5 - Mastroianni as he appeared in "8 and 1/2". Fig. GOT ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY 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. Taken from her Dance of the Happy Shades collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Munro . (12:02) Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) enters, his gray suit appearing cheap, limp and out of place with the resort attire of the others. Not affiliated with Harvard College. It occurs very quietly about 7:07 when Stuart is talking about running the boiler and "heating different parts of the hotel". "I can't remember everything." THE DOCTOR: Where does he go? Another book is Young Jethro by Roy Clews. I'm going to use this line of thought as an oblique in to bringing up Jim Barrie again as regards Kubrick's choice for using an apartment complex called the Kensington for the Boulder scenes, which provides links to Peter Pan and not only certain aspects of its story line, the perpetual return of Peter Pan, but even the questionable circumstances surrounding Jim Barrie's relationship to the boys and Peter Llewelyn Davies, in 1960, committing suicide by throwing himself in front of a train when he was laboring to put in order letters and documents concerning the family and their relationship to Barrie, his plan being to publish them but also destroying more than 2000 letters written between his brother Michael and Barrie as he said they were "too much". (5:14 crossfade from Boulder apartment ends.) Jack Arrives at the Overlook, Shots 9 through 11 Since the beginning of the book, hints are dropped pertaining to what will happen later on in the novel. Just as the chairs and radiant heaters are symmetrically positioned in the elevator hall, but do not perfectly mirror, the girls are not absolutely identical and not equal in dominance. Significantly, Jacob was a twin, but not an identical twin. The Bijou Cinema having been revived (somewhat), the new owners enter one day to hear the projector running and a piano being played. Jack has glanced in the direction of a model of the hotel's maze as he crossed the circle upon which Dick will later fall when he is murdered by Jack, who will have been hiding in the lobby behind a pillar. 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. 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. Stephen King's use of character development throughout this novel is what makes the book so thrilling and moving. In A Clockwork Orange, in Alex's prison room, is a comic book with a picture of a train about to collide with an old horse and buggy, but it is modern era and the comic book story concerns a photographer marveling over the ghost buggy and his being able to take a photo of a past event inserting itself into the present. Accessed 4 March 2023. Another wonderful example of foreshadowing in the book also comes from Dannys shine, or ability to read minds and see into the future. WENDY: Yeah, I know. ", 36 MCU of Jack. 1. WENDY: No. That's where the story is. WENDY: What about Tony? 53 MS Wendy. A medium close-up now of Ullman's desk shows, among other things, his prominently displayed name plate, a black fountain pen, a pewter tankard holding more pens, a white pen next to a desk calendar, a pint-size American flag, and we notice his red and white striped shirt and red tie and blue blazer patriotically echo the flag. -Mr. Ullman tells Jack about the former caretaker of the hotel who murdered his family before committing suicide. Jacob's dream ladder is a key component of Qabalism/Kabbalism, understood as representing the Tree of Life and its ten Sephiroth. Its unclear what exactly is going to happen to the family, but King ensures that readers continue through the story and find out. This box too is positioned so that it exhibits doubling. Cut back to the bloody hall. Some claim that it would have been characteristic of the director to individually prepare each page. 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. The apartment in which the Torrances will stay does have radiant heat, as do a couple of the older halls. TONY: Don't want to. Now? (4:10 crossfade begins, full fade in by 4:12. The Nazis eyes, "shining with greed," continued to bring their wrath down upon the thousands . Tony is revealed to be an imaginary friend of the boy's. But Tony's more independent than that. This allowed The Shining to be one of the most successful and truly suspenseful horror films of its time 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. (11:13) It is closed for the winter., Roger Ebert deemed the cut a good decision. OK? 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. (13:19) In the far background, between them, we see an older man standing behind the model of the maze, looking over it--the same man who had entered the hall by the elevators as Jack, just after glancing toward the maze, trod upon the spot where he will later kill Dick and we heard the first "sha". She has attempted to conceal a darker truth, in denial, wearing over it a second Wendy who encourages only looking at the bright side of things, and enjoins her son, Danny, to do the same in assuming a positive outlook on their coming isolation high in the mountains with an alcoholic father who is only five months sober and who has yet to earn back the trust of his family. 