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Beautiful. This is more than reliance on single point photography for connecting scenes. There may be no meaning, and these sounds are another example of Kubrick's cycles, perhaps intended to set up an unconscious sense of deja vu. On the counter we see a jar of Peter Pan peanut butter, Smuckers jelly, a canister of grape Koolaid, Fruit Loops, and other items. What's the distraction? The expectation of something disquieting builds. Several times in the movie we have evidence that it seems Jack smokes, but he is never shown smoking, though Wendy is. STUART (smiling): And for once I agree with them. The 30-minute film, which aired on BBC, was a very rare look into Kubricks directing styles. 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. How do you think they'll take to it? 31 MCU of Stuart. Here, the stage of the Resurrection takes place. 3 - Kubrick's use of the Greek key at the beginning and end of "Lolita", initiating the execution of Quilty from it. It seems a continuation of the doubling as already witnessed with the two girls in blue and Danny speaking to his reflection in the mirror. But the individual pages in the film contain different layouts and mistakes. JACK: I'm intrigued. WENDY: Well, let's just wait and see. JACK: Thank you. 78 MS Danny's bedroom. Notes on Ullman's Desk and Inconsistencies (4:19) 92 MS Doctor from Wendy's side. Regardless, he was a particularly strange pick for the role of Dick Hallorann because the character is Black in the book. (9:41) According to David Hughes, one of Kubricks biographers, Stephen King wrote an entire draft of a screenplay for The Shining. Tony, the personification of Dannys shining, represents the Herald, the one who declares the beginning of the adventure. If it's not a female form it may show at the bottom two or three human silhouettes against an unknown background. 10 Jack undergoes an Ordeal: all at once, he faces his wife (now an antagonist) on a pragmatic level, and his fears and flaws in psychological terms pertaining to the working contract, the writing project, and the relationship with his family. A similar arrangement occurs here. In both scenes the camera takes us in for a close up. The wall right of the office door in the secretarial area is decorated with photos of the mountain as it appears over the span of the four seasons, only the snow-blanketed winter photo apparently showing the Overlook/Timberline lodge. WENDY: Hello. One with a series of visual cuts and one with a fast zoom. The "sha" itself is a breathy percussive voicing. Below is the massive stone fireplace in the lobby of the Timberline. (13:39) The end table and the coffee table are stacked with books, as is every nearly every available surface. Kubrick does not do this only in The Shining. 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. JACK: Well, huh, that is quite a story. (Standing.) Click here to make a donation. The film's major conflict revolves around Danny's struggle to cope with his father's gradual descent into madness and/or possession. Tetragrammatos means having 4 letters. It could be that with the use of the park's west tunnel, in the opening, Kubrick was already referring to the film Carson City. One story becomes two with its puzzle pieces that don't fit together. The Shining (1980) is creative director Stanley Kubrick's intense, epic, gothic horror film and haunted house masterpiece - a beautiful, stylish work that distanced itself from the blood-letting and gore of most modern films in the horror genre. 87 MCU Doctor. Taken from her Dance of the Happy Shades collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Munro . almost relentless circle beneath the figure of a pyramid, View its location taken from Google street view, repurposed shots from Google Maps street view, but while he was photographing for LOOK Kubrick was already taking pictures of girls in similar attire, a messenger of the gods as personified by the rainbow, Return to Table of Contents for "The Shining" analysis, Link to the main TOC page for all the analyses. Not even now. 2.8m members in the MovieDetails community. We had only seen "4" on his sleeve in the kitchen. 70 MCU Doctor. 39 MCU of Stuart. Lighting a cigarette, a Virginia Slims, Wendy's hands are obviously shaking. One more thing I would like to make mention of is the long zucchini that is seen resting on the milk cartons, below the dishwashing liquids. How a set informs the story in all its particulars. Comin' Through the Rye He feels as though he finally understands why his father had to hit his mother. 