I will come to how this works with Dick's murder in a moment, and explore the connection with the girls later. (17:27) 30:16 - Dick asks Danny, as to shining, "How long have you been able to do it" (sound). 16 - The Boulder apartment complex. Certainly, if one takes a look around the web at the Ahwahnee, one easily understands why Kubrick would have chosen the striking hotel in Yosemite as an influence for the lodge's interior. The angle of the reception furniture upon which Jack leans, and its shade, complements the credenza, coffee table and sofas in the Boulder apartment. 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. Fig. We had already observed he was wearing a red and blue and white raglan sleeved shirt decorated with stars around the armband, but while he was in the kitchen we were only able to see the number 4 above that band. STUART (laughing): Yeah, it is. THE DOCTOR: Did Danny adjust well to school? It also worked well with the circa 1920 building we were living in. In the background is the yellow laundry basket with clothes on an ironing board, books stacked on it as well. Foreshadowing is used as a literary device to tease readers about plot turns that will occur later in the story. 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. 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. I have also written a post specifically on this. The family has progressively torn apart as the hotel works to corrupt Jack Torrances mind. JACK (correcting): Uh, formerly a schoolteacher. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Shining (1977 Novel) by Stephen King. BILL (closing door): How do you do? (8:21) Both the Hebrew and Greek words for the rainbow harbor a relationship with the eye, and I'll note here that the Greek iris, iridos, a rainbow, lily, iris of the eye, is given as originally meaning a messenger of the gods as personified by the rainbow. As for the radiant heat, the fact that the hotel used a boiler was of primary importance in King's book. Jack says it doesn't bother him. The sound occurs elsewhere in the movie as follows. In the 144 version, this is already perceivable when she timorously tells the paediatrician about Jacks alcoholism and the incident that arose consequently (Jack injured Danny). The camera continually takes in new information on the hotel, just as Jack does. DANNY: I don't want to talk about Tony anymore. What connects the secretarial area with the exit? If it's not a female form it may show at the bottom two or three human silhouettes against an unknown background. Let's return to shot 21 and the red outlining the yellow in a frame on the left wall in Ullman's office. If Danny is unconvinced that going to the Overlook is a swell idea, she is attempting to use Tony to convince him otherwise. 23 - Stuart tests Jack on how he feels about the hotel's isolation. International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct,London, EC1A 2BN, United Kingdom, 2023 Book Analysis. Then suddenly the CAMERA STOPS on the last house in the line. Where has he gone? The same happens in 2001, the 2nd half beginning with almost all shots of Frank's space walk replicating, with slight changes, shots from when Dave was doing his space walk. 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. 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. The author alludes to the tourist industry in that the Overlook is a summer resort and not open during the winter, whereas the resorts that Hallorann goes to work at subsequently are year round. The white diagonal on the red, white and blue milk carton in the background seems to help direct the eye up and toward Wendy's face, so we focus on it. This is the case for many of the windows in the filmthey dont work in context. To Danny's side on the table there is a black object later revealed to be a toy gun in the scene in which he explores the maze with Wendy (the gun is apparently from the Star Trek Phaser II Target Game). We're all going to have a real good time. 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. 19 MCU of Danny. WENDY: Well, how come you don't want to go? (6:40) SUSIE: Sure. 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. JACK: I don't believe they did. Fig. She has been speaker in film studies conferences in Italian universities. Seems to me that the skiing up here (sha) would be fantastic. The Torrance's apartment in Boulder is standard fare for the era. From the first pages, before Danny even steps foot into the hotel, its clear that the building will present the family with an evil that none of them can imagine. (5:04) How do you think they'll take to it? There are distinct differences between the Ahwahnee and the Overlook but undoubtedly the Ahwahnee and the Overlook are siblings. 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. 31 MCU of Stuart. Foreshadowing -Mr. Ullman tells Jack about the former caretaker of the hotel who murdered his family before committing suicide. Two brown leather chairs face a large brown desk situated before a bright window on the sill of which appears to be a wood carving of an eagle or other predatory bird. Furthermore, when Jack calls Wendy to tell her that he got the job we have a sort of Call to Adventure for the family or, in Fields terms, an inciting incident for Danny but this is not the adventure proper in a dramatic sense. The gematria for the name in this short form is 26. STUART: Well, that's very good time, very good. At no time until near the film's end do we, from the interior of the Overlook, directly observe characters exiting or entering the lodge, and never from the lobby. Fig. The "spectator" shoes in combination with the camera is an interesting choice of attire for this opening shot. 