STUART: Jack is a THE DOCTOR: Have you been in Boulder long. 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. Building Tension In Stanley Kubrick's The Shining - Cram WENDY: him. Notes on the Timings of the "Sha" Sounds The building is fairly old, we learn later it was built about 70 years prior. Foreshadowing - Definition and Examples | LitCharts A lot of this foreshadowing is shown to the reader in the form of Danny's ability, 'the shining'. Privacy Policy, https://bookanalysis.com/stephen-king/the-shining/review/. 1 - The Ahwahnee lobby, a Creative Commons image by J. W. Kern. The lobby of the film's Overlook is an antique white and has square terracotta color columns, dark brown wainscoting and floors decorated with a variety of American Indian derivative designs with tessellated borders that seem a mix of influences. STUART: uh, told you anything in Denver about the tragedy we had up here during the winter of 1970? Cut to two girls who appear to be twins. Or because it is, in a sense, concealed and adds another layer of meaning to the elevators? First placed online 2007-2009 in loose form. 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. Foreshadowing is when the author gives a hint or warning to something that is going to happen. Our writings on, and realizations of the "sha" sound are independent of each other. Oh, it's still hard for me to believe it actually happened here, but it did. This is one of the things that the Interview makes a focus, the battle of humans and the lodge against nature. This ark eventually came to rest on a high mountain. In the Gold Room Jack meets Lloyd the first ghost he sees who acts as a Threshold Guardian. Foreshadowing is an effective literary device in terms of preparing readers for events to come or narrative reveals. We can tell he's a new arrival as the red-coated valet behind him is porting his bags. 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. Shot 221. Lee Unkrich runs The Overlook Hotel, which contains tons of pictures and behind-the-scenes information about the film. 44 MCU of Stuart. There is no door in that area through which he could have passed for the doors to the hall beyond are blocked by seating and if there did happen to be doors to an exterior patio (which there are not) he hasn't the time to exit them. These are clean cuts, no crossfades. Tetragrammatos means having 4 letters. THE DOCTOR: What sort of injury? Throughout the film, when action occurs in this hall, the camera stops short of revealing the area where the photograph is. Does "The Great Mother" hold what Kubrick might mean to register as a club, foretelling Wendy with the bat? Before long, Wendy is blaming Jack for the injuries that Danny sustains (despite it being the hotels fault). The dresses, I believe, are two layers of fabric, a swiss dotted blue fabric over white. "The Shining (1977 Novel) Literary Elements". 27:20 - It occurs as they enter the C1 storage room. He took one of his fathers bloody hands and kissed it. My thought on it is that it may refer to the green and blue object held by the Great Mother in Morrisseau's painting in the secretarial office at the Overlook, connecting Wendy with the painting, she attired in the reds and blues of the painting, and, as I mentioned earlier, her hair styled like the Great Mother, who seems to me to not only be a nurturing presence in Morrisseau's painting, but to have in her also the violence of life. Then there's more gushing blood splattering the walls outside the elevators. Ilaria Franciotti, MA, is an independent researcher, interested in film narratology and dramaturgy and in womens studies. Wendy is well aware of the danger that her husband poses when hes drunk. A Note on 8 and 1/2 Of course, Dannys relationship with his parents recalls the Oedipal complex as well. 27 MCU of Stuart. Can the bloody murder that Danny fears, which would be a duplicate of the Grady family killings, be avoided? 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". NtRK and her many potentials are waiting Click here to make a donation. Silence. This analysis aims at offering a new basis for reconsidering the thematic interpretations proposed until now, in order to test the validity of the implicit and symptomatic meanings1 which have been made about Kubricks film. The Shining Literary Elements | GradeSaver 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). DANNY: You do too know. In this case the Threshold Guardian is clearly an objective correlative of an obscure part of Jacks mind. The sound occurs with a cross-fade from the ballroom to the entrance to the kitchen, audible as we see the word FIRE appearing on the screen, the big lettering on the fire doors. 