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The Shining
(1980)
In Stanley Kubrick's horror classic:
- the opening scene with aerial camera work following
a car to a mountainous Colorado resort - the sprawling and soon-to-be
snowbound Overlook Hotel
- Danny's (Danny Lloyd) Steadicam-filmed ride on a Big
Wheel bike tracked through the corridors of the hotel (with accompanying
sounds as the wheels hit the floor and the rug)
- Danny's frightening ghostly visions (the murdered
twin girls, the bloody elevator, etc.)
- Jack Torrance's (Jack Nicholson) bar-side exchanges
with ghostly bartender Lloyd (Joseph Turkel) where he was told: "Your
credit's fine, Mr. Torrance"
- the grisly bathtub hallucination experienced by Jack
in off-limits Room 237 when he discovered that the illusory, beautiful
bather he was kissing was a corpse
- wife Wendy's (Shelley Duvall) discovery that her struggling
husband's manuscript/writing on the typewriter was truly insane (there
were endless reams of pages all with the phrase: "All work and
no play makes Jack a dull boy")
- Danny's repetition of the words "Redrum " -
later reflected in a mirror to reveal the word "Murder"
- the scene in which Wendy clobbered Jack with a baseball
bat on the stairs
- the image of a decadent sexual act of fellatio being
performed in a bedroom
- the memorable scene of diabolical Jack's climactic
stalking and homicidal chase after his cowering and fearful wife
and son with an axe with his demented bellowings ("Wendy, I'm
home" and "Then I'll huff and I'll puff...")
- Jack's delivery of Johnny Carson's Tonight
Show catch-phrase greeting: "Heeeeeeeere's Johnny!",
spoken through a splintered door to Wendy after he had bashed through
it
- Jack's demise in the frozen Maze
- the final revealing zoom-in shot toward a photograph
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