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. (3:05). 17 - Wendy and Danny eat lunch, watching cartoons. The family has progressively torn apart as the hotel works to corrupt Jack Torrances mind. Dannys Mentor is Hallorann, an ex hero who is now old and wants to offer his wisdom and his experience to the new generation. Tony, the personification of Dannys shining, represents the Herald, the one who declares the beginning of the adventure. 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. Before continuing, it should be noted that the exterior window in the office is a physical impossibility, the office being entirely interior the building. The decoration at the height of the lobby's columns in The Shining is done in a Z shape. Then, while still inside the pantry, Jack receives the greatest Reward yet: Grady gives him another chance to do his job and releases him from the pantry. I will write more about this voicing later. 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. The people of Carson City are worried the railroad will attract bandits--or, rather, "Big" A. Jack Davis and Jim Squires have reason to not want to see the railroad go through. There is a parallel between Danny's arrival at the hotel and the increase in supernatural activity there. Why would Kubrick do this? So there are some shots where Ullman's white pen is pointed toward him and there's a cigarette in the tray; some shots where the pen is pointed away from Ullman and there is no cigarette; some shots where the pen is pointed away from Ullman and there is a cigarette. as in Johnny Carson. From my analysis on The Killing: 61 MS Danny's bedroom. The film's major conflict revolves around Danny's struggle to cope with his father's gradual descent into madness and/or possession. 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. STUART (off-screen): so the elements can't get a foothold. The two most distinct instances of the sound here are during the two reaction shots of Jack, when he's saying his wife and child will love it there, and then again his reaction to the idea of the tragedy occurring because of people shut in together over long periods of time. So, in The Smallest Show on Earth the two real films used in the theaters are Knock on Wood and Comin' Through the Rye. Wendy has also a sandwich but it is untouched. The furnishings and the dining room and living room are spot on. 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. Leon Vitali, Kubricks personal assistant during filming, has since denied these theories. Very nice to meet you. BILL (seated): Fine. The Shining (1977 Novel) study guide contains a biography of Stephen King, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. 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. Another claims that the film is truly about the genocide of Native Americans. 29:15 - The sound occurs right after Wendy says "Just like a ghost ship, huh"? Cut back to the bloody hall. The hall is vertical to the kitchen and living room but the camera gives the feeling it instead runs parallel the kitchen. On the opposite wall is the "Woman and Terrier" painting by Colville, from 1963. With the equinoxes, it is the simple incessant progression of time that brings balance and then imbalance. The painting of the horse running down the railroad track is by Alex Colville, "Horse and Train", from 1954. 10 - Jack enters the secretary's office. 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. (11:43) 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. Not affiliated with Harvard College. No way one would find this kind of workmanship in a 70s student/family apartment complex. They never recognize it is there by either a glance, action, or comment. STUART: Bill, I'd like you to meet Jack Torrance. In the first tricycle scene the red floors of the hallway may be a subliminal foresight of the river of blood, which Wendy sees in the films climax. Because post WWII it would be questionable to include it? And that's it for Bill Watson's speaking role in this scene. And, recollect, we have the doctor shining the bright light in Danny's eyes just previous that. -Jack surveys the scale model of the hedge maze in the hotel lobby as his wife and son explore it. The most literal Shapeshifter is the woman in room 237, who first appears as a young and attractive lady but then morphs into a repulsive decaying hag which is herself double as it were, since we see her alternately laughing sardonically and walking toward Jack, and expressionless, emerging from the bathtub (Dannys vision?) (15:19) Much the same happens with Jack at the Overlook. Danny, although only five years old, is well-aware of the troubles his parents are dealing with. (8:00) (Sha sound 8:01.) 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. TONY: He already did. 23 - Stuart tests Jack on how he feels about the hotel's isolation. The Torrances, particularly Danny, are the protagonists. 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. According to the set still photographer, It was a huge fire in there one night, massive fire, we never really discovered what caused that fire and it burned down two sound stages and threatened a third at Elstree Studios. He came up here with his wife and two little girls, I think about eight and ten. A red field to the right of Wendy mirrors or doubles her sleeve and we are never really given a clear visual of to what that red field belongs. The place was first called Luz, so its original name was supplanted. Four people are seated in an area on the screen right side of the main door. One could think of Jack's axe as corresponding with the drill in the Carson City movie. In a particularly chilling moment, Jack expresses sympathy for his father. We're from Vermont. Slim Pickens had already worked with Kubrick before. If it's not a female form it may show at the bottom two or three human silhouettes against an unknown background. So, there are two interviews, and perhaps even three if we count the doctor speaking with Danny. 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. STUART: This is my secretary, Susie. 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. We shall later see the same sign in the Colorado Lounge entry and be given a better view of it. Film reviewer Tim Robey noted, It was not the commercial success Warner Bros. had been hoping for. The film cost $11 million to make and earned $9.5 million in the United States, though it did have a good life in foreign box offices. As if to remark on this, we have also the duck moving from the left, in the bathroom, to the right, on the windowsill. Some behind-the-scenes footage shows Nicholsons Method acting before filming the iconic scene. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Shining (1977 Novel) by Stephen King. BILL: Well, this ought to be quite a change for ya. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. The heels lend a sense of the surreal--as if one has entered an area that purports to be "real" but there slip through bits and pieces that make one feel the reality is staged. We open with the lobby. STUART: Well, before I turn you over to Bill, there's one other thing I think we should talk about, I don't want to sound melodramatic, but it's something that's been known to give a few people second thoughts about the job. This is a family that is either coming or going, not quite settled in yet or preparing to move along. 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. JACK (correcting): Uh, formerly a schoolteacher. The sense of it as a spoke for a kind of wheel is an incredible weight of great force. Thus, 8 and 1/2. So when we are looking at the Overlook from the aerial view, this is what informs the pyramidal structure of the lobby, yet Kubrick has stripped it out of the film as far as the set interior, preferring instead to have no fireplace at all in the lobby of the Overlook, patterning its appearance after the lodge at Yosemite. Even if the "sha" occurring at 3:27 is purely coincidental, the choreography for the remaining collection of incidentals all falling on the same note is tricky, intentional, and beautifully accomplished. THE DOCTOR: Did the appearance of Danny's imaginary friend Fig. Anyway, there's hardly anybody to play with around here. His hairy, red brother was named Esau. 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. (5:14 crossfade from Boulder apartment ends.) (13:42) I am particularly interested in the train because Kubrick has used trains in his other films. Jack is going to take care of the Overlook for us this winter. In the following sequence Jack goes to the Gold Room (for the first time in the 119 version, for the second in the 144 one). Fig. "His last big role had been in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and between that and the manic grin, the audience automatically identified him as a loony from the first scene. There is an article in the issue about incest, so the most common theory is that Kubrick was subtly implying that Danny may have experienced sexual abuse. We hear a horn honk outside. As the guests tend to be older, it seems possible these two are also employees. (6:07) Jack convivially wonders why. [Arknights] Theory of Cope - Foreshadowing Shining Alter? (13:56) -Mr. Ullman tells Jack and Wendy that the hotel is rumored to be built on an ancient Native American burial ground, and that it suffered attacks from some local Native American tribes while it was being built in the early twentieth century. Though Kubrick had a . STUART: The problem is the enormous cost it would be to keep the road to Sidewinder open. This is the case for many of the windows in the filmthey dont work in context. 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. It leaps out of her arms and pursues the motorized cart that carries the suitcase holding the money from Johnny's robbery of the racetrack. But, undeniably the most fun part about Unkrich's obsession with The Shining is finding the hidden references in various Pixar films, including Toy Story 3: Sids carpet is very similar to a carpet in the Overlook Hotel. My name is Jack Torrance. And, if he does, he would see himself wearing this sweater and shirt, and it's to be questioned then who later chooses this sweater and shirt for him on the day that Dick is killed. DANNY: Now, Tony, tell me. She isn't looking at Jack, as he's not in her line of sight. 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. 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We've no music. 65 MS Danny's bedroom. 33 MCU of Stuart. Say like if someone burns toast. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Shining by Stanley Kubrick. -Wendy asks Dick Hallorann how he knew that Danny's nickname was Doc, as she hadn't referred to him that way during their conversation. 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. The novel concerns the collapsing mental health of a teenage boy who has problems with "applying himself" and has recently been kicked out of his prep school. This notoriously haunted hotel inspired the author to create fictional characters dealing with a similar environment. In other words, Jack definitely misses the chance to satisfy his real need. Toward the end of shooting, a fire broke out and destroyed multiple sets. Particularly effective are the flashbacks to his fathers cruelty in his parents marriage. First placed online 2007-2009 in loose form. Perhaps this simulated psychic vision is another root of the film's sense of unseen menace. Which, of course, is a great concern of this film. They ask Danny to come and play with them and Jack slams the ball to the floor where Danny has been playing. A reader, Melkarth, sent me an image which shows it's an alabaster bull. Moreover, Lloyd is the first Ally encountered by Jack in the Special World (Grady will follow). 25 Facts About Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' - Mental Floss (16:09) A garbage trucks license plate reads RM237. And Trixie chats online with a dinosaur toy down the street who happens to have the screen name Velocistar237.. 82 MS Wendy from Doctor's side. That's where the story is. 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. Shot 117. (4:53) The roar rises and subsides. You better run fast. A child having to navigate a world built for adults, Danny stands on a stool before the bathroom sink that is built for adult use. 39 MCU of Stuart. Though the eye does go to Bill as he enters, by the lines of the kitchen cabinetry and range crossfading into the shelving and ceiling, and the propulsion of the lines in the strong graphics I've just mentioned, the eye feels as though it is being pushed also to just between Stuart and Wendy as she fades out. But the book is about Jack Torrances gradual descent into madness through the malign influence of the Overlookif the guy is nuts to begin with, then the entire tragedy of his downfall is wasted.. WENDY: Tony is his imaginary friend. Now we have yet a third location associated, the interiors of the lobby and the Colorado Lounge modeled after the Ahwahnee Hotel in the Yosemite National Park in California. However, though these sounds surrounding the "sha" are not always distinguishable, when they can be heard they are always the same. The midpoint i.e., the point of no return 9 occurs during the confrontation between Jack and Wendy in the Colorado Lounge, after she reads the typewritten text. There is no guest area concourse back here, instead only service halls for employees. 