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. The dresses, I believe, are two layers of fabric, a swiss dotted blue fabric over white. And I have also read that the shot was done many times with Kubrick searching for the right color red that would look like blood. The fault of this is perhaps Wendy lying. STUART (off-screen): of itself become a problem. We're from Vermont. The embellishments employed by Kubrick are in many places not the same as at the Ahwahnee, such as at the tops of these columns. JACK: Great. (15:07) Below, resting on the floor is a tray decorated with flowers all in autumnal brown tones, and the plates upon which they eat are decorated similarly. 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. A man, reading, speaks with a blond woman in white. And Hasten! I will write more about this voicing later. 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. More books than SparkNotes. But it becomes perhaps relevant that there are two tunnels on the Going-to-the-Sun road in Glacier park, the west and the east, each on either side of the Continental Divide. They are the very definition of balance and imbalance. See? I started the site purely for selfish reasons," Unkrich told Vulture in 2013. Shot 36. After a moment, we hear a voice. Shot 123. Established in Melbourne (Australia) in 1999. According to the Drummerman site, the music played during Danny's vision is Krysztof Penderecki's, "The Awakening of Jacob" which concerns Jacob falling asleep and having a terrifying dream of angels ascending and descending a heavenly ladder. 29:21 - Dick asks, "Do you know how I knew your name was Doc" (sound). THE DOCTOR: Have you been in Boulder long. The Shining essays are academic essays for citation. There is little distinction between reality and the fantasy that cartoons and toys inhabit, and so it is with a child's mind until about the age of five when they begin losing their baby teeth and their thinking becomes less fantastic and more reality based. Fig. When Wendy had brought Tony into the conversation, it had been to try to get the agreement of another party in going to the Overlook. It is important that Kubrick chose the Timberline to represent the exterior, its structural design informing the hotel. Shortly, much will be made of the isolation of the hotel, but the family is already living an isolated life in Boulder, though the situation doesn't stand out as peculiar yet. And that's it for Bill Watson's speaking role in this scene. Particularly effective are the flashbacks to his fathers cruelty in his parents marriage. Because of the importance of the maze to the plot I'm going to lean toward thinking perhaps the book was chosen due the coincidence of the needle and the word clew, as a clew of thread was the ball used by Theseus to find his way out of the labyrinth, and is the origin for the word "clue". An examination of the below map of the lobby and associated areas will make obvious the absurdity of the window. More books than SparkNotes. Later, the primary conflict is between the hotel and Danny as it tries to possess him, but he stands up to the threat. 25:25 - Wendy says, "See you later, hon" (sound occurs during this). Well, maybe things that happen leave other kinds of traces behind. 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. ", An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. The accompaniment of dramatic music lets us know were about to see something scary. Notes on the Timings of the "Sha" Sounds 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. 1. 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. A large map is on the left wall behind a two-way radio. Its not until the final pages of the novel that he knows what that is that Jack forgot to check the hotels boiler. STUART: Our people in Denver recommended Jack There is no door in that area through which he could have passed for the doors to the hall beyond are blocked by seating and if there did happen to be doors to an exterior patio (which there are not) he hasn't the time to exit them. This causes a period of blackness, just as is had in A Clockwork Orange just prior Alex's waking in the hospital. He goes back to the Gold Room, where a party is taking place: Jack is greeted, he receives liquor at no charge, and he meets his Mentor Delbert Grady. I'm not at all married to the idea, just proposing it. This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven." Has it anything to do with it being the Kensington? 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". Leon Vitali, Kubricks personal assistant during filming, has since denied these theories. Foreshadowing is giving a hint that something is going to happen. Fig. Dead of Night, as it turns out, was one of the points of origin for the Steady State of the Universe theory conceived by cosmologists Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold and Hermann Bondi, which has since been overruled by the Big Bang Theory. The name of the piece observed outside Ulmann's door is "The Great Mother". Though Kubrick had a . Plus, Peter Sellers, who was in Kubrick's Lolita and Dr. Strangelove, plays a film projectionist in it. 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. Privacy Policy, https://bookanalysis.com/stephen-king/the-shining/review/. This ark eventually came to rest on a high mountain. She isn't looking at Jack, as he's not in her line of sight. That's where the story is. (16:28) 72 MCU Doctor. "Now, hold your eyes still so I can see, " a female voice says in the black--and it's a very normal, stock request but enigmatic when one considers that much of the film has to do with Danny's second sight. We know from King's book that Bill Watson is the summer caretaker and a descendant of the original owners of the lodge, so a certain symmetry is formed with these two caretakers seated next yet opposite each other. 