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As per the use of "The Awakening of Jacob" here, the bath could take the place of BTh, beth, and the elevator may be the staircase of Jacob's dream. Yes, a painting by Alex Colville. This is not hidden. WENDY: What about Tony? The roar rises and subsides. At the end of The Shining, Jack chases young Danny through a snow-covered hedge maze before finally dying. Jacks nightmare of killing his family may be compared to a Call to Adventure, since it is the first explicit sign of murderous thoughts which are going to be construed as the new desire during the adventure. A couple receives an old movie theater as an inheritance. 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 A Clockwork Orange we have the comic of the "ghost" train, in which a photographer takes a photo of a train accident that happened a hundred years beforehand. 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. JACK: Well, huh, that is quite a story. 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. This wallpaper appears at no other point in the film. JACK: I don't believe they did. It is closed for the winter., Roger Ebert deemed the cut a good decision. The Shiningby Stephen King was his third novel and is still regarded as one of his best. 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. Fig. We are treated to several ghostly paranormal tales told by individuals who keep entreating the architect to stay. In the 144 version, this is already perceivable when she timorously tells the paediatrician about Jacks alcoholism and the incident that arose consequently (Jack injured Danny). This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven." But when one becomes fully aware it is an impossibility, the window becomes as forbiddingly out of place as the hazy glare it allows into the office, and the foliage outside the window seems almost to be as spies peering in. The music quickly fades, replaced with the sounds of traffic. 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. (7:13) In other words, the theater's revival has revived the past. The lavatory scene in which Danny has his first Shining episode features a shower curtain draped over a bath tub with Danny looking into a mirror on the right wall. They also happen to secretly be the bandits who have been attacking the money bags stage coach, and don't want the train to end this source of income. JACK (correcting): Uh, formerly a schoolteacher. An editor It always takes a little time to make new friends. The Torrances, particularly Danny, are the protagonists. Some viewers noticed that this is foreshadowing for the reveal that, although all of the dinosaurs in the park are female, they have found a way to reproduce. For a while I misinterpreted a little sculpture next to salt and pepper shakers as an elephant. 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. 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. Miwok speakers also postulate that it's a term for the Yosemite people and may instead be akin to "place you go and play games". (The film waits until its climax to provide the typical catharctic bloody violence of most traditional horror films - and with restraint - only one . STUART: Oh, well, come on in, Jack. 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. J. W. Kern has a beautiful page with more photos at his blog, the Golden Sieve. 90 MS Doctor from Wendy's side. DANNY: Tony, why don't you want to go to the hotel? Before we continue on and out of the bedroom, to review the conversation, Danny has given in reverse order what happened in the bathroom. Danny wears a red, white and blue pullover shirt printed with another trickster figure, Bugs Bunny, who stands beside a basketball hoop, and we recall the basketball hoop in the parking lot. "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. The hall is vertical to the kitchen and living room but the camera gives the feeling it instead runs parallel the kitchen. The masses of books make due with utility shelves, if they ever make it out of the box. 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. Shot 113. 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 is a family that is either coming or going, not quite settled in yet or preparing to move along. Knock on Wood is the film that is playing at the rival theater when the couple goes to a show there and sees that refreshment sales were enhanced by the attractive sales girls who replicate the sales girl seen on the screen. Although he associates the hotel with luxury, he is somewhat defined by his role as its "caretaker," a menial position. Prominently placed on the coffee table is the New York Book Review and beneath it another issue showing Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor, in which she wrote of how society, by attributing certain illnesses to personality types and treating illness as repressed emotional content, unfairly stigmatized the victims of illness. The doctor sits down next to Danny. We're from Vermont. Afterwards, Jack quarrels with Wendy about his needs, and then he has a sort of Approach to the Inmost Cave. Overall, the ghosts who appear to Jack incarnate the Shapeshifters: they are seemingly innocuous but actually subjugate him to the hotel. WENDY: Wendy, I'm never gonna' touch another drop, and if I do you can leave me. (11:13) A flood of blood erupts through the left elevator door that has been forced open from the left by the force of the flood which overtakes the hall with such ferocity that the armchairs are swept away from the walls. 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. Cut to Wendy washing dishes, still in her union suits and blue overdress, and we now see an Indian beaded belt about her waist. What is more, the audience is represented as unconscious of their thirst being connected to the heat being jacked up during the desert scenes. 