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Yosemite Nature Notes, published in 1978, discusses how Yosemite, rather than being a corruption of a Miwok word which meant grizzly bear, instead translates as "they are killers", an identification not used by the Yosemite themselves but by neighboring tribes. The Shiningby Stephen King was his third novel and is still regarded as one of his best. I've commented on the furnishings of the apartment before, but will elaborate a little more. This visual arrangement almost looks like Wendy is actually being killed with the axe. 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. Of a person against a red background, it may look Mayan or Aztec influenced if one doesn't know its provenance. Where has he gone? 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. 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. 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. Im doing exactly the same as I was doing when I was 18 and making my first movie. STUART (off-screen): so the elements can't get a foothold. STUART: Oh, and would you ask Bill Watson to join us. The core of The Shining moon landing theory posits that not only was the 1969 moon landing a hoax, but that Kubrick was the one who constructed the fake footage. Many of the seemingly innocuous details throughout "The Lottery" foreshadow the violent conclusion. A zigzag pattern also can represent lightning, and some believe that the labrys, upon which is based the labyrinth, may symbolize lightning. (4:45) (15:41) A flood of blood erupts through the left elevator door that has been forced open from the left by the force of the flood which overtakes the hall with such ferocity that the armchairs are swept away from the walls. Shot 26. Can the bloody murder that Danny fears, which would be a duplicate of the Grady family killings, be avoided? Still, Lokai and Bele are unable to resolve their differences and chase each other back down to that world, the storyline ending so that we have no idea as to their fate. Fig. Looking at the filing cabinet again, it appears there is a small elephant resting on it before a postal weight scale. That's where the story is. Humans tend to not think of themselves as part of nature. Toward the end of shooting, a fire broke out and destroyed multiple sets. BILL (closing door): How do you do? Foreshadowing is a plot element that hints at something to come later in the story. -Mr. Ullman tells Jack about the former caretaker of the hotel who murdered his family before committing suicide. Shot 116. Privacy Policy, https://bookanalysis.com/stephen-king/the-shining/review/. Jack informs Wendy he got the job and has a lot to do so won't be home before 9 or 10. What am I doing here?" 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. Fig. And faced with the challenge that some people might be put off, Jack rises up to the occasion and assures Stuart he and his wife won't be. This tunnel that is blasted through from two ends, meeting in the middle--is Kubrick making also reference to Hezekiah's serpentine tunnel that was dug from opposite directions to meet in the middle, channeling water from the upper spring of Gihon to the lower pool of Shiloah? In scenes where Bill and Jack are viewed from the rear, a complementary chord is struck, though Bill is dressed in a more tailored suit with a dark brown jacket and lighter brown pants. Ullman has a bit of quirk where he often rubs his finger against the side of his nose or beneath it, bringing to mind Danny's Tony who assumes presence via Danny's index finger. It was an eleven alarm fire call, it was huge. The rebuild of one of these sound stages cost an estimated $2.5 million. The executive producer of The Shining, Jan Harlan, has stated that this was intentional. JACK (knocking): Mr. Ullman? 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. There is no guest area concourse back here, instead only service halls for employees. Fig. 20:59 - When Stuart tells Wendy the Indian designs are based mostly on Hopi and Apache motifs, there may follow a "sha" sound. 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. His hairy, red brother was named Esau. Significantly, Jacob was a twin, but not an identical twin. Moreover, it wants you to put a little ding in the veneer because it's hungry. Added all shots 2012. I am particularly interested in the train because Kubrick has used trains in his other films. The lobby, with its radiators, aappears to be dependent on radiant heat. WENDY (indicating a seat): Please. My husband had uh been drinking, and he came home about three hours late, so he wasn't exactly in the greatest mood that night, and, well, Danny had scattered some of his school papers all over the room and my husband grabbed his arm, you know, to pull him away from them. 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. (12:02) It's just the sort of thing you do a hundred times with a child y'know in the park or in the street but on this particular occasion my husband just used too much strength and he injured Danny's arm. Can destiny be altered? Ceramic tile disappeared completely about this time and where ceramic tile was once essential (such as with nicer bathtubs that had showers) the ceramic was replaced with fiberglass and plastics. Each is the same in general style, the front porch, the gliders, the rest of it. 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. The author alludes to the tourist industry in that the Overlook is a summer resort and not open during the winter, whereas the resorts that Hallorann goes to work at subsequently are year round. What connects the secretarial area with the exit? Another claims that the film is truly about the genocide of Native Americans. Wendy isn't at all like Stephen King imagined her to be." 