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. TONY: No he ain't, Mrs. Torrance. The characters accept the window and, trusting the characters, the audience assumes this must be an external wall. The embellishments employed by Kubrick are in many places not the same as at the Ahwahnee, such as at the tops of these columns. So, there are two interviews, and perhaps even three if we count the doctor speaking with Danny. She has been speaker in film studies conferences in Italian universities. Back to Danny's door. 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. 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. 52 MS Jack in the Overlook lobby. Curtains decorated with Snoopy and friends hang on Danny's window. Later, the primary conflict is between the hotel and Danny as it tries to possess him, but he stands up to the threat. The dresses, I believe, are two layers of fabric, a swiss dotted blue fabric over white. 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. "Flock of Loons" is also seen near the secondary exit/entrance Wendy and Jack use to exit the lodge toward the end of the film. Classic 60s design is down at the Salvation Army waiting for a new home, or rotting in a landfill, replaced with cheap 70s ugly lamps and faux wood coffee table and end tables. The book also displays mirroring/doubling, with the title displayed in the same manner on the back cover as on the front. In German versions, the phrase translates to: Dont put off till tomorrow what you can do today. The Spanish translation is: Although one will rise early, it wont dawn sooner. In Italian: He who wakes up early meets a golden day.. Afterwards, Jack quarrels with Wendy about his needs, and then he has a sort of Approach to the Inmost Cave. The vision of them is claustrophobic, compressed, the wallpaper's design on the left pushing to the rear, then circling around the girls and pressing back toward the audience. Yes! Is that some art work showing a terrier above the television? The "sha" follows the word "skiing" at about 6:12. The camera continually takes in new information on the hotel, just as Jack does. And, recollect, we have the doctor shining the bright light in Danny's eyes just previous that. Fig. 3 - Kubrick's use of the Greek key at the beginning and end of "Lolita", initiating the execution of Quilty from it. Many of the seemingly innocuous details throughout "The Lottery" foreshadow the violent conclusion. She is also, through this crossfade, allied with the caretaker, Bill. In Eyes Wide Shut the newspaper articles that surround the one on the OD of the model have to do with synchronous violent events on a subway/train happening several years apart almost to the day, those stories having been real life events. "Those huge corridors and ballrooms couldnt fit inside. 88 MS Wendy from the doctor's side. Shot 117. We also have another proof that Wendy is psychologically fragile, since she is submissive to her husband. 35 MCU of Stuart. 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. I said earlier that Kubrick did a nice job of lifting this apartment's style/furnishings straight out of the the late 70s. TONY: I don't know. Our first acquaintance with the Gold Room hall and the maze. I discuss the terrier in this post. With the equinoxes, it is the simple incessant progression of time that brings balance and then imbalance. To the best of my knowledge, below are the timings of the voicing: And a man dressed almost completely in white who stands staring over the table top maze in the same stance that Jack does (he can be seen in the far background as Jack tells his wife hes got the job). 33 MCU of Stuart. The cart swerves to avoid the dog, the case falls, bursts open, the money spills out and is swept across the tarmac by the plane's propellers. 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. This is the case for many of the windows in the filmthey dont work in context. 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. They are the very definition of balance and imbalance. 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. On top of the refrigerator are a couple more canisters of Koolaid, and several postcards are on its front, one of a golden sunrise or sunset. In other words, so primal nature won't take over again, which suggests a constant fight against it. In addition to improvising one of the most famous lines of the film, Nicholson actually wrote an entire scene. At the same time we are taking in an elevator beyond, before which stands a man who carries a wrapped pole of sort, perhaps a fishing pole as he carries a hat that is typically used for fishing. 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. 29:21 - Dick asks, "Do you know how I knew your name was Doc" (sound). Most of the photographs observed on the walls of Ullman's office are black and white photos of the type chronicling meetings and luncheons and likely the presence of significant personalities at the lodge, but we also see behind Bill Watson two sepia photos and one wonders what may be their value. Fig. The comparison isn't too far fetched when one considers that Jack suffers from writer's block and the director in 8 and 1/2 was suffering from a creative block and musing on his life and its relationship to his work, his imaginings mingling with reality. A garbage trucks license plate reads RM237. And Trixie chats online with a dinosaur toy down the street who happens to have the screen name Velocistar237.. RECEPTIONIST: His office is the first door on the left. He tells her, About the things you saw at the hotel. THE DOCTOR: Have you been in Boulder long. The Bijou Cinema having been revived (somewhat), the new owners enter one day to hear the projector running and a piano being played. 