Shot 112. (12:07). 29 MCU of Stuart. What is peculiar is that we see in this shot that both the radiant heaters to the right and left of the door leading into the "Gold Room hall" off the lobby also have forced air vents behind them. Fig. You better run fast. TONY: I don't know. Stuart points out how uncomfortable it was to tell Jack about this history, and thus it's Jack's job to tell him it's all right. 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. 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. Kubrick used the Greek Key design in Lolita, it circling the area in which was the ping-pong table in the mansion at which Quilty was staying when Humbert finds and executes him at the film's beginning. This is a good example of Kubrick weaving multiple metaphors into a single shot. Ceramic tile disappeared completely about this time and where ceramic tile was once essential (such as with nicer bathtubs that had showers) the ceramic was replaced with fiberglass and plastics. STUART: Uhm, physically, it's not a very demanding job. July 2011, I added a long note here on the timings of an ambient, voiced "sha" sound that occurs periodically in the film, and later was alerted that another person had also noticed the same and posted a movie on it previously on Youtube. The right photo is even more mysterious, perhaps showing the hedge maze with snow in the foreground, and a peculiar, vague silhouette overlaying that seems to only take on humanoid proportions through the eye looking for such, and yet also lends itself to such. A truly good horror movie utilizes all key aspects of suspense. Tony is revealed to be an imaginary friend of the boy's. In . Please sit down. Note that the Ahwahnee elevators have a variation of the fylfot, which would be American Indian or at least American Indian inspired. Immediately after Stuart asks how Jack's wife and child will take to the solitude, during the reaction shot of Jack, the sound occurs at 8:01, just before Jack says, "They'll love it." 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. If so, how? Looking up the works of Ina Seidel, I find Literature and Film in the Third Reich, by Karl-Heinz Schoeps, relates: An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers expands on the book, The Wish Child: This all plays in with Jack's later devotion to the harsh ideals as set forth by the lodge and the demands on its caretakers, as well as Kubrick's interest in the Shoa (the preferred term over holocaust). 5 - Mastroianni as he appeared in "8 and 1/2". Foreshadowing - a 'warning or indication of a future event' - is a useful device in storytelling. Foreshadowing in THE SHINING - film analysis - YouTube a foreshadowing of Christ's glory, but also a promise of ours (Romans 8:16-17). Oh Danny, for Gods sake No, Danny said. Oh, it's still hard for me to believe it actually happened here, but it did. The 1980s horror movie The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick utilized these aspects very well. At first glance one thinks one knows what one is seeing, but a second glance throws that initial reading in doubt when pieces of the ad don't mesh together. 31:11 - Danny describes shining. Jack says it doesn't bother him. One can be confident that the scene was shot many times, more than three, but the inconsistencies boil down to it seeming as if, one could propose, there are three different perspectives or versions presented, which could match with there being three people in the room: Bill, Stuart and Jack. Stanley pushed me and prodded me further than Ive ever been pushed before. STUART: Well, that's very good time, very good. Regardless, no normal hotel leaves copies of Playgirl lying around, so the magazine serves as an immediate red flag in the film. As Kubrick cut to this shot, a blond woman in white crosses from right to left behind Jack and continues across the lobby. It leaps out of her arms and pursues the motorized cart that carries the suitcase holding the money from Johnny's robbery of the racetrack. 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 if to remark on this, we have also the duck moving from the left, in the bathroom, to the right, on the windowsill. DANNY: Danny, wake up. Bele, whose skin is a mirror image of Lokai's, is in pursuit of Lokai. DANNY: Tony, do you think dad will get the job? I-10, V-6, D-4, H-5. DOCTOR: Yes. 19 - Crossfade from Boulder to Ullman's office. The itch that bess to be scratched? Here is the quote: Doc, Jack Torrance said. WENDY: Yeah? As the camera stays fixed on Jack, Ullman begins Then the same happens in reality in front of the movie screen and the audience buys all these sweets. 25 Facts About Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' - Mental Floss This information was ostensibly available to Kubrick and if he was aware of it there's the chance it could have influenced his decision to connect the Overlook with the Ahwahnee of Yosemite for reasons other than design. I will write more about this voicing later. He describes it as dj vu, but more powerful, as if he knew what was around every corner. -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. 29 - Crossfade from Jack in Ullman's office to the Boulder bathroom. 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. It is through your support of visiting Book Analysis that we can support charities, such as Teenage Cancer Trust. You and Danny are going to love it. When King responded with the question of how hell fit into that picture, Kubrick simply responded, I dont believe in hell., The executive producer of The Shining was Kubricks brother-in-law, Jan Harlan. WENDY: He dislocated his shoulder. He also cuts out the following escapade of Coyote on a revving motorcycle and its crash, Kubrick exiting with music heard during the next escapade in the cartoon when Wiley E. is pouring Acme bird seed out onto the road. I will come to how this works with Dick's murder in a moment, and explore the connection with the girls later. "The Shining (1977 Novel) Literary Elements". Fig. 87 MCU Doctor. One of the more curious features of the scene is that, oddly enough, Wendy is not wearing just one union suit (also called a "liberty suit") but two