Bond...James Bond wrote:You know that scene in The Shining where Shelly Duvall is running around the hotel seeing ghosts and crap......WTF was up with that bit with the man in the bear suit?
Oh list any other movie scenes that you think make no sense to the rest of the film.....
Unless I'm mistaken, the man in the bear suit is a carry-over from the Stephen King novel. As you know from other scenes in the film, the ghosts are ghosts from the hotel itself. (Recall that in one scene, Jack Nicholson's character talks things over with the bartender, and---I believe---there is a bit of a ghost party scene going on in the background.) The bear and the man are thus ghost hotel partyers who have slipped away for a bit of....ah, well, use your imagination. Moreover, given that this film was directed by Stanley Kubrick, I think we can safely guess that a lot of tinkering was done with the book, and that certain scenes were cut, etc.
Dang Scratch...now I'm going to have to reread the book again....which of course will get me upset because in the book Jack Torrence uses a croquet mallet rather than an axe (which is totally awesome....the croquet mallet is one of the most overlooked blunt objects in history).....sigh.
I know they were ghosts.....it was part of that crazy montage that Wendy goes through as she's trying to escape the hotel and save Danny (who's running through the maze of course)....but there isn't any relevance to any earlier scenes (like Grady the waiter who's head starts bleeding, or the wall of blood that Danny sees at the start of the film).
Of course this a Kubrick film....and I still don't know what the heck Eyes Wide Shut was about. That whole film could go on this thread.
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
Shining, the movie is the movie. It is strong enough that it would be best to let it explain itself and let the book be its own thing that can explain itself.
Complicated way of saying, the bear costume, great moment, So what is there to not understand?
I haven't worked up the courage to follow your link to the native american opperession theme. It sounds so irrational that one might never find ones way back out again.
huckelberry wrote:I haven't worked up the courage to follow your link to the native american opperession theme. It sounds so irrational that one might never find ones way back out again.
It's just a youtube video....you won't get lost in some crazy conspiracy theory (unlike Mr Torrence in the maze)......and it is kinda crazy......but it makes something of an argument for tying the bear suit oral sex scene to the rest of the film. Although we are talking about Stanley Kubrick......
actually the reviewer (he voiceovers scenes of the movie trying to tie points together) did a very good Excorcist review that really made me look at that film differently....
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
Polygamy Porter wrote:Movie scenes that make no sense?
The entire "Restoration" DVD from the liars at LDS Inc PR department.
Or the scene in "Samurai Vampire Cheerleader Camp II" in which PP, playing a deranged, syphilitic proctologist wanders through the woods throughout the film shouting "The end is near!",
What were they thinking?
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance.
Polygamy Porter wrote:Movie scenes that make no sense?
The entire "Restoration" DVD from the liars at LDS Inc PR department.
Or the scene in "Samurai Vampire Cheerleader Camp II" in which PP, playing a deranged, syphilitic proctologist wanders through the woods throughout the film shouting "The end is near!",
What were they thinking?
Is that out on DVD, yet?
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Polygamy Porter wrote:Movie scenes that make no sense?
The entire "Restoration" DVD from the liars at LDS Inc PR department.
Or the scene in "Samurai Vampire Cheerleader Camp II" in which PP, playing a deranged, syphilitic proctologist wanders through the woods throughout the film shouting "The end is near!",
What were they thinking?
Is that out on DVD, yet?
Pretty sure that was straight to DVD.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
Polygamy Porter wrote:Movie scenes that make no sense?
The entire "Restoration" DVD from the liars at LDS Inc PR department.
Or the scene in "Samurai Vampire Cheerleader Camp II" in which PP, playing a deranged, syphilitic proctologist wanders through the woods throughout the film shouting "The end is near!",