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. (You can watch it above. Written by Polly Barbour Genre Horror Setting and Context Cut to two girls who appear to be twins. After they have coffee, we see at 5:55 a cigarette in the ashtray and Ullman's white pen pointed toward him (Figure 20); at 6:45 we see the tray is empty when all three men are shown (Figure 22); at 6:58 Ullman's pen is pointed toward him and there is a cigarette in the ashtray; at 7:20 there is no cigarette and the pen is pointed away (Figure 23); at 7:58 the pen is pointed away and there is this time a cigarette (Figure 24); at 8:05 the pen is pointed toward Ullman and there is a cigarette; at 8:26 the pen is pointed away and there is no cigarette; at 9:42 the pen is pointed toward Ullman and there is a cigarette; at 10:07 the pen is pointed away and there is a cigarette. Fig. There is perhaps a duck, maybe another. It's important, sometimes, what we don't see in a Kubrick film, and this is one of those times. 94 MCU Doctor. 16 MCU of Wendy. (13:32) Click here to make a donation. The people of Carson City are worried the railroad will attract bandits--or, rather, "Big" A. Jack Davis and Jim Squires have reason to not want to see the railroad go through. When the reader is introduced to Jack Torrance, they learn about his alcoholic past and the reasons why he decided to quit drinking. THE DOCTOR: But believe me these episodes aren't at all uncommon and they look much worse than they are. Im coming in close., During the conversation with Halloran Danny asks. I was about to explain that, uhm, our season here runs from, uh, May 15th to October 30th, then we close down completely until the following May. Before long, Wendy is blaming Jack for the injuries that Danny sustains (despite it being the hotels fault). "I know it might be kind of ironic, but I like funny films and documentaries.. THE DOCTOR: Mrs. Torrance, I don't think you have anything to worry about. The painting of the horse and railroad, done by an Alex Colville, is supposed by critics to be an expression of the question of whether destiny can be altered. Shot 221. Later, the Overlook will be referred to as a ghost ship, and I believe with the opening shot of the island in the lake, and the rainbow followed by a flood of blood, we have, with the Overlook, a link being forged with certain aspects of a flood and rainbow story, which I'll reserve discussing until later. In The Shining the Shadow is twofold. 31 - Wendy in the living room speaking to Jack on the telephone, the television running in the background. The right photo is even more mysterious, perhaps showing the hedge maze with snow in the foreground, and a peculiar, vague silhouette overlaying that seems to only take on humanoid proportions through the eye looking for such, and yet also lends itself to such. (13:34) This gives the reader the ability to picture the horror of the surroundings and also the isolation. If you enjoy the supernatural, haunted houses, battles with evil, and psychological torment, then this novel is for you. 25 MCU of Stuart. The sense of it as a spoke for a kind of wheel is an incredible weight of great force. 12 MS of Wendy and Danny in the Boulder apartment dining area. Sources differ on how long shooting itself lasted, but it probably went on for almost a year. 67 MCU Doctor. "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. 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. Then there's more gushing blood splattering the walls outside the elevators. The presence of boxes in the background immediately communicates impermanence, transience. Kubrick would have appreciated the presence of a Mirror Lake at Mount Hood considering his interest in doublings. As for Ahwahnee, it may possibly mean "place of the big mouth", which, no matter the original meaning, may remind of Danny's open mouth silent scream. THE DOCTOR: Now, Danny, when you were brushing your teeth, do you remember if you smelled anything funny or saw any bright flashing lights or anything at all strange? This is, despite the fact that his father, Jack, recently broke his arm in a drunken accident. Things werent looking good for Kubrick after Barry Lyndon was released in 1975. The furnishings and the dining room and living room are spot on. The wicker chair was standard fare. 28 MS of Bill, Stuart and Jack. It's a beautiful place. "Tony" now refers to himself in the first person. The imagery is fantastical and malevolent, particularly when previously inanimate features of the hotel begin to come to life. Kubrick used the Greek Key design in Lolita, it circling the area in which was the ping-pong table in the mansion at which Quilty was staying when Humbert finds and executes him at the film's beginning. My superimposition of the girls and the bloody elevator, showing spatial/design similarities. BILL (closing door): How do you do? We're all going to have a real good time. A 197 minute read at 130 wpm. The Greatest of All Time, aka . Regardless, no normal hotel leaves copies of Playgirl lying around, so the magazine serves as an immediate red flag in the film. 27 - The varying tone of Bill's suit is due film processing. Ullman reaches to apparently adjust a pocket of his blazer. DOCTOR: Bye. Humbert's position on the stairs reminds of Jack's pursuit of Wendy up the great staircase in the Colorado Lounge in "The Shining", Humbert climbing these stairs in "Lolita" as he gunned down Quilty. When Jack axes Dick, he emerges from concealment behind one of the columns, blended with it. The window is as artificial a source of light as the two glaring florescent lamps above. 