DANNY: Yeah, I guess so. As Jack continues on through the lobby, Kubrick gives us a brief glance again of the group by the door, to whom we'd believed the waiter had been carrying lunch. Gospel Mt 17:1-9 Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, . 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." Fig. We see on the sill The House of Brede by Rumer Godden, which concerns a professional woman, Philippa, who at the age of 42 leaves secular life and becomes a nun in a contemplative order. (8:04) A large map is on the left wall behind a two-way radio. It is put to the ultimate test when the family is caught up in the corrupting powers of the Overlook Hotel. There is a parallel between Danny's arrival at the hotel and the increase in supernatural activity there. STUART: Well, uh, my predecessor International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct,London, EC1A 2BN, United Kingdom, 2023 Book Analysis. The Shining Book Review: Stephen King's Horror Classic 2, which started in the previous scene (while Danny walks inside the Colorado Lounge), is heard here and will be used once again at the beginning of the third act and at the apparent end of the third act (when Jack dies in the hedge maze). Sometimes they see things that happened a long time ago., Mr Halloran, are you scared of this place?, Im gonna getcha. 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. In The Shining however, the use of foreshadowing fits in as a narrative device. It makes the audience share Danny's psychic traumas of the hotel. "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. Double readings are referred to frequently in the film. Flashbacks also reveal that she has seen a marriage dissolve firsthand (her parents) and fears that what happened to them is going to happen to her. 47 MCU of Jack. In the book, the spooky events are set in Room 217, not Room 237. ), 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. The Shining is one of Stephen Kings best novels and a classic of the horror and psychological thriller genres. -Wendy asks Jack if the beautiful scenery they see on the drive to the hotel is the site of the Donner Party tragedy. 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. Say like if someone burns toast. This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven." A fortune teller might use foreshadowing, warning that a short life line is a sign of some impending disaster. 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. (13:42) JACK: Only in a very general way. 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). Since the beginning of the book, hints are dropped pertaining to what will happen later on in the novel. resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss thenovel. JACK: Well, that hmmm just happens to be exactly what I'm looking for. The point of view in the film alternates between Jack, Danny, and an objective camera. The characters accept the window and, trusting the characters, the audience assumes this must be an external wall. The two pairs of union suits seem suggestive of one Wendy overlaying another Wendy. I don't think it's as certain that Danny sees himself. (6:54) The executive producer of The Shining, Jan Harlan, has stated that this was intentional. The roar rises and subsides. To the left of Snoopy is Mickey Mouse. It is through your support of visiting Book Analysis that we can support charities, such as Teenage Cancer Trust. 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. Foreshadowing. When the place was built in 1907 there was very little interest in winter sports and the site was chosen for its seclusion and scenic beauty. Is the desirable state one of equilibrium, such as had at the equinoxes? He felt a particularly deep understanding of Jack Torrance's berating of his wife while he is trying to write. 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 convivial Jack, eager to make a good impression, earnestly listens and responds. 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. "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. Hood in Oregon. 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. 18 MCU of Wendy. Kubrick repeatedly used trains in his films as a symbol for synchronicity and cyclings of events. As she puts up the 2% milk in the fridge, the phone rings and she crosses the living room of the apartment to answer it. The waiter and his silver service just disappearing from sight, perhaps behind a pillar, seems to be a foreshadowing of this. This wallpaper appears at no other point in the film. Thats what I was like when I got my divorce," Nicholson explained in an interview with The New York Times. The gematria for the name in this short form is 26. Stephen King's use of character development throughout this novel is what makes the book so thrilling and moving. After a moment, we hear a voice. WENDY: Hi, hon, how's it goin'? 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. Here, Ullman is about to reveal some disquieting information, but one still has a sense of things withheld, just as in A Clockwork Orange the prison's governor doesn't divulge to Alex what the nature of his treatment (Serum-114) will be. 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. Fig. We've no music. We haven't seen the number 42 on Danny's shirt until just previous his vision, while he was looking in the bathroom mirror. 