory is Jack never mentioned anything in regard to I’ve-been-here/seen-this-before, but the external forces in the hotel try to remind him.
@@Lstar07 deja Vu is not a recognized psychological response to the fallacy of past lives. We are born, we live then we die, then on to meeting our maker. THATS IT! From dust we came, to dust our physical body returns. Most likely the sense of deja vu is a dissociative fugue.
@@Lstar07 He even admitted to his wife during his first day as caretaker that he felt that he had been previously here.
@@Lstar07 hmm I think deja vu is simply past buried memories in our current life that get triggered when we come upon a similar setting. Like how you can be reminded of a particular dream randomly by some experience.
Goosebumps from this! Kubrick was a clever cat
One of the best director, he was great !
I remember the television commercials for this when it came out used to absolutely terrify me, I couldn’t even bear to watch them (I was 10 or 11).
I was 4 or 5 but even I remember the trailers on TV. Then I remember going to the drive in lol
The Shining is the best movie ever made
When I saw this movie. My son was about 6 years old, but he looked almost identical to the little boy in the movie. My mother have an anxiety attack watching it and it really freaked me out too.
I highly recommend reading the book to really understand the film. I think Kubrick is trying to get at a feeling that haunts and enriches King’s novel. There’s a feeling of inevitable doom…
If a movie clearly explains everything it leaves less to discuss. By leaving a mystery is been debate by people for 50 years.
Finally from kubrick himself
He made Stephen King watchable.
@@educateme8455🤦♀️
Never heard his voice before
I always liked the Absorption theory because it makes easy sense, but the reincarnation/endless cycle theory seems to be closer based on tons of dialogue in the movie.
My whole life I was told about how it can mean so many different things. But this was what I got too. Just a cycle very good movie though
Recently saw an interview with Stephen King (the author of The Shining) who said he did not like Kubrick's ending. He much prefered the ending in his book.
The books ending is cheesy & manipulative.
King walked out of the premiere and trashed the movie in Playboy. He's very much not a fan to this day.
They corrected it somewhat in the ending of Dr. Sleep, but changing the characters.
I really enjoy that he's merely **trying** to explain--as if the story has a metaphysical independence of even the visionary who apparently is only representing something whose mysteries are both real and beyond him.
Nicholson’s face on that picture is still terrifying
"Oh ok, but do you want the rice or noodles sir?"
Hahahahahahahahahahaha.
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That's messed up! Made me laugh though
Anyone who liked The shinning or other Kubrick films should check out Noah Hawley’s work. The Fargo series and FXs LEGION
"Sir, it's a felony to tease the order box"
In the July 4th Ball, 1921, That was Jack Torrance Senior, the father of the Jack Torrance we all know and love. This is just as Dilbert Grady is the father of Charles Grady. Chef Dick Halloran's father, was William Halloran. A strange, unbroken, chain of genetic lineage going back to the battle against the Indians for the land in 1900. When the Indians conceded defeat, a curse on the highest leadership of those that took their land was cast. It is a generational curse. Even Danny returned to the Overlook. With the devastating damage done to the Overlook Hotel, it would appear the curse is over. But, the family of those cursed in the land seizure will be compelled to rebuild the Overlook. The assumed destruction of the Overlook Hotel May be premature.
This is now interesting.
Killing Dick was a terrible decision.
Such a good movie
It's very clear what the ending meant. If you need it spelled out, perhaps you should watch Barney the dinosaur instead.
It was mentioned earlier in the film that the hotel was built over an indian burial ground. That was supposed to be the root cause of all of the paranormal activity.
I believe the movie (not sure about the book) also states it's the location of the Donner Party, so just like Pet Semetary, there's soiled ground and likely a tie to the Dark Tower that the natives were drawn to. And the builders of the hotel would've also been drawn to the power. The book also has a lot more murders in the hotel's past, a whole slew of gangsters.
@@gonzotolkienThe title came from John Lennon’s Instant Karma . Stephen King got the idea from a tabloid article . If there are haunted places , they are akin to a supernatural ,psychic storage battery and the gifted psychics ( those with the shine ) can tap into them and awaken them . I read the book in 79. The burial ground which was a cliche even back then was a Kubrick implementation.
