THE SHINING 1980 Breakdown Analysis Hidden Details Easter Eggs You Missed

Author:

Video Creator’s Channel New Rockstars

author link

Welcome Back To New Rockstars, Im, Eric

Voss and the Shining Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror masterpiece based on Stephen King‘s. 1977 novel has shined its chilling influence through nearly every successive film and Tv series of our lives both in horror genres and even scarier places like the Pixar universe, The Shining’s Lingering mysteries have made it one of the most overanalyzed films of all time. There is even a documentary about conspiracy theory interpretations that make new rock stars theory sound like Occam’s very rational razor let us dive deep into the shining point out all the subtle evidence for the various interpretations of the film’s hidden meanings and details that are only now being spotted. Okay. The film opens with Jack Torrance, Jack Nicholson as he drives to the overlook hotel for his interview.

These Aerial Shots Of Glacier National

Park were actually later repurposed for the reshot. ending of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, but it’s the music here that renders all these beautiful landscapes so frightening. The main shining theme was composed by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind adapting a traditional Gregorian chant called Ds Irae, which translates to Day of wrath and it was used for funerals. So the reason that we’re so on edge here is that the music is prepping us for a funeral in which a higher power will decide whether we will end up in heaven or trapped in hell. Mixed in with this music is a doom inspired soundscape mixed by music editor Gordon StanfordNK] Yeah you hear voices, shriek and echo like warnings from the past.

Many Have Interpreted The Shining As

a metaphor for the human history of violence and genocide. Continuing to haunt our unconscious psyche until it eventually catches up to us so we arrive at. At the Overlook Hotel, the exterior of which was based on the Timberline Lodge and Fort Hood Organ. Though Kubrick recreated it as a set at all street studios in England. You may have noticed that he condensed the recreated exterior to exclude the Timberline’s pointed tower.

One Of Many Examples Of The Overlooks

famous impossible architecture as if this place is a deceptive maze an illogical death trap. Now Stephen King got the idea for his shiny novel after he and his family stayed in the Stanley Hotel in Colorado” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Estes Park, Colorado. They were the final guests before it shut down for the winter, and King saw a group of nuns leaving the hotel and started to wonder if the place was godless. As I’m sure he wonders about every place he enters, but notice in this wide shot that there are exactly 42 cars in the parking lot. Now the number 42 also shows up later on Danny’s, Bugs, Bunny Shirt and later when they watch a Tv a Tv that has no power cord by the way they watched the movie The summer of 42.

  • shining
  • kubrick
  • rockstars
  • masterpiece
  • doom
  • shining came meet dany
  • interpreted shining metaphor
  • kubrick 1980 horror masterpiece based
  • stanley kubrick 1980 horror masterpiece
  • new rockstars eric voss shining

Some Point To This Recurring Number 42

as evidence that this movie could actually be about the Holocaust since Hitler’s final solution was ordered in 1942. There’s also a huge influence on Jack’s typewriter being a German adler brand and typewriters being assembled the Nazi‘s obsessive documentation of their war crimes. These folks have also argued that the final cross dissolve on the photo of Jack leaves a brief superimposition of his hairline on his upper lip to create the illusion of a Hitler mustache, which you could interpret as an homage to Hitchcock’s famous superimposition of Mrs Bates skull on Norman’s face in the final shot of Psycho now that photograph. is actually right behind Jack as he first enters overlook lobby we just overlooked it. This is the first of many smooth tracking shots that Kubrick accomplished with a steadicam.

One Of The First Prominent Uses

of the device. Kubrick never cuts here and it leads to this unsettling feeling as Jack rounds the corner into omen’s office notice that window if you were to map the layout of the hotel. The window in Allman’s office is considered an impossible window because Oman’s office should be in the building interior. There’s no courtyard behind that room. It’s actually implied that the building goes way deeper and that’s just one of many visual curiosities in this shot there’s also this Native American painting on the outside the office.

This Is Called The Great Mother

by artist Norval Morseau. When asked about this painting, Kubrick said that every face that surrounds Jack. Here is an archetype and that connects to the book visible on Allman’s desk There. This is the red book of Carl Young Young being the famous psychoanalyst known for his writings about the collective unconscious and archetypes. Young defied archetypes as universal symbols that all human beings innately associate collective meanings to the mother.

Is One Of The Most Famous Archetypes

so you can use these Easter eggs as a kind of road map with which to analyze the rest of this film, which is a collection of meaningful symbols that hit us on a subconscious level. You’ll notice that there are native American references throughout the overlook are all these Indian designs authentic Yeah I believe, based mainly on Navajo and Apache motifs. The site is supposed to be located on an Indian burial ground, and I believe they actually had to repel a few Indian attacks as. They were building it many believe that these references symbolize the shining’s deeper, meaning as a parable about white violence toward indigenous peoples with the blood from the elevators actually coming from the graves of the Native Americans. Buried underneath white man’s burden lloyd my man white man’s burden so Olman tells Jack about a winter caretaker in the past named Charles Grady, who murdered his wife and daughters due to what they believed at the time to be cabin fever, but Jack is weirdly unphased well.

You Can Rest Assured Mr.

