When Jack is chopping his way through the bathroom door we see a shot in which Wendy is crying and screaming in the background on the right portion of the screen. 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. Again, we have a train tragedy connected with revivification of the past. 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. We see on the sill The House of Brede by Rumer Godden, which concerns a professional woman, Philippa, who at the age of 42 leaves secular life and becomes a nun in a contemplative order. This apartment complex's exterior looks to be from the 70s and the bathroom has beautiful ceramic tile work in it that has probably not been present in any lower and lower mid tier apartment complex since the 60s. This twist at the end suggests a reincarnation that can be compared to the elixir, being the implied reward for Jacks special adventure in the Overlook Hotel. The above scene is also a subliminal link to the deaths of the twin girls. The Overlook's sad history related. Jack's action at this point mirrors what the audience is already unconsciously doing, surveying the lay of the land and constructing a mental map. We assume Jack has made the trip up in the yellow VW but we didn't see him in it. No, The Shining is not a true story. He tells her, About the things you saw at the hotel. Then there is Jack himself as Dannys antagonist, representing what the boy may become if he does not accomplish his own journey. "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. As Danny then turns a left corner the musical drum of surprise kicks in a second before the ghost girls have appeared on screen. The hall is vertical to the kitchen and living room but the camera gives the feeling it instead runs parallel the kitchen. 17 - Wendy and Danny eat lunch, watching cartoons. "The Shining (1977 Novel) Literary Elements". 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. Tetragrammatos means having 4 letters. The novel features many of the themes and images that readers have come to love in Stephen Kings 40+ year career. Christiane Kubrick and Vivian KubrickStanley's wife and daughter, respectivelyhelped with both the design and the music, though Vivian might be better known for the on-set documentary she made, The Making Of The Shining. On this duplicitous and confusing note, Kubrick chooses to end "The Interview" section. The silver service he was carrying isn't on the table between the man and the blond woman, nor do we see it with the two older women. (12:13) TONY: No. The name of the apartment complex is the Kensington. Danny sounds unconvinced on either count. 27:00 - Wendy says to Dick, "We call him Doc sometimes, like in the Bugs Bunny cartoons" (sound of "sha"). To my eye he looks like Marcello Mastroianni, and, with his camera, I've thought of him as perhaps being a reference to Fellini's 8 and 1/2 in which Marcello starred, playing, in effect, Fellini. They are the very definition of balance and imbalance. Oh, it's still hard for me to believe it actually happened here, but it did. 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. Shot 113. Jack gets the job. The lobby, its influences, and the dissociation of the lodge's interior from its exterior. 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. Yet another theory reads the film as a story about the Holocaust and concentration camps. In The Shining however, the use of foreshadowing fits in as a narrative device. This is a good example of Kubrick weaving multiple metaphors into a single shot. Is "The Great Mother" intended to be their mother? (15:38) Taking note of Wendy's sudden turn to being ill at ease, the doctor poses her a question. 5 - Mastroianni as he appeared in "8 and 1/2". But, I have also read the shot was done in miniature because it was too expensive to film otherwise. 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. Below is the Timberline reception desk with a picture of the lodge overhanging. The Awakening: Foreshadowing | SparkNotes 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). Imagery Used In Night By Bruno - 484 Words | Internet Public Library The Talmud said of them, "When this one falls, the other one rises." 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. In Chapter I, when Edna and Robert return from the seashore, Edna smiles at Robert even as she retrieves her wedding ring from her husband, foreshadowing her eventual affair. It is our belief that, since the themes are intrinsic to the dramaturgy of the narrative film, the thematic interpretation is valid if it grounds itself in solid dramaturgical analysis, something that even many good studies of the film lack. For all we were aware he could have just gone in to use the bathroom, was washing his hands afterward and became involved with playing in the sink. STUART: Well WENDY: Yeah, I know. But it was a different episode, about poker players getting into a fight, that inspired parts of The Shining. 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. I have no idea. (8:21) A train is mentioned in King's book, Hallorann relating that due his shining, when his brother was killed in a train derailment, he was aware of it before anyone had a chance to tell him. STUART: Have any trouble finding us? On the left of the screen we see the tip of the axe repeatedly smashing through the wood of the door. Afterwards, Jack quarrels with Wendy about his needs, and then he has a sort of Approach to the Inmost Cave. 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. The maze will eventually be his downfall. 33 MCU of Stuart. He has said, "Pleasure to meet you", "Fine", "What line of work are you in now", and "Well, this ought to be quite a change for ya" and now falls into silence, only observing. WENDY: Oh, I'm sure you're right. I'm not at all married to the idea, just proposing it. The Shining (1977 Novel) Literary Elements | GradeSaver 26 - A closer look at the photographs behind Bill. Then there is the photo to the right of it which is difficult to decipher. Jack, just make yourself at home. The furnishings and the dining room and living room are spot on. In fact, nothing makes sense.. 