Significantly, Jacob was a twin, but not an identical twin. (6:54) Teaching's been more or less a way of making ends meet. Fig. We shall later see the same sign in the Colorado Lounge entry and be given a better view of it. Kubrick was famous for being a particularly detail-oriented director. This is one of the things that the Interview makes a focus, the battle of humans and the lodge against nature. 44 - Wendy reassures the doctor that everything is fine. The tone and mood are both threatening and malevolent. 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. That's what many people will be distracted by. But, I have also read the shot was done in miniature because it was too expensive to film otherwise. Fig. A writer has a toolbox of techniques that can aid them in achieving a desired. There is little distinction between reality and the fantasy that cartoons and toys inhabit, and so it is with a child's mind until about the age of five when they begin losing their baby teeth and their thinking becomes less fantastic and more reality based. In Dannys vision of the murdered twins, Kubrick very subtly uses this device again. We're all going to have a real good time. There is no door in that area through which he could have passed for the doors to the hall beyond are blocked by seating and if there did happen to be doors to an exterior patio (which there are not) he hasn't the time to exit them. 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. Hinting at what will happen serves multiple purposes (such as building tension and suspense). 28 MS of Bill, Stuart and Jack. STUART: That's right. NEXT: CLOSING DAY The name of the apartment complex is the Kensington. My thought on it is that it may refer to the green and blue object held by the Great Mother in Morrisseau's painting in the secretarial office at the Overlook, connecting Wendy with the painting, she attired in the reds and blues of the painting, and, as I mentioned earlier, her hair styled like the Great Mother, who seems to me to not only be a nurturing presence in Morrisseau's painting, but to have in her also the violence of life. Furthermore, when Jack calls Wendy to tell her that he got the job we have a sort of Call to Adventure for the family or, in Fields terms, an inciting incident for Danny but this is not the adventure proper in a dramatic sense. There is no music, only the ambient sounds of general activity. Kubrick's films are full of repetitive motifs. JACK: I'm a writer. STUART: Ah, it sure would be A shower curtain is drawn across the bathtub, sunlight shining bright through a high window behind it. In a particularly chilling moment, Jack expresses sympathy for his father. Ullman and Watson Interview Jack, Shots 21 through 49 21 - The prison's governor in "A Clockwork Orange". Danny has his vision of the Overlook. Silent Jeff reveals that there is not only one tunnel, but that a second tunnel has also been blasted and wants to check the second tunnel to see if it too is leaking. (11:03) Would you like some coffee? 14 MCU of Wendy. JACK: Hi, babe. Is the man with the camera ostensibly there for a "camera walk"? As far as options for home decorating for the lower middle classes, it was a shitty period. Regardless, he was a particularly strange pick for the role of Dick Hallorann because the character is Black in the book. WENDY: Hi, hon, how's it goin'? Fig. 79 MS hallway. 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. 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? Kubrick has unobtrusively incorporated a natural landscape via the flowered tray and the box. 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. 19 MCU of Danny. The bourgeois essentials of the matching sofa and side chair are present, but they've tried to spice up the place with a wicker chair from some place like Pier One. 64 MCU Danny. Directing Jack to Ullman's office, she points him to the "first door on the left". 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. Water is heard running in the bathroom. The lunch box is appropriately labeled "Emergency" and shows, I think, firemen. THE DOCTOR: That's good, now the other one. Kids can scare you to death. It is confirmed that Jacks personality has changed: after having disabled the radio (and as we will learn later the snowcat), he seems to be willing to hurt his wife. It's difficult for me to tell. The Shining essays are academic essays for citation. 38 - Not in the movie. The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Colorado, upon which Stephen King based his book, was built instead by Freelan Oscar Stanley. In her words, From May until October I was really in and out of ill health because the stress of the role was so great. No, Kubrick is actually already setting up the scene of Danny's encounter with the eerie girls in the blue flowered hall, as well as Dick's murder, making a vocabulary of motifs that will connect them, which is why I bother with pointing out what seems a petty detail. The catchphrase worked and stayed in the film. 11 We hope that our analysis will offer a well-founded starting point from which to test the validity of the interpretative literature on The Shining as well as to further develop it. [special thanks to Vince Contreras: . Fig. STUART: Uh, did they give you any idea in Denver what the job entails? That invitation follows a story of Bill removing something from a woman's eye, the invitation even accompanied by a woman remarking on how she bets he works too hard, think of all the things he misses--just as all work and no play make Jack a dull boy in The Shining. On this duplicitous and confusing note, Kubrick chooses to end "The Interview" section. Esau would lose not only his birthright to Jacob, but his father's blessing as well, through Jacob's guile and his deceit of masquerading as Esau in order to procure the blessing. A simple auto color correction of the suit when it appears to be brown makes it gray and more of a match with the suit in close-up. / Warner Home Video. But what if we look at the name? (8:24) 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. (13:23) 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. Throughout these shots of Ullman, we don't see the bird statuette on the window sill behind him, which is there but concealed by his head. Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. Is that some art work showing a terrier above the television? (sound). The expectation of something disquieting builds. All the views show Mount Hood's south flank. He would not be so completely hidden by the pillar, with his tray, had this not been staged. The four letters are I H W H, or Yod, He, Waw and He (a silent letter). Shot 142. He describes it as dj vu, but more powerful, as if he knew what was around every corner. 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. That's where the story is. A reader, Melkarth, sent me an image which shows it's an alabaster bull. He's looking forward to the hotel, I bet. The name of the piece observed outside Ulmann's door is "The Great Mother". 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. TONY: No he ain't, Mrs. Torrance. Before we continue on and out of the bedroom, to review the conversation, Danny has given in reverse order what happened in the bathroom. It is "Flock of Loons" by the artist Norval Morrisseau. When Jack axes Dick, he emerges from concealment behind one of the columns, blended with it. 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. A similar arrangement occurs here. GradeSaver, The Possibilities of Mental Illness in the Shining. DANNY: Yeah, I guess so. 63 MS Danny's bedroom. But the book is about Jack Torrances gradual descent into madness through the malign influence of the Overlookif the guy is nuts to begin with, then the entire tragedy of his downfall is wasted.. TONY: Don't want to. So when Jack Torrance is seen reading a Playgirl in the lobby of the Overlook before he gets hired, its probably not meaningless. 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. My name is Jack Torrance. ", 36 MCU of Jack. 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". A shot of Danny's mouth wide open in horror. Fig. The metaphorical gate behind his back is definitely close. 43 - The kitchen viewed behind Wendy. 65 MS Danny's bedroom. Looking up The Wish Child, by Ina Seidel, I see that The Kubrick Corner Has already noted: Of course it's significant that Kubrick would choose this book by a woman who also wrote on the labyrinth. Sometimes they see things that happened a long time ago., Mr Halloran, are you scared of this place?, Im gonna getcha. Foreshadowing can be achieved directly or indirectly, by making explicit statements or leaving subtle clues about what will happen later in the text. Each is the same in general style, the front porch, the gliders, the rest of it. She also wears two gold necklaces. 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. Which is an example of foreshadowing? 38 MCU of Jack. The Shining seemed to introduce a promising child star in Danny Lloyd. But the individual pages in the film contain different layouts and mistakes. 11 - Morrisseau's "The Great Mother". (12:42) There are distinct differences between the Ahwahnee and the Overlook but undoubtedly the Ahwahnee and the Overlook are siblings. With Ullman we have his shirt and its cuffs prominently echoing the flag, while with the prison's governor we have his shirt and cuffs echoing the color of the flowers on the window sill behind his desk. Some other interesting, but slightly less conclusive examples are: There are many examples of the film using subliminal association to force us into experiencing little Danny's terrible shining visions. Its almost over. GradeSaver "The Shining Literary Elements". In other words, Jack definitely misses the chance to satisfy his real need. John Fell Ryan, of the KDK12 Tumblr, has noticed that over the main door there is now a black "shroud" or curtain. But Danny, who has always loved his father indiscriminately, refuses to. The Shining (1977 Novel) essays are academic essays for citation. 84 MCU Wendy taking out a cigarette. 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. (Though King himself isn't much of a fan.) I love how the shade on the lamp between the doctor and Wendy is slightly askew. The crossfade juxtaposes Wendy looking right as Bill Watson enters, he also looking right, as if a connection is being forged between them, and at least one is forged visually, however briefly. We see characters going to the doors to exit, and entering from the direction of the main doors, but never do we see them actually going in and out of them. The music quickly fades, replaced with the sounds of traffic. Kubrick employed this kind of circularity almost from the beginning. He is endearing to children because he is voiceless and seems to represent their situation in the adult world and its sensibilities that are beyond a child's comprehension. STUART (removing glasses): Yes? It always takes a little time to make new friends. (8:33) The furnishings and the dining room and living room are spot on. And Hasten! Give Shining alter pls HG? Tony tells Danny that he is going to remember something that Jack forgot. Cut back to the bloody hall. Fig. -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. (15:41) (Jack smiles.) The wagon driver scratches out on the ground the letters S O U but dies before finishing the name. Fig. In the book, the spooky events are set in Room 217, not Room 237. He needed some help. 69 MCU Wendy. And, of course, we have later Jack crashing through the door of their suite's bathroom with his axe and announcing, "Here's Johnny!" One overlaying the other. 