Talk:The Shining (film)/Archive 1

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message: What scene was it that got shot 127 times? Seems odd to mention it, then not specify.  Matt Deres 03:00, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The Guinness website doesn't specify, and I haven't found any other site that does. Nufy8 03:41, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I heard that it was the scene in which Dick Halloran shines, receiving Danny's message, in the hotel room (or whatever he was in)StevenNemes 15:53, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I read that the scene was the one where Shelly Duvall ran up the stairs and saw the dogman that took 127 takes, and one of the cameramen commmented on how he had to run up the equivalent of the Empire State building. The scene where Danny "shines" only had 40 takes when Scatman Crothers broke down crying. DocRocks1 08:28, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Guinness Record?

message: "Although it can be seen as a horror film, The Shining defies many of the conventions of the genre." Why is this mentioned at the start but never again? I'd like to read about how it defies genre (obviously having bright lighting is one of them, but I'd still like to know).
:I'm going to remove that statement; there is nothing about it that defies the genre, it is just a unique piece of the genre. --Berserk798 21:01, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Defining Genre Conventions

message: I recall that the manager of the hotel, when describing the murder that occured there, said that the little girls were sisters, but (paraphrasing) "one was 8 and one was 10". The little girls in the remainder of the movie look like identical twins, but they could easily not be. Is there something (perhaps in the book?) that says that they are? Scapermoya 06:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just looked at the imdb page, and the actresses that played the girls are twins apparently, but is there something in the storyline that addresses this?Scapermoya 06:45, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Twins

message: I do not find any merit at all in this section; it doesn't give any information about the film at all, save for the "Here's Johnny" quote, and it gives off the aura of being there entirely for the entertainment of fans. I propose that we make an entire section for the "Here's Johnny" quote (and possibly give additional information on the impact it has made and parodies of it) and remove the other quotes. --Berserk798 21:11, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Quotes" Section 

message: Please do not delete or change the current poster image being used in the Infobox. Thank you very much. (Ibaranoff24 22:57, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: A minor point perhaps, but the text about Danny writing "REDRUM" on the wall and his mom seeing it in the mirror needs to be fixed.  As you can see in [screen capture], the middle two letters are reversed in Danny's writing.  That means when viewd in the mirror, the final two letters are reversed. So it's "reDRum" and "murdER", where the letter I've capitalized are reversed. I tried to make this correction in the article but didn't know how to produce those characters.  Help, anyone? Anson2995 19:01, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Special Characters for "Redrum" 

message: *How Well Do You Know: The Shining at Box Office Prophets
Is this type of link appropriate? A user removed previously-posted links to similar quizzes, but we think they are appropriate,
given that they are directly applicable to the film
BOP tk 17:02, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link 

message: Who wrote the piece of music which is playing when Jack Nicholson enters the Gold Room for the second time, and what is its title?  217.43.199.206 18:59, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The song you are thinking of is called "Midnight, the Stars and You".  It was played by Ray Noble's orchestra with vocals provided by Al Bowly and was a popular English dance tune of the 1920s. 81.152.148.0 21:03, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Music