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76 MCU Doctor. (13:16) I don't think I could get home before 9 or 10. He could only be somewhere out of sight behind the pillar that partially covers the man's chair. Kubrick has done this before, a good example being with an ad of Quilty in Lolita. There is another photo of a silhouette in the office but we've yet to have it be introduced (I write of it in the Wednesday section). Shot 116. Kubrick's portrayal of Wendy departs from King's book, which imagined Wendy as an attractive, sensual, blond, King's later movie casting Rebecca de Mornay, who fulfilled the type. The rainbow may seem a minor detail, being a sticker on a child's door, and a popular symbol so deeply embedded in culture that not much thought is devoted it, but the rainbow also features prominently in Eyes Wide Shut and demands consideration here. 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. Take a look at how beautifully Stuart is framed here, the visual relationships between the three men and the room. OK? 35 MCU of Stuart. Sometimes they see things that happened a long time ago., Mr Halloran, are you scared of this place?, Im gonna getcha. Csar Albarrn-Torres Amanda Barbour Tara Judah Abel Muoz-Hnonin Fiona Villella. He may have even viewed the Overlook as a mirror or double of sorts. As we will later see, Kubrick suggests to the viewer that Wendy is the one, rather than Jack, who does much of the caretaking of the lodge. Which is perhaps how Danny really feels but is reluctant to voice disagreement. In The Shining Houses by Alice Munro we have the theme of change, appearance, conflict, modernity, independence and acceptance. Thus, two parties are starting to be defined: on the one hand, Jack and obscure characters of the Special World, pertaining to the true adventure; on the other hand, Danny, Wendy and Hallorann. In both scenes the camera takes us in for a close up. Shot 132. After we see Jack frozen to death, we find him frozen in a 1921 photograph. 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. NtRK and her many potentials are waiting 48 MCU of Stuart. It was used heavily in scenes where the camera follows Danny through the hallways on his tricycle, or through the hedge maze. White shelves holding books hang on the rear wall. Kubrick repeatedly used trains in his films as a symbol for synchronicity and cyclings of events. We're all going to have a real good time. LINKS TO SECTIONS OF THE ANALYSIS ON THIS PAGE: WENDY: No, he didn't like it too much at first, and then he had an injury so we kept him out for a while, and, yeah, I guess that's about the time I first noticed that he was talking to Tony. THE DOCTOR: Why not? resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss thenovel. According to Hughes, the film would have had to earn $30 million to be profitable. Why this particular apartment complex? In it you have some themes that come up again and again in Kubrick's work, the blurring of the line between art and reality, the breaking of the 4th wall. Then there's more gushing blood splattering the walls outside the elevators. 72 MCU Doctor. The Bijou Cinema having been revived (somewhat), the new owners enter one day to hear the projector running and a piano being played. On the left of the screen we see the tip of the axe repeatedly smashing through the wood of the door. Then the same happens in reality in front of the movie screen and the audience buys all these sweets. I'm not at all married to the idea, just proposing it. However, he does not succeed: Danny entraps him in the maze by erasing his footprints i.e., the only possible clues in order to find the way out. However, though these sounds surrounding the "sha" are not always distinguishable, when they can be heard they are always the same. Both Jack and Danny have a Mentor; however, only the boy meets his own Mentor in the first act, as in the canon. However, interpretation is unavoidable: Will the evil cycle repeat itself in the future like it did in the past? 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. I guess Danny started talking to Tony about the time we put him in nursery school. Danny eats a white bread sandwich, watching a television that is off screen in the yet unseen living room. Fig. Wendy uncomfortably laughs. If so, how? Jack informs Wendy he got the job and has a lot to do so won't be home before 9 or 10. 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. Notice also that there are toys scattered about the floor including, to Jack's left, a small black teddy bear with its torso clothed in red - a foresight of Halloran's death. (8:04) Note also that the right corner of the room lines up perfectly with the right door jam of Danny's room in the prior shot, which perhaps indicates intentionality on Kubrick's part, the artistry of successively blending multiple scenes together physically and perhaps thus psychologically. STUART: uh, told you anything in Denver about the tragedy we had up here during the winter of 1970? 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?) Well, maybe things that happen leave other kinds of traces behind. STUART: The problem is the enormous cost it would be to keep the road to Sidewinder open. My first thought on the designs at the height of these columns in the film had been to wonder if we might have somewhere in the Overlook the Greek Key, a meander border which was associated with the labyrinth, which would befit the maze (which we have yet to see), the Greek Key composed in such a way that when enlarged it formed a labyrinth. Alas, well never knowKubrick never addressed this question before he died. Shot 427. The Nazis eyes, "shining with greed," continued to bring their wrath down upon the thousands . 11 - Morrisseau's "The Great Mother". 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. There are many reasons to use foreshadowing in writing, including building suspense, sparking curiosity, and preparing your reader for that "aha" moment. So, what is being presented isn't exactly matching up. In The Shining however, the use of foreshadowing fits in as a narrative device. The scene in which Wendy is swinging a bat at Jack is an example of this pushing. She offers a cigarette to the doctor, which she turns down. Gospel Mt 17:1-9 Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, . 02/8/2023. Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor (Scatman Crothers), Remote mountains of Colorado, Present-day. On the art. (12:51) Link to the main TOC page for all the analyses, GOT A HOME 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. In The Shining the Shadow is twofold. 20:03 - On "Closing Day" when Jack says they'd had a bite to eat, the "sha" follows. JACK: Hi, babe. At the same time, we see a door in the right wall leading to Mr. Ullman's office and catch a glimpse through it of another door that leads to the back service hall. WENDY: Yeah, I know. I am particularly interested in the train because Kubrick has used trains in his other films. Because of the importance of the maze to the plot I'm going to lean toward thinking perhaps the book was chosen due the coincidence of the needle and the word clew, as a clew of thread was the ball used by Theseus to find his way out of the labyrinth, and is the origin for the word "clue". On the ground below the helium balloon figure we see a multi-colored striped object. I've already noted how I believe Wendy is to some degree represented in Morresseau's painting of the Great Mother, and with the crossfade we have her face briefly viewed in conjunction with Morrisseau's work. Jack's interview had uncomfortable information divulged him by Ullman, while Wendy's interview resulted in her relating uncomfortable information. The Overlook's sad history related. 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 Or did Danny manage to stop the cycle of violence from repeating forever and ever? 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. WENDY: No. A zigzag pattern also can represent lightning, and some believe that the labrys, upon which is based the labyrinth, may symbolize lightning. Thus, his need consists of achieving fulfilment, something he attempts to do in a morbid way at the expense of his family. The Shining seemed to introduce a promising child star in Danny Lloyd. The Torrance's apartment in Boulder is standard fare for the era. 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. 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). Cut to the camera zooming in on Danny facing the mirror in the bathroom, speaking to his reflection. It is something which we humans do all the time, bedecking all our accoutrements of life with natural and abstracted floral and fauna designs and symbols. 27:00 - Wendy says to Dick, "We call him Doc sometimes, like in the Bugs Bunny cartoons" (sound of "sha"). Comin' Through the Rye 1. (16:11) For all intents and purposes it is yelling at us, "What is wrong with this picture?! -Constant references to the impending snowstorm foreshadow the family being stranded at the hotel. Here is a quote from the novel in which King is relaying Wendys opinion of Jacks mental strength: Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. STUART: Well, that's very good time, very good. You can help us out by revising, improving and updating A Note on 8 and 1/2 ", 36 MCU of Jack. He would not be so completely hidden by the pillar, with his tray, had this not been staged. STUART: The winters can be fantastically cruel and the basic idea is to cope with the very costly damage and depreciation which can occur, and this consists mainly of running the boiler, heating different parts of the hotel (Sha sound at 7:08) on a daily rotating basis, repairing damage as it occurs, and doing repairs The picture is an x-ray of a quite different interior world. 30 - Danny in the Boulder bathroom, seen from his bedroom. Accessed 4 March 2023. Shot 45. DANNY: Danny, wake up. We hear a horn honk outside. 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. That's where the story is. How do you think they'll take to it? Shot 142. The lobby, its influences, and the dissociation of the lodge's interior from its exterior. This may be so. Perhaps it's notable that Alex wore eyes on the cuffs of his shirt, and that these eyes disappear immediately after the blinding, even when he is still dressed in the same clothing. The background photographs of what seem to be past business meetings at the hotel, on the wall behind Jack, are replaced with brightly colored stickers on what we assume to be Danny's bedroom door as the camera slowly tracks in to an open door opposite through which we can see Danny before a bathroom sink, he standing on a footstool. 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. 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. Though the red milk carton and red cereal box have nothing to do with the red field mirroring the red sleeve earlier, even though they are in a completely different position, they end up visually standing in for that red field so we feel no real compulsion to look for it. 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. THE DOCTOR: physically wrong with Danny. I-10, V-6, D-4, H-5. STUART: Uhm, physically, it's not a very demanding job. DANNY: No. At the same time, the archetype of the Shadow can be found: it stands for the fury of the evil side, the danger which tacitly lies beneath the surface. Fig. She is author (with Valerio Sbravatti) of Shining: King vs. Kubrick, Segnocinema 209 (2018), pp. ing fr-sha-d-wi plural foreshadowings Synonyms of foreshadowing : an indication of what is to come If the history of the world were a novel, the events so strikingly chronicled in the photographs in this book would seem a foreshadowing of the recent events Ralph Novak 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. Fig. 43 MCU of Jack. (You can watch it above. It is put to the ultimate test when the family is caught up in the corrupting powers of the Overlook Hotel. Ager created a video in which he maps out the nonsensical visuals. Stuart Ullman's hair is red and his hairstyle is similar to this unnamed doctor (played beautifully by Anne Jackson) whose hair is also red, and their coloring and builds are much the same. 17 Oct 2015 Dermot Alice Munro Cite Post. The maze will eventually be his downfall. (11:20) 20:59 - When Stuart tells Wendy the Indian designs are based mostly on Hopi and Apache motifs, there may follow a "sha" sound. I'd like you to take him around the place as soon as we're through. Alot of the foreshadowing in the book is Shmuel and Bruno talking about certain things that the Nazis do, like when it smelled bad outside they didn't know what it was but in the book you knew it was the Nazis burning the Jews in the chambers, . STUART: