", An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Whether it be sound, acting, visuals, and the overall foreshadowing of the story. The Two Types of Photographs in the Hotel 25 - The photographs behind Bill are different than the others normally observed. He is unsettled, and it has taken him a moment to gather himself and think how to respond. There is no guest area concourse back here, instead only service halls for employees. JACK: Pleasure to meet you. 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. The place was first called Luz, so its original name was supplanted. He approaches a clerk at the registration desk for direction. (4:10 crossfade begins, full fade in by 4:12.) Whoever the author.Discover new and exciting books to dive into with our Book Explorer Tool. When Wendy is sitting there with the Salinger book, its back cover perfectly mirroring the front cover, with the hidden reference to Mather's Comin' Through the Rye, she is reading a book on history repeating itself. The Lodges management asked for the room number to be changed so that guests wouldnt avoid Room 217. These are clean cuts, no crossfades. (12:51) 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. What's the secondary teaser candy bait? " Radium Girls spares us nothing of their suffering; though at times the foreshadowing reads more like a true-crime story, Moore is intent on making the reader . The disastrous flood that occurs at the . There is more than a passing similarity between this scene and the one in A Clockwork Orange in which Alex meets with the governor of the prison. STUART: Uhm, physically, it's not a very demanding job. 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. 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. 31 - Wendy in the living room speaking to Jack on the telephone, the television running in the background. SUSIE: Sure. I'd like you to. Fig. Not only do they have a sweets girl but they regulate the environment in the theater. The television in the background, topped with and surrounded by stacks of books, shows now an old western film rather than the cartoons. DOCTOR: Bye. We can tell he's a new arrival as the red-coated valet behind him is porting his bags. Though Danny speaks with Tony's voice, Tony is referred to in the third person, which indicates Danny is Tony's actual voice. More books than SparkNotes. Foreshadowing Examples | YourDictionary 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. 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. Hanging above the sink is a green and white dish towel that may read "Golf with the Greats". The rainbow on the door of Danny's room directly precedes Danny's vision via the mirror, and after the vision Danny's eyes are highlighted during the doctor's examination. Although there is darkness, readers arent likely to be haunted by Kings story. JACK: Susie, how do you do? Such a design was used also by the Hopi. THE DOCTOR: What's the next thing you remember, after brushing your teeth? Senses of Cinema was founded on stolen lands. Many of the seemingly innocuous details throughout "The Lottery" foreshadow the violent conclusion. 27 - The varying tone of Bill's suit is due film processing. Throughout these shots of Ullman, we don't see the bird statuette on the window sill behind him, which is there but concealed by his head. 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. 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. Before continuing, it should be noted that the exterior window in the office is a physical impossibility, the office being entirely interior the building. The same happens with environments in Lolita and Eyes Wide Shut, as I've pointed out in my analyses of them, but Kubrick's skewing the sets so they aren't what they appear to be services The Shining well with its introduction of a sinister aspect. To the rainbow's right we have Mickey's sweetheart, Minnie Mouse. Below is the massive stone fireplace in the lobby of the Timberline. A question presented by the movie is what isn't destiny, what isn't a foregone conclusion, and what prevents history from repeating itself? 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. The question posed is how did it happen? We briefly see down the hallway, beyond Wendy and the doctor, a door open on another room, a print of boy and girl bears on the wall above a blue and white hair dryer and a chair below that. That pretty well clinches it for me that Kubrick, by means of Salinger's Coming Through the Rye book, was referring to The Smallest Show on Earth, and by means of it the silent film and book, Comin' Through the Rye. That's where the story is. JACK (confidently): Not for me! Tony is revealed to be an imaginary friend of the boy's. This visual arrangement almost looks like Wendy is actually being killed with the axe. Its unclear what exactly is going to happen to the family, but King ensures that readers continue through the story and find out. Wendy is well aware of the danger that her husband poses when hes drunk. The end table and the coffee table are stacked with books, as is every nearly every available surface. How ambient audio unconsciously constructs and complements environment. No way one would find this kind of workmanship in a 70s student/family apartment complex. TONY: He already did. The convivial Jack, eager to make a good impression, earnestly listens and responds. We start worrying that he may be suffering from cabin fever and, in the 144 version, that he may become physically aggressive once again. 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. It's an interesting way of moving the viewer's gaze. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. 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. Both the Hebrew and Greek words for the rainbow harbor a relationship with the eye, and I'll note here that the Greek iris, iridos, a rainbow, lily, iris of the eye, is given as originally meaning a messenger of the gods as personified by the rainbow. