Did the first guy who went insane and kill his family resemble jack or what??
2006-07-08 16:50:16 · 7 answers · asked by Gabi 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
This is an excerpt that I found at the source below:
Once you've been a caretaker, (97k WAV) you're always a caretaker, as Jack learns on his descent. Mr. Grady seems to get around. Introducing himself as Delbert Grady after ushering Jack into the bathroom, Jack recognizes him as Charles Grady, the former caretaker who murdered his wife and children. The Overlook is a timeless institution, and both Grady and Torrance have spent at least two periods of time in its employment. Grady, as Delbert, in the 1920's as a butler, and as Charles the caretaker in 1970. Jack is the caretaker of 1980, but Grady reassures him that he has always been in the hotel. This assertment is confirmed at the very end of the film, when a long tracking shot zeroes in on a picture of Jack Torrance in a 1921 Overlook ball photograph.
2006-07-08 17:06:40 · answer #1 · answered by Jenny 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Basically cos Stanley Kubrick was trying to be clever. It's something he came up with himself together with the maze which he somehow developed from some topiary bushes in the shape of animals.
At no point in the book is there a photo of Jack as the caretaker.
I'm not a fan of the movie although it does have some good moments. I think Jack Nicholson did the best he could with the role he was given and it did some have some good scary moments.
I've read somewhere that Stephen King himself is not a big fan of it. The fact that he re-made it as a mini-series 6 or seven years ago bears this out.
2006-07-09 10:11:07 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes!!! Thank you!!!! Excellent question. I asked somebody that once too. Does it mean he was really a ghost all along??? I don't get it either. Was he really the man who killed his children back in the 20's. I dunno.I hope you find your answer. I know i didn't answer your question, but i just to respond, b/c it's been a while since i saw it and i wondered the exact same thing. I'll be looking out for the answer.
Okay, i've been watching. I think the 3rd answer is probably the most accurate. If Stephen King is out there...please answer this question!!!!!!!!
2006-07-08 23:53:46 · answer #3 · answered by C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always wondered the same thing. The bathroom attendant (also the guy that lets him out of the locked storeroom)tells him that he "has always been the caretaker". I think it means that the 'spirit' of Jack is the same every time. I think it also goes to show that Jack was predestined to do it. He had no choice, and he will have no choice when he embodies the caretaker again. My 2 cents.
2006-07-08 23:57:40 · answer #4 · answered by qtip 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jack resembles the original killer and I think he may have been reincarnated. The cabin fever took him to the same evil level and caused the hotel ghosts to influence him to do evil.
2006-07-09 00:05:46 · answer #5 · answered by elthe3rd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's been awhile but if i remember right. It's that he becomes taken over by the ghost in the hotel.
2006-07-08 23:58:21 · answer #6 · answered by robdman_2000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my opinion. it was his fate or destiny. I also think that the photo shows all the victims of the hotel who now haunt it.
2006-07-09 04:57:43 · answer #7 · answered by amulek1978 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