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. A reader has also written to let me know that there seems to be a "sha" sound when Dick is driving through the snowstorm to get the Snowcat. As Bill enters, we see in the secretarial area beyond a print on the wall. DANNY: Tony, do you think dad will get the job? But 42 is also associated with it. The picture is an x-ray of a quite different interior world. So, Kubrick has cast as his heroine an actress who departs from the strict ideal and has accentuated this, for in the documentary of The Shining Shelly exhibits indeed a striking, ethereal beauty. 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. The camera continually takes in new information on the hotel, just as Jack does. Fig. As she puts up the 2% milk in the fridge, the phone rings and she crosses the living room of the apartment to answer it. 2.8m members in the MovieDetails community. "The Shining (1977 Novel) Literary Elements". A couple receives an old movie theater as an inheritance. will review the submission and either publish your submission or providefeedback. In Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," the repeated references to books being banned and burned foreshadow the eventual destruction of books and knowledge in the story's dystopian society. Two union suits. Yes, a painting by Alex Colville. That's the impression given. The film cost $19 million to make and it went on to earn $47 million in the United States. An additional reinforcement of tennis ball throwing as a metaphor for axe swinging is that Jack slams the ball against the floor just a few metres away from where he later kills Halloran. The sound occurs elsewhere in the movie as follows. TONY: He already did. Both Jack and Danny have a Mentor; however, only the boy meets his own Mentor in the first act, as in the canon. Now we have yet a third location associated, the interiors of the lobby and the Colorado Lounge modeled after the Ahwahnee Hotel in the Yosemite National Park in California. (5:45) We don't see the waiter. 5 - Mastroianni as he appeared in "8 and 1/2". Stuart and Bill stand talking beyond. 86 CU Wendy. 78 MS Danny's bedroom. Fig. One may think, "Oh, it's just decoration," but sets are not accidental. (Jack smiles.) (14:46). The Awakening of Jacob and those union suits. This is the Crossing of the First Threshold for Jack, since he enters the Special World inside the Overlook Hotel. Earlier, when Danny was watching the Roadrunner, Wendy mentioning it was hard to make new friends and Tony protesting he didn't want to go to the hotel, we had heard the sound of a train. 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. The prophecy concerning them was, "One people will be stronger than the other." WENDY: Anyway, something good did come out of it all because he said, uh Dead of Night, as it turns out, was one of the points of origin for the Steady State of the Universe theory conceived by cosmologists Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold and Hermann Bondi, which has since been overruled by the Big Bang Theory. A similar arrangement occurs here. 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). The rest were made for the film and concentrate on the Cowboy and Indian theme. Another tale concerns a ventriloquist with a dummy that turns out to be independently alive, a plot that served as basis for the later Danny Kaye film, Knock on Wood. 26 - A closer look at the photographs behind Bill. He's looking forward to the hotel, I bet. 38 - Not in the movie. (5:43) All rights reserved. Grammarly helps you communicate confidently. Danny has his vision of the Overlook. Exploring the Themes of Familicide and Insanity in The Shining, Toxic Masculinity in the Films of Stanley Kubrick, Racial Stereotypes and Cinematic Adaptation: The Shining Critical Analysis. It is "Flock of Loons" by the artist Norval Morrisseau. Ullman's assistant stepping out for coffee, begin the crossfade from the office to the apartment back in Boulder, blue skies pouring in through the florescent boxes on the ceiling so they become as skylights, the Flatiron mountains back in Boulder filling the impossible window. 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". 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. "An abrupt sound startled him. 7 - Kubrick briefly revisits the group by the door though he need not have. If this is so then Kubrick may have used the Z pattern to represent the labrys axe and maze. 71 MCU Danny. According to David Hughes, one of Kubricks biographers, Stephen King wrote an entire draft of a screenplay for The Shining. The light of the unseen window, through the shower curtain, is as prominent as was the light of the window in Ullman's office. We assume Jack has made the trip up in the yellow VW but we didn't see him in it. 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. 40 - Danny questioned by the doctor. 39 - Not in the film. Kings use of foreshadowing is one of the more effective literary devices at work in The Shining. THE DOCTOR: we can always think about having some tests done. Relieved, Wendy sighs and smiles. He could only be somewhere out of sight behind the pillar that partially covers the man's chair. foreshadowing, the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work. 54 MS Jack. (16:09) -Constant references to the impending snowstorm foreshadow the family being stranded at the hotel. Let's return to shot 21 and the red outlining the yellow in a frame on the left wall in Ullman's office. The above scene is also a subliminal link to the deaths of the twin girls. SUSIE: Sure. Because post WWII it would be questionable to include it? He tells her, About the things you saw at the hotel. BILL: Well, this ought to be quite a change for ya. Instead they are in opposition to it, and, at best, sometimes enjoy its pleasanter, friendlier aspects. "But, in the end, you find out that the man he accused was actually cheating him. (7:41) The hotel is a special world for them, thus they have to explore it; in a sense, Jacks adventure is that of being the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. Basil Dearden, director of The Smallest Show on Earth, also was one of the directors showcased in the old horror classic Dead of Night. 