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. 29:15 - The sound occurs right after Wendy says "Just like a ghost ship, huh"? More books than SparkNotes. 02/8/2023. Hallorann is killed by Jack, who now seems to be the strongest character despite having sustained injuries (the blow to the head and sprained ankle), while Danny is shell-shocked, hiding inside a cupboard after escaping the janitorial quarters bahtroom. That's where the story is. 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. Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. That pretty well clinches it for me that Kubrick, by means of Salinger's Coming Through the Rye book, was referring to The Smallest Show on Earth, and by means of it the silent film and book, Comin' Through the Rye. This is similar to Kubrick's breaking of the 4th wall repeatedly in A Clockwork Orange, referring to the presence of the audience in various ways and thus making it a part of the story, the film. Are we simply seeing something that was intended to keep out competitive light during filming, or does it foreshadow Dick's death? Well, you see Doc, when something happens it can leave a trace of itself behind. If Danny is unconvinced that going to the Overlook is a swell idea, she is attempting to use Tony to convince him otherwise. (sound). 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. An owl sits above the rainbow and another image of Snoopy. In the following sequence Jack goes to the Gold Room (for the first time in the 119 version, for the second in the 144 one). That doesn't mean the maze is itself irrational and nonsensical. DANNY: To my stomach. Run away. Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. He would not be so completely hidden by the pillar, with his tray, had this not been staged. 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. Silence. I don't think it's as certain that Danny sees himself. Prominently placed on the coffee table is the New York Book Review and beneath it another issue showing Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor, in which she wrote of how society, by attributing certain illnesses to personality types and treating illness as repressed emotional content, unfairly stigmatized the victims of illness. Why is a print of this painting placed in two places of the lodge? We should be aware of this at least subconsciously as we have just viewed the lobby's elevator area extends far beyond the office, having even briefly observed the hall that is behind the office, the elder man who will later examine the maze having come from that hall. resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss thenovel. Now we see the number fully, and that it is 42. 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. For a methodological framework see Dara Marks, In addition to the aforementioned sources pertaining to. 21 - Wendy checking the boilers in the basement. The most prominent link between these women and the twin girls is that the pair we see outside Jacks apartment are seen with a portion of hallway in the background that features the same blue and white flowered wallpaper that we see when the twins dead bodies are revealed. In the first act we have a situation of apparent balance for Jack and his family. So, the sweets girl seems to exit the film and enter reality. This same print will be observed again at the end of the film in a foyer where we will finally view characters entering and exiting the lodge, specifically when Wendy goes out to inspect the Snow Cat which Jack has disabled, when Dick arrives, and when Jack leaves the lodge to chase Danny into the maze. BILL: Pleasure to meet you. Building a plot of the unseen environment based on natural expectations is difficult to impossible in The Shining. As it happens, the ancient theater is now next a train line. The lobby of the film's Overlook is an antique white and has square terracotta color columns, dark brown wainscoting and floors decorated with a variety of American Indian derivative designs with tessellated borders that seem a mix of influences. JACK: Well, that hmmm just happens to be exactly what I'm looking for. Afterwards, Jack quarrels with Wendy about his needs, and then he has a sort of Approach to the Inmost Cave. THE DOCTOR: Did Tony's first appearance happen to coincide with your arrival here? 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. Fig. Next, two young individuals in summery clothing pass by on their way outside, carrying tennis rackets and white balls, seemingly headed to play a game though we may notice the woman is inappropriately dressed in high heels. What's the secondary teaser candy bait? Then there is the photo to the right of it which is difficult to decipher. Then there's more gushing blood splattering the walls outside the elevators. WENDY: Yeah, I know. Ullman seemingly accepting Jack's insistence too readily. 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. 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." WENDY: Sure I do, it'll be lots of fun. Shot 112. foreshadowing, the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work. Two other things happen as Dick crosses this fatal spot. OTHER KINDS OF TRACES, When Halloran and Danny have their private conversation in the hotel kitchen, we are given the following explanation of what their shared psychic power is, Well, you see Doc, when something happens it can leave a trace of itself behind. In Dannys vision of the murdered twins, Kubrick very subtly uses this device again. (13:12) Two interviews. 