When we see the final photograph in The Shining, it is revealed to have been taken on July 4th, America's freedom birthday. In Full Metal Jacket it's the dead man's birthday. The final shot is a photograph of our lead protagonist Jack Torrence (Jack Nicholson), impossibly photographed as a resident of the Overlook Hotel at the July 4th ball in 1921, some sixty The chilling photo from “The Shining” of a 1921 Fourth of July ball at the Overlook Hotel turned 100 over the weekend, and Dylan Dreyer helps explain what the photo really meant. Posted by u/Smart_Of_Darkness - 40 votes and 4 comments Scopri le curiosità e i misteri sulla foto finale di Shining di Stanley Kubrick datata 4 luglio 1921. For decades, that haunting black-and-white photo at the end of The Shining has been a cinematic enigma. Jack Torrance, grinning at the center of a 1921 July 4th ball, locked in a moment that’s both mysterious and unsettling. The very end of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining features a spooky black and white photo of the fictional Overlook Hotel Ballroom and guests in 1921. Here it is colorized by Okkama Colorizations at The Psychogenealogist (2019). . . The one question everyone who views “The Shining” wants to know is what does the black and white photo at the end of Stanley Kubrick’s film mean? The answer to the question of what the final July 4th, 1921 photo represents is found in the novel. There’s only one important black and white photo in Stephen King’s novel. Finally, the scene dissolves to a medium close up of Jack’s face, and the camera tilts down to reveal the caption: “Overlook Hotel, July 4th Ball, 1921” The camera continues to push in, further and further, to the image of Jack incongruously, impossibly presiding over a crowd of flappers and tux-clad men at the Overlook’s July 4th Ballin 1921. Add yourself into the picture from the Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921 from the "Shining". Perfect gift for any fan of the "Shining" Receive a printed 8x10 version of your photo ready for framing. Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of The Shining has arguably one of the most memorable final shots in all of genre cinema: the utterly unsettling photograph from the Overlook Hotel’s 1921 The July 4th Ball photo is evidence of the Overlook’s ownership of those mortals it devours. Once the malignant hotel convinces a guest to act on its and the guest’s vile nature, the two After several surreal scenes that remain iconic to this day, between flooded elevators and creepy hallway twins, Jack is neutralized – seemingly. After all that, the film lingers on a shot of an impressive photo capturing a ball celebrating July 4th dated 1921. For hardcore fans of “The Shining,” this Fourth of July marks an important anniversary in the history of the infamous Overlook Hoteland it all comes down to a photo. As the camera pans in to old black and white photos in the lobby, we see one that’s marked, ‘Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921’. A closer look shows Jack has somehow been transformed back to 1921, appearing in the photo. Well Yahoo reported recently that the photo was taken from the BBC Hulton Archive and later Getty Images purchased it. In order to achieve this, the filmmaker revealed in an interview with Michel Ciment that he went a completely unconventional route and didn't end up using extras. He said: "No, they were in a In 1921, the year the movie The Phantom Carriage was released, the clip of Jack chopping the door was a tribute to the The Phantom Carriage . Then the date July 4th, On July 4th 1776, the United States was founded, the Declaration of Independence was signed by John Hancock. The unsettling "Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921" photo shown at the end of 1980's "The Shining" implies that recovering alcoholic and recently hired hotel caretaker Jack Torrance One of my pet peeves in movies is that 99.999% of the time they have a scene where they show a picture of a protagonist it is so evident it was composited and made via photoshop.
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