Room 237

00:37:34,752 --> 00:37:38,337 to make the movie here," which I expect, at that point, 686 00:37:38,338 --> 00:37:40,089 that fellow liked the idea of, 687 00:37:40,090 --> 00:37:41,591 so it would make his hotel famous. 688 00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:44,260 And Kubrick said, "I'd like to send out a research team." 689 00:37:44,261 --> 00:37:46,262 And so he then sent out... 690 00:37:46,263 --> 00:37:48,347 The man said it was something like two or three people 691 00:37:48,348 --> 00:37:49,849 who came out here and stayed here 692 00:37:49,850 --> 00:37:54,270 for two or three months, taking photographs everywhere. 693 00:37:54,271 --> 00:37:56,189 And they spent a lot of time also down in Denver 694 00:37:56,190 --> 00:37:58,065 in the Colorado state archives, 695 00:37:58,066 --> 00:38:00,610 finding out, as I would now expect, 696 00:38:00,611 --> 00:38:04,405 the full history of Colorado, 697 00:38:04,406 --> 00:38:05,990 which—the flag of which plays a part. 698 00:38:05,991 --> 00:38:09,994 And the gold rush, the Colorado Gold Rush 699 00:38:09,995 --> 00:38:11,412 was also a very big event. 700 00:38:11,413 --> 00:38:12,830 And there's all— There's still a lot 701 00:38:12,831 --> 00:38:15,750 of American Indian/white people tension in Colorado 702 00:38:15,751 --> 00:38:19,045 with Navajos and Arapahos just to the south. 703 00:38:19,046 --> 00:38:21,130 This research team found out absolutely everything 704 00:38:21,131 --> 00:38:23,382 about Colorado, about Estes Park, 705 00:38:23,383 --> 00:38:25,885 about the Stanley Hotel, about its entire history, 706 00:38:25,886 --> 00:38:28,471 took photographs all over the place. 707 00:38:28,472 --> 00:38:30,389 Three months was the impression that I have 708 00:38:30,390 --> 00:38:32,975 of what he said about how this research team 709 00:38:32,976 --> 00:38:35,561 gathered absolutely everything. 710 00:38:35,562 --> 00:38:38,898 Kubrick unearthed an enormous amount about the real history 711 00:38:38,899 --> 00:38:41,442 of Colorado, where this takes place, 712 00:38:41,443 --> 00:38:45,822 because what he has done is found a way to dig 713 00:38:45,823 --> 00:38:48,574 into all of the patterns of our civilization, 714 00:38:48,575 --> 00:38:50,910 our times and our cultures, 715 00:38:50,911 --> 00:38:53,412 and the things that we don't want to look at. 716 00:38:53,413 --> 00:38:56,749 And this movie is very much also about denial 717 00:38:56,750 --> 00:38:58,543 of the genocides that we committed... 718 00:38:58,544 --> 00:39:00,294 We white folk from Europe... 719 00:39:00,295 --> 00:39:03,130 Committed here and not that... 720 00:39:03,131 --> 00:39:05,341 Not that white folks are the only people who do genocide. 721 00:39:05,342 --> 00:39:08,261 All humans do, as Kubrick makes clear in this movie. 722 00:39:08,262 --> 00:39:11,222 He would research everything and the full history and nature 723 00:39:11,223 --> 00:39:14,433 of everything you're gonna see in the movie on the screen 724 00:39:14,434 --> 00:39:19,272 and then boil it down and boil it down 725 00:39:19,273 --> 00:39:21,357 until he got the universal human and global patterns 726 00:39:21,358 --> 00:39:24,360 that make it so real. 727 00:39:24,361 --> 00:39:27,697 - White man's burden, Lilo yd, my man. 728 00:39:27,698 --> 00:39:29,449 White man's burden. 729 00:39:35,539 --> 00:39:37,832 I like you, Lloyd. 730 00:39:37,833 --> 00:39:39,709 I always liked you. 731 00:39:39,710 --> 00:39:42,295 You were always the best of 'em. 732 00:39:42,296 --> 00:39:44,755 The best goddamned bartender 733 00:39:44,756 --> 00:39:48,134 from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine, 734 00:39:48,135 --> 00:39:50,636 or Portland, Oregon, for that matter. 735 00:39:50,637 --> 00:39:52,346 - Thank you for saying so. 736 00:39:52,347 --> 00:39:53,598 - What does it mean? 737 00:39:53,599 --> 00:39:55,016 Jack saying, "You always were the best of 'em." 738 00:39:55,017 --> 00:39:56,267 Starting in Timbuktu? 739 00:39:56,268 --> 00:39:58,269 Jack the schoolteacher was never in Timbuktu, 740 00:39:58,270 --> 00:40:00,730 but Jack the universal weak male 741 00:40:00,731 --> 00:40:02,982 hired by armies to go commit atrocities 742 00:40:02,983 --> 00:40:04,610 has always been there. 743 00:40:05,986 --> 00:40:07,069 Now, of course, the word "Portland" 744 00:40:07,070 --> 00:40:08,905 is neat because it means where we landed 745 00:40:08,906 --> 00:40:12,199 or where the British or the Europeans landed. 746 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,785 And Portland, Maine—Oregon is where they may have taken off 747 00:40:14,786 --> 00:40:16,079 from to go further west. 748 00:40:18,498 --> 00:40:20,249 Kubrick is thinking about the implications 749 00:40:20,250 --> 00:40:22,252 of everything that exists. 7