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  • SPIN = Somebody Please Interpret Nonstop

  • I feel dizzy!

  • 1:52, WTF I dont remember that part. 

  • @infinitesimotel there is two versions, American and european. This is cut from the American vesion. Or vice versa, any way I think they cut it cause it was too obvious to the subliminal story about what was really wrong with danny.

  • @treefrog2108 AH ok, thanks m8.

  • I was going to say that this is a case of over-analysis. However, I am going to agree with californiacamera. It can be interpreted as symbolic. It may, nevertheless, have been unintentional in some instances.

  • @DarkAmbient93 I've got them all mapped and timed. Every spin in The Shining is part of a broader subtextual language, and every one of them is choreographed, and intentional.

  • Have you actually articulated some theory to go along with the yellow arrows? What is their significance?

  • That sound is not good, your theories are not bad!

  • @MonsunFilmatorium I rather like the music. It is my old band from years back. I'm on the bass. The lyrics of all three songs track the Kubrick-action onscreen in a rather interesting fashion... I thought.

  • @shawnfella okay, I didn't know that. Keep up the good work on both theory side and music side. I think it's because I would have chosen something different, and reacted a bit of my standards- controversial. Have a continuing great night :D

  • Oh man, this is so right on. I saw people turning/spinning in "Love Actually", too. And "Garfield: The Movie"! I bet they're all connected!

  • @pyenapple - you're just worried in case he blows up your mask-face come hallowe'en. 'you wouldn't tell them all about our evil clubs would you stan?' yes.

  • spinning is how you time-travel without machines, Nexus article from late 90s about the original wingmakers material, before or same issue they published the Dr Anderson interviews, was from a guy describing how to time-travel by walking around in circles with objects from the time to go to - the likes of the Tzolkin calander shows how it can work, there's days which are the same colour&number and those days all align in the universe's toroid windings. so you go parallel & then along, 90 degrees

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  • @heroehat Consciously planned, of course. It is the nature of "filmmaking." All of it is pure calculation. It's called DIRECTING.

  • im spinned out now lol

  • I think you're spinning out of control with your theories. Ha ha ha.

  • @katinaanimator They are not theories. They are observations. Ha ha ha.

  • Certainly, to know the future, understand the past. In all an underlying logical consequence, enforced or derived, patterns emerge out of chaos so choose wisely. Agree to Meaningful Coincidence? What came first, source or consequence, chicken or egg? Shining... close to Spinning, and in the preponderance of marked shots, People Looking Back. Jack on back through his past to another past and becomes it in the last shot. Tell, is Scatman's hotel the eye of HAL? Sight understands Colors too. REDRUM

  • @MrMerehuman Yes. color is very important in The Shining. It is vital to understand how color informs Kubrick's number codes, his sequence-span interrelationships, and most all of his timing, his alignments and his prescribed motion, and even his Sub Bears - are related to color. The Journey of Red is supported by 42. 42 is the number of degrees that the color red appears (relative to the observer's retina) in a RAINBOW. It's the mouth of the Bear that gushes. No one element means any one thing.

  • @shawnfella The color green is 39, for reasons that will soon be abundantly clear.

    8 is the Bear, the id, the coincidence, the vessel, the subconscious. 11 is he Bird. the Rising Agent, the coupled pair, Recurring Calumet canisters are not about the Indian chief label as much as they are the feathers of his head dress. THE RISING AGENT. It fills The Shining.

    9 (and its spun 6). are Kubrick, the elephant in the room.The yellow elephant.

    The Shining is built around a color-number equation.

  • @shawnfella The numbers (in The Shining) are ranked upon their relationship to "spin. The "spin-able" numbers are 8, and 1, or 11. As well 88 (and any appropriate combination of these numbers such as 818, and so. These number morphologically survive a 180 degree spin.

    Two other numbers are a special case, a binary spin pair, if you will. of 6 and 9. The only digit pairing where one becomes the other upon spin. 6 becomes 9 and vice versa..

    the core "home base" number is 237.

  • @shawnfella 237 is 118 + 119.

    118 and 119 are the "princes" of the number array. They are the Jacks. The left and right Bauer.

    Shot 118 is Danny in the store room amid numbered boxes in a slow zoom that occurs while he goes into a Shining trance about to "receive" from Hallorann. Shot 119 is the Chef spinning his head 45 degrees to utter How'd you like some ice cream (eye scream) - while the word spin(ach) emerges from his "spine."

