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Bobby Parish: Profiting from Misinformation?
Have you seen all of the videos on sites like TikTok and Instagram and yes, unfortunately here on RUclips, that are full of misinformation and complete lies about food?
Namely channels like @BobbyParrish
Why do algorithms constantly promote this misinformation but don't seem to promote the channels that explain the truth and refute the claims made by these liars?
Here is the link to @FoodScienceBabe channel
so, you can see for yourself.
Here is her short, debunking cows blood in cake mix.
ruclips.net/video/W_iNDfOHioE/видео.htmlsi=a3I4Rb_6Svo2yPEI
Here is the link to @biolayne1 Layne's channel.
Namely channels like @BobbyParrish
Why do algorithms constantly promote this misinformation but don't seem to promote the channels that explain the truth and refute the claims made by these liars?
Here is the link to @FoodScienceBabe channel
so, you can see for yourself.
Here is her short, debunking cows blood in cake mix.
ruclips.net/video/W_iNDfOHioE/видео.htmlsi=a3I4Rb_6Svo2yPEI
Here is the link to @biolayne1 Layne's channel.
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This is a movie about sexual abuse of Danny, and the guilt and hatred for his wife becomes expanded by the powers of the hotel. It's clear when the doctor sees him that Tony lives in his mouth and hides in his stomach, without being too graphic.
There are numerous continuity errors in each Stanley Kubrick film. No, he was not free of making mistakes. I know you'll chalk this up as "it's the way you interpret the film." Straight forward there are errors in the film, it's part of making a movie with a production timeline. Now that you apparently rewatched this numerous times, how about learning more about video production to understand how these small mistakes can happen.
NO. The movie was a travesty and an insult to Stephen King's masterpiece.
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Blame the child: the lil' bastard seduced his parents 😅 The devil/demon possessed Danny long before the trip to Overlook in order for torturing the family. It can perhaps even telepathically manipulate others. Why? Why not! If we want to create "interpretations". Sorry, but most of the explanations are prime examples of the movie being used as a "cold reading" device.
Any movie or story you can find thousands of meanings and subjects. You can’t make a story or movie that’s just 1 concrete meaning cuz everyone is life events are different so you will see what relates to your life.
Idk I thought all the weird stuff was jacks book did you see when he sees the painting of the care taker he starts walking like he was thru the maze, like he was pict his character walking like that. The finger think Tony I just thought that’s how he dealt with his trauma. If u look halerin always has to ask Danny questions right after they were shining so it was just Danny’s imagination. Also when all the scary stuff happened like the typewriter changed Danny’s big wheel changed colors several other things so I think he’s telling his book story while they’re their.
Very cool but I think Kubrick and King both say the supernatural plays a pivotal role. King for sure because the shine is a power many of his characters have or places. Kubrick explicitly, when he said he left it vague until Jack is let out of the walk in fridge. Clueing the audience in that it is indeed the supernatural that has hold on the situation. And it seems odd you say Danny's imaginary friend saying it doesn't want to go is all in Wendy's head because Wendy doesn't want to go and feels powerless in her life. Way less interesting than a troubled child who is showing signs of coping with abuse, whose imaginary friend knows it doesn't want to go to the hotel. Hinting the imaginary friend knows something dark is there and out of self preservation it tells the mother it doesn't want to go when the child isn't even sure himself.
Nah! It´s not Wendy, it's the hotel. According to Kubrick. "The Wendy theory" seems like a far fetched theory to me.
@@vegardyrnes1793 that’s the joy of film. Everyone takes away something different. Kind of like a book club. It’s fun to discuss other scenarios. What if?
