Evaluation Essay On The Shining

“Here’s Johnny!” A famous line from The Shining, when Jack Torrance goes mad and is hacking at the bathroom door with an axe to mutilate his wife, Wendy and son, Danny into many little bloody pieces for disobeying him. The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick. Jack Torrance played by Jack Nicholson, quits his job as a school teacher and takes a job as caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado during the winter, hoping to cure his writer 's block. He moves in along with his wife, Wendy portrayed by Shelley Duvall, and his telepathic son, Danny played by Danny Lloyd. Danny is later told that he has an special telepathic ability called shining, hence the title.

Jack wasn't the kind of writer that thought things would just come to him if he decided to sit and wait. He knew the best stories came from the worst situations. Some might say that he made bad decisions and ended up in the wrong places or that he could do so much better. What they did not realize is that he is the one that chose to do those things and live in those kinds of places, he loves it. That is the kind of lifestyle that he wanted to live. Often he spent the night at run down hotels or apartments where most people would not even think of spending the night at. In his mind they were cheap, everyone watched your back, and looked the other

For many, isolation is a terrible thing and can lead to madness. Dictatorships prosecute individuals who do not agree with the government and sentence them to imprisonment in solitary confinement. Isolation is a form of torture and it causes insanity. The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is a truly interesting case study of human psychology and how the descent of an individual into the depths of insanity can cause them to experience creepy and vivid ghostly encounters, which do not actually physically occur but rather originate from within the depths of the person’s psyche. Examples of such hallucinated encounters surround the main character, Jack Torrance, who, as the movie progresses, transfigures into the deranged antagonist the persons see at the end of the movie chasing his family with an axe. Jack’s psyche and subconscious mind produce visions and ghostly apparitions, all of which embody Jack’s deep violent desires. Jack seems to suffer from a split personality disorder, which is intensified by his loneliness, emotional instability, and feelings of isolation. Jack’s mind is literally falling apart.

Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible” was made into a movie by Nicholas Hytner in 1996. Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder and Paul Scofield star in this historical movie. It is described as a drama. The movie takes place in a small town Salem, Massachusetts, where the actual events happened.

The movie “Friday Night Lights” is based on a book by author H.G. Bissinger. It takes place at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas in 1988 when tension between races was still strong in some areas of the south. There is a focus in some areas of the film having to do with the racial tension and ongoing conflict between the student body and the city as a whole. Even though desegregation had happened by the time the book was written and the film was made, schools sometimes were still racially divided. I also felt the movie showed how this football program exploited their black athletes. Of interest to me was, the following of two of the main football players who are black. Boobie Miles and Ivory Christian. They are as well respected as their white equivalents on the football field but, it illustrates how attitudes change when the players walk off the field. The movie touches on the many controversial subjects like, racism, hypocrisy, and failure where as the book is extremely socially-oriented, and centered primarily on racial issues and educational priorities. The film touches on these issues, but, as I wrote, it is not the focal point of the movie.

Steven King did an incredible job creating “The Shining”. Using a real life issue as damaging as alcoholism and allowing the reader to sympathize and even relate with the main characters was truly a remarkable idea. This thriller is, in no doubt, a masterpiece that will stay a treasure for years to come.

The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King that is based on events at the Overlook Hotel where the Torrance family is snowed in for the winter which leads to some unfortunate events. Maus I: a Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History is a 1986 graphic novel by Art Spiegelman about the story of his father during the Holocaust. Both of these novels are good stories that are filled with episodes and events that are demonstrated differently. Although the plots of The Shining and Maus 1 bear some minor similarities, the difference between them are more clear, which includes whether the plot is linear and sequential, and the use of stream of consciousness, foreshadowing, and flashbacks. The novel Maus I is story within a story so it

