Danny's First Shining of the Girls and the Bloody Elevator, Shots 50 through 60 (5:50) Patterns of movement of individuals about the set one would think would be in keeping with their status, such as guests would normally come and go from guest areas, and the audience does naturally anticipate and assume this and thus will naturally, unconsciously, believe that the guests must be coming from, say, elevators that will lead to their rooms. 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." Ager created a video in which he maps out the nonsensical visuals. I have no idea. In The Shining however, the use of foreshadowing fits in as a narrative device. An architect goes to an old country house, hoping for some work, and realizes that it is a house he has dreamed about--a dream which ends badly. will review the submission and either publish your submission or providefeedback. 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. 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. 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 curtains could only be cheaper if the Torrances had used the thin bamboo blinds that were popular for the time. He is unsettled, and it has taken him a moment to gather himself and think how to respond. The horror of Danny's vision past, we return to ambient sound, nothing mysterious. A reader, Melkarth, sent me an image which shows it's an alabaster bull. The picture is an x-ray of a quite different interior world. (4:10 crossfade begins, full fade in by 4:12. 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. If it's not a female form it may show at the bottom two or three human silhouettes against an unknown background. 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. Kubrick's Watson differs significantly from King's. STUART: Well, obviously some people can be put off 80 MCU Wendy. This notoriously haunted hotel inspired the author to create fictional characters dealing with a similar environment. The end table and the coffee table are stacked with books, as is every nearly every available surface. One overlaying the other. ), (5:14 crossfade from Boulder apartment ends. In her words, From May until October I was really in and out of ill health because the stress of the role was so great. King's vision was a vulgar and seemingly uneducated older man, and Watson's suit and tie are little suited to the job unless his duty is to act primarily as an overseer of others who do the dirty work, which isn't as it was in the book. Alot of the foreshadowing in the book is Shmuel and Bruno talking about certain things that the Nazis do, like when it smelled bad outside they didn't know what it was but in the book you knew it was the Nazis burning the Jews in the chambers, . He tells Danny that he loves him and should run for his life. thissection. Now we have yet a third location associated, the interiors of the lobby and the Colorado Lounge modeled after the Ahwahnee Hotel in the Yosemite National Park in California. 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. In fact, nothing makes sense.. 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. It was in Fear and Desire, in which the film begins as it ends with the same view of the valley. However, Kubrick didnt even deem it worth a glance, which sort of makes sense when you consider that the director once described Kings writing weak. Instead, Kubrick worked with Diane Johnson on the screenplay because he was a fan of her book, The Shadow Knows. I will write more about this voicing later. 68 MCU Danny. The tone and mood are both threatening and malevolent. JACK: Well, I'm looking for a change. Note also that the right corner of the room lines up perfectly with the right door jam of Danny's room in the prior shot, which perhaps indicates intentionality on Kubrick's part, the artistry of successively blending multiple scenes together physically and perhaps thus psychologically. 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 Added all shots 2012. At this old theater, the Bijou, they play mostly these terrible old cowboy and Indian films (which were made for this film). Bill Watson looks quietly, solemnly, uncomfortably on as Ullman begins to relate the story. Directing Jack to Ullman's office, she points him to the "first door on the left". Shot 36. Another article advertised on the cover is Interview: The Selling of (Starsky & Hutchs) David Soul. Perhaps Kubrick was throwing in some extra foreshadowing. Fig. 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. I made the trip in 3 and a half hours. The scene takes place after Jack dies in the snow. That's what many people will be distracted by. Beside Wendy, leaning against the wall is a painting of a cartoonish red and blue dog, a lion, and a purple elephant. JACK: Hi, I've got an appointment with Mr. Ullman. Jack will murder the only African-American in The Shining. A medium close-up now of Ullman's desk shows, among other things, his prominently displayed name plate, a black fountain pen, a pewter tankard holding more pens, a white pen next to a desk calendar, a pint-size American flag, and we notice his red and white striped shirt and red tie and blue blazer patriotically echo the flag. A shower curtain is drawn across the bathtub, sunlight shining bright through a high window behind it. Read the Study Guide for The Shining (1977 Novel), Racial Stereotypes and Cinematic Adaptation: The Shining Critical Analysis, View Wikipedia Entries for The Shining (1977 Novel). Is the man with the camera ostensibly there for a "camera walk"? 