Which is perhaps how Danny really feels but is reluctant to voice disagreement. 24 MCU of Jack. It's easy to see why Kubrick would have been interested in his art. They are the very definition of balance and imbalance. I said earlier that Kubrick did a nice job of lifting this apartment's style/furnishings straight out of the the late 70s. BILL (off-screen): What line of work are you in now? As Wendy wheels a tray with Jacks breakfast through the lobby, she walks the exact same path that Halloran does in his death scene. GradeSaver, The Possibilities of Mental Illness in the Shining. Another book is Young Jethro by Roy Clews. So, what is being presented isn't exactly matching up. 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. WENDY: What was the matter with him? WENDY: He dislocated his shoulder. A little rubber yellow duck peeks out from behind the shower curtain to the left, resting on the tub's ledge. Fig. The Shining is one of Stephen Kings best novels and a classic of the horror and psychological thriller genres. 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. The plot of Carson City concerns a man named "Silent Jeff" who is hired to build a railroad between Carson City and Virginia City. Whether it be sound, acting, visuals, and the overall foreshadowing of the story. 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. 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. 4 is 1/2 of 8. Join in. What's the teaser candy bait? On a pragmatic level, Jacks desire concerns completing his tasks, namely writing his novel, being the caretaker, and in the third act killing his family and Hallorann. How do you think they'll take to it? But there's nothing spooky about the lobby. The hotel is a special world for them, thus they have to explore it; in a sense, Jacks adventure is that of being the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. And he didn't and he hasn't had any alcohol in uhm five months. In the 144 we know about Jacks former alcoholism, therefore the fact he drinks the liquor reinforces the idea of crossing the threshold on the psychological level. 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. The curtains could only be cheaper if the Torrances had used the thin bamboo blinds that were popular for the time. At the same time, the archetype of the Shadow can be found: it stands for the fury of the evil side, the danger which tacitly lies beneath the surface. To walk away, you gotta leave something behind, or a long story short: You Cannot Whitewash the Truth- A Conversation with Arie and Chuko Esiri, Forever and Ever and Ever: Reappraising the Score of, The only archetype we were not able to find in. Although he associates the hotel with luxury, he is somewhat defined by his role as its "caretaker," a menial position. STUART (off-screen): of itself become a problem. (4:57) Just as Wendy wears two pairs of union suits, we do, in a way, have two Wendys. We see characters going to the doors to exit, and entering from the direction of the main doors, but never do we see them actually going in and out of them. 59 CU Danny. We're all going to have a real good time. This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven." Danny's First Shining of the Girls and the Bloody Elevator, Shots 50 through 60 (15:41) Alex's interview was in preparation for treatment to aid his reform, an opportunity provided by a "new order". Composedjustso. Take a look at how beautifully Stuart is framed here, the visual relationships between the three men and the room. JACK: Well, you can rest assured, Mr. Ullman, that's not going to happen with me. Kubrick hated to fly and refused to leave England toward the end of his life, so he was not in attendance when the opening credits of The Shining were shot. 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. 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. It was a typewriter that had built-in memory, so it could have turned out the pages without an actual person. On the art. Double readings are referred to frequently in the film. 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. In both scenes the camera takes us in for a close up. His hairy, red brother was named Esau. The window is as artificial a source of light as the two glaring florescent lamps above. 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. As for Ahwahnee, it may possibly mean "place of the big mouth", which, no matter the original meaning, may remind of Danny's open mouth silent scream. On the ground below the helium balloon figure we see a multi-colored striped object. Its unclear what exactly is going to happen to the family, but King ensures that readers continue through the story and find out. 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. His wife seems to be enthusiastic about the prospect as well. Still, is Kubrick placing here a reference to Sontag's book for sake of its message, or instead for sake of its title, prompting the viewer to wonder about metaphor and illness as regarding Danny's fainting spell. STUART: Jack is a 23 MCU of Bill. So they do their best to turn the town against the idea of a train. 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. Fig. Many dark-haired parents have children with light hair, but the audience may have worked for a minute to accept Wendy as light-haired Danny's mother, as they look so dissimilar. DANNY: Danny, wake up. Is the man with the camera ostensibly there for a "camera walk"? The lunch box is appropriately labeled "Emergency" and shows, I think, firemen. On the window sill of Danny's bedroom is a yellow rubber duck of the same kind we viewed in the bathroom, but the angle of the shot is such that though the bathroom is visible we're unable to see if the duck is still in that room (I would imagine it's not). -Constant references to the impending snowstorm foreshadow the family being stranded at the hotel. He then throws the ball toward the position where Wendy stands when she sees Hallorans body. This simple description applies not just to Dannys experience, but also to the actual film structure. It distinctly occurs when he next says that "at some point during the winter" (the sound is at about 8:55) "he must have suffered some kind of mental breakdown" Shot 42. Slim Pickens had already worked with Kubrick before. A lot of this foreshadowing is shown to the reader in the form of Danny's ability, 'the shining'. He came up here with his wife and two little girls, I think about eight and ten. / Warner Home Video. In the lobby of the Overlook, as the film opens, a few people rest in armchairs reading, talking, but the lodge isn't exactly a buzzing hive of activity. Now we have an actual, pragmatic problem: someone hurt the boy, thus there is the possibility of being physically injured inside the hotel. The word for Lord here is IHVH. However, interpretation is unavoidable: Will the evil cycle repeat itself in the future like it did in the past? We briefly see down the hallway, beyond Wendy and the doctor, a door open on another room, a print of boy and girl bears on the wall above a blue and white hair dryer and a chair below that. (15:47) (12:02) Fig. (4:45) The Torrance's apartment in Boulder is standard fare for the era. So when we are looking at the Overlook from the aerial view, this is what informs the pyramidal structure of the lobby, yet Kubrick has stripped it out of the film as far as the set interior, preferring instead to have no fireplace at all in the lobby of the Overlook, patterning its appearance after the lodge at Yosemite. What connects the secretarial area with the exit? What is unusual about The Shining is also the fact that we have a threshold crossing of sorts inside the first act, when the protagonist and his family settle in the Overlook Hotel. TONY: I just don't. 