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lineage (lineage):
Doctor Sleep → The Shining.
Doctor Sleep uses grown-up Danny and a new generation, Abra Stone.
“Using a familiar figure from the original film in Danny, the grown up Danny”
The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:31:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (feud):
Stephen King → The Shining.
King famously thought he could beat Kubrick in a reputation fight about The Shining.
“He famously thought he could beat Stanley Kubrick in a reputation off about the shining.”
Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 0:23:04 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (personal canon):
Zodiac → The Shining.
Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore.
“It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90 sure it was them) -
craft (labyrinthian structure):
The Shining → Zodiac.
Zodiac's episodic, not-three-act feel is likened to The Shining's labyrinth.
“it's not a slave to the 3 act structure, it's interstitial, it's got this sort of episodic feel to it and not unlike the shining.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:32:02 · Leslye Headland (0.80 sure it was them) -
people (crew):
Leon Vitali → The Shining.
Vitali's first big job was scouting America for the kid to play Danny Torrance.
“His 1st big job was to go to America and look for kids to play Danny Torrance for the Shining.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:25:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
lineage (King hated the adaptation):
Stephen King → The Shining.
The film is a Kubrick film King hated, which sits under the whole project.
“trying to do the thing Stephen King hated”
Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:03:31 · David Sims (0.90 sure it was them) -
lineage (sequel):
The Shining → Doctor Sleep.
Doctor Sleep is the sequel to Kubrick's The Shining, which is the whole sell and the whole problem.
“You're doing a sequel to The Shining.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:12:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (King's disavowal):
Doctor Sleep (King's novel) → The Shining.
King's sequel book, speakers say, goes out of its way to say Kubrick's movie did not happen.
“it feels like he's even, you know, trying in the book to be like, and that movie didn't happen, FYI”
Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:23:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Shining:
The tub lady gets more screen time in the director's cut, with a joke about her asking for the loofah.
“She says, can you pass the loofah?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:27:50 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them) -
craft (visual echo):
Doctor Sleep → The Shining.
The hospice office is composed like the Overlook interview scene, reversed so the boss helps instead of dooms.
“It's composed like the exact same way as that 1st interview sequence in the original film.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 0:59:43 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (cameo link):
Doctor Sleep → The Shining.
The boy who played Danny in The Shining appears as a parent on the sideline in the baseball scene.
“That is the kid who plays Danny in the original Shining.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:05:22 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (recreated sets):
Doctor Sleep → The Shining.
Flanagan rebuilds the Overlook's art direction detail for detail without trying to ape Kubrick's style.
“Every typewriter is the same color”
Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:12:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
verdict (humor ranking):
Dr. Strangelove → The Shining.
Strangelove ranks lower for the speaker than Barry Lyndon, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut among Kubrick's funny films.
“I, I, I rank Strange Love lower in the pack of movies I find funny by him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus (Ad-Free) · 1:36:54 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them) -
industry (release timing):
Halloween → The Shining.
The Shining arrives two years after Halloween rewrote the rules of killing everyone.
“But yeah, this movie is 2 years after Halloween”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:04:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
industry (release timing):
Jaws → The Shining.
The Shining comes five years after Jaws, which also feels deadlier than it is.
“This is 5 years after Jaws.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:05:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (prestige horror):
The Exorcist → The Shining.
Compared as prestige horror with major actors based on a bestseller.
“That's a similar thing where it's like prestige horror with major actors based on a bestseller.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:07:24 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (adaptation):
Stephen King → The Shining.
The film is the second Stephen King novel adaptation, after Carrie.
“This is the 2nd Stephen King film adaptation.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:09:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (led to):
The Shining → 1980s Stephen King adaptations (Cujo, The Dead Zone, Christine, etc.).
After The Shining and Carrie came the real 1980s wave of King adaptations.
“the real 80s wave of like lots of king stuff.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:09:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (comparison):
The Shining → Scent of a Woman.
Nicholson's performance is compared to Pacino's codifying all his tics in one role.
“this kind of is his sense of a woman, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:35:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
career (career context):
Barry Lyndon → The Shining.
Kubrick needed a commercial genre play after the Barry Lyndon flop.
“off of Barry Linden was a flop”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:43:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (answered by):
The Shining → Stephen King's The Shining (1997 miniseries).
King's own miniseries is described as him showing folks the real Shining, after his objections to the film.
“okay, time to roll up my sleeves and show you folks the real shining.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:47:01 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them) -
unmapped (documentary about):
Room 237 → The Shining.
Room 237 is a documentary about the many readings of The Shining.
“It's a movie about how many different ways this movie can be read, but it's just about it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:48:29 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (over-read puzzle):
Nope → The Shining.
Kubrick was not leaving breadcrumbs, unlike filmmakers like Peele who now construct puzzle movies.