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. I don't think I could get home before 9 or 10. THE DOCTOR (sympathetic): OK, that's fine. "The Great Mother" is vibrant, communicating a ferocious strength, in contrast to Mary as the great mother in Christianity and her passively suffering the sacrifice of her son. 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. My first thought on the designs at the height of these columns in the film had been to wonder if we might have somewhere in the Overlook the Greek Key, a meander border which was associated with the labyrinth, which would befit the maze (which we have yet to see), the Greek Key composed in such a way that when enlarged it formed a labyrinth. There is an article in the issue about incest, so the most common theory is that Kubrick was subtly implying that Danny may have experienced sexual abuse. The white diagonal on the red, white and blue milk carton in the background seems to help direct the eye up and toward Wendy's face, so we focus on it. The Shining study guide contains a biography of Stanley Kubrick, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. STUART: That's right. DANNY: Tony, do you think dad will get the job? (4:10 crossfade begins, full fade in by 4:12.) The lunch box is appropriately labeled "Emergency" and shows, I think, firemen. The Shining Houses By: Alice Munro New Criticism Point of View Climax Foreshadowing 3rd person limited omniscient insight view of Mary's thoughts Mary will stand up for Mrs.Fullerton when Mary is asked to sign the petition for collective benefits created a dilemma from GOT KUBRICK AND ANTONIONI FILM ANALYSES 81 MS Doctor from Wendy's side. 55 MCU Danny. To the best of my knowledge, below are the timings of the voicing: The horror of Danny's vision past, we return to ambient sound, nothing mysterious. All laugh. Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story, or a chapter, and helps the reader develop expectations about the coming events in a story. 68 MCU Danny. At any rate, as a character Jack has an overall fairty-tale-like quality, since the intent of the film is to emphasize his allegorical quality rather than narrating an all-around psychological development. Though Kubrick had a . This happens as Jack stands staring with madness out of the Colorado Lounge windows. 48:36 - When Wendy calls the forest rangers about the downed lines. DANNY: My mom saying, wake up, wake up, wake up As they were older, no families or children observed, and were served by youth, the lodge seemed to be a place of rest and relaxation for retirees. My superimposition of the previous bedroom/bathroom scene with this one. (4:19) 38 - Not in the movie. I have also written a post specifically on this. "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. The designs on the shower curtain, with the way they push up into the light, visually take the place of the unmanicured foliage in the lower half of Ullman's window. Its almost over. I guess this would be Bele from the story "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". 12 MS of Wendy and Danny in the Boulder apartment dining area. The hotel boiler explodes and the hotel is demolished, allowing Wendy, Danny, and Dean to escape. Is he a guest or an employee who would lead the camera walk? Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) enters, his gray suit appearing cheap, limp and out of place with the resort attire of the others. Hinting at what will happen serves multiple purposes (such as building tension and suspense). THE DOCTOR: Oh 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. There are distinct differences between the Ahwahnee and the Overlook but undoubtedly the Ahwahnee and the Overlook are siblings. Towards the end of the novel, Jacks genuine love for his son allows him to break through the hotels corrupting influence on his mind. 37 MCU of Stuart. 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. 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 does not have a strong inciting incident, although something similar happens when he scolds Wendy in the Colorado Lounge, asking her not to disturb him while he is working, and when in the following short sequence he is seen staring outside the window while Wendy and Danny are playing in the snow. Stuart introduces his secretary, Susie (Alison Coleridge). Back to Danny's door. As if we have a psychic after image from one scene to the next at work, and one may also then have the sense (perhaps not consciously) that they all fit together. "Ive been collecting stuff from The Shining over the years, and I just wanted to have one place where they could be organized. Unkrich was also one of the people who helped fund the Room 237 documentary. I'm not at all married to the idea, just proposing it. 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. The second Test is the sexual one, which occurs in room 237, when Jack encounters the shapeshifting woman. 