Kubrick absolutely was a perfectionist that is a well known fact. Consequently I believe that the background changes and discrepancies were intentionally done to unsettle the viewer and add to the feeling that something was wrong with the hotel. If you take in to account when this film was released into theatres…….most people would see a movie only once so multiple rewatches and scrutinizing scenes for hidden meanings wasn’t something the average person was able to do then the way we can now, I’m not saying people didn’t do it, just that it was not as commonly done then as it is now. Because of this I personally think that Kubrick’s decision to include things like apparent continuity errors and changing decor in the back of emotionally charged scenes was to increase the general feeling of unease that built throughout the film. These things would not always be consciously noticed however a viewer’s subconscious would pick up on it and it would absolutely add to the increasing feeling that there is something wrong or sinister occurring at the hotel.
Interesting theories but ultimately too much like a book report by someone who didn't read the book. Also, you might be showing your age. It's difficult to be sure just based on your image and voice, but you do sound younger to me, and in the 70's and 80's, not only would our parents let us stay with the nice cook and have ice cream, they didn't even know where we were for most of a typical summer day. While the term "helicopter parent" was technically coined in 1969, the phenomenon of massive numbers of these fretful, obsessive parents, truly dates from the late 80's. 🤷♂️
The stay is 6.5 months not 5. Jack says 5 but ullman says oct 31 to may 15… 6.5 months
The idea that Stanley Kubrick doesn’t make mistakes is ludicrous.. While I believe that some of the continuity “errors” are deliberate, I am sure that most are just regular errors that happen in pretty much every film.. And as many takes as that guy did, there are going to be errors..He is human..
Absolute nonsense. he wasn't ABANDONED by his government. He was held accountant for breaking laws in ANOTHER FUCKING COUNTRY. this is unbelievable. The fact that everyone is okay with letting the Lord of weapons be traded for him just goes to show that we are living in Orwellian times.
Cruddy theory
The film is not about ghosts. Its about the minds of men.
Realize that window in the office shouldn't be there
I like your video although I disagree about Wendy. However, I think reversing ideas about a person is a good idea. DYK that there was an old essay about Macbeth in which the author states that Lady Macbeth was the killer because she thought her husband was weak? Yes, for real. Here is my take on Wendy: a very, very frightened woman who has had many losses (financial, place in the community) and is terrified of more. She is inappropriately cheerful, the worse with the health care visitor (not necessarily physician, maybe be N.P., P.A.) the vapid smiling on a serious subject. Psychotic, no. Dissociative, yes. Her reality is so ugly and scary but not psychotic. Hers is everything going to be alright, everything's fine. She just can't take another loss. (Even a job would be difficult to manage due to child's age, between a rock and a hard place). I do like your calling attention to details. (Once had a film teacher who taught that everything in a film means something). Did you notice the whole, uncut sandwiches yet in the background are plenty of knives early in the film? All the kids I knew, me included had their sandwiches cut to specifications e.g. triangles, squares. Also when I was small, my mother cut the crusts off as her thinking was the birds would get them anyway since I avoided eating crusts. Very unkid like and unmom like. So I will keep watching and probably commenting. I would like to know what you think of how I see Wendy.
Thank you for all of your comments. I should have wrapped up my video by stating that “this video is only my opinion and thoughts. My honest feeling about all of this, is that everyone is correct. First off, it’s a movie. Secondly, we will all see and have feelings about this movie that are completely different. Because we have all had different life experiences. I was raised by a single mother and a horde of Italian women. They all loved my video. When I see all the comments about sexism, I’m absolutely blown away. I tried to approach this video and this topic the way a detective would. Trying to follow the facts and what we see and hear during the movie. I think we all know that the movie has almost nothing to do with the novel. This is not new. I can’t think of a single movie where the movie is word for word and scene for scene like it’s novel that it was “adapted” from. That’s why I worked so closely with Warner Media when was making this video. How many other commentary videos on here show an entire movie that they are discussing???? They all mostly use clips from the trailer with no audio while the scenes from the trailer seem to be on repeat on the screen. I tried to approach this the way maybe a book club discussion would. This is why this is one of my favorite movies and one of my favorite videos