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"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. 16 - The Boulder apartment complex. (4:59) One theory is that Kubrick helped to fake the moon landing and The Shining is his confession. Back to Danny's door. The hair style of the Great Mother can be compared to Wendy's three tiered haircut, which is less obvious in some scenes than others. 58 MS Overlook hall. as in Johnny Carson. THE DOCTOR (sympathetic): OK, that's fine. The far left pillar in the elevator hall fits neatly with the left pillar behind the girls. TONY: I just don't. Film reviewer Tim Robey noted, It was not the commercial success Warner Bros. had been hoping for. The film cost $11 million to make and earned $9.5 million in the United States, though it did have a good life in foreign box offices. A shot of Danny's mouth wide open in horror. While he kills his father by trapping him in the maze and letting him die of hypothermia, Danny is resurrected since he survives his most dangerous and almost certain meeting with death at the hands of a stronger opponent. Keeping with the myth of Jacob, when Jacob awoke from his dream, the story goes that he thought, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it. thissection. 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. 9 - Jack crosses the spot where he will later kill Dick, leaping out from behind the pillar on the right. JACK: I don't believe they did. What am I doing here?" This is the stairway Jack will, in the "4 pm" section, use on his approach to the lobby in the scene where he murders Dick. 1 - The Ahwahnee lobby, a Creative Commons image by J. W. Kern. That's where the story is. STUART: Well "Tony" now refers to himself in the first person. We briefly have the feeling of being within the confines of the hedge maze with the Boulder greenery filling in the wall to the left, and the potted plants spilling their greenery from above. (3:05). Mr. Ullman says that Jack made good time and asks his secretary to bring them coffee and requests she call Bill Watson to join them. People in the Torrance's station of class would be trying to transition from a more 60s flavor of impoverished student style of decoration to one that connoted some stability, as represented in the heavy credenza and coffee table and end tables, and the matching brown sofas. 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. Fig. But perhaps he does. 69 MCU Wendy. My superimposition of the girls and the bloody elevator, showing spatial/design similarities. Jack remembers his father beating his mother and dealing with his own addiction to alcohol. Jack's repeated throwing of a tennis ball at the wall above the fireplace is our foresight that he will later be chopping through doors with an axe in pursuit of his family. Another tale concerns a ventriloquist with a dummy that turns out to be independently alive, a plot that served as basis for the later Danny Kaye film, Knock on Wood. Yet another theory reads the film as a story about the Holocaust and concentration camps. WENDY: Yeah, I know. WENDY: Hi, hon, how's it goin'? In the background is a book titled Teeny Weeny Adventures. (17:27) 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. But the individual pages in the film contain different layouts and mistakes. The blue sleeves are decorated with white stars on red bands. DOCTOR: Yes. You better run fast. 31 - Wendy in the living room speaking to Jack on the telephone, the television running in the background. Lunch with Danny, Wendy, Tony, The Catcher in the Rye, and the Kensington, Shots 12 through 20 WENDY: What was the matter with him? (16:09) Character Development. 46 MCU of Stuart. More research is needed in order to thoroughly examine the psychology of the characters, the progression of narrative events, the films relationship with the horror genre, the role of its stylistic patterning (both visual and aural) in the narrational process, and the implicit and symptomatic meanings that may be constructed. 45 MCU of Jack. The Two Types of Photographs in the Hotel, Notes on Ullman's Desk and Inconsistencies, Danny's First Shining of the Girls and the Bloody Elevator, The Rainbow in Danny's Room and His Black-out, On the Two Union or Liberty Suits and the Two Necklaces. Stylistically, as far as set design, it's interesting how the sharp angle in the graphic design of the milk carton, which rests above and follows Wendy's shoulder, is echoed in the diagonal of the ironing board stand above Danny's shoulder. STUART: Bill, I'd like you to meet Jack Torrance. There are other linkages and so we'll be coming back to this later. 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. Just as Wendy wears two pairs of union suits, we do, in a way, have two Wendys. I was about to explain that, uhm, our season here runs from, uh, May 15th to October 30th, then we close down completely until the following May. In Review, What Has Kubrick Given Us in This Section? 16 MCU of Wendy. My husband had uh been drinking, and he came home about three hours late, so he wasn't exactly in the greatest mood that night, and, well, Danny had scattered some of his school papers all over the room and my husband grabbed his arm, you know, to pull him away from them. All rights reserved. The scene actually made it into The Guinness Book of Records because it took 127 takes, the most for a scene with spoken dialogue. Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story, or a chapter, and helps the reader develop expectations about the coming events in a story. The catchphrase worked and stayed in the film. Just as with the happenings later in Room 237, we have no assurance what it is that Danny sees. Jack informs Wendy he got the job and has a lot to do so won't be home before 9 or 10. In addition to improvising one of the most famous lines of the film, Nicholson actually wrote an entire scene. There is constant conflict between Jack and Wendy even before he is possessed as he has anger issues and a tendency to be violent when he has drunk too much. As in, the helium balloon has become 3-d but it is still a representational toy. 