“Whereas I think Kubrick was not intentionally like leaving a trail of breadcrumbs”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:51:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (over-read):
2001: A Space Odyssey → The Shining.
Like 2001, Kubrick's films prompt people to ask what they mean.
“2001, obviously, is one of those like, wait, what's the meaning of that?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:57:06 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (sequel):
The Shining → Doctor Sleep.
Doctor Sleep is the sequel to The Shining.
“Dr. Sleep, the sequel to, which I feel like is actually a better movie”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:58:43 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (blueprint):
Stephen King → The Shining.
The speakers read Kubrick saying the novel's plot is a good blueprint for the movie he wanted to make.
“I can make whatever movie I want with that as a blueprint.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:04:04 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (much copied):
Casablanca → The Shining.
Casablanca and The Shining are both so copied that first-time viewers find them corny.
“like every movie copied it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:13:58 · Tim Simons (0.45 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if casting):
Jane Fonda → The Shining.
Kubrick said you could not have Jane Fonda in the part.
“you can't have Jane Fawn to play this part.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:41:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
what-if (what-if casting):
Jessica Lange → The Shining.
Nicholson wanted Jessica Lange for Wendy.
“I kind of wanted Jessica Lang”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 1:41:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (first Steadicam use):
Bound for Glory → The Shining.
Bound for Glory was the first use of the Steadicam, which The Shining used so heavily.
“Bound for Glory is the 1st one, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:03:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Shining:
Kubrick called the Steadicam a magic carpet; the camera follows Danny's Big Wheel across carpet and wood.
“And he calls it like a magic carpet, which is really cool.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:04:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (Steadicam operator):
Garrett Brown → The Shining.
Garrett Brown, who invented the Steadicam, operated it for the Steadicam shots.
“Garrett Brown, who invented it, does all operates the camera for all the city cam shots.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:04:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (stolen move):
The Shining → Zodiac.
Fincher steals the Steadicam move where the camera turns with the car and keeps it centered.
“Fincher steals that move of like when the car turns a corner”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:05:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Shining:
The Big Wheel scenes: the game of how much carpet is left before the sound changes to wood.
“How much carpet do I have left before I hit wood and how different does the wood sound than the carpet?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:05:56 · Tim Simons (0.45 sure it was them) -
lineage (homage):
The Shining → Bobby's World (TV).
The Bobby's World opening of Bobby on a big wheel is called an homage to The Shining.
“And it's so clearly has to be an homage to this”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:06:41 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Shining:
Costume note: Wendy's yellow chore coat with embroidery over denim and moccasins is a standout look.
“like a yellow chore coat with like this beautiful embroidery on it.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:07:39 · Tim Simons (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Shining:
See the scene with Danny and the bedroom mirror, where Jack sees himself only through his son.
“only by looking at his son, does he realize who he is and who he's becoming”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:09:46 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Shining:
Look for the typed manuscript pages: the PAs typed every page by hand, because Kubrick would not allow Xeroxes.
“Oh, um, yeah, I wanted to say the poor fucking PAs.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:10:52 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them) -
lineage (homage):
The Shining → Doctor Sleep.
Doctor Sleep has to pay some homage to Kubrick while following a novel whose author hates the film.
“it has to thread paying some homage to Kubrick”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:14:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Shining:
In the gold room blood scene, one chair moves between shots, a rare slip in a controlled film.
“it's funny that the chair moves.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:18:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Shining:
The original epilogue, with Wendy and Danny in the hospital, screened briefly before Kubrick cut it.
“There was the original ending that he cut out pretty quickly, but that did screen originally, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:24:22 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Shining:
The UK cut: Kubrick himself trimmed 30 minutes after the film played badly there.
“in the UK, the movie was not playing well, and Kubrick himself cut 30 minutes.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:25:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
lineage (homage):
The Shining → Ready Player One.
Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel.
“Ready player one, they go to the hotel.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
craft (music):
Wendy Carlos → The Shining.
Wendy Carlos's music is credited with making the crash zooms scary.
“Crash zooms are just always so effective with that fucking Wendy Carlos.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:29:57 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Shining:
An Entertainment Weekly quote from Diane Johnson on the final photo: Jack had been the hotel's creature through reincarnation.
“The idea that Jack was always at the hotel in some earlier incarnation.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:32:14 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them) -
unmapped (parody):
The Shining → The Simpsons (TV).
The Simpsons parodied the film; the speaker knew its elements from parodies first.
“I feel like I'd seen so many parodies of different elements of this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:35:57 · Ben Hosley (0.40 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Shining:
It opened in roughly ten theaters before going wide, against The Empire Strikes Back on Memorial Day weekend.
“This movie was like 10 theaters opening weekend and then like a thousand.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:37:02 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
fun, about
The Shining:
It was nominated for two Razzies and got mixed-ish reviews in its day.
“it was famously nominated for 2 Razzies and got like mixed-ish reviews at the time.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:37:08 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them) -
industry (same weekend):
The Shining → Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back.
