From the first pages, before Danny even steps foot into the hotel, its clear that the building will present the family with an evil that none of them can imagine. For example, Ullmans office has a window to the outside, but there are rooms surrounding the office, making that window impossible. He came up here with his wife and two little girls, I think about eight and ten. Kubrick borrowed from the Ahwahnee, with alterations, what is the receptionist and cashier area in the film. But is that the meaning for this "sha" or is it something else? Another example of playful ball throwing as a foreshadow of axe swinging is that Danny and Wendy are shown throwing snowballs at each other outside. Read the Study Guide for The Shining (1977 Novel), Racial Stereotypes and Cinematic Adaptation: The Shining Critical Analysis, View Wikipedia Entries for The Shining (1977 Novel). This is the same television as will be observed eventually in the Torrance's suite at the Overlook, but we will not see it until Wendy paces the floor deliberating on how she may have to leave the mountain without Jack. At that film's end, a woman stands beside a fence at an airport, holding a dog that she treats as a child. WENDY: Only about three months. In these opening scenes, it does seem as if Kubrick has emphasized some of Wendy's (Shelley's) striking features, creating a kind of caricature of her, as is done with cartoon figures. So, what is being presented isn't exactly matching up. The next scene in The Shining has the doctor examining Danny's eyes with a bright light and saying, "Now, hold your eyes still so I can see." I said earlier that Kubrick did a nice job of lifting this apartment's style/furnishings straight out of the the late 70s. 17 - Wendy and Danny eat lunch, watching cartoons. 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. Did Jack have any trouble finding them? Eyes Wide Shut has near its beginning an invitation to go where the rainbow ends. 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. 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). STUART: Grab a chair, Bill. We note a low glare of light on the face of the desk between Jack and Bill Watson, prominent enough that it almost takes on a sense of phantom presence. In the background is a book titled Teeny Weeny Adventures. (sound). Now, come on, tell me. Hes ashamed of who his father was, that is until he is firmly in the grasp of the hotel and has turned against his own family. The point of view is largely third person but also tends to be that of Danny Torrance. A 197 minute read at 130 wpm. 52 MS Jack in the Overlook lobby. The Kubrick Corner has a fascinating clip extracted from a movie called Carson City which is the one that happens to be playing in the background during the scene in which Wendy answers Jack's call from the hotel. The television in the background, topped with and surrounded by stacks of books, shows now an old western film rather than the cartoons. (6:07) Jack convivially wonders why. This device is valuable, as it allows readers to make connections between themes, characters, symbols, and more-both within a literary work and between works of literature. What this difference in dominance means (or how it functions) will be discussed in the "Saturday" section. In the second paragraph, children put stones in their pockets and make piles of stones in the town square, which seems like innocent play until the stones' true purpose becomes clear at the end of the story. Hanging above the sink is a green and white dish towel that may read "Golf with the Greats". (6:40) Relieved, Wendy sighs and smiles. If Danny is unconvinced that going to the Overlook is a swell idea, she is attempting to use Tony to convince him otherwise. GradeSaver, The Possibilities of Mental Illness in the Shining. Wendy directs the doctor into the living room, past the painting of a horse running down a track toward an oncoming train. The Two Types of Photographs in the Hotel Wendy isn't at all like Stephen King imagined her to be." According to the set still photographer, It was a huge fire in there one night, massive fire, we never really discovered what caused that fire and it burned down two sound stages and threatened a third at Elstree Studios. It is a classic of the horror genre and has inspired numerous authors and filmmakers since it was written. 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. The embellishments employed by Kubrick are in many places not the same as at the Ahwahnee, such as at the tops of these columns. 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. Jack's interview had uncomfortable information divulged him by Ullman, while Wendy's interview resulted in her relating uncomfortable information. We're well on our way to the anticipated train crash of an ending. The radiant heat, powered by a boiler, isn't of so much importance here, yet Kubrick has rigged it so the Overlook has both radiant heat and forced air heat. It may purposefully be an image that gives a double reading. In the Gold Room Jack meets Lloyd the first ghost he sees who acts as a Threshold Guardian. 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. Just as Wendy wears two pairs of union suits, we do, in a way, have two Wendys. 48:36 - When Wendy calls the forest rangers about the downed lines. Stanley pushed me and prodded me further than Ive ever been pushed before. We're from Vermont. At least, to the best of my memory, that's how I perceived it upon first view when the movie was released. To protect Lloyd, who was 5 years old when he made the film, Kubrick told him that they were filming a drama. WENDY: Sure I do, it'll be lots of fun. And faced with the challenge that some people might be put off, Jack rises up to the occasion and assures Stuart he and his wife won't be. A lot of this foreshadowing is shown to the reader in the form of Danny's ability, 'the shining'. 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. Mr. Ullman (Barry Nelson) welcomes Jack pleasantly, rising and shaking his hand. The characters accept the window and, trusting the characters, the audience assumes this must be an external wall. STUART (laughing): Yeah, it is. 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? (9:08) The camera on Jack, Ullman continues his story. 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. Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor. STUART: Oh, and would you ask Bill Watson to join us. 20:59 - When Stuart tells Wendy the Indian designs are based mostly on Hopi and Apache motifs, there may follow a "sha" sound. 