The lavatory scene in which Danny has his first Shining episode features a shower curtain draped over a bath tub with Danny looking into a mirror on the right wall. Kubrick has done this before, a good example being with an ad of Quilty in Lolita. Another example of playful ball throwing as a foreshadow of axe swinging is that Danny and Wendy are shown throwing snowballs at each other outside. One with a series of visual cuts and one with a fast zoom. She has been speaker in film studies conferences in Italian universities. We will be looking, constantly, to see where the elevator hall fits into the labyrinth of the Overlook. Accessed 4 March 2023. Cut back to the bloody hall. She also wears two gold necklaces. (4:10 crossfade begins, full fade in by 4:12.) In The Shining we have the train roar with its two whistles, followed by the other one with its two whistles, and Kubrick leaves out the last big white light roar and crash. I'm not at all married to the idea, just proposing it. 89 CU Wendy. 82 MS Wendy from Doctor's side. We have this circularity in The Shining with the deja vu. 32 MCU of Jack. It is through the three consonants of the name spelled out: IVD HH VV. To create the elaborate, wintery maze, it took a lot of salt and crushed Styrofoam. There are three variations of placement of objects on Ullman's desk viewed throughout the interview, and as people seem to like to ask about and discuss these variations, I thought I"d devote a few paragraphs to them. Which is perhaps how Danny really feels but is reluctant to voice disagreement. (The film waits until its climax to provide the typical catharctic bloody violence of most traditional horror films - and with restraint - only one . Stephen King's use of character development throughout this novel is what makes the book so thrilling and moving. Some claim that it would have been characteristic of the director to individually prepare each page. I-10, V-6, D-4, H-5. Relieved, Wendy sighs and smiles. While filming the scene in which Jack breaks down a bathroom door with an ax, Nicholson shouted out the famous Ed McMahon line from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Particularly effective are the flashbacks to his fathers cruelty in his parents marriage. As Kubrick cut to this shot, a blond woman in white crosses from right to left behind Jack and continues across the lobby. Fig. JACK: I'm intrigued. Everything is shot so that anyone who has ever gone in to interview for a job will feel the cool banality of the situation and the pedestrian but anxious experience of how to relate with and put your best foot forward for this new sub-group of humanity with which you've just come into contact. But the individual pages in the film contain different layouts and mistakes. And he didn't and he hasn't had any alcohol in uhm five months. NEXT: CLOSING DAY THE DOCTOR: Did the appearance of Danny's imaginary friend Here, Jack undergoes a rebirth of sorts: he fully regains consciousness and makes Wendy become aware of his evil actions (regarding the radio and the snowcat). Furthermore, when Jack calls Wendy to tell her that he got the job we have a sort of Call to Adventure for the family or, in Fields terms, an inciting incident for Danny but this is not the adventure proper in a dramatic sense. Foreshadowing is used as a literary device to tease readers about plot turns that will occur later in the story. On the window sill of Danny's bedroom is a yellow rubber duck of the same kind we viewed in the bathroom, but the angle of the shot is such that though the bathroom is visible we're unable to see if the duck is still in that room (I would imagine it's not). Regardless, no normal hotel leaves copies of Playgirl lying around, so the magazine serves as an immediate red flag in the film. Later, the primary conflict is between the hotel and Danny as it tries to possess him, but he stands up to the threat. Ceramic tile disappeared completely about this time and where ceramic tile was once essential (such as with nicer bathtubs that had showers) the ceramic was replaced with fiberglass and plastics. Im doing exactly the same as I was doing when I was 18 and making my first movie. Seems to me that the skiing up here (sha) would be fantastic. I've already noted how I believe Wendy is to some degree represented in Morresseau's painting of the Great Mother, and with the crossfade we have her face briefly viewed in conjunction with Morrisseau's work. However, he forbids him from entering room 237. Note the loud echoing bang of the ball and compare it with the slamming thud as Jack chops through doors. 16 MCU of Wendy. 