: Kubrick personally supervised foreign versions, working with translators like Riccardo Aragno to ensure specific, "hard-edged" translations that maintained the film's unsettling atmosphere. The Meaning of "The Shining"

Kubrick was famously meticulous about how key text was "subtitled" or localized for foreign audiences, often replacing on-screen text entirely rather than using standard translations.

In Stanley Kubrick's The Shining , "subtitles" typically refer to the (intertitles) that punctuate the film to track the passage of time. These white-on-black cards shift from broad timeframes to increasingly narrow ones, heightening the sense of dread and temporal confusion as Jack descends into madness. Temporal Compression via Intertitles

: In the Italian version, the English phrase "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" was replaced with "Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca" ("The morning has gold in its mouth").

: "Tuesday," "Thursday," "Saturday," "Monday," and "Wednesday".