We are able occasionally to see her watch and that it reads either 5:55 or 6:00. THE DOCTOR: Did Tony's first appearance happen to coincide with your arrival here? This device is valuable, as it allows readers to make connections between themes, characters, symbols, and more-both within a literary work and between works of literature. Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, The Shining is about a family who takes residence in a secluded hotel for the winter during its off season. 48 MCU of Stuart. The second act has begun. As Wendy wheels a tray with Jacks breakfast through the lobby, she walks the exact same path that Halloran does in his death scene. (10:06) (4:53) Timberline reception desk with picture of lodge. It also worked well with the circa 1920 building we were living in. Fig. 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. DANNY: Tony, do you think dad will get the job? Shortly, much will be made of the isolation of the hotel, but the family is already living an isolated life in Boulder, though the situation doesn't stand out as peculiar yet. BILL (seated): Fine. -When Jack chops down the bathroom door to reach Wendy, he shouts, "Here's Johnny," a reference to the Johnny Carson show. Off to the right he heard it, and his ears, expert in such matters could not be mistaken. Jack first looks to the left, in the direction of the hall in which, at the end of the film, we will see the famous photo that reveals Jack as present at the lodge in 1921. Certainly, if one takes a look around the web at the Ahwahnee, one easily understands why Kubrick would have chosen the striking hotel in Yosemite as an influence for the lodge's interior. What is peculiar is that we see in this shot that both the radiant heaters to the right and left of the door leading into the "Gold Room hall" off the lobby also have forced air vents behind them. It's an interesting way of moving the viewer's gaze. Regardless, he was a particularly strange pick for the role of Dick Hallorann because the character is Black in the book. (6:54) But the individual pages in the film contain different layouts and mistakes. as in Johnny Carson. -Jack tells Mr. Ullman that he expects Wendy will be entertained by the story of the hotel's bloody past, as she loves ghost stories and horror movies. Oh Danny, for Gods sake No, Danny said. Fig. When you overlay then the elevator hall with the next scene of Danny's bedroom, the bathroom door fits neatly into the left up to the 2nd bank of wall, and the far right of the elevator aligns with the bedroom's right corner. I have also written a post specifically on this. STUART: Well, obviously some people can be put off About the cartoon 18 MCU of Wendy. 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. A hotel employee who stands at the counter marking yellow sheets is not the same woman who had been at the counter when Jack arrived, and instead may be the individual who had been descending the rear stairway when Jack was headed into the office. 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. 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. Kubrick was famous for being a particularly detail-oriented director. 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. (Standing.) (4:45) 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. 35 MCU of Stuart. In Stuart's interview, he has the uncomfortable business of relating the story of the murder, while in the interview with the doctor it is Wendy who will relate an uncomfortable story in response to the doctor's questions. A zigzag pattern also can represent lightning, and some believe that the labrys, upon which is based the labyrinth, may symbolize lightning. 30:16 - Dick asks Danny, as to shining, "How long have you been able to do it" (sound). (5:01) The camera has cut to Wendy while Danny/Tony said "Mrs. Cut to a hall of the Overlook with nearly symmetrically placed brown plaid chairs and radiant heaters, the bright red doors of elevators beyond. 42 MCU of Stuart. Not only do they have a sweets girl but they regulate the environment in the theater. Catholic Bible Study - 2nd Sunday of Lent - 5 MARCH 2023 A.D. - AR15.COM The name of the apartment complex is the Kensington. 20:03 - On "Closing Day" when Jack says they'd had a bite to eat, the "sha" follows. It's important, sometimes, what we don't see in a Kubrick film, and this is one of those times. 39 MCU of Stuart. Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor. A couple receives an old movie theater as an inheritance. In The Shining the Shadow is twofold. (13:56) 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. A fortune teller might use foreshadowing, warning that a short life line is a sign of some impending disaster. But it becomes perhaps relevant that there are two tunnels on the Going-to-the-Sun road in Glacier park, the west and the east, each on either side of the Continental Divide. In The Smallest Show on Earth we have these problematic projectors that work in concert with the janitor hiking the heat of the Bijou's boiler to make people overheat and purchase drinks. 