The Shining: Rough Draft When it comes to classic horror films, what is a conversation without The Shining? 1980’s The Shining directed by legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is a chilling movie with themes of isolation, the supernatural, and twisted time. Kubrick’s use of unique and complex visual styles along with many subtle details often confuses the viewer at a subconscious level. The various techniques and plot used by Kubrick in The Shining often puzzles the viewer into thinking, maybe there is a deeper message. What really happened in infamous room number 217? How does Danny get his physic ability? Is Jack the Previous over taker of the hotel? All these questions and many more are never truly answered throughout the story, but thanks …show more content…
Have you ever been stuck by yourself for long periods of time with no contact? If you have, then you know how terrifying it can be. In the film The Shining, the Torrance family experiences true isolation, or do they? Although it is sort of a trick question it is true, is the Torrance family truly isolated? Yes and no. From the moment the film starts, we as an audience can get a solid understanding that the Overlook Hotel is all by its lone some in the middle of nowhere. With regards to people: Jack, Wendy, and Danny are the only ones in there. But, are they the only “people” in there? With Danny’s physic ability witnessing ghosts and hearing voices it is a possibility that they are not truly alone. Isolation along with Jacks perpetual and frustrating writers block are the driving forces behind his insanity. It would come as no surprise that isolation was most likely the main cause for the care taker before Jacks insanity as well. The argument can also be made that Jacks inner self has become isolated from the outside Jack. The outside Jack seems like a normal character who cares for his family and wants to be the patriarch of sorts. Whereas inner Jack is driven crazy and loses himself. This seems to be symbolized at the end of the movie when Jack gets lost in the hedge maze, symbolizing how Jack has lost himself and it will lead to his up and coming death. True isolation whether it be inside or outside is a
To begin with, some people would say they enjoy a horror movie that gets them scared out of their wits. They go see these movies once a month on average, for fun, each time choosing a newer sequel like “Final Destination” or “The evil Dead”. King says “When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie we are daring the nightmare” (405). As a writer of best-sel...
The noticeable characteristic of the speaker in "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe is his stand-offishness. He cuts himself off from the outside world, not because the world itself is terrible but because of his inward problems. This seclusion can bring ugly internal demons to the surface. The complications resulting from isolation can include sadness, fear, despair, anger, insanity, self-torture, and feelings of entrapment. Each of these can be seen in "The Raven," manifested in the speaker of the poem.
Isolation is being separated or separating your self from others. Marry Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, both show the two types of isolation. Loneliness, unfriendly, and separation for ones peace can also mean the same as isolation. No matter what way you look at it, they all mean the same thing. Great examples of these are in Frankenstein and A Christmas Carol; the characters show it very well, which sets the tone and mood of the stories. In A Christmas Carol and Frankenstein, Victor choses to be isolated and separates himself from society to work on the unknown, which is to recreate life. Victor’s teacher was the reason he was isolated, “he took [him] into his laboratory and explained to [him] the uses of his
When reading ghost stories, a common occurrence or idea often takes place in all these stories. This occurrence is the repeated idea of the female character as either the victim of the supernatural occurrence or is the ghostly victim. The female characters are often the victim either in life, death, or both. This idea often coincides with the theme of isolation, as isolation is often a strong factor in the cause of the female character’s often untimely demise. Isolation in the ghost story genre is common as the mental isolation or physical isolation is from society and impacts emotional connection to others. The isolation mentally, physically and in some case both, causes the female character’s ultimate destruction in the end. Isolation is
One of the most iconic horror movies of all time is arguably, The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick, but preceding the movie was the novel of the same name written by Stephen King. Throughout the novel King intertwines symbolism and rhetorical devices such as hyperbaton and allusion in order to craft a complex and thought-provoking piece of literature.
