WENDY (indicating a seat): Please. Pickens chose to not work with Kubrick again, as he did not like the strenuous Dr. Strangelove shoots. Fig. The protagonist of The Shining hence, the Hero is Jack Torrance, since the majority of sequences describe his actions which determine for the most part the development of the plot. THE DOCTOR: Why not? 79 MS hallway. 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. This scene, not in the book, seems to have been inspired in part by a photo Kubrick took for LOOK magazine, in 1948, of a woman and her dog at an art auction, this woman appearing to be the same one who held the dog in The Killing. I'm outlining a new writing project and five months of peace is just what I want. Return to Table of Contents for "The Shining" analysis I'm sure that I've thoroughly managed to confuse you there. It was a typewriter that had built-in memory, so it could have turned out the pages without an actual person. 31 - Wendy in the living room speaking to Jack on the telephone, the television running in the background. On a pragmatic level, Jacks desire concerns completing his tasks, namely writing his novel, being the caretaker, and in the third act killing his family and Hallorann. In a foiled plot to stop delivery of the drill that is to be used for boring a tunnel though a mountain for the railroad, Squires kills the driver of the wagon that carries the drill. 42 It makes the audience share Danny's psychic traumas of the hotel. Attention to elements such as these make for a fluid transition in the crossfade. Danny, although only five years old, is well-aware of the troubles his parents are dealing with. Kabbalistically, Jacob corresponds with the mystic, inner life, while Essau's is that of physical action. 93 CU Wendy. According to Hughes, the film would have had to earn $30 million to be profitable. And here is this book in view of the camera along with Young Jethro, which I suggested was chosen due the author's name, Clews, bringing up the idea of the clew of thread used by Theseus in the maze. This is a family that is either coming or going, not quite settled in yet or preparing to move along. WENDY: It was just one of those things, you know, purely an accident. The scene of the dead girls may also be foreshadowing Wendys discovery of Hallorans body. What's the secondary teaser candy bait? (3:05). -Constant references to the impending snowstorm foreshadow the family being stranded at the hotel. DANNY: My mom saying, wake up, wake up, wake up JACK: Do you mind if I ask why you do that? (5:01) The camera has cut to Wendy while Danny/Tony said "Mrs. 10 - Jack enters the secretary's office. But it was a different episode, about poker players getting into a fight, that inspired parts of The Shining. WENDY: Well, how come you don't want to go? Through Kings skill with language, Jacks descent into madness and violence is almost painful to read. The scene takes place after Jack dies in the snow. It distinctly occurs when he next says that "at some point during the winter" (the sound is at about 8:55) "he must have suffered some kind of mental breakdown" Shot 42. International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct,London, EC1A 2BN, United Kingdom, 2023 Book Analysis. Only toward the end, when Dick enters the hall previous his fatal confrontation with Jack, will the camera finally reveal briefly the area where the photo in question will be seen at film's end, and we'll observe that the photo in question isn't there. Later in the film her appearance normalizes. Go to TOC for this film ( (which has also a statement on purpose and manner of analysis and a disclaimer as to caveat emptor and my knowing anything authoritatively, which I do not, but I do try to not know earnestly, with some discretion, and considerable thought). Still, she has said, "and he didn't touch another drop". Therefore, we also have the Refusal of the Call from Jack, because he recounts the nightmare in a hurtful and worried way. Danny moves the index finger of his left hand as a physical representation of Tony, and what Tony squeekily has to say is They never recognize it is there by either a glance, action, or comment. 