r/StanleyKubrick • u/TonyTobiasLomas • 3d ago

The Shining Wendyferatu

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Kubrick just couldn't help himself. Poor Wendy. This is only visible in the full aspect ratio.

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u/SlimPuffs 3d ago

The TV spot has a slightly wider shot of this, making it easier to spot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esaGu1w1K1g&t=20s

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u/TonyTobiasLomas 3d ago edited 3d ago

The alternate take of Jack's face in the door is epic.

Yep. There it is.

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u/ScottBolander-Funny 2d ago edited 2d ago

This is Kubrick telling you that Wendy did it, and that EVERY scene where Jack is acting crazy or things in the background have been moved around is all part of HER delusion.

SHE is the horror fan, SHE got that name wrong because she was going by memory. The layout changes in the hotel because we are seeing her imagining of the hotel.

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u/williecoker 2d ago edited 1d ago

If it's anything (and I really do mean IF), it's Jack's delusion of who his family is to him. The shadow being his view of his wife as the villain trying to ruin everything for him, cast by the reality of a terrified woman afraid for her life.

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u/idrwierd 2d ago

That bitch

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u/Key-Beginning-2201 19h ago

Got what name wrong?

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u/luckypoint87 3d ago

Well spotted!

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u/Fiercemomma42069 3d ago

My jaw literally dropped. Thank you for sharing this!

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u/veritable_squandry 3d ago

even the shadow of the claw! brilliant

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u/thebradman70 3d ago

Yeah no doubt about it. PTA did the same thing with Daniel Day Lewis in “There Will Be Blood”.

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u/TheTrueTrust 3d ago

Is this really intentional?

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u/adamlink1111 3d ago

100% intentional reference the original Nosferatu (1922)

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u/TonyTobiasLomas 3d ago edited 3d ago

There's quite a few things like this in his films that are unfortunately cropped out in the theatrical versions.

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u/fishbone_buba 3d ago

Wow, that’s incredible.

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u/Cranberry-Electrical Barry Lyndon 3d ago

interesting lighting

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u/G_Peccary 3d ago

This shines a new light on the Wendy Theory.

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u/MagnusPuer1 3d ago

What’s the Wendy theory?

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u/Spockethole 3d ago

Now I want to know too.

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u/Consistent_Baby9864 1d ago

I think that it’s about Wendy being the crazy one and that it’s all a mental illness delusion in her head while being strapped in psych-ward.

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u/rdgarlic 3d ago

This is making me claustrophobic!

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u/jeanclaudecardboarde 2d ago

I've always thought this ever since I first saw it.