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* TheAlcoholic: Jack. At one point he [[INeedAFreakingDrink bemoans the fact that there is no alcohol to be had]], and then Lloyd appears at the bar and serves him some whiskey...
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* EvilEyebrows:
** Even if you knew nothing about Jack Nicholson before seeing this movie, you'd still be able to guess
what's going to happen to him just by looking at his eyebrows alone.
** So much so, King objected to the casting of Nicholson and begged Kubrick to reconsider.
** Even if you knew nothing about Jack Nicholson before seeing this movie, you'd still be able to guess
what's going to happen to him just by looking at his eyebrows alone.
** So much so, King objected to the casting of Nicholson and begged Kubrick to reconsider.
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**EvilEyebrows: Even if you knew nothing about Jack Nicholson before seeing this movie, you'd still be able to guess
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** So much so,alone, to the point where King objected to the casting of Nicholson and begged Kubrick to reconsider.
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* INeverToldYouMyName: When Hallorann cook calls little Danny Torrance "Doc", his parents ask how Hallorann knew they call him Doc, Hallorann answers by saying Danny just looks like a Doc. The real reason is that Danny and Hallorann both share a psychic ability, "the shining".
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** Inverted with Wendy. She's described as being conventionally attractive in the book, whereas in the film she's portrayed by Shelley Duvall, who is more [[TheWoobie waif-like and fragile-looking]] than her novel counterpart.
** Inverted with Wendy. She's described as being conventionally attractive in the book, whereas in the film she's portrayed by Shelley Duvall, who is more [[TheWoobie waif-like and fragile-looking]] than her novel counterpart.
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* AdultFear: In the climax where [[spoiler: crazed Jack goes after Danny outside in the heavily snowed-in hedge maze with the full intent in killing his own son. What makes this worse it that Wendy is inside the house desperately searching for Danny, and has absolutely no idea where he is.]]
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** In the climax where [[spoiler: crazed Jack goes after Danny outside in the heavily snowed-in hedge maze with the full intent in killing his own son. What makes this worse it that Wendy is inside the house desperately searching for Danny, and has absolutely no idea where he is.]]
** In the climax where [[spoiler: crazed Jack goes after Danny outside in the heavily snowed-in hedge maze with the full intent in killing his own son. What makes this worse it that Wendy is inside the house desperately searching for Danny, and has absolutely no idea where he is.]]
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* CreatorBacklash: King was not a fan of the Kubrick film, stating that in the novel, Jack was a normal man who goes crazy, and in the film, Jack is a crazy man who goes ''bonkers''.
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** King was not a fan of the Kubrick film, stating that in the novel, Jack was a normal man who goes crazy, and in the film, Jack is a crazy man who goes ''bonkers''.
** King was not a fan of the Kubrick film, stating that in the novel, Jack was a normal man who goes crazy, and in the film, Jack is a crazy man who goes ''bonkers''.
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* DoingInTheWizard: To a certain extent, downplaying the more overtly supernatural elements of the novel. Kubrick's version gives the impression that Jack was well on the way to AxCrazy before the Overlook got hold of him.
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** To a certain extent, downplaying the more overtly supernatural elements of the novel. Kubrick's version gives the impression that Jack was well on the way to AxCrazy before the Overlook got hold of him.
** To a certain extent, downplaying the more overtly supernatural elements of the novel. Kubrick's version gives the impression that Jack was well on the way to AxCrazy before the Overlook got hold of him.
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*** Alternately, the film can be read as there being ''only'' supernatural elements - how did Jack get out of the locked pantry?. Kubrick was careful to prevent any airtight interpretation of the film.
** Actually a key reason for the lack of supernatural elements in the 1980 movie was the fact that they didn't have the budget for major special effects, and there wasn't proper special effect technology at the time to replicate a lot of the book's scenes, such as when when the lawn gargoyles come to life.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Kubrick would loudly berate Shelley Duvall (Wendy) whenever the slightest thing went wrong, in order to make her feel as distressed as the character. Jack Nicholson realized this, but resisted the urge to [[TheWoobie just give her a hug]] - which probably helped her freak out effectively when Jack came after her with an ax.
** Actually a key reason for the lack of supernatural elements in the 1980 movie was the fact that they didn't have the budget for major special effects, and there wasn't proper special effect technology at the time to replicate a lot of the book's scenes, such as when when the lawn gargoyles come to life.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Kubrick would loudly berate Shelley Duvall (Wendy) whenever the slightest thing went wrong, in order to make her feel as distressed as the character. Jack Nicholson realized this, but resisted the urge to [[TheWoobie just give her a hug]] - which probably helped her freak out effectively when Jack came after her with an ax.
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** Even if you knew nothing about Jack Nicholson before seeing this movie, you'd still be able toguess guess
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** Even if you knew nothing about Jack Nicholson before seeing this movie, you'd still be able to
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* ForegoneConclusion: The poster really doesn't leave much to the imagination as to [[AxCrazy what Jack ends up doing]].
