(15:28) We assume Jack has made the trip up in the yellow VW but we didn't see him in it. We're all going to have a real good time. Double readings are referred to frequently in the film. 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. Shot 142. It was a typewriter that had built-in memory, so it could have turned out the pages without an actual person. The masses of books make due with utility shelves, if they ever make it out of the box. Once again, Jacks and Dannys paths interweave: while the boy is in the Special World of room 237, his father has a nightmare; after Danny leaves room 237, Jack enters the Special World. Kubrick has done this before, a good example being with an ad of Quilty in Lolita. (8:33) 85 MCU Doctor. This information was ostensibly available to Kubrick and if he was aware of it there's the chance it could have influenced his decision to connect the Overlook with the Ahwahnee of Yosemite for reasons other than design. 13 - Jack and Ullman shaking hands before the "impossible" window. Several times in the movie we have evidence that it seems Jack smokes, but he is never shown smoking, though Wendy is. So many film theorists have their own takes on The Shining that these conspiracies star in their own film: the documentary Room 237. Its unclear what exactly is going to happen to the family, but King ensures that readers continue through the story and find out. A 3-d paper fold-out of a helium balloon hangs from the ceiling. 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. 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. Fig. Did Jack have any trouble finding them? The way that the camera tracks the pair emerging from Danny's room and continuing to the living room is curious as it skews the relationship of that hall with the remainder of the apartment. Shot 427. No way one would find this kind of workmanship in a 70s student/family apartment complex. 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. Approx 25,700 words or 51 single-spaced pages. In the lobby of the Overlook, as the film opens, a few people rest in armchairs reading, talking, but the lodge isn't exactly a buzzing hive of activity. When the book begins and readers are introduced to the various issues that the Torrance family is facing, it is hard not to root for Jack and Wendys marriage and their relationship with their young son, Danny. This event is subtly implied in The Shining, and it is unclear whether it happens or not. Always the ideas of free will versus a mechanical universe are parlayed. And that was just for the final scene! For a methodological framework see Dara Marks, In addition to the aforementioned sources pertaining to. Ullman introduces Jack. Here is the quote: Doc, Jack Torrance said. The roar rises and subsides. 81 MS Doctor from Wendy's side. 3 - Kubrick's use of the Greek key at the beginning and end of "Lolita", initiating the execution of Quilty from it. WENDY: Anyway, something good did come out of it all because he said, uh I don't think it's as certain that Danny sees himself. (9:08) The camera on Jack, Ullman continues his story. What connects the secretarial area with the exit? 35 MCU of Stuart. DOCTOR: Yes. Sources differ on how long shooting itself lasted, but it probably went on for almost a year. King Kong in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Slim Pickens had already worked with Kubrick before. Such a design was used also by the Hopi. Then as Stuart continues talking about the tragedy and describes it as resulting from a "claustrophobic reaction, which can occur when people are shut in together over long periods of time" the sound is at 9:34. Pickens chose to not work with Kubrick again, as he did not like the strenuous Dr. Strangelove shoots. Basil Dearden, director of The Smallest Show on Earth, also was one of the directors showcased in the old horror classic Dead of Night. His manifest goal or desire (writing a novel), meshes well with the offered circumstances (spending five months of peace and quiet in the isolated hotel). 74 MCU Doctor. DANNY: You do too know. 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. Which is perhaps how Danny really feels but is reluctant to voice disagreement. WENDY: We're just going to go in the other room for a few minutes and talk, then I'll come back and check on you, 'kay? 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. At the same time, the archetype of the Shadow can be found: it stands for the fury of the evil side, the danger which tacitly lies beneath the surface. 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. Though the elevators are very close to those at the Ahwahnee, there is a notable difference in decoration. 25 - The photographs behind Bill are different than the others normally observed. The vibe is the same and the projectors look like miniature versions of the boilers that only serve a portion of the Overlook, forced heat being used in much of it. "Tony" now refers to himself in the first person. Each is the same in general style, the front porch, the gliders, the rest of it. I'm sure that I've thoroughly managed to confuse you there. 