What is peculiar is that we see in this shot that both the radiant heaters to the right and left of the door leading into the "Gold Room hall" off the lobby also have forced air vents behind them. Lloyd strengthens Jacks will, therefore acting as an Enemy of Dannys. (13:34) 42 is a number that Kubrick uses repeatedly throughout his films. 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 Impossible Window. And that was just for the final scene! In people doing something they shouldn't be doing. However, he does not succeed: Danny entraps him in the maze by erasing his footprints i.e., the only possible clues in order to find the way out. It may purposefully be an image that gives a double reading. -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.". 28 - The suit autocolored shows it is gray rather than brown. WENDY: Yeah? 20:03 - On "Closing Day" when Jack says they'd had a bite to eat, the "sha" follows. 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. Our first acquaintance with the Gold Room hall and the maze. 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. There's a spot light set up on the porch and even in the daylight we can see it shining. Both Jack and Danny have a Mentor; however, only the boy meets his own Mentor in the first act, as in the canon. Two interviews. Seems to me that the skiing up here (sha) would be fantastic. In other words, so primal nature won't take over again, which suggests a constant fight against it. 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. Fig. 12 MS of Wendy and Danny in the Boulder apartment dining area. Oh Danny, for Gods sake No, Danny said. Or we may just be seeing through the blue cloth the white of underslilps. 84 MCU Wendy taking out a cigarette. Foreboding, naturalistic, surreal, horrific, suspenseful, and voyeuristic. Also, the kitchen appears deeper than the bathroom, which would cause some peculiarities with the interior layout and the plain block style exterior of the buildings. The lobby, its influences, and the dissociation of the lodge's interior from its exterior. The expectation of something disquieting builds. (9:56) Foreshadowing, Jack crosses the circle where Dick will later lie slain. Nevertheless, in the second and third act she will react strongly to her husbands aggressions. A version of this story originally ran in 2018 and has been updated for 2022. Kubrick has done this before, a good example being with an ad of Quilty in Lolita. Then there is Jack himself as Dannys antagonist, representing what the boy may become if he does not accomplish his own journey. "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. 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. (4:57) Jack will murder the only African-American in The Shining. The Bijou Cinema having been revived (somewhat), the new owners enter one day to hear the projector running and a piano being played. This has to do with the film processing. THE DOCTOR: Now, hold your eyes still so I can see. 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. (4:59) WENDY: Now, come on, Tony, don't be silly. And, if so, how long can such an equilibrium be sustained, and what throws it out of balance? . People also make note that Bill Watson's pants appear to be a solid color when he enters and that they later show a pattern. THE DOCTOR: Does Tony ever tell you to do things? At least, to the best of my memory, that's how I perceived it upon first view when the movie was released. Our writings on, and realizations of the "sha" sound are independent of each other. 44 MCU of Stuart. So, what is being presented isn't exactly matching up. SUSIE: Sure. Jack's phone is black whereas Wendy's is white. His newfound sobriety is less firmly established than his wife would like it to be. GOT ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY The ponderous wood of the credenza that holds the TV was standard fare. So, does Tony tell him to do things? 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. Whatever, we have in the bathroom's mirror the film's first instance of second sight, of oracle, access to knowledge not normally held, and Kubrick appropriately annotates it with music concerning an awakening from a dream. Im doing exactly the same as I was doing when I was 18 and making my first movie. Why would Kubrick do this? THE DOCTOR: Did the appearance of Danny's imaginary friend Not only is the Overlook positioned on a kind of E/W dividing line (as described in the Opening analysis) it has also a world wheel heart powering it. In both scenes the camera takes us in for a close up. To create the elaborate, wintery maze, it took a lot of salt and crushed Styrofoam. 25:25 - Wendy says, "See you later, hon" (sound occurs during this). Why leave it out? 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. Let's return to shot 21 and the red outlining the yellow in a frame on the left wall in Ullman's office. 1 - The Ahwahnee lobby, a Creative Commons image by J. W. Kern. STUART: Well, that's very good time, very good. At least three times we see women in pairs carrying luggage about. 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. The prophecy concerning them was, "One people will be stronger than the other." We don't see the waiter. The exterior of the lodge is, however, the Timberline at Mt. 