All rights reserved. Not affiliated with Harvard College. But, undeniably the most fun part about Unkrich's obsession with The Shining is finding the hidden references in various Pixar films, including Toy Story 3: Sids carpet is very similar to a carpet in the Overlook Hotel. Opposite them sit two older women. 91 CU Wendy. GOT LITERARY FICTION In fact, nothing makes sense.. Jack Arrives at the Overlook, Shots 9 through 11 A fortune teller might use foreshadowing, warning that a short life line is a sign of some impending disaster. Wendy accidentally lets the doctor know how screwed up their family is. In this article we offer a basic dramaturgical analysis of The Shining (in both its versions 144 and 119) using a method which follows authors such as Syd Field, Christopher Vogler, and Dara Marks: we deal with both the narrative world, i.e., the characters, their relations, and the environment in which they act, and the narrative structure. (12:03) Because of their near symmetry, and because the scenes are slightly off and not perfectly symmetrical, I thought it might be interesting to overlay the elevator hall with the hall of the girls and see how they relate. In my novel, 'The Shining' by Stephen King, there is constant foreshadowing. (5:01) The camera has cut to Wendy while Danny/Tony said "Mrs. The Impossible Window. In The Shining we have the train roar with its two whistles, followed by the other one with its two whistles, and Kubrick leaves out the last big white light roar and crash. She is author (with Valerio Sbravatti) of Shining: King vs. Kubrick, Segnocinema 209 (2018), pp. The masses of books make due with utility shelves, if they ever make it out of the box. This is done by showing certain events, people or information that are an indication of something that will occur later on in a story. 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. It's important, sometimes, what we don't see in a Kubrick film, and this is one of those times. -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. The Shining Explained 6 Compelling Theories on The Shining But, not so much where her story takes away from the main issue at handbattling the Overlook Hotel. We're all going to have a real good time. 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. Cut to Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) sitting at a dining table with her ash blond-haired son, Danny (Danny Lloyd). But, I have also read the shot was done in miniature because it was too expensive to film otherwise. 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. 17 - Wendy and Danny eat lunch, watching cartoons. -Jack tells Mr. Ullman that he expects Wendy will be entertained by the story of the hotel's bloody past, as she loves ghost stories and horror movies. The viewer perhaps believes Danny is seeing the elevator, the girls, and then himself screaming. He fears the possibility of divorce more . A good guess is that he does see the elevator and the girls. THE DOCTOR: What sort of injury? -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. Then, while still inside the pantry, Jack receives the greatest Reward yet: Grady gives him another chance to do his job and releases him from the pantry. Lloyd strengthens Jacks will, therefore acting as an Enemy of Dannys. Now we see the number fully, and that it is 42. 17 Oct 2015 Dermot Alice Munro Cite Post. 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. Boundaries decimated, made meaningless, the office can itself seem to begin to disappear, melting away as greenery invades. It may purposefully be an image that gives a double reading. THE DOCTOR: Does Tony ever tell you to do things? 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. 77 MCU Danny. It is put to the ultimate test when the family is caught up in the corrupting powers of the Overlook Hotel. ), (5:14 crossfade from Boulder apartment ends. Comin' Through the Rye STUART (off-screen): so the elements can't get a foothold. 37 MCU of Stuart. An elder man in light clothing has entered the area before the elevators from the hall beyond. 44 - Wendy reassures the doctor that everything is fine. 27 MCU of Stuart. GradeSaver, 18 October 2019 Web. (17:20) Obviously unsettled, the doctor gazes silently at Wendy who now reassures JACK: Well, huh, that is quite a story. DOCTOR: Yes. It happens at 1:38:56 when Hal, over the radio, is saying it's a "bad day out there". Wendy isn't at all like Stephen King imagined her to be." I guess Danny started talking to Tony about the time we put him in nursery school. 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. 46 MCU of Stuart. 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. Film footage displays a desert scene, the heat of the boiler is raised, everyone sweats and thirsts. THE DOCTOR: Oh JACK (has risen to shake hands): Bill, how do you do? Where have we seen something resembling Snoopy's rainbow before? When the novel begins, the Torrance family is teetering on the edge. 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. These stickers and a number of toys left behind, something is going to step in to fill the vacuum. I love how the shade on the lamp between the doctor and Wendy is slightly askew. STUART: The problem is the enormous cost it would be to keep the road to Sidewinder open. Link to the main TOC page for all the analyses, GOT A HOME PAGE 16. Jethro was the father-in-law of Moses but I've found a very brief description of the plot of the book and it seems to be about a needle mill worker in the UK in the 19th century. This is the case for many of the windows in the filmthey dont work in context. A question presented by the movie is what isn't destiny, what isn't a foregone conclusion, and what prevents history from repeating itself? A red field to the right of Wendy mirrors or doubles her sleeve and we are never really given a clear visual of to what that red field belongs. Fig. The catchphrase worked and stayed in the film. Tim Messenger, a local journalist claiming to have information for the police, is brutally killed by falling masonry as he's standing waiting to see Sergeant Angel. DANNY: Now, Tony, tell me. 