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. Because of their near symmetry, and because the scenes are slightly off and not perfectly symmetrical, I thought it might be interesting to overlay the elevator hall with the hall of the girls and see how they relate. J. W. Kern has a beautiful page with more photos at his blog, the Golden Sieve. Danny sounds unconvinced on either count. Before we continue on and out of the bedroom, to review the conversation, Danny has given in reverse order what happened in the bathroom. In the far background, between them, we see an older man standing behind the model of the maze, looking over it--the same man who had entered the hall by the elevators as Jack, just after glancing toward the maze, trod upon the spot where he will later kill Dick and we heard the first "sha". We have crossfaded back to Jack and the red-haired Mr. Ullman drinking coffee, the camera view in opposition to the one earlier, positioned now to show the office from behind Ullman's desk, a large bright red book prominently placed on it. After we see Jack frozen to death, we find him frozen in a 1921 photograph. 72 MCU Doctor. They are the very definition of balance and imbalance. BILL (closing door): How do you do? In the Boulder apartment she is stretched out, lengthened with the red union suits and her eyes are made conspicuously wide, a common feature of cartoon figures. 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. (5:14 crossfade from Boulder apartment ends.) 65 MS Danny's bedroom. Kubrick's inclusion of "Woman and Dog" returns us to The Killing. But then, following Halloranns murder, Danny runs and makes his father follow him in the maze. 29:15 - The sound occurs right after Wendy says "Just like a ghost ship, huh"? 27:20 - It occurs as they enter the C1 storage room. Earlier, when Danny was watching the Roadrunner, Wendy mentioning it was hard to make new friends and Tony protesting he didn't want to go to the hotel, we had heard the sound of a train. "Ive been collecting stuff from The Shining over the years, and I just wanted to have one place where they could be organized. Unkrich was also one of the people who helped fund the Room 237 documentary. The word for Jacob's pillow is mra'ashah, something like MRAShH, headpiece, coming from an idea of headship. She is somewhere in the middle of Holden's autobiography on his troubles with leaving the more innocent world of childhood for the grim, disheartening reality of adulthood when she places the book down to dialogue with Danny and attempt to convince him that being isolated in the Colorado wilderness for the duration of the winter is a fine idea. It is something which we humans do all the time, bedecking all our accoutrements of life with natural and abstracted floral and fauna designs and symbols. Cut to two girls who appear to be twins. Regardless, no normal hotel leaves copies of Playgirl lying around, so the magazine serves as an immediate red flag in the film. In other words, the theater's revival has revived the past. Other . If this is so then Kubrick may have used the Z pattern to represent the labrys axe and maze. Below are 15 examples of foreshadowing and irony in the James Hurst short story, "The Scarlet Ibis." FORESHADOWING. 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. Differently from his parents, he does not seem to be willing to go to the Overlook, because his imaginary friend Tony does not want to. Thats what I was like when I got my divorce," Nicholson explained in an interview with The New York Times. It is a classic of the horror genre and has inspired numerous authors and filmmakers since it was written. THE DOCTOR: Now, Danny, when you were brushing your teeth, do you remember if you smelled anything funny or saw any bright flashing lights or anything at all strange? I was falling about laughing most of the time," he said of the documentary in 2013. Jack remembers his father beating his mother and dealing with his own addiction to alcohol. My superimposition of the bloody elevator and Danny's bedroom, showing spatial/design similarities. As for Ahwahnee, it may possibly mean "place of the big mouth", which, no matter the original meaning, may remind of Danny's open mouth silent scream. But it was during Danny's speaking with Tony that he blacked out. This event is subtly implied in The Shining, and it is unclear whether it happens or not. She may be the blond woman who was seated in the grouping to whom another waiter had appeared to be carrying a silver tray service when Jack was earlier in the lobby. 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. Looking up the works of Ina Seidel, I find Literature and Film in the Third Reich, by Karl-Heinz Schoeps, relates: An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers expands on the book, The Wish Child: This all plays in with Jack's later devotion to the harsh ideals as set forth by the lodge and the demands on its caretakers, as well as Kubrick's interest in the Shoa (the preferred term over holocaust). Then suddenly the CAMERA STOPS on the last house in the line. If you are an Australian resident, any donations over $2 are tax deductible. Seems it's a question posed with some caution. He stands out, fitting in neither as a lodger nor as a hotel employee. 