Easter Eggs
FILE 015 – 2:37AM The famous room number in the movie The Shining is Room 237. This number was changed from 217 in Stephen King’s original novel because the Timberline Lodge in Oregon, where the movie’s exterior was filmed, actually had a Room 217, and the lodge’s management was worried that guests would avoid it after the film’s release. Kubrick chose 237, a number that did not exist in the lodge, and it also had a connection to his earlier film, Dr. Strangelove, where 237 is the number to initiate a nuclear strike. In the novel, the room number is…