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. 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. The exterior of the lodge is, however, the Timberline at Mt. 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 Two Types of Photographs in the Hotel, Notes on Ullman's Desk and Inconsistencies, Danny's First Shining of the Girls and the Bloody Elevator, The Rainbow in Danny's Room and His Black-out, On the Two Union or Liberty Suits and the Two Necklaces. The Second Interview, Shots 61 through 95 Here, he's given as instead having spoken with Tony and then having brushed his teeth, which is when he blacked out. Throughout the film, when action occurs in this hall, the camera stops short of revealing the area where the photograph is. 37 - Not in the movie. The camera now shows another view of the kitchen behind Wendy, Joy and Ivory dishwashing liquids on a shelf above a wall-mounted paper towel holder, dishrag draped over the kitchen sink's faucet, carton of milk on the counter with several other boxes of dry goods. The first Test for Jack in the Special World is the temptation of drinking liquor. Below is the massive stone fireplace in the lobby of the Timberline. 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. So many film theorists have their own takes on The Shining that these conspiracies star in their own film: the documentary Room 237. 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. "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. We will later realize that the lobby in no way is feasible in respect of either the Timberline exterior shots of the lodge or the studio exterior shots of the lodge, which will be the case also with the Colorado Lounge and other rooms as well. Jack informs Wendy he got the job and has a lot to do so won't be home before 9 or 10. 66 MCU Danny. Oregon's Timberline Lodge, which was used as the hotels exterior for some shots, is to blame for this swap. How do you think they'll take to it? We shall later see the same sign in the Colorado Lounge entry and be given a better view of it. 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. JACK: Do you mind if I ask why you do that? "But, in the end, you find out that the man he accused was actually cheating him. One could actually instead look upon Stuart as having more than fulfilled his obligation in presenting the dangers to Jack, and instead of viewing Bill with suspicion one could instead see him as looking upon Jack with suspicion, that he doesn't get a good read off Jack and wonders why he would pursue a job that would place his family in such isolation. THE DOCTOR (laughs): I know. This information was ostensibly available to Kubrick and if he was aware of it there's the chance it could have influenced his decision to connect the Overlook with the Ahwahnee of Yosemite for reasons other than design. Tony tells Danny that he is going to remember something that Jack forgot. 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. A 197 minute read at 130 wpm. -Mr. Ullman tells Jack and Wendy that the hotel is rumored to be built on an ancient Native American burial ground, and that it suffered attacks from some local Native American tribes while it was being built in the early twentieth century. Her lips appear taut, unyielding. I made the trip in 3 and a half hours. He tells her, About the things you saw at the hotel. Stuart points out how uncomfortable it was to tell Jack about this history, and thus it's Jack's job to tell him it's all right. The family has progressively torn apart as the hotel works to corrupt Jack Torrances mind. 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. The newest furnishings would be the white dinette set and chairs. The painting of the horse running down the railroad track is by Alex Colville, "Horse and Train", from 1954. It's a 25 mile stretch of road and gets an average of 20 feet of snow during the winter, and there's just no way to make it economically feasible to keep it clear. 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. 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. In the background is a book titled Teeny Weeny Adventures. 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. 57 MCU Two girls. That's where the story is. The Shining (1977 Novel) Literary Elements by Stephen King The Shining (1977 Novel) Literary Elements These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. And I have also read that the shot was done many times with Kubrick searching for the right color red that would look like blood. (Jack smiles.) 41 - Danny resting on his bear pillow. In The Shining however, the use of foreshadowing fits in as a narrative device. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make yourown. 88 MS Wendy from the doctor's side. DANNY: To my stomach. She isn't looking at Jack, as he's not in her line of sight. Kubrick takes care to unveil the lodge only a little at a time, it unfolding over the entirety of the film, and the audience's natural expectations are proven false at every turn, but so deeply embedded is the assumption that the environment will be rational that the audience rarely notices that their assumptions are wrong and the map they're constructed in their minds of the hotel, based on what Kubrick has shown them, is impossible. Suiting, then, that Danny stands on a footstool (a ladder) before a mirror when he has his vision. Humans tend to not think of themselves as part of nature. It was a typewriter that had built-in memory, so it could have turned out the pages without an actual person. In this scene, he's actively encouraged by Wendy to enter the dialogue. Take a look at how beautifully Stuart is framed here, the visual relationships between the three men and the room. 