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? This wallpaper appears at no other point in the film. In addition to improvising one of the most famous lines of the film, Nicholson actually wrote an entire scene. Immediately after Stuart asks how Jack's wife and child will take to the solitude, during the reaction shot of Jack, the sound occurs at 8:01, just before Jack says, "They'll love it." We have crossfaded back to Jack and the red-haired Mr. Ullman drinking coffee, the camera view in opposition to the one earlier, positioned now to show the office from behind Ullman's desk, a large bright red book prominently placed on it. Since the beginning of the book, hints are dropped pertaining to what will happen later on in the novel. 11 Crossfade from the office to Boulder exterior. Below is the massive stone fireplace in the lobby of the Timberline. 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. 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). What's the secondary teaser candy bait? Ullman seemingly accepting Jack's insistence too readily. If Danny is unconvinced that going to the Overlook is a swell idea, she is attempting to use Tony to convince him otherwise. Still, she has said, "and he didn't touch another drop". The painting of the horse and railroad, done by an Alex Colville, is supposed by critics to be an expression of the question of whether destiny can be altered. When an author sits down to write a story, one question that must be considered is how to keep readers interested. Fig. But Tony's more independent than that. JACK: Pleasure to meet you. But it's also likely that the viewer transposes Danny in the sweater onto the Danny before the mirror and registers Danny as silent screaming in response to what he sees. 31 - Wendy in the living room speaking to Jack on the telephone, the television running in the background. (Though King himself isn't much of a fan.) Foreshadowing in THE SHINING - film analysis - YouTube 0:00 / 14:46 Foreshadowing in THE SHINING - film analysis 90,703 views Jul 21, 2019 3.2K Dislike Share Save Rob Ager 79.4K subscribers. (Crossfade ends at 10:34.) The two ended up spending eleven weeks working on the script. DANNY: Do I have to? How can I possibly exist? At least, to the best of my memory, that's how I perceived it upon first view when the movie was released. Danny has his vision of the Overlook. As it happens, the ancient theater is now next a train line. Sources differ on how long shooting itself lasted, but it probably went on for almost a year. 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. Because post WWII it would be questionable to include it? (4:53) (5:01) The camera has cut to Wendy while Danny/Tony said "Mrs. The background photographs of what seem to be past business meetings at the hotel, on the wall behind Jack, are replaced with brightly colored stickers on what we assume to be Danny's bedroom door as the camera slowly tracks in to an open door opposite through which we can see Danny before a bathroom sink, he standing on a footstool. 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. It's easy to see why Kubrick would have been interested in his art. DANNY: To my stomach. It occurs several times during the kitchen scene on "Closing Day", but there is a good deal of other ambient sound and is not as distinct at times: Baldwin, Emma "The Shining Review " Book Analysis, https://bookanalysis.com/stephen-king/the-shining/review/. In the first tricycle scene the red floors of the hallway may be a subliminal foresight of the river of blood, which Wendy sees in the films climax. To my eye he looks like Marcello Mastroianni, and, with his camera, I've thought of him as perhaps being a reference to Fellini's 8 and 1/2 in which Marcello starred, playing, in effect, Fellini. STUART: Oh, well, come on in, Jack. STUART: Uh, did they give you any idea in Denver what the job entails? The Fleur-de-lis, meaning the flower of the lily, doesn't appear in The Shining but does in a number of Kubrick's other films, and again brings in the rainbow even when no rainbow is apparent. Kubrick repeatedly used trains in his films as a symbol for synchronicity and cyclings of events. Which, of course, is a great concern of this film. The move of the duck from the bathroom to the bedroom window is a fun tidbit, and one can perhaps concoct a story for its journey if one superimposes the bathroom scene over this one. -When Jack tells Danny he would never hurt him, he says he wants to stay in the hotel "forever and ever and ever," which is the same phrase the ghosts of the Grady twins used when they appeared to Danny earlier. The overwhelming red and white decor of the Goldroom lavatory may be a subliminal representation of the historic bloodbath that has been and is yet to come again. He could only be somewhere out of sight behind the pillar that partially covers the man's chair. The Shining essays are academic essays for citation. The name of the piece observed outside Ulmann's door is "The Great Mother". 