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. Fig. Note the loud echoing bang of the ball and compare it with the slamming thud as Jack chops through doors. (15:53) That Roy Clews was the author of a book about a needle mill worker (a needle guides thread) is a nice bit of serendipity. (4:10 crossfade begins, full fade in by 4:12.) That ugly rug peculiarly matches almost exactly with one we picked up in the early 2000s, that we got because it was better than anything else cheaply available and matched up well with some really nice brown brocade covers on our living room futons. I write a little more on the use of this sound in the "Saturday" section. All the views show Mount Hood's south flank. One could reason that it has been three years since the incident, that Jack did drink again, he drank for two-and-a-half of those three years and only recently stopped, and Wendy is unwilling to admit that he did drink again, unwilling to admit she stayed with him despite this, and accidentally lets slip the truth of the matter with the proud and hopeful reassurance that her husband has been sober "five months". Foreshadowing is a literary device in which authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the story. 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). 13 - Jack and Ullman shaking hands before the "impossible" window. Just a mom and son eating sandwiches in a kitchen that, by virtue of its lighting and the framing of the shots, is experienced as real-life rather than a set. Fig. What is unusual about The Shining is also the fact that we have a threshold crossing of sorts inside the first act, when the protagonist and his family settle in the Overlook Hotel. (10:49) First published in 1977, the novel solidified Stephen Kings legacy as one of the most skilled authors of his generation. Look, I'm at the hotel and I still have an awful lot to go through. Composedjustso. We assume Jack has made the trip up in the yellow VW but we didn't see him in it. It is still open each year from May 20th to September 20th. Esau would lose not only his birthright to Jacob, but his father's blessing as well, through Jacob's guile and his deceit of masquerading as Esau in order to procure the blessing. Thus, 8 and 1/2. 16 MCU of Wendy. THE DOCTOR: Why not? The curtains could only be cheaper if the Torrances had used the thin bamboo blinds that were popular for the time. It is a majestic and luxurious isolated place, with a grisly past: On the one hand, [the isolation] serves, once again ironically, as the reverse side of communication, in a film which is all about communication, albeit extrasensory (the shining); on the other hand, it makes the Overlook Hotel [] a self-sufficient microcosmos [], a symbolic and absolute space, a home and a familiar place par excellence, where the destruction of the family is carried out.6 The Overlook was built on a Native American burial ground, and Native American motifs have been absorbed in the hotel in the guise of Navajo rugs on the walls and floors. 12 MS of Wendy and Danny in the Boulder apartment dining area. I am particularly interested in the train because Kubrick has used trains in his other films. The psychiatrist telling Wendy that. 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. 12) Hot Fuzz (2007) - Edgar Wright. In the red bathroom, Grady subtly instructs Jack about his adventure, preparing him for the central ordeal. Below are 15 examples of foreshadowing and irony in the James Hurst short story, "The Scarlet Ibis." FORESHADOWING. Added all shots 2012. We have this circularity in The Shining with the deja vu. Stylistically, as far as set design, it's interesting how the sharp angle in the graphic design of the milk carton, which rests above and follows Wendy's shoulder, is echoed in the diagonal of the ironing board stand above Danny's shoulder. Kubrick was notorious for his lengthy film productions. One salt and pepper gray-haired man in a plaid jacket and two-toned spectator shoes is prominent, reading near the entrance, smoking what may be a cigar, a drink to his side next a camera. 54 MS Jack. 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". Foreshadowing, Jack crosses the circle where Dick will later lie slain. The Refusal of the Call is traceable in Danny as well. Carson City On the ground below the helium balloon figure we see a multi-colored striped object. Whether it be sound, acting, visuals, and the overall foreshadowing of the story. Shot 10. 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. Lighting a cigarette, a Virginia Slims, Wendy's hands are obviously shaking. JACK (confidently): Not for me! Foreshadowing -Mr. Ullman tells Jack about the former caretaker of the hotel who murdered his family before committing suicide. Dannys entrance in room 237 is presented as his first real Crossing of the First Threshold, because he accesses the forbidden place, which really is a Special World. In the first case, Jack i.e., this instantiation of the caretaker has obtained the elixir, and will return; in the second case, he has missed the chance to get it and is forever trapped in the limbo of an irretrievable past. The malevolent force that is the Overlook Hotel is the antagonist. WENDY: Now, come on, Tony, don't be silly. 57 MCU Two girls. "Flock of Loons" is also seen near the secondary exit/entrance Wendy and Jack use to exit the lodge toward the end of the film. With Ullman we have his shirt and its cuffs prominently echoing the flag, while with the prison's governor we have his shirt and cuffs echoing the color of the flowers on the window sill behind his desk. What this difference in dominance means (or how it functions) will be discussed in the "Saturday" section. Sources differ on how long shooting itself lasted, but it probably went on for almost a year. For a while I misinterpreted a little sculpture next to salt and pepper shakers as an elephant. Tim Messenger, a local journalist claiming to have information for the police, is brutally killed by falling masonry as he's standing waiting to see Sergeant Angel. 