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. Keeping with the myth of Jacob, when Jacob awoke from his dream, the story goes that he thought, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it. resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss thenovel. This is one of the things that the Interview makes a focus, the battle of humans and the lodge against nature. We acknowledge the sovereignty of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation and support all Aboriginal people on their paths to self-determination. Jack gets the job. Which is perhaps how Danny really feels but is reluctant to voice disagreement. Even if the "sha" occurring at 3:27 is purely coincidental, the choreography for the remaining collection of incidentals all falling on the same note is tricky, intentional, and beautifully accomplished. BILL (closing door): How do you do? Then there is Jack himself as Dannys antagonist, representing what the boy may become if he does not accomplish his own journey. As for the presence of the phaser from the Star Trek game, if one looks it up one finds the art on the game's box shows an unidentified man in a red shirt shooting a villain whose body is divided so it's half black and half white. Foreshadowing is an effective literary device in terms of preparing readers for events to come or narrative reveals. (13:39) (15:59) The darker side is often not considered, of a wrathful deity unleashing a flood upon the earth to destroy humanity, even animal life. And Hasten! Moreover, we will discover later that the actual adventure for Jack is not that of being the caretaker of the ordinary Overlook, but rather the caretaker of the special Overlook, which does not entail running the boiler and the like so much as killing his family. 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. On the opposite wall is the "Woman and Terrier" painting by Colville, from 1963. The building is fairly old, we learn later it was built about 70 years prior. The interiors dont make sense," he said in 2012. Though the lobby was undeniably impressive, the furnishings seemed wearied to me, and the guests observed didn't suggest a well-rounded representation of various age groups. There is constant conflict between Jack and Wendy even before he is possessed as he has anger issues and a tendency to be violent when he has drunk too much. On the left of the screen we see the tip of the axe repeatedly smashing through the wood of the door. It may purposefully be an image that gives a double reading. 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. The camera continually takes in new information on the hotel, just as Jack does. Fig. Privacy Policy, https://bookanalysis.com/stephen-king/the-shining/review/. The expectation of something disquieting builds. TONY: I don't want to go there, Mrs. Torrance. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. JACK: Well, that hmmm just happens to be exactly what I'm looking for. Kubrick borrowed from the Ahwahnee, with alterations, what is the receptionist and cashier area in the film. WENDY (indicating a seat): Please. 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. 23 - Stuart tests Jack on how he feels about the hotel's isolation. Whatever the genre. We briefly see Jack's face merge with the shower curtain then disappear, which may or may not remind of The Wizard of Oz and the injunction to pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. 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. 34 CU of Jack. 65 MS Danny's bedroom. 53 MS Wendy. GradeSaver, 18 October 2019 Web. Let's return to shot 21 and the red outlining the yellow in a frame on the left wall in Ullman's office. 50 Crossfade from office interior to Boulder apartment interior. Jack remembers his father beating his mother and dealing with his own addiction to alcohol. As with The Shining, that film, too, is all about deja vu. 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. His hairy, red brother was named Esau. Hallorann is killed by Jack, who now seems to be the strongest character despite having sustained injuries (the blow to the head and sprained ankle), while Danny is shell-shocked, hiding inside a cupboard after escaping the janitorial quarters bahtroom. His manifest goal or desire (writing a novel), meshes well with the offered circumstances (spending five months of peace and quiet in the isolated hotel). We can tell he's a new arrival as the red-coated valet behind him is porting his bags. 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. 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. Eyes Wide Shut has near its beginning an invitation to go where the rainbow ends. TONY: No he ain't, Mrs. Torrance. 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. (17:20) Obviously unsettled, the doctor gazes silently at Wendy who now reassures Still, she has said, "and he didn't touch another drop". Moreover, the film is full of references to myths, fables, and horror literature 7: the hotel, a haunted house of sorts, seems like a ghost ship to Wendy; Jack huffs and puffs like the Big Bad Wolf when he attacks his wife in the bathroom; likewise, during the tour in the kitchen which she describes as an enormous maze Wendy evokes Tom Thumb (and hence Hansel and Gretel) by stating I feel Ill have to leave a trail of breadcrumbs every time I come in. This reference serves also as a setup 8 or, a foreshadowing both for the climax of the third act, which evokes Theseus and the Minotaur, and for the recurrent spatiotemporal disorientation that occurs in the film. On this duplicitous and confusing note, Kubrick chooses to end "The Interview" section. 