Going-To-The-Sun Road appears again (very briefly) during the cross-country run in Forrest Gump. Some of this footage was tacked on to the original release of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner to provide the ‘happy ending’. The opening helicopter shots, of Torrance driving to the Overlook, were filmed by a second unit on Going-to-the-Sun Road, running along the western shore of Saint Mary Lake in Glacier National Park, northeast of Kalispell, Montana. The hotel was also seen on-screen in Peter Farrelly’s 1994 Dumb and Dumber. The writer detested the Kubrick adaptation, which junked most of his plot in favour of atmosphere, and sanctioned a TV movie remake, which did indeed use the Stanley. This is the hotel in which King stayed in 1973, and which inspired the original story. To complicate matters further, it’s sometimes claimed that the film was made at the Stanley Hotel, 333 East Wonderview Avenue, Estes Park in Colorado. The interior sets were partly based, not on the Timberline, but on the Ahwahnee Hotel, in Yosemite National Park, California. There is no maze at the Timberline – this was built at the old MGM Borehamwood Studios, also in Hertfordshire. Among those is a theory that suggests the Overlook Hotel is actually hell, and the Torrance family is trapped there due to Jack's actions, and through this, it explains some of The Shining’s biggest mysteries.Stanley Kubrick’s very free adaptation of the Stephen King novel sees blocked writer Jack Torrance ( Jack Nicholson) going barmy in a creepy snowbound hotel.Īlthough the film was shot almost entirely in the studio at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England, where the hotel interior was constructed, the exterior of the ‘Overlook Hotel’ is the Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood in the Hood River area of Northern Oregon.īuilt during the Depression, it’s 45 miles east of Portland, just east of Zig Zag on Route 26. The way Kubrick represented the Overlook’s supernatural forces and Jack’s mental state has made way for a variety of theories on the real meaning of The Shining and what its many elements represent. Not just a haunted hotel, the building and the very ground.
Related: The Shining's Bear Man Is The Film's Biggest Mystery: Here's What It Means The spirits in Kings novel are horrifying and gruesome, but theyre held in place by the Overlook. Along with Danny’s mysterious psychic abilities, the supernatural forces inhabiting the Overlook Hotel begin to awaken and start messing with Jack’s sanity, leaving Wendy and Danny fighting for their lives. Jack hopes to find the inspiration he needs to work on a play while at the hotel, and he also takes his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and their son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), in hopes that they can reconnect and rebuild their relationship, but it all gets complicated and frightening when a snowstorm leaves them cut off from the outside world. The Shining tells the story of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), a struggling writer and recovering alcoholic who takes a position as the off-season caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies.
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