union suits, evidenced at the neck and by bunching at the wrists. The Shining (1977 Novel) Literary Elements | GradeSaver The table is covered with an orange-red and white checkered cloth in which we can see printed symbols such as hearts and fish. It's enough now to note that it has meaning, expanding in some way on the action which will later occur on this spot, action which is already being anticipated. I was wrong! The expectation of something disquieting builds. On the opposite wall is the "Woman and Terrier" painting by Colville, from 1963. As Jack approaches the lobby's reception desk, the woman in white turns. (15:41) We're not shown the master bedroom and the room at the end of the hall is too small to be it so I'm making a guess of its proximity. The sense of it as a spoke for a kind of wheel is an incredible weight of great force. This is one of the things that the Interview makes a focus, the battle of humans and the lodge against nature. These two individuals who are supposedly on their way to play tennis come from the direction of the service hall behind the lobby rather than from the stairs or elevators. They are partners in the worthless Golden Elephant Mine. 29:21 - Dick asks, "Do you know how I knew your name was Doc" (sound). Again, we have a train tragedy connected with revivification of the past. The wall right of the office door in the secretarial area is decorated with photos of the mountain as it appears over the span of the four seasons, only the snow-blanketed winter photo apparently showing the Overlook/Timberline lodge. (5:43) Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. Film footage displays a desert scene, the heat of the boiler is raised, everyone sweats and thirsts. According to David Hughes, one of Kubricks biographers, Stephen King wrote an entire draft of a screenplay for The Shining. (13:34) The janitor is shown in the boiler room boosting the temperature so that, while the audience is watching films on people near dying of thirst in the parched desert, the viewers are also experiencing extreme heat that provokes thirst, and this boosts refreshment sales dramatically. I guess Danny started talking to Tony about the time we put him in nursery school. When they used the phrase, they meant that they aimed to kill Danny, making him a ghost in the hotel. The hotel boiler explodes and the hotel is demolished, allowing Wendy, Danny, and Dean to escape. The overwhelming red and white decor of the Goldroom lavatory may be a subliminal representation of the historic bloodbath that has been and is yet to come again. Composedjustso. The "sha" is usually briefly preceded with other ambient noises that give a texture of background activity and low background conversation so it seems a part of the natural ambiance. He fears the possibility of divorce more . We kept trying for several years until I was in high school and I stopped at about 14 with almost no success," he told the New York Daily News in 2013. (5:06. Although he associates the hotel with luxury, he is somewhat defined by his role as its "caretaker," a menial position. " Radium Girls spares us nothing of their suffering; though at times the foreshadowing reads more like a true-crime story, Moore is intent on making the reader . The lavatory scene in which Danny has his first Shining episode features a shower curtain draped over a bath tub with Danny looking into a mirror on the right wall. 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. 84 MCU Wendy taking out a cigarette. 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. The Torrances, particularly Danny, are the protagonists. 37 - Not in the movie. What this difference in dominance means (or how it functions) will be discussed in the "Saturday" section. 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?) If Danny is unconvinced that going to the Overlook is a swell idea, she is attempting to use Tony to convince him otherwise. Once again, Jacks and Dannys paths interweave: while the boy is in the Special World of room 237, his father has a nightmare; after Danny leaves room 237, Jack enters the Special World. Two interviews. There is something on a table near them, but this was already there before the waiter approached, so the only table on which he could have placed his tray was between the blond and the man. Say like if someone burns toast. Wendy's appearance doesn't strike as eccentric or "mousy" today (or to me it doesn't) but back in 1980 her style here would have been perceived as somewhat peculiar, the latitude allowed for divergence from a certain conception of attractiveness not being exactly broad. Stuart Ullman's hair is red and his hairstyle is similar to this unnamed doctor (played beautifully by Anne Jackson) whose hair is also red, and their coloring and builds are much the same. And remember how much I love you. No, Danny said. As they were older, no families or children observed, and were served by youth, the lodge seemed to be a place of rest and relaxation for retirees. 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. Just as the chairs and radiant heaters are symmetrically positioned in the elevator hall, but do not perfectly mirror, the girls are not absolutely identical and not equal in dominance. 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. Ullman visits Wendy in the hospital. The Overlook Hotel is the place that houses the Torrance family for most of the narrative. Write with Grammarly. It may purposefully be an image that gives a double reading. 32 - Jack at the phone in the lobby. And, if so, how long can such an equilibrium be sustained, and what throws it out of balance? TONY: No he ain't, Mrs. Torrance. Moreover, it wants you to put a little ding in the veneer because it's hungry. An owl sits above the rainbow and another image of Snoopy. Did his mother choose it or did Danny himself choose it? Jack will murder the only African-American in The Shining. 