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. Are we simply seeing something that was intended to keep out competitive light during filming, or does it foreshadow Dick's death? The Awakening of Jacob and those union suits. It's Jack on the phone at the hotel's reception desk. Two of these pairs are heard wishing goodbye to Mr Ullman. Fig. Alex's interview was in preparation for treatment to aid his reform, an opportunity provided by a "new order". You'll notice that Kubrick's design for the apartment has perhaps shed the balcony that seems to go with each apartment in the complex where the Torrances supposedly live. If Danny chose that attire, one could compare that choice to Danny being himself the one to write on the bathroom door the word REDRUM, just as he had seen it in his vision--and yet he writes it, it doesn't simply appear, so one could think of it as premeditated as well as an inescapable foregone act/conclusion. STUART: Bill, I'd like you to meet Jack Torrance. 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. As we will later see, Kubrick suggests to the viewer that Wendy is the one, rather than Jack, who does much of the caretaking of the lodge. And, if he does, he would see himself wearing this sweater and shirt, and it's to be questioned then who later chooses this sweater and shirt for him on the day that Dick is killed. All laugh. I guess this would be Bele from the story "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". My name is Jack Torrance. Plus, Peter Sellers, who was in Kubrick's Lolita and Dr. Strangelove, plays a film projectionist in it. 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 57 MCU Two girls. 75 MCU Danny. Kubrick repeatedly used trains in his films as a symbol for synchronicity and cyclings of events. On the left of the screen we see the tip of the axe repeatedly smashing through the wood of the door. 47 MCU of Jack. This same print will be observed again at the end of the film in a foyer where we will finally view characters entering and exiting the lodge, specifically when Wendy goes out to inspect the Snow Cat which Jack has disabled, when Dick arrives, and when Jack leaves the lodge to chase Danny into the maze. 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. The "sha" itself is a breathy percussive voicing. There is no music, only the ambient sounds of general activity. He may have even viewed the Overlook as a mirror or double of sorts. GOT LITERARY FICTION No way one would find this kind of workmanship in a 70s student/family apartment complex. Does "The Great Mother" hold what Kubrick might mean to register as a club, foretelling Wendy with the bat? The Overlook Hotel is the place that houses the Torrance family for most of the narrative. -Dick tells Danny that there is nothing wrong with Room 237, but he also warns Danny to "stay out." Though Danny speaks with Tony's voice, Tony is referred to in the third person, which indicates Danny is Tony's actual voice. I said earlier that Kubrick did a nice job of lifting this apartment's style/furnishings straight out of the the late 70s. It takes us also to the last day of the The Shining, its two episodes simply titled "8" and "4". 13 MCU of Danny. 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. Kubrick used the Greek Key design in Lolita, it circling the area in which was the ping-pong table in the mansion at which Quilty was staying when Humbert finds and executes him at the film's beginning. Perfect alignment of some architectural features, from one shot to the next, may function to make transitions less jarring, creating less interference with an established mood. But when one becomes fully aware it is an impossibility, the window becomes as forbiddingly out of place as the hazy glare it allows into the office, and the foliage outside the window seems almost to be as spies peering in. STUART: This is my secretary, Susie. There is no Room 237 in the hotel, so that number was chosen. Returning to their planet, Cheron, it's discovered to have been destroyed by racial war. What is more, the audience is represented as unconscious of their thirst being connected to the heat being jacked up during the desert scenes. With the move to the Overlook, Danny is removed from his more comforting bedroom, with its playful figures, to the world of the lodge. STUART: uh, told you anything in Denver about the tragedy we had up here during the winter of 1970? (8:21) Fig. JACK: Susie, how do you do? JACK (confidently): Not for me! Sometimes they see things that havent happened yet. 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. 79 MS hallway. The Awakening of Jacob 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. As it happens, the ancient theater is now next a train line. Fig. Moreover, it wants you to put a little ding in the veneer because it's hungry. It was a typewriter that had built-in memory, so it could have turned out the pages without an actual person. Timberline reception desk with picture of lodge. 82 MS Wendy from Doctor's side. Why is a print of this painting placed in two places of the lodge? (8:37) When Jack abusively berates Wendy, his language is that of a person hostile to the responsibility of parenthood, a sense of his feeling entrapped by her and Danny, the responsibility of the Overlook finally replacing those familial ties in the dramatic Colorado Lounge scene. Gospel Mt 17:1-9 Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, . I'm sure that I've thoroughly managed to confuse you there. Tony tells Danny that he is going to remember something that Jack forgot. Its not until the final pages of the novel that he knows what that is that Jack forgot to check the hotels boiler. Below are 15 examples of foreshadowing and irony in the James Hurst short story, "The Scarlet Ibis." FORESHADOWING. Sometimes they see things that happened a long time ago., Mr Halloran, are you scared of this place?, Im gonna getcha. -Wendy alludes to the story of Hansel and Gretel when Dick Hallorann shows her the kitchen, joking that she'll need breadcrumbs to find her way out. In the first act we have a situation of apparent balance for Jack and his family. (4:50). The Bijou Cinema having been revived (somewhat), the new owners enter one day to hear the projector running and a piano being played. 2, which started in the previous scene (while Danny walks inside the Colorado Lounge), is heard here and will be used once again at the beginning of the third act and at the apparent end of the third act (when Jack dies in the hedge maze). In The Shining however, the use of foreshadowing fits in as a narrative device. 