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I think several changes need to be made. Someone suggested Category:Films about alcoholism and that seems valid. While not as strong as King's story, it still exists in the film. Many refer to Jack as a "recovering alcoholic", including this article. Here is an essay which brings up other points about alcoholism in the movie. Category:Films shot in California should be removed unless someone knows what was shot. Category:Familicide in fiction should be added and maybe replace Category:Uxoricide in fiction and Category:Filicide in fiction. Should Category:Patricide_in_fiction] be added? Did Danny kill his father?
Just tried to read this article from start to finish. As if it was an encyclopaedia article. When was the last time this was looked at in toto? There are so many needless repetitions yet also many needed clarifications.
One example of the latter occurs in the Two Gradys section:
>>The film's assistant editor Gordon Stainforth has commented on this issue, attempting to steer a course between the continuity-error explanation on one side and the hidden-meaning explanation on the other
The continuity-error explanation? I can guess what this might refer to but it is nowhere explained.
Perhaps someone might like to have a go at overhauling the prose before this article collapses under the weight of everyone adding their own favourite notion, irrespective of whether it makes sense or has in fact already been said.
It's very clear from the word "rescinded" in the table that the award was rescinded. There's no need to strike that entry as it is confusing and redundant. There is no precedent for this on Wikipedia. 76.49.117.21 ( talk) 18:38, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
I haven’t seen The Shining so I don’t want to correct this, but the naming seems inconsistent in the plot section. Is the former caretaker named Charles (the name introduced in the section) or Delbert, (the name of the ghost)? Also, it’s confusing to refer to the character just as “Grady.” As someone unfamiliar with the movie, I couldn’t follow the Grady’s as written in the plot. 67.81.35.157 ( talk) 06:19, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
I removed a claim that Kubrick re-used the number 237 from Dr. Strangelove for being directly copied from the cited source, which looked to be rather low-quality anyway. The code for Wing Attack Plan R in Dr. Strangelove was actually FGD 135
. This can be seen about 7 and a half minutes into the movie, or in
the screenshot we use to illustrate our article on the
CRM-114. The next message that the B-52 receives, visible at about 17:40, is MDD 808
(presumably this is the confirmation of the original order).
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I think several changes need to be made. Someone suggested Category:Films about alcoholism and that seems valid. While not as strong as King's story, it still exists in the film. Many refer to Jack as a "recovering alcoholic", including this article. Here is an essay which brings up other points about alcoholism in the movie. Category:Films shot in California should be removed unless someone knows what was shot. Category:Familicide in fiction should be added and maybe replace Category:Uxoricide in fiction and Category:Filicide in fiction. Should Category:Patricide_in_fiction] be added? Did Danny kill his father?
Just tried to read this article from start to finish. As if it was an encyclopaedia article. When was the last time this was looked at in toto? There are so many needless repetitions yet also many needed clarifications.
One example of the latter occurs in the Two Gradys section:
>>The film's assistant editor Gordon Stainforth has commented on this issue, attempting to steer a course between the continuity-error explanation on one side and the hidden-meaning explanation on the other
The continuity-error explanation? I can guess what this might refer to but it is nowhere explained.
Perhaps someone might like to have a go at overhauling the prose before this article collapses under the weight of everyone adding their own favourite notion, irrespective of whether it makes sense or has in fact already been said.
It's very clear from the word "rescinded" in the table that the award was rescinded. There's no need to strike that entry as it is confusing and redundant. There is no precedent for this on Wikipedia. 76.49.117.21 ( talk) 18:38, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
I haven’t seen The Shining so I don’t want to correct this, but the naming seems inconsistent in the plot section. Is the former caretaker named Charles (the name introduced in the section) or Delbert, (the name of the ghost)? Also, it’s confusing to refer to the character just as “Grady.” As someone unfamiliar with the movie, I couldn’t follow the Grady’s as written in the plot. 67.81.35.157 ( talk) 06:19, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
I removed a claim that Kubrick re-used the number 237 from Dr. Strangelove for being directly copied from the cited source, which looked to be rather low-quality anyway. The code for Wing Attack Plan R in Dr. Strangelove was actually FGD 135
. This can be seen about 7 and a half minutes into the movie, or in
the screenshot we use to illustrate our article on the
CRM-114. The next message that the B-52 receives, visible at about 17:40, is MDD 808
(presumably this is the confirmation of the original order).
XOR'easter (
talk)
03:36, 15 May 2024 (UTC)