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* ForegoneConclusion: ForegoneConclusion:
** The poster really doesn't leave much to the imagination as to [[AxCrazy what Jack ends up doing]].
** The poster really doesn't leave much to the imagination as to [[AxCrazy what Jack ends up doing]].
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* MadnessMantra: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
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** "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
** "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
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* ReCut: When the film premiered, it had a final scene in which Ullman visits Wendy and Danny at the hospital and explains that [[NeverFoundTheBody Jack's body could not be found]]. About three weeks into release, Kubrick ordered this scene [[DeletedScene excised]] from all prints.
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** When the film premiered, it had a final scene in which Ullman visits Wendy and Danny at the hospital and explains that [[NeverFoundTheBody Jack's body could not be found]]. About three weeks into release, Kubrick ordered this scene [[DeletedScene excised]] from all prints.
** When the film premiered, it had a final scene in which Ullman visits Wendy and Danny at the hospital and explains that [[NeverFoundTheBody Jack's body could not be found]]. About three weeks into release, Kubrick ordered this scene [[DeletedScene excised]] from all prints.
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* TrailOfBreadCrumbs: [[spoiler: Jack tracks Danny through the hedge maze by following Danny's footsteps in the snow. Danny quickly realizes what is going on and [[ExploitedTrope back-tracks through his own footsteps to throw Jack off the trail]].]]
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** [[spoiler: Jack tracks Danny through the hedge maze by following Danny's footsteps in the snow. Danny quickly realizes what is going on and [[ExploitedTrope back-tracks through his own footsteps to throw Jack off the trail]].]]
** [[spoiler: Jack tracks Danny through the hedge maze by following Danny's footsteps in the snow. Danny quickly realizes what is going on and [[ExploitedTrope back-tracks through his own footsteps to throw Jack off the trail]].]]
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Wendy tells the doctor that Danny's shoulder had been dislocated six months earlier. Later, while bitching to Lloyd the Bartender, Jack says that the dislocated shoulder incident had happened three years earlier.
** Which becomes some very creepy FridgeHorror if you think about how Wendy specifically phrased it: the time of the accident isn't specified, only that Jack immediately afterward promised not to have another drink in case he hurt her or Danny again. So there's a period of two and a half years during which Jack must have done ''something'' to break his promise, which Wendy clearly doesn't want to tell the doctor about.
** Which becomes some very creepy FridgeHorror if you think about how Wendy specifically phrased it: the time of the accident isn't specified, only that Jack immediately afterward promised not to have another drink in case he hurt her or Danny again. So there's a period of two and a half years during which Jack must have done ''something'' to break his promise, which Wendy clearly doesn't want to tell the doctor about.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: WritersCannotDoMath:
** Wendy tells the doctor that Danny's shoulder had been dislocated six months earlier. Later, while bitching to Lloyd the Bartender, Jack says that the dislocated shoulder incident had happened three years earlier.
** Which becomes some very creepy FridgeHorror if you think about how Wendy specifically phrased it: the time of the accident isn't specified, only that Jack immediately afterward promised not to have another drink in case he hurt her or Danny again. So there's a period of two and a half years during which Jack must have done ''something'' to break his promise, which Wendy clearly doesn't want to tell the doctorabout.about.
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** Wendy tells the doctor that Danny's shoulder had been dislocated six months earlier. Later, while bitching to Lloyd the Bartender, Jack says that the dislocated shoulder incident had happened three years earlier.
** Which becomes some very creepy FridgeHorror if you think about how Wendy specifically phrased it: the time of the accident isn't specified, only that Jack immediately afterward promised not to have another drink in case he hurt her or Danny again. So there's a period of two and a half years during which Jack must have done ''something'' to break his promise, which Wendy clearly doesn't want to tell the doctor
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In a serious case of either TemptingFate or ParanoiaFuel, The Shining is screened every year at midwinter for those "wintering-over" at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It was also once screened in the Old Faithful Inn for those working at Yellowstone over the winter.
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In a serious case of either TemptingFate or ParanoiaFuel, The Shining ''The Shining'' is screened every year at midwinter for those "wintering-over" at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It was also once screened in the Old Faithful Inn for those working at Yellowstone over the winter.
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* HedgeMaze: An iconic one.
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* HedgeMaze: An The Overlook has an iconic one.one [[AdaptationExpansion not present in the book]], the perfect place for a scary chase scene. There is also a [[OnlyAModel scale model]] inside the hotel.
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* MostWritersAreWriters: The fact that Jack is a writer who is suffering severely from writer's block is the reason the family goes to the hotel in the first place.
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** Also hearing the light-hearted ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons in the background of otherwise deadly serious scenes.
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** Also when Danny appears with a huge bruise on his neck, and tells his mother that a crazy stranger strangled him.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Hallorann.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Hallorann.Hallorann in the film.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Wendy is blonde in the novel, but has black hair in the movie.
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* BondOneLiner: "[[spoiler:Gentlemen, I think the party's over]]" is said by [[spoiler:Jack]] before [[spoiler:dying with the Overlook Hotel]].
* BondOneLiner: "[[spoiler:Gentlemen, I think the party's over]]" is said by [[spoiler:Jack]] before [[spoiler:dying with the Overlook Hotel]].