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Still, she has said, "and he didn't touch another drop". 62 MCU Danny. Jack says it doesn't bother him. resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss thenovel. There's a spot light set up on the porch and even in the daylight we can see it shining. A word for mental vision is MRH (mareh), sometimes translated as mirror, and is also sometimes MRA. STUART: That's good, Jack, because uh for some people uhm solitude and isolation can The Talmud said of them, "When this one falls, the other one rises." Yosemite Nature Notes, published in 1978, discusses how Yosemite, rather than being a corruption of a Miwok word which meant grizzly bear, instead translates as "they are killers", an identification not used by the Yosemite themselves but by neighboring tribes. Suiting, then, that Danny stands on a footstool (a ladder) before a mirror when he has his vision. A reason the red field to the right isn't noticed generally, and we don't look for to what it belongs, is that Wendy's leg in the foreground seems to pull the eye into her and the laundry basket on the stand of the ironing board in the background that then seems to link the eye over to Danny. Stephen Kings use of character development throughout this novel is what makes the book so thrilling and moving. Then there is the photo to the right of it which is difficult to decipher. -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. (16:11) 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. At the same time, the Special World invades the Ordinary World, since the ghosts become visible to Wendy as well presumably because Jack is doing exactly what the hotel wanted him to do. I said earlier that Kubrick did a nice job of lifting this apartment's style/furnishings straight out of the the late 70s. 17 MCU of Danny. So, does Tony tell him to do things? We've no music. The ponderous wood of the credenza that holds the TV was standard fare. (6:14) Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. . WENDY: him. Most everyone who has come to see the film knows that Jack is here for a job interview and will become a caretaker for the Overlook and that this is a horror film. Next, two young individuals in summery clothing pass by on their way outside, carrying tennis rackets and white balls, seemingly headed to play a game though we may notice the woman is inappropriately dressed in high heels. The point of view is largely third person but also tends to be that of Danny Torrance. The "sha" itself is a breathy percussive voicing. So, in The Smallest Show on Earth the two real films used in the theaters are Knock on Wood and Comin' Through the Rye. Against the right wall are shelves stacked with books, puzzle boxes, a lunch box, a green and yellow tiger image, and a play figure of Goofy. 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. (11:14) So they do their best to turn the town against the idea of a train. The sharp angle of the graphic design of the milk carton that moves upper screen left to lower screen right, is answered here by the framed graphic on the wall that presents a sharp angle moving from upper screen right to lower screen left. I will come to how this works with Dick's murder in a moment, and explore the connection with the girls later. A fortune teller might use foreshadowing, warning that a short life line is a sign of some impending disaster. "The Great Mother" is vibrant, communicating a ferocious strength, in contrast to Mary as the great mother in Christianity and her passively suffering the sacrifice of her son. The wall right of the office door in the secretarial area is decorated with photos of the mountain as it appears over the span of the four seasons, only the snow-blanketed winter photo apparently showing the Overlook/Timberline lodge. 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. As the camera stays fixed on Jack, Ullman begins The plot of the film. THE DOCTOR: Do you remember when you were brushing your teeth? In Review, What Has Kubrick Given Us in This Section? 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. 39 MCU of Stuart. Fig. 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. We should be aware of this at least subconsciously as we have just viewed the lobby's elevator area extends far beyond the office, having even briefly observed the hall that is behind the office, the elder man who will later examine the maze having come from that hall. The exterior of the lodge is, however, the Timberline at Mt. The way that the camera tracks the pair emerging from Danny's room and continuing to the living room is curious as it skews the relationship of that hall with the remainder of the apartment. Kubrick Corner further points out that the Avis car rental pamphlets on the counter beside Jack could be taken as echoing the name Jack Davis. almost relentless circle beneath the figure of a pyramid, View its location taken from Google street view, repurposed shots from Google Maps street view, but while he was photographing for LOOK Kubrick was already taking pictures of girls in similar attire, a messenger of the gods as personified by the rainbow, Return to Table of Contents for "The Shining" analysis, Link to the main TOC page for all the analyses. Home Stephen King The Shining Review.