@@dagnabbit6187 I didn't say anything about a burial ground in the Shining. I mentioned Pet Semetary. I said soiled ground, and the book also mentions the Donner Party, which would mean it's not just the hotel. It's the location, which makes sense, considering the hedge animals outside the hotel. Locations with power is a theme that permeates through a lot of King novels.
@@gonzotolkien I was talking about Kubrick . Kubrick might have known it was a cliche but decided to use it anyway . He was a smart man . I have read a lot of Stephen King . Yes I have read Pet Sematary . I guess I didn’t make it clear . It has been a long time since I read The Shining . Kubrick’s movie is probably good for someone who has never read the book . I am on team Stephen as far as the story is concerned but over the years I have eased up on my criticism of Kubrick’s interpretation and have to learn that film and printed word are two different media with different dynamics . Sorry about the confusion.
I’ll have what I’m having.
continental huh??
@@polfachini6489 where should we fly to first?
Ooo laa laa
To greece, where the yogurt flows like a water fall
How did this even need explaining? The the conversation between Jack and the previous caretaker along with the ending made that quite obvious.
you guys. What makes something art, is that it isn't directly explained. Understand? if you want to say something directly you just make an essay about it. art is intended to evoke a state of mind that can not be explained literally.
My dad used to repeat himself over and over like Jack, but he would do it by saying it instead of typing it and it was very creepy. Like he was stuck in time. ⭕️
That's the ONLY part he got over on Stephen King. In the book, the Overlook explodes. I can't remember if Jack was in it at the time. His endings normally don't translate well in film Secret Window & The Mist were two other film adaptions that got upgraded endings.
I can explain is better, Stephen King wrote it. It's in the book. It's part of the dialogue Kubrik actually used from the book. If people have questions, read the book. The movie deviates wildly closer to the end. But the movie still uses lots of the dialogue from the book 📖
That added zero information. But at least that means we're not missing anything (that Kubrick is willing to admit)
This really makes me want to write a screenplay
Wow how lucky is my my granddad from getting sent whisky and wine from him, if you don't know....Stanley had a prescription of oxygen for his cats and I'm not kidding, my grandad ran the pharmacy he got it from
This music is beautiful and scary at the same time
Mister kubrick was a master
The Shining really still scares me!
Haha, Kubrick explaining his films at all must've been very, very rare. He usually never answered those kinds of questions about any of his movies.
There is another clip of him talking to the same guy on the phone explaining the end of 2001.
@@MrSeedi762001 is pretty faithful to the book if I recall correctly.
Looks like this is where American Horror story got their idea for HOTEL
I never watched American Horror story but I find it very interesting that the best thriller-horror films take place in a hotel, first Psycho and 20 years later The Shining.
Stephen King says Kubrick got it all wrong and missed the point of the story.
The nature of adapting a story is adapting it. Kubrick adapted the premise to fit the story he wanted to tell. He is not obligated to have his film serve the same purpose of Stephen King's book. In fact, he's even said something along the lines of if a movie serves the same purpose as the book then just read the book.
@@umbrella3705while everyone is free to make changes when adapting something, I never personally agreed on the last part that a book or a movie is superfluous if it serves the same purpose as the source material. Just the fact that they are two different mediums will always lead to a different result regardless of how true it stays to the source. Also, not everyone likes to read, for example. Why shouldn't they get the same story as in a book? I suspect it is more about artists not wanting to merely copy something. They are creative after all and want to be creative with what they find.
Yeah and King made his own movie version of the shining in 2001 and it’s….embarrassingly bad. King neglects to acknowledge that the screenplay and book are always different to a degree. And while he slammed the shining for this he praised another film literally saying exactly what i said - the book and film are always going to have differences. So between his atrocious version of the shining film, not sure what his problem is when it’s clearly one of the greatest horror films of all time. As Kubrick’s writing partner for the shining Diane something or other said herself “the book is def scary but it’s not a work of literary art by any stretch” basically saying it’s spooky but not like it was written by a master literary giant. so personally think King should shut up about it
King later says he loves the movie
Exactly. I like Kubrick as much as the next guy, but The Shining was great story that had real characters and so many layers; and his interpretation of it stripped away all thise layers and turned into a really soulless experience for me. It’s not a bad movie, but I watch it with Doctor Sleep back-to-back, it becomes a part of something greater.