    118 + 119 = 237

    11 and 8 are also meant to be phonetical.

  • @shawnfella 8 = "ate"

    11 = "a leaven" (Calumet Baking powder) The Rising Agent. The leavening agent

    118 therefore means "a leaven ate.."

    Eating the Rising Agent

    That is what The Shining is about. Drinking the Kool Aid. Spinning the Numbers. Consuming the Bird.

    The Bear consumes the Bird, and a tide of blood issuing from The Bear's mouth is the result. A vomit of red blood. Gore. The Passion Play of the Bear and the Bird. The elevator's bloodline. The Rising Agent meets 8, Bears with wings.

  • @shawnfella 11+8 = 19

    19 minutes into The Shining, Danny says "...ate each other up?."

    19 minutes into 2001 is where the spinning bone reverses direction (about to turn into a space station).

    "Up" is the Rising Agent.

    Shot 19 of the Shining has Danny saying "I just don't" (eye just don't)

    Shot 19 of The Shining, Danny holds a sandwich with a huge bite out of it, that he did not take. It is a Bear-sized bite. Danny's other hand has a finger pointing UP.

  • I think the overall visual effect is that the characters appear to be puppeted by an unseen hand. Shining is control of the mind and spinning is control of the body.

  • Are you claiming to have compared the number of spins in The Shining versus what we see in the "average" film and found a high ratio? If so, what's a ballpark estimate of that relationship?

  • @Californius No, I'm not saying that. Everybody "spins," in all films, all the time. It's a character of movement through any confined space and pretty much cannot be avoided. What I am saying is Kubrick uses this condition in a special way and with a multi-tiered purpose. He is asking us firstly to "notice" the spin characteristics (which is primarily what I have done in this video). Then he is urging us to look closer and identify what it all means (which I have been doing for several years).

  • @shawnfella Take for example the first (human) spin of the film. Shot 10, Jack walks into the Lobby of the Overlook. It is the first order of business. Jack "spins" his head to the right and looks directly into the camera. Beneath him, and aligned with his spin is a camera sitting on the table beside the sitting man. Double metaphor. Behind him, as he reaches the apogee of his head spin, he comes into perfect alignment with the corner of the wall abutment. Another metaphor.....

  • @shawnfella Then, as he "spins' his head back into position, the woman seated behind him takes up the moving metaphor. She "spins" her head to the left and looks directly into the camera, or at Jack who by now is aligned with her site-line to the camera. Of course these spins are also aligned to the timeline and the progressing frame count and themselves are in possession of numerological intelligence. It just keeps going... each "spin" has it's own subtextual purpose.

  • @shawnfella The first non-human spin in film (barring the spinning tires of the yellow VW) is from Shot 8 - the helicopter shot circling in (spinning?) on the Overlook Hotel exterior. We see the SPINNING helicopter blades come down from the top of the frame into the shot. Oops, right? Wrong. It is deliberate.. in fact the first and most important spin metaphor in the film. It's Kubrick saying LOOK AT THE SPIN.

  • Interesting take on Kubrick's multi-layered film. I appreciate this fresh approach to yet another dynamic of style that made him so special--perhaps unique to all of film history.

  • @shawnfella  CAROUSEL

    "Beginning to blur with its own speed. Through the shifting,

    spiraling curtain of light we see bodies moving in a kind of

    weightlessness, always struggling to move higher." -Logan's Run script - spinning as the last conscious sensation before "RENEWAL" or death. Poole also goes for a spin (his jog on the Discovery) hinting at his fate (Whirlpool?) There is a ghostly essence to the movements of most Kubrick characters- it's hard to pin down- keep rolling, Shawn!

  • @hozayamz As always hoz, you're commentary is right on the money.

  • @shawnfella I have a habit of putting the apostrophe in where it doesn't belong. Probably something to do with being a Zappa fan.

  • if people only knew what spinning did for their dna

  • My head is spinning.

  • @blendn61 "Usefulness" is an entirely subjective concept.

  • Technically most of these movements would not be called spinning, but rather turning...

  • @dljm226 Or partial spins.

  • OK, People are Fish.

  • @MrMerehuman Makes me laugh. Good one.

  • Thanks.

    Spins are part of the visual storytelling technique Kubrick used.

    When people spin and rotate this much, it means they don't control their fate. They are being spun by forces beyond their control. Clever use of the camera to communicate this. Paul Thomas Anderson did something like this in " Punch Drunk Love." Hitchcock did this in "Vertigo."