83 MCU Doctor. Established in Melbourne (Australia) in 1999. STUART: Great. However, Kubrick didnt even deem it worth a glance, which sort of makes sense when you consider that the director once described Kings writing weak. Instead, Kubrick worked with Diane Johnson on the screenplay because he was a fan of her book, The Shadow Knows. Both photos give a sense of unease, ominous, in particular the way the one of the individual on the left, perhaps a boy, feels to be part of a story line to do with the final hedge maze scene, as if this is a first frame of Danny running to the maze, and the photo to the right is a second frame, following up the first, revealing a monstrous entity pursuing him--but these aren't photos of the final maze scene in the snow as that occurs at night and the hedge maze is also covered in snow. DOCTOR: Bye. Shot 117. WENDY: What was the matter with him? 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. 19 - Crossfade from Boulder to Ullman's office. 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. DOCTOR: Thank you. 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. A couple receives an old movie theater as an inheritance. 18 MCU of Wendy. "Any chance of them being repaired soon?" Which is perhaps how Danny really feels but is reluctant to voice disagreement. But Tony's more independent than that. There's a spot light set up on the porch and even in the daylight we can see it shining. Later, a painting above the double bed in the apartment used by the Torrances will provide a view of the lodge's mountain from a similar vantage point, only from across Mirror Lake during either spring or summer. Kubrick's Watson differs significantly from King's. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) enters, his gray suit appearing cheap, limp and out of place with the resort attire of the others. 91 CU Wendy. Cut to Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) sitting at a dining table with her ash blond-haired son, Danny (Danny Lloyd). 23 - Stuart tests Jack on how he feels about the hotel's isolation. 41 - Danny resting on his bear pillow. An editor 73 MCU Danny. My superimposition of the girls and the bloody elevator, showing spatial/design similarities. will review the submission and either publish your submission or providefeedback. At the same time, the 12 stages and most of the archetypes of the heros journey as theorised by Vogler3 are traceable in The Shining, albeit being peculiarly distributed between Jack and Danny.4. Fig. 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. We have it in Eyes Wide Shut with the synchronous events of the trains, with Bill wandering the same streets again and again, and his attempting in the second part of the film to revisit places from the first part and locate people who have disappeared between the first and second parts. The 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. 44 - Wendy reassures the doctor that everything is fine. In this scene, he's actively encouraged by Wendy to enter the dialogue. "The Great Mother" painting is a shock of energy in contrast to the subdued earth tones of the lobby and its ornamentation, as well as the photographs on the other side of the entrance to Ullman's office, seeming to exhibit a sensibility and knowledge of the world quite apart from the photos and the tepid lodge and the well-behaved humans wandering about it engaging quietly with each other. More significantly, as John Fell Ryan points out in his post The Stanley Hotels, the places Kubrick chose as influences for the interiors and exteriors of the lodge in one way or another appear to double names used in the film or Kubrick's own, such as the exteriors of Ahwahnee and the Timberline having being designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Shining (1977 Novel) by Stephen King. THE DOCTOR: Mrs. Torrance, I don't think you have anything to worry about. How ambient audio unconsciously constructs and complements environment. So when Jack Torrance is seen reading a Playgirl in the lobby of the Overlook before he gets hired, its probably not meaningless. (12:42) Foreshadowing is a plot element that hints at something to come later in the story. [special thanks to Vince Contreras: . (8:24) (10:06) She's a confirmed ghost story and horror film addict. Though much isn't made of the boilers in Kubrick's film, the boiler was nearly a character in King's book, representing Jack's rage. The large, bright red book in the foreground possibly complements and takes the place of Wendy's reading of The Catcher in the Rye with its red cover. It frees you from any other sense of time., Its not uncommon for a films ending to change in post-production, but Kubrick changed the ending of the film after it had been playing in theaters for a weekend. Towards the end of the novel, Jacks genuine love for his son allows him to break through the hotels corrupting influence on his mind. One tries to rectify the incongruities in the story, wondering if one should comprehend Jack as having periodically attempted to quit drinking and Wendy having been reluctant to leave him. Mr. Ullman (Barry Nelson) welcomes Jack pleasantly, rising and shaking his hand. The camera continually takes in new information on the hotel, just as Jack does. King's vision was a vulgar and seemingly uneducated older man, and Watson's suit and tie are little suited to the job unless his duty is to act primarily as an overseer of others who do the dirty work, which isn't as it was in the book. 