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. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women [Harrowing Historica at the best online prices at eBay! Peter Sellers tells the new owners that he has saved all these films from the old days and now the theater feels like old times. STUART: Susie? In Stuart's interview, he has the uncomfortable business of relating the story of the murder, while in the interview with the doctor it is Wendy who will relate an uncomfortable story in response to the doctor's questions. Spooks? So many film theorists have their own takes on The Shining that these conspiracies star in their own film: the documentary Room 237. STUART: Ah, it sure would be Stanley pushed me and prodded me further than Ive ever been pushed before. However, interpretation is unavoidable: Will the evil cycle repeat itself in the future like it did in the past? We hear a familiar "beep beep" that resonates with the childhoods of so many who grew up mid 20th century and realize that Danny is watching a Roadrunner cartoon. The doctor sits down next to Danny. STUART (off-screen): of itself become a problem. 3 - Kubrick's use of the Greek key at the beginning and end of "Lolita", initiating the execution of Quilty from it. King Kong in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. An elder man in light clothing has entered the area before the elevators from the hall beyond. It also worked well with the circa 1920 building we were living in. As Bill sits in the chair next to Jack, Ullman tells Watson that Jack will be caretaking the Overlook that winter and that he wants Bill to walk him around the lodge. Throughout the film, when action occurs in this hall, the camera stops short of revealing the area where the photograph is. Just a step beyond the circle, Jack's glance moves up to the stairs on the right, briefly meeting that of a hotel employee who is coming down the steps. I don't think I could get home before 9 or 10. The idea of the past meshing with the present certainly fits well with "shining". (13:36) "Shining" is later compared with sleep, that it can be like sleeping and upon waking not remembering everything one is told, and Z's are sometimes used for expressing sleep, such as in cartoons, but I also think of how the opening scene was accompanied by music signifying Judgment Day, and that Z is the final letter in the English alphabet, zeta, though it is the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet (value 7), based on the Phoenician zayin. In The Shining however, the use of foreshadowing fits in as a narrative device. Shot 142. 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. 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. (7:52) At least three times we see women in pairs carrying luggage about. The imagery is fantastical and malevolent, particularly when previously inanimate features of the hotel begin to come to life. 59 CU Danny. After you claim a section youll have 24 hours to send in a draft. We have no idea yet where this maze might be, but one assumes the inspiration for the model is somewhere on the grounds, even though our previous aerial view had shown no maze to the front or rear. In both scenes the camera takes us in for a close up. Below is the massive stone fireplace in the lobby of the Timberline. 40 - Danny questioned by the doctor. The curtains could only be cheaper if the Torrances had used the thin bamboo blinds that were popular for the time. Here is the quote: Doc, Jack Torrance said. I think The Shining uses a similar kind of psychological misdirection to forestall the realization that the supernatural events are actually happening.. 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. In Review, What Has Kubrick Given Us in This Section? From there, the eye seems even to be pulled, by the yellow and orange framed graphic, off screen to the left. JACK: Well, it's certainly got plenty of that Fig. Now we have yet a third location associated, the interiors of the lobby and the Colorado Lounge modeled after the Ahwahnee Hotel in the Yosemite National Park in California. The lobby, its influences, and the dissociation of the lodge's interior from its exterior. In the cartoon, the train sound starts and we have two whistles, this repeated again with the two whistles, then immediately thereafter Wiley E. (having believed he's escaped the train which was below him) hears a louder roaring of the train and turns to see its big white light bearing down on him inside the dark of the tunnel behind him and then there's a resounding explosive encounter. 1 - The Ahwahnee lobby, a Creative Commons image by J. W. Kern. 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. 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. 