# Kubrick's 'The Shining' "documentary" 'Room 237' \*spoilers\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kubricks-the-shining-documentary-room-237-spoilers/653479 "2013-03-20T19:15:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kubricks-the-shining-documentary-room-237-spoilers/653479/21 "2014-01-05T22:30:24Z")
Kubrick had an IQ of 200 my fat ass … :rolleyes: What a waste of film and pile of stinking shit. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kubricks-the-shining-documentary-room-237-spoilers/653479/22 "2014-01-05T23:50:22Z")
Any claims of an I.Q. being 200 are wrong. Among other things, it’s suspicious that someone is claiming a number that’s a round number. In any case, depending on which of the common I.Q. tests is being talked about (those with a 15-point standard deviation or a 16-point deviation), an I.Q. of 200 or above should occur once in 76 billion times (i.e., one or two people in the entire history of the world) or once in 4 billion times (i.e., one or two people in the entire population of the world today): [http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/iqtable.aspx](http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/iqtable.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kubricks-the-shining-documentary-room-237-spoilers/653479/23 "2014-01-08T21:02:25Z")
AWESOME!!! **I can now contribute straight from the director!** I asked the director 2 questions today in his Ask Me Anything and he answered. I will gladly share them with you now. I’ll quote box the whole thing. 🙂 > [@](#): > > Question 1 : > > Mahaloth: In your opinion, is your movie more about the theories on the Shining, or is it more a study of how far people will go to over-analyze something they feel passionate about? > > Rodney Ascher: It started as the former and sort of morphed into the latter. Though whether they (or we) are “over” analyzing things is up for debate. > > Question 2: > > Mahaloth: Oh, and do you have a favorite Shining theory? 🙂 Thanks! > > Rodney Ascher: There’s a new one I saw that proposed that everything that happened after the “donner party” scene is a hallucination by a woman freezing in the snow who ate them after discovering their wrecked car in a snowy mountain pass. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kubricks-the-shining-documentary-room-237-spoilers/653479/24 "2014-01-30T17:54:36Z")
Cool stuff - thanks! The creepy twin girls are all growed up - _The Shining_ was their only movie role: [Here's What 'The Shining' Twins Look Like Now | HuffPost Entertainment](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/the-shining-twins_n_4686752.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl14%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D436393) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kubricks-the-shining-documentary-room-237-spoilers/653479/25 "2014-01-30T21:19:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Cool stuff - thanks! Thanks, leave it to me to basically thread kill a thread with an actual post from the director of the movie we are discussing! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kubricks-the-shining-documentary-room-237-spoilers/653479/26 "2014-01-30T22:07:36Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Thanks, leave it to me to basically thread kill a thread with an actual post from the director of the movie we are discussing! 😃 I meant to respond to your post at the time but I forgot. So…cool, thanks for posting that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kubricks-the-shining-documentary-room-237-spoilers/653479/27 "2014-01-31T01:26:23Z")
I watched about half the film on Netflix before the crazy talk put me to sleep. The oddity that sticks in my mind tonite was the crushed red VW Beetle. One of the Conspiracy Theorists in the movie explained it as an announcement that Kubrick would not be following Stephen King’s ending. I have no idea if that interpretation is correct, but if King really did have the family drive a red Beetle --changed to yellow in the movie version-- it was an interesting touch from Kubrick. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2014, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kubricks-the-shining-documentary-room-237-spoilers/653479/28 "2014-01-31T02:31:53Z")
Number 3 in this article is about Danny Lloyd, who played Danny in _The Shining_, who had no idea what was going on in the movie and remembers that in his time off the set he would play and eat with the twins: > **[Actors Who Thought They Made A Different Movie](https://www.cracked.com/article_20791_6-actors-who-thought-they-had-made-totally-different-movie.html)** > > When all you have is a big green wall behind, sometimes you just don't know what kind of movie you're really making. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kubricks-the-shining-documentary-room-237-spoilers/653479/29 "2020-12-05T02:11:54Z")
Bumped. Check out the airliner’s carpeting at 1:43 here (a great song and a great video, BTW): [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Nj2U6rhnucI/hqdefault.jpg "Dua Lipa - Break My Heart (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj2U6rhnucI) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2020, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kubricks-the-shining-documentary-room-237-spoilers/653479/30 "2020-12-05T19:12:33Z")
Doesn’t match the drapes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kubricks-the-shining-documentary-room-237-spoilers/653479.md?page=1)