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. Very nice to meet you. Dressed in red union suits (she wears two, which will eventually become apparent) with a light blue checked pinafore/jumper over them, she drinks coffee and smokes, reading a red paperback with gold lettering, The Catcher in the Rye. 11 Crossfade from the office to Boulder exterior. Stephen King's use of character development throughout this novel is what makes the book so thrilling and moving. Always the ideas of free will versus a mechanical universe are parlayed. 76 MCU Doctor. 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. 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. A similar arrangement occurs here. Its almost over. This scene, not in the book, seems to have been inspired in part by a photo Kubrick took for LOOK magazine, in 1948, of a woman and her dog at an art auction, this woman appearing to be the same one who held the dog in The Killing. (8:00) (Sha sound 8:01.) "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. (14:55) 95 CU Wendy. Overall, the ghosts who appear to Jack incarnate the Shapeshifters: they are seemingly innocuous but actually subjugate him to the hotel. As Danny then turns a left corner the musical drum of surprise kicks in a second before the ghost girls have appeared on screen. The rainbow may seem a minor detail, being a sticker on a child's door, and a popular symbol so deeply embedded in culture that not much thought is devoted it, but the rainbow also features prominently in Eyes Wide Shut and demands consideration here. Shot 113. Before we continue on and out of the bedroom, to review the conversation, Danny has given in reverse order what happened in the bathroom. I write a little more on the use of this sound in the "Saturday" section. More research is needed in order to thoroughly examine the psychology of the characters, the progression of narrative events, the films relationship with the horror genre, the role of its stylistic patterning (both visual and aural) in the narrational process, and the implicit and symptomatic meanings that may be constructed. The 1980s horror movie The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick utilized these aspects very well. 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". TONY: Don't want to. We shall later see the same sign in the Colorado Lounge entry and be given a better view of it. Im coming in close., During the conversation with Halloran Danny asks. The window is as artificial a source of light as the two glaring florescent lamps above. 1. Fig. 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. 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. 38 MCU of Jack. The couple, to enhance refreshment sales in their theater, tries this technique. The prophecy concerning them was, "One people will be stronger than the other." STUART (off screen): by the idea of staying alone in a place where something like that actually happened. Foreshadowing - a 'warning or indication of a future event' - is a useful device in storytelling. What's the distraction? 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. The Shining (1980) is creative director Stanley Kubrick's intense, epic, gothic horror film and haunted house masterpiece - a beautiful, stylish work that distanced itself from the blood-letting and gore of most modern films in the horror genre. It was used heavily in scenes where the camera follows Danny through the hallways on his tricycle, or through the hedge maze. ing fr-sha-d-wi plural foreshadowings Synonyms of foreshadowing : an indication of what is to come If the history of the world were a novel, the events so strikingly chronicled in the photographs in this book would seem a foreshadowing of the recent events Ralph Novak Some behind-the-scenes footage shows Nicholsons Method acting before filming the iconic scene. The vibe is the same and the projectors look like miniature versions of the boilers that only serve a portion of the Overlook, forced heat being used in much of it. STUART: Uh, did they give you any idea in Denver what the job entails? But is that the meaning for this "sha" or is it something else? There isn't radiant heat in the Gold Room or the red bathroom. In the above quote in which Jack pleads with his son to run away, Danny says that it is almost over. Hes aware that the end is near and that soon the horrors will cease. A large map is on the left wall behind a two-way radio. The projectionist room in that movie even resembles the boiler room in the basement in The Shining. But it was during Danny's speaking with Tony that he blacked out. JACK: Well, that hmmm just happens to be exactly what I'm looking for. Danny eats a white bread sandwich, watching a television that is off screen in the yet unseen living room. In this regard, being sophisticated and cryptic, the film has widely incited scholarly interpretation, focused on psychology (the Oedipal complex, the uncanny), philosophy (the matter of time, the nature of evil), history (the massacre of Native Americans, the Holocaust), anthropology (the coeval US culture, matters of capitalism and Western societal organization), and transtextual aspects (the reworking of tropes taken from myths, fables, and horror fiction, the films role in Kubricks poetics). 