In the movie The Shining, there's a scene of a guy in a dog suit giving fellatio. What's the deal with that?

Answer 1

stan kubrick was a little wacky in the cabeza is my theory... ever seen clockwork orange ?

Answer 2

You're right, there is that and many more weird scenes - I read the book so long ago, that I figured it was something from it. Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick both had and have very "different", yet similar, imaginations. It's still so hard to believe that King thought that Kubrick did not do a good enough job directing that movie!

Answer 3

Is better explain in the book( the guy do appear in novel, as a ghost or whatever he is). And yes in the dog suit. At first is like a past memory of what happened in the hotel that the kid sees but It gets creepier and creepier.

Answer 4

That was the first owner and his vallet de chambre. Looks like the old guy was into fantasies. The point is to show that 'bad' things had been happening in the hotel since its first day.

the film is rather moralizing: note both the old owner and the vallet are in the final pic, which supposedly shows all the people who ended up in hell.

Answer 5

You should read the book (a daunting task, I know) there is much more background on the hotel and some of it's weirder guests that was simply left out of the movie, or glossed over.

Answer 6

I saw that movie 3 times- never saw THAT scene

Answer 7

I saw the movie twice and don't recall seeing that scene.

Answer 8

Have you ever heard of people dressing up in animal costumes and think it's sexual? I've heard of people like that, but never saw that part of the movie. How intriguing.

Answer 9

He was the owner's yes-man and gay lover. You got a problem with that? You know they were long dead. The hotel played host to pure evil.

Answer 10

There is also a scene like that in an AFI video