That's where the story is. As the camera stays fixed on Jack, Ullman begins Foreshadowing can add tension or expectation to the narrative. We're well on our way to the anticipated train crash of an ending. Directing Jack to Ullman's office, she points him to the "first door on the left". This wallpaper appears at no other point in the film. Can destiny be altered? Anyone familiar with the original design work and the resemblance to the fylfot could indeed read into the blood flowing from the elevators a connection to the holocaust. Bele states he's a police commissioner and Lokai is a not a refugee but a political traitor. In German versions, the phrase translates to: Dont put off till tomorrow what you can do today. The Spanish translation is: Although one will rise early, it wont dawn sooner. In Italian: He who wakes up early meets a golden day.. The expectation of something disquieting builds. 67 MCU Doctor. 31 MCU of Stuart. Return to Table of Contents for "The Shining" analysis STUART: This is my secretary, Susie. 42 (13:12) This position of this ghost-like man in white is on the opposite side of the table to where Jack stands, and so may be conceptually tied in to the mirror image maze that Jack sees in the tabletop model. It may purposefully be an image that gives a double reading. "Flock of Loons" is also seen near the secondary exit/entrance Wendy and Jack use to exit the lodge toward the end of the film. One will note that in the lobby, at the entrance, is a design which has arrows, one pointing toward the door and one pointing away. 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. When one ascends, the other must descend and vice versa, a matter of physical law. Carson City Kabbalistically, Jacob corresponds with the mystic, inner life, while Essau's is that of physical action. 2-4. 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. Whether it be sound, acting, visuals, and the overall foreshadowing of the story. (5:01) The camera has cut to Wendy while Danny/Tony said "Mrs. When the editor goes to the Golden Elephant Mine to investigate, he is killed by Davis, who sneaks the editor's body back into his office, and the rumor is begun that, as the editor was against the railroad, it was someone connected with the railroad who killed him. The rest were made for the film and concentrate on the Cowboy and Indian theme. Ullman and Watson Interview Jack, Shots 21 through 49 The above scene is also a subliminal link to the deaths of the twin girls. I have also written a post specifically on this. I can't say. Fig. JACK: Hi, babe. The Rainbow in Danny's Room and His Black-out Compared to A Clockwork Orange and the Invitation to the End of the Rainbow in Eyes Wide Shut THE DOCTOR: Why not? 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. Click here to make a donation. Details in Movies, Movie Details! Jack gets the job. Foreshadowing - a 'warning or indication of a future event' - is a useful device in storytelling. In A Clockwork Orange, when Alex is imprisoned, during prison exercises he is shown walking an almost relentless circle beneath the figure of a pyramid, and following that scene we go to his interview with the prison governor which has close parallels to Jack's interview with Ullman. Hood in Oregon. When an author sits down to write a story, one question that must be considered is how to keep readers interested. (12:03) As she puts up the 2% milk in the fridge, the phone rings and she crosses the living room of the apartment to answer it. STUART: Grab a chair, Bill. On this duplicitous and confusing note, Kubrick chooses to end "The Interview" section. He approaches a clerk at the registration desk for direction. Seems it's a question posed with some caution. 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. It's a beautiful place. (6:07) Jack convivially wonders why. The Shining is a must-read classic of the psychological horror genre. Kubrick was famous for being a particularly detail-oriented director. WENDY: What about Tony? A fortune teller might use foreshadowing, warning that a short life line is a sign of some impending disaster. On the Two Union or Liberty Suits and the Two Necklaces Fig. Building a plot of the unseen environment based on natural expectations is difficult to impossible in The Shining. View Shining houses.docx from BUSINESS 530 at Moi University. He experiences visions, given to him by his imaginary friend Tony, of the word Redrum and of a shadow figure wielding a weapon. Wendy directs the doctor into the living room, past the painting of a horse running down a track toward an oncoming train. 