I was wondering: in the end, after Jack Nicholson has died from freezing to death, it shows a picture of him in the ballroom in like the 1920s or something. What's that supposed to mean? That he always reincarnates and is always destined to go back to that hotel or something?
2007-03-11 06:45:51 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
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2007-03-11 06:47:28 · answer #1 · answered by dreamlauros 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The closing shot is an extremely long tracking shot into a hallway outside the Gold Room toward one framed photograph - it is in a rectangular grouping of twenty-one black and white framed pictures which freeze moments of time on the wall. 1920s, Fitzgeraldian period music from a dance band plays in the background. The black-and-white image of the picture is from the Overlook's evil time-zone, taken during the hotel's hey-day (1921) at the July 4th Ball. Broadly grinning and waving, a younger-looking Jack is forefront in the picture, safely absorbed into the scene. Behind him are ghostly revelers all dressed in smart, 1920s garb. The inscription: "Overlook Hotel / July 4th Ball / 1921."
http://www.drummerman.net/shining/synopsis.html
2007-03-11 13:56:55 · answer #2 · answered by NiceGirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows what Stanley Kubrick had in mind. Since the book didn't end that way and it wasn't the first scene released with the movie. According to www.imdb.com, this was a different ending than was was originally released in theaters.
Although he did a good movie, he strayed too far from what King had in mind. If you watch the television mini series with
Steven Weber, Rebecca De Mornay, Courtland Mead and
Melvin Van Peebles. It makes more sense and conveys King's work in a better way.
2007-03-11 13:58:25 · answer #3 · answered by pipi08_2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well since during most of the movie he is interacting with the ghosts and moving in and out of reality I saw that final shot as saying that he had ultimately given in to the ghosts and haunting spirits of the house. The picture sort of confirmed his descent into madness.
2007-03-11 15:07:37 · answer #4 · answered by astraea82 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that whoever ends up being possessed by the hotel will become the new face in the old painting. Their face just replaces the face of the man that killed his family.
2007-03-11 13:49:49 · answer #5 · answered by romettifamily 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always figured thats where all the people who died at the hotel went, like some dead club
2007-03-11 13:48:34 · answer #6 · answered by CLARABELLE 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that was the impression I got...
Stephen King often likes to end his stories making you wonder what REALLY happened... is this a LOOP ?
The Dark Tower Series drove me NUTS when I reached the end of that book !!
2007-03-11 13:59:28 · answer #7 · answered by mariner31 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
great movie and i've been in the hotel it was based on in estes park, colorado its like that cause they say the ballroom is the most haunted room in the hotel
2007-03-11 13:48:57 · answer #8 · answered by Gabriel R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That he joined the other spirits at the hotel.
2007-03-11 13:54:29 · answer #9 · answered by Lori F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya i've been to the hotel too and i went on a FEW really interesting "ghost tours" and "ghost stories" things
but no i've never yet seen it
2007-03-11 13:51:17 · answer #10 · answered by olive oil 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You answerd your own question 10 points for you
2007-03-11 13:48:50 · answer #11 · answered by 'lil peanut 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