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. My take on the use of 42 has been that it is possibly referring to the Tetragrammaton, and it is interesting that the use of 42 coincides here with the music for the Awakening of Jacob. The camera now shows another view of the kitchen behind Wendy, Joy and Ivory dishwashing liquids on a shelf above a wall-mounted paper towel holder, dishrag draped over the kitchen sink's faucet, carton of milk on the counter with several other boxes of dry goods. All we're missing is the blood. I'm not at all married to the idea, just proposing it. [special thanks to Vince Contreras: . The plot of Carson City concerns a man named "Silent Jeff" who is hired to build a railroad between Carson City and Virginia City. Kubrick was notorious for his lengthy film productions. (6:07) Jack convivially wonders why. 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. 72 MCU Doctor. Say like if someone burns toast. Look, I'm at the hotel and I still have an awful lot to go through. The embellishments employed by Kubrick are in many places not the same as at the Ahwahnee, such as at the tops of these columns. 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. A lot of this foreshadowing is shown to the reader in the form of Danny's ability, 'the shining'. Moreover, Lloyd is the first Ally encountered by Jack in the Special World (Grady will follow). BILL (seated): Fine. (Standing.) Shot 132. thanks to crosscutting. (14:46). Yes, a painting by Alex Colville. 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. 15 Genius Foreshadowing Examples in Film and TV It makes the audience share Danny's psychic traumas of the hotel. But Danny, who has always loved his father indiscriminately, refuses to. Though the elevators are very close to those at the Ahwahnee, there is a notable difference in decoration. Introducing Bill Watson, a man with precious few words on the situation. This causes a period of blackness, just as is had in A Clockwork Orange just prior Alex's waking in the hospital. 12) Hot Fuzz (2007) - Edgar Wright. There may be no meaning, and these sounds are another example of Kubrick's cycles, perhaps intended to set up an unconscious sense of deja vu. The Works of Ina Seidel and the Third Reich. Kings use of foreshadowing is one of the more effective literary devices at work in The Shining. The lobby, with its radiators, aappears to be dependent on radiant heat. We see characters going to the doors to exit, and entering from the direction of the main doors, but never do we see them actually going in and out of them. With the equinoxes, it is the simple incessant progression of time that brings balance and then imbalance. DANNY: Danny, wake up. Shot 142. After many years of wondering about this painting, and a loon painting in the same secretarial area but on an opposing wall, obviously done by the same artist, I've been apprised by Ioway artist, Lance Foster, the art is by Norval Morrisseau. JACK: Nice to meet you, Mr. Ullman. The malevolent force that is the Overlook Hotel is the antagonist. THE DOCTOR: Now, Danny, can you remember what you were doing just before you started brushing your teeth? 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. THE DOCTOR: Now, Danny, when you were brushing your teeth, do you remember if you smelled anything funny or saw any bright flashing lights or anything at all strange? The blue sleeves are decorated with white stars on red bands. DANNY: Tony, do you think dad will get the job? A reader has also written to let me know that there seems to be a "sha" sound when Dick is driving through the snowstorm to get the Snowcat. Building a plot of the unseen environment based on natural expectations is difficult to impossible in The Shining. 15 MCU of Danny. This is one of the things that the Interview makes a focus, the battle of humans and the lodge against nature. This is, despite the fact that his father, Jack, recently broke his arm in a drunken accident. Its a common psychological device in film, sometimes referred to as foreshadowing, and has been used by suspense masters like Hitchcock. We start worrying that he may be suffering from cabin fever and, in the 144 version, that he may become physically aggressive once again. 62 MCU Danny. The table is covered with an orange-red and white checkered cloth in which we can see printed symbols such as hearts and fish. (9:18) Directing Jack to Ullman's office, she points him to the "first door on the left". 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 second act has begun. My superimposition of the previous bedroom/bathroom scene with this one. OK? Opposite them sit two older women. STUART: Grab a chair, Bill. 55 MCU Danny. Film footage displays a desert scene, the heat of the boiler is raised, everyone sweats and thirsts. Why this particular apartment complex? All right, Danny. STUART: Well, before I turn you over to Bill, there's one other thing I think we should talk about, I don't want to sound melodramatic, but it's something that's been known to give a few people second thoughts about the job. The hotel boiler explodes and the hotel is demolished, allowing Wendy, Danny, and Dean to escape. How ambient audio unconsciously constructs and complements environment. JACK (knocking): Mr. Ullman? What am I doing here?" Shot 112. White shelves holding books