At the same time we are taking in an elevator beyond, before which stands a man who carries a wrapped pole of sort, perhaps a fishing pole as he carries a hat that is typically used for fishing. If one gets a full overview of a maze one might see at a glance its patterns and logic, but when one is immersed in the maze, one's knowledge of the "beyond" limited by the towering hedge walls, it is easy to become lost. 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. Lunch with Danny, Wendy, Tony, The Catcher in the Rye, and the Kensington, Shots 12 through 20 JACK: Pleasure to meet you. The four letters are I H W H, or Yod, He, Waw and He (a silent letter). A man, reading, speaks with a blond woman in white. Kubrick even uses the railroad in conjunction with a revisitation of events, something happening twice, in Eyes Wide Shut. Silence. Fig. Looking at the filing cabinet again, it appears there is a small elephant resting on it before a postal weight scale. JACK: Well, that hmmm just happens to be exactly what I'm looking for. "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. TONY: No he ain't, Mrs. Torrance. DOCTOR: Bye. There is no Room 237 in the hotel, so that number was chosen. International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct,London, EC1A 2BN, United Kingdom, 2023 Book Analysis. To the rainbow's right we have Mickey's sweetheart, Minnie Mouse. Stuart Ullman's hair is red and his hairstyle is similar to this unnamed doctor (played beautifully by Anne Jackson) whose hair is also red, and their coloring and builds are much the same. The Shining (1980) is a horror-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. His isolation may stem from something other. The Bijou Cinema having been revived (somewhat), the new owners enter one day to hear the projector running and a piano being played. It's a common psychological device in film, sometimes referred to as foreshadowing, and has been used by suspense masters like Hitchcock. WENDY: What about Tony? (13:44) Everything is shot so that anyone who has ever gone in to interview for a job will feel the cool banality of the situation and the pedestrian but anxious experience of how to relate with and put your best foot forward for this new sub-group of humanity with which you've just come into contact. Not affiliated with Harvard College. We have first the sound of the train while Danny eats lunch with Wendy who is smoking Virginia Slims cigarettes (the railroad was being built between Virginia City and Carson City), then we see a couple of very brief clips of the Carson City movie, and after Danny's black-out we view the painting of the horse running down the track toward the train. JACK: Well, it's certainly got plenty of that Now we see the number fully, and that it is 42. The "spectator" shoes in combination with the camera is an interesting choice of attire for this opening shot. STUART: Susie? At first glance one thinks one knows what one is seeing, but a second glance throws that initial reading in doubt when pieces of the ad don't mesh together. 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. WENDY: Well, let's just wait and see. 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. When Adle warns Robert that he might give Edna the impression that he's flirting in earnest in Chapter VII, Robert retorts that he wishes Edna would take him seriously . In Dannys vision of the murdered twins, Kubrick very subtly uses this device again. But, not so much where her story takes away from the main issue at handbattling the Overlook Hotel. In a few minutes we will see a painting in the Boulder apartment of a horse running down a railroad track toward an oncoming train. (10:06) Catholic Bible Study - 2nd Sunday of Lent - 5 MARCH 2023 A.D. - AR15.COM 30:16 - Dick asks Danny, as to shining, "How long have you been able to do it" (sound). Foreshadowing is a literary device in which authors hint at plot developments that don't actually occur until later in the story. Seems to me that the skiing up here (sha) would be fantastic. 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. The sense of it as a spoke for a kind of wheel is an incredible weight of great force. That pretty well clinches it for me that Kubrick, by means of Salinger's Coming Through the Rye book, was referring to The Smallest Show on Earth, and by means of it the silent film and book, Comin' Through the Rye. "Tony" now refers to himself in the first person. WENDY: Now, come on, Tony, don't be silly. According to David Hughes, one of Kubricks biographers, Stephen King wrote an entire draft of a screenplay for The Shining. 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. Kubrick's subtle foreshadowing in The Shining ( Jack's tie - Reddit A fortune teller might use foreshadowing, warning that a short life line is a sign of some impending disaster. Ullman reaches to apparently adjust a pocket of his blazer. I write a little more on the use of this sound in the "Saturday" section. (13:49) But it was a different episode, about poker players getting into a fight, that inspired parts of The Shining. 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. 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. We have this circularity in The Shining with the deja vu. What is peculiar is that we see in this shot that both the radiant heaters to the right and left of the door leading into the "Gold Room hall" off the lobby also have forced air vents behind them. I don't think it's as certain that Danny sees himself. Which suggests she may be wondering if he's epileptic. Returning to their planet, Cheron, it's discovered to have been destroyed by racial war. JACK: Susie, how do you do? We will later observe compass points on a map of the maze outside on a board beside the maze. The far left pillar in the elevator hall fits neatly with the left pillar behind the girls. One theory is that Kubrick helped to fake the moon landing and The Shining is his confession. 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. (13:56) I-10, V-6, D-4, H-5. The picture is an x-ray of a quite different interior world. With the mention of emotional factors, Wendy has appeared to become nervous. Thats what I was like when I got my divorce," Nicholson explained in an interview with The New York Times. 29:15 - The sound occurs right after Wendy says "Just like a ghost ship, huh"? Foreshadowing - a 'warning or indication of a future event' - is a useful device in storytelling. The lunch box is appropriately labeled "Emergency" and shows, I think, firemen. 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. What's the secondary teaser candy bait? It is put to the ultimate test when the family is caught up in the corrupting powers of the Overlook Hotel. Regardless, he was a particularly strange pick for the role of Dick Hallorann because the character is Black in the book. 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. 23 - Stuart tests Jack on how he feels about the hotel's isolation. 