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Shining (1977 Novel) by Stephen King. THE SHINING (1979) analysis by Rob Ager - Collative Learning Danny, although only five years old, is well-aware of the troubles his parents are dealing with. She was in the middle of that book, a page dog-eared, and the middle portion of this book is blue, bisecting the first half from the latter. -Dick tells Danny that there is nothing wrong with Room 237, but he also warns Danny to "stay out." In . Sometimes they see things that havent happened yet. Fig. The idea of the past meshing with the present certainly fits well with "shining". WENDY: Only about three months. Fig. Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. We have it in Eyes Wide Shut with the synchronous events of the trains, with Bill wandering the same streets again and again, and his attempting in the second part of the film to revisit places from the first part and locate people who have disappeared between the first and second parts. 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. (5:50) The presence of boxes in the background immediately communicates impermanence, transience. While filming the scene in which Jack breaks down a bathroom door with an ax, Nicholson shouted out the famous Ed McMahon line from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. DOCTOR: Thank you. TONY: No. Carl Lamarre, Gail Mitchell, Keith Murphy, Michael Saponara, Datwon Thomas, Mark Elibert, Eric Diep , William E. Ketchum III, Heran Mamo, Neena Rouhani. A similar arrangement occurs here. Seems it's a question posed with some caution. The most literal Shapeshifter is the woman in room 237, who first appears as a young and attractive lady but then morphs into a repulsive decaying hag which is herself double as it were, since we see her alternately laughing sardonically and walking toward Jack, and expressionless, emerging from the bathtub (Dannys vision?) 87 MCU Doctor. These are people who shouldn't be going up to the Overlook, but, of course, it's because these are people who shouldn't be going there that we find them on their way. Oregon's Timberline Lodge, which was used as the hotels exterior for some shots, is to blame for this swap. Moreover, Lloyd is the first Ally encountered by Jack in the Special World (Grady will follow). She's a confirmed ghost story and horror film addict. Young Jethro and the Maze. Notes on Ullman's Desk and Inconsistencies 20:03 - On "Closing Day" when Jack says they'd had a bite to eat, the "sha" follows. There is no Room 237 in the hotel, so that number was chosen. 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. All the views show Mount Hood's south flank. Kubrick does not do this only in The Shining. The lunch box is appropriately labeled "Emergency" and shows, I think, firemen. Oh Danny, for Gods sake No, Danny said. Several times in the movie we have evidence that it seems Jack smokes, but he is never shown smoking, though Wendy is. -Wendy asks Jack if the beautiful scenery they see on the drive to the hotel is the site of the Donner Party tragedy. Its a common psychological device in film, sometimes referred to as foreshadowing, and has been used by suspense masters like Hitchcock. I think The Shining uses a similar kind of psychological misdirection to forestall the realization that the supernatural events are actually happening.. Classic 60s design is down at the Salvation Army waiting for a new home, or rotting in a landfill, replaced with cheap 70s ugly lamps and faux wood coffee table and end tables. (15:59) WENDY: Sure I do, it'll be lots of fun. 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 37 MCU of Stuart. The janitor is shown in the boiler room boosting the temperature so that, while the audience is watching films on people near dying of thirst in the parched desert, the viewers are also experiencing extreme heat that provokes thirst, and this boosts refreshment sales dramatically. 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. (3:27 crossing into 3:28) The second thing that happens is a subtle audio cue. "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. I'm not at all married to the idea, just proposing it. 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. 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. (Jack smiles.) 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. Though Kubrick had a . The theme of family bonds is one of the most important in the novel. "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. 77 MCU Danny. NtRK and her many potentials are waiting So there are some shots where Ullman's white pen is pointed toward him and there's a cigarette in the tray; some shots where the pen is pointed away from Ullman and there is no cigarette; some shots where the pen is pointed away from Ullman and there is a cigarette. How so? Around the hotel we will see prints of pastels of indigenous children by Dorothy Oxborough. The Lottery Foreshadowing Summary & Analysis | SparkNotes We open with the lobby. 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 desk is covered with protective glass and appears even more cluttered than it is partly because of its reflective surface mirroring all the objects placed upon it. It always takes a little time to make new friends. Both photos give a sense of unease, ominous, in particular the way the one of the individual on the left, perhaps a boy, feels to be part of a story line to do with the final hedge maze scene, as if this is a first frame of Danny running to the maze, and the photo to the right is a second frame, following up the first, revealing a monstrous entity pursuing him--but these aren't photos of the final maze scene in the snow as that occurs at night and the hedge maze is also covered in snow. It makes the audience share Danny's psychic traumas of the hotel. As for Ahwahnee, it may possibly mean "place of the big mouth", which, no matter the original meaning, may remind of Danny's open mouth silent scream. For a methodological framework see Dara Marks, In addition to the aforementioned sources pertaining to. 