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. Two union suits. Below, resting on the floor is a tray decorated with flowers all in autumnal brown tones, and the plates upon which they eat are decorated similarly. The Works of Ina Seidel and the Third Reich. Which suggests she may be wondering if he's epileptic. The same happens with environments in Lolita and Eyes Wide Shut, as I've pointed out in my analyses of them, but Kubrick's skewing the sets so they aren't what they appear to be services The Shining well with its introduction of a sinister aspect. There are windows on three sides. He tells Danny that he loves him and should run for his life. The desk is covered with protective glass and appears even more cluttered than it is partly because of its reflective surface mirroring all the objects placed upon it. Just as the Bijou's audiences are influenced, both intentionally and by synchronicity (the train), experiencing certain aspects of the film in reality, what do these intersections mean to the audience of film in general (or any art), and in particular The Shining? Shot 122. But Tony's more independent than that. 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. 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. -Wendy compares the kitchen to a maze when Dick Hallorann gives her a tour of it, and jokes that she'll need breadcrumbs to find her way out of it in the winter, referencing Hansel and Gretel. Stanley Kubrick is known for his forays into different genresand horror was a genre that piqued his interest early on in his career. Mr. Ullman's door is open revealing, in contrast to the lodge's general appearance, a more modern, though unimposing, salmon-pink room unpleasantly illuminated with several ceiling florescent lights and most prominently decorated with two high shelves on either wall holding potted plants. 25:25 - Wendy says, "See you later, hon" (sound occurs during this). Woodstock, a friend of Snoopy's, wasn't very adept at flying, thus the balloon. 83 MCU Doctor. The wicker chair was standard fare. Is "The Great Mother" intended to be their mother? What could be more frightening than being a solitary child with psychic foresight and an over-active imagination running away from a murderous adult in an endless maze that plays spatial tricks on the mind? The prophecy concerning them was, "One people will be stronger than the other." The presence of The Catcher in the Rye at the table may belie Jack's later assertion that Wendy is a great fan of ghost stories and horror. 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. This includes alcoholism, battles against evil, disembodied villains, corruption, and insanity. Regardless, he was a particularly strange pick for the role of Dick Hallorann because the character is Black in the book. Kubrick's Watson differs significantly from King's. (5:43) An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. STUART: Well, obviously some people can be put off 15 - The crossfade from Ullman's office to the apartment complex in Boulder. OK? He doesn't just cut it out, he jumps a few seconds into a following segment, letting us hear the elastic kind of sound (like rubber bands) of one of those boxes with a handle you press down so TNT goes off, and there's a big explosion that follows that in the cartoon but Kubrick cuts that out. 67 MCU Doctor. -Mr. Ullman jokes that he wouldn't want to enter the hedge maze unless he had an hour to figure out how to escape from it. 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. JACK (confidently): Not for me! 59 CU Danny. Shot 142. The Impossible Window. But Danny, who has always loved his father indiscriminately, refuses to. 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. "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. A question presented by the movie is what isn't destiny, what isn't a foregone conclusion, and what prevents history from repeating itself? According to the Drummerman site, the music played during Danny's vision is Krysztof Penderecki's, "The Awakening of Jacob" which concerns Jacob falling asleep and having a terrifying dream of angels ascending and descending a heavenly ladder. More books than SparkNotes. Fig. On the ground below the helium balloon figure we see a multi-colored striped object. In this case the Threshold Guardian is clearly an objective correlative of an obscure part of Jacks mind. (Crossfade ends at 10:34.) Jacks Crisis: What Role Did Narcissistic Injury and Cultural Circumstance Play in Jacks Breakdown? DANNY: Tony, do you think dad will get the job? (13:36) Take for instance A Clockwork Orange in which we have a couple of instances of Fleur-de-lis, the first being at the home of the Cat Woman, on the stoop of which Alex is "blinded", leading to a dramatic turn in Alex's life with the Cat Woman's death. 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. 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. 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. 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. The floors read B L 2 3 4. We also have another proof that Wendy is psychologically fragile, since she is submissive to her husband. On the right wall are immediately noticeable a number of honorific plaques and documents. 12 - A hairstyle typical of Wendy. Im coming in close., During the conversation with Halloran Danny asks. I'd like you to take him around the place as soon as we're through. The Shining (1977 Novel) Literary Elements by Stephen King The Shining (1977 Novel) Literary Elements These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. 92 MS Doctor from Wendy's side. 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). The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Colorado, upon which Stephen King based his book, was built instead by Freelan Oscar Stanley. Shot 102. -Jack tells Wendy that he fell in love with the hotel the first time he saw it and felt as if he'd been there before. WENDY: Well, how come you don't want to go? In A Clockwork Orange, when Alex is imprisoned, during prison exercises he is shown walking an almost relentless circle beneath the figure of a pyramid, and following that scene we go to his interview with the prison governor which has close parallels to Jack's interview with Ullman. The characters never actually interact with the window. I don't think it's as certain that Danny sees himself. 