4 is 1/2 of 8. Hood in Oregon. Foreshadowing in THE SHINING - film analysis - YouTube 0:00 / 14:46 Foreshadowing in THE SHINING - film analysis 90,703 views Jul 21, 2019 3.2K Dislike Share Save Rob Ager 79.4K subscribers. The horror of Danny's vision past, we return to ambient sound, nothing mysterious. DANNY: Mom? ing fr-sha-d-wi plural foreshadowings Synonyms of foreshadowing : an indication of what is to come If the history of the world were a novel, the events so strikingly chronicled in the photographs in this book would seem a foreshadowing of the recent events Ralph Novak Though the lobby was undeniably impressive, the furnishings seemed wearied to me, and the guests observed didn't suggest a well-rounded representation of various age groups. 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. a foreshadowing of Christ's glory, but also a promise of ours (Romans 8:16-17). The role then went to Scatman Crothers. Fig. The scene is perhaps snowy in them, a highly reflective white, and against that white in the left photo is a dark silhouette of what seems to be an individual. 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. 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. The Shining (1980) is a horror-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. The lobby, with its radiators, aappears to be dependent on radiant heat. The first sentence refers to death, birth and "the bleeding tree." 2. Can the bloody murder that Danny fears, which would be a duplicate of the Grady family killings, be avoided? And here is this book in view of the camera along with Young Jethro, which I suggested was chosen due the author's name, Clews, bringing up the idea of the clew of thread used by Theseus in the maze. 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. Oh, yeah, he seems absolutely fine now but you should have seen Shot 112. The waiter and his silver service just disappearing from sight, perhaps behind a pillar, seems to be a foreshadowing of this. Just mulling here, throwing out some ideas on how Z can be interpreted symbolically if one wonders if there is some meaning behind Kubrick changing the design. 19 - Crossfade from Boulder to Ullman's office. No, the drive was only three and a half hours. 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. one, thought I'd check it out. We are treated to several ghostly paranormal tales told by individuals who keep entreating the architect to stay. There are windows on three sides. (13:23) The characters never actually interact with the window. Its as if the music was anticipating what was around the corner. This happens as Jack stands staring with madness out of the Colorado Lounge windows. Jack Nicholson, though a fine actor, was all wrong for the part," King said. What's the secondary teaser candy bait? Two of these pairs are heard wishing goodbye to Mr Ullman. 22 MCU of Jack. When one ascends, the other must descend and vice versa, a matter of physical law. 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. Of a person against a red background, it may look Mayan or Aztec influenced if one doesn't know its provenance. There is no music, only the ambient sounds of general activity. And, of course, we have later Jack crashing through the door of their suite's bathroom with his axe and announcing, "Here's Johnny!" Shot 45. I made the trip in 3 and a half hours. I have no idea. 95 CU Wendy. Theres a famous picture of Kubrick laughing in front of this wreckage. In 1952, Kubrick worked as the second unit director on one episode of the television series Omnibus. 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.. This position of this ghost-like man in white is on the opposite side of the table to where Jack stands, and so may be conceptually tied in to the mirror image maze that Jack sees in the tabletop model. Alex's interview was in preparation for treatment to aid his reform, an opportunity provided by a "new order". Cut back to the bloody hall. 38 - Not in the movie. Note that the Ahwahnee elevators have a variation of the fylfot, which would be American Indian or at least American Indian inspired. DOCTOR: Bye. In it, Lokai, a man whose body is half black and half white, requests asylum on the Enterprise, claiming he's a political refugee. If so, how? In other words, the theater's revival has revived the past. 91 CU Wendy. Then the same happens in reality in front of the movie screen and the audience buys all these sweets. Lee Unkrich runs The Overlook Hotel, which contains tons of pictures and behind-the-scenes information about the film. Kids can scare you to death. (15:47) The Awakening of Jacob and those union suits. The word for Jacob's pillow is mra'ashah, something like MRAShH, headpiece, coming from an idea of headship. Ilaria Franciotti, MA, is an independent researcher, interested in film narratology and dramaturgy and in womens studies. -Constant references to the impending snowstorm foreshadow the family being stranded at the hotel. (15:53) 17 - Wendy and Danny eat lunch, watching cartoons. GOT ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY She has attempted to conceal a darker truth, in denial, wearing over it a second Wendy who encourages only looking at the bright side of things, and enjoins her son, Danny, to do the same in assuming a positive outlook on their coming isolation high in the mountains with an alcoholic father who is only five months sober and who has yet to earn back the trust of his family. At the end of the heros journey there is the Return with the Elixir. Earlier, when Danny was watching the Roadrunner, Wendy mentioning it was hard to make new friends and Tony protesting he didn't want to go to the hotel, we had heard the sound of a train. The television in the background, topped with and surrounded by stacks of books, shows now an old western film rather than the cartoons. 