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* [[spoiler:BlackDudeDiesFirst: BlackDudeDiesFirst: Hallorann.]]
* BondOneLiner: "[[spoiler:Gentlemen, I think the party's over]]" is said by [[spoiler:Jack]] before [[spoiler:dying with the Overlook Hotel]].
* BondOneLiner: "[[spoiler:Gentlemen, I think the party's over]]" is said by [[spoiler:Jack]] before [[spoiler:dying with the Overlook Hotel]].
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* TheDanza: Done ''twice'', with Jack Nicholson as Jack and Danny Lloyd as Danny.
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Dick Hallorann]].
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Dick Hallorann]].Dick Hallorann.
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*** Alternately, the film can be read as there being ''only'' supernatural elements - [[spoiler: how did Jack get out of the locked pantry?]]. Kubrick was careful to prevent any airtight interpretation of the film.
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*** Alternately, the film can be read as there being ''only'' supernatural elements - [[spoiler: how did Jack get out of the locked pantry?]].pantry?. Kubrick was careful to prevent any airtight interpretation of the film.
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* SanitySlippage: The hotel causes every caretaker to lose his mind.
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* SanitySlippage: The hotel causes every caretaker to lose his mind. Stephen King stated his book was about a normal man who goes crazy, and that Stanley Kubrick's film was about a crazy man who goes absolutely bonkers.
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* TheRadioDiesFirst: When Jack decides to kill Wendy and Danny, one of his first acts is to disable the radio so she cannot call for help.
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** He also objected to the film's MaybeMagicMaybeMundane approach, and how it downplayed both Jack's alcoholism and his abusive childhood.
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In a serious case of either TemptingFate or ParanoiaFuel, The Shining is screened every year at midwinter for those "wintering-over" at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It was also once screened in the Old Faithful Inn for those working at Yellowstone over the winter.
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* OminousLatinChanting: As Jack is chasing down Danny through the hedge maze and Wendy is in the Overlook Hotel desperately searching for Danny, starting to hallucinate, you can hear some incoherent chanting.
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** Also, a documentary states that most takes with Jack Nicholson are among the 20th takes, after the actor got tired and started ramping up the madness of his performance even further.
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* FanDisservice: The hot girl in the bathroom. She appears ''fully naked and upfront'', yet it still looks creepy rather than sexy. On top of that, she turns into [[spoiler: ''a rotten naked old corpse-woman who cackles in the creepiest manner possible!'']]
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* FanDisservice: The hot girl in the bathroom. She appears ''fully naked and upfront'', yet it still looks creepy rather than sexy. [[FetishRetardant On top of that, that]], she turns into [[spoiler: ''a rotten naked old corpse-woman who cackles in the creepiest manner possible!'']]
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* LargeHam: Jack Torrance, [[{{Troperithmetic}} summed up by]] "Jack Nicholson hardly does a subdued performance" + "EvilIsHammy". (StevenSpielberg first stated to Kubrick he felt Nicholson was too over-the-top, Kubrick replied comparing him to JamesCagney)
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* MostWritersAreWriters: Jack Torrance is working on a play and has a pile of short stories under his belt.
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* MostWritersAreWriters: The fact that Jack Torrance is working on a play and has a pile of short stories under his belt.writer who is suffering severely from writer's block is the reason the family goes to the hotel in the first place.
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* MostWritersAreWriters: Jack Torrance is working on a play and has a pile of short stories under his belt.
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Seriously? Linking to a conspiracy video without even saying it? If you\'re going to try to convince us of stupid stuff like that, at least have the guts to admit it instead of making us click the link to see the \"symbolism.\"
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** An interesting analysis explains that Kubrick used the symbols for reasons of his own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEq6IjgR04
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* AdultFear: In the climax where [[spoiler: crazed Jack goes after Danny outside in the heavily snowed-in hedge maze with the full intent in killing his own son. What makes this worse it that Wendy is inside the house desperately searching for Danny, and has absolutely no idea where he is.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:'''HERE'S JOHNNY!!!''']]
[[caption-width-right:350:'''HERE'S JOHNNY!!!''']]
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness. Inverted with Wendy. She's described as being conventionally attractive in the book, whereas in the film she's portrayed by Shelley Duvall, who is more [[TheWoobie waiflike and fragile-looking]] than her novel counterpart.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness. Inverted with Wendy. She's described as being conventionally attractive in the book, whereas in the film she's portrayed by Shelley Duvall, who is more [[TheWoobie waiflike waif-like and fragile-looking]] than her novel counterpart.
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* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: See MythologyGag below.
* AlienGeometries: The layout of the hotel makes no sense whatsoever. Stuart Ullman's office has a nice big window in the middle of the building, the Colorado Room has multiple floor to ceiling windows with a mystery hallway behind them. The hotel interiors are designed at nice right angles in building that doesn't. The freezer flips sides of the hallway between shots. The spaces between the doorways in Room 237's hallway are far too small to actually contain any rooms of that size. This was done deliberately for dramtic/horror effect.
