What does the bear symbolize in The Shining?

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One of the most persuasive is the reoccurrence of bear symbolism. For example, during the scene where Danny is speaking to his psychiatrist, he is laying on stuffed bears.
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Why is the bear scene in The Shining?

One of the most frequent questions I've received about The Shining is “What does the guy in the bear costume mean?” The popular interpretation is that the scene is a throwback to a subplot of Stephen King's book, in which a party guest in a dog costume has a homosexual relationship with one of the hotel's former owners ...
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Why is Room 237 haunted in The Shining?

The room was inhabited in the past, by a Lorraine Massey who would usually seduce young bellboys who would visit her room. One time Danny Torrance visited this room after a ball strangely rolled to him from its open doors. Later, he claimed that a "crazy woman" tried to strangle him.
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What is the symbolism in The Shining?

The film represents life

One of the creepiest theories of all is that mad genius Kubrick managed to imbue his film with so much ambiguous Freudian symbolism that it taps into essence of life itself. In other words, the whole film is about the bizarre coincidences of life.
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What do the twins symbolize in The Shining?

The twins also represent Danny's anticipation of his Mother being murdered. They have jet black hair like Wendy and they wear blue dresses. Wendy wears a blue dress at the start of the film with red stockings and sleeves, which gives her the symbolic appearance of an axe murdered twin.
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Why is the bathroom in The Shining red?

The color red here is symbolizing the blood and transfers a feeling of horror and anxiety which repeats several time. The Red here also warns the viewer of the horror to be followed in the movie and the threat that is hidden somewhere in the hotel.
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Why does Johnny go crazy in The Shining?

Jack becomes obsessed enough with the hotel's sordid past that he wants to write a book about it. He makes a long-distance call to the hotel's manager, Stuart Ullmann, and antagonizes him with this knowledge. Eventually, he goes mad thanks to the influence of the hotel's ghosts and attempts to kill Wendy and Danny.
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Who is the ghost in Room 237?

Firstly, in the book, the poltergeist that haunts Room 237 is a woman named Lorraine Massey. When she was alive, Lorraine was known to seduce young bellhop boys. She would invite them into her room where they would conduct sexual activity.
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Was Jack always the caretaker in The Shining?

Delbert Grady tells Jack that he's “always been the caretaker,” implying the hotel continues to revisit its past inhabitants. It keeps calling back Gradys and Torrances to offer them a good vs. evil scenario, and they choose evil.
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Was Danny abused in The Shining?

In the "fatherly love" scene, Jack strangles Danny and sexually abuses him. In the "naked woman" scene Danny is manifested as his own father and witnesses the encounter.
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Is Wendy hallucinations in The Shining?

There are multiple moments in the film that show when Wendy is having a hallucination, but they are easy to miss because of how small they seem to be.
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Why is Danny's imaginary friend Tony?

Tony (his name taken from Danny's middle name, Anthony), is at first to Danny an imaginary playmate, then a source of fear, and finally a source of strength.
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Why does Abra go into the bathroom?

In the film's last scene, Abra finally tells her mother the truth—that she's been conversing with a ghost—before heading into her bathroom to dispose of another one of the Overlook's insidious ghouls, just as Danny did all those years earlier.
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Why does the Overlook Hotel want Danny?

In the book The Shining it's made clear to the readers that the Overlook Hotel wants to possess Danny Torrance so it can use his powerful telepathic power (his 'shine'). It does this by possessing his vulnerable father, Jack Torrance and using him as a puppet to hopefully kill Danny.
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Was Jack a ghost in The Shining?

Interestingly, in the 1997 Shining miniseries, which King himself wrote, there's a brief epilogue in which a graduating Danny is visited by the ghost of Jack, beaming with pride, suggesting that Jack's spirit was fully freed when the Overlook blew up.
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Why does Jack say here's Johnny?

Jack Nicholson ad-libbed the line "Here's Johnny!" in imitation of announcer Ed McMahon's famous introduction of Johnny Carson on U.S. network NBC-TV's long-running late night television program The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
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Does Jack actually drink in The Shining?

Even though the Overlook's cache of liquor is depleted before Jack comes on the scene, the Overlook creates gin from thin air and gets Jack really drunk before it sends him on his murderous rampage with the roque mallet.
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What does green symbolize in The Shining?

One theory is that green shows the force of nature, and it's the cold of the winter snow that takes this positive force away – turning the scenes to white and red.
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Is the shining bloody?

Blood flows throughout this film -- literally -- in several notorious scenes. There are axe murders and decomposed bodies. The main character, a recovering alcoholic, slowly goes insane and aims to kill his family. He verbally abuses his wife throughout most of the film.
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Why is there so much red and blue in the shining?

As the movie progresses, the key color to watch for begins to become red. Anticipating this, Kubrick cleverly dresses Dick Hallorann in all blue. Dick is a savior character that counters the insanity in the hotel, so it makes complete sense that he would be dressed in blue rather than red.
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Are the twins evil in The Shining?

In the book, The Grady Twins are not twins but are eight and ten and described by Bill Watson as “cute as buttons”. They did not make an appearance but are mentioned and referenced several times and almost certainly haunt the Overlook Hotel, most likely now evil.
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How were the Grady twins killed?

In the film the two young girls are murdered violently with an axe after their hotel-caretaker father develops cabin fever. They terrify little Danny Torrance when they chant, 'Come and play with us, Danny, forever, and ever, and ever,' in their English accents before the film flashes to their dead and bloody bodies.
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Are the Grady sisters twins?

While the Burns sisters are identical twins, the Grady sisters weren't supposed to be — they were supposed to be aged 8 and 10. But since the real actresses were twins, it was assumed by most viewers that the fictional girls were twins too.
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Is Tony in The Shining a demon?

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Tony is Danny's imaginary friend who appears as a human but is not a physical figure. Tony is also the name of Danny's stuffed dog which has no importance on the story.
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