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). There is something on a table near them, but this was already there before the waiter approached, so the only table on which he could have placed his tray was between the blond and the man. will review the submission and either publish your submission or providefeedback. (14:46). He seems to be failing completely, since the novel is actually the repetition of the same sentence (All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy), his wife wants to think things over because she does not understand his needs, and she knocks him out and down the stairs with the baseball bat, thus preventing him from completing his tasks. So, in The Smallest Show on Earth the two real films used in the theaters are Knock on Wood and Comin' Through the Rye. 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. In the red bathroom, Grady subtly instructs Jack about his adventure, preparing him for the central ordeal. THE DOCTOR: What sort of injury? A couple receives an old movie theater as an inheritance. In Review, What Has Kubrick Given Us in This Section? Fig. The lobby, with its radiators, aappears to be dependent on radiant heat. "Any chance of them being repaired soon?" International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct,London, EC1A 2BN, United Kingdom, 2023 Book Analysis. Go figure. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) enters, his gray suit appearing cheap, limp and out of place with the resort attire of the others. The Second Interview, Shots 61 through 95 The right photo is even more mysterious, perhaps showing the hedge maze with snow in the foreground, and a peculiar, vague silhouette overlaying that seems to only take on humanoid proportions through the eye looking for such, and yet also lends itself to such. We see beyond them the sign "The Gold Room" which is to the right of double doors (only in the opening and closing scenes is this sign to the right), these double doors framed with gold drapes and leading to a hall with walls and doors in the same design as the lobby but which has red sofas and will be later observed to have the Gold Room carpet. THE DOCTOR: Why not? For all we were aware he could have just gone in to use the bathroom, was washing his hands afterward and became involved with playing in the sink. (14:55) Can the bloody murder that Danny fears, which would be a duplicate of the Grady family killings, be avoided? Shot 221. WENDY: Well, how come you don't want to go? An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Not to mention everyone grew up eating white bread peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. First published in 1977, the novel solidified Stephen Kings legacy as one of the most skilled authors of his generation. In this article we offer a basic dramaturgical analysis of The Shining (in both its versions 144 and 119) using a method which follows authors such as Syd Field, Christopher Vogler, and Dara Marks: we deal with both the narrative world, i.e., the characters, their relations, and the environment in which they act, and the narrative structure. At the same time, the Special World invades the Ordinary World, since the ghosts become visible to Wendy as well presumably because Jack is doing exactly what the hotel wanted him to do. JACK: Oh, no problem at all. (11:03) OK? [A lieutenant] told me theyve really gone over the place with a fine tooth comb and they didnt find the slightest evidence of anything at all out of the ordinary. He also encourages Wendy and Danny to stay with him for a while. (Only!) I can't say. Jack says it doesn't bother him. When one ascends, the other must descend and vice versa, a matter of physical law. 81 MS Doctor from Wendy's side. They never recognize it is there by either a glance, action, or comment. Because of their near symmetry, and because the scenes are slightly off and not perfectly symmetrical, I thought it might be interesting to overlay the elevator hall with the hall of the girls and see how they relate. You can help us out by revising, improving and updating The blue sleeves are decorated with white stars on red bands. Fig. He has said, "Pleasure to meet you", "Fine", "What line of work are you in now", and "Well, this ought to be quite a change for ya" and now falls into silence, only observing. Above her is a white bird with a black head ascending, and a raven. 78 MS Danny's bedroom. In a sense, Jack takes the Road Back to the Ordinary World, as in the heros journey. Wendy accidentally lets the doctor know how screwed up their family is. The Shining did a lot better financially. Fig. Csar Albarrn-Torres Amanda Barbour Tara Judah Abel Muoz-Hnonin Fiona Villella. 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. Foreshadowing holds the reader's interest because they try to use these clues to figure out what happens next. This causes a period of blackness, just as is had in A Clockwork Orange just prior Alex's waking in the hospital. 34 - The vision of the bloody elevator. Stuart and Bill stand talking beyond. Mr. Ullman says that Jack made good time and asks his secretary to bring them coffee and requests she call Bill Watson to join them. 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. Very nice to meet you. 9 - Jack crosses the spot where he will later kill Dick, leaping out from behind the pillar on the right. As the camera stays fixed on Jack, Ullman begins The website of the Timberline Lodge notes, Curiously and somewhat ironically, room #217 is requested more often than any other room at Timberline., The iconic sentence actually changes meaning for foreign translations of the film, at Kubricks request. 