![]() Jack drinks Jack Daniels whiskey in the Overlook Hotel bar scene from The Shining “So here’s what, you slip me a bottle of Bourbon, a little glass and some ice”. A character named Jack played by Jack, drinking Jack Daniel’s and the character’s son’s called Danny? I digress. Not least for some, because Jack is served Jack Daniels, a Tennessee Whiskey. The scene in which Jack Torrance drinks a whiskey in the bar of The Overlook Hotel in The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick, is beautifully calm and utterly unnerving in equal measure. The barman who is a figment of the imagination: The Overlook Hotel bar scene in The Shining. Keep an eye on the bartender during our bar crawl, it’s possible he’s either an android, the last face you’ll ever see or a figment of your imagination. The Art Deco style whisky glasses as used by Tony Stark in The Avengers, available from our store, around £20 for a set of 2 It’s not only linking universes but embellishing two characters’ short lived camaraderie. The glassware has a metal base in the scene, which may have been painted: giving a visual nod to the heavy metal earthiness of Loki’s world, Asgard. Good case in point is Tony “Give me a scotch I’m starving” Stark and Loki sharing a rare moment of calm in The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon. The Art Deco style whiskey glass seen here is available from our store. Tony Stark pours himself a whiskey in The Avengers. Wherever the scene is taking place, the clink of swirling ice evokes a moment of civility, often, at a point when things start to take a different turn. In film, the sharp cracking sound of warm whiskey hitting frost-fresh ice can be a cue that something’s about to be shared: a confession, a new alliance, the beginning of the end or simply a ‘relaxing time’. ![]() We invite you to join us on a bar crawl through film as Fiona Cole samples some of Film And Furniture’s finest whiskey glasses and provides the low down on where you can get your hands on them. The design and style of glassware in the movies can transcend period, genre and galaxy. Join the most stylish of bar crawls as we sample the best whiskey glasses in film
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