* AlienGeometries: The layout of the hotel makes no sense whatsoever. Stuart Ullman's office has a nice big window in the middle of the building, the Colorado Room has multiple floor to ceiling windows with a mystery hallway behind them. The hotel interiors are designed at nice right angles in building that doesn't. The freezer flips sides of the hallway between shots. The spaces between the doorways in Room 237's hallway are far too small to actually contain any rooms of that size. This was done deliberately for dramtic/horror effect.
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* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: See MythologyGag below.
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* AlienGeometries: The layout of the hotel makes no sense whatsoever. Stuart Ullman's office has a nice big window in the middle of the building, the Colorado Room has multiple floor to ceiling windows with a mystery hallway behind them. The hotel interiors are designed at nice right angles in building that doesn't. The freezer flips sides of the hallway between shots. The spaces between the doorways in Room 237's hallway are far too small to actually contain any rooms of that size. This was done deliberately fordramtic/horror dramatic/horror effect.
* AlienGeometries: The layout of the hotel makes no sense whatsoever. Stuart Ullman's office has a nice big window in the middle of the building, the Colorado Room has multiple floor to ceiling windows with a mystery hallway behind them. The hotel interiors are designed at nice right angles in building that doesn't. The freezer flips sides of the hallway between shots. The spaces between the doorways in Room 237's hallway are far too small to actually contain any rooms of that size. This was done deliberately for
* AssholeVictim: Arguably, Jack and even Charles Grady are both victims of the Overlook.
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* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Hallorann.]]
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Kubrick would loudly berate Shelley Duvall (Wendy) whenever the slightest thing went wrong, in order to make her feel as distressed as the character. Jack Nicholson realized this, but resisted the urge to [[TheWoobie just give her a hug]] - which probably helped her freak out effectively when Jack came after her with an axe.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Kubrick would loudly berate Shelley Duvall (Wendy) whenever the slightest thing went wrong, in order to make her feel as distressed as the character. Jack Nicholson realized this, but resisted the urge to [[TheWoobie just give her a hug]] - which probably helped her freak out effectively when Jack came after her with an axe.ax.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The film is more ambigous towards the supernatural aspects of the story. However, the titular "Shining" is equally effective in both the film and the book - warning clearly of danger five seconds before the axe hits the bathroom door.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The film is more ambigous ambiguous towards the supernatural aspects of the story. However, the titular "Shining" is equally effective in both the film and the book - warning clearly of danger five seconds before the axe hits the bathroom door.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Wendy tells the doctor that Danny's shoulder had been dislocated six months earlier. Later, while bitching to Lloyd the Bartender, Jack says that the dislocated shoulder incident had happened three years earlier.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Wendy tells the doctor that Danny's shoulder had been dislocated six months earlier. Later, while bitching to Lloyd the Bartender, Jack says that the dislocated shoulder incident had happened three years earlier.earlier.
** Which becomes some very creepy FridgeHorror if you think about how Wendy specifically phrased it: the time of the accident isn't specified, only that Jack immediately afterward promised not to have another drink in case he hurt her or Danny again. So there's a period of two and a half years during which Jack must have done ''something'' to break his promise, which Wendy clearly doesn't want to tell the doctor about.
** Which becomes some very creepy FridgeHorror if you think about how Wendy specifically phrased it: the time of the accident isn't specified, only that Jack immediately afterward promised not to have another drink in case he hurt her or Danny again. So there's a period of two and a half years during which Jack must have done ''something'' to break his promise, which Wendy clearly doesn't want to tell the doctor about.
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* AlienGeometries: The layout of the hotel makes no sense whatsoever. Stuart Ullman's office has a nice big window in the middle of the building, the Colorado Room has multiple floor to ceiling windows with a mystery hallway behind them. The hotel interiors are designed at nice right angles in building that doesn't. The freezer flips sides of the hallway between shots. This was done deliberately for dramtic/horror effect.
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* AlienGeometries: The layout of the hotel makes no sense whatsoever. Stuart Ullman's office has a nice big window in the middle of the building, the Colorado Room has multiple floor to ceiling windows with a mystery hallway behind them. The hotel interiors are designed at nice right angles in building that doesn't. The freezer flips sides of the hallway between shots. The spaces between the doorways in Room 237's hallway are far too small to actually contain any rooms of that size. This was done deliberately for dramtic/horror effect.
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* GainaxEnding:
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* GainaxEnding: GainaxEnding
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* WritersCannotDoMath: In the 1980 movie Wendy tells the doctor that Danny's shoulder had been dislocated six months earlier. Later, while bitching to Lloyd the Bartender, Jack says that the dislocated shoulder incident had happened three years earlier.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Danny walks through the maze with his mother near the beginning of the film. It comes in handy.
* CreepyTwins: Grady's daughters. Actually, they are specifically described in both book and film as not twins (ages 8 and 10) but in the movie they were played by real-life twin actresses.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Allegedly Kubrick told the MPAA that the torrent rushing out of the elevators was rusty water and not blood in order to get the movie's trailer shown. At the time the MPAA did not allow blood to be depicted in trailers.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The film is more ambigous towards the supernatural aspects of the story. However, the titular "Shining" is equally effective in both the film and the book - warning clearly of danger five seconds before the axe hits the bathroom door.
