Use of the N-word
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ReturnOfWhiskey — 10 years ago(February 09, 2016 11:49 PM)
No it wasn't necessary. That's why you can't offer a proper defense for it. Just another white fool desperate to justify their racism. Sounding like broken records at this point.
They literally discussed the black man for two lines.
Use of the n word added nothing of importance to it. Just the typical white director wanting to insert some racism into a perfectly incredible psychological thrilling horror movie. You mean in a film that was 2+ hours long, the n word was intricate to the already intense plot and the film would have been ruined without it? Haha. Lies.
LOL so you're saying the film was ruined with it? get a life racist black fool. -
kmags84 — 10 years ago(February 17, 2016 02:30 PM)
It's not that the film would have been RUINED, it just really drove home the point of the scene. What year does the film take place? What year did that SCENE take place? Kubrick was far from Racist and far from a Bigot. If you look at Race in His Films, it's something he NEVER took lightly.
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Barbed_Wire_Strawberry — 9 years ago(June 05, 2016 12:33 AM)
The black man and white woman are tied thematically to the slaughter of children - ie white patriarchy sees women as less than man, black man as less than man - basically on the level of children, contemptable children at that. Jack and Jeevesy Ol Boy are just serving the servants.
Jack's feelings of bitterness and latent racism are tied to his alcoholism also.
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Kimrubymoon — 9 years ago(June 15, 2016 08:33 PM)
Oh G-d!!!! You called me a white person a fool???? I'm white.so you think I'm a fool?!???! Wawawa (baby crying) you're a racist!!!!!!
That is your twisted logic?!? And you wonder why the word STUPID usually precedes the "N" word. -
joekiddlouischama — 9 years ago(October 27, 2016 11:45 PM)
Just the typical white director wanting to insert some racism into a perfectly incredible psychological thrilling horror movie.
If
The Shining
is imperfect, the imperfections have nothing to do with the use of that word and everything to do with all manner of other matters. -
Xavior_Penguin — 10 years ago(April 02, 2016 08:29 AM)
It wasn't necessary. White just want to say it. They justify their lack of humanity and decency by claiming 'you're PC'. Intellectual laziness.
'Humanity' and 'intellectual' are two different things.
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leyenda61 — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 10:14 AM)
I wasn't offended by it, i just didn't understand its use in the context. It didn't add to the mental perversion/seduction cuz there was nothing hateable about the character. Why strike that nerve when there was already so much else existing to snare Jack? However, it is Kubrick so i am fine with not agreeing or understanding cuz the guy's attention to his craft focused on a level not everyone can grasp. Wxcept 2001. That was poo.
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Mr_Ectoplasma — 10 years ago(February 23, 2016 07:56 PM)
I'm pretty sure it was used to cement in the audience's mind the fact that Jack was talking to someone from a past generationthat he was talking with a ghost.
Was it necessary? Probably not. It's been years since I read the book, so I can't rememberwas O'Halloran's race ever mentioned in the novel? -
Diss — 10 years ago(March 03, 2016 10:08 AM)
I don't think it was necessary. The film takes place in 1980, not 1950. I was a kid during those years, and we never said that word in the Western part of the U.S. Maybe down South they say that word, but not out West. My dad didn't use it either, and he was from California. My best friend didn't use it, and he was originally from Missouri.