It occurs several times during the kitchen scene on "Closing Day", but there is a good deal of other ambient sound and is not as distinct at times: Environments annotate and propel the story forward; there is no small detail that can be taken as insignificant with Kubrick. DANNY: Okay. 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. First there is the Overlook Hotel, which tries to take advantage of Jack in order to eliminate his family. It was used heavily in scenes where the camera follows Danny through the hallways on his tricycle, or through the hedge maze. Toward the end of shooting, a fire broke out and destroyed multiple sets. (3:05). Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor. And as far as my wife is concerned, I'm sure she'll be absolutely fascinated when I tell her about it. Directing Jack to Ullman's office, she points him to the "first door on the left". WENDY: him. 32 - Jack at the phone in the lobby. The family has progressively torn apart as the hotel works to corrupt Jack Torrances mind. Return to Table of Contents for "The Shining" analysis There seems a hint of it when Stuart is first talking about the tragedy during the winter in 1970, though I'm uncertain of that. In scenes where Bill and Jack are viewed from the rear, a complementary chord is struck, though Bill is dressed in a more tailored suit with a dark brown jacket and lighter brown pants. We are treated to several ghostly paranormal tales told by individuals who keep entreating the architect to stay. Cut back to the bloody hall. 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. Seems it's a question posed with some caution. STUART: The problem is the enormous cost it would be to keep the road to Sidewinder open. Baldwin, Emma "The Shining Review " Book Analysis, https://bookanalysis.com/stephen-king/the-shining/review/. We will be returning to these ideas as they weave in and about the film. Stephen Kings use of character development throughout this novel is what makes the book so thrilling and moving. 63 MS Danny's bedroom. WENDY: No. There seems space for another room between Danny's room and the living room. For a methodological framework see Dara Marks, In addition to the aforementioned sources pertaining to. The disastrous flood that occurs at the . 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. And faced with the challenge that some people might be put off, Jack rises up to the occasion and assures Stuart he and his wife won't be. Keeping with the myth of Jacob, when Jacob awoke from his dream, the story goes that he thought, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it. 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. Plus, Peter Sellers, who was in Kubrick's Lolita and Dr. Strangelove, plays a film projectionist in it. 13 MCU of Danny. Or did Danny manage to stop the cycle of violence from repeating forever and ever? 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. We've the same feeling of symmetry here that will be found in the halls and the Colorado Room. 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. Kubrick has nailed the appearance of a certain type of apartment of the time. I can't say. 34 CU of Jack. Another tale concerns a ventriloquist with a dummy that turns out to be independently alive, a plot that served as basis for the later Danny Kaye film, Knock on Wood. What's the distraction? To the rainbow's right we have Mickey's sweetheart, Minnie Mouse. 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. We assume Jack has made the trip up in the yellow VW but we didn't see him in it. The core of The Shining moon landing theory posits that not only was the 1969 moon landing a hoax, but that Kubrick was the one who constructed the fake footage. DANNY: Do I have to? Write with Grammarly. -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. But Tony's more independent than that. . thanks to crosscutting. An elder man in light clothing has entered the area before the elevators from the hall beyond. 15 MCU of Danny. The pair are an expression of the idea of a struggle of universal forces ever in conflict, and it's held that never can both exist on the same plane. As a sort of Hero, the boy must learn how to use his power in a self-conscious manner. In a particularly chilling moment, Jack expresses sympathy for his father. After a moment, we hear a voice. There is something on a table near them, but this was already there before the waiter approached, so the only table on which he could have placed his tray was between the blond and the man. After you claim a section youll have 24 hours to send in a draft. The Awakening of Jacob and those union suits. At the same time, the Special World invades the Ordinary World, since the ghosts become visible to Wendy as well presumably because Jack is doing exactly what the hotel wanted him to do. We have this circularity in The Shining with the deja vu. Stanley Kubrick did not get along with The Shining star Shelley Duvall. 