* NoExceptYes: This line, as Jack has pretty much lost it and starts menacing his wife.
-->'''Jack:''' I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just gonna bash your brains in. I'm gonna bash them right the fuck in!
-->'''Jack:''' I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just gonna bash your brains in. I'm gonna bash them right the fuck in!
* SlasherMovie: The movie was a much different take on the kind of slasher movies that were becoming popular at the time. It's much more psychological; basically it's what happens when StanleyKubrick makes one.
* SlasherSmile: Just look at a picture of Jack during the "Here's Johnny!" scene. Of course, he ''is'' played by Jack Nicholson, so that sort of thing is expected.
* SlasherSmile: Just look at a picture of Jack during the "Here's Johnny!" scene. Of course, he ''is'' played by Jack Nicholson, so that sort of thing is expected.
* SpookyPhotographs: "Overlook Hotel - July 4th Ball - 1921"
* UncannyValley: Deliberately invoked by Nicholson's acting towards the beginning of the film; he seems to be cheery and dapper, but there's just something ''off'' about it, and it all feels horribly phony. Most likely done to call attention to his [[INeedAFreakingDrink need for a drink]].
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: "[[CrocodileTears Wendy?]] [[ManipulativeBastard Baby?]] I think you hurt my head ''real bad''..."
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: "[[CrocodileTears Wendy?]] [[ManipulativeBastard Baby?]] I think you hurt my head ''real bad''...""
* WritersCannotDoMath: In the 1980 movie Wendy tells the doctor that Danny's shoulder had been dislocated six months earlier. Later, while bitching to Lloyd the Bartender, Jack says that the dislocated shoulder incident had happened three years earlier.
* WritersCannotDoMath: In the 1980 movie Wendy tells the doctor that Danny's shoulder had been dislocated six months earlier. Later, while bitching to Lloyd the Bartender, Jack says that the dislocated shoulder incident had happened three years earlier.
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* AlienGeometries: In the movie version, the layout of the hotel makes no sense whatsoever. Stuart Ullman's office has a nice big window in the middle of the building, the Colorado Room has multiple floor to ceiling windows with a mystery hallway behind them. The hotel interiors are designed at nice right angles in building that doesn't. The freezer flips sides of the hallway between shots. This was done deliberately for dramtic/horror effect.
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''The Shining'' is an 1980 horror film loosely based on Creator/StephenKing's novel of the same name. It was directed by StanleyKubrick and starred JackNicholson and Shelley Duvall.
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!!Contains the following tropes:
* AdaptationDyeJob: Wendy is blonde in the novel, but has black hair in the movie.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness. Inverted with Wendy. She's described as being conventionally attractive in the book, whereas in the film she's portrayed by Shelley Duvall, who is more [[TheWoobie waiflike and fragile-looking]] than her novel counterpart.
** Also inverted with Jack, who is at least reasonably handsome in the books, but played by JackNicholson. Needless to say, [[SlasherSmile he wasn't chosen for]] [[UncannyValley being the typical Hollywood stud]].
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: See MythologyGag below.
* AlienGeometries: In the movie version, the layout of the hotel makes no sense whatsoever. Stuart Ullman's office has a nice big window in the middle of the building, the Colorado Room has multiple floor to ceiling windows with a mystery hallway behind them. The hotel interiors are designed at nice right angles in building that doesn't. The freezer flips sides of the hallway between shots. This was done deliberately for dramtic/horror effect.
* AlienGeometries: In the movie version, the layout of the hotel makes no sense whatsoever. Stuart Ullman's office has a nice big window in the middle of the building, the Colorado Room has multiple floor to ceiling windows with a mystery hallway behind them. The hotel interiors are designed at nice right angles in building that doesn't. The freezer flips sides of the hallway between shots. This was done deliberately for dramtic/horror effect.
* AllThereInTheManual: See MythologyGag below.
* {{Angrish}}: An AxCrazy Jack Torrance falls into these near the end of the movie when he is reduced to only being able to moan like a wounded animal.
* AxeBeforeEntering: One of the most famous examples.
** In the book it's a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque roque]] mallet.
* BackgroundHalo: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the black chandeliers, which gave Jack a "black halo" post snap.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: In the movie, anyway. Averted in the novel, where Hallorann survives.]]
* BondOneLiner: "[[spoiler:Gentlemen, I think the party's over]]" is said by [[spoiler:Jack]] before [[spoiler:dying with the Overlook Hotel]].
* CreatorBacklash: King was not a fan of the Kubrick film, stating that in the novel, Jack was a normal man who goes crazy, and in the film, Jack is a crazy man who goes ''bonkers''.
* TheDanza: Done ''twice'' in the movie, with Jack Nicholson as Jack and Danny Lloyd as Danny.
* DaylightHorror: As horrific as it is, there are few scenes that are literally dark. It's a well-lit movie.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Dick Hallorann]] in the movie.
* DoingInTheWizard: The film does this to a certain extent, downplaying the more overtly supernatural elements of the novel. Kubrick's version gives the impression that Jack was well on the way to AxCrazy before the Overlook got hold of him.