22 - Bill, Stuart and Jack in Ullman's office. WENDY: Anyway, something good did come out of it all because he said, uh (8:30) Because they do. JACK (has risen to shake hands): Bill, how do you do? DANNY: My mom saying, wake up, wake up, wake up He tells her, About the things you saw at the hotel. It was one of the top 10 highest-grossing films of 1980. thissection. Even if you've seen the movie 100 times, there's still probably a lot you don't know about what went on behind the scenes. Bele, whose skin is a mirror image of Lokai's, is in pursuit of Lokai. (8:21) Peter Pan's habitat was Neverland, and the two girls in blue will first appear to Danny here, who will later beckon him to come play with them forever, and ever, and ever, just as Jack will say he wishes they could stay at the Overlook forever, and ever, and ever. Go to TOC for this film ( (which has also a statement on purpose and manner of analysis and a disclaimer as to caveat emptor and my knowing anything authoritatively, which I do not, but I do try to not know earnestly, with some discretion, and considerable thought). Exploring the Themes of Familicide and Insanity in The Shining, Toxic Masculinity in the Films of Stanley Kubrick, Racial Stereotypes and Cinematic Adaptation: The Shining Critical Analysis. WENDY: Yeah: 69 MCU Wendy. The Shining Houses By: Alice Munro New Criticism Point of View Climax Foreshadowing 3rd person limited omniscient insight view of Mary's thoughts Mary will stand up for Mrs.Fullerton when Mary is asked to sign the petition for collective benefits created a dilemma from The convivial Jack, eager to make a good impression, earnestly listens and responds. So, does Tony tell him to do things? But we tend to accept the office as it is, ignoring the impossible window, because all else appears to be so normal. 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. 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. First, I would encourage one to take note as to how the bottom lines of the cabinetry and the hood of the range in the Boulder kitchen beautifully line up with the lines for the ceiling and the shelving at screen left in the Overlook office. Peculiarly, they both were able to manifest individual force fields that made the Star Trek phasers ineffective. (13:02) Fig. Fig. 41 - Danny resting on his bear pillow. 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. Note the loud echoing bang of the ball and compare it with the slamming thud as Jack chops through doors. So when Jack Torrance is seen reading a Playgirl in the lobby of the Overlook before he gets hired, its probably not meaningless. Does "The Great Mother" hold what Kubrick might mean to register as a club, foretelling Wendy with the bat? (14:25) Click here to make a donation. 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. 46 MCU of Stuart. WENDY: Now, come on, Tony, don't be silly. The book also displays mirroring/doubling, with the title displayed in the same manner on the back cover as on the front. 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. Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Jack Nicholson star in 'The Shining' (1980). (5:04) 55 MCU Danny. In this scene, he's actively encouraged by Wendy to enter the dialogue. 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. resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss thenovel. 33 MCU of Stuart. Lloyd strengthens Jacks will, therefore acting as an Enemy of Dannys. -When Jack tells Danny he would never hurt him, he says he wants to stay in the hotel "forever and ever and ever," which is the same phrase the ghosts of the Grady twins used when they appeared to Danny earlier. 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. How do you think they'll take to it? THE DOCTOR: Now, Danny, can you remember what you were doing just before you started brushing your teeth? THE DOCTOR: Mrs. Torrance, most of the time these episodes with kids are never explained, they are brought on by emotional factors, and they rarely occur again. 30:16 - Dick asks Danny, as to shining, "How long have you been able to do it" (sound). All rights reserved. This event is subtly implied in The Shining, and it is unclear whether it happens or not. There are other linkages and so we'll be coming back to this later. Now? We later learn the incident occurred three years prior, and yet it's given twice in the movie that it's been five months since Jack has had a drink, so this isn't an error on Wendy's part as Jack later relates the same. But the book itself isnt filled with jump scares or ghastly scenes of violence. I was falling about laughing most of the time," he said of the documentary in 2013. The accompaniment of dramatic music lets us know were about to see something scary. JACK: Susie, how do you do? When the novel begins, the Torrance family is teetering on the edge. Anyway, there's hardly anybody to play with around here. a foreshadowing of Christ's glory, but also a promise of ours (Romans 8:16-17). SUSIE: Hello. A now-legendary story that King reportedly still tells at some of his book readings goes like this: Stanley Kubrick called him at seven in the morning to say that he believed ghost stories were fundamentally optimistic because the existence of ghosts suggested that humans survived past death. The question posed is how did it happen? Timberline reception desk with picture of lodge. This is, despite the fact that his father, Jack, recently broke his arm in a drunken accident. The expectation of something disquieting builds. The first such sound, as I've already mentioned, occurs when Jack passes over the spot where he will attack Dick with an axe. Kubrick's films are full of repetitive motifs. The sound occurs with a cross-fade from the ballroom to the entrance to the kitchen, audible as we see the word FIRE appearing on the screen, the big lettering on the fire doors. Also, the kitchen appears deeper than the bathroom, which would cause some peculiarities with the interior layout and the plain block style exterior of the buildings. 