The painting of the horse running down the railroad track is by Alex Colville, "Horse and Train", from 1954. My first thought on the designs at the height of these columns in the film had been to wonder if we might have somewhere in the Overlook the Greek Key, a meander border which was associated with the labyrinth, which would befit the maze (which we have yet to see), the Greek Key composed in such a way that when enlarged it formed a labyrinth. THE DOCTOR: What's the next thing you remember, after brushing your teeth? JACK (correcting): Uh, formerly a schoolteacher. 15 MCU of Danny. We are treated to several ghostly paranormal tales told by individuals who keep entreating the architect to stay. Look, I'm at the hotel and I still have an awful lot to go through. The place was first called Luz, so its original name was supplanted. I am particularly interested in the train because Kubrick has used trains in his other films. 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. Fig. WENDY: Now, come on, Tony, don't be silly. Wendy has also a sandwich but it is untouched. Then the same happens in reality in front of the movie screen and the audience buys all these sweets. A little rubber yellow duck peeks out from behind the shower curtain to the left, resting on the tub's ledge. 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. But perhaps he does. This is one of the things that the Interview makes a focus, the battle of humans and the lodge against nature. In Chapter I, when Edna and Robert return from the seashore, Edna smiles at Robert even as she retrieves her wedding ring from her husband, foreshadowing her eventual affair. TONY: He already did. (12:56) In the Jewish and Christian myth, Noah (NVCh, meaning "rest") and his family alone were preserved in an "ark" on which were also two of each kind of animal. Whoever the author.Discover new and exciting books to dive into with our Book Explorer Tool. 38 - Not in the movie. Danny being chased playfully by his mother into the hotel maze anticipates him being chased by his kill-crazy father. Click here to make a donation. 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. 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. He's going to phone Wendy up in a few minutes to tell her. The audience members are already building in their minds a plot for the hotel, and so they've every reason to assume that these characters are coming from something such as an elevator that accesses the guest areas. "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. (16:09) 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. As Jack approaches the lobby's reception desk, the woman in white turns. What appears to be a blue box showing Q-tips Cotton Balls stands on the first shelf of the bookcase beside the alabaster bull figurine, and could possibly be taken as a stand-in for a blue sky with clouds considering its placement above the horizon line. The family has progressively torn apart as the hotel works to corrupt Jack Torrances mind. 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. More significantly, as John Fell Ryan points out in his post The Stanley Hotels, the places Kubrick chose as influences for the interiors and exteriors of the lodge in one way or another appear to double names used in the film or Kubrick's own, such as the exteriors of Ahwahnee and the Timberline having being designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood. Fig. 92 MS Doctor from Wendy's side. 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. Cut to Wendy washing dishes, still in her union suits and blue overdress, and we now see an Indian beaded belt about her waist. The two ended up spending eleven weeks working on the script. The beiges and browns were standard fare. Jack asks about why the closing of the road, "seems to me that the skiing". Then there is Jack himself as Dannys antagonist, representing what the boy may become if he does not accomplish his own journey. If you happened to miss the link just above, here first is a short post on the blog with repurposed shots from Google Maps street view pinpointing the location of the Boulder apartment. Kubrick's showing us this vision early on in the film means that through the rest of the movie we will be waiting for the reappearance of these apparitions. Crossfade to office begins at 5:10.) There are many reasons to use foreshadowing in writing, including building suspense, sparking curiosity, and preparing your reader for that "aha" moment. Peter Sellers tells the new owners that he has saved all these films from the old days and now the theater feels like old times. Not only is the Overlook positioned on a kind of E/W dividing line (as described in the Opening analysis) it has also a world wheel heart powering it. At the same time, we see a door in the right wall leading to Mr. Ullman's office and catch a glimpse through it of another door that leads to the back service hall. Established in Melbourne (Australia) in 1999, Senses of Cinema is one of the first online film journals of its kind and has set the standard for professional, high quality film-related content on the Internet. 