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. Jack says it doesn't bother him. 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. Spooks? Ullman has a bit of quirk where he often rubs his finger against the side of his nose or beneath it, bringing to mind Danny's Tony who assumes presence via Danny's index finger. Can the bloody murder that Danny fears, which would be a duplicate of the Grady family killings, be avoided? How can I possibly exist? (Though King himself isn't much of a fan.) Fig. 56 MS Overlook hall. 60 MS Overlook hall. DOCTOR: Yes. The view also shows the oven with matched pots arranged on top, an exhaust fan above, and perhaps a coffee maker. 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). I'm sure that I've thoroughly managed to confuse you there. We see beyond her an elder woman in tan, who had been in that earlier grouping, and is now seated opposite the lobby's television and catty corner to where the man with the camera had been earlier seated. How so? Wendy is well aware of the danger that her husband poses when hes drunk. The fault of this is perhaps Wendy lying. CHAPTER SIX I made the trip in 3 and a half hours. This includes alcoholism, battles against evil, disembodied villains, corruption, and insanity. The novel concerns the collapsing mental health of a teenage boy who has problems with "applying himself" and has recently been kicked out of his prep school. I'm not at all married to the idea, just proposing it. (Sha sound 9:34) 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. 59 CU Danny. I believe I recollect reading a number of years ago, in a magazine article in the 80s or 90s, that the metallic object was part of the mechanism for the opening of the door and the shot was so expensive that Kubrick decided not to redo it. Images like these make the novel so thrilling to read. The Torrances, particularly Danny, are the protagonists. GradeSaver "The Shining Literary Elements". 11 Crossfade from the office to Boulder exterior. Danny feels lonely since he has nobody to play with, and he is reluctant about going to the hotel, but he cant oppose the project. (12:07). This has to do with the film processing. But, not so much where her story takes away from the main issue at handbattling the Overlook Hotel. A lot of this foreshadowing is shown to the reader in the form of Danny's ability, 'the shining'. 65 MS Danny's bedroom. Fig. 25:11 - "Dick (sound) if you're ready to do it now, show" The scene where Stuart has Dick show Wendy and Danny the kitchen. JACK: Well, that hmmm just happens to be exactly what I'm looking for. On the ground below the helium balloon figure we see a multi-colored striped object. (6:40) The place was first called Luz, so its original name was supplanted. The velociraptor kitchen scene has multiple references to "The Shining." The end credits contain a reference to Spielberg's 1977 sci-fi film, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." . STUART: Police, well, they thought it was what the old timers used to call cabin fever, kind of claustrophobic reaction which can occur 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?) There are radiant heaters in this section. The disconcerting music, its intermittent roars, continues. WENDY: It sounds like you got the job. These have a gematria of 42. Well, you see Doc, when something happens it can leave a trace of itself behind. DANNY: Now, Tony, tell me. The plot of the film. The tone and mood are both threatening and malevolent. There is no Room 237 in the hotel, so that number was chosen. The metaphorical gate behind his back is definitely close. Ullman introduces Jack. DANNY: Yes. We can go back even farther than the sound of the train to the film's opening and the curious activity around the the tunnel through which the VW passes as it travels up the mountainside, that tunnel bookended by cars that have pulled over to the side of the road, a white family station wagon preceding it and the two-tone color auto following. That Roy Clews was the author of a book about a needle mill worker (a needle guides thread) is a nice bit of serendipity. At the end of The Shining, Jack chases young Danny through a snow-covered hedge maze before finally dying. Stephen Kings use of character development throughout this novel is what makes the book so thrilling and moving. There are three variations of placement of objects on Ullman's desk viewed throughout the interview, and as people seem to like to ask about and discuss these variations, I thought I"d devote a few paragraphs to them. Relieved, Wendy sighs and smiles. 27:00 - Wendy says to Dick, "We call him Doc sometimes, like in the Bugs Bunny cartoons" (sound of "sha"). Are we to be reminded of Peter Pan and Wendy, Jim Barrie having met the Davies children at Kensington Gardens and playing with them there? STUART: This is my secretary, Susie. 