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." We've no music. Her lips appear taut, unyielding. One must wonder if Kubrick was aware that Stephen King, at the age of 4, had witnessed a friend being struck and killed by a train, was mute and unresponsive for at least a day because of it, professes no memory of the incident, but it's been proposed this event may have helped inspire his predilection for writing horror. STUART: very highly. THE DOCTOR: If you were to open your mouth now, could I see Tony? Kubrick even uses the railroad in conjunction with a revisitation of events, something happening twice, in Eyes Wide Shut. SUSIE: Hello. -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. Then, sneaking off to the right, we have one of Sleeping Beauty's dwarfs, Dopey, who was a friend of the dwarf, Doc, so Dopey would be a suitable companion for Danny who is also called Doc. The Talmud said of them, "When this one falls, the other one rises." Or we may just be seeing through the blue cloth the white of underslilps. WENDY (indicating a seat): Please. Fig. Fig. JACK: I'm a writer. 26 MCU of Jack. WENDY: Yeah: 12 - A hairstyle typical of Wendy. Danny feels lonely since he has nobody to play with, and he is reluctant about going to the hotel, but he cant oppose the project. (16:09) Overall, the ghosts who appear to Jack incarnate the Shapeshifters: they are seemingly innocuous but actually subjugate him to the hotel. (11:13) King provides readers with just enough detail to make Wendy a well-rounded and interesting character. Foreshadowing | literature | Britannica (13:19) There is no Room 237 in the hotel, so that number was chosen. 35 MCU of Stuart. To create the elaborate, wintery maze, it took a lot of salt and crushed Styrofoam. 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. On the window sill of Danny's bedroom is a yellow rubber duck of the same kind we viewed in the bathroom, but the angle of the shot is such that though the bathroom is visible we're unable to see if the duck is still in that room (I would imagine it's not). This is the stairway Jack will, in the "4 pm" section, use on his approach to the lobby in the scene where he murders Dick. The bathroom is predominately in pink tones. (5:14 crossfade from Boulder apartment ends.) As the guests tend to be older, it seems possible these two are also employees. JACK: Well, I'm looking for a change. Now, in his mind, his mother deserved it just as Wendy and Danny deserve to be punished. Perhaps hes laughing because he knows the novel ends with the Overlook Hotel burning down. Basil Dearden, director of The Smallest Show on Earth, also was one of the directors showcased in the old horror classic Dead of Night. Where is Pete Van Horn anyway? Didn't he get back yet? 7 - Kubrick briefly revisits the group by the door though he need not have. Seems it's a question posed with some caution. 17 - Wendy and Danny eat lunch, watching cartoons. He approaches a clerk at the registration desk for direction. But the book is about Jack Torrances gradual descent into madness through the malign influence of the Overlookif the guy is nuts to begin with, then the entire tragedy of his downfall is wasted.. I can't say. 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. STUART: Bill, I'd like you to meet Jack Torrance. It's a common psychological device in film, sometimes referred to as foreshadowing, and has been used by suspense masters like Hitchcock. Because of the importance of the maze to the plot I'm going to lean toward thinking perhaps the book was chosen due the coincidence of the needle and the word clew, as a clew of thread was the ball used by Theseus to find his way out of the labyrinth, and is the origin for the word "clue". Aside from the obvious on-screen flashes of the twin ghost girls prior to Danny seeing their dead bodies, we are subliminally hinted of their presence several times when the Torrances are being shown around the hotel. 27:00 - Wendy says to Dick, "We call him Doc sometimes, like in the Bugs Bunny cartoons" (sound of "sha"). Jacks Crisis: What Role Did Narcissistic Injury and Cultural Circumstance Play in Jacks Breakdown? 64 MCU Danny. Rob Ager, an observant fan of The Shining, noticed that there are many aspects to the set of the Overlook Hotel that make no sense. Foreshadowing in Writing: Definition and Examples | Grammarly The end table and the coffee table are stacked with books, as is every nearly every available surface. Kubrick was famous for being a particularly detail-oriented director. The Overlook Hotel is the place that houses the Torrance family for most of the narrative. 