** The film can actually be read as there being ''no'' supernatural elements at all - it's all in the minds of the characters.
*** Alternately, the film can be read as there being ''only'' supernatural elements - [[spoiler: how did Jack get out of the locked pantry?]]. Kubrick was careful to prevent any airtight interpretation of the film.
** Actually a key reason for the lack of supernatural elements in the 1980 movie was the fact that they didn't have the budget for major special effects, and there wasn't proper special effect technology at the time to replicate a lot of the book's scenes, such as when when the lawn gargoyles come to life.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Kubrick would loudly berate Shelley Duvall (Wendy) whenever the slightest thing went wrong, in order to make her feel as distressed as the character. Jack Nicholson realized this, but resisted the urge to [[TheWoobie just give her a hug]] - which probably helped her freak out effectively when Jack came after her with an axe.
** Scatman Crothers was allegedly reduced to tears because of Kubrick's insistence on getting absolutely perfect takes - it's debatable whether to chalk this up to this trope or Kubrick simply being a PrimaDonnaDirector.
** Inverted with Danny Lloyd, the child actor. Kubrick was very protective of the boy and was genuinely concerned that the dark elements of the movie would traumatize him. So he treated each scene with Danny like it was a playful game, and shielded him from the true nature of the movie.
* EvilEyebrows: Even if you knew nothing about Jack Nicholson before seeing this movie, you'd still be able to guess what's going to happen to him just by looking at his eyebrows alone.
** So much so, King objected to the casting of Nicholson and begged Kubrick to reconsider.
* FanDisservice: The hot girl in the bathroom. She appears ''fully naked and upfront'', yet it still looks creepy rather than sexy. On top of that, she turns into [[spoiler: ''a rotten naked old corpse-woman who cackles in the creepiest manner possible!'']]
* FanService: Many would argue that the [[spoiler: first]] naked lady in the bathroom was more fanservicey than not.
* TheFilmOfTheBook
* ForegoneConclusion: The poster really doesn't leave much to the imagination as to [[AxCrazy what Jack ends up doing]].
** Creator/StephenKing himself considered Jack Nicholson's casting to be sort of a spoiler in this regard also, considering Nicholson's best-known film at the time was ''OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest''.
* GainaxEnding: The movie.
* HedgeMaze: An iconic one in the film.
* IndianBurialGround: In Kubrick's film, the Overlook is built on one. In 1987 ''San Francisco Chronicle'' columnist Bill Blakemore penned a [[http://www.drummerman.net/shining/essays.html rather intriguing essay]] arguing that the film is basically a [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory hidden commentary on the genocide of the American Indian]].
* KensingtonGore: Enough to float sofas down the corridor. ExecutiveMeddling almost cut it, but Kubrick [[MagnificentBastard told them it was just rusty water]].
* KubrickStare
* MadnessMantra: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
** "REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM!"
* MythologyGag: Kubrick dispensed with several of the novel's plot points but kept references to them in the movie. The book explains just where Danny's imaginary friend "Tony" comes from, who the dead lady in the bathtub is, and who the person in the dog costume delivering a blow job is. [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication The film keeps these elements but with no explanation.]] Also, Kubrick did not use the novel's climax--[[spoiler: exploding boiler destroys the hotel]]--but still showed [[spoiler: the boiler]] in a couple of scenes.
** An interesting analysis explains that Kubrick used the symbols for reasons of his own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEq6IjgR04
* PopculturalOsmosis: The twins in front of the elevator (apparently) aren't twins at all, just sisters who dress and look the same. Still doesn't make them [[spoiler: any less murdered by their crazy dad.]]
* PragmaticAdaptation: While the movie departs from the book quite a bit, it can stand on its own.
* PrecisionFStrike: The first of abuse of Wendy by Jack is verbal, telling her to "get the ''fuck'' out of here."
* ReCut: When the film premiered, it had a final scene in which Ullman visits Wendy and Danny at the hospital and explains that [[NeverFoundTheBody Jack's body could not be found]]. About three weeks into release, Kubrick ordered this scene [[DeletedScene excised]] from all prints.
** Kubrick then trimmed an additional 30 minutes of footage for the film's European theatrical release. This shorter cut, which was his preferred version of the film, is also used for non-US DVD releases.
* PsychoStrings: Half the score sounds very much like Bernard Herrmann's work indeed.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: In the movie, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." It's particularly unsettling because of the sheer ''number'' of pages, with the tacit implication that Jack has been gradually losing his mind almost from the instant the family arrived in the hotel.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:The Overlook itself in the film.]]
* SoundtrackDissonance: "Midnight, with the stars and youuuu..."
** "I love you, Danny. I love you more than anything else in the whole world. And I would never [[{{Foreshadow}} do anything to hurt ya, never.]] You know that, don't ya? Huh?" to Bela Bartok's somber and menacing ''Music for Percussion, Strings and Celesta.''
* SurrealHorror: The movie doesn't explain many of the strange things that happen in the hotel. It is also left deliberately vague whether or not there are supernatural causes at work, or just figments of the characters' imaginations.