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. It makes the audience share Danny's psychic traumas of the hotel. "I know it might be kind of ironic, but I like funny films and documentaries.. Uhm, let's see. The protagonist of The Shining hence, the Hero is Jack Torrance, since the majority of sequences describe his actions which determine for the most part the development of the plot. (8:00) (Sha sound 8:01.) 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. In the background is a book titled Teeny Weeny Adventures. JACK: I don't believe they did. Cut to Wendy washing dishes, still in her union suits and blue overdress, and we now see an Indian beaded belt about her waist. 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. The Kubrick Corner shows that continuing from the point where we see the movie behind Wendy in the living room, running it in real time, to when the blood is shown gushing through the elevator shaft in Danny's vision, it matches up with a discussion in Carson City on a leak having been found in the tunnel that's then under construction. Shot 26. This is a good example of Kubrick weaving multiple metaphors into a single shot. (5:01) The camera has cut to Wendy while Danny/Tony said "Mrs. My superimposition of the previous bedroom/bathroom scene with this one. Jacks Crisis: What Role Did Narcissistic Injury and Cultural Circumstance Play in Jacks Breakdown? Sometimes they see things that happened a long time ago.. After you claim a section youll have 24 hours to send in a draft. But, undeniably the most fun part about Unkrich's obsession with The Shining is finding the hidden references in various Pixar films, including Toy Story 3: Sids carpet is very similar to a carpet in the Overlook Hotel. How flow of action about the set unconsciously constructs for the audience a plot of the unseen environment based on natural expectations. Here, Jack undergoes a rebirth of sorts: he fully regains consciousness and makes Wendy become aware of his evil actions (regarding the radio and the snowcat). 33 MCU of Stuart. Run away. (16:26) The two pairs of union suits seem suggestive of one Wendy overlaying another Wendy. JACK: I'm Jack Torrance. In the cartoon, the train sound starts and we have two whistles, this repeated again with the two whistles, then immediately thereafter Wiley E. (having believed he's escaped the train which was below him) hears a louder roaring of the train and turns to see its big white light bearing down on him inside the dark of the tunnel behind him and then there's a resounding explosive encounter. To the left of Snoopy is Mickey Mouse. Danny sounds unconvinced on either count. I was wrong! We also have another proof that Wendy is psychologically fragile, since she is submissive to her husband. Shot 132. I would, however, suggest the weight of this wheel is still there, just unseen, represented in the couple of wheel designs on the floor, in particular the wheel upon which Dick is slain, which also figures strongly in the scene of Danny's Big Wheel in the lobby resting upon it as Jack explores the indoor maze. Did Jack have any trouble finding them? WENDY: Tony. Regardless, no normal hotel leaves copies of Playgirl lying around, so the magazine serves as an immediate red flag in the film. Carson City Crossfade to office begins at 5:10.) 16 - The Boulder apartment complex. 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. The 1980s horror movie The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick utilized these aspects very well. The darker side is often not considered, of a wrathful deity unleashing a flood upon the earth to destroy humanity, even animal life. What could be more frightening than being a solitary child with psychic foresight and an over-active imagination running away from a murderous adult in an endless maze that plays spatial tricks on the mind? (10:09) In The Shining however, the use of foreshadowing fits in as a narrative device. (11:20) 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. That invitation follows a story of Bill removing something from a woman's eye, the invitation even accompanied by a woman remarking on how she bets he works too hard, think of all the things he misses--just as all work and no play make Jack a dull boy in The Shining. Barbour, Polly. 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. 41 - Danny resting on his bear pillow. "I can't remember everything." Just a few moments before we had heard the sounds of children at play outside and though we'd not seen those children the audience is not entirely convinced that there are no children around with whom Danny could play. The only thing that can get a bit trying up here during the winter is a tremendous sense of isolation. Timberline reception desk with picture of lodge. But back to The Smallest Show on Earth. How awesome is this place! The dresses, I believe, are two layers of fabric, a swiss dotted blue fabric over white. (12:03) Despite the fact that's an impossible window, it casts quite a glaring light, strongly marking the ceiling with illumination and shadow. Peter Sellers, as a projectionist who is trying to not drink, has to wrestle constantly with the theater's ancient projectors to not only keep them running but to prevent them from destroying the film. 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. THE DOCTOR: Is Tony one of your animals? As we're not shown the hall again there is a vague disorientation about how parts of the setting fit together.Below is the best I can quickly draw up as an approximation of the layout of the apartment. STUART: in this job hired a man named Charles Grady as the winter caretaker. Fig. That's what many people will be distracted by. A second unit crew headed to Glacier National Park in Montana, where they filmed from a helicopter. WENDY: Oh, I'm sure you're right. 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. The green curtain or valance over the window casts the shower curtain and the room in soft green light.

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