66 MCU Danny. The psychiatrist telling Wendy that. (5:06. Sometimes they see things that happened a long time ago., Mr Halloran, are you scared of this place?, Im gonna getcha. Film footage displays a desert scene, the heat of the boiler is raised, everyone sweats and thirsts. Oregon's Timberline Lodge, which was used as the hotels exterior for some shots, is to blame for this swap. STUART: Oh, and would you ask Bill Watson to join us. (8:04) Wendy uncomfortably laughs. Another claims that the film is truly about the genocide of Native Americans. Wendy, dressed in her red and blue, is bookended left and right by two dogs in blue and red, the dog in the picture, and Goofy, as if to reinforce a relationship between her and Goofy, who became eventually, in American mid 20th century culture, a kind of reassuring Everyman figure attempting to navigate a confusing world. 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. She isn't looking at Jack, as he's not in her line of sight. (8:37) Off to the right he heard it, and his ears, expert in such matters could not be mistaken. Is "The Great Mother" intended to be their mother? As for the radiant heat, the fact that the hotel used a boiler was of primary importance in King's book. The red painted hall that she walks down just prior to seeing the river of blood is also a subliminal to this effect. (16:28) STUART: Uh, did they give you any idea in Denver what the job entails? 21 - Wendy checking the boilers in the basement. He is unsettled, and it has taken him a moment to gather himself and think how to respond. "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. My superimposition of the bloody elevator and Danny's bedroom, showing spatial/design similarities. THE DOCTOR (sympathetic): OK, that's fine. Also, the kitchen appears deeper than the bathroom, which would cause some peculiarities with the interior layout and the plain block style exterior of the buildings. When Jack is chopping his way through the bathroom door we see a shot in which Wendy is crying and screaming in the background on the right portion of the screen. 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. 80 MCU Wendy. DANNY: Yeah, I guess so. Or we may just be seeing through the blue cloth the white of underslilps. The Shining is a must-read classic of the psychological horror genre. JACK: Oh, no problem at all. STUART: This is my secretary, Susie. The two pairs of union suits seem suggestive of one Wendy overlaying another Wendy. 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. As if we have a psychic after image from one scene to the next at work, and one may also then have the sense (perhaps not consciously) that they all fit together. Fig. The second Test is the sexual one, which occurs in room 237, when Jack encounters the shapeshifting woman. At least three times we see women in pairs carrying luggage about. To the left of Snoopy is Mickey Mouse. Doing so, we see Snoopy's little yellow bird friend, Woodstock, using the helium balloon to fly away from the tub in the direction of the window. "Shining" is later compared with sleep, that it can be like sleeping and upon waking not remembering everything one is told, and Z's are sometimes used for expressing sleep, such as in cartoons, but I also think of how the opening scene was accompanied by music signifying Judgment Day, and that Z is the final letter in the English alphabet, zeta, though it is the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet (value 7), based on the Phoenician zayin. (8:00) (Sha sound 8:01.) THE DOCTOR: we can always think about having some tests done. According to him, Kubrick was wise to remove that epilogue it pulled one rug too many out from under the story.. With the mention of emotional factors, Wendy has appeared to become nervous. We've the same feeling of symmetry here that will be found in the halls and the Colorado Room. STUART: That's good, Jack, because uh for some people uhm solitude and isolation can Below, resting on the floor is a tray decorated with flowers all in autumnal brown tones, and the plates upon which they eat are decorated similarly. The sound occurs elsewhere in the movie as follows. WENDY: Yeah? 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 Towards the end of the novel, Jacks genuine love for his son allows him to break through the hotels corrupting influence on his mind. On a psychological level, Jacks fatal flaw pertains both to the fear of failure and particularly in the 144 version to alcoholism. (4:10 crossfade begins, full fade in by 4:12.) However, there is no actual problem yet, but only the potentiality of it because of (1) premonitions due to the tragedy of 1970 and to the images conveyed by Dannys shining, and (2) uncanny events such as Jack staring at the hedge maze model (followed by an ambiguous high-angle shot of the model) or in the distance with a vacant stare, his use of the words forever and ever like the ghostly Grady twins do, and his abhorrent nightmare of murdering his wife and child. We're well on our way to the anticipated train crash of an ending. Lights up. This is more than reliance on single point photography for connecting scenes. 41 MCU of Bill. Now, looking at the Timberline lodge in Oregon, at its entrance it shows a compass but with directional notation, whereas the compass points at the entrance of the Overlook don't show this. He was not speaking to Tony before brushing his teeth. Repeatedly throughout The Shining, Kubrick bombards us with visual, auditory and conceptual hints of what is about to happen next. Spooks? The Torrance's apartment in Boulder is standard fare for the era. The pair are an expression of the idea of a struggle of universal forces ever in conflict, and it's held that never can both exist on the same plane. 