that I’ve made. I absolutely love and appreciate all of the comments from nice to mean. I think your thoughts on the character Wendy are fantastic. They are well thought out and very informative. I learn so much from this video by all the incredible comments. Wendy is seemingly definitely stuck as you say, between a rock and a hard place. How many people, friends or family do you know that have been or are “stuck” in an unhealthy relationship? I’m going to be making a follow up video soon after I have been recovering from three surgeries the last two and a half months. Where I’ll be responding to many of the comments from this video and that video will be more of f the book club discussion. It will be short and sweet and to the point like many of my newer videos. Again, thank you for your time and effort and for your thoughtful comments. ~John
@@contextwithjohnmalone I really enjoyed reading this. You have great insights into unhealthy relationships and if not in one ourselves, there is usually a friend or relative in one. One person once told me that sometimes a person stays in an abusive relationship because the person places the abuser on a pedestal. Sometimes the abused person feels trapped, often it is 6 of one, half a dozen of the other. (I think this is Wendy's case - she placed Jack as this great artist that no body understands and has a child who needs support). Also I did not think you had a sexist POV. Very right about 'adaptations' - nothing rarely follows strictly 'by the book'. I look forward to reading more from you even when I disagree. Hope you are recovering well from surgery. I must put this in, I am not trying to talk down to you, but sometimes patients don't think they need PT/OT. They certainly do. Those therapists can give you tips you never would have thought of because you never needed them till now. Hang in there.
@JessicaMcGowan-bu4ls in my experience this is correct. My wife/ex, I put on a pedestal. While I thought I was honoring and respecting her and appreciating her, she was constantly shutting me down or putting me down in public, in front of friends and family. We even went to marriage counseling and the therapist told her that she is the only be who needed to be in therapy not me. He literally told us that our marriage was like gangrene and if one of us didn’t leave, that the toxicity would destroy us both. I left her in 2007 and she still won’t give me a divorce. So yeah, I know a little bit about unhealthy relationships. Her own family and friends would constantly ask her why she treats me so badly. And she would dismiss them, saying “oh, you’re on his side now”! I admired my ex, she was headstrong, and independent when we met, but after our wedding everything completely changed. She alienated her friends and lost many of them. We stopped going out and doing things together or with friends. We basically became shut-in’s. We lived in a beautiful prison. For 4 out of the seven years we were living together, the last four, I slept in one of our several guest rooms. With encouragement from friends , coworkers, and family. I finally saw the light and moved out. Even in the beginning my friends and family and coworkers were like “how can you let this person treat you like this”? And I would defend her. I finally realized that our marriage has become the TV show The King of Queens. A show about a narcissist wife who treats her husband as a child and an idiot who can’t be left alone to make good choices. That’s literally all that show was about. And people found that entertaining???
@@contextwithjohnmalone Your last sentence is so on target: entertaining because it is threatening - you have heard of gallows humor? Laughing to keep from crying? So many people suffer with frightful relationships and never get out. You finally saw the light (pardon the cliche) and listened to those who cared. Maybe I am super lucky that I was never in a bad relationship while married. Sadly however, I am a widow since 2021 and it still hurts. My husband (41 yrs) died unexpectedly - he had just had a well checkup 2 wks prior. Not always easy breezy - A Taurus (me) married to an Aries. A week after he passed, our dog was put down due to being extremely ill. That was even harder as I felt like I still had part of him while she was alive. Our 3 cats are doing fine. Now for craziness, when I pass the cemetery where he is I yell (caps) CREEP, YOU TOOK THE EASY WAY OUT AND LOOK WHAT YOU LEFT ME WITH! meaning the kids. Yeah, I'm hurting at times now but I know I had a lot to be thankful for. I hope you are still recovering in more ways than one. One way to look at it, without the toxic person you are free to go anywhere you want (health permitting). Take care. I am going to babysit 2 of my grandchildren and the creep isn't here to help me.
A film I strongly recommend for you to watch and it is free here on youtube make sure you put in 1972 or you will get some mess made later that is not good. Yes, in this film, there can be accusations of sexism but it works with the couple. The couple in that film made me furious. It was made for TV but that did not diminish the story or acting. Worth a view and I would really like your opinion.