40 - Danny questioned by the doctor. As they were older, no families or children observed, and were served by youth, the lodge seemed to be a place of rest and relaxation for retirees. These are clean cuts, no crossfades. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Shining (1977 Novel) by Stephen King. About the cartoon 68 MCU Danny. Is "The Great Mother" intended to be their mother? Though the elevators are very close to those at the Ahwahnee, there is a notable difference in decoration. 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. Prominently on Danny's door is Snoopy gleefully skating, surrounded by a rainbow, while above him floats a helium balloon ascending into the clouds with Woodstock. There are radiant heaters in this section. A hotel employee who stands at the counter marking yellow sheets is not the same woman who had been at the counter when Jack arrived, and instead may be the individual who had been descending the rear stairway when Jack was headed into the office. Give your writing extra polish. So, in effect, various symbols we had first been introduced to on Danny's door are now here in the physical, in Danny's room, though also still represented symbolically. 37 MCU of Stuart. (15:38) Taking note of Wendy's sudden turn to being ill at ease, the doctor poses her a question. Tim Messenger, a local journalist claiming to have information for the police, is brutally killed by falling masonry as he's standing waiting to see Sergeant Angel. One can be confident that the scene was shot many times, more than three, but the inconsistencies boil down to it seeming as if, one could propose, there are three different perspectives or versions presented, which could match with there being three people in the room: Bill, Stuart and Jack. More research is needed in order to thoroughly examine the psychology of the characters, the progression of narrative events, the films relationship with the horror genre, the role of its stylistic patterning (both visual and aural) in the narrational process, and the implicit and symptomatic meanings that may be constructed. I have no idea. They go in and find the projectionist and the janitor and the ticket taker, who have worked there for decades, holdovers from the old days, watching the old silent feature Comin' Through the Rye. STUART (smiling): And for once I agree with them. 28:29 - Dick asks, "you like ice cream, Doc" (sound). The Works of Ina Seidel and the Third Reich. 496 votes, 38 comments. This is the case for many of the windows in the filmthey dont work in context. OK? (12:07). 29 - Crossfade from Jack in Ullman's office to the Boulder bathroom. I'm going to use this line of thought as an oblique in to bringing up Jim Barrie again as regards Kubrick's choice for using an apartment complex called the Kensington for the Boulder scenes, which provides links to Peter Pan and not only certain aspects of its story line, the perpetual return of Peter Pan, but even the questionable circumstances surrounding Jim Barrie's relationship to the boys and Peter Llewelyn Davies, in 1960, committing suicide by throwing himself in front of a train when he was laboring to put in order letters and documents concerning the family and their relationship to Barrie, his plan being to publish them but also destroying more than 2000 letters written between his brother Michael and Barrie as he said they were "too much". She has been speaker in film studies conferences in Italian universities. The Torrance's apartment in Boulder is standard fare for the era. An examination of the below map of the lobby and associated areas will make obvious the absurdity of the window. I was wrong! WENDY: Oh, I'm sure you're right. ), 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. The cart swerves to avoid the dog, the case falls, bursts open, the money spills out and is swept across the tarmac by the plane's propellers. We briefly see down the hallway, beyond Wendy and the doctor, a door open on another room, a print of boy and girl bears on the wall above a blue and white hair dryer and a chair below that. According to the Drummerman site, the music played during Danny's vision is Krysztof Penderecki's, "The Awakening of Jacob" which concerns Jacob falling asleep and having a terrifying dream of angels ascending and descending a heavenly ladder. As Wendy wheels a tray with Jacks breakfast through the lobby, she walks the exact same path that Halloran does in his death scene. Jethro was the father-in-law of Moses but I've found a very brief description of the plot of the book and it seems to be about a needle mill worker in the UK in the 19th century. John Fell Ryan, of the KDK12 Tumblr, has noticed that over the main door there is now a black "shroud" or curtain. The waiter and his silver service just disappearing from sight, perhaps behind a pillar, seems to be a foreshadowing of this. He's looking forward to the hotel, I bet. 28 - The suit autocolored shows it is gray rather than brown. But the individual pages in the film contain different layouts and mistakes. And a man dressed almost completely in white who stands staring over the table top maze in the same stance that Jack does (he can be seen in the far background as Jack tells his wife hes got the job). 