Danny is gifted with "the shining", psychic abilities that enable him to see into the hotel's horrific past.
The hotel cook, Dick Hallorann Crothers , also has this ability and is able to communicate with Danny telepathically. The hotel had a previous winter caretaker who went insane and killed his family and himself. After a winter storm leaves the Torrances snowbound, Jack's sanity deteriorates due to the influence of the supernatural forces that inhabit the hotel, placing his wife and son in danger. The Shining Horror Thriller. Description Files Comments 0 Tracker list The Shining is a psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson.
Files: The. There are currently no comments. I guess you could say the Overlook Hotel here has something about it that's like shining. The end of the scene where Wendy brings Jack his breakfast has been cut. He comments that he has never been as happy or as comfortable anywhere as he is in the Overlook and Wendy reveals that she thought the place was scary when they first arrived. Jack replies that he fell in love with it straight away and he felt as if he had been there before.
The scene of Jack throwing the ball against the wall is shorter. After Wendy and Danny explore the maze, a sequence has been cut showing Wendy working in the kitchen while a TV announcer talks of a search in the mountains for a missing woman, and a snow-storm that is predicted to be moving in on Colorado. After the scene in which Danny is confronted by the Grady twins in the corridor, and they invite him to play with them, a scene has been cut in which Wendy and Danny are watching TV.
Danny asks if he can go to his room to get his toy fire-engine and Wendy tells him to be quiet because Jack is sleeping. Some dialogue has been cut from the first conversation between Jack and Lloyd Joe Turkel. Jack toasts, "Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and all the irreparable harm that it's caused me". Lloyd then asks him how things are, and Jack comments that they could be a whole lot better, that he is having trouble with his wife.
Lloyd comments, "Women! Can't live with 'em. Can't live without 'em", and Jack wholeheartedly agrees. After he has returned from examining Room , Jack's conversation with Wendy is slightly shorter. After the scene between Jack and Grady Philip Stone , a sequence has been cut in which Wendy is seen crying and talking to herself, musing about the possibility of getting down the mountain in the Sno-cat, and of calling the Forest Rangers.
She then hears Danny calling out "red rum" over and over, but when she tries to talk to him, she is only 'answered' by Tony, who tells her that Danny can't hear her.
A scene has been cut in which Hallorann tries to get through to the Overlook by calling the Ranger station. They tell him that they've tried to get through several times but there has been no answer, and they offer to try again later. Prior to the shot of Hallorann's plane, the title 8AM has been deleted.
On the plane, Hallorann asks a stewardess what time they are due to land in Denver and she tells him at 8. Jack is then seen typing in the lounge of the Overlook. Hallorann's plane lands at the airport and he calls Larry Durkin Tony Burton , a garage owner, to rent a Sno-cat so as to get up to the Overlook.
Durkin says the mountain roads are completely blocked off, and Hallorann explains that the people looking after the hotel turned out to be "completely unreliable assholes". Hallorann estimates that it will take him five hours to drive from the airport to collect the cat, and Larry says the Snow-cat will be waiting for him when he arrives. The beginning of the scene in which Wendy finds Jack's type-written pages has been cut.
She and Danny are watching television and she looks at her watch, telling Danny that she is going to talk to his father for a few minutes and that he should stay there. She picks up the baseball bat before leaving. In the final scene, when Jack is pursuing Danny through the maze and Wendy is being confronted by some of the Overlook spooks, a short scene where she encounters a group of skeletons sitting at a table with a champagne bottle and glasses has been cut.
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