According to IMDb, the voice of Murphy, the guy Cowboy was talking to over the radio, is Stanley Kubrick
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I remember seeing a casting call for #FullMetalJacket in Dramalogue. I was planning to go to graduate school and decided not to try out. 😔 #TCMParty #CompletelyKubrick

"How can you shoot women and children?"
"Easy! You just don't lead them so much!"
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The other story I remember is the drill sergeant lecturing the platoon on the RIGHT way to commit suicide after a failed attempt in the showers.
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"Are those live rounds?"
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"You gotta be kidding me, Joker. You think you're Mickey Spillane?"
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"Those individuals showed what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do."
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For example, once as they were doing pull-ups the guy in front of Dad suddenly dropped stone dead from an aneurysm
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My dad was in the Marines when I was a baby, and woo boy he had some stories about boot camp

Someone found the original of the Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball photograph
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I think the shots of the lobby full of cobwebs and skeletons is one of the few missteps in #TheShining. Like, we go from these very specific, surreal tableaux to a Halloween Spook House. But then we get The Elevators and we're back on track.
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We can argue about the importance of fidelity to the source material in film adaptations until the cows come home, but you have to admit that That Scene must have scared the hell out of the people who'd read #TheShining before they saw the movie. Now no one is safe!
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Look, at a certain point you can no longer fight off physical exhaustion. You think anyone in this family was sleeping well in the days leading up to this?
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Yeah, in the novel Jack finds a bunch of scrapbooks about the Overlook down in the boiler room, if I remember correctly
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Jack's ax attack is an homage to #ThePhantomCarriage, another ghost story about an alcoholic father who threatens to destroy himself and his family
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"Wendy. Darling! Light of my life..."
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WElp! #CompletelyKubrick #TCMParty #TheShining

And according to one of the subjects of #Room237, who plotted out floorplans of the Overlook, its interior geometry is physically impossible
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"They turned out to be completely unreliable assholes" cracks me up.
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Bryan Fuller paid homage to this bathroom in season 1 of #Hannibal
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