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. THE DOCTOR: Now, hold your eyes still so I can see. 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". At any rate, this subplot is not developed, so that in both versions the liquor primarily represents a magical potion that sanctions Jacks evil pact with Lloyd (and the Overlook through him) and therefore allows him to start the adventure in the Special World. (6:54) And, recollect, we have the doctor shining the bright light in Danny's eyes just previous that. Building a plot of the unseen environment based on natural expectations is difficult to impossible in The Shining. JACK: Do you mind if I ask why you do that? 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. Fig. He didnt even see the actual film until he was 16. I just personally dont find it scary because I saw it behind the scenes," Lloyd later said. As Bill sits in the chair next to Jack, Ullman tells Watson that Jack will be caretaking the Overlook that winter and that he wants Bill to walk him around the lodge. We don't see the waiter. STUART (off-screen): when people are shut in together over long periods of time. Home Stephen King The Shining Review. 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. Alex's interview was in preparation for treatment to aid his reform, an opportunity provided by a "new order". 2, which started in the previous scene (while Danny walks inside the Colorado Lounge), is heard here and will be used once again at the beginning of the third act and at the apparent end of the third act (when Jack dies in the hedge maze). Fig. 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. DANNY: I don't want to talk about Tony anymore. What am I doing here?" The first sentence refers to death, birth and "the bleeding tree." 2. 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. Wanting to learn how to make their theater more popular, the couple goes to a rival theater and we see during an entertainment break an "ice cream girl" (sweets dispenser) appear on the movie screen and progress down on-screen stairs toward the viewer. But back to The Smallest Show on Earth. WENDY: No, he didn't like it too much at first, and then he had an injury so we kept him out for a while, and, yeah, I guess that's about the time I first noticed that he was talking to Tony. (11:43) This is more than reliance on single point photography for connecting scenes. First there is the Overlook Hotel, which tries to take advantage of Jack in order to eliminate his family. How do you think they'll take to it? (4:10 crossfade begins, full fade in by 4:12. Shot 36. STUART: That's good, Jack, because uh for some people uhm solitude and isolation can King Kong in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The decoration at the height of the lobby's columns in The Shining is done in a Z shape. STUART: Well, that's very good time, very good. Where is Pete Van Horn anyway? Didn't he get back yet? Jacks Crisis: What Role Did Narcissistic Injury and Cultural Circumstance Play in Jacks Breakdown? 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. GradeSaver "The Shining Literary Elements". 15 Genius Foreshadowing Examples in Film and TV 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. Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor. One more thing I would like to make mention of is the long zucchini that is seen resting on the milk cartons, below the dishwashing liquids. WENDY: Sure I do, it'll be lots of fun. Beside Wendy, leaning against the wall is a painting of a cartoonish red and blue dog, a lion, and a purple elephant. THE DOCTOR: But believe me these episodes aren't at all uncommon and they look much worse than they are. Why this particular apartment complex? As his glance meets the woman's, he crosses the spot where Dick will be standing when Jack leaps out from behind the nearby pillar and kills him. Anyone familiar with the original design work and the resemblance to the fylfot could indeed read into the blood flowing from the elevators a connection to the holocaust. JACK: Oh, no problem at all. 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. (16:09) We've no music. 37 - Not in the movie. The center photo above the sepia ones appears to show two individuals on either side of a big fish, and there are a fair share of photos of people showing off their catches of remarkably large fresh water fish. STUART: Have any trouble finding us? a foreshadowing of Christ's glory, but also a promise of ours (Romans 8:16-17). The television in the background, topped with and surrounded by stacks of books, shows now an old western film rather than the cartoons. Kubrick was famous for being a particularly detail-oriented director. While he kills his father by trapping him in the maze and letting him die of hypothermia, Danny is resurrected since he survives his most dangerous and almost certain meeting with death at the hands of a stronger opponent. The Colorado Lounge section and the halls associated with Room 237 only use forced air heat. Tony tells Danny that he is going to remember something that Jack forgot. The name of the piece observed outside Ulmann's door is "The Great Mother". 33 MCU of Stuart. BILL: Well, this ought to be quite a change for ya. Images like these make the novel so thrilling to read. She isn't looking at Jack, as he's not in her line of sight. The conflict is revealed to be one of slavery and racial segregation. It makes the audience share Danny's psychic traumas of the hotel. 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. 