website Overlook Hotel I posted a photo of Stanley Kubrick’s A personal copy of a Stephen King novel shining. The book is full of Highlighted text and barely legible notes The margins contain interesting clues as to Kubrick’s intentions for the film.
The site features a photo of the book’s well-worn cover, along with two double-page spreads of the book’s contents. On pages 8-9, Jack Torrance is interviewed by Mr. Ullman, the hotel manager, and on pages 86-87, Jack is interviewed by the hotel’s cook, Mr. Dick Halloran. Son Danny talks about a telepathic ability called “The Shining”.
Much of the extra-marginal text is extremely difficult to decipher. One note I understood was:
maybe like them [sic] There may be a person who can shine, a special place. Perhaps it has something to do with what happened in them or where they were built.
Kubrick is clearly working on adapting Dr. King’s book into a film. However, other notes seem completely unrelated to the movie.
If you have any problems with your kitchen, please call me.
when shining ” when it came out, it was greeted with lukewarm and unpleasant reviews. Since then, the film’s reputation has grown and it is now considered a horror masterpiece.
At first glance, shining The film overwhelms viewers with haunting and evocative images such as the creepy twins, an elderly man rotting in a bathtub, and a flood of blood pouring out of an elevator. But after watching it for the fifth or seventh time, you realize that this movie is much weirder than your average horror movie. For example, why does Jack Nicholson read books? playgirl Would you like to read a magazine while waiting in the lobby? What happens to the man in the bear costume that appears at the end of the movie? Why is Danny wearing an Apollo 11 sweater?
Stephen King has made dozens of books into movies, many of which are flat. terrible), of all adaptations, this is the one King actively dislikes.
“I would do anything different.” complained King is about movies american film magazine “The real problem was that Kubrick started making horror films without any understanding of the genre.” King later made his own. screen version About his book. No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t come close to Kubrick’s work.
Perhaps the reason Dr. King disliked Kubrick’s adaptation so much is that the famously secretive and controlling director, like Danny’s Apollo Sweater, told the story of an alcoholic writer descending into madness. Perhaps it’s because the film is filled with so many strange signs that seem to point to a greater meaning. murder. shining What is…a semiotics puzzle about?
Critics have been trying to uncover the film’s hidden meaning. Journalist Bill Blakemore argued in an essay:human family” that shining This film is actually about the genocide of Native Americans. historian Jeffrey Cox It has been suggested that the film is about the Holocaust. and the master of conspiracy Jay Widener passionately claimed that the film was actually a coded confessional for Kubrick’s role in directing the Apollo 11 moon landing. (For a related note, see dark side of the moon: A mockumentary about Stanley Kubrick and the moon landing hoax. )
Rodney Asher’s 2012 documentary Room 237 The juxtaposition of all these vastly different readings does an excellent job of showing how dense and multivalent they are. shining teeth. You can watch a trailer for the documentary above.
Note: Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on the site in 2014.
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Jonathan Crowe He is a Los Angeles-based writer and filmmaker whose work has appeared on Yahoo!, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications. You can follow him at @jonccrow.
