Whether or not it is Stanley Kubrick's intention to make The Shining dreamlike or, more appropriately, nightmarish is up to the viewer's speculation. However the fact that the film was based upon Stephen King's book of the same name, it is very plausible that Kubrick intends the dreamlike state. Most writers take material from their imagination which is like the subconscious along with random repression of thoughts or ideas. With this in mind, what of Kubrick's role is in this tale of horror? As a true cinematic auteur, Kubrick unknowingly molds the story to fit his needs, desires, or visions to create the illusion necessary for cinematic believability and audience enrapture. This transposing of King's vision into Kubrick's mind is a marvel in itself "in terms of the psychological contraction of character, plot, and film applications into something unreal or ethereal. This supports the idea that film is like a director's dream or a reflection of his or her unconscious. In addition, this film is no exception to this theoretical conception. Kubrick is well known in his almost psychoanalytical approaches to filmmaking as seen in Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut where the film is more of a character study of the psychological than a story. This application is also found in the film where the film's deception lies in the interwoven structure of truth and reality and vice versa. .
There are many times in the viewing of this film where truth is obscured by fantasy, especially in the scene where Danny rides past room 237 and sees for an instant the two little girls that were brutally murdered by their former caretaker father Delbert Grady. The falseness doesn't lie particularly with this image but with character of Danny. How trustworthy is he to the audience? His telepathy or clairvoyant powers tend to sway the audience against him because these characteristics do not lend themselves into total credibility.
In the movie, The Shining, director Stanley Kubrick's use of the steadicam is revolutionary. ... Sound plays a big factor in Kubrick's The Shining. ... In the end, Kubrick's film The Shining is truly fantastic. ... The sound in The Shining helped make this movie amazing. ...
Annotated Bibliography The Shining and Moby Dick LoBrutto, Vincent. ... LoBrutto manages to incorporate a lot of Kubrick's personal views on The Shining, the original Stephen King book, and especially the process of adaptation. ... Fulmer, Tim and Rod Munday, The Shining and Transcendence, http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0091.html An interesting discussion primarily centred on the symbolism of the maze in The Shining. ... By using such analysis of The Shining as a type of voyage, this may offer another line of comparison to Moby Dick. ... There are some interesting points made...
Counterargument: The Conceivable Threat of Bob Dylan While watching a documentary on the Kent State riots of the late 1960s, I was struck by a poignant interview with one of the faculty members, shortly after the National Guard had opened fire on the protesting students. This conservative woman w...
"Mary sat on the back steps of Mrs. Fullerton's house, talking - or really listening - to Mrs. Fullerton, who sold her eggs." And so begins "The Shining Houses," with two very different women conversing in an apparently normal and civilized way in a brand new, orderly, clean subdivision. Like many o...
The Shining of a Shoe As the dust and dirt accumulate on a dress shoe, the leather begins to deteriorate. ... After the shoe has a semi-thick coat of polish on it, the shoe is buffed with the shining brush. ... Finally, the shoe must be buffed with the shining cloth. ... The faster one moves the shining cloth across the leather of shoe, the more friction is caused; thus, creating a brighter shine. ... Shining and polishing a shoe is the easiest and most effective way to bring back the color and shine of a shoe. ...
The Shining The Shining, written by Stephen King and produced by Stanley Kubrik, was a brilliant and creative gothic horror film that was released for viewing in 1980. ... After waiting for a while, searching through numerous titles, The Shining just seemed to bring about an exciting feeling for the night. ... The Shining exceeded my expectations far from any other horror movie or any other film ever made....
In "The Shining," Stanley Kubrick uses shades of red and blue to symbolize innocence and perniciousness. ... Similar to Kubrick's use of color in "The Shining" to emphasize certain themes, F. ... Both in his novel and The Shining, colors are used as a symbol to display the relationships between both themes. ... This close but contrasting relationship between colors, similarly used in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, exemplifies the similar but different relationship between the achievers of the American Dream and the dreamers of the American Dream. ...