hang on the rear wall. 31 - Wendy in the living room speaking to Jack on the telephone, the television running in the background. Prominently placed on the coffee table is the New York Book Review and beneath it another issue showing Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor, in which she wrote of how society, by attributing certain illnesses to personality types and treating illness as repressed emotional content, unfairly stigmatized the victims of illness. Well, maybe things that happen leave other kinds of traces behind. When Jack is chopping his way through the bathroom door we see a shot in which Wendy is crying and screaming in the background on the right portion of the screen. Shot 101. DOCTOR: Bye. JACK: Susie, how do you do? Nevertheless, the three-act structure2 is respected: the first act starts at the beginning and ends when Danny enters the Colorado Lounge with bruises on his neck; the second act starts when Jack enters the Gold Room in anger and ends when Grady releases him from the pantry; the third act occupies the remaining part of the film until the closing credits start. The Shining Literary Elements | GradeSaver 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. 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. Sources differ on how long shooting itself lasted, but it probably went on for almost a year. Again, in the apartment in Boulder, Wendy is watching a film about the building of a railroad track and there is the painting of the horse running down the train track toward a pre-scripted destiny. On a pragmatic level, Jacks desire concerns completing his tasks, namely writing his novel, being the caretaker, and in the third act killing his family and Hallorann. Jack's interview had uncomfortable information divulged him by Ullman, while Wendy's interview resulted in her relating uncomfortable information. My superimposition of the bloody elevator and Danny's bedroom, showing spatial/design similarities. DANNY: Tony, why don't you want to go to the hotel? Established in Melbourne (Australia) in 1999. When one ascends, the other must descend and vice versa, a matter of physical law. As Jack makes his way to the office he now glances in the direction of a model of the hotel's maze that is beyond the two groupings of seats. It's easy to see why Kubrick would have been interested in his art. This is similar to Kubrick's breaking of the 4th wall repeatedly in A Clockwork Orange, referring to the presence of the audience in various ways and thus making it a part of the story, the film. The camera continually takes in new information on the hotel, just as Jack does. Shot 26. What connects the secretarial area with the exit? Whatever the genre. In a particularly chilling moment, Jack expresses sympathy for his father. A mat the color of dark grass wraps about the base of the toilet. Write with Grammarly. The theme of family bonds is one of the most important in the novel. And as far as my wife is concerned, I'm sure she'll be absolutely fascinated when I tell her about it. A 3-d paper fold-out of a helium balloon hangs from the ceiling. The Tetragrammaton is the 4 lettered name of God which is forbidden to be spoken for fear of blasphemy, which amounts to a an imposition of silence. THE DOCTOR: How did he manage to do that. 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. Did Jack have any trouble finding them? 33 MCU of Stuart. Just as the Bijou's audiences are influenced, both intentionally and by synchronicity (the train), experiencing certain aspects of the film in reality, what do these intersections mean to the audience of film in general (or any art), and in particular The Shining? Shot 221. Fig. Which is an example of foreshadowing? We should be aware of this at least subconsciously as we have just viewed the lobby's elevator area extends far beyond the office, having even briefly observed the hall that is behind the office, the elder man who will later examine the maze having come from that hall. 30:16 - Dick asks Danny, as to shining, "How long have you been able to do it" (sound). JACK (confidently): Not for me! Sometimes they see things that havent happened yet. Now, I'm going to ask you to do me a favor and stay quietly in bed for the rest of the day. Hes ashamed of who his father was, that is until he is firmly in the grasp of the hotel and has turned against his own family. Fig. In Dannys vision of the murdered twins, Kubrick very subtly uses this device again. 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. Theres a famous picture of Kubrick laughing in front of this wreckage. 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. No, Kubrick is actually already setting up the scene of Danny's encounter with the eerie girls in the blue flowered hall, as well as Dick's murder, making a vocabulary of motifs that will connect them, which is why I bother with pointing out what seems a petty detail. 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. 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. The large, bright red book in the foreground possibly complements and takes the place of Wendy's reading of The Catcher in the Rye with its red cover. Shot 113. 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. 54 MS Jack. Danny sounds unconvinced on either count. Then there's more gushing blood splattering the walls outside the elevators. 