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. 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. In other words, Jack definitely misses the chance to satisfy his real need. Is "The Great Mother" intended to be their mother? 38 MCU of Jack. This can be part of the general atmosphere of the work, or it can be a specific scene or object that gives a clue or hint as to a later development of the plot. The first Test for Jack in the Special World is the temptation of drinking liquor. The furnishings and the dining room and living room are spot on. He seems to be failing completely, since the novel is actually the repetition of the same sentence (All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy), his wife wants to think things over because she does not understand his needs, and she knocks him out and down the stairs with the baseball bat, thus preventing him from completing his tasks. 29:15 - The sound occurs right after Wendy says "Just like a ghost ship, huh"? One overlaying the other. However, interpretation is unavoidable: Will the evil cycle repeat itself in the future like it did in the past? The blood covers the camera and the scene goes black. Here, he's given as instead having spoken with Tony and then having brushed his teeth, which is when he blacked out. THE DOCTOR: Did Danny adjust well to school? Aside from the obvious on-screen flashes of the twin ghost girls prior to Danny seeing their dead bodies, we are subliminally hinted of their presence several times when the Torrances are being shown around the hotel. This gives the reader the ability to picture the horror of the surroundings and also the isolation. Mr. Ullman says that Jack made good time and asks his secretary to bring them coffee and requests she call Bill Watson to join them. As already noted, the front and back covers of the book mirror each other, partnering with other doublings specifically having to do with Wendy in this scene (such as the red field mirroring the red sleeve) and in her later conversation with the doctor. "Those huge corridors and ballrooms couldnt fit inside. Except for the bathroom. This causes a period of blackness, just as is had in A Clockwork Orange just prior Alex's waking in the hospital. Well, you see Doc, when something happens it can leave a trace of itself behind. Shortly, much will be made of the isolation of the hotel, but the family is already living an isolated life in Boulder, though the situation doesn't stand out as peculiar yet. In the book, the spooky events are set in Room 217, not Room 237. The Talmud said of them, "When this one falls, the other one rises." In the background is the yellow laundry basket with clothes on an ironing board, books stacked on it as well. 45 MCU of Jack. Crossfade to office begins at 5:10.) The fault of this is perhaps Wendy lying. Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. The wagon driver scratches out on the ground the letters S O U but dies before finishing the name. So, Kubrick has cast as his heroine an actress who departs from the strict ideal and has accentuated this, for in the documentary of The Shining Shelly exhibits indeed a striking, ethereal beauty. A word for mental vision is MRH (mareh), sometimes translated as mirror, and is also sometimes MRA. He didnt even see the actual film until he was 16. I just personally dont find it scary because I saw it behind the scenes," Lloyd later said. 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. 48 MCU of Stuart. The author describes the malevolent spirit of the hotel as ghosts, as it has possessed each individual "ghost" and uses each one as a physical extension of itself. BILL (seated): Fine. [special thanks to Vince Contreras: . Still, Lokai and Bele are unable to resolve their differences and chase each other back down to that world, the storyline ending so that we have no idea as to their fate. Notice that Krzysztof Pendereckis composition The Awakening of Jacob used here was already heard during the boys first vision and will be heard again when Jack goes in room 237. WENDY: What about Tony? 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 (8:37) -Constant references to the impending snowstorm foreshadow the family being stranded at the hotel. 27 MCU of Stuart. JACK: Well, you can rest assured, Mr. Ullman, that's not going to happen with me. An examination of the below map of the lobby and associated areas will make obvious the absurdity of the window. It is still open each year from May 20th to September 20th. Danny moves the index finger of his left hand as a physical representation of Tony, and what Tony squeekily has to say is In The Shining Houses by Alice Munro we have the theme of change, appearance, conflict, modernity, independence and acceptance. On the left is a print that seems out of place with the hotel's decorative scheme. There are windows on three sides. TONY: No. Where has he gone? 19 MCU of Danny. 