Film is an important part of culture‚ because it combines aspects such as song‚ story-telling‚ art and expression. The scenes of a film come together to create harmony and to express an idea. The Shining is a film that expressed Stephen King’s novel in a cinematic way. In every scene from this film there are indications of formalist techniques‚ when viewed all together as a movie‚ the idea of this movie being formalist is ensured. The movement of the camera when we follow Danny down the hallways
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Stanley Kubrick’s cold and frightening "The Shining" challenges the mind. In the opening scene at a job interview‚ we meet Jack Torrance‚ a man who plans to live for the winter in solitude and isolation with his wife and son. He will be the caretaker of the snowbound Overlook Hotel. His employer warns that a former caretaker murdered his wife and two daughters‚ and committed suicide‚ but Jack told him: "You can rest assured‚ Mr. Ullman‚ that’s not gonna happen with me. And as far as my wife is concerned
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different cultures; however‚ their credibility is questionable. When taking into consideration ghost‚ demons‚ angels‚ possession‚ etc‚ it is questioned on whether or not these things exist or are a cover for mental instability. In the movie The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick‚ Jack torrance accepts the responsibility of watching over the Overlook Hotel. Although a spacious and visually pleasing hotel‚ it is believed that the previous caretaker obtained “cabin fever” and killed his family
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The Shining‚ a film produced by Stanley Kubrick in the year of 1980‚ is a classic horror movie about a family isolated in a haunted hotel for the winter. However‚ Bill Blakemore‚ a journalist‚ has written an article that claims that the film has much more meaning to it than just a man gone mad in a sinister hotel filled with dark entities. The article “The Family Of Man” written by Bill Blakemore‚ could make it seem as if it is almost an entirely new film. However‚ the movie is no more than what
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The Shining The Shining was originally a horror novel written by Steven King‚ and later became a movie directed by Stanley Kubrick‚ starring jack Nicholson‚ Shelley Duvall‚ and Danny Lloyd. The movie takes place at the Overlook Hotel in Colorado where Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is the winter caretaker with his wife and son‚ Wendy and Danny (Shelley Duvall and Danny Lloyd). As an aspiring author trying to cure his writer’s block‚ dark secrets about the hotel emerge and he begins to go crazy
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Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic The Shining (1980) depicts a family man‚ Jack Torrance‚ driven to a murderous rampage by a nefarious haunted hotel. But is the hotel truly responsible for his actions? However haunted or evil the hotel is‚ Jack’s own predisposition towards hypermasculine traits and his susceptibility to misogynistic ideas engenders his murderous rampage and subsequent demise. The Shining‚ in addition to being completely terrifying‚ exemplifies and hyperbolizes the effect patriarchal
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old man is accused. When King wrote Salems Lot his techniques for horror and suspense were still yound and under developed. The element of surprise was more evident than that of suspense. The writing of King matured greatly before he wrote The Shining. The scene in roo‚ 217 us a
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Barry Lyndon / The Shining Response Paper Kubrick explores different types of violence in the movies “Barry Lyndon” and “The Shining”. “Barry Lyndon” is period drama with extremely formalized violence while “The Shining” is a psychological horror film with surreal violence. Both utilize violence in very different ways to support the themes and narratives. In “Barry Lyndon” Kubrick seems to be interested in the formalization of violence in the 18th century. The film has a very dry sense of
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While Stephen King is renowned for being a writer of paranormal fiction‚ it is most often his hinting towards the possibility of the supernatural that is most disturbing. Although The Shining may be most readily associated with impossible monsters made to imitate childhood nightmares‚ the intimate way in which these horrors are woven into the fabrics of reality offer readers a sense of truth in relation to the terrors of the unknown. By overshadowing supernatural elements with domestic terrors and
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In The Shining‚ Stanley Kubrick tells the tale of a family teetering on the edge of sanity at the hands of a possessed hotel. Kubrick does a great job keeping the viewer on the edge of their seat with a haunting soundtrack that is especially effective. Kubrick also does a great job of using colors symbolically to express a character’s emotions or to foreshadow the coming moments. The overall effect is one which keeps you guessing what is going to pop out around the next corner (especially when
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