31 MCU of Stuart. From there, the eye seems even to be pulled, by the yellow and orange framed graphic, off screen to the left. ), (5:14 crossfade from Boulder apartment ends. 25 Facts About Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' - Mental Floss In fact, nothing makes sense.. Danny sounds unconvinced on either count. The red painted hall that she walks down just prior to seeing the river of blood is also a subliminal to this effect. WENDY: Hello. So, in effect, various symbols we had first been introduced to on Danny's door are now here in the physical, in Danny's room, though also still represented symbolically. Beside Wendy, leaning against the wall is a painting of a cartoonish red and blue dog, a lion, and a purple elephant. 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 started the site purely for selfish reasons," Unkrich told Vulture in 2013. Fig. This suggests that the Overlook and its ghosts are symbols of archetypical and sempiternal psychosocial issues. Kubrick's choice of the horizontal lines for the curtains seems intentional to counter the zigzags in Ullman's office. 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. STUART: Well, obviously some people can be put off 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. The Nazis eyes, "shining with greed," continued to bring their wrath down upon the thousands . Will the same fate be suffered in real life? Fig. There is no music, only the ambient sounds of general activity. 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. He's gone. Foreshadowing, Jack crosses the circle where Dick will later lie slain. So, in The Smallest Show on Earth the two real films used in the theaters are Knock on Wood and Comin' Through the Rye. Kubrick employed this kind of circularity almost from the beginning. JACK: I'm Jack Torrance. 72 MCU Doctor. Danny's supernatural abilities foreshadow the increased supernatural activity at the hotel once he moves in there. 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. I'm going to use this line of thought as an oblique in to bringing up Jim Barrie again as regards Kubrick's choice for using an apartment complex called the Kensington for the Boulder scenes, which provides links to Peter Pan and not only certain aspects of its story line, the perpetual return of Peter Pan, but even the questionable circumstances surrounding Jim Barrie's relationship to the boys and Peter Llewelyn Davies, in 1960, committing suicide by throwing himself in front of a train when he was laboring to put in order letters and documents concerning the family and their relationship to Barrie, his plan being to publish them but also destroying more than 2000 letters written between his brother Michael and Barrie as he said they were "too much". We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. 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. I was wrong! 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. DANNY: Tony, why don't you want to go to the hotel? Pickens chose to not work with Kubrick again, as he did not like the strenuous Dr. Strangelove shoots. (12:03) 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. (13:32) Dead of Night, as it turns out, was one of the points of origin for the Steady State of the Universe theory conceived by cosmologists Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold and Hermann Bondi, which has since been overruled by the Big Bang Theory. 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. 1. What Is Foreshadowing In A Story? Examples, Tips and How To THE DOCTOR: If you were to open your mouth now, could I see Tony? Many of the seemingly innocuous details throughout "The Lottery" foreshadow the violent conclusion. The Awakening of Jacob and those union suits. However, there is no actual problem yet, but only the potentiality of it because of (1) premonitions due to the tragedy of 1970 and to the images conveyed by Dannys shining, and (2) uncanny events such as Jack staring at the hedge maze model (followed by an ambiguous high-angle shot of the model) or in the distance with a vacant stare, his use of the words forever and ever like the ghostly Grady twins do, and his abhorrent nightmare of murdering his wife and child. Fig. 13 MCU of Danny. JACK (confidently): Not for me! Though the eye does go to Bill as he enters, by the lines of the kitchen cabinetry and range crossfading into the shelving and ceiling, and the propulsion of the lines in the strong graphics I've just mentioned, the eye feels as though it is being pushed also to just between Stuart and Wendy as she fades out. 25 - The photographs behind Bill are different than the others normally observed. THE DOCTOR: Do you remember when you were brushing your teeth? Kubrick has been fairly faithful to other design elements but has left out this fylfot, which could be mistaken as a version of a swastika. Some claim that it would have been characteristic of the director to individually prepare each page. 78 MS Danny's bedroom. (4:59) He describes it as dj vu, but more powerful, as if he knew what was around every corner. Snoopy, though a dog, could understand and translate Woodstock's speech which Wikipedia informs was rendered in the cartoon as indecipherable "chicken scratch" and with symbols such as Z's and question marks etc.--just as various symbols communicate meaning in the film.But, of course, Snoopy also could not "talk" and his thoughts were communicated via thought balloons and pantomime. As Jack continues on through the lobby, Kubrick gives us a brief glance again of the group by the door, to whom we'd believed the waiter had been carrying lunch. STUART: Have any trouble finding us? 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. All right, Danny. WENDY: Yeah: The scene in which Wendy is swinging a bat at Jack is an example of this pushing. (5:45) 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. CHAPTER SIX 31:11 - Danny describes shining. 80 MCU Wendy. 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. This gives the reader the ability to picture the horror of the surroundings and also the isolation. Shot 36. 3 - Kubrick's use of the Greek key at the beginning and end of "Lolita", initiating the execution of Quilty from it. 35 MCU of Stuart. This is a pretty austere scene, shot so that it seems very straightforward. 41 MCU of Bill. The window is as artificial a source of light as the two glaring florescent lamps above. The first elevator is at the L level and the second is at 2. The gematria for the name in this short form is 26. 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. 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. One could actually instead look upon Stuart as having more than fulfilled his obligation in presenting the dangers to Jack, and instead of viewing Bill with suspicion one could instead see him as looking upon Jack with suspicion, that he doesn't get a good read off Jack and wonders why he would pursue a job that would place his family in such isolation. 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. Go figure. An additional reinforcement of tennis ball throwing as a metaphor for axe swinging is that Jack slams the ball against the floor just a few metres away from where he later kills Halloran.