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. 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. Humans tend to not think of themselves as part of nature. Well, maybe things that happen leave other kinds of traces behind. We open with the lobby. 42 MCU of Stuart. ), In 1983, King told Playboy, Id admired Kubrick for a long time and had great expectations for the project, but I was deeply disappointed in the end result. Notes on the Timings of the "Sha" Sounds 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? 27:00 - Wendy says to Dick, "We call him Doc sometimes, like in the Bugs Bunny cartoons" (sound of "sha"). Stephen King's use of character development throughout this novel is what makes the book so thrilling and moving. (5:43) Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. The Bijou Cinema having been revived (somewhat), the new owners enter one day to hear the projector running and a piano being played. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. The executive producer of The Shining, Jan Harlan, has stated that this was intentional. Link to the main TOC page for all the analyses, GOT A HOME PAGE (Only!) He felt a particularly deep understanding of Jack Torrance's berating of his wife while he is trying to write. Just a step beyond the circle, Jack's glance moves up to the stairs on the right, briefly meeting that of a hotel employee who is coming down the steps. Let's return to shot 21 and the red outlining the yellow in a frame on the left wall in Ullman's office. He fears the possibility of divorce more than anything else. First there is the Overlook Hotel, which tries to take advantage of Jack in order to eliminate his family. Ullman and Watson Interview Jack, Shots 21 through 49 Carl Lamarre, Gail Mitchell, Keith Murphy, Michael Saponara, Datwon Thomas, Mark Elibert, Eric Diep , William E. Ketchum III, Heran Mamo, Neena Rouhani. Details in Movies, Movie Details! Jim Barrie was, himself, a rather sinister figure in his attraction to boys. 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. 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. Composedjustso. She takes a right turn then a left before seeing his blood soaked corpse. Firmly situated in the working class, Jack begins the film unemployed, and we meet him at a job interview. This is, despite the fact that his father, Jack, recently broke his arm in a drunken accident. Spooks? A mat the color of dark grass wraps about the base of the toilet. In spite of being an enjoyable horror film that evokes myths and fables, The Shining does not present a rigorously canonical dramatic framework. Suiting, then, that Danny stands on a footstool (a ladder) before a mirror when he has his vision. On the opposite wall is the "Woman and Terrier" painting by Colville, from 1963. That invitation follows a story of Bill removing something from a woman's eye, the invitation even accompanied by a woman remarking on how she bets he works too hard, think of all the things he misses--just as all work and no play make Jack a dull boy in The Shining. We see how the chandeliers and the designs on the film's floor of the Overlook lobby may not duplicate the Ahwahnee's designs but are in the spirit of them. That's where the story is. A truly good horror movie utilizes all key aspects of suspense. 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. The scene of the dead girls may also be foreshadowing Wendys discovery of Hallorans body. Despite the fact that's an impossible window, it casts quite a glaring light, strongly marking the ceiling with illumination and shadow. Fig. 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. The music quickly fades, replaced with the sounds of traffic. (4:45) I will come to how this works with Dick's murder in a moment, and explore the connection with the girls later. The darker side is often not considered, of a wrathful deity unleashing a flood upon the earth to destroy humanity, even animal life. WENDY: Shall we go into the living room? These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Shining by Stanley Kubrick. She was in the middle of that book, a page dog-eared, and the middle portion of this book is blue, bisecting the first half from the latter. STUART: Grab a chair, Bill. A reader has also written to let me know that there seems to be a "sha" sound when Dick is driving through the snowstorm to get the Snowcat. 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. At the end of The Shining, Jack chases young Danny through a snow-covered hedge maze before finally dying. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family. She then stands by the window . 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. THE DOCTOR: Now, hold your eyes still so I can see. Fig. The first such sound, as I've already mentioned, occurs when Jack passes over the spot where he will attack Dick with an axe. 