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 is still open each year from May 20th to September 20th. Jack is going to take care of the Overlook for us this winter. 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. JACK: Well, I'm looking for a change. 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. Such a design was used also by the Hopi. STUART (off-screen): of itself become a problem. Bele, whose skin is a mirror image of Lokai's, is in pursuit of Lokai. -Mr. Ullman tells Jack and Wendy that the hotel is rumored to be built on an ancient Native American burial ground, and that it suffered attacks from some local Native American tribes while it was being built in the early twentieth century. He approaches a clerk at the registration desk for direction. The only foreshadowing I see in the story, "The Gift of the Magi", is when Della has been crying because she only has $1.87 cents to buy a gift for Jim. This is more than reliance on single point photography for connecting scenes. Give your writing extra polish. The sound of the tricycle wheels alternating between the carpet and floorboards sound uncannily like the music when Danny is chased through the freezing maze by his father. Thus, his need consists of achieving fulfilment, something he attempts to do in a morbid way at the expense of his family. Are we simply seeing something that was intended to keep out competitive light during filming, or does it foreshadow Dick's death? JACK: Well, if you're going to have some I wouldn't mind, thanks. So, Kubrick has cast as his heroine an actress who departs from the strict ideal and has accentuated this, for in the documentary of The Shining Shelly exhibits indeed a striking, ethereal beauty. The point of view in the film alternates between Jack, Danny, and an objective camera. 29 - Crossfade from Jack in Ullman's office to the Boulder bathroom. For a while I misinterpreted a little sculpture next to salt and pepper shakers as an elephant. 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 Shining seemed to introduce a promising child star in Danny Lloyd. In other words, so primal nature won't take over again, which suggests a constant fight against it. Csar Albarrn-Torres Amanda Barbour Tara Judah Abel Muoz-Hnonin Fiona Villella. THE DOCTOR: Mrs. Torrance, I don't think you have anything to worry about. "Those huge corridors and ballrooms couldnt fit inside. The red painted hall that she walks down just prior to seeing the river of blood is also a subliminal to this effect. That ugly rug peculiarly matches almost exactly with one we picked up in the early 2000s, that we got because it was better than anything else cheaply available and matched up well with some really nice brown brocade covers on our living room futons. (17:20) Obviously unsettled, the doctor gazes silently at Wendy who now reassures The Shining study guide contains a biography of Stanley Kubrick, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. We are treated to several ghostly paranormal tales told by individuals who keep entreating the architect to stay. DANNY: I don't want to talk about Tony anymore. This has to do with the film processing. After they have coffee, we see at 5:55 a cigarette in the ashtray and Ullman's white pen pointed toward him (Figure 20); at 6:45 we see the tray is empty when all three men are shown (Figure 22); at 6:58 Ullman's pen is pointed toward him and there is a cigarette in the ashtray; at 7:20 there is no cigarette and the pen is pointed away (Figure 23); at 7:58 the pen is pointed away and there is this time a cigarette (Figure 24); at 8:05 the pen is pointed toward Ullman and there is a cigarette; at 8:26 the pen is pointed away and there is no cigarette; at 9:42 the pen is pointed toward Ullman and there is a cigarette; at 10:07 the pen is pointed away and there is a cigarette. J. W. Kern has a beautiful page with more photos at his blog, the Golden Sieve. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is widely considered to be among the best big-screen adaptations of a Stephen King storyand with good reason. On a pragmatic level, Jacks desire concerns completing his tasks, namely writing his novel, being the caretaker, and in the third act killing his family and Hallorann. Hood in Oregon. The 1980s horror movie The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick utilized these aspects very well. 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. So when we are looking at the Overlook from the aerial view, this is what informs the pyramidal structure of the lobby, yet Kubrick has stripped it out of the film as far as the set interior, preferring instead to have no fireplace at all in the lobby of the Overlook, patterning its appearance after the lodge at Yosemite. 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. 69 MCU Wendy. (4:50). 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. Still, Lokai and Bele are unable to resolve their differences and chase each other back down to that world, the storyline ending so that we have no idea as to their fate. The Shining (1980) is a horror-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. WENDY: No. Shot 117. 31 - Wendy in the living room speaking to Jack on the telephone, the television running in the background. Although there is darkness, readers arent likely to be haunted by Kings story. The fictional Overlook Hotel, a summer resort in the Colorado Rockies. 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 sort of injury? WENDY: Anyway, something good did come out of it all because he said, uh The Awakening of Jacob 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. Pendereckis De Natura Sonoris no. Since the beginning of the book, hints are dropped pertaining to what will happen later on in the novel. I am particularly interested in the train because Kubrick has used trains in his other films. Around the hotel we will see prints of pastels of indigenous children by Dorothy Oxborough. THE DOCTOR: What's the next thing you remember, after brushing your teeth? The presence of boxes in the background immediately communicates impermanence, transience. The waiter and his silver service just disappearing from sight, perhaps behind a pillar, seems to be a foreshadowing of this. What's the distraction? After we see Jack frozen to death, we find him frozen in a 1921 photograph. 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.
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