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. While filming the scene in which Jack breaks down a bathroom door with an ax, Nicholson shouted out the famous Ed McMahon line from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He could only be somewhere out of sight behind the pillar that partially covers the man's chair. 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. The Greatest of All Time, aka . There isn't radiant heat in the Gold Room or the red bathroom. Foreshadowing can add tension or expectation to the narrative. DANNY: Because he hides. one, thought I'd check it out. 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. THE DOCTOR: Did Tony's first appearance happen to coincide with your arrival here? Fig. 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. 02/8/2023. 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. 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. The author describes the malevolent spirit of the hotel as ghosts, as it has possessed each individual "ghost" and uses each one as a physical extension of itself. The first such sound, as I've already mentioned, occurs when Jack passes over the spot where he will attack Dick with an axe. 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. 87 MCU Doctor. Jim Barrie was, himself, a rather sinister figure in his attraction to boys. Circularity of action is in all of Kubrick's films. 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. 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. The scene in which Wendy is swinging a bat at Jack is an example of this pushing. 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. 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. From there, the eye seems even to be pulled, by the yellow and orange framed graphic, off screen to the left. 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. The only thing that can get a bit trying up here during the winter is a tremendous sense of isolation. 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. There is no Room 237 in the hotel, so that number was chosen. Which, of course, is a great concern of this film. 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. What's the teaser candy bait? Why leave it out? (10:06) The fictional Overlook Hotel, a summer resort in the Colorado Rockies. Some claim that it would have been characteristic of the director to individually prepare each page. Jack does not have a strong inciting incident, although something similar happens when he scolds Wendy in the Colorado Lounge, asking her not to disturb him while he is working, and when in the following short sequence he is seen staring outside the window while Wendy and Danny are playing in the snow. Insouciant banality is the best indication of a truly and deeply dysfunctional situation that will eat you alive at the slightest scratch of the veneer. As for the radiant heat, the fact that the hotel used a boiler was of primary importance in King's book. 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. These stickers and a number of toys left behind, something is going to step in to fill the vacuum. 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. 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. THE DOCTOR: What's the next thing you remember, after brushing your teeth? RECEPTIONIST: His office is the first door on the left. 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. This all links up with Jack's comment that. And that was just for the final scene! An examination of the below map of the lobby and associated areas will make obvious the absurdity of the window. This is the Crossing of the First Threshold for Jack, since he enters the Special World inside the Overlook Hotel. GOT LITERARY FICTION Thus, 8 and 1/2. 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. 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. Two of these pairs are heard wishing goodbye to Mr Ullman. Kubrick's films are full of repetitive motifs. In The Shining however, the use of foreshadowing fits in as a narrative device. Mini stories and flashbacks included throughout the novel help readers better understand who Jack is and why the hotel is able to take hold of his mind. -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. 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. Below are 15 examples of foreshadowing and irony in the James Hurst short story, "The Scarlet Ibis." FORESHADOWING. It was in Fear and Desire, in which the film begins as it ends with the same view of the valley. In the lobby, during his phone call, Jack had been standing beside AVIS brochures advertising "Experience a Colorado Adventure" with a building of Spanish Mission style architecture set against the mountains. The first plot point follows: Danny enters the Colorado Lounge with bruises on his neck after his father wakes up from his nightmare. Other . On the ground below the helium balloon figure we see a multi-colored striped object. Two union suits. NtRK and her many potentials are waiting There's a spot light set up on the porch and even in the daylight we can see it shining. DOCTOR: Bye. 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 The theme of family bonds is one of the most important in the novel. White shelves holding books hang on the rear wall. Off to the right he heard it, and his ears, expert in such matters could not be mistaken. Directing Jack to Ullman's office, she points him to the "first door on the left". Oh Danny, for Gods sake No, Danny said. 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. We hear a horn honk outside. Cut to a hall of the Overlook with nearly symmetrically placed brown plaid chairs and radiant heaters, the bright red doors of elevators beyond. 