# Stanley Kubrick's The Shining **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 11, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubricks-the-shining/360299 "2006-06-11T14:29:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubricks-the-shining/360299/61 "2006-06-18T05:28:59Z")
> [@Klaatu](#): > > I saw the film when it premiered in 1980 and thought it was decent, but as others have said it has since grown on me. > > I did miss the hedge animals though, but I understand Kubrick didn’t think they were technically feasable what with with the budget (around 20 million IIRC) and available special effects at the time. They blew the budget on an elevator full of corn syrup and red dye #3😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubricks-the-shining/360299/62 "2006-06-18T14:36:20Z")
Roger Ebert just picked The Shining as one of his Great Movies series. Interesting review, found [here](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060618/REVIEWS08/606180302). ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubricks-the-shining/360299/63 "2006-06-19T15:46:12Z")
> [@Happy Wanderer](#): > > They blew the budget on an elevator full of corn syrup and red dye #3😃 We have buckets of juice?! This party will be off the hook! /Buster ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubricks-the-shining/360299/64 "2006-06-19T16:55:37Z")
Somebody tell me the significance of the scene where a guy was getting a hum job from a giant rabbit. Man, talk about a non sequitur. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubricks-the-shining/360299/65 "2006-06-19T17:11:05Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Somebody tell me the significance of the scene where a guy was getting a hum job from a giant rabbit. Man, talk about a non sequitur. In the book, there’s a subplot about the guy who designed and/or owned the Overlook. Although married, he used to get his jollies by seducing and then tormenting other people, of either gender. The guy in the dogsuit was his last boyfriend. During a big costume party at the overlook, he publically humiliated the guy by making him dress up in the dog costume and act like a dog in front of all the other guests. After all the other shit the guy made him go through, he snapped and, IIRC, killed the architect. (Haven’t read the book since high school, so I might be mis-remembering the details.) ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubricks-the-shining/360299/66 "2006-08-14T19:50:11Z")
This thread isn’t too old, and I weighed the import of my post before revivifying it. I hope I judged right. The high definition movie channel was having an all day “Kubrick-a-thon” several days ago, so I recorded the one movie of his I had never seen: _The Shining_. I watched it for the first time last night. Wow! What a stunner. High-def was seemingly designed for Kubrick’s gorgeously-filmed movies. I’m not one of those who yell at movie screens, but this one had me screaming, “Bash him with the bat, you stupid bint! That’s the way! Hit him again while he’s down!” Is the following a Kubrickian signature scene? A long, ominous room stretching away from the camera, and the actors enter at the far (sometimes shadowy) end, and advance towards the camera lens. If I walked into the TV room as the men’s room/Delbert Grady scene started, not knowing it was a Kubrick movie, I would have instantly guessed the director. My last observation: Jack Torrance didn’t seem so much insane or possessed by spirits to me as he seemed first like an asshole husband, then like an verbally-abusive asshole husband, and then like a violent, abusive asshole husband. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stanley-kubricks-the-shining/360299.md?page=3)