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. Shot 117. The Question and Answer section for The Shining is a great Stuart introduces his secretary, Susie (Alison Coleridge). In the second paragraph, children put stones in their pockets and make piles of stones in the town square, which seems like innocent play until the stones' true purpose becomes clear at the end of the story. THE DOCTOR: we can always think about having some tests done. I was wrong! No, Kubrick is actually already setting up the scene of Danny's encounter with the eerie girls in the blue flowered hall, as well as Dick's murder, making a vocabulary of motifs that will connect them, which is why I bother with pointing out what seems a petty detail. (6:07) Jack convivially wonders why. 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. 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. Will the same fate be suffered in real life? Knock on Wood is the film that is playing at the rival theater when the couple goes to a show there and sees that refreshment sales were enhanced by the attractive sales girls who replicate the sales girl seen on the screen. As we will later see, Kubrick suggests to the viewer that Wendy is the one, rather than Jack, who does much of the caretaking of the lodge. The website of the Timberline Lodge notes, Curiously and somewhat ironically, room #217 is requested more often than any other room at Timberline., The iconic sentence actually changes meaning for foreign translations of the film, at Kubricks request. 94 MCU Doctor. 59 CU Danny. I'm outlining a new writing project and five months of peace is just what I want. Just as the Bijou's audiences are influenced, both intentionally and by synchronicity (the train), experiencing certain aspects of the film in reality, what do these intersections mean to the audience of film in general (or any art), and in particular The Shining? 11 We hope that our analysis will offer a well-founded starting point from which to test the validity of the interpretative literature on The Shining as well as to further develop it. Dressed in light blue dresses with long pink bows, they stand in an unknown hall decorated with blue carpet and blue flowered wallpaper, staring at the camera, clasping hands, reminiscent of Diane Arbus' famous photograph of the twin girls, but while he was photographing for LOOK Kubrick was already taking pictures of girls in similar attire. GradeSaver "The Shining Literary Elements". Ullman reaches to apparently adjust a pocket of his blazer. And, recollect, we have the doctor shining the bright light in Danny's eyes just previous that. TONY: I don't know. Therefore, as in the best midpoints, the scene contains the symbolic death of the protagonist, who will then be left powerless and lame, locked inside the pantry. We can tell he's a new arrival as the red-coated valet behind him is porting his bags. 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. 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 . The Kubrick Corner has a fascinating clip extracted from a movie called Carson City which is the one that happens to be playing in the background during the scene in which Wendy answers Jack's call from the hotel. Tony tells Danny that he is going to remember something that Jack forgot. 26 - A closer look at the photographs behind Bill. Jack Nicholson, though a fine actor, was all wrong for the part," King said. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. She then stands by the window . 40 MCU of Jack. Just as the chairs and radiant heaters are symmetrically positioned in the elevator hall, but do not perfectly mirror, the girls are not absolutely identical and not equal in dominance. (7:13) The "spectator" shoes in combination with the camera is an interesting choice of attire for this opening shot. 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. The red painted hall that she walks down just prior to seeing the river of blood is also a subliminal to this effect. 45 MCU of Jack. Accompanied by the sound of dogs barking and children playing (though none are observed) slow zoom in on a complex of blank apartment buildings via a parking lot with a basketball post to the left, the buildings backed by mountains, recalling the initial shot of the lodge at the end of the opening sequence of the movie and striking a parallel. Though many may have the feeling of Stuart and Bill being somehow complicit with evil forces of the hotel, and I think it is staged for us to feel that way, Stuart does warn Bill that it is harsh there in the winter, that it would be very harsh for a family, and that there had been disastrous consequences in the case of the Grady family. Alex's interview was in preparation for treatment to aid his reform, an opportunity provided by a "new order". And that's it for Bill Watson's speaking role in this scene. I am particularly interested in the train because Kubrick has used trains in his other films. 