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. We've the same feeling of symmetry here that will be found in the halls and the Colorado Room. On the left wall hangs a style of Japanese art print very popular for the time. The name of the apartment complex is the Kensington. JACK: I'm a writer. The next scene in The Shining has the doctor examining Danny's eyes with a bright light and saying, "Now, hold your eyes still so I can see." 63 MS Danny's bedroom. Environments annotate and propel the story forward; there is no small detail that can be taken as insignificant with Kubrick. He felt a particularly deep understanding of Jack Torrance's berating of his wife while he is trying to write. (12:42) The only foreshadowing I see in the story, "The Gift of the Magi", is when Della has been crying because she only has $1.87 cents to buy a gift for Jim. Another claims that the film is truly about the genocide of Native Americans. Do people operate in a free will universe or a mechanical one? Kids can scare you to death. (13:27) Would you like some coffee? DANNY: No. 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. THE DOCTOR: They're more akin to auto-hypnosis, a kind of self-induced trance. Ullman seemingly accepting Jack's insistence too readily. The Question and Answer section for The Shining is a great Shot 122. Spooks? JACK: Well, that sounds fine to me. In A Clockwork Orange we have the comic of the "ghost" train, in which a photographer takes a photo of a train accident that happened a hundred years beforehand. Barbour, Polly. 16 MCU of Wendy. (11:13) STUART (off-screen): when people are shut in together over long periods of time. 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. The question posed is how did it happen? Insouciant banality is the best indication of a truly and deeply dysfunctional situation that will eat you alive at the slightest scratch of the veneer. A red-jacketed bell hop stands at stiff attention not far behind Jack and is the one who was porting bags at the elevator when Jack was earlier headed to the office. The two most distinct instances of the sound here are during the two reaction shots of Jack, when he's saying his wife and child will love it there, and then again his reaction to the idea of the tragedy occurring because of people shut in together over long periods of time. 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. DOCTOR: Bye. Seems it's a question posed with some caution. According to the Drummerman site, the music played during Danny's vision is Krysztof Penderecki's, "The Awakening of Jacob" which concerns Jacob falling asleep and having a terrifying dream of angels ascending and descending a heavenly ladder. -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. Give Shining alter pls HG? But it was during Danny's speaking with Tony that he blacked out. It is our belief that, since the themes are intrinsic to the dramaturgy of the narrative film, the thematic interpretation is valid if it grounds itself in solid dramaturgical analysis, something that even many good studies of the film lack. Grady is a Shapeshifter as well, because he is introduced as a jovial waiter in a 20s-style party but then reveals himself as the unsettling 1970 caretaker. (7:41) We later learn the incident occurred three years prior, and yet it's given twice in the movie that it's been five months since Jack has had a drink, so this isn't an error on Wendy's part as Jack later relates the same. 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? We had already observed he was wearing a red and blue and white raglan sleeved shirt decorated with stars around the armband, but while he was in the kitchen we were only able to see the number 4 above that band. During cowboy and Indian chase scenes involving a train, the train that runs by the theater coincidentally passes at the same time, shaking it up, coincidentally stops when the train stops on the screen, then restarts when the train on screen restarts. 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. (11:03) And, recollect, we have the doctor shining the bright light in Danny's eyes just previous that. No one is quite sure whether Kubrick typed 500 pages of All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Kubrick didnt go to the prop department with this task, using his own typewriter to make the pages. 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. Very nice to meet you. The newest furnishings would be the white dinette set and chairs. 71 MCU Danny. Eyes Wide Shut has near its beginning an invitation to go where the rainbow ends. 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. Another Creative Commons image from Flickr, this one by Dave Ciskowsi, shows how similar in color scheme the film's Overlook was to a more vintage Ahwahnee, if the 2005 image shows color even remotely similar to earlier years. That Roy Clews was the author of a book about a needle mill worker (a needle guides thread) is a nice bit of serendipity. 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. 41 - Danny resting on his bear pillow. Another wonderful example of foreshadowing in the book also comes from Dannys shine, or ability to read minds and see into the future. 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.. Not things that anyone can notice, but things that people who shine can see. DANNY: Yeah, I guess so. An editor Just a step beyond the circle, Jack's glance moves up to the stairs on the right, briefly meeting that of a hotel employee who is coming down the steps. BILL: Well, this ought to be quite a change for ya. 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.. This is not hidden. At the same time, the archetype of the Shadow can be found: it stands for the fury of the evil side, the danger which tacitly lies beneath the surface. JACK: They'll love it. 