7 - Kubrick briefly revisits the group by the door though he need not have. (10:09) STUART: Now, let's see, where were we? It is "Flock of Loons" by the artist Norval Morrisseau. Did his mother choose it or did Danny himself choose it? The Awakening of Jacob WENDY: Hi, hon, how's it goin'? STUART: This is my secretary, Susie. Jack's phone is black whereas Wendy's is white. The Shining is one of Stephen Kings best novels and a classic of the horror and psychological thriller genres. 31 MCU of Stuart. If you enjoy the supernatural, haunted houses, battles with evil, and psychological torment, then this novel is for you. One of the more curious features of the scene is that, oddly enough, Wendy is not wearing just one union suit (also called a "liberty suit") but two union suits, evidenced at the neck and by bunching at the wrists. Our study is intended as just a first step towards an all-encompassing dramaturgical analysis of The Shining. 24 MCU of Jack. Two other things happen as Dick crosses this fatal spot. This suggests that the Overlook and its ghosts are symbols of archetypical and sempiternal psychosocial issues. The painting of the horse running down the railroad track is by Alex Colville, "Horse and Train", from 1954. 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. Yet another theory reads the film as a story about the Holocaust and concentration camps. The table is covered with an orange-red and white checkered cloth in which we can see printed symbols such as hearts and fish. Seems to me that the skiing up here (sha) would be fantastic. When an author sits down to write a story, one question that must be considered is how to keep readers interested. STUART (off-screen): so the elements can't get a foothold. One could actually instead look upon Stuart as having more than fulfilled his obligation in presenting the dangers to Jack, and instead of viewing Bill with suspicion one could instead see him as looking upon Jack with suspicion, that he doesn't get a good read off Jack and wonders why he would pursue a job that would place his family in such isolation. Towards the end of the novel, Jacks genuine love for his son allows him to break through the hotels corrupting influence on his mind. Moreover, it wants you to put a little ding in the veneer because it's hungry. Now we have an actual, pragmatic problem: someone hurt the boy, thus there is the possibility of being physically injured inside the hotel. Fig. "But, in the end, you find out that the man he accused was actually cheating him. These cartoons concern Wile E. Coyote always being foiled in his attempts to catch the Roadrunner, both being tricksters but Wile E. not quite as crafty. The end table and the coffee table are stacked with books, as is every nearly every available surface. (7:41) The couple, to enhance refreshment sales in their theater, tries this technique. 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. 39 MCU of Stuart. (12:42) First there is the Overlook Hotel, which tries to take advantage of Jack in order to eliminate his family. As for the radiant heat, the fact that the hotel used a boiler was of primary importance in King's book. Again, we have a train tragedy connected with revivification of the past. Yes, a painting by Alex Colville. Shot 112. (13:36) Yosemite Nature Notes, published in 1978, discusses how Yosemite, rather than being a corruption of a Miwok word which meant grizzly bear, instead translates as "they are killers", an identification not used by the Yosemite themselves but by neighboring tribes. Whoever the author.Discover new and exciting books to dive into with our Book Explorer Tool. These have a gematria of 42. 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. As Jack makes his way to the office he now glances in the direction of a model of the hotel's maze that is beyond the two groupings of seats. In Review, What Has Kubrick Given Us in This Section? STUART: How about your wife and son? I write a little more on the use of this sound in the "Saturday" section. Moreover, we will discover later that the actual adventure for Jack is not that of being the caretaker of the ordinary Overlook, but rather the caretaker of the special Overlook, which does not entail running the boiler and the like so much as killing his family. She also wears two gold necklaces. Rob Ager, an observant fan of The Shining, noticed that there are many aspects to the set of the Overlook Hotel that make no sense. According to him, Kubrick was wise to remove that epilogue it pulled one rug too many out from under the story.. 15 MCU of Danny. Stanley Kubrick is known for his forays into different genresand horror was a genre that piqued his interest early on in his career. Why is a print of this painting placed in two places of the lodge? What this difference in dominance means (or how it functions) will be discussed in the "Saturday" section. Return to Table of Contents for "The Shining" analysis The feel is of stripped branches arranged into what is supposed to be of utilitarian function, but it's rare to be unable to guess how an object may be used. 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. Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. Most of the photographs observed on the walls of Ullman's office are black and white photos of the type chronicling meetings and luncheons and likely the presence of significant personalities at the lodge, but we also see behind Bill Watson two sepia photos and one wonders what may be their value. 