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. 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. The maze will eventually be his downfall. In . The convivial Jack, eager to make a good impression, earnestly listens and responds. These are clean cuts, no crossfades. 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. "Wow. Hinting at what will happen serves multiple purposes (such as building tension and suspense). 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 is going to take care of the Overlook for us this winter. An examination of the below map of the lobby and associated areas will make obvious the absurdity of the window. According to Hughes, the film would have had to earn $30 million to be profitable. Jack wants to bring his family to the hotel for a fresh new start but it is actually the end of their family and the end of Jack's life. will review the submission and either publish your submission or providefeedback. The "sha" itself is a breathy percussive voicing. The darker side is often not considered, of a wrathful deity unleashing a flood upon the earth to destroy humanity, even animal life. But the book itself isnt filled with jump scares or ghastly scenes of violence. 22 MCU of Jack. Fig. 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. The feel is of stripped branches arranged into what is supposed to be of utilitarian function, but it's rare to be unable to guess how an object may be used. The doctor sits down next to Danny. At least three times we see women in pairs carrying luggage about. STUART (off-screen): schoolteacher. 39 - Not in the film. ), In 1983, King told Playboy, Id admired Kubrick for a long time and had great expectations for the project, but I was deeply disappointed in the end result. DANNY: No, he's a little boy that lives in my mouth. First placed online 2007-2009 in loose form. 13 MCU of Danny. (17:20) Obviously unsettled, the doctor gazes silently at Wendy who now reassures 46 MCU of Stuart. (11:13) LINKS TO SECTIONS OF THE ANALYSIS ON THIS PAGE: In Stephen King's "The Shining," the recurring image of blood pouring from elevators foreshadows the violence that takes place later in the story. The second Test is the sexual one, which occurs in room 237, when Jack encounters the shapeshifting woman. -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. The masses of books make due with utility shelves, if they ever make it out of the box. The editor of the town's paper realizes the letters are likely S Q U, and that Squires is the murderer. Or he is using the Carson City film to comment on those east/west tunnels and the divide between them, which is drilled through in Carson City. Sometimes they see things that happened a long time ago.. (7:13) What Is Foreshadowing In A Story? Examples, Tips and How To Did Jack have any trouble finding them? (10:30 begin crossfade to Boulder bathroom.). As in, the helium balloon has become 3-d but it is still a representational toy. Below is the Timberline reception desk with a picture of the lodge overhanging. 58 MS Overlook hall. More books than SparkNotes. The autumnal photo presents Mount Hood in context with Mirror Lake, which the viewer may associate with St. Mary lake seen in the opening shot of the movie, that mirrored the landscape. And that was just for the final scene! STUART: Oh, well, come on in, Jack. 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. "The Shining (1977 Novel) Literary Elements". Silence. We note a low glare of light on the face of the desk between Jack and Bill Watson, prominent enough that it almost takes on a sense of phantom presence. Building Tension In Stanley Kubrick's The Shining - Cram Just as Wendy wears two pairs of union suits, we do, in a way, have two Wendys. Established in Melbourne (Australia) in 1999. From there, the eye seems even to be pulled, by the yellow and orange framed graphic, off screen to the left. 53 MS Wendy. He experiences visions, given to him by his imaginary friend Tony, of the word Redrum and of a shadow figure wielding a weapon. BILL (off-screen): What line of work are you in now? 34 CU of Jack. Now, come on, tell me. We're all going to have a real good time. 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. Each is the same in general style, the front porch, the gliders, the rest of it. So, there are two interviews, and perhaps even three if we count the doctor speaking with Danny. 89 CU Wendy. When they used the phrase, they meant that they aimed to kill Danny, making him a ghost in the hotel. In the lobby of the Overlook, as the film opens, a few people rest in armchairs reading, talking, but the lodge isn't exactly a buzzing hive of activity. 71 MCU Danny. But we tend to accept the office as it is, ignoring the impossible window, because all else appears to be so normal. We've no music. Directing Jack to Ullman's office, she points him to the "first door on the left". In more removed shots we see on the right of the desk a medium-size bush in a floor pot, that plant having two pokey branches ascending above the rest and being about the same height as the peculiar object on the left.