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. She is author (with Valerio Sbravatti) of Shining: King vs. Kubrick, Segnocinema 209 (2018), pp. 90 MS Doctor from Wendy's side. Cut to Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) sitting at a dining table with her ash blond-haired son, Danny (Danny Lloyd). Lunch with Danny, Wendy, Tony, The Catcher in the Rye, and the Kensington, Shots 12 through 20 In other words, Jack definitely misses the chance to satisfy his real need. Fig. I don't know, but Danny, surrounded in Boulder by his toys and cartoon figures, is very much in the fantasy world of the child, and his relationship to his mother may be somewhat described here in her being on par with these toys and cartoon figures, which is not to denigrate her but to point out how "real" such fictional figures can be to a child. OK? Tony, the personification of Dannys shining, represents the Herald, the one who declares the beginning of the adventure. Perhaps hes laughing because he knows the novel ends with the Overlook Hotel burning down. as in Johnny Carson. "The Great Mother" painting is a shock of energy in contrast to the subdued earth tones of the lobby and its ornamentation, as well as the photographs on the other side of the entrance to Ullman's office, seeming to exhibit a sensibility and knowledge of the world quite apart from the photos and the tepid lodge and the well-behaved humans wandering about it engaging quietly with each other. How flow of action about the set unconsciously constructs for the audience a plot of the unseen environment based on natural expectations. 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 above scene is also a subliminal link to the deaths of the twin girls. Whether or not there was any intention behind the use of certain numbers in the film, such as 42, is one thing. Slim Pickens had already worked with Kubrick before. It's easy to see why Kubrick would have been interested in his art. The presence of The Catcher in the Rye at the table may belie Jack's later assertion that Wendy is a great fan of ghost stories and horror. STUART: Have any trouble finding us? STUART (smiling): And for once I agree with them. Danny has his vision of the Overlook. 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. Since the beginning of the book, hints are dropped pertaining to what will happen later on in the novel. The view also shows the oven with matched pots arranged on top, an exhaust fan above, and perhaps a coffee maker. Fig. Not even now. One of course wants a meaning for this "sha" and looks for one. For a methodological framework see Dara Marks, In addition to the aforementioned sources pertaining to. (8:33) The light of the unseen window, through the shower curtain, is as prominent as was the light of the window in Ullman's office. 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. The hotel boiler explodes and the hotel is demolished, allowing Wendy, Danny, and Dean to escape. Above her is a white bird with a black head ascending, and a raven. 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. On the left is a print that seems out of place with the hotel's decorative scheme. Carson City He stands out, fitting in neither as a lodger nor as a hotel employee. His isolation may stem from something other. (Only!) He fears the possibility of divorce more than anything else. 26 MCU of Jack. 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. And then not again until the phone lines are down: She is somewhere in the middle of Holden's autobiography on his troubles with leaving the more innocent world of childhood for the grim, disheartening reality of adulthood when she places the book down to dialogue with Danny and attempt to convince him that being isolated in the Colorado wilderness for the duration of the winter is a fine idea. (sound). Ullman and Watson Interview Jack, Shots 21 through 49 Jack's repeated throwing of a tennis ball at the wall above the fireplace is our foresight that he will later be chopping through doors with an axe in pursuit of his family. The novel features many of the themes and images that readers have come to love in Stephen Kings 40+ year career. Overall, the ghosts who appear to Jack incarnate the Shapeshifters: they are seemingly innocuous but actually subjugate him to the hotel. The roar rises and subsides. The Second Interview, Shots 61 through 95 There's hardly a person in 1980 who wouldn't have immediately bonded with the pedestrian situation of the lunch table and its simple sandwiches through the familiar cartoon vocabulary of a cartoon that was a shared experience. And, if so, how long can such an equilibrium be sustained, and what throws it out of balance? View its location taken from Google street view. Established in Melbourne (Australia) in 1999. Around the hotel we will see prints of pastels of indigenous children by Dorothy Oxborough. (16:11) This same man will later be seen examining the maze. 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. Bele, whose skin is a mirror image of Lokai's, is in pursuit of Lokai. 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. 56 MS Overlook hall. Sources differ on how long shooting itself lasted, but it probably went on for almost a year. On the left wall hangs a style of Japanese art print very popular for the time. Nevertheless, in the second and third act she will react strongly to her husbands aggressions. He revives, in it, the past. One will note that in the lobby, at the entrance, is a design which has arrows, one pointing toward the door and one pointing away. 75 MCU Danny. 