24:02 - Something like the "sha" sound is heard as Ullman says they brought in a decorator from Chicago to refurbish the Gold Room area. This is a good example of Kubrick weaving multiple metaphors into a single shot. 20 MCU of Wendy. He had a good employment record, good references, and from what I've been told I mean he seemed like a completely normal individual, but at some point during the winter (sha sound about 8:56) he suffered some kind of a complete mental breakdown, he ran amuck and killed his family with an axe. One would assume it would be like a compass and have four arrows, but we will later observe it only has these two. (3:27 crossing into 3:28) The second thing that happens is a subtle audio cue. The Shining seemed to introduce a promising child star in Danny Lloyd. will review the submission and either publish your submission or providefeedback. 91 CU Wendy. Now we have an actual, pragmatic problem: someone hurt the boy, thus there is the possibility of being physically injured inside the hotel. Therefore, we also have the Refusal of the Call from Jack, because he recounts the nightmare in a hurtful and worried way. It's difficult for me to tell. The fault of this is perhaps Wendy lying. 33 - Danny speaks to Tony via the mirror in the bathroom. 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. This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven." The first elevator is at the L level and the second is at 2. 21 - Wendy checking the boilers in the basement. A mat the color of dark grass wraps about the base of the toilet. The view also shows the oven with matched pots arranged on top, an exhaust fan above, and perhaps a coffee maker. DANNY: Okay. Now, come on, tell me. Jack says it doesn't bother him. Another myth is brought in at this point as well. Fig. The Works of Ina Seidel and the Third Reich. THE DOCTOR: Do you remember when you were brushing your teeth? 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. The first sentence refers to death, birth and "the bleeding tree." 2. The title for this section is "The Interview" and we tend to think of this title as exclusively pertaining to Jack's interview at the Overlook, but now we also will have this doctor interviewing Wendy. Would you like some coffee? thanks to crosscutting. In a foiled plot to stop delivery of the drill that is to be used for boring a tunnel though a mountain for the railroad, Squires kills the driver of the wagon that carries the drill. Two union suits. Which suggests she may be wondering if he's epileptic. You and Danny are going to love it. Jack's interview had uncomfortable information divulged him by Ullman, while Wendy's interview resulted in her relating uncomfortable information. He stands out, fitting in neither as a lodger nor as a hotel employee. In . The tone and mood are both threatening and malevolent. All right, Danny. BILL (off-screen): What line of work are you in now? 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. Taken from her Dance of the Happy Shades collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Munro . In Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," the repeated references to books being banned and burned foreshadow the eventual destruction of books and knowledge in the story's dystopian society. To the left of Snoopy is Mickey Mouse. (13:39) 12 MS of Wendy and Danny in the Boulder apartment dining area. 24 - "How about your wife and son? But the individual pages in the film contain different layouts and mistakes. Which is an example of foreshadowing? Fig. Will the same fate be suffered in real life? A simple auto color correction of the suit when it appears to be brown makes it gray and more of a match with the suit in close-up. (9:18) 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. (17:27) 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. JACK: Only in a very general way. CHAPTER SIX From now on, the protagonist deals with his desire in the most extreme and irreversible way, since he does not come back to his senses. Fig. 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. And then not again until the phone lines are down: These angles not only seem to push the eye toward the center of the screen, they also are dynamic enough that they provide a similitude that ties these shots together. DANNY: Yeah, I guess so. Shot 117. (6:54) Again, this is a room that was standard for its time and fitting in with the simple construction seen in apartment complexes that haven't any architectural frills. one, thought I'd check it out. In it you have some themes that come up again and again in Kubrick's work, the blurring of the line between art and reality, the breaking of the 4th wall. The boy is a young Hero who looks for a sense of satisfaction. 54 MS Jack. According to Hughes, the film would have had to earn $30 million to be profitable. 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. STUART: Well, uh, my predecessor 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. 1 - The Ahwahnee lobby, a Creative Commons image by J. W. Kern. Regardless, he was a particularly strange pick for the role of Dick Hallorann because the character is Black in the book. Double readings are referred to frequently in the film. 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? 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. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) enters, his gray suit appearing cheap, limp and out of place with the resort attire of the others. THE DOCTOR: Is Tony one of your animals? Then there's more gushing blood splattering the walls outside the elevators. (17:20) Obviously unsettled, the doctor gazes silently at Wendy who now reassures On top of the refrigerator are a couple more canisters of Koolaid, and several postcards are on its front, one of a golden sunrise or sunset. Fig. He also cuts out the following escapade of Coyote on a revving motorcycle and its crash, Kubrick exiting with music heard during the next escapade in the cartoon when Wiley E. is pouring Acme bird seed out onto the road. 84 MCU Wendy taking out a cigarette. She then stands by the window . (6:07) Jack convivially wonders why. 29:15 - The sound occurs right after Wendy says "Just like a ghost ship, huh"? Fig. The decoration at the height of the lobby's columns in The Shining is done in a Z shape. Then suddenly the CAMERA STOPS on the last house in the line. That doesn't mean the maze is itself irrational and nonsensical. Give your writing extra polish. -In the same scene, Jack recites lines from the story of The Three Little Pigs, which is eerily relevant, as he is acting as the Big Bad Wolf, but also because Danny is able to escape due to his mother's quick thinking. Foreshadowing is giving a hint that something is going to happen. This causes a period of blackness, just as is had in A Clockwork Orange just prior Alex's waking in the hospital. One story becomes two with its puzzle pieces that don't fit together. 