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 will be returning to these ideas as they weave in and about the film. Danny's supernatural abilities foreshadow the increased supernatural activity at the hotel once he moves in there. Its the most difficult role Ive ever had to play.. [Arknights] Theory of Cope - Foreshadowing Shining Alter? The most literal Shapeshifter is the woman in room 237, who first appears as a young and attractive lady but then morphs into a repulsive decaying hag which is herself double as it were, since we see her alternately laughing sardonically and walking toward Jack, and expressionless, emerging from the bathtub (Dannys vision?) (13:44) 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. (5:14 crossfade from Boulder apartment ends.) WENDY: him. These angles not only seem to push the eye toward the center of the screen, they also are dynamic enough that they provide a similitude that ties these shots together. Foreshadowing is a literary device in which authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the story. The title for this section is "The Interview" and we tend to think of this title as exclusively pertaining to Jack's interview at the Overlook, but now we also will have this doctor interviewing Wendy. STUART: uh, told you anything in Denver about the tragedy we had up here during the winter of 1970? 72 MCU Doctor. THE DOCTOR: If you were to open your mouth now, could I see Tony? Shot 10. 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. This has to do with the film processing. Just a few moments before we had heard the sounds of children at play outside and though we'd not seen those children the audience is not entirely convinced that there are no children around with whom Danny could play. The doctor sits on the brown sofa under the hazy light of a high window, reminding of similarly red-haired Ullman seated before the hazy light of the impossible window at the Overlook, and Wendy takes a seat on a matching chair that corresponds with Jack's relationship with Ullman during the interview at the lodge. But it was a different episode, about poker players getting into a fight, that inspired parts of The Shining. Jacks Crisis: What Role Did Narcissistic Injury and Cultural Circumstance Play in Jacks Breakdown? Kubrick has been fairly faithful to other design elements but has left out this fylfot, which could be mistaken as a version of a swastika. 12) Hot Fuzz (2007) - Edgar Wright. 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. Danny sounds unconvinced on either count. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Shining (1977 Novel) by Stephen King. 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. 63 MS Danny's bedroom. She seems to be looking toward the reception desk, but then a bellhop appears from the direction of the service hall behind the lobby and appears to port a silver lunch service to this group who are in the same area where Jack will himself have lunch on Closing Day. 22 - Bill, Stuart and Jack in Ullman's office. When speaking as Tony, Danny moves his finger as if it is a puppet. DANNY: My mom saying, wake up, wake up, wake up In Review, What Has Kubrick Given Us in This Section? 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. 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. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Shining by Stanley Kubrick. 86 CU Wendy. As for the radiant heat, the fact that the hotel used a boiler was of primary importance in King's book. Our writings on, and realizations of the "sha" sound are independent of each other. A shot of Danny's mouth wide open in horror. 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. 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. Shining houses.docx - 1. Provide at least two examples of foreshadowing The blue sleeves are decorated with white stars on red bands. Danny being chased playfully by his mother into the hotel maze anticipates him being chased by his kill-crazy father. Two of these pairs are heard wishing goodbye to Mr Ullman. DANNY: No. Hallorann finds out that Danny has his own power, the shining, and thus gives him some advice: he explains that bad things happen and leave traces, though implying that these are innocuous (as when someone burns toast); he reassures him that the things he sees through the shining are just like pictures in a book. Now, I'm going to ask you to do me a favor and stay quietly in bed for the rest of the day. Again, this is a room that was standard for its time and fitting in with the simple construction seen in apartment complexes that haven't any architectural frills. 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). 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. JACK: They'll love it. Kubrick takes care to unveil the lodge only a little at a time, it unfolding over the entirety of the film, and the audience's natural expectations are proven false at every turn, but so deeply embedded is the assumption that the environment will be rational that the audience rarely notices that their assumptions are wrong and the map they're constructed in their minds of the hotel, based on what Kubrick has shown them, is impossible. A Note on 8 and 1/2 THE DOCTOR: physically wrong with Danny. THE DOCTOR (sympathetic): OK, that's fine. On the Two Union or Liberty Suits and the Two Necklaces ", 36 MCU of Jack. Later, the primary conflict is between the hotel and Danny as it tries to possess him, but he stands up to the threat. In the background is the yellow laundry basket with clothes on an ironing board, books stacked on it as well. Whoever the author.Discover new and exciting books to dive into with our Book Explorer Tool. The film version is lost, but pages from the screenplay do exist. BILL: Pleasure to meet you. 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. (13:19) GOT KUBRICK AND ANTONIONI FILM ANALYSES There is perhaps a duck, maybe another. No, the drive was only three and a half hours. TONY: I don't want to go there, Mrs. Torrance. The Overlook's sad history related. The Shining (1980) - Filmsite Though the eye does go to Bill as he enters, by the lines of the kitchen cabinetry and range crossfading into the shelving and ceiling, and the propulsion of the lines in the strong graphics I've just mentioned, the eye feels as though it is being pushed also to just between Stuart and Wendy as she fades out. TONY: No he ain't, Mrs. Torrance. -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'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. Fig. 87 MCU Doctor. This is one of the things that the Interview makes a focus, the battle of humans and the lodge against nature. In the Jewish and Christian myth, Noah (NVCh, meaning "rest") and his family alone were preserved in an "ark" on which were also two of each kind of animal. The Torrance's apartment in Boulder is standard fare for the era. That Roy Clews was the author of a book about a needle mill worker (a needle guides thread) is a nice bit of serendipity. 