Now, let's see, where were we? Foreshadowing is when the author gives a hint or warning to something that is going to happen. Mr. Ullman (Barry Nelson) welcomes Jack pleasantly, rising and shaking his hand. STUART (smiling): And for once I agree with them. Yet another theory reads the film as a story about the Holocaust and concentration camps. Join in. As it happens, the ancient theater is now next a train line. The Shining did a lot better financially. The tone and mood are both threatening and malevolent. In a few minutes we will see a painting in the Boulder apartment of a horse running down a railroad track toward an oncoming train. Oh, yeah, he seems absolutely fine now but you should have seen But it's also likely that the viewer transposes Danny in the sweater onto the Danny before the mirror and registers Danny as silent screaming in response to what he sees. As a matter of fact, Tonys communication is followed by the first manifestation of uncanny images of the Overlook Hotel, and happens in the same sequence in which Jack calls to inform that he took the job. STUART (removing glasses): Yes? The expectation of something disquieting builds. What is more, the audience is represented as unconscious of their thirst being connected to the heat being jacked up during the desert scenes. The 1980s horror movie The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick utilized these aspects very well. 56 MS Overlook hall. 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. Water is heard running in the bathroom. Torrance." The wagon driver scratches out on the ground the letters S O U but dies before finishing the name. The plot of Carson City concerns a man named "Silent Jeff" who is hired to build a railroad between Carson City and Virginia City. 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. When one ascends, the other must descend and vice versa, a matter of physical law. Jack enters the office area of the General Manager, only a corner of a secretary's desk viewed on the left, but, speaking of ambient noise again, though we don't see a secretary typing away, we assume she is there because we hear the clackety-clack of a typewriter. This is the case for many of the windows in the filmthey dont work in context. 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. 26 MCU of Jack. BILL (seated): Fine. 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. Look out. STUART (off screen): by the idea of staying alone in a place where something like that actually happened. He is unsettled, and it has taken him a moment to gather himself and think how to respond. Dopey is a voiceless character. Looking up the works of Ina Seidel, I find Literature and Film in the Third Reich, by Karl-Heinz Schoeps, relates: An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers expands on the book, The Wish Child: This all plays in with Jack's later devotion to the harsh ideals as set forth by the lodge and the demands on its caretakers, as well as Kubrick's interest in the Shoa (the preferred term over holocaust). (sound). 43 - The kitchen viewed behind Wendy. 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. 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. When we later see the boiler room, which is also a kind of ramshackle office with an old desk and refrigerator, Bill, as he is represented by Kubrick, seems he would ill fit in with that setting and its numerous girly pin-ups. 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. What this difference in dominance means (or how it functions) will be discussed in the "Saturday" section. Let's return to shot 21 and the red outlining the yellow in a frame on the left wall in Ullman's office. 3 - Kubrick's use of the Greek key at the beginning and end of "Lolita", initiating the execution of Quilty from it. -"The Shining" was one of the earliest films to use a then-new invention, the Steadicam. However, he forbids him from entering room 237. But Danny, who has always loved his father indiscriminately, refuses to. 81 MS Doctor from Wendy's side. He's looking forward to the hotel, I bet. Though we may not even be aware yet that what we're seeing is a model of the maze, that we're first introduced to the idea of the maze within the lodge comments on the lodge itself, which, as discussed above, if we compare our assumptions to its reality, is irrational and nonsensical at nearly every turn. Kubrick has nailed the appearance of a certain type of apartment of the time. 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. 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. What connects the secretarial area with the exit? (13:34) The interiors dont make sense," he said in 2012. (17:20) Obviously unsettled, the doctor gazes silently at Wendy who now reassures That Roy Clews was the author of a book about a needle mill worker (a needle guides thread) is a nice bit of serendipity. STUART: Great. WENDY: It was just one of those things, you know, purely an accident. This position of this ghost-like man in white is on the opposite side of the table to where Jack stands, and so may be conceptually tied in to the mirror image maze that Jack sees in the tabletop model. 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. Towards the end of the novel, Jacks genuine love for his son allows him to break through the hotels corrupting influence on his mind. And that's it for Bill Watson's speaking role in this scene. 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. If it reoccurs, which I doubt Her teasing dialogue also mimics the close proximity with which the camera chases Danny. Jack Arrives at the Overlook, Shots 9 through 11 She also wears two gold necklaces. 48:36 - When Wendy calls the forest rangers about the downed lines. The scene of the dead girls may also be foreshadowing Wendys discovery of Hallorans body. 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. Wendy has also a sandwich but it is untouched. Everything is shot so that anyone who has ever gone in to interview for a job will feel the cool banality of the situation and the pedestrian but anxious experience of how to relate with and put your best foot forward for this new sub-group of humanity with which you've just come into contact. In the background, on the left, is a rather unattractive wooden object of a peculiar shape that doesn't appear to be a sculpture but has no obvious purpose.