Nicholson is ALWAYS looking into mirrors when he's talking to ghosts. When Jack freezes in the labyrinth - his eyes are upward - comically - like wile e coyote (which is what Danny is watching in their appt.). The b&w photo takes place on "Independence Day". There's a lot more to this film that what Kubrick admits.
did y'all see the sequel already?
Dr. Sleep?
He sort of explains it, but it seems to me that he isnt sure himself of everything. I think that is awesome! Whenever I fantasize about the supernatural or fantasy, I always follow some path in my head without really examining everything. I think that is a totally legitimate way to think about unnatural things, and this can be used very effectively in fiction.
That's what I always thought that meant interesting hearing it from Stanley gives you a much bigger idea
We studied Stanley in grade10/11 for film study in English, this & FMJ were the ones we watched in class, 3 others were shown on 3fri afternoons after school where we needed parents signature (ya I watched clockwork orange). I'm no creative person, but good analytical thinks tangent pointing to that pic & mentioning the year (I believe I said 1929), I don't offish brag - hate it - but do feel quite smug now seeing as a was fairly close/ right
Now it makes sense.
He’s answering a surface question with a surface answer.
The guy who wrote the story says Kubrick didn't understand it.
@@JohnSmith-im8qt he understood it, he just thought the psychological aspect and minimalizing the ghosts made it scarier (which it did). King remade the movie with a more “faithful” adaptation and it isn’t scary at all it’s actually a mediocre film, but king thinks it’s superior because it is closer to the source material. So it leaves the question of what is more important, a better/scarier film, or a lesser but more faithful adaptation. All king cares about is faithfulness. He thinks his writing is the greatest ever when in reality he’s written a handful of great books out of like 50.
Kub tried to make the story better. He succeeded.
Great movie love it.👍💯💀💀☠️💀💯💯💯
I had an idea that the ending had something to do with evil and reincarnation. I also think it could be a time loop because when Jack visits that room, we end up seeing all those people and they appear to be in the 1920s. So when he died, he became part of that cycle and time loop, as well as the hotel's history. In the photograph, he's the last one who's part of that cycle and will be the next ghost to possess the next caretaker.
Wendy theory is what it is
This is the one serial killer I believe gave an honest interview.
The ending to the film is way better than King's crappy phony ending where Jack "comes good" & tells his son he loves him & tells him to run away before the hotel explodes in a cheesy Michael Bay type explosion.
I actually prefer the book ending. Jack was supposed to be more sympathetic than he is in the film. The film ended in a rush and felt meh.
I agree. Stephen King usually doesn't write cheesy stuff but this was cheesy on a cringe level
It's just them trying to have a climatic ending and leave you guessing instead of giving a concrete conclusion. I personally prefer my story to be told with a coherent beginning middle and conclusion that wraps up the story or directly leads to another part of the plot.
The ending is same as Dan Curtis "Burnt Offerings".
I knew it damn it , I was telling people this for years and they just argued with me, its right there in the movie
I loved that movie. I didn't find it scary, but Jack Nicholson's, turn as Jack Torrence, was down right hilarious! I watch the Shining, to this very day.
I had kind of figured out its premise, when he was talking to his wife & he told her, that it "seemed like he'd been here b4." Let the movie play out & my thoughts were confirmed. But I loved that movie, and Jack Nicholson.
How is it at all funny? In any possible way how is it funny. Please explain it to me. I can certainly understand how you aren’t “scared” per say….but how the hell do you think it’s funny?
@@brendanfoley1593 I agree with you, I don't understand why he thinks the movie is funny.
Kubrick would give you the easy answer for unquestioning minds. Childishly demand an explanation? Fine, have this simple one.
That was always my take-a-way.
Regardless of how much Stephen King didn't approve of this movie. It's a classic.
It's kind of something that annoys me about King, because he's upset about changes from the book yet goes on to promote things like the Mist TV show that are nothing like what he wrote. Makes me think his grudge is that there were a lot of changes, and the movie is still beloved and seen as one of the horror classics.
So all the people in the picture fell victim to the hotel ? That why jacks in it ?
Here's Johnny
I talked with one of my movie buff friends about why he is in that picture, at the end. My friend said:" Well, he is probably a ghost, through space and time.."
I said:" You're making it worse! Now I can't sleep."😂
That's what I thought.Maybe Jack saw this picture and this is what made him crazy.
