Favorite scenes from The Shining

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Besides the "Here's Johnny" scene these are my favs....What's yours?

YouTube - The Shining "Wendy, Let Me Explain Something To You"

YouTube - The Shining: Bash your brains in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbLB21If2YA

[SpecialKVolfan17]

OMG I LOVE The Shining!
I don't have time to look, but the girls at the end of the hall were the scariest.
And the music during the woman in the bathtub scene...

I LOVED The Shining!

[666]

I think the most bizarre scene is the dude in the bear suit that appears to be blowing the waiter.

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Originally Posted by 666

I think the most bizarre scene is the dude in the bear suit that appears to be blowing the waiter.

How so? This is an hourly occurrence at the fine establishments I frequent.

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Originally Posted by 666

I think the most bizarre scene is the dude in the bear suit that appears to be blowing the waiter.

Here's the story behind that scene.

The "bear scene" is a brief moment in The Shining when Wendy, beginning to see the same "1920's Party" events that Jack's been seeing, is wandering through the halls of the hotel. As she looks around a corner, she sees two shapes huddled over the edge of a bed. As she looks, they are revealed to be two men, possibly engaged in o**l sex. One is wearing what looks to be a bear (1) costume.

The scene is taken directly from Stephen King's novel. In one of the novel's scenes set in the 1920's party, Jack is dancing with a beautiful woman. He notices that at one table, there is a young man behaving like a pet dog for the amusement of others, including a tall, bald man.

The bald man is Horace Derwent, a Howard Hughes-like figure who poured millions into restoring the Overlook Hotel in the 1920's. (Jack has learned this by reading a mysterious scrapbook earlier in the novel.) The younger man has a romantic crush on the bisexual Derwent, and Derwent has said that 'maybe', if the man dresses like a nice doggy, and acts like a nice doggy, he 'may' be willing to sleep with him.

Later on, in the novel, as Wendy is warily navigating the corridors of the Overlook, she begins to see the visions of the 1920's party. And at one point, peering around a corner, she sees the two men on a bed, one in a doggy costume. The two men are Derwent and his extremely dependent lover.

It's difficult to say why this second scene remains in the film; as it's somewhat confounding without all of the set-up that King provides in his book. Perhaps its jarring incongruity is reason enough for its inclusion, illustrating as it does Wendy's extreme disorientation at that point in the film. Another explanation is that the background on Derwent may have been scripted and filmed, (2) but excised in the final cut.

[volinbham]

I saw this in the theater when it came out. We had to sit in the front row. I'll never forget staring up at the screen for the Big Wheel scene - crazy.

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Originally Posted by volinbham

I saw this in the theater when it came out. We had to sit in the front row. I'll never forget staring up at the screen for the Big Wheel scene - crazy.

That's a great scene. I think that was the first time a steadicam had been used in a tracking shot or atleast one that shot that low. I know they had the camera setup mounted to a wheel chair to get the shot.

I especially love the sound in that scene when Danny is going from hardwood to rug back to hardwood.

[JAllen18]

Jack and Lloyd scenes were great. Also love the scene in the bathroom about who the care taker is.