90 MS Doctor from Wendy's side. It was an eleven alarm fire call, it was huge. The rebuild of one of these sound stages cost an estimated $2.5 million. I'm going to use this line of thought as an oblique in to bringing up Jim Barrie again as regards Kubrick's choice for using an apartment complex called the Kensington for the Boulder scenes, which provides links to Peter Pan and not only certain aspects of its story line, the perpetual return of Peter Pan, but even the questionable circumstances surrounding Jim Barrie's relationship to the boys and Peter Llewelyn Davies, in 1960, committing suicide by throwing himself in front of a train when he was laboring to put in order letters and documents concerning the family and their relationship to Barrie, his plan being to publish them but also destroying more than 2000 letters written between his brother Michael and Barrie as he said they were "too much". Again, we have a train tragedy connected with revivification of the past. Sometimes they see things that happened a long time ago.. The disastrous flood that occurs at the . (3:05). I don't think it's as certain that Danny sees himself. 89 CU Wendy. And a man dressed almost completely in white who stands staring over the table top maze in the same stance that Jack does (he can be seen in the far background as Jack tells his wife hes got the job). The comparison isn't too far fetched when one considers that Jack suffers from writer's block and the director in 8 and 1/2 was suffering from a creative block and musing on his life and its relationship to his work, his imaginings mingling with reality. Or he is using the Carson City film to comment on those east/west tunnels and the divide between them, which is drilled through in Carson City. Just a mom and son eating sandwiches in a kitchen that, by virtue of its lighting and the framing of the shots, is experienced as real-life rather than a set. 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. 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. (11:59) The malevolent force that is the Overlook Hotel is the antagonist. Danny, although only five years old, is well-aware of the troubles his parents are dealing with. 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. No, The Shining is not a true story. Stuart and Bill stand talking beyond. The idea of the past meshing with the present certainly fits well with "shining". (8:33) Finally, on a relational level, he has to face his wife and his son, who seem to be an obstacle to all his tasks, and the ghosts as well symbols of evil, power, and immortality who want him to be part of their world.5 Obviously, the three levels intertwine: in order to avoid the dreaded failure, Jack desires both to write the novel (though he has no inspiration) and to make a good impression on his employers. The allusion is intended to intensify the feeling of isolation that the Torrances have once they are living at the hotel and cut off from the rest of the world. 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. Miwok speakers also postulate that it's a term for the Yosemite people and may instead be akin to "place you go and play games". Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. The Shining is a glaring example of a film that has led to countless interpretations, favoured by its complex and enigmatic nature, sometimes leading to interpretive deliriums - as confirmed by the documentary film Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012). Cut to two girls who appear to be twins. 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. In the Gold Room Jack meets Lloyd the first ghost he sees who acts as a Threshold Guardian. Upon waking, he named the rock, which had served as his pillow, Bethel, the House of God, house being BTh, beth, and god being AL, el. My superimposition of the bloody elevator and Danny's bedroom, showing spatial/design similarities. Notes on Ullman's Desk and Inconsistencies In a few minutes we will see a painting in the Boulder apartment of a horse running down a railroad track toward an oncoming train. STUART (off-screen): so the elements can't get a foothold. (9:18) Kubrick's portrayal of Wendy departs from King's book, which imagined Wendy as an attractive, sensual, blond, King's later movie casting Rebecca de Mornay, who fulfilled the type. 87 MCU Doctor. In a foiled plot to stop delivery of the drill that is to be used for boring a tunnel though a mountain for the railroad, Squires kills the driver of the wagon that carries the drill. After Alex jumps out the window, the screen goes black, and next we see him he is waking at the hospital, so broken he's wrapped up about as tightly as a mummy, a bright light suspended directly above his eyes. When the old theater is about to be closed again, the couple that inherited it settle in to watch the "red-skins' bite the dust one last time. Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. In it you have some themes that come up again and again in Kubrick's work, the blurring of the line between art and reality, the breaking of the 4th wall. On the counter we see a jar of Peter Pan peanut butter, Smuckers jelly, a canister of grape Koolaid, Fruit Loops, and other items. Dannys Mentor is Hallorann, an ex hero who is now old and wants to offer his wisdom and his experience to the new generation. (11:20) The bourgeois essentials of the matching sofa and side chair are present, but they've tried to spice up the place with a wicker chair from some place like Pier One. As if to remark on this, we have also the duck moving from the left, in the bathroom, to the right, on the windowsill.

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