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. 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. Where have we seen something resembling Snoopy's rainbow before? 82 MS Wendy from Doctor's side. The autumnal photo in particular will seem to, as the movie progresses, give an eerie sense of the lodge's mountain being watched from afar. Foreshadowing is used as a literary device to tease readers about plot turns that will occur later in the story. 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. Jack cockily decides for them. When Adle warns Robert that he might give Edna the impression that he's flirting in earnest in Chapter VII, Robert retorts that he wishes Edna would take him seriously . Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor (Scatman Crothers), Remote mountains of Colorado, Present-day. It is "Flock of Loons" by the artist Norval Morrisseau. When the place was built in 1907 there was very little interest in winter sports and the site was chosen for its seclusion and scenic beauty. Oh, it's still hard for me to believe it actually happened here, but it did. 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. Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. We can tell he's a new arrival as the red-coated valet behind him is porting his bags. In the Tarot, the Hebrew letter "sh" or "shin", is sometimes said to belong to the Key, Judgment, which fits appropriately with the use of "Dies Irae" as the opening music. THE DOCTOR: How did he manage to do that. -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. Always the ideas of free will versus a mechanical universe are parlayed. CHAPTER SIX (5:32) 76 MCU Doctor. 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. I have also written a post specifically on this. (15:53) Opposite them sit two older women. The same happens in 2001, the 2nd half beginning with almost all shots of Frank's space walk replicating, with slight changes, shots from when Dave was doing his space walk. 15 - The crossfade from Ullman's office to the apartment complex in Boulder. Basil Dearden, director of The Smallest Show on Earth, also was one of the directors showcased in the old horror classic Dead of Night. 28 MS of Bill, Stuart and Jack. There isn't radiant heat in the Gold Room or the red bathroom. Beautiful. In Dannys vision of the murdered twins, Kubrick very subtly uses this device again. Fig. "But, in the end, you find out that the man he accused was actually cheating him. 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. The scene actually made it into The Guinness Book of Records because it took 127 takes, the most for a scene with spoken dialogue. Uhm, let's see. 79 MS hallway. It always takes a little time to make new friends. Although there is darkness, readers arent likely to be haunted by Kings story. This area seems not to be dependent on radiant heat any longer for there isn't radiant heat in Ullman's office. 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. Shot 102. 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. Read foreshadowing examples showing how to tease approaching plot developments: Post authorBy Jordan It is a kind of mirroring, but things are not exactly the same. Nevertheless, the three-act structure2 is respected: the first act starts at the beginning and ends when Danny enters the Colorado Lounge with bruises on his neck; the second act starts when Jack enters the Gold Room in anger and ends when Grady releases him from the pantry; the third act occupies the remaining part of the film until the closing credits start. The presence of boxes in the background immediately communicates impermanence, transience. As already noted, the front and back covers of the book mirror each other, partnering with other doublings specifically having to do with Wendy in this scene (such as the red field mirroring the red sleeve) and in her later conversation with the doctor. Hood in Oregon. JACK: Only in a very general way. 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. WENDY: It was just one of those things, you know, purely an accident. Silence. 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. The camera then gives us a view of a grouping of seats about a television set and a second grouping of seats beside a sign in the background that is difficult to distinguish here but reads "Camera Walk". He used it in A Clockwork Orange with Alex revisiting in the 2nd part places he'd visited in the first. 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". 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. 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. DANNY: No, he's a little boy that lives in my mouth. That doesn't mean the maze is itself irrational and nonsensical. Baldwin, Emma "The Shining Review " Book Analysis, https://bookanalysis.com/stephen-king/the-shining/review/. (15:59) The comparison isn't too far fetched when one considers that Jack suffers from writer's block and the director in 8 and 1/2 was suffering from a creative block and musing on his life and its relationship to his work, his imaginings mingling with reality. So, does Tony tell him to do things? STUART (off screen): by the idea of staying alone in a place where something like that actually happened. A couple receives an old movie theater as an inheritance. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.