24:23 She's showing us her pride and joy!
I get what your going for in this, but i think when we see wendy do all of jacks jobs is because who else was going to do it? He was slowly going mad and at the beginning she was an apologist for his behavior of abuse towards danny. You can also tell jack doesnt care for her from the jump. She is just there as a choice he made and now cant stand. She begins the movie as an enabler, but through time she begins to understand her own strength, and flaws. She starts fight back against jacks abuse. In the end she wins. In the end we witness a mother gaining back her own power. You also start to feel her shame for gaslighting danny all along.
It seems like you are just parroting the 'Wendy Theory' and combining it with some Jung. The Wendy Theory is completely discredited, as well as being misogynistic.
How is it misogynistic?
Have you seen 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'? Maybe a clue as to the unplugged TV. What does Nicholson do, when Ratched turns the TV off?
So far, it's an interesting take. And I'm not opposed to the idea that Wendy has an imagination, but I'm doubtful as to whether it is any sort of psychosis. I think what we see is three people, each with an active imagination, a family caught up in the American Dream, who get through by shining their love for one another.
If it was Wendy's hallucination, would Danny be so bewildered?
Halloran doesn't tell him a horror story. We think of t as a horror story because A] we've seen the film before, and B] what he describes sounds supernatural, when in fact it is perfectly natural. He is, again, genuinely surprised when Danny askes about an unremarkable room, but reminds him that he has no rights going into any of the rooms. But because we know what is actually in the room we see it as spooky.
The tour of the kitchen, and Halloran's chat with Danny, explains the entire film. It defines what shining actually is. Since it is Halloran who introduces it, then we have to take his word for it's meaning. And he was introduced to it as a young, highly imaginative child. To him, it is the ability to hold entire conversations without saying a word. In reality it was the love of his nurturing Grandmother, and her ability to sense what is wrong, just by looking at her Grandson. She would probably call it shining, like a guardian angel would shine. It is perfectly natural to Halloran's culture, but appears supernatural to American culture. Personally, my own grandfather used to shine, when he would tell me that a little dicky bird had told him exactly what I had been up to, so I don't find it that strange, or scary. He just knew the right things to say, in order to convince me. I do find this point is where you argument for Wendy also having an active imagination, is strongest. It could well be that Wendy imagined him saying "Doc". But more importantly, as you point out, his reply was perfectly innocent and not to be doubted. As such, I think that he attributes this to his ability to shine. And, although this is weak, his explanation that Danny must look like a Doc, could be where he gets the idea that he had that conversation without saying a word. Halloran is a seasoned, and dedicated Hotel worker, with no family. Any paternal love he could have shared, he has given to the hotel. You could say the hotel is his baby. I've worked in hotels and know a few people like this. Suffice to say Hallorans ability to shine is manifested in his ability to know what a guest wants, before the guest does. A lot of that is down to certain tricks which I'm sure you are aware of. Such as how to occupy a child, while the adults conduct business. You offer them ice cream. So, it's likely that Halloran was always going to offer Danny ice cream, in fact he states it in the vey next scene "We're just getting to the ice cream". So how does Danny come to imagination i is somthing supernatural? It happens in the dry stores. As they enter, Halloran and Wendy split off from Danny, leaving him in his own imagination [in case you're unsure the camera zooms in on him]. When they left the freezer where he was asked about his favourite food, Danny looks up to Halloran, expecting fries and ketchup, as promised. But he quickly sees they are not forthcoming, and instead wishes he had asked for ice cream. He is imagining Halloran asking him again. So when Halloran asks him he thinks he has read his mind.
"and he doesn't know his favourite flavour" Great point.
42:51 there is a shadow on the wall that looks very much like a lamp shade. And it even pops into view, just a tiny bit that you might think was the boom if you didn't know Kubrick.
Danny is reliving the trauma of the accident when Jack dislocated his shoulder. The shot of the blood pouring down the walls, transitioned into Danny's open mouth, represents the taste of blood when you suffer a serious injury.