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. 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. (11:20) 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. But, I have also read the shot was done in miniature because it was too expensive to film otherwise. Whether it be sound, acting, visuals, and the overall foreshadowing of the story. Danny sounds unconvinced on either count. 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. Danny, although only five years old, is well-aware of the troubles his parents are dealing with. 33 MCU of Stuart. The gematria for the name in this short form is 26. The light of the unseen window, through the shower curtain, is as prominent as was the light of the window in Ullman's office. Shot 132. Whoever the author.Discover new and exciting books to dive into with our Book Explorer Tool. It is a kind of mirroring, but things are not exactly the same. 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. 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". It could be that with the use of the park's west tunnel, in the opening, Kubrick was already referring to the film Carson City. Our first acquaintance with the Gold Room hall and the maze. 23 - Stuart tests Jack on how he feels about the hotel's isolation. One theory is that Kubrick helped to fake the moon landing and The Shining is his confession. Home Stephen King The Shining Review. How awesome is this place! NEXT: CLOSING DAY She then stands by the window . (13:34) And I think you can appreciate why I wanted to tell you about it. Throughout the film, when action occurs in this hall, the camera stops short of revealing the area where the photograph is. Wendy directs the doctor into the living room, past the painting of a horse running down a track toward an oncoming train. King provides readers with just enough detail to make Wendy a well-rounded and interesting character. Parts of the film are chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fell flat., One thing King didnt like was the casting of Jack Nicholson. Thus, two parties are starting to be defined: on the one hand, Jack and obscure characters of the Special World, pertaining to the true adventure; on the other hand, Danny, Wendy and Hallorann. Later, the primary conflict is between the hotel and Danny as it tries to possess him, but he stands up to the threat. And that was just for the final scene! 58 MS Overlook hall. She takes a right turn then a left before seeing his blood soaked corpse. Is the desirable state one of equilibrium, such as had at the equinoxes? We're from Vermont. Hallorann finds out that Danny has his own power, the shining, and thus gives him some advice: he explains that bad things happen and leave traces, though implying that these are innocuous (as when someone burns toast); he reassures him that the things he sees through the shining are just like pictures in a book. 69 MCU Wendy. Dressed in light blue dresses with long pink bows, they stand in an unknown hall decorated with blue carpet and blue flowered wallpaper, staring at the camera, clasping hands, reminiscent of Diane Arbus' famous photograph of the twin girls, but while he was photographing for LOOK Kubrick was already taking pictures of girls in similar attire. On the ground below the helium balloon figure we see a multi-colored striped object. Did his mother choose it or did Danny himself choose it? Shot 26. "There are ideas espoused in the movie that I know to be total balderdash.. Whether or not there was any intention behind the use of certain numbers in the film, such as 42, is one thing. Danny eats a white bread sandwich, watching a television that is off screen in the yet unseen living room. (Standing.) The autumnal photo presents Mount Hood in context with Mirror Lake, which the viewer may associate with St. Mary lake seen in the opening shot of the movie, that mirrored the landscape. THE DOCTOR: Where does he go? as we switch over to Dick looking at Danny in the kitchen, right before Dick asks, "Do you know how I knew your name was Doc?" Not affiliated with Harvard College. 15 - The crossfade from Ullman's office to the apartment complex in Boulder. Again, we have a train tragedy connected with revivification of the past. Woodstock, a friend of Snoopy's, wasn't very adept at flying, thus the balloon. THE DOCTOR: What sort of injury? That's where the story is. Composedjustso. The crossfade juxtaposes Wendy looking right as Bill Watson enters, he also looking right, as if a connection is being forged between them, and at least one is forged visually, however briefly. What's the distraction? STUART: Police, well, they thought it was what the old timers used to call cabin fever, kind of claustrophobic reaction which can occur (5:06. (13:36) "His last big role had been in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and between that and the manic grin, the audience automatically identified him as a loony from the first scene. The catchphrase worked and stayed in the film. As Bill enters, we see in the secretarial area beyond a print on the wall. The bathroom is predominately in pink tones. It is confirmed that Jacks personality has changed: after having disabled the radio (and as we will learn later the snowcat), he seems to be willing to hurt his wife. This is done by showing certain events, people or information that are an indication of something that will occur later on in a story. THE DOCTOR: Now, hold your eyes still so I can see. Humbert's position on the stairs reminds of Jack's pursuit of Wendy up the great staircase in the Colorado Lounge in "The Shining", Humbert climbing these stairs in "Lolita" as he gunned down Quilty. (4:45) The color of the pillars is no longer what it was when the film was made, but the trim appears to be the same as in older photos. WENDY: It sounds like you got the job. The blood covers the camera and the scene goes black. 70 MCU Doctor. JACK: Hi, babe. JACK: Thank you. A version of this story originally ran in 2018 and has been updated for 2022.