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 DOCTOR: Mrs. Torrance, most of the time these episodes with kids are never explained, they are brought on by emotional factors, and they rarely occur again. This event is subtly implied in The Shining, and it is unclear whether it happens or not. Fig. 15 MCU of Danny. Of a person against a red background, it may look Mayan or Aztec influenced if one doesn't know its provenance. Oh, it's still hard for me to believe it actually happened here, but it did. The dresses, I believe, are two layers of fabric, a swiss dotted blue fabric over white. STUART: Jack is a The Impossible Window. At that film's end, a woman stands beside a fence at an airport, holding a dog that she treats as a child. I posit that we need to reflect upon what it means if Kubrick is tying in these projectors with the idea of the boilers, and it seems he is. It's a common psychological device in film, sometimes referred to as foreshadowing, and has been used by suspense masters like Hitchcock. 39 - Not in the film. 5 - Mastroianni as he appeared in "8 and 1/2". The radiant heat, powered by a boiler, isn't of so much importance here, yet Kubrick has rigged it so the Overlook has both radiant heat and forced air heat. And then not again until the phone lines are down: The timing of the first "sha" begins at 327, a permutation of 237, the number of the dreaded hotel room that Dick warns Danny away from. Can the bloody murder that Danny fears, which would be a duplicate of the Grady family killings, be avoided? Csar Albarrn-Torres Amanda Barbour Tara Judah Abel Muoz-Hnonin Fiona Villella. (4:59) (15:59) The author describes the malevolent spirit of the hotel as ghosts, as it has possessed each individual "ghost" and uses each one as a physical extension of itself. Jack informs Wendy he got the job and has a lot to do so won't be home before 9 or 10. It takes us also to the last day of the The Shining, its two episodes simply titled "8" and "4". The psychiatrist telling Wendy that. JACK: Pleasure to meet you. The Rainbow in Danny's Room and His Black-out Compared to A Clockwork Orange and the Invitation to the End of the Rainbow in Eyes Wide Shut 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". Though much isn't made of the boilers in Kubrick's film, the boiler was nearly a character in King's book, representing Jack's rage. According to the set still photographer, It was a huge fire in there one night, massive fire, we never really discovered what caused that fire and it burned down two sound stages and threatened a third at Elstree Studios. Approx 25,700 words or 51 single-spaced pages. Humans tend to not think of themselves as part of nature. Jack, just make yourself at home. Alot of the foreshadowing in the book is Shmuel and Bruno talking about certain things that the Nazis do, like when it smelled bad outside they didn't know what it was but in the book you knew it was the Nazis burning the Jews in the chambers, . [special thanks to Vince Contreras: . One theory is that Kubrick helped to fake the moon landing and The Shining is his confession. So, does Tony tell him to do things? 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. 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. Foreshadowing | literature | Britannica 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. 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. The idea of the past meshing with the present certainly fits well with "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. How a set informs the story in all its particulars. 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. Where have we seen something resembling Snoopy's rainbow before? We can see beyond him the TV on which the Summer of 42 movie will later be played, while beyond Wendy, as already noted, we have the apartment's TV playing the Western, a parallel established between the two scenes visually, the television in each shot weighted to screen right, while Jack leans to screen left and Wendy faces to screen right, the scenes dialoguing with one another. 24 - "How about your wife and son? The scene actually made it into The Guinness Book of Records because it took 127 takes, the most for a scene with spoken dialogue. 2.8m members in the MovieDetails community. DANNY: Okay. Im doing exactly the same as I was doing when I was 18 and making my first movie. Mr. Ullman's door is open revealing, in contrast to the lodge's general appearance, a more modern, though unimposing, salmon-pink room unpleasantly illuminated with several ceiling florescent lights and most prominently decorated with two high shelves on either wall holding potted plants. In A Clockwork Orange, when Alex is imprisoned, during prison exercises he is shown walking an almost relentless circle beneath the figure of a pyramid, and following that scene we go to his interview with the prison governor which has close parallels to Jack's interview with Ullman. It is "Flock of Loons" by the artist Norval Morrisseau. The expectation of something disquieting builds. The Question and Answer section for The Shining is a great Beautiful. Shot 122. Our writings on, and realizations of the "sha" sound are independent of each other. That doesn't mean the maze is itself irrational and nonsensical. Circularity of action is in all of Kubrick's films. The Shining Themes | GradeSaver 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. However, though these sounds surrounding the "sha" are not always distinguishable, when they can be heard they are always the same. Bill Watson looks quietly, solemnly, uncomfortably on as Ullman begins to relate the story. Tony, the personification of Dannys shining, represents the Herald, the one who declares the beginning of the adventure. (16:26) He tells Danny that he loves him and should run for his life. To the left of Snoopy is Mickey Mouse. All right, Danny. Details in Movies, Movie Details! 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. If this is so then Kubrick may have used the Z pattern to represent the labrys axe and maze. The climax of the film is Danny's escape from the snowy maze, where he misleads his father into getting lost. (5:14 crossfade from Boulder apartment ends.) The novel concerns the collapsing mental health of a teenage boy who has problems with "applying himself" and has recently been kicked out of his prep school. 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.