Torrance

“The Shining” is a 1980 psychological horror film that was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. At the beginning of the film, we see Jack Torrance, who is a writer and recovering alcoholic take a position as a caretaker at an almost abandoned hotel that is built on a Native American burial ground. Kubrick uses the hotel to his advantage as he uses the hotel to echo any and all sound. This is able to happen because of the hotels emptiness and size. All through the interview process the manager

unique ability? What would you do with it? How would you use it? In the movies, The Sixth Sense and The Shining, that is just what the main characters have the ability to achieve, a supernatural ability. The Shining revolves around five year old Danny Torrance. Danny’s father, Jack, receives a job at the overlook hotel as caretaker. After moving into the hotel and residing there for five months Danny’s supernatural ability advises Danny of a tragic event that is soon to occur in the hotel. After Danny’s

hotel, King writes that Jack sees “The picture of John Torrance, thirty years old, who had once published in the Esquire… with a shovel from the Sidewinder Western Auto on his shoulder, ringing doorbells” (King 394). King first establishes Jack as an adult who has accomplished something, and makes him seem authoritative

Drama Analysis of The Shining The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The story of this film is based off the book, The Shining by Stephen King. The main character Jack Torrance is a violent, recovering alcoholic who has broken his son, Danny’s arm while drunk before. He quits his teaching job and takes up a winter caretaker at a isolated Hotel that get snowed in Colorado. His wife, Wendy, is very timid and quiet and his son Danny has an imaginary friend Tony

follows the Torrance’s on their journey of taking care of the Overlook Hotel as Jack Torrance gets a job for the winter. With the hotel being in complete isolation he had thought that this would help him with his writer's block he got while writing his book. He knew the history of the hotel, how a caretaker going crazy and killing his family but this book was more important to him because. Problems for the Torrance family had started long before the job offers the family had struggled with Jacks drinking

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

The Shining, a novel written by Stephen King followed by a film directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980 is a horror/thriller narrative filled with many mysteries of its own. Initially, The Shining portrays itself as an average “The house is haunted but no one believes me” story. However, as the plot progresses we learn that there is much more that goes into the big picture. At its core, the narrative is about isolation, psychological problems, alcoholism, and the suspense of an impending doom. Jack

The story takes place in Colorado and begins with Jack Torrance going to a place by name of “The Overlook Hotel” to be caretaker over the winter. He would be alone for five months with free food and stay. All Jack has to do is maintenance as handyman around the hotel. He arrives for the job interview and meets Lloyd (manager of the Overlook Hotel).They discuss hotel duties, then Lloyd brings up what happened a few years back at the hotel about a man who murdered his family from “cabin fever” caused

The Overlook Hotel is shown through extreme long shots throughout the movie. This is done to establish the setting surrounding the hotel and make the viewer feel a sense of isolation. This adds to the overall tone of the movie, as when things start to take a turn, the viewer feels a sense of helplessness. At the beginning of the film, the hotel is introduced after a montage is shown of a car driving down a long, windy road, surrounded by miles of trees, bodies of water, and mountains. While these

Despite its notoriety as a horror film, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining also deserves its praise as one of the most visually stunning films of all time. Kubrick’s ability to weave delicate repeating themes throughout the over 2-hour-long runtime is a testament to his skill as a director and is most aptly seen in The Shining. As the dominant setting, The Overlook Hotel is introduced to the viewer in the first scenes during Jack Torrance’s interview. However, Kubrick uses the “closing day” where the