The Shining Essays

Producer and director Stanley Kubrick created “The Shining” based off the of book by Stephen King and is possibly one of the most well-known horror movies. I grew up watching this movie with my family and never fully understood the psychiatric component of it until now. By looking deeper into the movie and not just watching it for the horror factor there are many sings that the main character, Jack Torrent, has schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The signs of schizophrenia that Jack

The Killing and The Shining are two very different movies from the same director. They were made in different decades in different genres and different styles. Even though there are obvious differences, such as the genre or age, there are smaller ones that become clear when you analyze both films. It also becomes clear that Stanley Kubrick has grown and advanced as a director in the 24 years between movies. One of the more obvious technical differences is sound. Both use non-diagetic sound like

Overlooking Sanity Can isolation be the cause of losing one’s sanity, or could there be other reasons? The film “The Shining” shows how this question can be answered.In 1980, Stanley Kubrick produced a film recognized as one of the best horror films of all time. The main character is Jack Torrance alongside his family, Wendy and Danny. As they take care of the “Overlook” hotel, Jack starts turning into a psychopath and lose his sanity by the day. Although Jack is going insane because of isolation

The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick and edited by Ray Lovejoy, is the story of Jack Torrance, a writer who has agreed to be the caretaker of The Overlook Hotel for the winter. When he arrives to the hotel with his family, they slowly discover the demons that live within the walls. Danny Torrance, Jack’s son, possesses powers that are dubbed the “shining”, which allow him to see these spirits and the damage they are inflicting on his family. These demons eventually take over Jack, and things

Stephen King's "The Shining" is a haunting exploration of the theme of isolation. The novel takes place in the isolated Overlook Hotel during the winter months, where the main character, Jack Torrance, takes a job as the caretaker. The Overlook is a sprawling, empty hotel that becomes a character in its own right, with its creaking floorboards and eerie silence. The sense of isolation is further emphasized by the extreme weather conditions outside, as the snow piles up higher and higher, making escape

Andrea Carolina Delgado Cinema 504-KPA-03 The Shining Presented to Mr. Francis Juteau-Rhéaume College LaSalle November 16th, 2017 The Shining One of the most curious things about The Shining is the fact that the scrip was not really finished and that it was changed many times during the production, which gives a lot of room for interpretation. The plot of the movie The Shining is about a Family of three in which the father Jack Torrance take a job as caretaker at the overlook

The Shining, by world-renowned author Stephen King, is one of the greatest horror novels ever to be written. The book interweaves psychological and physical violence, is easy to comprehend, and provokes complex emotions, making it a must-read novel. The Shining is the story of Jack Torrance, a writer, and alcoholic, who accepts a job as a caretaker at a hotel in Colorado and takes his wife, Wendy, and his son, Danny, who seems to have psychic abilities. The hotel is not ordinary, as it terrorizes

The analysis of “The Shining” directed by Stanley Kubrick The Shining is a horror movie filmed by Stanley Kubrick. It bases on the namesake novel written by Stephen King. The film tells a story of the Torrance family that included Jack, Wendy and their son Danny that shows signs of strange powers from the beginning of the movie. The trio went to the Overlook Hotel where the husband would work as a caretaker during the winter. It appeared the building was possessed by some evil power (Kubrick suggested

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is more than a scary movie. It is a visual work of art. Kubrick’s genius is apparent in all aspects of the film, but it is the mis-en-scène that takes centre stage. The mis-en-scène effectively demonstrates the film’s themes of isolation, fear, and danger. The amount of detail and thought put into the setting, costume, lighting, and staging is what makes The Shining a truly horrifying film. The importance of setting in The Shining is evident from the opening scene:

Kubrick's The Shining does not do justice to Stephen King's novel, because it changes the focus of the story from Danny's ability to shine to Jack's evilness, the Overlook Hotel looked much less creepier than it was perceived as in the text and it revisions the whole ending of the story. This movie made it clear there was another author in the making of the story and that is the director. The main ideas were clearly modified in the movie by the director. The name of the novel is The Shining. The reason