Ullman that’s not gonna happen with me Yeah you’ll notice that Jack already seems a bit unhinged here and that’s a credit to Jack Nicholson’s impressive performance Nicholson’s casting was a major point of contention from Stephen King, who famously hated the film adaptation of his novel So King based Jack Torrance in the novel on himself, a struggling writer who has sudden terrifying thoughts of murdering his kids and bought through substance abuse to him. Jack’s transformation is so scary because Jack starts as a relatable every man how King viewed himself, but then he fell victim to external supernatural forces. King saw Nicholson as an actor famous for playing unhinged characters like in one flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, but this was Kubrick’s primary diversion from King’s text Kubrick said in an interview that Jack comes to the hotel psychologically prepared to do its murderous bidding he doesn’t. have very much further to go for his unhinged frustration to become completely uncontrollable.

Hes Bitter About His Failures As A Writer.

He’s married to a woman for whom he is only contempt. He hates his son and the hotel at the mercy of its powerful evil. He is quickly ready to fulfill his dark role. I’m hungry why you should have eaten your breakfast Kubrick elaborated There’s something inherently wrong with the human personality.

Theres An Evil Side To It.

One of the things that horror stories can do is show us the archetypes of the unconscious. We can see the dark side without having to confront it directly. So Olman also tells Jack that they’re going to have to keep the hotel’s boiler running during the winter. And this detail relates to another major difference in the book, which ends with the overlooked burning down after the boiler.

Explodes And The Cycle Of Violence Ending As

opposed to Kubrick’s ending which keeps that cycle going and going and going. Meanwhile, Jack’s, wife Wendy Shelley Duvall and son Danny Danny Lloyd wait back in their home in Boulder when he reads the catcher in the Rye a book with its own links to various conspiracies associated with John Hinckley Jr and Mark David Chapman, though it should be noted Reagan and Lennon were shot after the shining came out and we meet Dany’s imaginary friend Tony what about Tony he’s looking forward to the hotel I bet so in the novel Tony is actually Danny’s adult self speaking to him from the future. Since Danny’s middle name is Anthony Tony for shorts, but there is a much darker theory about who Tony is now the next shot. We see of Dany He is framed in the doorway to his bathroom brushing his teeth. He asks Tony to tell him why he doesn’t want to go to the hotel.

Danny Suddenly Struck With A Vision

of the blood elevator. The Grady twins and himself screaming the moment Halloran gets killed. This leads to Danny suffering a panic attack and getting examined by a doctor who asks who Tony is a little bit is in my mouth if you were to open your mouth now could I see Tony no why not because he hides where does he go to my stomach so notice here that Danny is also lying on this bear pillow. His pants are off and he’s covering himself later in Danny’s bedroom at the overlook. There’s a painting of two bears over his bed one sitting one standing a detail by the way that pops.

Up At Time Code 2237.

The movie goes inside room 237 two times and Wendy runs over a bare rug in between those two visits Why am I mentioning all this bear stuff well. There is a theory that Dan is connected to the man in the bear costume. Shortly after this checkup, Wendy tells the doctor that Danny dislocated his shoulder five months prior because Jack had been drinking and grabbed. Danny away from scattering his papers across the floor.

So We Are Looking At A History

of child abuse so again that Wtf moment the mysterious bear costume ghost giving oral sex to the older man seen later by Wendy In the final sequence. The theory is that Jack has sexually abused Dany and that Dany represents the man in the bear costume. Both are seen partially nude. Both are framed the same way. In key moments Huni.

In This Case Would Be Jax

you know Jack Yuck. I know I know I will explain more of this dark interpretation as it pertains to the way room 237 is depicted, but before we move on notice that as Wendy and the doctor leave Danny’s bedroom the dopey sticker that was once on the door is now missing. Now There are many interpreters in the camp that Kubrick is a master filmmaker who makes no mistakes in this film everything’s intentional if you’re in that camp, you could read this as a kind of loss of innocence for Dany now aware of the violent horrors that await him thanks to the vision he’s no longer a dopey kid. In fact, his nickname is another dwarf Doc, which is actually for bugs money, but if you think about it in snow White and seven doors. Doc is also like the.

Most Awakened Aware, Haunted Of That Punch Hes

always got that thousand-yard stare anyway the whole family heads up to the overlook and Jack when he’s sitting in the lobby reads a magazine pet If you look closely is a play girl. The January 1978 issue which includes the article incest why parents sleep with their children. Another clue that many point to evidence for Jack’s sexual appetite which we see as he checks out other guests and possible sexual abuse of Dany an in-sexual relationship because why else would the set dresser put a freaking play girl in a lobby of a hotel now trailing behind Olman is Bill Watson, the summer caretaker. He’s very limited.

Summary

The Shining’s Lingering mysteries have made it one of the most overanalyzed films of all time . Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror masterpiece based on Stephen King’s.& 1977 novel has shined its chilling influence through nearly every successive film and Tv series of our lives . The main shining theme was composed by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind adapting a traditional Gregorian chant called Ds Irae, which translates to Day of wrath and it was used for funerals. The music is prepping us for a funeral in which a higher power will decide whether we will end up in heaven or trapped in hell. Mixed in with this music is a doom inspired soundscape mixed by music editor Gordon StanfordNK] The Shining was based on the Timberline Lodge and Fort Hood Organ, the exterior of which was based upon the Timberlines Lodge and fort Hood Organ . Kubrick recreated it as a set at all street studios in England. The exterior of the Overlook Hotel, the interior of which…. Click here to read more and watch the full video