* TapOnTheHead: In the film, Wendy hits Jack on the head with a baseball bat and he falls down a flight of stairs. It's unclear which actually knocks him unconscious, but either way he's awake less than an hour later, with nothing more than a headache and a small gash for his trouble.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: It's kept deliberately vague whether the strange goings-on at the Overlook are "real" or just a product of Jack's deteriorating mental state.
* TrailOfBreadCrumbs: In the movie, [[spoiler: Jack tracks Danny through the hedge maze by following Danny's footsteps in the snow. Danny quickly realizes what is going on and [[ExploitedTrope back-tracks through his own footsteps to throw Jack off the trail]].]]
** Strangely enough, Wendy jokes about having to leave a trail of bread crumbs to find her way around the hotel.
* VillainousBreakdown: In the film, as Jack chases Danny into the maze and begins to slowly freeze to death, his words become more slurred and begin to degenerate until Jack is just bellowing like an ox.
* VillainProtagonist: Debatable. If one interprets the film strictly psychologically, Jack could certainly be considered one of these. However, if one accepts the supernatural interpretation, then the hotel itself (or perhaps what inhabits it) is the real villain.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: "[[CrocodileTears Wendy?]] [[ManipulativeBastard Baby?]] I think you hurt my head ''real bad''..."
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!!Contains the following tropes:
* AdaptationDyeJob: Wendy is blonde in the novel, but has black hair in the movie.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness. Inverted with Wendy. She's described as being conventionally attractive in the book, whereas in the film she's portrayed by Shelley Duvall, who is more [[TheWoobie waiflike and fragile-looking]] than her novel counterpart.
** Also inverted with Jack, who is at least reasonably handsome in the books, but played by JackNicholson. Needless to say, [[SlasherSmile he wasn't chosen for]] [[UncannyValley being the typical Hollywood stud]].
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: See MythologyGag below.
* AlienGeometries: In the movie version, the layout of the hotel makes no sense whatsoever. Stuart Ullman's office has a nice big window in the middle of the building, the Colorado Room has multiple floor to ceiling windows with a mystery hallway behind them. The hotel interiors are designed at nice right angles in building that doesn't. The freezer flips sides of the hallway between shots. This was done deliberately for dramtic/horror effect.
* AlienGeometries: In the movie version, the layout of the hotel makes no sense whatsoever. Stuart Ullman's office has a nice big window in the middle of the building, the Colorado Room has multiple floor to ceiling windows with a mystery hallway behind them. The hotel interiors are designed at nice right angles in building that doesn't. The freezer flips sides of the hallway between shots. This was done deliberately for dramtic/horror effect.
* AllThereInTheManual: See MythologyGag below.
* {{Angrish}}: An AxCrazy Jack Torrance falls into these near the end of the movie when he is reduced to only being able to moan like a wounded animal.
* AxeBeforeEntering: One of the most famous examples.
** In the book it's a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque roque]] mallet.
* BackgroundHalo: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the black chandeliers, which gave Jack a "black halo" post snap.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: In the movie, anyway. Averted in the novel, where Hallorann survives.]]
* BondOneLiner: "[[spoiler:Gentlemen, I think the party's over]]" is said by [[spoiler:Jack]] before [[spoiler:dying with the Overlook Hotel]].
* CreatorBacklash: King was not a fan of the Kubrick film, stating that in the novel, Jack was a normal man who goes crazy, and in the film, Jack is a crazy man who goes ''bonkers''.
* TheDanza: Done ''twice'' in the movie, with Jack Nicholson as Jack and Danny Lloyd as Danny.
* DaylightHorror: As horrific as it is, there are few scenes that are literally dark. It's a well-lit movie.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Dick Hallorann]] in the movie.
* DoingInTheWizard: The film does this to a certain extent, downplaying the more overtly supernatural elements of the novel. Kubrick's version gives the impression that Jack was well on the way to AxCrazy before the Overlook got hold of him.
** The film can actually be read as there being ''no'' supernatural elements at all - it's all in the minds of the characters.
*** Alternately, the film can be read as there being ''only'' supernatural elements - [[spoiler: how did Jack get out of the locked pantry?]]. Kubrick was careful to prevent any airtight interpretation of the film.
** Actually a key reason for the lack of supernatural elements in the 1980 movie was the fact that they didn't have the budget for major special effects, and there wasn't proper special effect technology at the time to replicate a lot of the book's scenes, such as when when the lawn gargoyles come to life.
* EnforcedMethodActing: Kubrick would loudly berate Shelley Duvall (Wendy) whenever the slightest thing went wrong, in order to make her feel as distressed as the character. Jack Nicholson realized this, but resisted the urge to [[TheWoobie just give her a hug]] - which probably helped her freak out effectively when Jack came after her with an axe.
** Scatman Crothers was allegedly reduced to tears because of Kubrick's insistence on getting absolutely perfect takes - it's debatable whether to chalk this up to this trope or Kubrick simply being a PrimaDonnaDirector.
** Inverted with Danny Lloyd, the child actor. Kubrick was very protective of the boy and was genuinely concerned that the dark elements of the movie would traumatize him. So he treated each scene with Danny like it was a playful game, and shielded him from the true nature of the movie.