74 MCU Doctor. Why is a print of this painting placed in two places of the lodge? The center photo above the sepia ones appears to show two individuals on either side of a big fish, and there are a fair share of photos of people showing off their catches of remarkably large fresh water fish. Insouciant banality is the best indication of a truly and deeply dysfunctional situation that will eat you alive at the slightest scratch of the veneer. She is homogeneously dressed in a shirt of a similar color to the terra cotta columns and a plaid vest that resembles the plaid jacket worn by the man with spectator shoes. It was used heavily in scenes where the camera follows Danny through the hallways on his tricycle, or through the hedge maze. JACK: Well, you can rest assured, Mr. Ullman, that's not going to happen with me. When her hair is pulled back we observe that she has not only bangs but that a portion of hair is cut about chin level. Jack has already just entered the lodge as the scene opens, we do not see him come up to the lodge from his car, as another director might have chosen to show. Not even now. In both scenes the camera takes us in for a close up. Afterwards, Jack quarrels with Wendy about his needs, and then he has a sort of Approach to the Inmost Cave. In Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," the repeated references to books being banned and burned foreshadow the eventual destruction of books and knowledge in the story's dystopian society. Jack's interview had uncomfortable information divulged him by Ullman, while Wendy's interview resulted in her relating uncomfortable information. Lights up. This is a pretty austere scene, shot so that it seems very straightforward. The next scene in The Shining has the doctor examining Danny's eyes with a bright light and saying, "Now, hold your eyes still so I can see." The waiter and his silver service just disappearing from sight, perhaps behind a pillar, seems to be a foreshadowing of this. Then, sneaking off to the right, we have one of Sleeping Beauty's dwarfs, Dopey, who was a friend of the dwarf, Doc, so Dopey would be a suitable companion for Danny who is also called Doc. On a psychological level, Jacks fatal flaw pertains both to the fear of failure and particularly in the 144 version to alcoholism. How do you think they'll take to it? As for the splicing together of seeming three separate versions of the desk, Kubrick uses the same technique for the encounter in Room 237, showing seemingly three different versions, while Jack is present in the room and Danny and Dick are shining it, so we are never confident of who was seeing what. The psychiatrist telling Wendy that. 15 MCU of Danny. STUART: Our people in Denver recommended Jack 27 - The varying tone of Bill's suit is due film processing. The masses of books make due with utility shelves, if they ever make it out of the box. 69 MCU Wendy. Foreshadowing holds the reader's interest because they try to use these clues to figure out what happens next. Foreshadowing is when the author gives a hint or warning to something that is going to happen. A now-legendary story that King reportedly still tells at some of his book readings goes like this: Stanley Kubrick called him at seven in the morning to say that he believed ghost stories were fundamentally optimistic because the existence of ghosts suggested that humans survived past death. (15:41) 27:20 - It occurs as they enter the C1 storage room. 27:00 - Wendy says to Dick, "We call him Doc sometimes, like in the Bugs Bunny cartoons" (sound of "sha"). The television in the background, topped with and surrounded by stacks of books, shows now an old western film rather than the cartoons. Immediately after Stuart asks how Jack's wife and child will take to the solitude, during the reaction shot of Jack, the sound occurs at 8:01, just before Jack says, "They'll love it." STUART: That's good, Jack, because uh for some people uhm solitude and isolation can 68 MCU Danny. At the same time, the 12 stages and most of the archetypes of the heros journey as theorised by Vogler3 are traceable in The Shining, albeit being peculiarly distributed between Jack and Danny.4. With the equinoxes, it is the simple incessant progression of time that brings balance and then imbalance. To the best of my knowledge, below are the timings of the voicing: One must wonder if Kubrick was aware that Stephen King, at the age of 4, had witnessed a friend being struck and killed by a train, was mute and unresponsive for at least a day because of it, professes no memory of the incident, but it's been proposed this event may have helped inspire his predilection for writing horror. GradeSaver, 18 October 2019 Web. Danny has his vision of the Overlook. In Dannys vision of the murdered twins, Kubrick very subtly uses this device again. This event is subtly implied in The Shining, and it is unclear whether it happens or not. The core of The Shining moon landing theory posits that not only was the 1969 moon landing a hoax, but that Kubrick was the one who constructed the fake footage. There is no music, only the ambient sounds of general activity. The Shining is a glaring example of a film that has led to countless interpretations, favoured by its complex and enigmatic nature, sometimes leading to