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. 42 MCU of Stuart. Carson City Definitions of foreshadowing noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand Throughout the film, when action occurs in this hall, the camera stops short of revealing the area where the photograph is. Shot 29. Kubrick employed this kind of circularity almost from the beginning. Danny has his vision of the Overlook. Then there is the photo to the right of it which is difficult to decipher. (9:08) The camera on Jack, Ullman continues his story. The novel ends with an immense explosion that takes the Overlook and Jack Torrance with it. Is the man with the camera ostensibly there for a "camera walk"? Is he a guest or an employee who would lead the camera walk? (7:19) The characters accept the window and, trusting the characters, the audience assumes this must be an external wall. Danny, although only five years old, is well-aware of the troubles his parents are dealing with. 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). foreshadowing, jack crosses the circle where dick will later lie slain - how ambient audio unconsciously constructs and complements environment 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. Some viewers noticed that this is foreshadowing for the reveal that, although all of the dinosaurs in the park are female, they have found a way to reproduce. 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 elevators are fairly faithful representations of those at the Ahwahnee Lodge, a difference being that Kubrick's have the arcs above, the half-circles which show story placement. 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. Perhaps hes laughing because he knows the novel ends with the Overlook Hotel burning down. (7:57) The newest furnishings would be the white dinette set and chairs. Tetragrammatos means having 4 letters. Bele states he's a police commissioner and Lokai is a not a refugee but a political traitor. People also make note that Bill Watson's pants appear to be a solid color when he enters and that they later show a pattern. We see beyond her an elder woman in tan, who had been in that earlier grouping, and is now seated opposite the lobby's television and catty corner to where the man with the camera had been earlier seated. WENDY: Wendy, I'm never gonna' touch another drop, and if I do you can leave me. In the far background, between them, we see an older man standing behind the model of the maze, looking over it--the same man who had entered the hall by the elevators as Jack, just after glancing toward the maze, trod upon the spot where he will later kill Dick and we heard the first "sha". Kubrick's films are full of repetitive motifs. 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. The vision of them is claustrophobic, compressed, the wallpaper's design on the left pushing to the rear, then circling around the girls and pressing back toward the audience. Though the red milk carton and red cereal box have nothing to do with the red field mirroring the red sleeve earlier, even though they are in a completely different position, they end up visually standing in for that red field so we feel no real compulsion to look for it. Hanging above the sink is a green and white dish towel that may read "Golf with the Greats". I love how the shade on the lamp between the doctor and Wendy is slightly askew. He's looking forward to the hotel, I bet. At the end of The Shining, Jack chases young Danny through a snow-covered hedge maze before finally dying. 41 - Danny resting on his bear pillow. WENDY: Hello. He describes it as dj vu, but more powerful, as if he knew what was around every corner. 72 MCU Doctor. We hear a brief, staccato voicing of "sha" which, at this point, we take as being part of the natural ambient noise of the lodge. Against the right wall are shelves stacked with books, puzzle boxes, a lunch box, a green and yellow tiger image, and a play figure of Goofy. 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. 75 MCU Danny. The hall is vertical to the kitchen and living room but the camera gives the feeling it instead runs parallel the kitchen. In a decisive confrontation, Jack tries to kill his gifted son. The roar rises and subsides. Yes! In The Shining Houses by Alice Munro we have the theme of change, appearance, conflict, modernity, independence and acceptance. When the novel begins, the Torrance family is teetering on the edge. It is a classic of the horror genre and has inspired numerous authors and filmmakers since it was written. The velociraptor kitchen scene has multiple references to "The Shining." The end credits contain a reference to Spielberg's 1977 sci-fi film, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." . I was falling about laughing most of the time," he said of the documentary in 2013. JACK: I'm a writer. 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.
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