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. A shot of Danny's mouth wide open in horror. A truly good horror movie utilizes all key aspects of suspense. He doesn't just cut it out, he jumps a few seconds into a following segment, letting us hear the elastic kind of sound (like rubber bands) of one of those boxes with a handle you press down so TNT goes off, and there's a big explosion that follows that in the cartoon but Kubrick cuts that out. Read the Study Guide for The Shining (1977 Novel), Racial Stereotypes and Cinematic Adaptation: The Shining Critical Analysis, View Wikipedia Entries for The Shining (1977 Novel). DOCTOR: Bye. But, not so much where her story takes away from the main issue at handbattling the Overlook Hotel. On the left of the screen we see the tip of the axe repeatedly smashing through the wood of the door. After they have coffee, we see at 5:55 a cigarette in the ashtray and Ullman's white pen pointed toward him (Figure 20); at 6:45 we see the tray is empty when all three men are shown (Figure 22); at 6:58 Ullman's pen is pointed toward him and there is a cigarette in the ashtray; at 7:20 there is no cigarette and the pen is pointed away (Figure 23); at 7:58 the pen is pointed away and there is this time a cigarette (Figure 24); at 8:05 the pen is pointed toward Ullman and there is a cigarette; at 8:26 the pen is pointed away and there is no cigarette; at 9:42 the pen is pointed toward Ullman and there is a cigarette; at 10:07 the pen is pointed away and there is a cigarette. As if to remark on this, we have also the duck moving from the left, in the bathroom, to the right, on the windowsill. Note also that the right corner of the room lines up perfectly with the right door jam of Danny's room in the prior shot, which perhaps indicates intentionality on Kubrick's part, the artistry of successively blending multiple scenes together physically and perhaps thus psychologically. 46 MCU of Stuart. Foreshadowing is an effective literary device in terms of preparing readers for events to come or narrative reveals. JACK: Well, I'm looking for a change. But Tony's more independent than that. Young Jethro and the Maze. WENDY: Sure I do, it'll be lots of fun. DANNY: Tony, why don't you want to go to the hotel? 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. "An abrupt sound startled him. The Torrances, particularly Danny, are the protagonists. It's Jack on the phone at the hotel's reception desk. Her lips appear taut, unyielding. You better run fast. Fig. A question presented by the movie is what isn't destiny, what isn't a foregone conclusion, and what prevents history from repeating itself? 25 MCU of Stuart. 52 MS Jack in the Overlook lobby. There is another photo of a silhouette in the office but we've yet to have it be introduced (I write of it in the Wednesday section). The film cost $19 million to make and it went on to earn $47 million in the United States. This is a family that is either coming or going, not quite settled in yet or preparing to move along. WENDY: No. JACK: I'm intrigued. 44 - Wendy reassures the doctor that everything is fine. (11:03) Suiting, then, that Danny stands on a footstool (a ladder) before a mirror when he has his vision. 27 - The varying tone of Bill's suit is due film processing. Alas, well never knowKubrick never addressed this question before he died. From the first pages, before Danny even steps foot into the hotel, its clear that the building will present the family with an evil that none of them can imagine. His isolation may stem from something other. STUART: Well The horror of Danny's vision past, we return to ambient sound, nothing mysterious. 54 MS Jack. Prominently placed on the coffee table is the New York Book Review and beneath it another issue showing Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor, in which she wrote of how society, by attributing certain illnesses to personality types and treating illness as repressed emotional content, unfairly stigmatized the victims of illness. WENDY: Well, how come you don't want to go? We hear a brief, staccato voicing of "sha" which, at this point, we take as being part of the natural ambient noise of the lodge. Pickens chose to not work with Kubrick again, as he did not like the strenuous Dr. Strangelove shoots. The Greatest of All Time, aka . There seems space for another room between Danny's room and the living room. 92 MS Doctor from Wendy's side. So, the sweets girl seems to exit the film and enter reality. The 1980s horror movie The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick utilized these aspects very well. A shower curtain is drawn across the bathtub, sunlight shining bright through a high window behind it. 59 CU Danny. He ended up having a role in a TV film two years later, but that was the extent of his acting career. -Jack tells Wendy that he fell in love with the hotel the first time he saw it and felt as if he'd been there before. In this regard, being sophisticated and cryptic, the film has widely incited scholarly interpretation, focused on psychology (the Oedipal complex, the uncanny), philosophy (the matter of time, the nature of evil), history (the massacre of Native Americans, the Holocaust), anthropology (the coeval US culture, matters of capitalism and Western societal organization), and transtextual aspects (the reworking of tropes taken from myths, fables, and horror fiction, the films role in Kubricks