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. 20:03 - On "Closing Day" when Jack says they'd had a bite to eat, the "sha" follows. There is an article in the issue about incest, so the most common theory is that Kubrick was subtly implying that Danny may have experienced sexual abuse. He needed some help. Though the eye does go to Bill as he enters, by the lines of the kitchen cabinetry and range crossfading into the shelving and ceiling, and the propulsion of the lines in the strong graphics I've just mentioned, the eye feels as though it is being pushed also to just between Stuart and Wendy as she fades out. Kubrick's choice of the horizontal lines for the curtains seems intentional to counter the zigzags in Ullman's office. The Shining is a must-read classic of the psychological horror genre. This instance of the two pairs of union suits, one worn over the other, the second of the pair being virtually unnoticeable, to me seems must be taken as a direct, however hidden, allowance of the significance of doubling in the film, that it is intentional and certainly not casual. Fig. They are partners in the worthless Golden Elephant Mine. -Jack surveys the scale model of the hedge maze in the hotel lobby as his wife and son explore it. (4:45) (11:43) The wagon driver scratches out on the ground the letters S O U but dies before finishing the name. STUART: Susie? 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). Would Kubrick have us think upon Wendy and the lost boys to whom she serves as a mother figure, and Peter Pan who counts adult mothers as his enemies? A mat the color of dark grass wraps about the base of the toilet. When the reader is introduced to Jack Torrance, they learn about his alcoholic past and the reasons why he decided to quit drinking. 41 MCU of Bill. Mini stories and flashbacks included throughout the novel help readers better understand who Jack is and why the hotel is able to take hold of his mind. Then there is the photo to the right of it which is difficult to decipher. At first glance one thinks one knows what one is seeing, but a second glance throws that initial reading in doubt when pieces of the ad don't mesh together. In spite of being an enjoyable horror film that evokes myths and fables, The Shining does not present a rigorously canonical dramatic framework. Basil Dearden, director of The Smallest Show on Earth, also was one of the directors showcased in the old horror classic Dead of Night. The horror of Danny's vision past, we return to ambient sound, nothing mysterious. The hall is vertical to the kitchen and living room but the camera gives the feeling it instead runs parallel the kitchen. 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? 54 MS Jack. When the editor goes to the Golden Elephant Mine to investigate, he is killed by Davis, who sneaks the editor's body back into his office, and the rumor is begun that, as the editor was against the railroad, it was someone connected with the railroad who killed him. The pink-salmon tone in the bathroom also ties in with the salmon tone on the walls in Stuart's office. His hairy, red brother was named Esau. The accompaniment of dramatic music lets us know were about to see something scary. The Awakening of Jacob and those union suits. (13:36) 29:21 - Dick asks, "Do you know how I knew your name was Doc" (sound). An ominous roar of soundtrack enters as the boy stands on the footstool before the sink, playing in the water. WENDY: We're just going to go in the other room for a few minutes and talk, then I'll come back and check on you, 'kay? White shelves holding books hang on the rear wall. The curtains could only be cheaper if the Torrances had used the thin bamboo blinds that were popular for the time. Is that some art work showing a terrier above the television? Leon Vitali, Kubricks personal assistant during filming, has since denied these theories. I don't think it's as certain that Danny sees himself. Here, Jack undergoes a rebirth of sorts: he fully regains consciousness and makes Wendy become aware of his evil actions (regarding the radio and the snowcat). 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. Lighting a cigarette, a Virginia Slims, Wendy's hands are obviously shaking. 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 93 CU Wendy. Both in the first and in the third act he has no relationship with the ghosts; after escaping the pantry, he relates only to his family and to Hallorann. The Shining is one of Stephen Kings best novels and a classic of the horror and psychological thriller genres. (8:33) GradeSaver "The Shining Literary Elements". How a set informs the story in all its particulars. STUART (smiling): And for once I agree with them. WENDY: Yeah, I know. Why is a print of this painting placed in two places of the lodge? DANNY: Yes. (5:32) Well, you see Doc, when something happens it can leave a trace of itself behind. 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. If so, how? Why this particular apartment complex? 