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). (Crossfade ends at 10:34.) THE DOCTOR: If you were to open your mouth now, could I see Tony? Notes on Ullman's Desk and Inconsistencies The disastrous flood that occurs at the . My husband was teaching school there. As in, the helium balloon has become 3-d but it is still a representational toy. First, I would encourage one to take note as to how the bottom lines of the cabinetry and the hood of the range in the Boulder kitchen beautifully line up with the lines for the ceiling and the shelving at screen left in the Overlook office. Take for instance A Clockwork Orange in which we have a couple of instances of Fleur-de-lis, the first being at the home of the Cat Woman, on the stoop of which Alex is "blinded", leading to a dramatic turn in Alex's life with the Cat Woman's death. We start worrying that he may be suffering from cabin fever and, in the 144 version, that he may become physically aggressive once again. The scene of the dead girls may also be foreshadowing Wendys discovery of Hallorans body. THE DOCTOR: How did he manage to do that. We later learn the incident occurred three years prior, and yet it's given twice in the movie that it's been five months since Jack has had a drink, so this isn't an error on Wendy's part as Jack later relates the same. What's the secondary teaser candy bait? 16 - The Boulder apartment complex. Sometimes they see things that happened a long time ago., Mr Halloran, are you scared of this place?, Im gonna getcha. 52 MS Jack in the Overlook lobby. From there, the eye seems even to be pulled, by the yellow and orange framed graphic, off screen to the left. It's an interesting way of moving the viewer's gaze. Fig. And, recollect, we have the doctor shining the bright light in Danny's eyes just previous that. 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 dialogue between the two, the boy and himself, brings to mind Ullman remarking on how the story of Charles Grady sometimes gives people "second thoughts". Jack, just make yourself at home. A good guess is that he does see the elevator and the girls. When the novel begins, the Torrance family is teetering on the edge. 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. About the cartoon We've no music. Peculiarly, they both were able to manifest individual force fields that made the Star Trek phasers ineffective. Accompanied by the sound of dogs barking and children playing (though none are observed) slow zoom in on a complex of blank apartment buildings via a parking lot with a basketball post to the left, the buildings backed by mountains, recalling the initial shot of the lodge at the end of the opening sequence of the movie and striking a parallel. Jacob's dream ladder is a key component of Qabalism/Kabbalism, understood as representing the Tree of Life and its ten Sephiroth. 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? TOC and Supplemental Posts | Part 1 - The First Ascent | Part 2 - The Interview | Part 3 - Closing Day | Part 4 - A Month Later | Part 5 - Tuesday | Part 6 - Thursday | Part 7 - Saturday | Part 8 - Monday | Part 9 - Wednesday Part One | Part 10 - Wednesday Part Two | Part 11 - 8 AM | Part 12 - 4 PM | Films Home. 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. She then stands by the window . STUART: Stacked them neatly in one of the rooms of the west wing, then he uhm well he uh put both barrels of a shotgun in his mouth. 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. His wife seems to be enthusiastic about the prospect as well. 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. Although there is darkness, readers arent likely to be haunted by Kings story. Fig. 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. 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. (15:07) (8:37) In a decisive confrontation, Jack tries to kill his gifted son. In the Boulder apartment she is stretched out, lengthened with the red union suits and her eyes are made conspicuously wide, a common feature of cartoon figures. However, though these sounds surrounding the "sha" are not always distinguishable, when they can be heard they are always the same. Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor (Scatman Crothers), Remote mountains of Colorado, Present-day. However, Kubrick didnt even deem it worth a glance, which sort of makes sense when you consider that the director once described Kings writing weak. Instead, Kubrick worked with Diane Johnson on the screenplay because he was a fan of her book, The Shadow Knows. Fig. The Shining study guide contains a biography of Stanley Kubrick, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. Regardless, he was a particularly strange pick for the role of Dick Hallorann because the character is Black in the book. 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. The color of the pillars is no longer what it was when the film was made, but the trim appears to be the same as in older photos. The Talmud said of them, "When this one falls, the other one rises." Theres a famous picture of Kubrick laughing in front of this wreckage. Most of the photographs observed on the walls of Ullman's office are black and white photos of the type chronicling meetings and luncheons and likely the presence of significant personalities at the lodge, but we also see behind Bill Watson two sepia photos and one wonders what may be their value. Cut to Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) sitting at a dining table with her ash blond-haired son, Danny (Danny Lloyd). The rainbow has become a symbol of happiness, good luck, peace and the promise of a pot of gold at its end for those who can find it. The former aim dissolves during the second act, while the latter, proper to the Ordinary World, deviates gradually to its correlative in the Special World i.e., Jacks duty of evil caretaker, which entails killing his family and maybe achieving immortality, as we will learn eventually. 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 sound occurs with a cross-fade from the ballroom to the entrance to the kitchen, audible as we see the word FIRE appearing on the screen, the big lettering on the fire doors.