poetics). Timberline reception desk with picture of lodge. (11:13) These stickers and a number of toys left behind, something is going to step in to fill the vacuum. In A Clockwork Orange we have the comic of the "ghost" train, in which a photographer takes a photo of a train accident that happened a hundred years beforehand. The music quickly fades, replaced with the sounds of traffic. To protect Lloyd, who was 5 years old when he made the film, Kubrick told him that they were filming a drama. STUART (laughing): Yeah, it is. The sharp angle of the graphic design of the milk carton that moves upper screen left to lower screen right, is answered here by the framed graphic on the wall that presents a sharp angle moving from upper screen right to lower screen left. The "spectator" shoes in combination with the camera is an interesting choice of attire for this opening shot. The background photographs of what seem to be past business meetings at the hotel, on the wall behind Jack, are replaced with brightly colored stickers on what we assume to be Danny's bedroom door as the camera slowly tracks in to an open door opposite through which we can see Danny before a bathroom sink, he standing on a footstool. So, there are two interviews, and perhaps even three if we count the doctor speaking with Danny. "Shining" is later compared with sleep, that it can be like sleeping and upon waking not remembering everything one is told, and Z's are sometimes used for expressing sleep, such as in cartoons, but I also think of how the opening scene was accompanied by music signifying Judgment Day, and that Z is the final letter in the English alphabet, zeta, though it is the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet (value 7), based on the Phoenician zayin. Around the hotel we will see prints of pastels of indigenous children by Dorothy Oxborough. Jack Nicholson is responsible for the only line from The Shining to make it onto AFIs Top 100 Movie Quotes. To the best of my knowledge, below are the timings of the voicing: Just mulling here, throwing out some ideas on how Z can be interpreted symbolically if one wonders if there is some meaning behind Kubrick changing the design. It makes the audience share Danny's psychic traumas of the hotel. The theme of family bonds is one of the most important in the novel. There is perhaps a duck, maybe another. The hotel is a special world for them, thus they have to explore it; in a sense, Jacks adventure is that of being the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. Note the loud echoing bang of the ball and compare it with the slamming thud as Jack chops through doors. Regardless, he was a particularly strange pick for the role of Dick Hallorann because the character is Black in the book. There's hardly a person in 1980 who wouldn't have immediately bonded with the pedestrian situation of the lunch table and its simple sandwiches through the familiar cartoon vocabulary of a cartoon that was a shared experience. DOCTOR: Yes. Another thing that people make note of is how Jack's suit appears to be a dark blue or gray and white weave in close-up shots, while in other shots it appears to be brown. The silent film Comin' Through the Rye is based on a book by Helen Mathers, in which the rye field becomes connected with history repeating itself. JACK: Pleasure to meet you. With Ullman we have his shirt and its cuffs prominently echoing the flag, while with the prison's governor we have his shirt and cuffs echoing the color of the flowers on the window sill behind his desk. (16:09) Beyond the double doors to this hall, presently closed, are a man and a woman whose positioning conveniently conceals the place where is the aforementioned photograph that will only be revealed at film's end. We'd no idea during the bathroom scene that he had brushed his teeth, at that point he was playing with a toy in the sink. In Review, What Has Kubrick Given Us in This Section? 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. Bele, whose skin is a mirror image of Lokai's, is in pursuit of Lokai. As per the use of "The Awakening of Jacob" here, the bath could take the place of BTh, beth, and the elevator may be the staircase of Jacob's dream. You and Danny are going to love it. The Shining seemed to introduce a promising child star in Danny Lloyd. The ponderous wood of the credenza that holds the TV was standard fare. How do you think they'll take to it? The Awakening of Jacob 56 MS Overlook hall. (3:27 crossing into 3:28) The second thing that happens is a subtle audio cue. JACK: Only in a very general way. Fig. STUART: Oh, and would you ask Bill Watson to join us. The Question and Answer section for The Shining is a great In other words, the theater's revival has revived the past. This all links up with Jack's comment that. 13 - Jack and Ullman shaking hands before the "impossible" window. SUSIE: Sure. -When Wendy tries to convince Danny that moving to the Overlook Hotel won't be so bad, she says, "It'll be a lot of fun.". It is through the