Let me start off by saying this: The Shining by Stephen King is the scariest and most terrifying book I have ever read. My favorite time and place to read is usually in my room before I go to bed. Not for this novel. I had to read this book during the daytime to insure that I had no nightmares the following evening. The Shining takes place in a haunted place named, “The Overlook Hotel” in the extremely isolated Colorado Rockies. The main characters of the fictional book are all a part of the Torrance

“The Shining” is a novel written by Stephen King in 1977 and a horror movie directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980. The novel and movie tells a story about Jack Torrance, who becomes the off-season winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. Although the movie and the book have some similarities; there are many differences from the adaptation of the novel. In the book, the main characters are Jack Torrance, Wendy Torrance, and their son Danny Torrance. Jack is a recovering alcoholic who struggles with

showing the childhoods that molded their personalities. Gradually the story stabilizes in the present as the hallucinations become more vicious and the Torrance’s are increasingly hard- pressed to rationalize them as imaginary.” (310) In the Novel the Shining by Stephen King, the three main characters are trapped in the supernatural Overlook hotel for the winter. The novel begins with the protagonist Jack Torrance in a job interview with the manager of the hotel, Ullman. Jack is looking for the job of

The Shining is no doubt a book that terrifies the reader, and it is often the supernatural themes that are believed to solely create this fear. However, there are two aspects at play in the novel with one being ignored in favour of the supernatural. This is the portrayal of madness in Jack Torrance, and how it is being represented as uncontrollable and inhuman, so it can be used as an agency of terror and not be explored fairly. Although, Jack Torrance could be interpreted as not suffering from

Jack’s Character Development in The Shining Imagine a small family going out to stay in an empty hotel, all alone in the deep Rocky Mountains. The Torrance family began to caretake a hotel in the middle of winter in a hotel far in the Rockies. Jack, who was the recovering alcoholic father, thought it was the perfect way to get his life back in order; he jumped at the opportunity to have some free time because he was a writer and he wanted some time to be able to continue his writing. By him taking

Stephen King’s Insight to the Supernatural: The Shining and Carrie Stephen King is often known for his horror stories and sometimes the source of that horror is supernatural. Two stories that deal with the supernatural written by Stephen King are The Shining and Carrie. The Shining follows one man’s journey to insanity. In the 1970’s Jack Torrance and his family spend the winter in the Overlook hotel in Colorado. Due to the hotel’s isolation from the rest of the world, Jack begins to

Natalie Bennett Chaisson Period 6 October 23, 2017 Sound in The Shining In The Shining, the director Stanley Kubrick uses a wide arage of filmaking techniques like cinematography, editing, and Misce en scene, but the most persuasive is the element of sound. Kubrick uses sound to show the hotels impact on Jack, the films main character. The films sound shows the hotels strong supernatural power, which has taken over Jacks interior instability. The (diegetic) music is intergrated into the plot and

One of my relatively favored films that engrosses me every Halloween season is the 1980 horror film The Shining. This movie consists of drama, horror, mystery and suspense, produced and directed by the legendary Stanley Kubrick himself and novelist Stephen Edwin King. The Shining focused on the broad strokes of the original Stephen King story, while the visuals, atmosphere, tone, and sheer terror of the moments Stanley Kubrick caught on film were more than enough to scare most people

Behind the Curtain of Mental Illness “...because if you couldn’t stop crying it meant you had LOST YOUR MARBLES…” (King 443). This is a common quote mentioned in the novel The Shining, written by Stephen King. This line describes the main character Jack Torrance. In the novel, Jack Torrance plays the father and husband of a quaint three person family. Throughout the duration of the book, the family lives in the deep mountains of Colorado at The Overlook Hotel. King uses this hotel to create the plot

T The Mist Compare and Contrast In 1980, the book The Mist, written by Stephen King, was released. It got very popular later on, so they decided to make it a movie 27 years later. The book is a horror tale following the life of David Drayton and a large group of civilians trying to survive a thick mist that has ‘enveloped the entire town. Not only can you barely see through it, but it contains some of the most out of this world creatures. Overall, the movie tells the same story as the book, but