interpretive deliriums - as confirmed by the documentary film Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012). And that's it for Bill Watson's speaking role in this scene. Bele, whose skin is a mirror image of Lokai's, is in pursuit of Lokai. July 2011, I added a long note here on the timings of an ambient, voiced "sha" sound that occurs periodically in the film, and later was alerted that another person had also noticed the same and posted a movie on it previously on Youtube. In some versions of Greek myth, the flood followed Lycaon's slaughter of a child of his and his serving the child, mixed with other sacrifice, to Zeus who had masqueraded as a mortal, which is a not infrequent motif in ancient myth, deities infiltrating the human sphere in the guise of humans, sometimes as a test to see how they will be treated and then accordingly punishing or rewarding the human host. I discuss the terrier in this post. If you are an Australian resident, any donations over $2 are tax deductible. However, Kubrick didnt even deem it worth a glance, which sort of makes sense when you consider that the director once described Kings writing weak. Instead, Kubrick worked with Diane Johnson on the screenplay because he was a fan of her book, The Shadow Knows. A mat the color of dark grass wraps about the base of the toilet. A red-jacketed bell hop stands at stiff attention not far behind Jack and is the one who was porting bags at the elevator when Jack was earlier headed to the office. (4:53) That Roy Clews was the author of a book about a needle mill worker (a needle guides thread) is a nice bit of serendipity. The word for Lord here is IHVH. This all links up with Jack's comment that. OK? The Question and Answer section for The Shining (1977 Novel) is a great The color of the pillars is no longer what it was when the film was made, but the trim appears to be the same as in older photos. 58 MS Overlook hall. -Jack tells Mr. Ullman that he expects Wendy will be entertained by the story of the hotel's bloody past, as she loves ghost stories and horror movies. Stylistically, as far as set design, it's interesting how the sharp angle in the graphic design of the milk carton, which rests above and follows Wendy's shoulder, is echoed in the diagonal of the ironing board stand above Danny's shoulder. Just a step beyond the circle, Jack's glance moves up to the stairs on the right, briefly meeting that of a hotel employee who is coming down the steps. Some behind-the-scenes footage shows Nicholsons Method acting before filming the iconic scene. Stuart and Bill stand talking beyond. STUART: This is my secretary, Susie. A fortune teller might use foreshadowing, warning that a short life line is a sign of some impending disaster. Shot 113. STUART: Jack is a In these opening scenes, it does seem as if Kubrick has emphasized some of Wendy's (Shelley's) striking features, creating a kind of caricature of her, as is done with cartoon figures. Beside Wendy, leaning against the wall is a painting of a cartoonish red and blue dog, a lion, and a purple elephant. The executive producer of The Shining, Jan Harlan, has stated that this was intentional. Notes on the Timings of the "Sha" Sounds 15 - The crossfade from Ullman's office to the apartment complex in Boulder. Some other interesting, but slightly less conclusive examples are: There are many examples of the film using subliminal association to force us into experiencing little Danny's terrible shining visions. Off to the right he heard it, and his ears, expert in such matters could not be mistaken. (11:59) The name of the apartment complex is the Kensington. Kings use of foreshadowing is one of the more effective literary devices at work in The Shining. Just a few moments before we had heard the sounds of children at play outside and though we'd not seen those children the audience is not entirely convinced that there are no children around with whom Danny could play. The author alludes to the tourist industry in that the Overlook is a summer resort and not open during the winter, whereas the resorts that Hallorann goes to work at subsequently are year round. 34 CU of Jack. Stacking them neatly sounds more like stacking cords of wood. Foreshadowing -Mr. Ullman tells Jack about the former caretaker of the hotel who murdered his family before committing suicide. JACK (confidently): Not for me! At the same time, the Special World invades the Ordinary World, since the ghosts become visible to Wendy as well presumably because Jack is doing exactly what the hotel wanted him to do. My greater concern (with a couple exceptions) is keeping an eye on what Kubrick's choices of music bring to the film in the stories suggested by their titles, and the same too with certain important symbols in the film, the stories often associated with them that are transported into the film by virtue of the use of the symbol and the mythology attached to it. But perhaps he does. The bank owner