three consonants of the name spelled out: IVD HH VV. Why leave it out? In Dannys vision of the murdered twins, Kubrick very subtly uses this device again. Sometimes they see things that havent happened yet. As Danny then turns a left corner the musical drum of surprise kicks in a second before the ghost girls have appeared on screen. ), 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. Four people are seated in an area on the screen right side of the main door. With the move to the Overlook, Danny is removed from his more comforting bedroom, with its playful figures, to the world of the lodge. View its location taken from Google street view. It was in Fear and Desire, in which the film begins as it ends with the same view of the valley. How flow of action about the set unconsciously constructs for the audience a plot of the unseen environment based on natural expectations. One of those stories is a comic paranormal tale involving golf, and I've considered it may be the source for the "Golfing with the Greats" reference we'll see in the Boulder kitchen when Wendy is washing dishes. 95 CU Wendy. We briefly see Jack's face merge with the shower curtain then disappear, which may or may not remind of The Wizard of Oz and the injunction to pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. 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. The floors read B L 2 3 4. With the mention of emotional factors, Wendy has appeared to become nervous. He also cuts out the following escapade of Coyote on a revving motorcycle and its crash, Kubrick exiting with music heard during the next escapade in the cartoon when Wiley E. is pouring Acme bird seed out onto the road. 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. STUART: I don't suppose they All we're missing is the blood. I have no idea. 49 MCU of Jack. Link to the main TOC page for all the analyses, GOT A HOME PAGE When speaking as Tony, Danny moves his finger as if it is a puppet. 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. "Wow. However, he forbids him from entering room 237. As Wendy says "friends" we cut away to Danny's reaction, the sound of a train in the cartoon beginning and continuing through Tony's initial protestations that he doesn't want to go to the hotel. This same man will later be seen examining the maze. 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. Stuart introduces his secretary, Susie (Alison Coleridge). Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. 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. About the cartoon Though Danny speaks with Tony's voice, Tony is referred to in the third person, which indicates Danny is Tony's actual voice. 23 - Stuart tests Jack on how he feels about the hotel's isolation. The embellishments employed by Kubrick are in many places not the same as at the Ahwahnee, such as at the tops of these columns. It is our belief that, since the themes are intrinsic to the dramaturgy of the narrative film, the thematic interpretation is valid if it grounds itself in solid dramaturgical analysis, something that even many good studies of the film lack. I'm outlining a new writing project and five months of peace is just what I want. The apartment in which the Torrances will stay does have radiant heat, as do a couple of the older halls. The Two Types of Photographs in the Hotel, Notes on Ullman's Desk and Inconsistencies, Danny's First Shining of the Girls and the Bloody Elevator, The Rainbow in Danny's Room and His Black-out, On the Two Union or Liberty Suits and the Two Necklaces. Fig. I love how the shade on the lamp between the doctor and Wendy is slightly askew. The autumnal photo presents Mount Hood in context with Mirror Lake, which the viewer may associate with St. Mary lake seen in the opening shot of the movie, that mirrored the landscape. Though Kubrick did in the opening section associate Jack with the VW, having his name in the credits pass over the VW as the helicopter zoomed in on the auto, we are only working on an assumption, at this point, that the VW in the opening has anything to do with Jack. JACK: Oh, no problem at all. Yes, a painting by Alex Colville. (11:43) In the first case, Jack i.e., this instantiation of the caretaker has obtained the elixir, and will return; in the second case, he has missed the chance to get it and is forever trapped in the limbo of an irretrievable past. Below is the Timberline reception desk with a picture of the lodge overhanging. Is the desirable state one of equilibrium, such as had at the equinoxes? These have a gematria of 42. Then there's more gushing blood splattering the walls outside the elevators. This is the stairway Jack will, in the "4 pm" section, use on his approach to the lobby in the scene where he murders Dick. 