22 MCU of Jack. We'd no idea during the bathroom scene that he had brushed his teeth, at that point he was playing with a toy in the sink. The film version is lost, but pages from the screenplay do exist. And, recollect, we have the doctor shining the bright light in Danny's eyes just previous that. JACK (correcting): Uh, formerly a schoolteacher. The rest were made for the film and concentrate on the Cowboy and Indian theme. She seems to be looking toward the reception desk, but then a bellhop appears from the direction of the service hall behind the lobby and appears to port a silver lunch service to this group who are in the same area where Jack will himself have lunch on Closing Day. 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. Four people are seated in an area on the screen right side of the main door. The embellishments employed by Kubrick are in many places not the same as at the Ahwahnee, such as at the tops of these columns. 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. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Shining (1977 Novel) by Stephen King. (7:19) In the red bathroom, Grady subtly instructs Jack about his adventure, preparing him for the central ordeal. 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 DOCTOR: Did Danny adjust well to school? Now, come on, tell me. As far as options for home decorating for the lower middle classes, it was a shitty period. Examples Of Foreshadowing In Horror Stories - 1004 Words - Bartleby 87 MCU Doctor. 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. Kubrick was notorious for his lengthy film productions. 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 borrowed from the Ahwahnee, with alterations, what is the receptionist and cashier area in the film. (11:14) THE DOCTOR: Now, hold your eyes still so I can see. Though many may have the feeling of Stuart and Bill being somehow complicit with evil forces of the hotel, and I think it is staged for us to feel that way, Stuart does warn Bill that it is harsh there in the winter, that it would be very harsh for a family, and that there had been disastrous consequences in the case of the Grady family. 20:03 - On "Closing Day" when Jack says they'd had a bite to eat, the "sha" follows. 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. 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. Are we simply seeing something that was intended to keep out competitive light during filming, or does it foreshadow Dick's death? But we also got rid of that rug as quickly as we could. 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. Differently from his parents, he does not seem to be willing to go to the Overlook, because his imaginary friend Tony does not want to. To comment again on the bathroom before continuing on. 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. (17:27) 27 - The varying tone of Bill's suit is due film processing. And he didn't and he hasn't had any alcohol in uhm five months. Kubrick later told a friend that he wanted to make the worlds scariest movie, involving a series of episodes that would play upon the nightmare fears of the audience.. Miwok speakers also postulate that it's a term for the Yosemite people and may instead be akin to "place you go and play games". Give Shining alter pls HG? 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 truly good horror movie utilizes all key aspects of suspense. 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. It occurs very quietly about 7:07 when Stuart is talking about running the boiler and "heating different parts of the hotel". He's gone. Regardless, no normal hotel leaves copies of Playgirl lying around, so the magazine serves as an immediate red flag in the film. STUART: Have any trouble finding us? -Constant references to the impending snowstorm foreshadow the family being stranded at the hotel. Stuart and Bill stand talking beyond. Jack, in King's novel, was fired from his job at a prep school due an altercation with a student, but this is never mentioned in the film and no clear reason is ever given for the family being in Colorado, so one could possibly look upon The Catcher in the Rye as filling in that lost part of the story. 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. Christiane Kubrick and Vivian KubrickStanley's wife and daughter, respectivelyhelped with both the design and the music, though Vivian might be better known for the on-set documentary she made, The Making Of The Shining. 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. Kubrick has unobtrusively incorporated a natural landscape via the flowered tray and the box.