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. The elevators are fairly faithful representations of those at the Ahwahnee Lodge, a difference being that Kubrick's have the arcs above, the half-circles which show story placement. Or we may just be seeing through the blue cloth the white of underslilps. Reality syncs with the film. As Jack makes his way to the office he now glances in the direction of a model of the hotel's maze that is beyond the two groupings of seats. 42 MCU of Stuart. Opposite them sit two older women. 62 MCU Danny. At least three times we see women in pairs carrying luggage about. Bill Watson looks quietly, solemnly, uncomfortably on as Ullman begins to relate the story. Suiting, then, that Danny stands on a footstool (a ladder) before a mirror when he has his vision. So, does Tony tell him to do things? One tries to rectify the incongruities in the story, wondering if one should comprehend Jack as having periodically attempted to quit drinking and Wendy having been reluctant to leave him. Above her is a white bird with a black head ascending, and a raven. Four people are seated in an area on the screen right side of the main door. Rob Ager, an observant fan of The Shining, noticed that there are many aspects to the set of the Overlook Hotel that make no sense. On the right wall are immediately noticeable a number of honorific plaques and documents. -In the same scene, Jack recites lines from the story of The Three Little Pigs, which is eerily relevant, as he is acting as the Big Bad Wolf, but also because Danny is able to escape due to his mother's quick thinking. STUART: Well, before I turn you over to Bill, there's one other thing I think we should talk about, I don't want to sound melodramatic, but it's something that's been known to give a few people second thoughts about the job. From my analysis on The Killing: 61 MS Danny's bedroom. Can destiny be altered? (10:49) He goes back to the Gold Room, where a party is taking place: Jack is greeted, he receives liquor at no charge, and he meets his Mentor Delbert Grady. I was wrong! It may purposefully be an image that gives a double reading. The silent film Comin' Through the Rye is based on a book by Helen Mathers, in which the rye field becomes connected with history repeating itself. A red-jacketed bell hop stands at stiff attention not far behind Jack and is the one who was porting bags at the elevator when Jack was earlier headed to the office. The novel features many of the themes and images that readers have come to love in Stephen Kings 40+ year career. 23 MCU of Bill. GradeSaver "The Shining Literary Elements". Seems it's a question posed with some caution. 18 MCU of Wendy. TONY: I just don't. 28 - The suit autocolored shows it is gray rather than brown. 59 CU Danny. There are windows on three sides. A good guess is that he does see the elevator and the girls. Wendy is well aware of the danger that her husband poses when hes drunk. Kubrick was famous for being a particularly detail-oriented director. She then stands by the window . And that's it for Bill Watson's speaking role in this scene. I would, however, suggest the weight of this wheel is still there, just unseen, represented in the couple of wheel designs on the floor, in particular the wheel upon which Dick is slain, which also figures strongly in the scene of Danny's Big Wheel in the lobby resting upon it as Jack explores the indoor maze. 41 - Danny resting on his bear pillow. 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. One story becomes two with its puzzle pieces that don't fit together. Run away. 34 CU of Jack. STUART: I don't suppose they However, he forbids him from entering room 237. GOT LITERARY FICTION 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. 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. There is a parallel between Danny's arrival at the hotel and the increase in supernatural activity there. Is the man with the camera ostensibly there for a "camera walk"? After you claim a section youll have 24 hours to send in a draft. Upon waking, he named the rock, which had served as his pillow, Bethel, the House of God, house being BTh, beth, and god being AL, el. While filming the scene in which Jack breaks down a bathroom door with an ax, Nicholson shouted out the famous Ed McMahon line from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. 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. No one is quite sure whether Kubrick typed 500 pages of All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Kubrick didnt go to the prop department with this task, using his own typewriter to make the pages. Jack has already just entered the lodge as the scene opens, we do not see him come up to the lodge from his car, as another director might have chosen to show. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. (12:42) thissection. Perfect alignment of some architectural features, from one shot to the next, may function to make transitions less jarring, creating less interference with an established mood. 20:59 - When Stuart tells Wendy the Indian designs are based mostly on Hopi and Apache motifs, there may follow a "sha" sound.