9 - Jack crosses the spot where he will later kill Dick, leaping out from behind the pillar on the right. The four letters are I H W H, or Yod, He, Waw and He (a silent letter). The camera then gives us a view of a grouping of seats about a television set and a second grouping of seats beside a sign in the background that is difficult to distinguish here but reads "Camera Walk". This is one of the things that the Interview makes a focus, the battle of humans and the lodge against nature. Cut to a hall of the Overlook with nearly symmetrically placed brown plaid chairs and radiant heaters, the bright red doors of elevators beyond. Jacks Crisis: What Role Did Narcissistic Injury and Cultural Circumstance Play in Jacks Breakdown? 95 CU Wendy. 11 Crossfade from the office to Boulder exterior. This suggests that the Overlook and its ghosts are symbols of archetypical and sempiternal psychosocial issues. Hallorann finds out that Danny has his own power, the shining, and thus gives him some advice: he explains that bad things happen and leave traces, though implying that these are innocuous (as when someone burns toast); he reassures him that the things he sees through the shining are just like pictures in a book. Shot 101. Young Jethro and the Maze. Kubrick's Watson differs significantly from King's. (4:10 crossfade begins, full fade in by 4:12. As a sort of Hero, the boy must learn how to use his power in a self-conscious manner. The characters accept the window and, trusting the characters, the audience assumes this must be an external wall. Our first acquaintance with the Gold Room hall and the maze. The ponderous wood of the credenza that holds the TV was standard fare. THE DOCTOR: we can always think about having some tests done. Ullman has a bit of quirk where he often rubs his finger against the side of his nose or beneath it, bringing to mind Danny's Tony who assumes presence via Danny's index finger. And, recollect, we have the doctor shining the bright light in Danny's eyes just previous that. (9:18) Even when we know what is coming, Kubrick's presentation of the children is almost unfailingly eerie, shown just long enough, but too briefly for us to really register the ways in which the girls are dissimilar. WENDY: Shall we go into the living room? TONY: No he ain't, Mrs. Torrance. The horror of Danny's vision past, we return to ambient sound, nothing mysterious. When one ascends, the other must descend and vice versa, a matter of physical law. And faced with the challenge that some people might be put off, Jack rises up to the occasion and assures Stuart he and his wife won't be. When you overlay then the elevator hall with the next scene of Danny's bedroom, the bathroom door fits neatly into the left up to the 2nd bank of wall, and the far right of the elevator aligns with the bedroom's right corner. Here, he's given as instead having spoken with Tony and then having brushed his teeth, which is when he blacked out. WENDY: He dislocated his shoulder. Exploring the Themes of Familicide and Insanity in The Shining, Toxic Masculinity in the Films of Stanley Kubrick, Racial Stereotypes and Cinematic Adaptation: The Shining Critical Analysis. The desk is covered with protective glass and appears even more cluttered than it is partly because of its reflective surface mirroring all the objects placed upon it. But what if we look at the name? In Stephen King's "The Shining," the recurring image of blood pouring from elevators foreshadows the violence that takes place later in the story. After many years of wondering about this painting, and a loon painting in the same secretarial area but on an opposing wall, obviously done by the same artist, I've been apprised by Ioway artist, Lance Foster, the art is by Norval Morrisseau. The end table and the coffee table are stacked with books, as is every nearly every available surface. Kubrick raises that question for the audience and leaves it to linger. Our writings on, and realizations of the "sha" sound are independent of each