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. Again, in the apartment in Boulder, Wendy is watching a film about the building of a railroad track and there is the painting of the horse running down the train track toward a pre-scripted destiny. The overwhelming red and white decor of the Goldroom lavatory may be a subliminal representation of the historic bloodbath that has been and is yet to come again. Fig. (13:34) 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. 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. JACK: Susie, how do you do? DANNY: Danny, wake up. Tony, the personification of Dannys shining, represents the Herald, the one who declares the beginning of the adventure. The second Test is the sexual one, which occurs in room 237, when Jack encounters the shapeshifting woman. (11:14) In people doing something they shouldn't be doing. Stephen King's use of character development throughout this novel is what makes the book so thrilling and moving. The itch that bess to be scratched? (sound). "Now, hold your eyes still so I can see, " a female voice says in the black--and it's a very normal, stock request but enigmatic when one considers that much of the film has to do with Danny's second sight. Just thought I'd draw this up as I always want to think of the hall to the bedrooms as running parallel the wall of the kitchen with the plumbing fixtures though it's not. He experiences visions, given to him by his imaginary friend Tony, of the word Redrum and of a shadow figure wielding a weapon. (3:05). Snoopy, though a dog, could understand and translate Woodstock's speech which Wikipedia informs was rendered in the cartoon as indecipherable "chicken scratch" and with symbols such as Z's and question marks etc.--just as various symbols communicate meaning in the film.But, of course, Snoopy also could not "talk" and his thoughts were communicated via thought balloons and pantomime. The midpoint i.e., the point of no return 9 occurs during the confrontation between Jack and Wendy in the Colorado Lounge, after she reads the typewritten text. At the same time, the 12 stages and most of the archetypes of the heros journey as theorised by Vogler3 are traceable in The Shining, albeit being peculiarly distributed between Jack and Danny.4. The author alludes to the tourist industry in that the Overlook is a summer resort and not open during the winter, whereas the resorts that Hallorann goes to work at subsequently are year round. Not to mention everyone grew up eating white bread peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The hotel boiler explodes and the hotel is demolished, allowing Wendy, Danny, and Dean to escape. Whatever the book. Directing Jack to Ullman's office, she points him to the "first door on the left". What's the secondary teaser candy bait? -"The Shining" was one of the earliest films to use a then-new invention, the Steadicam. OTHER KINDS OF TRACES, When Halloran and Danny have their private conversation in the hotel kitchen, we are given the following explanation of what their shared psychic power is, Well, you see Doc, when something happens it can leave a trace of itself behind. At least, to the best of my memory, that's how I perceived it upon first view when the movie was released. Particularly effective are the flashbacks to his fathers cruelty in his parents marriage. We will be returning to these ideas as they weave in and about the film. Or did Danny manage to stop the cycle of violence from repeating forever and ever? Is there any foreshadowing in "The Gift of the Magi"? JACK: Well, if you're going to have some I wouldn't mind, thanks. ", 36 MCU of Jack. In the 119 version, the alcoholism problem is absent: the liquor that Jack asks Lloyd for and then drinks seems to be desired only in order to dampen his anger, with no other implications. DANNY: Do you really want to go and live in that hotel for the winter? As it happens, the ancient theater is now next a train line. So when Jack Torrance is seen reading a Playgirl in the lobby of the Overlook before he gets hired, its probably not meaningless. Look out. The dresses, I believe, are two layers of fabric, a swiss dotted blue fabric over white. Each is the same in general style, the front porch, the gliders, the rest of it. Fig. When Jack enters there's no cigarette in the ash tray. BILL (seated): Fine. The Shining is a glaring example of a film that has led to countless interpretations, favoured by its complex and enigmatic nature, sometimes leading to interpretive deliriums as confirmed by the documentary film Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012). Definitions of foreshadowing noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand Very nice to meet you. Sometimes they see things that happened a long time ago.. Prominently on Danny's door is Snoopy gleefully skating, surrounded by a rainbow, while above him floats a helium balloon ascending into the clouds with Woodstock. Below is the massive stone fireplace in the lobby of the Timberline. 27:00 - Wendy says to Dick, "We call him Doc sometimes, like in the Bugs Bunny cartoons" (sound of "sha"). WENDY: Hi, hon, how's it goin'? Fig. "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. THE DOCTOR: Now, Danny, can you remember what you were doing just before you started brushing your teeth? One overlaying the other. STUART: Police, well, they thought it was what the old timers used to call cabin fever, kind of claustrophobic reaction which can occur We're well on our way to the anticipated train crash of an ending. Mr. Ullman (Barry Nelson) welcomes Jack pleasantly, rising and shaking his hand. Now? Details in Movies, Movie Details! 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. Back to Danny's door. (14:25) Water is heard running in the bathroom. Imagery Used In Night By Bruno - 484 Words | Internet Public Library
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