bunny costume scene in the Shining
holdenc...@fansonlymail.com
Could someone please explain the bunny costume/fellatio scene to me?!?! The
Shining is one of my favorite movies, but I can't for the life of me figure
out what this scene is about! I never read the book, maybe I should have. I
know someone out there can enlighten me...
Holden
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LamaSivartDoz
It's been suggested elsewhere that it's in fact a bear costume. I've
always seen it as a bunny costume and I think it's of some importance
(knowing Kubrick's perfection) to establish which it is. It's not in the
book (except maybe by piecing images together), it's a very strong
visual image out of the Maestro's head - actually it seems to scare
people more than anything else in the film. I'm sure there's lots of
layers to it, to me it suggests decadence and madness (in line with the
movie's collapsing reality) primarily.
As you're Holden Caulfield, maybe you have an idea about the meaning of
Wendy reading Catcher In The Rye? Anyone? It's (again) certainly not an
idle choice by SK.
Will Good
In article <352B4D...@nowhere.com>, FUsp...@nowhere.com says...
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>holdenc...@fansonlymail.com wrote:
>>
>> Could someone please explain the bunny costume/fellatio scene to me?!?!
The
>> Shining is one of my favorite movies, but I can't for the life of me
figure
>> out what this scene is about! I never read the book, maybe I should have.
I
>> know someone out there can enlighten me...
>>
>> Holden
>>
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>It's been suggested elsewhere that it's in fact a bear costume.
I agree that it's a bear costume- it reminds me of the teddy bear (pillow)
under Danny's head in the beginning. In my view this duality is related to
the symmetry of the entire film- like the structure of an epic myth.
Don't have the time to go there though.
bne...@aracnet.com
In article <6gf6tg$ul9$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, holdenc...@fansonlymail.com
says... > >Could someone please explain the bunny costume/fellatio scene to
me?!?! The I dunno why everyone all of a sudden thinks it's a bunny suit; the
ears and muzzle are obviously ursine in that teddy-bear way. :) In any case,
this scene, while it's not in the book or the mini-series, does make sense once
you've experienced one of those. From what I understand, the Charlton Heston
character who is receiving the "act" was the original jet-setting hotel owner
from the early days (I forget his name), and apparently there is a reference to
this in the book, his going off with someone from a costume ball or some such,
as an example of his debauchery, though I've heard that it also may be blackmail
or some such. Wendy sees this scene simply because the hotel is pouring out all
of its "memories" of unpleasant times at her.
holdenc...@fansonlymail.com
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LamaSivartDoz <FUsp...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
> It's been suggested elsewhere that it's in fact a bear costume. I've
> always seen it as a bunny costume and I think it's of some importance
> (knowing Kubrick's perfection) to establish which it is. It's not in the
> book (except maybe by piecing images together), it's a very strong
> visual image out of the Maestro's head - actually it seems to scare
> people more than anything else in the film. I'm sure there's lots of
> layers to it, to me it suggests decadence and madness (in line with the
> movie's collapsing reality) primarily.
>
> As you're Holden Caulfield, maybe you have an idea about the meaning of
> Wendy reading Catcher In The Rye? Anyone? It's (again) certainly not an
> idle choice by SK.
I didn't even know Wendy did read Catcher in the Rye. Is this only in the
book, or some scene in the movie too? I'm sure it has to do with Jack Torrance
becoming a hypocrite. In the movie he says how isolation will be no problem
for him, and then he attempts to butcher his family just like Grady. Wendy
sees herself as the "Catcher in the Rye" trying to protect Danny from the evil
and phoniness of his father.
GMCpilot
bne...@aracnet.com
> From what I understand, the Charlton Heston character who is receiving the
"act" >was the original jet-setting hotel owner from the early days (I forget
his name), and >apparently there is a reference to this in the book, his going
off with someone from a >costume ball or some such, as an example of his
debauchery, though I've heard that >it also may be blackmail or some such.
Charlton Heston character?
You're right -- he was a previous owner of the hotel, a bisexual who had a
steady male "friend." The owner was extremely malicious, and got pleasure out
of emotionally torturing his boyfriend.
The boyfriend went to a costume party as a dog, hence the dog costume in the
movie scene. Although that particular scene was Kubrick's creation, the guy
(in costume) did appear to both Danny and Jack in the book.
Frank Hackett
There is a scene in the Stephen King book re: bear-fellatio scene. The guy
in the bear costume chases Danny. In regard to the fact that Wendy is
ready "Catcher in the Rye" book (apparently, I don't remeber) could it be an
in-joke (somewhat similar to the way the 2001 album appears in the A
Clockwork Orange Record shop) in that both Salinger and Kubrick are highly
respected, reclusive artists?
Jeremy H
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 21:02:33 -0400, "Frank Hackett" <f...@fired.com>
wrote:
Well, the shining is about an reclusive author.... what better book
for Wendy to read than Salinger's ?
Jeremy H