79 MS hallway. This gives the reader the ability to picture the horror of the surroundings and also the isolation. So, in The Smallest Show on Earth the two real films used in the theaters are Knock on Wood and Comin' Through the Rye. The Shining is filled with dark and terrifying images. This visual arrangement almost looks like Wendy is actually being killed with the axe. Jack, in King's novel, was fired from his job at a prep school due an altercation with a student, but this is never mentioned in the film and no clear reason is ever given for the family being in Colorado, so one could possibly look upon The Catcher in the Rye as filling in that lost part of the story. (6:14) Where is Pete Van Horn anyway? Didn't he get back yet? As for the presence of the phaser from the Star Trek game, if one looks it up one finds the art on the game's box shows an unidentified man in a red shirt shooting a villain whose body is divided so it's half black and half white. But it's not there. 24:02 - Something like the "sha" sound is heard as Ullman says they brought in a decorator from Chicago to refurbish the Gold Room area. JACK (confidently): Not for me! As the film unfolds, the staging one will eventually view back in that area will appear at first glance to have elevators, but on closer inspection the elevators will be revealed as bathrooms. Shot 124. Then there is Jack himself as Dannys antagonist, representing what the boy may become if he does not accomplish his own journey. Dopey is a voiceless character. We are treated to several ghostly paranormal tales told by individuals who keep entreating the architect to stay. In this scene, he's actively encouraged by Wendy to enter the dialogue. To the rainbow's right we have Mickey's sweetheart, Minnie Mouse. JACK: Well, you can rest assured, Mr. Ullman, that's not going to happen with me. After you claim a section youll have 24 hours to send in a draft. 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: Grab a chair, Bill. Thus, two parties are starting to be defined: on the one hand, Jack and obscure characters of the Special World, pertaining to the true adventure; on the other hand, Danny, Wendy and Hallorann. When Jack abusively berates Wendy, his language is that of a person hostile to the responsibility of parenthood, a sense of his feeling entrapped by her and Danny, the responsibility of the Overlook finally replacing those familial ties in the dramatic Colorado Lounge scene. In her words, From May until October I was really in and out of ill health because the stress of the role was so great. "There are ideas espoused in the movie that I know to be total balderdash.. Notes on Ullman's Desk and Inconsistencies There seems space for another room between Danny's room and the living room. The doctor sits down next to Danny. Privacy Policy, https://bookanalysis.com/stephen-king/the-shining/review/. If you happened to miss the link just above, here first is a short post on the blog with repurposed shots from Google Maps street view pinpointing the location of the Boulder apartment. DANNY: My mom saying, wake up, wake up, wake up Fig. More books than SparkNotes. (7:19) 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. Well, maybe things that happen leave other kinds of traces behind. (15:47) ), 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. 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. When we later see the boiler room, which is also a kind of ramshackle office with an old desk and refrigerator, Bill, as he is represented by Kubrick, seems he would ill fit in with that setting and its numerous girly pin-ups. will review the submission and either publish your submission or providefeedback. THE DOCTOR: If you were to open your mouth now, could I see Tony? (17:20) Obviously unsettled, the doctor gazes silently at Wendy who now reassures Fig. 13 MCU of Danny. Pickens chose to not work with Kubrick again, as he did not like the strenuous Dr. Strangelove shoots. TONY: Don't want to. 10 Tracking shot of Jack through the lobby. Another thing that people make note of is how Jack's suit appears to be a dark blue or gray and white weave in close-up shots, while in other shots it appears to be brown. A shot of Danny's mouth wide open in horror. The dresses, I believe, are two layers of fabric, a swiss dotted blue fabric over white. Jack's interview had uncomfortable information divulged him by Ullman, while Wendy's interview resulted in her relating uncomfortable information. (4:57) Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. As in, the helium balloon has become 3-d but it is still a representational toy. (6:40) "An abrupt sound startled him. Where have we seen something resembling Snoopy's rainbow before? ", 36 MCU of Jack. 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. Very nice to meet you. 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! He revives, in it, the past. Another article advertised on the cover is Interview: The Selling of (Starsky & Hutchs) David Soul. Perhaps Kubrick was throwing in some extra foreshadowing. 93 CU Wendy. GOT LITERARY FICTION The Rainbow in Danny's Room and His Black-out Compared to A Clockwork Orange and the Invitation to the End of the Rainbow in Eyes Wide Shut Fig. THE DOCTOR: Now, Danny, when you were brushing your teeth, do you remember if you smelled anything funny or saw any bright flashing lights or anything at all strange? "His last big role had been in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and between that and the manic grin, the audience automatically identified him as a loony from the first scene. The book also displays mirroring/doubling, with the title displayed in the same manner on the back cover as on the front. Kubrick has done this before, a good example being with an ad of Quilty in Lolita. 55 MCU Danny. My superimposition of the girls and the bloody elevator, showing spatial/design similarities. JACK (correcting): Uh, formerly a schoolteacher. SUSIE: Sure. Accompanied by the sound of dogs barking and children playing (though none are observed) slow zoom in on a complex of blank apartment buildings via a parking lot with a basketball post to the left, the buildings backed by mountains, recalling the initial shot of the lodge at the end of the opening sequence of the movie and striking a parallel. JACK: Susie, how do you do? When the novel begins, the Torrance family is teetering on the edge.
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