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. Through unique camera shots, Stanley Kubrick vividly captures and displays an emotional roller coaster of the facial expressions
What is horror? Webster's Collegiate Dictionary gives the primary definition of horror as "a painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay." It stands to reason then that "horror fiction" is fiction that elicits those emotions in the reader. An example of a horror film is "The Shining", directed by Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick was a well-known director, producer, writer and cinematographer. His films comprised of unique, qualitative scenes that are still memorable but one iconic film in his collection
unfiltered view of "the real world" outside of the asylum. The only available information about reality beyond t... ... middle of paper ... ...els finds himself trapped in the island due to a hurricane much like how Jack finds himself trapped in the hotel due to a blizzard. Both Shutter Island and The Shining revolve around protagonists that are unreliable. The viewers are introduced to the "heroes” and then to their slow decent into madness. Isolation and insanity are prominent in every scene of both
of paper ... ...e film with a shot evocative of Michael Snow's Wavelength1 which moves down a corridor and into a photograph, after which a dissolve provides still closer scrutiny of the photograph. The photograph shows a grinning Jack at the Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball in 1921. The date links America's independence with senseless violence, and the image of Jack suggests that his sanity now exists only in the past, while his "dark side" remains frozen in the snow-covered maze outside. In addition
Directing 1. i. The opening scene of the shining uses an extreme long shot which tells the audience/viewers where the movie is taking place. The shot shows mostly nature in large open spaces. The long shot and the extreme long shot is used in this situation so that the audience can become familiar with the setting as there is more to see. This represents the effect of isolation with no one being around. Also combined with this camera shot there is music being used in the sequence, with the use of
fright. The plot involves a struggling writer named Jack Torrance who accepts the role as winter caretaker at the grand Overlook Hotel, high in the Colorado mountains. Since the winters can be so unrelenting, the job involves living on the premises for the duration of the seasonal hiatus. Due to the hotel’s isolation, Jack, his wife Wendy, and young son Danny will live alone at the hotel from October to May. Early on, there is an underlying sense of impending dread that slowly nags its way into the forefront
The Shining as an Exceptional Horror Movie Stanley Kubrick a.k.a. "The Master Filmmaker," was born on July 26, 1928 in the Bronx, New York City. By age 13 he had developed passions for jazz, drumming, chess and photography. In 1951 at 23 years of age, Kubrick used his savings to finance his first film, a 16-minute documentary short about boxer Walter Cartier. On March 7th, 1999, Stanley Kubrick died in his sleep of a heart attack. He was 70 years old. The Shining is a typical example
starts transcending gorgeous sceneries of landscapes. It is the beginning where and innocent normal family get into enchanted hotel. Although, at first Jack the father got in the Overlook Hotel to get hire as the caretaker, then brings his family after getting the job. The Overlook Hotel give the impression to be around woods in a mountain with any near place around it. This Hotel diffuses a story behind it, because it is old. In this stage can be presumed to be similar as Hazel and Gretel a fairy tale
abuse and becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel for the winter. Determined to make amends, he quits drinking and tries to finish his novel while working at the hotel. However, Jack slowly falls under the hotel’s influence and is constantly plagued by past mistakes and loses control. Danny Torrance (Major) - Jack’s five year old son with a special power called the “Shining”. He is able to see what others cannot, and is able to see the horror of the hotel they are staying in. Danny is also able
his novel, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes the winter caretaker of Colorado’s desolate Overlook Hotel. Despite learning about the previous caretaker’s descent to madness, and the slaughtering of his family, Jack decides to bring along his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), to keep him company during the stay. But shortly after acclimating to life in the Overlook Hotel, the family’s sanity begins to deteriorate. Danny begins to use “The Shining,” a telepathic ability
1. Background: From Ideology to Problematic/Systematic Readings Louis Althusser) was a French Marxist philosopher who “revolutionized Marxist theory” with his own ideology theories and their influence upon politics and culture (Ferretter, 2006, p.i). Karl Marx distinguished the hierarchy found in society: the infrastructure or economic base, which consists of “a combination of the ‘forces of production’ and the ‘relations of the production’”(Storey, 2009, p. 60), and the superstructure that contains
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
apartment in Boulder, Colorado, to the Overlook Hotel, located in the isolated Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Jack Torrance, the father has accepted a position as the winter caretaker of the hotel in its off-season. His wife, Wendy Torrance and son, Danny Torrance move into the hotel with him. As the film unfolds the hotel becomes a place of tension and menace. It is revealed that Danny has supernatural psychic abilities and can see the ghosts of the hotel and so does Jack. Jack's sanity begins
“REDRUM” scene hundreds of times in movies, however this clip is where that classic scene made it 's first debut, in Stanley Kubrick 's movie adaptation of Stephen King 's novel The Shining. The Shining is a movie about a family that lives in the Overlook hotel one winter. The father, Jack goes mad and attempts to murder his wife and son, Wendy and Danny. Stanley Kubrick 's The Shining is packed full of subtext, which many people have developed theories about from speculation. Today I will be discussing
story of one family’s demise at the hands of a hotel. This film is often analyzed for its commentary on gender, capitalism, sexual repression, cinematography, and race. This paper will focus on race in The Shining in order to better understand the scene of Dick Hallorann’s murder. The appearance of Native American artwork on the walls behind Hallorann as he walks from the front door to the stairs invokes the history of Native Americans with the hotel. In “Seeing is Digesting: Labyrinths of Historical
or "supernatural" territory. There could be tons of reasons as to why something could be portrayed as haunted. In the film The Shining by Stephen King, the Overlook Hotel calls to Jack Torrance to come back to the hotel and fulfill his duty as caretaker of that hotel. Jack's son Danny even experiences extrasensory perception within the hotel. There are several tales of angry spirits coming back to reap havoc among those who have crossed it. A tale such as this is “The Queen of Spades” written by
narrative about a haunted house. Jack, played by Jack Nicholson, is a man who takes on a job as an off-season caretaker at a huge, isolated resort with a haunting past and brings his wife, Wendy, and son, Danny, along to spend a winter alone at the Overlook Hotel. As a struggling writer, he sees the job as an opportunity to work on his writing in a peaceful, serene setting. The supernatural powers of the house and the effects of isolation begin to wield their power over Jack and turn him into a crazed
spend a winter in the haunted Overlook Hotel. Antagonist Jack Torrence, a recovering alcoholic with violent tendencies when under the influence, desperately searches for a job after losing his position as an English teacher at a local high school. Committed to proving to his wife Wendy and five-year-old son Danny that he has changed for the better, Jack agrees to work as the winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook. Though Jack and Wendy are unaware that the Overlook is haunted, Danny knows better
at the Overlook a hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. The Overlook Hotel will close for the winter. Once the first snowflake falls Jack, his wife, and his son will be isolated in the closed down hotel. Which is why the interviewer, Ullman the hotel manager, is tentative to giving him this job, and he makes sure Wendy (his wife) knows that her and her 5 year old son will be there for the whole winter. Ullman tells Jack some of the Overlook's history including the winter of 1970 where the hotel caretaker
Kubrick’s film? First, The Shining is about an already dysfunctional family, that move into a hotel because the father, Jack Torrence, has gotten a job as the caretaker of the hotel. Before taking the job, Jack is informed that the previous caretaker got “cabin fever” and killed his entire family. His son, Danny Torrence, is psychic and telepathic and begins to see and be bothered by the spirits living in the hotel. These spirits eventually possess Jack and he too tries to kill his family, which also includes