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. This notoriously haunted hotel inspired the author to create fictional characters dealing with a similar environment. Fig. When we later see the boiler room, which is also a kind of ramshackle office with an old desk and refrigerator, Bill, as he is represented by Kubrick, seems he would ill fit in with that setting and its numerous girly pin-ups. Nevertheless, the three-act structure2 is respected: the first act starts at the beginning and ends when Danny enters the Colorado Lounge with bruises on his neck; the second act starts when Jack enters the Gold Room in anger and ends when Grady releases him from the pantry; the third act occupies the remaining part of the film until the closing credits start. At first glance one thinks one knows what one is seeing, but a second glance throws that initial reading in doubt when pieces of the ad don't mesh together. The bathroom is predominately in pink tones. Whether or not there was any intention behind the use of certain numbers in the film, such as 42, is one thing. The sense of it as a spoke for a kind of wheel is an incredible weight of great force. The cartoon tunnel seems to anticipate the movie Wendy will be watching when Jack calls her that he's gotten the job at the Overlook, its plot concerning the creation of a train tunnel. Moreover, Lloyd is the first Ally encountered by Jack in the Special World (Grady will follow). Can the bloody murder that Danny fears, which would be a duplicate of the Grady family killings, be avoided? Which is an example of foreshadowing? There is no door in that area through which he could have passed for the doors to the hall beyond are blocked by seating and if there did happen to be doors to an exterior patio (which there are not) he hasn't the time to exit them. She seems to be looking toward the reception desk, but then a bellhop appears from the direction of the service hall behind the lobby and appears to port a silver lunch service to this group who are in the same area where Jack will himself have lunch on Closing Day. foreshadowing, jack crosses the circle where dick will later lie slain - how ambient audio unconsciously constructs and complements environment Jack has glanced in the direction of a model of the hotel's maze as he crossed the circle upon which Dick will later fall when he is murdered by Jack, who will have been hiding in the lobby behind a pillar. The dialogue between the two, the boy and himself, brings to mind Ullman remarking on how the story of Charles Grady sometimes gives people "second thoughts". Baldwin, Emma "The Shining Review " Book Analysis, https://bookanalysis.com/stephen-king/the-shining/review/. Throughout these shots of Ullman, we don't see the bird statuette on the window sill behind him, which is there but concealed by his head. 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. 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. 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. We open with the lobby. -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. STUART: Susie? In the background, on the left, is a rather unattractive wooden object of a peculiar shape that doesn't appear to be a sculpture but has no obvious purpose. JACK: Well, you can rest assured, Mr. Ullman, that's not going to happen with me. This is the case for many of the windows in the filmthey dont work in context. (4:10 crossfade begins, full fade in by 4:12. 37 MCU of Stuart. Even if you've seen the movie 100 times, there's still probably a lot you don't know about what went on behind the scenes. Bill Watson looks quietly, solemnly, uncomfortably on as Ullman begins to relate the story. 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. (6:40) To my eye he looks like Marcello Mastroianni, and, with his camera, I've thought of him as perhaps being a reference to Fellini's 8 and 1/2 in which Marcello starred, playing, in effect, Fellini. Against the right wall are shelves stacked with books, puzzle boxes, a lunch box, a green and yellow tiger image, and a play figure of Goofy. Particularly effective are the flashbacks to his fathers cruelty in his parents marriage. In the Jewish and Christian myth, Noah (NVCh, meaning "rest") and his family alone were preserved in an "ark" on which were also two of each kind of animal. STUART: Well, that's very good time, very good. WENDY: It sounds like you got the job. A version of this story originally ran in 2018 and has been updated for 2022. 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. Oh, it's still hard for me to believe it actually happened here, but it did. Sometimes they see things that happened a long time ago.. Our writings on, and realizations of the "sha" sound are independent of each other. Tony, the personification of Dannys shining, represents the Herald, the one who declares the beginning of the adventure. Fig. "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. 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. 33 - Danny speaks to Tony via the mirror in the bathroom. Throughout the film, when action occurs in this hall, the camera stops short of revealing the area where the photograph is. 10 - Jack enters the secretary's office.
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