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. "An abrupt sound startled him. (16:11) DANNY: Now, Tony, tell me. 88 MS Wendy from the doctor's side. Thats what I was like when I got my divorce," Nicholson explained in an interview with The New York Times. This is the same television as will be observed eventually in the Torrance's suite at the Overlook, but we will not see it until Wendy paces the floor deliberating on how she may have to leave the mountain without Jack. 14 - Map of the lobby and the surrounding halls that will be unveiled throughout the film. 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. Peter Sellers, as a projectionist who is trying to not drink, has to wrestle constantly with the theater's ancient projectors to not only keep them running but to prevent them from destroying the film. Thus, 8 and 1/2. 37 - Not in the movie. (sound). The disastrous flood that occurs at the . The executive producer of The Shining, Jan Harlan, has stated that this was intentional. 11 - Morrisseau's "The Great Mother". We begin with a shot of Danny riding off into the distance in a green hallway and taking a right turn. The beiges and browns were standard fare. A good guess is that he does see the elevator and the girls. 46 MCU of Stuart. The Question and Answer section for The Shining (1977 Novel) is a great 10 Tracking shot of Jack through the lobby. And Hasten! 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. Just as Wendy wears two pairs of union suits, we do, in a way, have two Wendys. One of course wants a meaning for this "sha" and looks for one. All right, Danny. STUART: The winters can be fantastically cruel and the basic idea is to cope with the very costly damage and depreciation which can occur, and this consists mainly of running the boiler, heating different parts of the hotel (Sha sound at 7:08) on a daily rotating basis, repairing damage as it occurs, and doing repairs Kubrick would have appreciated the presence of a Mirror Lake at Mount Hood considering his interest in doublings. In this case the Threshold Guardian is clearly an objective correlative of an obscure part of Jacks mind. 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 crossfade juxtaposes Wendy looking right as Bill Watson enters, he also looking right, as if a connection is being forged between them, and at least one is forged visually, however briefly. The wicker chair was standard fare. Another claims that the film is truly about the genocide of Native Americans. We will later realize that the lobby in no way is feasible in respect of either the Timberline exterior shots of the lodge or the studio exterior shots of the lodge, which will be the case also with the Colorado Lounge and other rooms as well. But it was a different episode, about poker players getting into a fight, that inspired parts of The Shining. Stacking them neatly sounds more like stacking cords of wood. THE DOCTOR: Now, Danny, can you remember what you were doing just before you started brushing your teeth? Jack cockily decides for them. A man, reading, speaks with a blond woman in white. Foreshadowing. It's a 25 mile stretch of road and gets an average of 20 feet of snow during the winter, and there's just no way to make it economically feasible to keep it clear. As Bill enters, we see in the secretarial area beyond a print on the wall. STUART: very highly. Danny is the first to make contact with the evil forces of the hotel. The scene actually made it into The Guinness Book of Records because it took 127 takes, the most for a scene with spoken dialogue. Here is a quote from the novel in which King is relaying Wendys opinion of Jacks mental strength: Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. As it happens, the ancient theater is now next a train line. The Tetragrammaton is the 4 lettered name of God which is forbidden to be spoken for fear of blasphemy, which amounts to a an imposition of silence. The move of the duck from the bathroom to the bedroom window is a fun tidbit, and one can perhaps concoct a story for its journey if one superimposes the bathroom scene over this one. 1. 39 - Not in the film. (13:27) In other words, so primal nature won't take over again, which suggests a constant fight against it. DANNY: To my stomach. It makes the audience share Danny's psychic traumas of the hotel. His hairy, red brother was named Esau. Much the same happens with Jack at the Overlook. As in, the helium balloon has become 3-d but it is still a representational toy. I'm outlining a new writing project and five months of peace is just what I want. International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct,London, EC1A 2BN, United Kingdom, 2023 Book Analysis. Dead of Night, as it turns out, was one of the points of origin for the Steady State of the Universe theory conceived by cosmologists Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold and Hermann Bondi, which has since been overruled by the Big Bang Theory.
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