* EvilEyebrows: Even if you knew nothing about Jack Nicholson before seeing this movie, you'd still be able to guess what's going to happen to him just by looking at his eyebrows alone.
** So much so, King objected to the casting of Nicholson and begged Kubrick to reconsider.
* FanDisservice: The hot girl in the bathroom. She appears ''fully naked and upfront'', yet it still looks creepy rather than sexy. On top of that, she turns into [[spoiler: ''a rotten naked old corpse-woman who cackles in the creepiest manner possible!'']]
* FanService: Many would argue that the [[spoiler: first]] naked lady in the bathroom was more fanservicey than not.
* TheFilmOfTheBook
* ForegoneConclusion: The poster really doesn't leave much to the imagination as to [[AxCrazy what Jack ends up doing]].
** Creator/StephenKing himself considered Jack Nicholson's casting to be sort of a spoiler in this regard also, considering Nicholson's best-known film at the time was ''OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest''.
* GainaxEnding: The movie.
* HedgeMaze: An iconic one in the film.
* IndianBurialGround: In Kubrick's film, the Overlook is built on one. In 1987 ''San Francisco Chronicle'' columnist Bill Blakemore penned a [[http://www.drummerman.net/shining/essays.html rather intriguing essay]] arguing that the film is basically a [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory hidden commentary on the genocide of the American Indian]].
* KensingtonGore: Enough to float sofas down the corridor. ExecutiveMeddling almost cut it, but Kubrick [[MagnificentBastard told them it was just rusty water]].
* KubrickStare
* MadnessMantra: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
** "REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM! REDRUM!"
* MythologyGag: Kubrick dispensed with several of the novel's plot points but kept references to them in the movie. The book explains just where Danny's imaginary friend "Tony" comes from, who the dead lady in the bathtub is, and who the person in the dog costume delivering a blow job is. [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication The film keeps these elements but with no explanation.]] Also, Kubrick did not use the novel's climax--[[spoiler: exploding boiler destroys the hotel]]--but still showed [[spoiler: the boiler]] in a couple of scenes.
** An interesting analysis explains that Kubrick used the symbols for reasons of his own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEq6IjgR04
* PopculturalOsmosis: The twins in front of the elevator (apparently) aren't twins at all, just sisters who dress and look the same. Still doesn't make them [[spoiler: any less murdered by their crazy dad.]]
* PragmaticAdaptation: While the movie departs from the book quite a bit, it can stand on its own.
* PrecisionFStrike: The first of abuse of Wendy by Jack is verbal, telling her to "get the ''fuck'' out of here."
* ReCut: When the film premiered, it had a final scene in which Ullman visits Wendy and Danny at the hospital and explains that [[NeverFoundTheBody Jack's body could not be found]]. About three weeks into release, Kubrick ordered this scene [[DeletedScene excised]] from all prints.
** Kubrick then trimmed an additional 30 minutes of footage for the film's European theatrical release. This shorter cut, which was his preferred version of the film, is also used for non-US DVD releases.
* PsychoStrings: Half the score sounds very much like Bernard Herrmann's work indeed.
* RoomFullOfCrazy: In the movie, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." It's particularly unsettling because of the sheer ''number'' of pages, with the tacit implication that Jack has been gradually losing his mind almost from the instant the family arrived in the hotel.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:The Overlook itself in the film.]]
* SoundtrackDissonance: "Midnight, with the stars and youuuu..."
** "I love you, Danny. I love you more than anything else in the whole world. And I would never [[{{Foreshadow}} do anything to hurt ya, never.]] You know that, don't ya? Huh?" to Bela Bartok's somber and menacing ''Music for Percussion, Strings and Celesta.''
* SurrealHorror: The movie doesn't explain many of the strange things that happen in the hotel. It is also left deliberately vague whether or not there are supernatural causes at work, or just figments of the characters' imaginations.
* TapOnTheHead: In the film, Wendy hits Jack on the head with a baseball bat and he falls down a flight of stairs. It's unclear which actually knocks him unconscious, but either way he's awake less than an hour later, with nothing more than a headache and a small gash for his trouble.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: It's kept deliberately vague whether the strange goings-on at the Overlook are "real" or just a product of Jack's deteriorating mental state.
* TrailOfBreadCrumbs: In the movie, [[spoiler: Jack tracks Danny through the hedge maze by following Danny's footsteps in the snow. Danny quickly realizes what is going on and [[ExploitedTrope back-tracks through his own footsteps to throw Jack off the trail]].]]
** Strangely enough, Wendy jokes about having to leave a trail of bread crumbs to find her way around the hotel.
* VillainousBreakdown: In the film, as Jack chases Danny into the maze and begins to slowly freeze to death, his words become more slurred and begin to degenerate until Jack is just bellowing like an ox.
* VillainProtagonist: Debatable. If one interprets the film strictly psychologically, Jack could certainly be considered one of these. However, if one accepts the supernatural interpretation, then the hotel itself (or perhaps what inhabits it) is the real villain.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: "[[CrocodileTears Wendy?]] [[ManipulativeBastard Baby?]] I think you hurt my head ''real bad''..."