The Shining platformed against the wide release of The Empire Strikes Back.
“this movie came out platform against the wide release of another very famous movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:37:47 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (same period):
The Shining → Friday the 13th.
Friday the 13th had opened two weeks earlier; both worked at the box office.
“Friday 13th had opened maybe 2 weeks ago or whatever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 2:39:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them) -
people (casting):
Leon Vitali → The Shining.
Vitali was the main person who had to find Danny Torrance.
“him being the main person who had to find Danny Torrance for the shining”
Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:28:41 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
people (shared actor):
Philip Stone → The Shining.
Stone is Grady in The Shining and the dad in Clockwork Orange, here in a sympathetic role.
“Grady, the caretaker, the ghost of the caretaker and the shining, and the dad and cockroach orange.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 1:45:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
career (next film):
Barry Lyndon → The Shining.
Kubrick's next movie after Barry Lyndon was The Shining, a swerve toward a bestseller.
“His next movie was The Shining.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth (Ad-Free) · 2:00:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
people (shared composer):
Wendy Carlos → The Shining.
Carlos scored A Clockwork Orange, Tron, and The Shining; each indelibly iconic.
“and each one is like indelibly iconic, even though some, you know, shining has very little music.”
Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:31:53 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60 sure it was them) -
lineage (sequel):
The Shining → Doctor Sleep.
Doctor Sleep is named as a continuation of The Shining, with the Stephen King thing.
“There's also Doctor Sleep.”
Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 2:48:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (cultural shadow):
2001: A Space Odyssey → The Shining.
The Shining and 2001 are the two Kubrick films casting the largest cultural shadows.
“These are the 2 movies that cast the largest cultural shadows to this day.”
Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:08:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
craft (shot echo):
2001: A Space Odyssey → The Shining.
Bowman about to kill HAL is shot from below, handheld, like a Shining shot.
“He's about to kill Hal, and it's a shining shot.”
Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 0:57:45 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40 sure it was them) -
unmapped (led to Kubrick mythology):
2001: A Space Odyssey → The Shining.
2001 is the reason for Kubrick's godlike mythology, without which people would invest less in The Shining.
“I don't think people would invest as much into The Shining if this movie didn't exist.”
Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
career (career):
Joe Turkel → The Shining.
Turkel, from many Kubrick movies, becomes the bartender in The Shining.
“becomes the bartender in the Shining, but also he's Tyrell and Blade Runner.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:27:59 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them) -
craft (craft):
Hanging Up → The Shining.
The film feels like re-edited footage cut into a different genre, like trailer recuts of The Shining.
“The movie almost feels like one of those like trailer re-edits that used to be so popular”
Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:57:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them) -
lineage (lineage):
Doctor Sleep → The Shining.
Doctor Sleep's script threads King's book and Kubrick's film, and addresses King's complaint about what Kubrick changed.
“It addresses the conflict between Stephen King and what he didn't like about the Kubrick movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:46:49 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them) -
industry (industry):
Friday the 13th → The Shining.
Spring and summer 1980 TV spots for Friday the 13th and The Shining both scared a ten-year-old; Friday's ad showed every murder.
“There was 2 commercials, spring, summer, 1980 that scared the fuck out of me.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:07:38 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
The Shining → Room 237.
Room 237 documentary argues there are no accidents with Kubrick, down to the carpet changing between shots.
“That was one of the things in the room 237 documentary where they get into how there are no accidents with Kubrick and they talk about the carpet.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:28 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Fargo → The Shining.
A carpeted-restaurant joke leads to Kubrick's carpets and a Palm Springs hotel with the same carpet as the Shining hotel.
“I was at a hotel in Palm Springs a few months ago and it has the exact same carpet as the Shining Hotel.”
The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:46 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Twister → The Shining.
The drive-in tornado scene works because a tornado tears the screen while the audience watches The Shining, a frightening movie with a real threat behind it.
“there's something coming behind that that's actually fucking frightening and it just starts ripping.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:43:59 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
The War of the Roses → The Shining.
The house in Roses becomes a domestic horror, with the Shining hotel as its sequel image.
“The shining house, just for the shining hotel.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:31:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them) -
verdict (verdict):
The Shining → Stephen King.
King did not even like The Shining despite it being a top King movie.
“And the shining he didn't even like.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:04:47 · Brian Koppelman (0.80 sure it was them) -
contrast (contrast):
Panic Room → The Shining.
Also a single-house movie, but The Shining's characters at least get to run through a maze.
“They probably had the same kind of problem on the shining. That's all in one house, but at least they get out.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:21 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them) -
theme (theme):
Seven → The Shining.
Se7en, Zodiac, The Shining, Silence of the Lambs form a separate breed, nicknamed Oscar horror.
“It's almost like Oscar horror, I guess, would be the category.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:03 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)