other. However, since we first heard the "sha" when Jack crossed over the spot where Dick will be murdered, that seems to provide reason enough to believe there could be some meaning in them. I posit that we need to reflect upon what it means if Kubrick is tying in these projectors with the idea of the boilers, and it seems he is. The projectionist room in that movie even resembles the boiler room in the basement in The Shining. Though the audience won't know about Carson City, Kubrick has embedded bits of information so that The Shining anticipates and then complements the film on the television as it runs. 21 - The prison's governor in "A Clockwork Orange". The audience members are already building in their minds a plot for the hotel, and so they've every reason to assume that these characters are coming from something such as an elevator that accesses the guest areas. Privacy Policy, https://bookanalysis.com/stephen-king/the-shining/review/. Kubrick's showing us this vision early on in the film means that through the rest of the movie we will be waiting for the reappearance of these apparitions. Now? (8:00) (Sha sound 8:01.) (11:58) When an author sits down to write a story, one question that must be considered is how to keep readers interested. DANNY: No, he's a little boy that lives in my mouth. This apartment complex's exterior looks to be from the 70s and the bathroom has beautiful ceramic tile work in it that has probably not been present in any lower and lower mid tier apartment complex since the 60s. The scene is perhaps snowy in them, a highly reflective white, and against that white in the left photo is a dark silhouette of what seems to be an individual. We see on the sill The House of Brede by Rumer Godden, which concerns a professional woman, Philippa, who at the age of 42 leaves secular life and becomes a nun in a contemplative order. She's a confirmed ghost story and horror film addict. The viewer perhaps believes Danny is seeing the elevator, the girls, and then himself screaming. [special thanks to Vince Contreras: . Slim Pickens had already worked with Kubrick before. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. DANNY: Do I have to? Perfect alignment of some architectural features, from one shot to the next, may function to make transitions less jarring, creating less interference with an established mood. 30 MCU of Jack. 25:25 - Wendy says, "See you later, hon" (sound occurs during this). Suiting, then, that Danny stands on a footstool (a ladder) before a mirror when he has his vision. These are people who shouldn't be going up to the Overlook, but, of course, it's because these are people who shouldn't be going there that we find them on their way. I will write more about this voicing later. Theres a famous picture of Kubrick laughing in front of this wreckage. STUART: Grab a chair, Bill. WENDY: him. In her words, From May until October I was really in and out of ill health because the stress of the role was so great. STUART: Our people in Denver recommended Jack On the counter we see a jar of Peter Pan peanut butter, Smuckers jelly, a canister of grape Koolaid, Fruit Loops, and other items. ), (5:14 crossfade from Boulder apartment ends. GradeSaver, 18 October 2019 Web. (13:39) As his glance meets the woman's, he crosses the spot where Dick will be standing when Jack leaps out from behind the nearby pillar and kills him. Did Jack have any trouble finding them? 27 MCU of Stuart. 29:21 - Dick asks, "Do you know how I knew your name was Doc" (sound). 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. 10 Tracking shot of Jack through the lobby. This notoriously haunted hotel inspired the author to create fictional characters dealing with a similar environment. 40 MCU of Jack. 2 - The Ahwahnee lobby, a Creative Commons image by Dave Ciskowsi. To Danny's side on the table there is a black object later revealed to be a toy gun in the scene in which he explores the maze with Wendy (the gun is apparently from the Star Trek Phaser II Target Game). Why this particular apartment complex? The first elevator is at the L level and the second is at 2. Which is an example of foreshadowing? So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family. Foreshadowing is a plot element that hints at something to come later in the story. Always the ideas of free will versus a mechanical universe are parlayed. In scenes where Bill and Jack are viewed from the rear, a complementary chord is struck, though Bill is dressed in a more tailored suit with a dark brown jacket and lighter brown pants. STUART: Well, that's very good time, very good. When the reader is introduced to Jack Torrance, they learn about his alcoholic past