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. Not affiliated with Harvard College. 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. What appears to be a blue box showing Q-tips Cotton Balls stands on the first shelf of the bookcase beside the alabaster bull figurine, and could possibly be taken as a stand-in for a blue sky with clouds considering its placement above the horizon line. 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. You'll notice that Kubrick's design for the apartment has perhaps shed the balcony that seems to go with each apartment in the complex where the Torrances supposedly live. Fig. As it happens, the ancient theater is now next a train line. WENDY: No. The two most distinct instances of the sound here are during the two reaction shots of Jack, when he's saying his wife and child will love it there, and then again his reaction to the idea of the tragedy occurring because of people shut in together over long periods of time. THE DOCTOR (laughs): I know. The Shining Literary Elements | GradeSaver -In the same scene, Jack yells, "Honey, I'm home," a common household greeting that had broad cultural associations with an idyllic domestic scene in which a husband arrives home from work to greet his wife and family. Looking at the filing cabinet again, it appears there is a small elephant resting on it before a postal weight scale. In the early '70s, he was in consideration to direct The Exorcist, but he ended up not getting the job because he only wanted to direct the film if he could also produce it. The second act has begun. 81 MS Doctor from Wendy's side. WENDY: What about Tony? -Wendy asks Dick Hallorann how he knew that Danny's nickname was Doc, as she hadn't referred to him that way during their conversation. My name is Jack Torrance. "I can't remember everything." Wendy, dressed in her red and blue, is bookended left and right by two dogs in blue and red, the dog in the picture, and Goofy, as if to reinforce a relationship between her and Goofy, who became eventually, in American mid 20th century culture, a kind of reassuring Everyman figure attempting to navigate a confusing world. (13:39) 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. Building a plot of the unseen environment based on natural expectations is difficult to impossible in The Shining. It's an interesting way of moving the viewer's gaze. TONY: I don't know. He stands out, fitting in neither as a lodger nor as a hotel employee. The newest furnishings would be the white dinette set and chairs. 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. John Fell Ryan, of the KDK12 Tumblr, has noticed that over the main door there is now a black "shroud" or curtain. Instead they are in opposition to it, and, at best, sometimes enjoy its pleasanter, friendlier aspects. 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. Jack's interview had uncomfortable information divulged him by Ullman, while Wendy's interview resulted in her relating uncomfortable information. Silence. 31:11 - Danny describes shining. 2 - The Ahwahnee lobby, a Creative Commons image by Dave Ciskowsi. The scene actually made it into The Guinness Book of Records because it took 127 takes, the most for a scene with spoken dialogue. 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". She also wears two gold necklaces. DANNY: Danny, wake up. 24 - "How about your wife and son? The heels lend a sense of the surreal--as if one has entered an area that purports to be "real" but there slip through bits and pieces that make one feel the reality is staged. The Race : TV NEWS : Search Captions. Borrow Broadcasts : TV Archive 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. Fig. One of course wants a meaning for this "sha" and looks for one. A baseball rests on the board between the books and the basket. 51 MS of Wendy in the kitchen. 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. Foreshadowing is used as a literary device to tease readers about plot turns that will occur later in the story. We can see beyond him the TV on which the Summer of 42 movie will later be played, while beyond Wendy, as already noted, we have the apartment's TV playing the Western, a parallel established between the two scenes visually, the television in each shot weighted to screen right, while Jack leans to screen left and Wendy faces to screen right, the scenes dialoguing with one another. -Dick tells Danny that there is nothing wrong with Room 237, but he also warns Danny to "stay out." Then there is the photo to the right of it which is difficult to decipher. Foreshadowing in THE SHINING - film analysis - YouTube Her lips appear taut, unyielding. Our study is intended as just a first step towards an all-encompassing dramaturgical analysis of The Shining. The prophecy concerning them was, "One people will be stronger than the other." The camera has zoomed in full on Danny's reflection, his eyes dark, and then his eyes widen and a trace of light from the bathroom window illumines them. OK? Now we have an actual, pragmatic problem: someone hurt the boy, thus there is the possibility of being physically injured inside the hotel. Kubrick's Watson differs significantly from King's. We also have another proof that Wendy is psychologically fragile, since she is submissive to her husband.
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