Why is jack nicholson in the picture at the end of the shining

Either way, the end result is Jack becoming part of the hotel. Room is basically a dream logic version of the Torrance apartment and the neck injuries inflicted upon Danny for having woken his father up.

The actual shooting of the blood elevator scene was, of course, an effects shot. Achieved decades before CGI blood would even be an option, the sequence was shot on a soundstage in miniature. As the film develops, it becomes more mysterious, ambiguous, threatening, and hallucinatory.

In a film full of ambiguities, the photograph is something director Stanley Kubrick actually discussed in interviews. But he was too tender-hearted for that ending and thought it would be too terrible to do …. In one of the treatments — which has leaked online — Wendy kills Jack in self-defense in the third act. We always had the powers of the hotel in mind. It was an attractive idea that Hallorran is good [throughout the film] then he gets there and is possessed by the hotel into a monster surrogate for Jack.

Johnson : The photograph was always in the ending. The maze chase grew out of the topiary animal hedges that move around in the book.

He wanted it to be mostly psychological. The elevator opening was an image he had in mind all along and had even prepared it by the time we were writing. So there was some discussion about trying to find a way of ending it without a lot of blood.

Any child can see that. Forget it! While he was alive all that was relatively quiet. After his death, these [theories] came out which were funny, and partly insulting. The most insulting one is the idea that The Shining is a film about the Holocaust. The other ideas are much more harmless, where continuity mistakes are attributed with deep meaning. Two key scenes that heavily impacted the ending were actually shot and then deleted from the final cut.

The photographs set up the final haunting image of Jack in the picture. Johnson : There was a big length problem with Warner Bros. The film was too long and people said it had to be shortened. Some [minutes] came off the end and some came off of the beginning — they were expository and not really necessary. Realizing that he is leaving footprints in the snow, Danny carefully maneuvers backwards over his own tracks, and is able to throw Jack off his trail.

Jack, however, gets turned around and lost, and eventually gives up, slumping to the ground. By the next morning he freezes to death. Back in the hotel, a long tracking shot leads out of the infamous The Gold Room to a gallery of photographs on the wall — the camera eventually focusing on a shot from the July 4th Ball in As we get closer and closer, we see that the man in front of the massive crowd is none other than Jack Torrance. So what exactly happened to Jack Torrance?

What does that photograph mean? Getting down to brass tacks, the Torrance family is in trouble the very second that they walk through the doors of The Overlook Hotel. Unfortunately for Jack Torrance, he makes for a perfect victim to the supernatural forces.