who's told this is surprised by the fact, and it's explained to him that the reason there are two is that they are being drilled from opposite sides of the mountain to meet in the middle. But, it was inspired by Stephen Kings time at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado. We hear a familiar "beep beep" that resonates with the childhoods of so many who grew up mid 20th century and realize that Danny is watching a Roadrunner cartoon. Having learned via John Bourassa that the cartoon playing is the "Stoop! The Shining is one of Stephen Kings best novels and a classic of the horror and psychological thriller genres. A simple auto color correction of the suit when it appears to be brown makes it gray and more of a match with the suit in close-up. Jack's repeated throwing of a tennis ball at the wall above the fireplace is our foresight that he will later be chopping through doors with an axe in pursuit of his family. THE DOCTOR: Have you been in Boulder long. Kubrick was famous for being a particularly detail-oriented director. -When Jack tells Danny he would never hurt him, he says he wants to stay in the hotel "forever and ever and ever," which is the same phrase the ghosts of the Grady twins used when they appeared to Danny earlier. It's Jack on the phone at the hotel's reception desk. The characters accept the window and, trusting the characters, the audience assumes this must be an external wall. "You think the point of the story is that his death was inevitable because a paranoid poker player would ultimately get involved in a fatal gunfight," Kubrick said of the episode. The film ends with text over black, The Overlook Hotel would survive this tragedy, as it had so many others. This is the Crossing of the First Threshold for Jack, since he enters the Special World inside the Overlook Hotel. Water is heard running in the bathroom. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women [Harrowing Historica at the best online prices at eBay! Bele states he's a police commissioner and Lokai is a not a refugee but a political traitor. Kubrick even uses the railroad in conjunction with a revisitation of events, something happening twice, in Eyes Wide Shut. The Fox Terrier and the Horse I guess Danny started talking to Tony about the time we put him in nursery school. From the shining cloud the Father's voice is heard: This is my beloved Son, hear him. What's the deep infrastructure? NOTE: Jay writes to me: "Speaking of mining, just watched 'Carson City' for the first time, today, and I'd like to respectfully offer a slight correction to what you cite in your analysis, for you indicated that in the scene on the telly in Boulder, Randolph Scott's character is talking to a conspirator, yet it is actually the scene where Jeff has been surveying one bore (the transit tool is visible in the scene) and is now talking to the banker who hired Jeff and is bankrolling the railroad project and is there to complain about the negative press the project has been garnering." We have it in Eyes Wide Shut with the synchronous events of the trains, with Bill wandering the same streets again and again, and his attempting in the second part of the film to revisit places from the first part and locate people who have disappeared between the first and second parts. The gematria for the name in this short form is 26. Ullman visits Wendy in the hospital. The Talmud said of them, "When this one falls, the other one rises." In A Clockwork Orange, in Alex's prison room, is a comic book with a picture of a train about to collide with an old horse and buggy, but it is modern era and the comic book story concerns a photographer marveling over the ghost buggy and his being able to take a photo of a past event inserting itself into the present. Just as the chairs and radiant heaters are symmetrically positioned in the elevator hall, but do not perfectly mirror, the girls are not absolutely identical and not equal in dominance. There is more than a passing similarity between this scene and the one in A Clockwork Orange in which Alex meets with the governor of the prison. When one ascends, the other must descend and vice versa, a matter of physical law. Composedjustso. 10 Jack undergoes an Ordeal: all at once, he faces his wife (now an antagonist) on a pragmatic level, and his fears and flaws in psychological terms pertaining to the working contract, the writing project, and the relationship with his family. What is unusual about The Shining is also the fact that we have a threshold crossing of sorts inside the first act, when the protagonist and his family settle in the Overlook Hotel. The Fleur-de-lis, meaning the flower of the lily, doesn't appear in The Shining but does in a number of Kubrick's other films, and again brings in the rainbow even when no rainbow is apparent. WENDY: No, he didn't like it too much at first, and then he had an injury so we kept him out for a while, and, yeah, I guess that's about the time I first noticed that he was talking to Tony. Its not until the final pages of the novel that he knows what that is that Jack forgot to check the hotels boiler. One of the girls is vaguely smiling while the other girl is frowning. 