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We see in that red flood of blood a silvery metallic object at the bottom of the elevator door, protruding through it (I've written a post specifically on this). The theme of family bonds is one of the most important in the novel. Fig. The first such sound, as I've already mentioned, occurs when Jack passes over the spot where he will attack Dick with an axe. It's a beautiful place. Perhaps hes laughing because he knows the novel ends with the Overlook Hotel burning down. So they do their best to turn the town against the idea of a train. 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. DANNY: Okay. 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. With the mention of emotional factors, Wendy has appeared to become nervous. In the background is a book titled Teeny Weeny Adventures. Of course, Dannys relationship with his parents recalls the Oedipal complex as well. View its location taken from Google street view. Character Development. Lunch with Danny, Wendy, Tony, The Catcher in the Rye, and the Kensington, Shots 12 through 20 Her teasing dialogue also mimics the close proximity with which the camera chases Danny. -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. There is no Room 237 in the hotel, so that number was chosen. 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 Fig. Kubrick borrowed from the Ahwahnee, with alterations, what is the receptionist and cashier area in the film. JACK: Well, it's certainly got plenty of that JACK: I'm a writer. In The Smallest Show on Earth we have these problematic projectors that work in concert with the janitor hiking the heat of the Bijou's boiler to make people overheat and purchase drinks. 26 MCU of Jack. Danny is lying on his bed on a fuzzy bear pillow, a doctor bent over him, examining him, as Wendy stands to the rear, clearly anxious. The gematria for the name in this short form is 26. 83 MCU Doctor. One overlaying the other. The hotel boiler explodes and the hotel is demolished, allowing Wendy, Danny, and Dean to escape. 45 MCU of Jack. 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. He would not be so completely hidden by the pillar, with his tray, had this not been staged. Reality syncs with the film. I started the site purely for selfish reasons," Unkrich told Vulture in 2013. Or did Danny manage to stop the cycle of violence from repeating forever and ever? It always takes a little time to make new friends. Since the beginning of the book, hints are dropped pertaining to what will happen later on in the novel. JACK (knocking): Mr. Ullman? Lloyd did, however, have a brief cameo as a spectator in Doctor Sleep, Mike Flanagan's 2019 sequel to The Shining. (7:19) Quick. Though the audience won't know about Carson City, Kubrick has embedded bits of information so that The Shining anticipates and then complements the film on the television as it runs. 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. 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. Wendy is well aware of the danger that her husband poses when hes drunk. I was wrong! Leon Vitali, Kubricks personal assistant during filming, has since denied these theories. Shot 427. (5:50) The catchphrase worked and stayed in the film. My current question on the presence of the Catcher in the Rye book is if it may also refer to the presence of Comin' Through the Rye in Basil Dearden's 1957 film Big Time Operators (renamed The Smallest Show on Earth for the US). (13:39) You and Danny are going to love it. The characters accept the window and, trusting the characters, the audience assumes this must be an external wall. And remember how much I love you. No, Danny said. The film's major conflict revolves around Danny's struggle to cope with his father's gradual descent into madness and/or possession. 13 - Jack and Ullman shaking hands before the "impossible" window. (5:04) 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. Fig. GOT LITERARY FICTION Many dark-haired parents have children with light hair, but the audience may have worked for a minute to accept Wendy as light-haired Danny's mother, as they look so dissimilar. He's going to phone Wendy up in a few minutes to tell her. Now, I'm going to ask you to do me a favor and stay quietly in bed for the rest of the day. I don't know, but Danny, surrounded in Boulder by his toys and cartoon figures, is very much in the fantasy world of the child, and his relationship to his mother may be somewhat described here in her being on par with these toys and cartoon figures, which is not to denigrate her but to point out how "real" such fictional figures can be to a child. After Alex jumps out the window, the screen goes black, and next we see him he is waking at the hospital, so broken he's wrapped up about as tightly as a mummy, a bright light suspended directly above his eyes. Not things that anyone can notice, but things that people who shine can see. 62 MCU Danny. From now on, the protagonist deals with his desire in the most extreme and irreversible way, since he does not come back to his senses. We briefly see down the hallway, beyond Wendy and the doctor, a door open on another room, a print of boy and girl bears on the wall above a blue and white hair dryer and a chair below that. Or perhaps Jack's alcoholism--for we are soon to discover he is an alcoholic. Catholic Bible Study - 2nd Sunday of Lent - 5 MARCH 2023 A.D. - AR15.COM At no time until near the film's end do we, from the interior of the Overlook, directly observe characters exiting or entering the lodge, and never from the lobby. The Impossible Window. The Race : TV NEWS : Search Captions. Borrow Broadcasts : TV Archive 20:03 - On "Closing Day" when Jack says they'd had a bite to eat, the "sha" follows. THE DOCTOR: we can always think about having some tests done. As Jack approaches the lobby's reception desk, the woman in white turns. The tone and mood are both threatening and malevolent. (15:19) 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. Much the same happens with Jack at the Overlook. He may have even viewed the Overlook as a mirror or double of sorts. 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. 75 MCU Danny. What's the secondary teaser candy bait? The book also displays mirroring/doubling, with the title displayed in the same manner on the back cover as on the front. 