    Also, the spins suggest the giant maze outdoors, which is similar to the hotel layout indoors. Clever Kubrick.

  • @californiacamera Thank you californiacamera. Refreshing to hear from someone who "gets it."

  • so whats the point? ppl a entire video about spinning in Kubrick's film the shining? wtf? the spinning motions are well pointed out but there has to be some purpose isn't there for making this video?

  • @pierre1024 Yes. I have about a hundred of these that I am in the process of making. Kubrick was a complex guy that made complex movies containing complex subtext. We are just getting started here.

  • ok, I see the spins. So what does it suppose to mean!

  • @TheIndigenous1 We'll get to that in time. Look at this video as a catalog, not an essay on the final secrets of Stanley Kubrick. I don't think I could state that in a 13 minute video, or in a 500 character limit Youtube comment.

    Part of the answer to your question is the simple fact that SPIN, as a concept, exists in The Shining.

  • Sorry but i'm not smart enough to see anything particularly special about the spinning.

  • This is so STUPID!!! Yeah, the movie would have been so much better if every actor just stood square shoulders and never turned their head or torso. Imagine if Scatman was standing in front of a can of tomatoes, we would have had to put a hundred actors named Tom in there. Based on this flimsy and retarded premise all movies must have a can of spinach in there somewhere because every movie I have ever seen has actors that turn their heads and bodies from time to time.

  • @ragnbull Well, there is no accounting for dimwittedness, is there.

  • What are your qualifications for doing an alchemical analysis of Kubrick's work? You go on and on about "spin," even though most of your examples are merely partial turns; something stage and film actors do A LOT. You've also stressed the importance of "spin" in the "big pcture," yet you've not indicated how or why it's important.

  • @bluesojourn You are one of those demanding people, aren't you.

  • @shawnfella "You are one of those demanding people, aren't you."

    No, I'm one of those "questioning" people who don't have a taste for pablum, nor much time for the purveyors of it.

    Jay Weidner has written extensively about "Alchemical Kubrick." But then, Weidner has a pretty good grasp on the works of Fulcanelli and how they relate to Kubrick's work.

    I didn't "demand" to know your qualifications, I simply asked if you had any. Apparently, the answer is, "No."

  • @bluesojourn  Sounds to me like your purpose is to drop Jay Weidner's name on my page.

  • if it were true, according to this video, everyone would walk straight lines and never turn their heads. i think youre fishing. just my opinion, though.

  • @derstammkains Dude, I'm not "fishing." There are plenty of spins, particularly of the head, that I did not outline. Those, I believe, were natural movements of the actors and not vital to the subtext. The ones with arrows are part of Kubrick's direction, or at least part of his requirement to call a shot useful. That's why he took so many of takes legendarily. Every motion and every position is part of Kubrick's vision. Part of the subtextual "work" the shot must realize.

  • @shawnfella i just dont see how you could ever prove this is anything more than opinion. i wont deny that it is possible, but i just dont see it.

  • @derstammkains Okay but you DO see the spin though, right? Because that is all I am doing here. I'm trying to get you to "see" the spin. That's why I put the arrows in there.

  • this on was a waste of time, sorry i loved the others

  • @tremblaydaniel I'm not out to "waste your time," but to deconstruct Stanley Kubrick. You don't HAVE to like it. But I'm sorry that you don't. Perhaps you find "spin" boring. Maybe the next one will be more exciting for you.

  • i absolutely believe they were not. ;)

  • Mustn't actors put some spin into their movements lest a wooden performance is rendered? Most likely Kubrick said something like, "I want a sense of ballet in your movements." Lives spinning out of control oddball stuff. There is motion and the actors swirl in a subtle dance, but there's no way each little spin was minutely choreographed.

  • I liked your other videos, but I really dont know what your getting at here or what your trying to say.

  • @mukk1234 Well, it's not what I'm trying to say, it's what Kubrick is trying to say. Spin is part of a bigger picture. I'm just showing you some brush strokes. Gradually the big picture will emerge.

  • @shawnfella I absolutely guarantee you that each spin was choreographed..

  • @shawnfella spinning opens your channel - very important

  • @zin606 There you go.  :)

  • @shawnfella Watched this several time and can't come up with the big picture?

    Can you give some leads?

  • @Baffykoma There are other "motifs" that Kubrick employs which are not outlined in this video, but will be in following ones. The "motifs work in conjunction with each other.

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