32 - Jack at the phone in the lobby. 2 - The Ahwahnee lobby, a Creative Commons image by Dave Ciskowsi. The Torrance's apartment in Boulder is standard fare for the era. 38 - Not in the movie. The place was first called Luz, so its original name was supplanted. Kubrick raises that question for the audience and leaves it to linger. 16 MCU of Wendy. Throughout the film, when action occurs in this hall, the camera stops short of revealing the area where the photograph is. It leaps out of her arms and pursues the motorized cart that carries the suitcase holding the money from Johnny's robbery of the racetrack. Stuart Ullman's hair is red and his hairstyle is similar to this unnamed doctor (played beautifully by Anne Jackson) whose hair is also red, and their coloring and builds are much the same. 16. 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. "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. He's gone. The gematria for the name in this short form is 26. Whatever, we have in the bathroom's mirror the film's first instance of second sight, of oracle, access to knowledge not normally held, and Kubrick appropriately annotates it with music concerning an awakening from a dream. Kubrick has been fairly faithful to other design elements but has left out this fylfot, which could be mistaken as a version of a swastika. 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". 91 CU Wendy. 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. In the lobby, during his phone call, Jack had been standing beside AVIS brochures advertising "Experience a Colorado Adventure" with a building of Spanish Mission style architecture set against the mountains. There is another photo of a silhouette in the office but we've yet to have it be introduced (I write of it in the Wednesday section). 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. "I can't remember everything." resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss thenovel. 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). When the book begins and readers are introduced to the various issues that the Torrance family is facing, it is hard not to root for Jack and Wendys marriage and their relationship with their young son, Danny. 79 MS hallway. (15:19) The boy is a young Hero who looks for a sense of satisfaction. As Wendy is about to reach the pillar that Jack hides behind the scene ends and we cut to a different part of the hotel. The above 2013 Creative Commons image, by the photographer J. W. Kern, shows how much Kubrick took architecturally and design-wise from the Ahwahnee. Because readers know how much he cares about his wife and son through flashbacks and Kings use of free indirect style, it is even more, moving to hear of his intense personality change and desire to inflict harm upon his family. At the Ahwahnee, and in the film's lodge, the columns are painted at the top with borders of a repetitive design, the Overlook's being different from the Ahwahnee. So, the sweets girl seems to exit the film and enter reality. 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. Shot 112. Notice how the slim art on the left wall in Boulder, and the wider art above the TV in Boulder, complement respectively the slim line of the left column in the Overlook, and the one directly behind Jack. And here is this book in view of the camera along with Young Jethro, which I suggested was chosen due the author's name, Clews, bringing up the idea of the clew of thread used by Theseus in the maze. My husband was teaching school there. I was wrong! 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. Danny, although only five years old, is well-aware of the troubles his parents are dealing with. 27:00 - Wendy says to Dick, "We call him Doc sometimes, like in the Bugs Bunny cartoons" (sound of "sha"). ), NOTE: Jay writes to me: "Speaking of mining, just watched 'Carson City' for the first time, today, and I'd like to respectfully offer a slight correction to what you cite in your analysis, for you indicated that in the scene on the telly in Boulder, Randolph Scott's character is talking to a conspirator, yet it is actually the scene where Jeff has been surveying one bore (the transit tool is visible in the scene) and is now talking to the banker who hired Jeff and is bankrolling the railroad project and is there to complain about the negative press the project has been garnering. Accessed 4 March 2023. When her hair is pulled back we observe that she has not only bangs but that a portion of hair is cut about chin level. Fig. They never recognize it is there by either a glance, action, or comment. Its the most difficult role Ive ever had to play.. A garbage trucks license plate reads RM237. And Trixie chats online with a dinosaur toy down the street who happens to have the screen name Velocistar237.. (4:45) The only thing that can get a bit trying up here during the winter is a tremendous sense of isolation. Particularly effective are the flashbacks to his fathers cruelty in his parents marriage. He's going to phone Wendy up in a few minutes to tell her. This is the clearest physical interaction between a ghost and ordinary reality in the film, and Jacks escape is the second plot point of the film. One theory is that Kubrick helped to fake the moon landing and The Shining is his confession. It seems a continuation of the doubling as already witnessed with the two girls in blue and Danny speaking to his reflection in the mirror. The prophecy concerning them was, "One people will be stronger than the other." The scene takes place after Jack dies in the snow. Go to TOC for this film ( (which has also a statement on purpose and manner of analysis and a disclaimer as to caveat emptor and my knowing anything authoritatively, which I do not, but I do try to not know earnestly, with some discretion, and considerable thought). 