75 MCU Danny. Not affiliated with Harvard College. Because post WWII it would be questionable to include it? If Danny chose that attire, one could compare that choice to Danny being himself the one to write on the bathroom door the word REDRUM, just as he had seen it in his vision--and yet he writes it, it doesn't simply appear, so one could think of it as premeditated as well as an inescapable foregone act/conclusion. 94 MCU Doctor. But perhaps he does. As in, the helium balloon has become 3-d but it is still a representational toy. It's an interesting way of moving the viewer's gaze. There are windows on three sides. Home Stephen King The Shining Review. 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. 90 MS Doctor from Wendy's side. Here, the stage of the Resurrection takes place. In Chapter I, when Edna and Robert return from the seashore, Edna smiles at Robert even as she retrieves her wedding ring from her husband, foreshadowing her eventual affair. When the novel begins, the Torrance family is teetering on the edge. 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.. Dannys entrance in room 237 is presented as his first real Crossing of the First Threshold, because he accesses the forbidden place, which really is a Special World. 20:59 - When Stuart tells Wendy the Indian designs are based mostly on Hopi and Apache motifs, there may follow a "sha" sound. When Jack axes Dick, he emerges from concealment behind one of the columns, blended with it. THE DOCTOR: If you were to open your mouth now, could I see Tony? So many film theorists have their own takes on The Shining that these conspiracies star in their own film: the documentary Room 237. (15:07) (4:53) 41 - Danny resting on his bear pillow. Repeatedly throughout The Shining, Kubrick bombards us with visual, auditory and conceptual hints of what is about to happen next. (13:19) 17 MCU of Danny. No, the drive was only three and a half hours. Because readers know how much he cares about his wife and son through flashbacks and Kings use of free indirect style, it is even more, moving to hear of his intense personality change and desire to inflict harm upon his family. A couple receives an old movie theater as an inheritance. This tunnel that is blasted through from two ends, meeting in the middle--is Kubrick making also reference to Hezekiah's serpentine tunnel that was dug from opposite directions to meet in the middle, channeling water from the upper spring of Gihon to the lower pool of Shiloah? 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. Firmly situated in the working class, Jack begins the film unemployed, and we meet him at a job interview. JACK: Well, that sounds fine to me. Oh, yeah, he seems absolutely fine now but you should have seen 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. Another Creative Commons image from Flickr, this one by Dave Ciskowsi, shows how similar in color scheme the film's Overlook was to a more vintage Ahwahnee, if the 2005 image shows color even remotely similar to earlier years. Introducing Bill Watson, a man with precious few words on the situation. JACK: Hi, babe. STUART: in this job hired a man named Charles Grady as the winter caretaker. 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. The projectionist room in that movie even resembles the boiler room in the basement in The Shining. Here is the quote: Doc, Jack Torrance said. View its location taken from Google street view. (10:49) 25:11 - "Dick (sound) if you're ready to do it now, show" The scene where Stuart has Dick show Wendy and Danny the kitchen. This twist at the end suggests a reincarnation that can be compared to the elixir, being the implied reward for Jacks special adventure in the Overlook Hotel. 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. But the individual pages in the film contain different layouts and mistakes. He tells Danny that he loves him and should run for his life. As for the presence of the phaser from the Star Trek game, if one looks it up one finds the art on the game's box shows an unidentified man in a red shirt shooting a villain whose body is divided so it's half black and half white. (11:20) 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. He took one of his fathers bloody hands and kissed it. Whether it be sound, acting, visuals, and the overall foreshadowing of the story. 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. When Wendy is sitting there with the Salinger book, its back cover perfectly mirroring the front cover, with the hidden reference to Mather's Comin' Through the Rye, she is reading a book on history repeating itself. 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. The metaphorical gate behind his back is definitely close. 