The Shining (1980) is a horror movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, and adapted from the Stephen King novel of the same name; it also refers to the special abilities certain characters in the storyline possess.
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Why does Jack Nicholson say "Here's Johnny!" in The Shining when his character is called Jack?
In The Shining, when Jack Torrance has clearly gone mad and is chopping down the bathroom door with an axe to get to his wife, why does Jack Nicholson say "Here's Johnny!" when his character's name is Jack? Is it completely random and showing how…
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Are the twins from The Shining really twins?
I recently watched again The Shining and I noticed something that confused me. At the begining of the movie, the guy who hires Jack Torrance says:
My predecessor in this job hired a man named Charles Grady as the
winter caretaker. He came up with…
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What is the origin of "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"?
In the movie The Shining, there is a whole stack of papers reading "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" on the desk next to the typewriter.
Where does this phrase come from? Does it come from folklore, or a bedtime story?
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whats the meaning of the photo in the end of the shining? did he become part of the hotel or he always was and forgot?
or was it a dream? and he never had family, he always was there and actually lived his life in 1920s according to the photo?
or did he become part of the hotel forever after he died and the hotel ALTERED the existing photo and put him there(yet he…
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