The Shining

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<B>Music..............Herbert Von Karajan (conductor-Bartok)</B></div> <div> <B>                 Krxysztof </B><B>Pevderecki & Wendy Carlos </B></div> <div> <B>                 & Rachel Elkind & Gy“rgy Ligeti</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Stanley Kubrick</B></div> <div> <B>Director of Photography..John Alcott</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.........Jan Harlan</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the Novel by Stephen King*</B></div> <div> <B>Make-up by Barbara Daly</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Jack Torrence...............Jack Nicholson</B></div> <div> <B>Wendy Torrence...........Shelly Duvall</B></div> <div> <B>Danny Torrence............Davy Lloyd</B></div> <div> <B>Halloran.......................Scatman Crothers</B></div> <div> <B>Grady...........................Philip Stone</B></div> <div> <B>Lloyd...........................Joe Turkel</B></div> <div> <B>Doctor..........................Anne Jackson</B></div> <div> <B>Durkin..........................Tony Burton</B></div> <div> <B>Young Woman in Bath..Lia Beldam</B></div> <div> <B>Old Woman in Bath......Billie Gibson</B></div> <div> <B>Watson.........................Barry Dennen</B></div> <div> <B>Forest Ranger #1..........David Baxt</B></div> <div> <B>Forest Ranger #2..........Manning Redwood</B></div> <div> <B>The Grady Girls............Lisa Burns & Louise Burns</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Danny's rolling around on his 3-wheeler generates a scary mood. The camera is down at his level, and we can't see what's coming around any of the corners. This film boasts some spectacular shot of the Torrence's car winding along mountain roads. As Jack is descending into madness, there is one point when Danny tip toes into the room expecting to see Jack asleep. Jack ask Danny if he's having a good time and Danny asks him why he doesn't sleep. When Jack answers that he has too much to do. He goes on to mimic the girls' suggestion  that they stay for ever and ever. That exchange is not reassuring. Jack's repartee with Lloyd at the bar is vintage Nicholson, complaining about his wife's unjust accusation, explaining the previous incident as a "momentary loss of muscular coordination" a memorable line that begins the Squeeze song "Last time forever". The music was arranged by late-great Berlin Symphonie conductor Herbert von Karajan.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Jack Torrence is an aspiring writer who has taken a job as the winter caretaker for the Overlook hotel. He brings his wife, Wendy, and his clairvoyant son, Danny, who has an imaginary friend, Tony. Tony predicts daddy got the job before the phone rings. He does not want to go. The Overlook was built in 1907 for its seclusion and scenic beauty. Jack thinks that five months of seclusion is exactly what he needs to launch his writing career. Jack is warned that there was a cabin fever tragedy involving the caretaker at the Overlook back in 1970. Charles Grady ran amok and killed his family and then himself with an axe. Danny has a vision of some elevators that suddenly run with blood and little girls staring out. We learn that Jack came home drunk one night and dislocated Danny's shoulder, prompting Jack to pledge never to touch a drop again. More details are given about the area as descriptions of the Donner family are given who resorted to cannibalism west of there in their covered wagon, The hotel itself is adorned with apache and Navaho motifs. The Overlook had been a stop over for jet set types in the early part of the century. The edifice had been built on Indian burial ground in '07, and the work was slowed down as several Indian attacks had to be repelled. As the  parents get this information, Danny has an encounter with the little girls who wordlessly disappear again. Mr. Halloran, the cook, also appears to be clairvoyant, explaining that he used to talk to his grandmother by "shine". Halloran explains to Danny that some places shine as well. Things happen that leave trances, and that is so of the Overlook. Danny asks him about room 237 and Halloran says there's nothing there but that he should stay out of there. After a month at the Overlook, Jack seems a bit stuck in his writing but says he loves it here and feels almost as though he's been here before. Danny and Wendy spend a good deal of time in the hedge maze. Tuesday. Danny sops at 237 on his 3-wheeler and "shines" the two girls again. Jack, meanwhile, seems to be writing pretty steadily. However, when Wendy comes down to see how things are going, he makes a new "rule". She's no longer to come into the lobby when he's there. As the snow falls, Jack is looking more and more distracted. The lines are down and the only contact with the world is by CB. Danny's contacts with the dream girls continue. They bid him come play with them 'for ever and ever'. Suddenly, he's seeing the girls in hacked up corpse form as well. Later, Danny comes by and sees 237 standing open. Concurrently, Jack is sleeping in the main lounge and seems to be having a bad dream. Wendy wakes him and he says he had a nightmare in which he cut up she and Danny. Jack, and we, fear he's losing his mind. When Danny comes into the room with bruises on his cheek, Wendy jumps to the obvious conclusion which does not help Jack's fast deteriorating mental state. Talking to himself now, Jack saunters into the cocktail lounge and pledges that he'd give anything for a glass of beer. Lloyd appears and asks what it'll be. After Jack has engaged in some repartee, Wendy comes running to Jack at the bar and explains that Danny was almost strangled by a crazy woman. Meanwhile, Halloran out in Florida seems to be shining that something is amiss. Danny, too, is looking very concerned, he is having an "episode". Up in 237, Jack does indeed see a woman. A heart thumps in the background as the beautiful woman in Jack's arms becomes a sore-bespotted hag. Jack now suggests that Danny gave the bruises to himself. When Wendy suggests that they leave the hotel, Jack does not appreciate it. Danny sees a flowing blood episode again. Jack's off talking to himself again and hears sounds of merriment in the cocktail lounge. Lloyd relates to Jack that his money's no good there. Delbert Grady knocks into Jack. At first Grady denies being the caretaker and having chopped up his wife and children. Grady says that Jack was always the caretaker here. Grady says that Danny's been trying to bring a "nigger cook" into the situation. Grady relates that Danny has a great talent and that he's using it against Jack's will. Grady suggests that they need a good talking t, perhaps more. He allows that he corrected his girls and his wife as well. Tony is now saying 'red rum' and 'Danny's gone away Mrs. Torrence'. Attempts to contact the Overlook on the CB continue to fail. One of the components have been removed. Halloran has retuned and is headed for the Overlook. But Jack's typing again so perhaps everything is okay. Wendy, however, doesn't think so as she brings a baseball bat with her in the lobby. Jack has since disappeared. Wendy then checks out the writing table, and looks wonderingly through the sheets and finds only 'all work and no pay makes Jack a dull boy' written thousands upon thousands of times. Of course she is disappointed with his output. When Jack shows up asking how she like's it, the chills begin in earnest. Jack impishly suggests that she go check out the vehicles, the Snowcat and the sidewider. Both are disabled.  Jack follows Wendy up the stairs but she gets in a good swing with the bat and he is knocked silly and deposited in the pantry. Grady shows up outside the pantry taunting him about his wife's getting the better of him. Grady lets him out as he promises to recoup his loss. Halloran has shows up on the sidewinder. Meanwhile Danny has grabbed a knife and is muttering 'red rum' ever louder, and writes it on the door. Wendy wakes to its inversion in the mirror and screams. Directly, Jack comes through the door with 'Wendy, I'm home'. He starts up the little pigs and here's Johnny routine. However, before the tableau can play itself out, he hears Halloran. Unfortunately, Halloran blunders in unaware and isn't much help except that Wendy takes the opportunity to get out of the bathroom. Wendy begins seeing the ghosts of jet setters past as Jack shuffles after his son axe in hand. Danny runs into the maze that he knows so well and Jack follows his footprints calling 'I'm coming Dan'. Jack's looking pretty inhuman. Like Grady, Jack's been there all along as the July 4 1921 ball photo attests.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>