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. 10 Tracking shot of Jack through the lobby. (15:28) (Standing.) (13:39) At the end of the heros journey there is the Return with the Elixir. The Greatest of All Time, aka . WENDY: Tony is his imaginary friend. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) enters, his gray suit appearing cheap, limp and out of place with the resort attire of the others. 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). She may be the blond woman who was seated in the grouping to whom another waiter had appeared to be carrying a silver tray service when Jack was earlier in the lobby. 21 - The prison's governor in "A Clockwork Orange". It was in Fear and Desire, in which the film begins as it ends with the same view of the valley. Kubrick even uses the railroad in conjunction with a revisitation of events, something happening twice, in Eyes Wide Shut. The "spectator" shoes in combination with the camera is an interesting choice of attire for this opening shot. The executive producer of The Shining, Jan Harlan, has stated that this was intentional. The Overlook's sad history related. The Nazis eyes, "shining with greed," continued to bring their wrath down upon the thousands . Shot 142. I said earlier that Kubrick did a nice job of lifting this apartment's style/furnishings straight out of the the late 70s. . Fig. STUART: Police, well, they thought it was what the old timers used to call cabin fever, kind of claustrophobic reaction which can occur What's the teaser candy bait? It makes the audience share Danny's psychic traumas of the hotel. Not things that anyone can notice, but things that people who shine can see. 37 - Not in the movie. We can tell he's a new arrival as the red-coated valet behind him is porting his bags. We've no music. The viewer perhaps believes Danny is seeing the elevator, the girls, and then himself screaming. The Two Types of Photographs in the Hotel 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. -When Wendy tries to convince Danny that moving to the Overlook Hotel won't be so bad, she says, "It'll be a lot of fun.". Towards the end of the novel, Jacks genuine love for his son allows him to break through the hotels corrupting influence on his mind. Does "The Great Mother" hold what Kubrick might mean to register as a club, foretelling Wendy with the bat? STUART (off-screen): when people are shut in together over long periods of time. One of the girls is vaguely smiling while the other girl is frowning. Foreshadowing is a plot element that hints at something to come later in the story. Stephen King's use of character development throughout this novel is what makes the book so thrilling and moving. About the cartoon Though Kubrick did in the opening section associate Jack with the VW, having his name in the credits pass over the VW as the helicopter zoomed in on the auto, we are only working on an assumption, at this point, that the VW in the opening has anything to do with Jack. 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. Give your writing extra polish. Details in Movies, Movie Details! -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. 82 MS Wendy from Doctor's side. They are partners in the worthless Golden Elephant Mine. 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. So, there are two interviews, and perhaps even three if we count the doctor speaking with Danny. The question posed is how did it happen? Two union suits. (The doctor switches to examining Danny's left eye.) One with a series of visual cuts and one with a fast zoom. (7:13) She's a confirmed ghost story and horror film addict. Overall, the ghosts who appear to Jack incarnate the Shapeshifters: they are seemingly innocuous but actually subjugate him to the hotel. Afterwards, Jack quarrels with Wendy about his needs, and then he has a sort of Approach to the Inmost Cave. STUART: Well, obviously some people can be put off The Bijou Cinema having been revived (somewhat), the new owners enter one day to hear the projector running and a piano being played. (Sha sound 9:34) After many years of wondering about this painting, and a loon painting in the same secretarial area but on an opposing wall, obviously done by the same artist, I've been apprised by Ioway artist, Lance Foster, the art is by Norval Morrisseau. Jethro was the father-in-law of Moses but I've found a very brief description of the plot of the book and it seems to be about a needle mill worker in the UK in the 19th century. 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. 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. "Two tunnels?" The television in the background, topped with and surrounded by stacks of books, shows now an old western film rather than the cartoons. Foreshadowing. There is no music, only the ambient sounds of general activity. DANNY: Yes. 56 MS Overlook hall. JACK: Only in a very general way. 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. Fig. (4:10 crossfade begins, full fade in by 4:12.) Jack says it doesn't bother him. The doctor sits down next to Danny. Shot 10. Its almost over. GOT FB AND CONTACT INFO. Before we continue on and out of the bedroom, to review the conversation, Danny has given in reverse order what happened in the bathroom. A child having to navigate a world built for adults, Danny stands on a stool before the bathroom sink that is built for adult use. 