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. Well, you see Doc, when something happens it can leave a trace of itself behind. She also wears two gold necklaces. "The Great Mother" is vibrant, communicating a ferocious strength, in contrast to Mary as the great mother in Christianity and her passively suffering the sacrifice of her son. In The Smallest Show on Earth we have these problematic projectors that work in concert with the janitor hiking the heat of the Bijou's boiler to make people overheat and purchase drinks. The velociraptor kitchen scene has multiple references to "The Shining." The end credits contain a reference to Spielberg's 1977 sci-fi film, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." . 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. RECEPTIONIST: His office is the first door on the left. 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 and Bill stand talking beyond. They never recognize it is there by either a glance, action, or comment. STUART (off-screen): so the elements can't get a foothold. STUART (laughing): Yeah, it is. No one is quite sure whether Kubrick typed 500 pages of All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Kubrick didnt go to the prop department with this task, using his own typewriter to make the pages. Afterwards, Jack quarrels with Wendy about his needs, and then he has a sort of Approach to the Inmost Cave. Now, in his mind, his mother deserved it just as Wendy and Danny deserve to be punished. In the above quote in which Jack pleads with his son to run away, Danny says that it is almost over. Hes aware that the end is near and that soon the horrors will cease. Here, he's given as instead having spoken with Tony and then having brushed his teeth, which is when he blacked out. Fig. -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. I also wonder if the novel wasn't partly used for the antipathy of the novel's protagonist for Hollywood films and the feeling his brother had squandered his talent by going to work for Hollywood. There are windows on three sides. 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. -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. 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. 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. If one gets a full overview of a maze one might see at a glance its patterns and logic, but when one is immersed in the maze, one's knowledge of the "beyond" limited by the towering hedge walls, it is easy to become lost. You can help us out by revising, improving and updating Ullman introduces Jack. Teaching's been more or less a way of making ends meet. The sound occurs with a cross-fade from the ballroom to the entrance to the kitchen, audible as we see the word FIRE appearing on the screen, the big lettering on the fire doors. 12 MS of Wendy and Danny in the Boulder apartment dining area. 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. But the reference to 8 and 1/2 is more than this. We are able occasionally to see her watch and that it reads either 5:55 or 6:00. BILL (off-screen): What line of work are you in now? He ended up having a role in a TV film two years later, but that was the extent of his acting career. Immediately after Stuart asks how Jack's wife and child will take to the solitude, during the reaction shot of Jack, the sound occurs at 8:01, just before Jack says, "They'll love it." Cut back to the bloody hall. Yes, a painting by Alex Colville. I have also written a post specifically on this. Introducing Bill Watson, a man with precious few words on the situation. After you claim a section youll have 24 hours to send in a draft. 43 MCU of Jack. They also happen to secretly be the bandits who have been attacking the money bags stage coach, and don't want the train to end this source of income. An elder man in light clothing has entered the area before the elevators from the hall beyond. For all intents and purposes it is yelling at us, "What is wrong with this picture?! 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. My superimposition of the bloody elevator and Danny's bedroom, showing spatial/design similarities. The conflict is revealed to be one of slavery and racial segregation. 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. JACK: Hi, I've got an appointment with Mr. Ullman. My take on the use of 42 has been that it is possibly referring to the Tetragrammaton, and it is interesting that the use of 42 coincides here with the music for the Awakening of Jacob. As if we have a psychic after image from one scene to the next at work, and one may also then have the sense (perhaps not consciously) that they all fit together. Whoever the author.Discover new and exciting books to dive into with our Book Explorer Tool. The sound is abrupt and a little disconcerting. Has it anything to do with it being the Kensington? Do people operate in a free will universe or a mechanical one? 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. Im doing exactly the same as I was doing when I was 18 and making my first movie.

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