21 - The prison's governor in "A Clockwork Orange". Two brown leather chairs face a large brown desk situated before a bright window on the sill of which appears to be a wood carving of an eagle or other predatory bird. (13:39) 80 MCU Wendy. STUART: Now, let's see, where were we? (13:19) Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor (Scatman Crothers), Remote mountains of Colorado, Present-day. GOT KUBRICK AND ANTONIONI FILM ANALYSES "Any chance of them being repaired soon?" Her lips appear taut, unyielding. No, The Shining is not a true story. Directing Jack to Ullman's office, she points him to the "first door on the left". Wendy Torrance is driven by a desire to improve her marriage but, beyond all, protect her son from any injuries that might come his way. The theme of family bonds is one of the most important in the novel. Then there is the photo to the right of it which is difficult to decipher. JACK: I don't believe they did. (8:37) will review the submission and either publish your submission or providefeedback. They are partners in the worthless Golden Elephant Mine. DANNY: No, he's a little boy that lives in my mouth. Attention to elements such as these make for a fluid transition in the crossfade. WENDY: Sure I do, it'll be lots of fun. He felt a particularly deep understanding of Jack Torrance's berating of his wife while he is trying to write. Please sit down. The Two Types of Photographs in the Hotel The Bijou Cinema having been revived (somewhat), the new owners enter one day to hear the projector running and a piano being played. Stanley pushed me and prodded me further than Ive ever been pushed before. Fig. THE DOCTOR: What's the next thing you remember, after brushing your teeth? Some viewers noticed that this is foreshadowing for the reveal that, although all of the dinosaurs in the park are female, they have found a way to reproduce. Carson City These are clean cuts, no crossfades. The Greatest of All Time, aka . (9:41) STUART: Well, obviously some people can be put off -Wendy compares the kitchen to a maze when Dick Hallorann gives her a tour of it, and jokes that she'll need breadcrumbs to find her way out of it in the winter, referencing Hansel and Gretel. The ponderous wood of the credenza that holds the TV was standard fare. With the move to the Overlook, Danny is removed from his more comforting bedroom, with its playful figures, to the world of the lodge. J. W. Kern has a beautiful page with more photos at his blog, the Golden Sieve. A version of this story originally ran in 2018 and has been updated for 2022. Stanley Kubrick did not get along with The Shining star Shelley Duvall. The Awakening of Jacob This is from the Tuesday section. After we see Jack frozen to death, we find him frozen in a 1921 photograph. 41 MCU of Bill. (Though King himself isn't much of a fan.) This device is valuable, as it allows readers to make connections between themes, characters, symbols, and more-both within a literary work and between works of literature. On this duplicitous and confusing note, Kubrick chooses to end "The Interview" section. However, there is no actual problem yet, but only the potentiality of it because of (1) premonitions due to the tragedy of 1970 and to the images conveyed by Dannys shining, and (2) uncanny events such as Jack staring at the hedge maze model (followed by an ambiguous high-angle shot of the model) or in the distance with a vacant stare, his use of the words forever and ever like the ghostly Grady twins do, and his abhorrent nightmare of murdering his wife and child. Jacks nightmare of killing his family may be compared to a Call to Adventure, since it is the first explicit sign of murderous thoughts which are going to be construed as the new desire during the adventure. (14:55) Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. And then not again until the phone lines are down: It was a typewriter that had built-in memory, so it could have turned out the pages without an actual person. Fig. (13:34) Moreover, the film is full of references to myths, fables, and horror literature 7: the hotel, a haunted house of sorts, seems like a ghost ship to Wendy; Jack huffs and puffs like the Big Bad Wolf when he attacks his wife in the bathroom; likewise, during the tour in the kitchen which she describes as an enormous maze Wendy evokes Tom Thumb (and hence Hansel and Gretel) by stating I feel Ill have to leave a trail of breadcrumbs every time I come in. This reference serves also as a setup 8 or, a foreshadowing both for the climax of the third act, which evokes Theseus and the Minotaur, and for the recurrent spatiotemporal disorientation that occurs in the film.

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