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. Im doing exactly the same as I was doing when I was 18 and making my first movie. Go figure. However, interpretation is unavoidable: Will the evil cycle repeat itself in the future like it did in the past? The film cost $19 million to make and it went on to earn $47 million in the United States. At the same time, we see a door in the right wall leading to Mr. Ullman's office and catch a glimpse through it of another door that leads to the back service hall. You better run fast. We begin with a shot of Danny riding off into the distance in a green hallway and taking a right turn. An editor Fig. King provides readers with just enough detail to make Wendy a well-rounded and interesting character. The Shining (1977 Novel) Literary Elements by Stephen King The Shining (1977 Novel) Literary Elements These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. A version of this story originally ran in 2018 and has been updated for 2022. Crossfade to office begins at 5:10.) (8:37) Is "The Great Mother" intended to be their mother? Stephen King's use of character development throughout this novel is what makes the book so thrilling and moving. Click here to make a donation. 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. In my novel, 'The Shining' by Stephen King, there is constant foreshadowing. The exterior of the lodge is, however, the Timberline at Mt. I'm sure that I've thoroughly managed to confuse you there. STUART (off screen): by the idea of staying alone in a place where something like that actually happened. 53 MS Wendy. On a psychological level, Jacks fatal flaw pertains both to the fear of failure and particularly in the 144 version to alcoholism. Fig. Referring back to The Wizard of Oz and its over the rainbow adventure, we have at the beginning here the potential of a dream story that makes use of elements of real life and can be accepted as having actually occurred at least for the journeying dreamer. Not even now. Here, the stage of the Resurrection takes place. On the screen we see a man departing, through the rye, and his lover telling him that before his return the rye will be harvested and her heart as empty as the field. DANNY: Yes. 13 MCU of Danny. Provide at least two examples of foreshadowing found at the beginning of the story and explain how each piece of foreshadowing is 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. Young Jethro and the Maze. In a particularly chilling moment, Jack expresses sympathy for his father. 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? Bele, whose skin is a mirror image of Lokai's, is in pursuit of Lokai. 27 MCU of Stuart. Again, in the apartment in Boulder, Wendy is watching a film about the building of a railroad track and there is the painting of the horse running down the train track toward a pre-scripted destiny. The conflict is revealed to be one of slavery and racial segregation. White shelves holding books hang on the rear wall. The 1980s horror movie The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick utilized these aspects very well. -Wendy compares the kitchen to a maze when Dick Hallorann gives her a tour of it, and jokes that she'll need breadcrumbs to find her way out of it in the winter, referencing Hansel and Gretel. JACK: Well, you can rest assured, Mr. Ullman, that's not going to happen with me. He ended up having a role in a TV film two years later, but that was the extent of his acting career. JACK: Well, it's certainly got plenty of that It's positioned to be noticed, to not disappear on the counter. Quick. 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. We briefly see Jack's face merge with the shower curtain then disappear, which may or may not remind of The Wizard of Oz and the injunction to pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. (4:57) Both in the first and in the third act he has no relationship with the ghosts; after escaping the pantry, he relates only to his family and to Hallorann. But there's nothing spooky about the lobby. He didnt even see the actual film until he was 16. I just personally dont find it scary because I saw it behind the scenes," Lloyd later said. So they do their best to turn the town against the idea of a train. (5:45) 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. They never recognize it is there by either a glance, action, or comment. A zigzag pattern also can represent lightning, and some believe that the labrys, upon which is based the labyrinth, may symbolize lightning. Fig. She is author (with Valerio Sbravatti) of Shining: King vs. Kubrick, Segnocinema 209 (2018), pp. Before long, Wendy is blaming Jack for the injuries that Danny sustains (despite it being the hotels fault). The Shining seemed to introduce a promising child star in Danny Lloyd. He has said, "Pleasure to meet you", "Fine", "What line of work are you in now", and "Well, this ought to be quite a change for ya" and now falls into silence, only observing. 28:29 - Dick asks, "you like ice cream, Doc" (sound). There is another photo of a silhouette in the office but we've yet to have it be introduced (I write of it in the Wednesday section). I discuss the terrier in this post. Now, I'm going to ask you to do me a favor and stay quietly in bed for the rest of the day.
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