"Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro's jazz hands pose in the Oscar nominee luncheon photo was part of his and fellow director Paul Thomas Anderson's attempt to recreate the celebrated group shot, featuring Jack Nicholson, that appears at the ending of The Shining. Del Toro responded to a post in which he and Anderson had been inserted into the image from the 1980 horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick by saying: [Y]ou got it! PTA and I said: Let's do the Shining pose and we tried."
"The original picture forms the mysterious final shot of The Shining, and shows Nicholson among a group of partygoers in a photo captioned: Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921. In the photo, Nicholson has raised his right arm, on which a mustachioed fellow partygoer behind him has placed his hand. In 2025, New York Times reporter Aric Toler said that he and British academic Alasdair Spark had tracked down the source of the Nicholson picture, which is an edit of a much older photograph."
Guillermo del Toro and Paul Thomas Anderson recreated the celebrated group shot that appears at the ending of The Shining while posing at the Oscar nominee luncheon. The posed image echoed Jack Nicholson's position in the film's final photograph. The original film still shows Nicholson among partygoers in a photo captioned 'Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921', with Nicholson raising his right arm and a mustachioed guest placing a hand on it. Research in 2025 traced the source image to an edited photograph of a 1921 Valentine's Day dance at the Royal Palace hotel in London, obtained from the Hulton archive with Nicholson's head replacing Santos Casani.
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