Stephen King’s The Shining has maintained its cult status since its release in 1977. The Shining begins with Jack Torrance receiving a position as the winter caretaker for The Overlook Hotel, an isolated hotel in the Colorado Rockies. Jack hopes the stay will be therapeutic and allow him to focus on writing, family, and less on alcohol. As time progresses, unsettling events begin to transpire for Jack, his son Danny, and his wife Wendy. The intensity of the gothic novel came to life by the legendary Stanley Kubrick in 1980. The book was admired by fans, but Kubrick’s reimagining made it the iconic classic that it is today. Stephen King was not as fond of the movie. Although some of Kubrick’s take on The Shining complements the book, King

“Hi, I’m Chucky. Wanna play?” This quote from Child’s Play is one of the most iconic lines in horror film history. However, creating a scream-worthy movie can be an impediment. Directors have to work with the many different components that are implemented to create a horror film.

The Maze Runner, by James Dashner, is the first book in a young-adult post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction trilogy of the same name. The book starts with Thomas (the main character) waking up in an elevator. He has no memory of his life before entering the elevator, or “The Box”. Once the elevator doors open, Thomas is greeted by a group of teenage boys. He finds himself in the middle of a glade, which itself is sitting in the middle of a large Maze.

In the movie the Shining there was a lot of mise-se-scene used in it to get the viewers pulling in and to get there blood pumping. The first scene that showed a lot of mise-se-scene was the scene that happened when Wendy was stumbling threw the hotel losing her sanity. This specific shot was in one of the rooms that she looked into. The shot was the one that had all of the skeletons in it. In the still there is so much mise-se-scene that can be seen and picked out. First, the angle is a normal angle, which may have been used to make the viewer feel as though they are the one who is looking in on this horrific or strange room. Second, there is a hazy effect given by the spider webs in far left corner of the screen where one skeleton sit. In addition there is fog effect stretches across the whole room. Furthermore this look in the picture shows the viewer that the room is old and has not been touched in a very long time. In addition, the effect of the fog could also lead the view to get the feeling of unclearness and feeling that something is going to grab them. Third, the blue tent that lays across the whole room give it a sad, loopy feeling. However, it also can be seen as

The inside of the actual maze changed everyday and there areis grievers, big spiders that are ready to kill you if you are left in the maze at night. Thomas was sent to the maze with only the memory of his name and flashbacks here and there. Flashbacks about something that is so familiar but it feel like a distant memory. The movie was almost

A number of strange incidents occur throughout the story. Jack finds a wasps' nest while maintaining the roof, uses an appropriate wasp bomb on it, and puts it in Danny's room. That night, although Jack had checked there were no wasps still in the nest, Danny is stung several times, and when Jack manages to put a bowl over the nest, there are many wasps trapped inside. Then in an almost hypnotic fit after spending too much time going through the hotel's papers in the boiler room, Jack smashes the radio, effectively cutting them off from the rest of the world as snow has fallen heavily, and reaching the nearest town has become impossible except by snowmobile.

The 1980 film The Shining represents what suspense, agitation and horror can be created through expert cinematography. Stanley Kubrick the director manages to build immense panic and unease within the viewer as he depicts the gradual degradation of Jack Torrance. The film sees Jack Torrance succumb to insanity through isolation and supernatural occurrences whilst caretaking a hotel with his family, where he mentally implodes and attempts to kill his wife and son; this amassing to pandemonium. A pivotal chapter within this film is the chaotic scene of Jack wielding an axe, hunting his son Danny through a huge imposing hedge maze.

Based on Stephen King’s horror novel of the same name, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining features hallways filled with butchered daughters, and their guts and blood splashed down the hall. Horror and realism fuel Kubrick’s notoriously disturbing films and The Shining stands clear-cut amongst them. Although in the case of this movie, Kubrick shifts emphasis from visual horror to psychological fear and instills mounting dread from the sequence of disturbing events. Kubrick states, “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.” Never falling flat, The Shining provides a psychological horror masterpiece complete with brilliant acting, tight camera angles, haunting score, and unanswered questions.