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. We see beyond them the sign "The Gold Room" which is to the right of double doors (only in the opening and closing scenes is this sign to the right), these double doors framed with gold drapes and leading to a hall with walls and doors in the same design as the lobby but which has red sofas and will be later observed to have the Gold Room carpet. The characters accept the window and, trusting the characters, the audience assumes this must be an external wall. STUART: uh, told you anything in Denver about the tragedy we had up here during the winter of 1970? King Kong in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Even if the "sha" occurring at 3:27 is purely coincidental, the choreography for the remaining collection of incidentals all falling on the same note is tricky, intentional, and beautifully accomplished. 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 light of the unseen window, through the shower curtain, is as prominent as was the light of the window in Ullman's office. Shot 427. 11 - Morrisseau's "The Great Mother". As Kubrick cut to this shot, a blond woman in white crosses from right to left behind Jack and continues across the lobby. Below is the Timberline reception desk with a picture of the lodge overhanging. 28 - The suit autocolored shows it is gray rather than brown. Foreboding, naturalistic, surreal, horrific, suspenseful, and voyeuristic. I've already noted how I believe Wendy is to some degree represented in Morresseau's painting of the Great Mother, and with the crossfade we have her face briefly viewed in conjunction with Morrisseau's work. Then there's more gushing blood splattering the walls outside the elevators. 21 - The prison's governor in "A Clockwork Orange". Now, come on, tell me. 12) Hot Fuzz (2007) - Edgar Wright. 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". I'm quite sure there's nothing As Wendy is about to reach the pillar that Jack hides behind the scene ends and we cut to a different part of the hotel. 42 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. 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). As his glance meets the woman's, he crosses the spot where Dick will be standing when Jack leaps out from behind the nearby pillar and kills him. As for the radiant heat, the fact that the hotel used a boiler was of primary importance in King's book. 19 MCU of Danny. You can help us out by revising, improving and updating There's even a lovely ceramic inset for a cup! 64 MCU Danny. 60 MS Overlook hall. WENDY: Shall we go into the living room? A good guess is that he does see the elevator and the girls. The rainbow may seem a minor detail, being a sticker on a child's door, and a popular symbol so deeply embedded in culture that not much thought is devoted it, but the rainbow also features prominently in Eyes Wide Shut and demands consideration here. Fig. THE DOCTOR: That's good, now the other one. ", 36 MCU of Jack. JACK: Only in a very general way. We are treated to several ghostly paranormal tales told by individuals who keep entreating the architect to stay. (9:41) (13:49) These cartoons concern Wile E. Coyote always being foiled in his attempts to catch the Roadrunner, both being tricksters but Wile E. not quite as crafty. The 30-minute film, which aired on BBC, was a very rare look into Kubricks directing styles. 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. 43 - The kitchen viewed behind Wendy. 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. STUART: Well (6:07) Jack convivially wonders why. Lighting a cigarette, a Virginia Slims, Wendy's hands are obviously shaking. Some behind-the-scenes footage shows Nicholsons Method acting before filming the iconic scene. The picture is an x-ray of a quite different interior world. 41 - Danny resting on his bear pillow. Give Shining alter pls HG? This all links up with Jack's comment that. Shot 116. Definitions of foreshadowing noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand (12:07). Well, maybe things that happen leave other kinds of traces behind. This area seems not to be dependent on radiant heat any longer for there isn't radiant heat in Ullman's office. Senses of Cinema was founded on stolen lands. What am I doing here?" A reader, Melkarth, sent me an image which shows it's an alabaster bull. (7:41) This ark eventually came to rest on a high mountain. Foreshadowing, Jack crosses the circle where Dick will later lie slain. Then as Stuart continues talking about the tragedy and describes it as resulting from a "claustrophobic reaction, which can occur when people are shut in together over long periods of time" the sound is at 9:34. Jacks Crisis: What Role Did Narcissistic Injury and Cultural Circumstance Play in Jacks Breakdown? In The Shining however, the use of foreshadowing fits in as a narrative device. (17:20) Obviously unsettled, the doctor gazes silently at Wendy who now reassures Below are 15 examples of foreshadowing and irony in the James Hurst short story, "The Scarlet Ibis." FORESHADOWING. 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." There is no guest area concourse back here, instead only service halls for employees. 22 MCU of Jack. I guess Danny started talking to Tony about the time we put him in nursery school. 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. The gematria for the name in this short form is 26. 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. Firmly situated in the working class, Jack begins the film unemployed, and we meet him at a job interview. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) enters, his gray suit appearing cheap, limp and out of place with the resort attire of the others. DANNY: I don't want to talk about Tony anymore.