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. Whatever, we have in the bathroom's mirror the film's first instance of second sight, of oracle, access to knowledge not normally held, and Kubrick appropriately annotates it with music concerning an awakening from a dream. (13:02) What this difference in dominance means (or how it functions) will be discussed in the "Saturday" section. Tony is revealed to be an imaginary friend of the boy's. So when Jack Torrance is seen reading a Playgirl in the lobby of the Overlook before he gets hired, its probably not meaningless. 26 - A closer look at the photographs behind Bill. View its location taken from Google street view. A version of this story originally ran in 2018 and has been updated for 2022. The Question and Answer section for The Shining (1977 Novel) is a great But, I have also read the shot was done in miniature because it was too expensive to film otherwise. In the first act we have a situation of apparent balance for Jack and his family. In people doing something they shouldn't be doing. Oregon's Timberline Lodge, which was used as the hotels exterior for some shots, is to blame for this swap. In the Tarot, the Hebrew letter "sh" or "shin", is sometimes said to belong to the Key, Judgment, which fits appropriately with the use of "Dies Irae" as the opening music. This information was ostensibly available to Kubrick and if he was aware of it there's the chance it could have influenced his decision to connect the Overlook with the Ahwahnee of Yosemite for reasons other than design. I have also written a post specifically on this. As it happens, the ancient theater is now next a train line. It frees you from any other sense of time., Its not uncommon for a films ending to change in post-production, but Kubrick changed the ending of the film after it had been playing in theaters for a weekend. 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. WENDY (indicating a seat): Please. Fig. He may have even viewed the Overlook as a mirror or double of sorts. 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." . One can be confident that the scene was shot many times, more than three, but the inconsistencies boil down to it seeming as if, one could propose, there are three different perspectives or versions presented, which could match with there being three people in the room: Bill, Stuart and Jack. In 1952, Kubrick worked as the second unit director on one episode of the television series Omnibus. 42 - The doctor and Wendy in the living room. JACK: Do you mind if I ask why you do that? These are clean cuts, no crossfades. They go in and find the projectionist and the janitor and the ticket taker, who have worked there for decades, holdovers from the old days, watching the old silent feature Comin' Through the Rye. 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. 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. No way one would find this kind of workmanship in a 70s student/family apartment complex. 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.. Give Shining alter pls HG? One story becomes two with its puzzle pieces that don't fit together. There are many reasons to use foreshadowing in writing, including building suspense, sparking curiosity, and preparing your reader for that "aha" moment. "I know it might be kind of ironic, but I like funny films and documentaries.. When Wendy had brought Tony into the conversation, it had been to try to get the agreement of another party in going to the Overlook. The role then went to Scatman Crothers. 1. 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. STUART: Ah, it sure would be He is unsettled, and it has taken him a moment to gather himself and think how to respond. 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. 9 - Jack crosses the spot where he will later kill Dick, leaping out from behind the pillar on the right. It also worked well with the circa 1920 building we were living in. 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. Danny moves the index finger of his left hand as a physical representation of Tony, and what Tony squeekily has to say is When they used the phrase, they meant that they aimed to kill Danny, making him a ghost in the hotel. What appears to be a blue box showing Q-tips Cotton Balls stands on the first shelf of the bookcase beside the alabaster bull figurine, and could possibly be taken as a stand-in for a blue sky with clouds considering its placement above the horizon line. (5:14 crossfade from Boulder apartment ends.) 88 MS Wendy from the doctor's side. When Jack axes Dick, he emerges from concealment behind one of the columns, blended with it. Fig. DOCTOR: Yes. When you overlay then the elevator hall with the next scene of Danny's bedroom, the bathroom door fits neatly into the left up to the 2nd bank of wall, and the far right of the elevator aligns with the bedroom's right corner. The first Test for Jack in the Special World is the temptation of drinking liquor. 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. In A Clockwork Orange, when Alex is imprisoned, during prison exercises he is shown walking an almost relentless circle beneath the figure of a pyramid, and following that scene we go to his interview with the prison governor which has close parallels to Jack's interview with Ullman.