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. Thus, 8 and 1/2. 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? King Kong in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. 85 MCU Doctor. He fears the possibility of divorce more than anything else. Let's return to shot 21 and the red outlining the yellow in a frame on the left wall in Ullman's office. ), (5:14 crossfade from Boulder apartment ends. 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. JACK (correcting): Uh, formerly a schoolteacher. STUART: very highly. The Shining moon landing connection is the one theory that extends film and into the life and work of Stanley Kubrick in general. DOCTOR: Yes. We've no music. Off to the right he heard it, and his ears, expert in such matters could not be mistaken. One with a series of visual cuts and one with a fast zoom. 32 MCU of Jack. 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. Its not until the final pages of the novel that he knows what that is that Jack forgot to check the hotels boiler. 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. Where is Pete Van Horn anyway? Didn't he get back yet? He experiences visions, given to him by his imaginary friend Tony, of the word Redrum and of a shadow figure wielding a weapon. JACK (confidently): Not for me! (13:36) However, though these sounds surrounding the "sha" are not always distinguishable, when they can be heard they are always the same. Fig. STUART: Ah, it sure would be In The Shining Houses by Alice Munro we have the theme of change, appearance, conflict, modernity, independence and acceptance. The blood covers the camera and the scene goes black. Look, I'm at the hotel and I still have an awful lot to go through. The camera then gives us a view of a grouping of seats about a television set and a second grouping of seats beside a sign in the background that is difficult to distinguish here but reads "Camera Walk". 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. This is the Crossing of the First Threshold for Jack, since he enters the Special World inside the Overlook Hotel. She is somewhere in the middle of Holden's autobiography on his troubles with leaving the more innocent world of childhood for the grim, disheartening reality of adulthood when she places the book down to dialogue with Danny and attempt to convince him that being isolated in the Colorado wilderness for the duration of the winter is a fine idea. 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. STUART: Well, uh, my predecessor So there are some shots where Ullman's white pen is pointed toward him and there's a cigarette in the tray; some shots where the pen is pointed away from Ullman and there is no cigarette; some shots where the pen is pointed away from Ullman and there is a cigarette. 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. 30 - Danny in the Boulder bathroom, seen from his bedroom. No way one would find this kind of workmanship in a 70s student/family apartment complex. At any rate, as a character Jack has an overall fairty-tale-like quality, since the intent of the film is to emphasize his allegorical quality rather than narrating an all-around psychological development. 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. 58 MS Overlook hall. Each is the same in general style, the front porch, the gliders, the rest of it. He feels as though he finally understands why his father had to hit his mother. In 1952, Kubrick worked as the second unit director on one episode of the television series Omnibus. 43 MCU of Jack. A reader, Melkarth, sent me an image which shows it's an alabaster bull. But we tend to accept the office as it is, ignoring the impossible window, because all else appears to be so normal. 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. 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. 34 - The vision of the bloody elevator. / Warner Home Video. Jack is going to take care of the Overlook for us this winter. An editor (16:11) Foreshadowing - Examples and Definition of Foreshadowing - Literary Devices 12 MS of Wendy and Danny in the Boulder apartment dining area. 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. So when Jack Torrance is seen reading a Playgirl in the lobby of the Overlook before he gets hired, its probably not meaningless. In this scene, he's actively encouraged by Wendy to enter the dialogue. They never recognize it is there by either a glance, action, or comment. 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. Particularly effective are the flashbacks to his fathers cruelty in his parents marriage. So, in effect, various symbols we had first been introduced to on Danny's door are now here in the physical, in Danny's room, though also still represented symbolically. Here, Ullman is about to reveal some disquieting information, but one still has a sense of things withheld, just as in A Clockwork Orange the prison's governor doesn't divulge to Alex what the nature of his treatment (Serum-114) will be. 23 - Stuart tests Jack on how he feels about the hotel's isolation. The sound occurs elsewhere in the movie as follows. Fig. Kubrick would have appreciated the presence of a Mirror Lake at Mount Hood considering his interest in doublings. 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. There's even a lovely ceramic inset for a cup! Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. The Shining Houses by Alice Munro - The Sitting Bee The autumnal photo presents Mount Hood in context with Mirror Lake, which the viewer may associate with St. Mary lake seen in the opening shot of the movie, that mirrored the landscape. He then throws the ball toward the position where Wendy stands when she sees Hallorans body. This event is subtly implied in The Shining, and it is unclear whether it happens or not. Ullman reaches to apparently adjust a pocket of his blazer. 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. JACK: Oh, no problem at all. THE DOCTOR: Oh One more thing I would like to make mention of is the long zucchini that is seen resting on the milk cartons, below the dishwashing liquids. (13:49) Slim Pickens had already worked with Kubrick before. My name is Jack Torrance. 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.

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