and the reasons why he decided to quit drinking. The Shining seemed to introduce a promising child star in Danny Lloyd. -Mr. Ullman jokes that he wouldn't want to enter the hedge maze unless he had an hour to figure out how to escape from it. 17 MCU of Danny. STUART (off-screen): of itself become a problem. TONY: Don't want to. Stacking them neatly sounds more like stacking cords of wood. It is a majestic and luxurious isolated place, with a grisly past: On the one hand, [the isolation] serves, once again ironically, as the reverse side of communication, in a film which is all about communication, albeit extrasensory (the shining); on the other hand, it makes the Overlook Hotel [] a self-sufficient microcosmos [], a symbolic and absolute space, a home and a familiar place par excellence, where the destruction of the family is carried out.6 The Overlook was built on a Native American burial ground, and Native American motifs have been absorbed in the hotel in the guise of Navajo rugs on the walls and floors. Thus, his need consists of achieving fulfilment, something he attempts to do in a morbid way at the expense of his family. The table is covered with an orange-red and white checkered cloth in which we can see printed symbols such as hearts and fish. 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. 54 MS Jack. Around the time he was making the film, Kubrick said, There is a wonderful suggestive timeliness [that the structure] of making a movie imposes on your life. -When we first meet Wendy, she is reading "Catcher in the Rye," which shares some of the film's themes about youth and the loss of innocence. The itch that bess to be scratched? (8:21) I guess Danny started talking to Tony about the time we put him in nursery school. Around the hotel we will see prints of pastels of indigenous children by Dorothy Oxborough. Jim Barrie was, himself, a rather sinister figure in his attraction to boys. Esau would lose not only his birthright to Jacob, but his father's blessing as well, through Jacob's guile and his deceit of masquerading as Esau in order to procure the blessing. Of a person against a red background, it may look Mayan or Aztec influenced if one doesn't know its provenance. 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. The climax of the film is Danny's escape from the snowy maze, where he misleads his father into getting lost. Whether or not there was any intention behind the use of certain numbers in the film, such as 42, is one thing. 34 CU of Jack. Certainly, if one takes a look around the web at the Ahwahnee, one easily understands why Kubrick would have chosen the striking hotel in Yosemite as an influence for the lodge's interior. Two of these pairs are heard wishing goodbye to Mr Ullman. My husband had uh been drinking, and he came home about three hours late, so he wasn't exactly in the greatest mood that night, and, well, Danny had scattered some of his school papers all over the room and my husband grabbed his arm, you know, to pull him away from them. Shot 26. Shot 132. Does "The Great Mother" hold what Kubrick might mean to register as a club, foretelling Wendy with the bat? 25 MCU of Stuart. STUART: I don't suppose they Read foreshadowing examples showing how to tease approaching plot developments: Post authorBy Jordan I'm quite sure there's nothing But we tend to accept the office as it is, ignoring the impossible window, because all else appears to be so normal. We shall later see the same sign in the Colorado Lounge entry and be given a better view of it. In The Shining however, the use of foreshadowing fits in as a narrative device. Eyes Wide Shut has near its beginning an invitation to go where the rainbow ends. He approaches a clerk at the registration desk for direction. He describes it as dj vu, but more powerful, as if he knew what was around every corner. Whoever the author.Discover new and exciting books to dive into with our Book Explorer Tool. There is something on a table near them, but this was already there before the waiter approached, so the only table on which he could have placed his tray was between the blond and the man. 2.8m members in the MovieDetails community. Kubrick has unobtrusively incorporated a natural landscape via the flowered tray and the box. In a sense, Jack takes the Road Back to the Ordinary World, as in the heros journey. The masses of books make due with utility shelves, if they ever make it out of the box. We have no idea yet where this maze might be, but one assumes the inspiration for the model is somewhere on the grounds, even though our previous aerial view had shown no maze to the front or rear.

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