I think it would be strange for Kubrick to be planting the seed that Wendy doesn't have a voice, when she does more talking than Jack does, in their tour of the hotel. She literally leads from the front the entire time.
They're at the hotel for a month, that we don't see. I think it's safe to assume he told Wendy all about it.
I hope this bring my theory of Wendy being the agressor into focus. Jack was the first caretaker, after all. He wouldn't be alive. 'Tony' was likely the boy's dad that was killed by his mother. 🤷♂️
People look way too much in The Shining. It’s a movie, just enjoy it.
Try watching it for the first time again. Ignore everything that you know.
Yeah, russia taking someone else's territory is exactly how the UK stole the islands from Argentina
It was my interpretation that Tony is adult Danny communicating with his child self from the future & the reason Danny opens up and talks to Dick over the ice cream about his abilities is because he's never encountered another person who can do what he can, finally somebody believes and understands what he's experiencing and can be sympathetic
So was unhinged jack maybe how he was when he was still drinking and maybe when he had thet accident with Danny's arm😅 considering they made jack seem buzzed😮
Rather than hallucinations, I think the correct term for her episodes is "delusions".
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she's reading Catcher in the Rye a novel about a liar and a manipulator Wendy is a liar and a manipulator Your theory is bad and you should feel bad.
I need a nap
Read the Book!!!
As I mentioned in the longer version of this video. What part of the book specifically? The book and the movie have almost nothing to do with each other. Is there a specific thing in the book that you are referencing?
You look so good clean shaven
There is one ghost … you the viewer :-)
Wouldn’t that be a great twist!?! Like the 2001 movie The Others with Nicole Kidman.
Wouldn't it be funny if in the radio room where Jack hears the radio announcement kdk if it was Kubrick to King jab
Now that would be hilarious lol
Always get adverts for subjects spoken or texted about. It's a breach of privacy.
Nah it’s not Wendy. You just watched this film too many times in a row 😂
That’s definitely a strong possibility lol. Overconsumption of anything can have negative effects. Especially watching The Shining too many times lol
Maybe the red book is the red book that we covet in the legal arena. There's blacks law and then there's the red book . When you know you know it explains how this system does have us as debt slaves. Could be a comment on everyone's a slave to themselves or some junk like that some Carl Jung thing LOL🎉 but it just hit me could be THE red book.
Why do you think Kubrick had Hallorann call the storage room "the story room"?
Can you provide a timestamp of when that occurs? I never noticed that before. I do often wonder if the Hallorann character is being used as a guide of sorts. To provide exposition and context. While being a bit of an antagonist.
@@contextwithjohnmalone 51:46 in this video, just as he reaches for the storeroom door handle.
@@watermelonlalala it really does sound like Scatman Crothers is saying “story room” doesn’t it. I’ve never given it a second thought. I think it just might be the way he is saying “store” room. It just sounds like he is saying “story room”. Here is a link to the entire script. In the script Hallorann’s line is “now, this is the store room”. But with Scatman’s unique voice, it does sound like “story”. www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/s/shining-script-transcript-jack-nicholson.html
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Interesting. But I think at this point, it's based on the book. The hotel is changing, it is alive. But as a second layer it is an interesting theory.