Not only cycles of violence but also Jack Torrance is writing a book and in the movie it might just be visual specs of his imagination as he's writing. It's very Freudian... I think eyes wide shut is a little bit more confusing though
I knew this before the internet took me around 10 viewings to understand 😂
Whats behind the salt wall Johnny does it make it any better if you know!
to me it was clear from the beginning what he said..
Wouldn't it be Stephen Kings' place to say?
I think it must be better if the man ij the picture is the grandfather or his family
Which would have been cool if kubrick would have added the car driving to the hotel again at the end of the movie.
That was interesting
Never trust Kubrick’s analysis. He’s only revealing the most surface level explanation. He’s hidden so much more meaning in every frame.
I think he's explaining it how it really is, since he was the director.
@@SDSen no he never is. He’s well known to lie about these things or over simplify them when discussing with the media, actors, reporters, writers, producers, executives etc…
He’s expressly stated that explaining his film would be as crude as a written explanation on the mona lisa
@@akajkyt But at some point he will give the real account of the movie, knowing he'll die at some point and leave the audience behind confused
@@SDSenHe's been dead for years.
@@SDSenhahahaha you should ask him! He’s on the moon right now you know
Not gonna lie that sucks if that’s what it all meant lol
I thought jack was hilarious in that bathroom scene with Grady
I always bet that there are very intricate mystical issues in this masterpiece, reincarnation included
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Caretaker never! He's the tuxedo wearing Master of Ceremonies. Grady lied.
The ending of that guy's teeth scared me more than the movie.
the overlook hotel = cecili hotel in real life
Kubrick knew something about this prison planet.
I loved how it wasn’t explained and it wasn’t really obvious either and the amount of foreshadowing in this movie because I watched this movie since I was 11 every October atleast once and I’m 15 and I js got the ending this October when I watched it💀
time will change your interpretation of this film
Great respect for Kubrick as a filmmaker. But I always thought the ending of his version of THE SHINING was pure dopiness, and this only confirms it.
BASED ON A TRUE STORY !
What true story? I thought it's based on a Stephen King book, it's fiction.
What he really meant was: I faked the moon landings
“I SIGNED THE CONTRACT, HAVE YOU PUT A SINGLE MOMENTS THOUGHT INTO _MY_ RESPONSIBILITIES!?”
That's what are reality is , in an endless transmigration and we need to wake up and realize the illusion we are living.
Yeah that’s what Kubrick was showing seamlessly with every movie he made.
@@10rrtyyssx769 I haven't seen all his movies but it's definitely ancient knowledge , it's what Jesus was telling us and got him crucified.
I dont think there is much transmigration, beyond basic ideas. In other words, souls are not a real thing.
Telling people to wake from their illusion and then go on about Jesus. Classic Christian, hilarious irony!
😊
Deep...
Plots within Plots.
Obviously Jack the hotel keeper
Is the force that haunts the hotel.
Every previous owner their families.
But the movie also shows abuse of the family structure at another level.
Wow people in the comments grow up, Kubrick said what the neding was about, put on your grown up pants and except the truth
Why are we asking him exactly? Stephen King wrote the book This man simply put it to screen. And as I remember it was a bomb. King put these visuals in my mind already from his book. I do appreciate this rendering. But it was King who cemented it there.
Kubrick made many changes to the book. King himself wasn't happy about it. Kubrick was pretty clear that he wasn't just "putting it to screen". He did something else with the characters and the story and the film should be seen in that light. By now there are hundreds of hours of people analyzing the film and presenting various theories. That's why it is interesting to hear what the director himself had to say.
You're absolutely right. Thank you for putting it into perspective for me. @@dm8579
Literature & cinema are different mediums. What works on page does not necessarily mean it will work on screen. King's book is filled with so much cheesy garbage that the only way to make it work on film was to do what Kubrick did by strip it down to its basic premise & build from there. The book is terrible.
@@filmbuff2777dude we get it, you dont like the book how many times are you gonna leave a comment (4th one ive seen so far) and shit on it. The movie isnt that great either and has aged terribly as well, there’s goofy shit in the movie too. Do you enjoy riding stanleys dick or are you a weirdo film student who thinks everything stanley has done is the be all end all of cinema
I got it
My last name is same as Danny's
Such is Samsara