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. Its unclear what exactly is going to happen to the family, but King ensures that readers continue through the story and find out. But the book itself isnt filled with jump scares or ghastly scenes of violence. 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. We've the same feeling of symmetry here that will be found in the halls and the Colorado Room. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. Reality syncs with the film. Our first acquaintance with the Gold Room hall and the maze. He approaches a clerk at the registration desk for direction. (15:47) DANNY: Tony, why don't you want to go to the hotel? 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. Looking at the filing cabinet again, it appears there is a small elephant resting on it before a postal weight scale. Though Kubrick did in the opening section associate Jack with the VW, having his name in the credits pass over the VW as the helicopter zoomed in on the auto, we are only working on an assumption, at this point, that the VW in the opening has anything to do with Jack. 20:59 - When Stuart tells Wendy the Indian designs are based mostly on Hopi and Apache motifs, there may follow a "sha" sound. 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. The Colorado Lounge section and the halls associated with Room 237 only use forced air heat. We're all going to have a real good time. Foreshadowing in THE SHINING - film analysis - YouTube 0:00 / 14:46 Foreshadowing in THE SHINING - film analysis 90,703 views Jul 21, 2019 3.2K Dislike Share Save Rob Ager 79.4K subscribers. An owl sits above the rainbow and another image of Snoopy. Shot 124. 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. -When Jack chops down the bathroom door to reach Wendy, he shouts, "Here's Johnny," a reference to the Johnny Carson show. -Constant references to the impending snowstorm foreshadow the family being stranded at the hotel. Kubrick raises that question for the audience and leaves it to linger. The two most distinct instances of the sound here are during the two reaction shots of Jack, when he's saying his wife and child will love it there, and then again his reaction to the idea of the tragedy occurring because of people shut in together over long periods of time. 72 MCU Doctor. At the Ahwahnee, and in the film's lodge, the columns are painted at the top with borders of a repetitive design, the Overlook's being different from the Ahwahnee. The blue sleeves are decorated with white stars on red bands. 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. According to David Hughes, one of Kubricks biographers, Stephen King wrote an entire draft of a screenplay for The Shining. Jacks Crisis: What Role Did Narcissistic Injury and Cultural Circumstance Play in Jacks Breakdown? GradeSaver, The Possibilities of Mental Illness in the Shining. GOT KUBRICK AND ANTONIONI FILM ANALYSES 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. Here is the quote: Doc, Jack Torrance said. Only toward the end, when Dick enters the hall previous his fatal confrontation with Jack, will the camera finally reveal briefly the area where the photo in question will be seen at film's end, and we'll observe that the photo in question isn't there. On a psychological level, Jacks fatal flaw pertains both to the fear of failure and particularly in the 144 version to alcoholism. Shot 427. In The Shining, socioeconomic class is presented as an underlying motive for Jack's descent into madness. DANNY: To my stomach. 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. In the first case, Jack i.e., this instantiation of the caretaker has obtained the elixir, and will return; in the second case, he has missed the chance to get it and is forever trapped in the limbo of an irretrievable past. 76 MCU Doctor. The light of the unseen window, through the shower curtain, is as prominent as was the light of the window in Ullman's office. In . 87 MCU Doctor. On the art. STUART (off-screen): so the elements can't get a foothold. But 42 is also associated with it. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. This is more than reliance on single point photography for connecting scenes. In my novel, 'The Shining' by Stephen King, there is constant foreshadowing. We see beyond them the sign "The Gold Room" which is to the right of double doors (only in the opening and closing scenes is this sign to the right), these double doors framed with gold drapes and leading to a hall with walls and doors in the same design as the lobby but which has red sofas and will be later observed to have the Gold Room carpet. This simple description applies not just to Dannys experience, but also to the actual film structure. Kubrick's showing us this vision early on in the film means that through the rest of the movie we will be waiting for the reappearance of these apparitions. However, interpretation is unavoidable: Will the evil cycle repeat itself in the future like it did in the past? 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? John Fell Ryan, of the KDK12 Tumblr, has noticed that over the main door there is now a black "shroud" or curtain. 91 CU Wendy. This scene, not in the book, seems to have been inspired in part by a photo Kubrick took for LOOK magazine, in 1948, of a woman and her dog at an art auction, this woman appearing to be the same one who held the dog in The Killing.

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