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. There is also a hallway in the Colorado Lounge that essentially appears out of nowhere. He revives, in it, the past. He's dressed in a winter sweater rather than the lighter weight raglan. WENDY: It sounds like you got the job. 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. foreshadowing, the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work. Home Stephen King The Shining Review. Shot 116. First there is the Overlook Hotel, which tries to take advantage of Jack in order to eliminate his family. The couple, to enhance refreshment sales in their theater, tries this technique. Spooks? I discuss the terrier in this post. 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. Whatever the book. The doctor sits on the brown sofa under the hazy light of a high window, reminding of similarly red-haired Ullman seated before the hazy light of the impossible window at the Overlook, and Wendy takes a seat on a matching chair that corresponds with Jack's relationship with Ullman during the interview at the lodge. 10 Jack undergoes an Ordeal: all at once, he faces his wife (now an antagonist) on a pragmatic level, and his fears and flaws in psychological terms pertaining to the working contract, the writing project, and the relationship with his family. Not only do they have a sweets girl but they regulate the environment in the theater. He felt a particularly deep understanding of Jack Torrance's berating of his wife while he is trying to write. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. The first Test for Jack in the Special World is the temptation of drinking liquor. There seems space for another room between Danny's room and the living room. Here is the quote: Doc, Jack Torrance said. Another tale concerns a ventriloquist with a dummy that turns out to be independently alive, a plot that served as basis for the later Danny Kaye film, Knock on Wood. Did Jack have any trouble finding them? 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. The Shining is a glaring example of a film that has led to countless interpretations, favoured by its complex and enigmatic nature, sometimes leading to interpretive deliriums - as confirmed by the documentary film Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2012). After they have coffee, we see at 5:55 a cigarette in the ashtray and Ullman's white pen pointed toward him (Figure 20); at 6:45 we see the tray is empty when all three men are shown (Figure 22); at 6:58 Ullman's pen is pointed toward him and there is a cigarette in the ashtray; at 7:20 there is no cigarette and the pen is pointed away (Figure 23); at 7:58 the pen is pointed away and there is this time a cigarette (Figure 24); at 8:05 the pen is pointed toward Ullman and there is a cigarette; at 8:26 the pen is pointed away and there is no cigarette; at 9:42 the pen is pointed toward Ullman and there is a cigarette; at 10:07 the pen is pointed away and there is a cigarette. 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. Circularity of action is in all of Kubrick's films. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Shining by Stanley Kubrick. Stephen Kings use of character development throughout this novel is what makes the book so thrilling and moving. 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. Shot 113. 48 MCU of Stuart. THE DOCTOR: Mrs. Torrance, I don't think you have anything to worry about. Im doing exactly the same as I was doing when I was 18 and making my first movie. The four letters are I H W H, or Yod, He, Waw and He (a silent letter). The newest furnishings would be the white dinette set and chairs. The accompaniment of dramatic music lets us know were about to see something scary. 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. But there's nothing spooky about the lobby. Foreshadowing - a 'warning or indication of a future event' - is a useful device in storytelling. So when we are looking at the Overlook from the aerial view, this is what informs the pyramidal structure of the lobby, yet Kubrick has stripped it out of the film as far as the set interior, preferring instead to have no fireplace at all in the lobby of the Overlook, patterning its appearance after the lodge at Yosemite. He played Major T. J. The first sentence refers to death, birth and "the bleeding tree." 2. As the camera stays fixed on Jack, Ullman begins THE DOCTOR: Oh 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. In the red bathroom, Grady subtly instructs Jack about his adventure, preparing him for the central ordeal. Another book is Young Jethro by Roy Clews. But back to The Smallest Show on Earth. Shot 123. Wendy Torrance is driven by a desire to improve her marriage but, beyond all, protect her son from any injuries that might come his way. Jack asks about why the closing of the road, "seems to me that the skiing". Here, Ullman is about to reveal some disquieting information, but one still has a sense of things withheld, just as in A Clockwork Orange the prison's governor doesn't divulge to Alex what the nature of his treatment (Serum-114) will be. Later, the primary conflict is between the hotel and Danny as it tries to possess him, but he stands up to the threat.
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