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The Costa Rica couple, the typewriter and the bear suit

posted 12 years ago by sonochick8
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Besides the fact that this so-called documentary was a waste of my time, I couldn�t help but notice one of the interviewees when he talked about his Costa Rica trip and the couple at the beach. This pretentious douche bag apparently let the couple in Costa Rica �talk� about their �own� Shining theories without letting them know he was an accomplished �scholar� on it. Such an unnecessary comment and he sounded like a douche pickle. Sure, let me NOT tell you about how wrong you are while I have spent years of my life collecting delusional theories about this movie,including the German typewriter theory! Crazytown train all aboard.

Good grief! Make them stop�.I love The Shining....make them stop.

PS. Another thing...they didn't even talk about the pleasure bear suited man and the fancy tuxedo bj ...:/

[–] mishxx74 12 years ago

I actually believe that the bear suit bj was in the novel. I may be mistaken... Basically just the ghosts of some old gay men in the hotel. You know how King loves to deviate with short stories in his novels.

[–] kubrickation 12 years ago

It is in the novel. What Kubrick did was divorce it from any context and set the action to a Penderecki score. Makes it much more intriguing and cerebral.

Hell is other people
-Sartre

[–] emvan 12 years ago

You got that completely wrong. This was the "Native American genocide" theorist (the one with the actually credible theory, although he of course overstates it) letting a couple give their own version of the theory without stopping to tell them he was one of the foremost champions of the theory. (He had nothing to do with the German typewriter at all.)

To have interrupted them with that information would actually be the douchebag response.

Stranger: I've got this cool idea of what this movie is about ...

Expert [interrupting]: That's not original, I've been saying that for years.

Prepare your minds for a new scale of physical, scientific values, gentlemen.

[–] thee_eyez 12 years ago

Your rant sounds like one I would have made my first year of film school. I wanted to hate every new movie that came out and every analysis of classic movies I loved.

It's true that him interrupting the young couple explaining their own theories on the Shining to tell them he was already an expert would have been the douche response. Instead he was celebrating the fun that is dissecting this film with someone else, without those other people even realizing it.

These people aren't necessarily crazy. They are just fanatical which can be a beautiful, insightful, hilarious and scary thing all at the same time. Just enjoy it and remember you don't need to take it personally. Just tell yourself it's all just pictures in a book ;)

[–] sonochick8 11 years ago

It is really not a rant, this movie is indeed horrible and I'm not a film connoisseur or pretend to be, it is simply awful. The fascination is understandable; however, the delusion is not.

[–] ehbunner 11 years ago

Even though others have said more or less the same thing I would like to say that the Reason he let him go on, was because he had FINALLY met someone else who had come to the same conclusion

He didn't interrupt him because he was so happy to meet someone with the same opinion and was happy to just hear what the guy had to say

Keep in mind this was likely before the internet was what it is today and you couldn't just go to the page for the shinning and post a topic of your theory and find someone who agrees with you