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. When her hair is pulled back we observe that she has not only bangs but that a portion of hair is cut about chin level. It is a classic of the horror genre and has inspired numerous authors and filmmakers since it was written. (8:37) As they were older, no families or children observed, and were served by youth, the lodge seemed to be a place of rest and relaxation for retirees. The Montana mountains and the road shown in the opening, which I've discussed in that section, I think are likely chosen not just for their beauty but for Montana being known as the land of Shining Mountains. The camera continually takes in new information on the hotel, just as Jack does. Bele states he's a police commissioner and Lokai is a not a refugee but a political traitor. One would assume it would be like a compass and have four arrows, but we will later observe it only has these two. The sense of it as a spoke for a kind of wheel is an incredible weight of great force. 30:16 - Dick asks Danny, as to shining, "How long have you been able to do it" (sound). In the background is a book titled Teeny Weeny Adventures. 1 - The Ahwahnee lobby, a Creative Commons image by J. W. Kern. Approx 25,700 words or 51 single-spaced pages. Fig. Grady is a Shapeshifter as well, because he is introduced as a jovial waiter in a 20s-style party but then reveals himself as the unsettling 1970 caretaker. 27:00 - Wendy says to Dick, "We call him Doc sometimes, like in the Bugs Bunny cartoons" (sound of "sha"). Fig. It gives the appearance of a female form on the left, and checking out an earlier scene (when Bill enters the office) in which the photo is shown in full doesn't help with identifying what it may be, for if it is a female form, where the head should be we have simply a gray expanse. 77 MCU Danny. Although he associates the hotel with luxury, he is somewhat defined by his role as its "caretaker," a menial position. Christiane Kubrick and Vivian KubrickStanley's wife and daughter, respectivelyhelped with both the design and the music, though Vivian might be better known for the on-set documentary she made, The Making Of The Shining. To the left of Snoopy is Mickey Mouse. Prominently on Danny's door is Snoopy gleefully skating, surrounded by a rainbow, while above him floats a helium balloon ascending into the clouds with Woodstock. Teaching's been more or less a way of making ends meet. She teaches creative writing and theory and practice of the screenplay. 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. 4 is 1/2 of 8. 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. 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. "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. We don't see the waiter. 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. 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. At least, to the best of my memory, that's how I perceived it upon first view when the movie was released. Fig. Barbour, Polly. Composedjustso. This is a pretty austere scene, shot so that it seems very straightforward. (7:52) The first such sound, as I've already mentioned, occurs when Jack passes over the spot where he will attack Dick with an axe. JACK: Susie, how do you do? Silence. In the red bathroom, Grady subtly instructs Jack about his adventure, preparing him for the central ordeal. TONY: I don't want to go there, Mrs. Torrance. NEXT: CLOSING DAY The janitor is shown in the boiler room boosting the temperature so that, while the audience is watching films on people near dying of thirst in the parched desert, the viewers are also experiencing extreme heat that provokes thirst, and this boosts refreshment sales dramatically. The next instance of the Fleur-de-lis is when Alex is locked in an attic from which he attempts to commit suicide,, the wallpaper of it covered with Fleur-de-lis. 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. Dopey is a voiceless character. Oh Danny, for Gods sake No, Danny said. The same happens with environments in Lolita and Eyes Wide Shut, as I've pointed out in my analyses of them, but Kubrick's skewing the sets so they aren't what they appear to be services The Shining well with its introduction of a sinister aspect. (8:33) 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. The lavatory scene in which Danny has his first Shining episode features a shower curtain draped over a bath tub with Danny looking into a mirror on the right wall. The Lodges management asked for the room number to be changed so that guests wouldnt avoid Room 217. The first elevator is at the L level and the second is at 2. John Fell Ryan, of the KDK12 Tumblr, has noticed that over the main door there is now a black "shroud" or curtain. ), 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. I've commented on the furnishings of the apartment before, but will elaborate a little more. Reality syncs with the film. This instance of the two pairs of union suits, one worn over the other, the second of the pair being virtually unnoticeable, to me seems must be taken as a direct, however hidden, allowance of the significance of doubling in the film, that it is intentional and certainly not casual. Definitions of foreshadowing noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand 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. A medium close-up now of Ullman's desk shows, among other things, his prominently displayed name plate, a black fountain pen, a pewter tankard holding more pens, a white pen next to a desk calendar, a pint-size American flag, and we notice his red and white striped shirt and red tie and blue blazer patriotically echo the flag. (14:55) It is still open each year from May 20th to September 20th. Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor (Scatman Crothers), Remote mountains of Colorado, Present-day. 38 - Not in the movie. Instead they are in opposition to it, and, at best, sometimes enjoy its pleasanter, friendlier aspects. If it reoccurs, which I doubt One with a series of visual cuts and one with a fast zoom. He used it in A Clockwork Orange with Alex revisiting in the 2nd part places he'd visited in the first. -Dick tells Danny that there is nothing wrong with Room 237, but he also warns Danny to "stay out." 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. Most everyone who has come to see the film knows that Jack is here for a job interview and will become a caretaker for the Overlook and that this is a horror film. JACK: I'm Jack Torrance. 43 MCU of Jack. The Nazis eyes, "shining with greed," continued to bring their wrath down upon the thousands . TONY: I don't know. 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. It's important, sometimes, what we don't see in a Kubrick film, and this is one of those times. It always takes a little time to make new friends. I'd like you to take him around the place as soon as we're through. Timberline reception desk with picture of lodge. There are many reasons to use foreshadowing in writing, including building suspense, sparking curiosity, and preparing your reader for that "aha" moment. He is endearing to children because he is voiceless and seems to represent their situation in the adult world and its sensibilities that are beyond a child's comprehension. Tony is revealed to be an imaginary friend of the boy's. (15:53) At any rate, this subplot is not developed, so that in both versions the liquor primarily represents a magical potion that sanctions Jacks evil pact with Lloyd (and the Overlook through him) and therefore allows him to start the adventure in the Special World. 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 plot of the film. One may think, "Oh, it's just decoration," but sets are not accidental. I love how the shade on the lamp between the doctor and Wendy is slightly askew. Sometimes they see things that happened a long time ago., Mr Halloran, are you scared of this place?, Im gonna getcha. Give Shining alter pls HG? Slim Pickens had already worked with Kubrick before. And he didn't and he hasn't had any alcohol in uhm five months. 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. WENDY: Hello. There isn't radiant heat in the Gold Room or the red bathroom. -Mr. Ullman jokes that he wouldn't want to enter the hedge maze unless he had an hour to figure out how to escape from it. Images like these make the novel so thrilling to read. Bele, whose skin is a mirror image of Lokai's, is in pursuit of Lokai. 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Though the audience won't know about Carson City, Kubrick has embedded bits of information so that The Shining anticipates and then complements the film on the television as it runs. The sound is abrupt and a little disconcerting. JACK: Hi, I've got an appointment with Mr. Ullman. THE DOCTOR (laughs): I know. Gospel Mt 17:1-9 Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, . (11:58) 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. 76 MCU Doctor. Towards the end of the novel, Jacks genuine love for his son allows him to break through the hotels corrupting influence on his mind. This is from the Tuesday section. The characters accept the window and, trusting the characters, the audience assumes this must be an external wall. The designs on the shower curtain, with the way they push up into the light, visually take the place of the unmanicured foliage in the lower half of Ullman's window. The scene in which Wendy is swinging a bat at Jack is an example of this pushing. The hotel is personified in that it has a malevolent spirit and an intent as well as a power to think and try to outwit its victims. The second act has begun. How flow of action about the set unconsciously constructs for the audience a plot of the unseen environment based on natural expectations. -In the same scene, Jack recites lines from the story of The Three Little Pigs, which is eerily relevant, as he is acting as the Big Bad Wolf, but also because Danny is able to escape due to his mother's quick thinking. Our first acquaintance with the Gold Room hall and the maze. "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.