The Shining
IT Chapter 2contains lots of Stephen King Easter eggs , but its reference to the picture show version ofThe Shiningcreates a paradox of a plot maw . With more and more Stephen King - based moving picture being made every year , it ’s become increasingly common for them to throw in references to King ’s other workplace , or other adaption of it . This normally is n’t much of a problem , as King himself opts to connect many of his books in small ways , and a insidious nod to a anterior King picture show is normally just a moment for fans to chuckle at .
IT Chapter 2actually hold in a few little references toThe Shiningthat do n’t lead to any logic gap , such as the nameplate on a librarian ’s desk in Derry reading Wendy Torrance - there could certainly be more than one Wendy Torrance in the world - and the pattern from theOverlook Hotel ’s carpets being seen on the bottom of a skateboard . These are perfectly harmless little in - jokes , and do n’t at all strain the consistency of the film ’s universe .
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unluckily , IT Chapter 2 ’s finalShiningnod presents a problem , one that threatens to crock up the motion-picture show ’s public in on itself . That come near the end of the picture , when IT is menacing Beverly inside a bathroom stall chop-chop filling with blood .
How IT Chapter 2’s Shining Reference Creates a Plot Hole
While Beverly is inside the privy stall filling with blood , IT take various forms and apply them to scare her further . One of these is kidHenry Bowers , who proceed to burst through the humiliated stall door and do the " Here ’s Johnny ! " bit made iconic byJack Nicholson ’s Jack Torrance inThe shine . itself a reference to Ed McMahon ’s authoritative intro of Johnny Carson onThe Tonight Show . The thing is , that only chance in Stanley Kubrick ’s moving-picture show , not Stephen King ’s book , and Nicholson said it much other than than McMahon ever did . Since Bowers does the line exactly the same manner Nicholson did , the only lucid explanation is that he ’s seen the film .
But ifThe Shiningmovie exists inIT Chapter 2 ’s universe , the book would have to as well , and if the book survive , so does an author key Stephen King , who in realism went on to compose the bookIT , which the sequel is an version of . It ’s a logic loop that folds in on itself , especially since King cameos in the film , albeit intelligibly not as himself . IT , the Word definitely does n’t exist in its own universe of discourse , as that would make zero sense . So it does n’t make sense that any of King ’s other Koran would exist either , except as events that actually come about to real people in other locations . But the movie existing necessitates that the book does too . WhileKing did make himself a characterin the lastDark Towerbook , that ’s only because he specifically involve a variant of his own actual reality in the story , a matter theITmovies never suggest at . It ’s an extremely left over choice , and one that causes lots of headscratching the moment one stop to consider its implication .
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