I have another idea for you, that has occurred to me after seeing Dr. Sleep, and reading The Institute, Rose Madder, and The Dark Tower series (all written by King). I never read the Shinnig, but I remember the miniseries vaguely. First I do think Wendy may be a bit socially awkward, had a sheltered childhood, or extremely child like. Predators choose these kind of women, because they are easy to isolate, gaslight, and abuse for long lengths of time. Maybe she was charmed by Jack, maybe she slipped up and got pregnant, and forced to marry him. Regardless of the reason. She is terrified of Jack, and so is Danny. Jack is morose, cynical man. Definitely an domestic abuser, and violent when drunk. Hence being fired from his previous job. The Overlook is definitely a haunted, evil place. These are constant identifiable tropes in King's books. Kubrick is very detail oriented, and maybe he did deviate from the book. I haven't read it, so I can't say. My new theory doesn't really rely on Kubrick's possible allegorical reasoning. I'm going to draw on King's usual tropes of evil, supernatural, flawed adults, and unfortunate isolated intuitive children. So here we go..... The Overlook Wants Out Theory...Or Growing Pains The Overlook is kinda old. Depending on whatever reason you want use. It was built on death, destruction, greed, and hedonism. Over time many evil deeds, and maybe hundreds of just plain negative (but not necessarily pedos, murderous people, think of the very real Cecil Hotel in LA). The Overlook soaks it up, and absorbs evil. In the winter, it has slim pickings, and since it's old, it gets bigger, and it needs more to sustain itself. Now it is aware of people who "shine" because Halloran worked there for decades. But it can't use Halloran, because he's not evil. Halloran is not affected by The Overlook, but is fully aware of it's evil. Now here comes Jack on an interview. Jack radiates evil , The Overlook feels it because its from the outside, and it feels an even stronger "shine" connected to Jack... Danny. Now...here comes the dosy...The Overlook maybe realizes it can feel outside it's borders and if it uses triangulation, it can expand outside its borders. Weird right? This is why Halloran knows Doc's name. It was Halloran's "shine" that woke up Tony in the bathroom. Danny felt the "shine" before. His dad, maybe a classmate or 2. But Halloran's "shine" was an overload, because it was Jack, Halloran, and the Overlook all at the same time. It blew his circuits. The only "shine" that wasn't aware is Jack. Let's just call Jack the Overlook's Trojan horse. The Overlook let Wendy and Danny get away, because Danny was the only way The Overlook can get off the mountain, and expand into world.... Crazy huh???
Brilliant synopsis! Yes, Wendy the character, is very subservient and mousey. This type of character is popular in King’s works. Very much like Amanda Plummers character Nettie Cobb in the movie Needful Things. Which brings up another point. In the movie Needful Things, King makes the female characters weak and frail and easy to manipulate. I wonder if the females in Kings novels are a representation of King’s mother? He has started that his mother died a slow and agonizing death. I wonder if he resented her illness? There are so many movies that I think take a seemingly weak female protagonist who against all odds are able to somehow overcome the situation. Movies like Sleeping with the Enemy, Girl on a Train, are just two that immediately come to mind. But all of that aside. Kubrick is notorious for taking a novel and completely changing it for film adaptation to the point that it barely resembles the novel. And my video is about that. King has stated many times how much he hates how Kubrick changed everything. So much that he famously told other novelists like John Grisham: “if you sell the rights to your novel, make sure that you get paid first, and know that the movie won’t resemble your book, so be willing to let it go”. I think Kubrick took the Shining and completely turned it on its head. Leaving it to us the audience to decide what happened. Like an unsolved mystery. There are to movies that I can think of that are very much like The Shining that completely subvert the viewer’s expectations. Memento and Jacob’s Ladder are two mind twisting movies that pull a lot of inspiration from The Shining. Not everything is what it seems.
@@contextwithjohnmalone have you read Rose Madder by King? She is another. Wendy dressed up in different clothing. It was a fascinating book though, I bought in a used book store just because it was by King. Like I mentioned King has a very weird thing about women, and children. He collaborated with an author named Peter Straub and wrote a fantastic novel called The Talisman, that is really like The Dark Tower. Then Straub fell into the King rabbit hole, that resulted in his own weird series 2 book series Lost Boy, Lost Girl, and In the Night Room. As much as King disliked The Shinnig, Kubrick did the best movie of any King novel, and even at King's own attempts, or lots of his own input to other movies. But I also believe the average readers underrate King's gift of psychological mastery, and his own gift of laying Easter eggs. He has written at least 20 novels that stand on their own right, but are all threads in the tapestry of The Dark Tower epic. King fascinates me on so many levels. But his genius is too hard to translate to film, only Kubrick managed to get it right. Well thanks for seeing what I saying. I tend to get wordy, and I'm usually way left field and I think I may be 🙃