91 CU Wendy. 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. / Warner Home Video. We have this circularity in The Shining with the deja vu. The lunch box is appropriately labeled "Emergency" and shows, I think, firemen. The light of the unseen window, through the shower curtain, is as prominent as was the light of the window in Ullman's office. JACK: Well, I'm looking for a change. This suggests that the Overlook and its ghosts are symbols of archetypical and sempiternal psychosocial issues. TONY: I just don't. 28 - The suit autocolored shows it is gray rather than brown. Two union suits. In the cartoon, the train sound starts and we have two whistles, this repeated again with the two whistles, then immediately thereafter Wiley E. (having believed he's escaped the train which was below him) hears a louder roaring of the train and turns to see its big white light bearing down on him inside the dark of the tunnel behind him and then there's a resounding explosive encounter. After a moment, we hear a voice. WENDY: Now, come on, Tony, don't be silly. Images like these make the novel so thrilling to read. Take a look at how beautifully Stuart is framed here, the visual relationships between the three men and the room. 74 MCU Doctor. Ullman seemingly accepting Jack's insistence too readily. 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. Fig. No, The Shining is not a true story. Hinting at what will happen serves multiple purposes (such as building tension and suspense). Would Kubrick have us think upon Wendy and the lost boys to whom she serves as a mother figure, and Peter Pan who counts adult mothers as his enemies? Shot 102. The Question and Answer section for The Shining (1977 Novel) is a great The only foreshadowing I see in the story, "The Gift of the Magi", is when Della has been crying because she only has $1.87 cents to buy a gift for Jim. He used it in A Clockwork Orange with Alex revisiting in the 2nd part places he'd visited in the first. See? The Lottery Foreshadowing Summary & Analysis | SparkNotes 31:11 - Danny describes shining. DANNY: Talking to Tony. Foreshadowing is giving a hint that something is going to happen. 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.. For a while I misinterpreted a little sculpture next to salt and pepper shakers as an elephant. 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. 28 MS of Bill, Stuart and Jack. The first plot point follows: Danny enters the Colorado Lounge with bruises on his neck after his father wakes up from his nightmare. 33 - Danny speaks to Tony via the mirror in the bathroom. In the Tarot, the Hebrew letter "sh" or "shin", is sometimes said to belong to the Key, Judgment, which fits appropriately with the use of "Dies Irae" as the opening music. 20 MCU of Wendy. But perhaps he does. White shelves holding books hang on the rear wall. (12:03) 1 - The Ahwahnee lobby, a Creative Commons image by J. W. Kern. 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. Classic 60s design is down at the Salvation Army waiting for a new home, or rotting in a landfill, replaced with cheap 70s ugly lamps and faux wood coffee table and end tables. An owl sits above the rainbow and another image of Snoopy. This may be so. 37 MCU of Stuart. Regardless, he was a particularly strange pick for the role of Dick Hallorann because the character is Black in the book. A version of this story originally ran in 2018 and has been updated for 2022. Repeatedly throughout The Shining, Kubrick bombards us with visual, auditory and conceptual hints of what is about to happen next. So many film theorists have their own takes on The Shining that these conspiracies star in their own film: the documentary Room 237. Cut to the camera zooming in on Danny facing the mirror in the bathroom, speaking to his reflection. Shot 29. I'm quite sure there's nothing 25 MCU of Stuart. 42 MCU of Stuart. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. 12 - A hairstyle typical of Wendy. Our writings on, and realizations of the "sha" sound are independent of each other. About the cartoon Not even now. The presence of The Catcher in the Rye at the table may belie Jack's later assertion that Wendy is a great fan of ghost stories and horror. When King responded with the question of how hell fit into that picture, Kubrick simply responded, I dont believe in hell., The executive producer of The Shining was Kubricks brother-in-law, Jan Harlan. 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. When the place was built in 1907 there was very little interest in winter sports and the site was chosen for its seclusion and scenic beauty. (Only!) A little rubber yellow duck peeks out from behind the shower curtain to the left, resting on the tub's ledge. THE DOCTOR: Oh How a set informs the story in all its particulars. I said earlier that Kubrick did a nice job of lifting this apartment's style/furnishings straight out of the the late 70s. 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. Now, looking at the Timberline lodge in Oregon, at its entrance it shows a compass but with directional notation, whereas the compass points at the entrance of the Overlook don't show this. In other words, the theater's revival has revived the past. Notice also that there are toys scattered about the floor including, to Jack's left, a small black teddy bear with its torso clothed in red - a foresight of Halloran's death. Though the elevators are very close to those at the Ahwahnee, there is a notable difference in decoration. 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. Go figure. Looking at the filing cabinet again, it appears there is a small elephant resting on it before a postal weight scale. The catchphrase worked and stayed in the film. 21 MS Stuart's office. Jacob's dream ladder is a key component of Qabalism/Kabbalism, understood as representing the Tree of Life and its ten Sephiroth.

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