Solitary confinement ranks as one of the most controversial forms of governmental punishment. The controversy regards the constitutionality, or in other terms the humaneness of prolonged isolation. The justice system regards prisoners who are assigned solitary confinement as potentially too dangerous to be permitted any form of interaction with other inmates or prison guards. Solitary confinement is the isolation of a prisoner in a small, artificially lit cell that is generally about eight by four feet in dimension. This containment lasts for approximately 23 hours a day, and when permitted to exit the cell for an hour, the prisoner still receives no amount of significant social interaction and is simply allowed to pace in a longer isolated
Modern day horror films are very different from the first horror films which date back to the late nineteenth century, but the goal of shocking the audience is still the same. Over the course of its existence, the horror industry has had to innovate new ways to keep its viewers on the edge of their seats. Horror films are frightening films created solely to ignite anxiety and panic within the viewers. Dread and alarm summon deep fears by captivating the audience with a shocking, terrifying, and unpredictable finale that leaves the viewer stunned. (Horror Films)
“Here’s Johnny” (Kubrick) is one of the most famous lines in a movie. When you first think of The Shining you think of that line. So isn’t it funny that the most famous line in the movie was actually never written in the book? That “Here’s Johnny” is something that the actor, Jack Nicholas, ad-libbed while on set? That is the thing about movie adaptions: so much is changed from book to movie. There is so much leeway that the director and actors have that sometimes it like the movie and the book are two completely different things. Stanely Kubrick as both the screen play writer and director was able to take as many liberates as he pleased in the 1980 movie adaption of Stephen Kings book. But what really were some of the biggest changes besides “Here’s Johnny”? The Shining as a book and the Shining as a movie are almost so different that you can barely tell that they are the same thing.
In conclusion, Fry and Poole made great arguments for Kubrick’s movie. While I have seen this movie several times as a child in the 1970s and early 1980s, the articles have me looking forward to seeing 2001 again. I look forward to this ‘visual’ story.
Stephen King’s book, The Shining, and Stanley Kubrick’s film have many differences and similarities. Both the movie and the book is centered around a family of three. The dad, John Torrence, the mom, Wendy Torrence, and the child, Danny Torrence who have a rough time at Overlook hotel. While they are very similar, Stephen King’s book, The Shining, and Stanley Kubrick’s film show the many small and large differences. Stanley takes a different route in his interpretation of Stephen’s story with the main characters’ personalities and how the Overlook hotel has taken a toll on them.
Isolation pulls at the human mind in various ways. Its effect is emphasized in the two films, I Am Legend and Cast Away. Each film, stars a male role who seems to slowly lose his mind, be it through talking to animals or inanimate objects. The characters, Chuck Noland, from Cast Away, and Robert Neville, from I Am Legend, end up in places of pure loneliness and fear. They both experience over three years of isolation. Both films captivate their audiences with the main character’s personality and the environments they inhabit.
Kubrick’s film The Shining is a loose adaption of King’s novel with different implications and themes. When comparing Kubrick’s variations on theme and plot with King’s, the conclusions drawn from both the novel and the film are more meaningful. One of the most important differences is how the hero and villain paradigm is presented and how it influences the source of anxiety in both versions. By choosing to emphasize different areas of the story, the artists’ manipulate their audiences’ view of how the protagonist fits in the hero and villain spectrum. In his novel, King uses long descriptive passages to build Jack’s character. Knowing Jack’s past and his thoughts allow readers to empathize with him and attribute his monstrous actions to outside forces. The psychological battle between Jack and the Overlook help establish Jack as a failed hero and the Overlook as the antagonist or evil outside force. By contrast, Kubrick’s adaption, which ignores most of Jack’s nuances, makes it easier for the audience to distance themselves from Jack and to view him as a villain. Comparing King and Kubrick’s portrayal of Jack shows that tension can stem from an internal conflict or an outwardly one. King’s conflict focuses on Jack’s quest to battle his internal demons so that the reader is very much invested in Jack’s success. Jack’s decent into madness is met with anxiety as the reader strives to see if it is possible for him to come back to reality. In Kubrick’s version the audience is distant from Jack and anticipate that he will commit a horrible crime. Tension is created as the audience waits to see whether Wendy and Danny will be able to realize the danger they are in and escape in time.
In his classic horror film, The Shining, Stanley Kubrick utilizes many different elements of editing to create unique and terrifying scenes. Kubrick relies on editing to assist in the overall terrifying and horrifying feel created in the movie. Editing in the movie creates many different effects, but the most notable effects created add to the continuity of the film as well as the sense of fear and terror.
Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” presents the audience a twisted tale of a man named Jack Torrance and his wife Wendy and son Danny, who spend a few winter months in isolation as caretakers of the Overlook hotel. This is no typical horror movie. Viewers are slowly lead though a slow film journey following the Torrance family in their moments of horror and insanity with help from bizarre events connected to the haunted Overlook Hotel.
Solitude. Examples are found of this idea throughout the one-hundred-year life of Macondo and the Buendia family. It is both an emotional and physical solitude. It is shown geographically, romantically, and individually. It always seems to be the intent of the characters to remain alone, but they have no control over it. To be alone, and forgotten, is their destiny.