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. Alex's interview was in preparation for treatment to aid his reform, an opportunity provided by a "new order". The Kubrick Corner shows that continuing from the point where we see the movie behind Wendy in the living room, running it in real time, to when the blood is shown gushing through the elevator shaft in Danny's vision, it matches up with a discussion in Carson City on a leak having been found in the tunnel that's then under construction. If it's not a female form it may show at the bottom two or three human silhouettes against an unknown background. 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). WENDY: It was just one of those things, you know, purely an accident. Shot 117. The bank owner who's told this is surprised by the fact, and it's explained to him that the reason there are two is that they are being drilled from opposite sides of the mountain to meet in the middle. The place was first called Luz, so its original name was supplanted. This is the clearest physical interaction between a ghost and ordinary reality in the film, and Jacks escape is the second plot point of the film. 91 CU Wendy. 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. The Montana mountains and the road shown in the opening, which I've discussed in that section, I think are likely chosen not just for their beauty but for Montana being known as the land of Shining Mountains. "There are ideas espoused in the movie that I know to be total balderdash.. The rainbow precedes a focus on Danny's eyes during his visionary experience, after which all goes dark as his vision is covered with the blood flowing from the elevator. 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. 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. Peter Sellers, as a projectionist who is trying to not drink, has to wrestle constantly with the theater's ancient projectors to not only keep them running but to prevent them from destroying the film. Added all shots 2012. 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. 44 - Wendy reassures the doctor that everything is fine. It also worked well with the circa 1920 building we were living in. On the art. 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). The Question and Answer section for The Shining is a great His wife seems to be enthusiastic about the prospect as well. As the camera stays fixed on Jack, Ullman begins This is stronger in the 144 version, since we know about Jacks alcoholism. Fig. 75 MCU Danny. In The Shining Houses by Alice Munro we have the theme of change, appearance, conflict, modernity, independence and acceptance. Or we may just be seeing through the blue cloth the white of underslilps. Shot 122. My take on the use of 42 has been that it is possibly referring to the Tetragrammaton, and it is interesting that the use of 42 coincides here with the music for the Awakening of Jacob. A man, reading, speaks with a blond woman in white. 5 - Mastroianni as he appeared in "8 and 1/2". Jack wants to bring his family to the hotel for a fresh new start but it is actually the end of their family and the end of Jack's life. Moreover, Lloyd is the first Ally encountered by Jack in the Special World (Grady will follow). Seems it's a question posed with some caution. Cut to Wendy washing dishes, still in her union suits and blue overdress, and we now see an Indian beaded belt about her waist. There are distinct differences between the Ahwahnee and the Overlook but undoubtedly the Ahwahnee and the Overlook are siblings. 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. Jacks nightmare of killing his family may be compared to a Call to Adventure, since it is the first explicit sign of murderous thoughts which are going to be construed as the new desire during the adventure. 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. The vibe is the same and the projectors look like miniature versions of the boilers that only serve a portion of the Overlook, forced heat being used in much of it. The lobby, with its radiators, aappears to be dependent on radiant heat. Much the same happens with Jack at the Overlook. Foreshadowing is used as a literary device to tease readers about plot turns that will occur later in the story. 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. Uhm, let's see. As Bill enters, we see in the secretarial area beyond a print on the wall. Fig. The Shining seemed to introduce a promising child star in Danny Lloyd. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) enters, his gray suit appearing cheap, limp and out of place with the resort attire of the others. 30:16 - Dick asks Danny, as to shining, "How long have you been able to do it" (sound). 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 novel ends with an immense explosion that takes the Overlook and Jack Torrance with it. (6:40) 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. 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. We can tell he's a new arrival as the red-coated valet behind him is porting his bags. I posit that we need to reflect upon what it means if Kubrick is tying in these projectors with the idea of the boilers, and it seems he is. One could think of Jack's axe as corresponding with the drill in the Carson City movie. 40 MCU of Jack. Later, a painting above the double bed in the apartment used by the Torrances will provide a view of the lodge's mountain from a similar vantage point, only from across Mirror Lake during either spring or summer. She has been speaker in film studies conferences in Italian universities. Good boy. (12:13) THE DOCTOR: Have you been in Boulder long. This allowed The Shining to be one of the most successful and truly suspenseful horror films of its time (11:03) I will come to how this works with Dick's murder in a moment, and explore the connection with the girls later. And remember how much I love you. No, Danny said. She then stands by the window . 34 - The vision of the bloody elevator. Returning to their planet, Cheron, it's discovered to have been destroyed by racial war. -When Wendy tries to convince Danny that moving to the Overlook Hotel won't be so bad, she says, "It'll be a lot of fun.". 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. An elder man in light clothing has entered the area before the elevators from the hall beyond. (13:44) More books than SparkNotes.