32 MCU of Jack. The Two Types of Photographs in the Hotel Do people operate in a free will universe or a mechanical one? JACK: Hi, babe. The wagon driver scratches out on the ground the letters S O U but dies before finishing the name. The film ends with text over black, The Overlook Hotel would survive this tragedy, as it had so many others. 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 DANNY: Okay. In the book, the spooky events are set in Room 217, not Room 237. Some viewers noticed that this is foreshadowing for the reveal that, although all of the dinosaurs in the park are female, they have found a way to reproduce. 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. I'd like you to. 27:20 - It occurs as they enter the C1 storage room. 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. 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. Reality syncs with the film. It is "Flock of Loons" by the artist Norval Morrisseau. 28:29 - Dick asks, "you like ice cream, Doc" (sound). The executive producer of The Shining, Jan Harlan, has stated that this was intentional. One of those stories is a comic paranormal tale involving golf, and I've considered it may be the source for the "Golfing with the Greats" reference we'll see in the Boulder kitchen when Wendy is washing dishes. 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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. Oregon's Timberline Lodge, which was used as the hotels exterior for some shots, is to blame for this swap. THE DOCTOR (sympathetic): OK, that's fine. When Adle warns Robert that he might give Edna the impression that he's flirting in earnest in Chapter VII, Robert retorts that he wishes Edna would take him seriously . The Overlook's sad history related. There's hardly a person in 1980 who wouldn't have immediately bonded with the pedestrian situation of the lunch table and its simple sandwiches through the familiar cartoon vocabulary of a cartoon that was a shared experience. -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. I love how the shade on the lamp between the doctor and Wendy is slightly askew. No one is quite sure whether Kubrick typed 500 pages of All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Kubrick didnt go to the prop department with this task, using his own typewriter to make the pages. I could give other examples, such as when Kubrick even treats his people on the screen as real individuals attempting to interact with the audience, as happens with the boxer's manager in Killer's Kiss when he is attempting to escape some thugs and pounds upon a theater door, trying to attract the attention of the audience to the threat against him, but fails. 28 MS of Bill, Stuart and Jack. 39 - Not in the film. But what if we look at the name? I said earlier that Kubrick did a nice job of lifting this apartment's style/furnishings straight out of the the late 70s. Not only do they have a sweets girl but they regulate the environment in the theater. 2.8m members in the MovieDetails community. Foreshadowing, Jack crosses the circle where Dick will later lie slain. She was in the middle of that book, a page dog-eared, and the middle portion of this book is blue, bisecting the first half from the latter. 88 MS Wendy from the doctor's side. Then the same happens in reality in front of the movie screen and the audience buys all these sweets. What's the distraction? View Shining houses.docx from BUSINESS 530 at Moi University. The table is covered with an orange-red and white checkered cloth in which we can see printed symbols such as hearts and fish. STUART: The problem is the enormous cost it would be to keep the road to Sidewinder open. Then there is Jack himself as Dannys antagonist, representing what the boy may become if he does not accomplish his own journey. 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. Another myth is brought in at this point as well. TONY: I just don't. He could only be somewhere out of sight behind the pillar that partially covers the man's chair. (sound). 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. Dressed in red union suits (she wears two, which will eventually become apparent) with a light blue checked pinafore/jumper over them, she drinks coffee and smokes, reading a red paperback with gold lettering, The Catcher in the Rye. 91 CU Wendy. 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. 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. Or perhaps Jack's alcoholism--for we are soon to discover he is an alcoholic. We see on the end table beside her a book titled The Wish Child, and I will return to that in a moment. WENDY: No, he didn't like it too much at first, and then he had an injury so we kept him out for a while, and, yeah, I guess that's about the time I first noticed that he was talking to Tony.
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