The scene with Jack and Grady in the bathroom is nearly 6 minutes long…
*Way too many gifs, Clicky… I’m gonna have to be cannier about how how I present this…*
*… and careful with the hugging, sweetie*
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Okay, let’s familiarize ourselves with the scene in question.
Unlike, the bathroom scenes in Part 1 and Part 2, the Ballroom Bathroom scene (on the descent from the ‘shining’ peak, at the centre of the Forwards/\Backwards version) has dialogue in both directions. And it spans not one but three scenes on the ascent. But which ones?
To start with, when Jack and Grady first enter the bathroom…
… the corresponding scene is of Jack talking to Danny in the bedroom.
Jack questions Grady…
… and at the same time Danny questions Jack.
Whilst Lloyd continues wiping at Danny’s face…
… Danny gives his father a question/suggestion.
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*Clicky, WTF?!*
*Have a Song? Oh okay then… I guess this post is big enough*
Dear Reader, Part 3b of The Shining: Bathrooms will follow.
*Start at 2.37? /rolls eyes… Oh Clicky, I’m working on The Shining Bathrooms Part 3, but they’re big gifs, difficult to wrap…*
*Yes, I know you’re handy with the sellotape…*
*A little too handy sometimes… /shakes head… Look, Clicky, can we just get on with the post? It’s been another hot day and I’m still sweating buckets here*
burgher (n.)1560s, “freeman of a burgh,” from Middle Dutch burgher or German Bürger, from Middle High German burger, from Old High German burgari“inhabitant of a fortress,” from burg “fortress, citadel” (see borough). Burgh, as a native variant of borough, persists in Scottish English (as in Edinburgh).
Yesterday evening, whilst Thoughtful Man listened to Fulham beat Borough in the FA Cup, I got into conversation with Hugo, who’d sent me an article about the discovery of a planet orbiting neighbouring star, Proxima Centuri.
‘”A planet around even a wimpy star like Proxima Centauri is going to be more than a billion times fainter than the star itself. So, what you do is block out the light from the star using a special device and that allows you then to go deeper into the star’s surroundings,” explained Cambridge University’s Prof Gerry Gilmore.’
Did the conversation continue along a scientific line, with wonderment at this discovery? Dear Reader, it did not.
*Eight in the area, Clicky, but I’ve only been to 3*
Then, Red Universe Frank put up a new post at MEROVEE containing a burger reference…
The planet Mercury takes 88 Earth days to go around the Sun and according to Back to the Future, 88mph is the speed that makes time travel possible…
hydrargyrum (n.)“mercury, quicksilver,” 1560s, from Latin hydrargyrus, from Greek hydrargyros “quicksilver” (as prepared artificially from cinnabar ore; native quicksilver was argyros khytos “fused silver”), from hydr-, stem of hydor “water” (see water (n.1)) + argyros “silver” (see argent). Hence the chemical abbreviation Hg for the element mercury.
Dye pays homage to Kubrick in this installation, applying his pioneering camera and narrative techniques. Each of the four endlessly looping films are set in the same location be feature a different character inspired by Kubrick’s filmography.
UNKLE’s ‘Lonely Soul’ (ft Richard Ashcroft) accompanies Toby Dye’s moving picture. This was the original piece of music that James sent to Stanley Kubrick for the music video that never was. The track features on UNKLE’s critically acclaimed debut album Psyence Fiction.
*Agreed, Clicky… /wipes brow… talk about Mercury rising… a breeze would be nice. Back to the gifs tomorrow… Song for now?*
I should probably explain, for those that haven’t seen ‘The Shining Forwards and Backwards’ that there is a convergence point in the film, where ‘Forwards’ meets ‘Backwards’…
*Right at the centre of the film, Dick in Florida shines beneath a black goddess. Thanks, Clicky! ❤ *
The film is mostly set at the Overlook Hotel, a mountain resort, therefore the centre point of the film, the convergence, could be considered a peak. All the action leading up to that point could be considered as ascending a mountain, and the action after that point as making the descent.
The Boulder bathroom scene when Danny talks to Tony occurs in the first part of the movie (ascent). The other three bathroom scenes occur in the second part of the movie (descent)…
*Brilliant! A rough sketch to demonstrate what I mean, Clicky. Thanks!*
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Room 237 Bathroom
Let’s just remind ourselves of the scene with accompanying soundtrack…
That’s the ‘Forwards’ action. Silently running backwards is the scene when Jack first meets Lloyd in the Ballroom and tastes his first drink in a long time…
The Forward/\Backwards scene starts with the bathroom door being pushed open. Think ‘Wizard of Oz‘ reveal…
The shower curtain pulls back, mimicking the action of the door. He ‘tastes’ the naked woman revealed and savours…
Jack looks on… left, then right before having a crafty lick of the woman’s breasts…
He ‘tears’ at her flesh as she rises up out of his mouth…
The woman steps out of the bathtub as Jack has a gnaw on her arm…
She walks forward and Jack cradles her legs before swirling his glass of bourbon. The bottle’s pourer injects her arm…
Jack approaches the woman/bottle of booze, index finger erect, waggling his eyebrows…
Lloyd, the bartender, and shelves of liquor appear between Jack and the woman…
She reaches out to Jack. He can’t believe his luck as she starts to run her hands up his body…
As her hands moveup to Jack’s chest, Lloyd unpours the drink from his glass, back into the bottle. He then holsters it in the woman’s vagina. Jack taps his empty glass…
Lloyd looks on as the woman’s hands reaches Jack’s throat and Jack reaches for his glass…
The woman’s arms snake around Jack’s neck as he caresses, first, the bottle of bourbon and then the woman’s hips and waist. They pull closer…
They embrace and kiss. Jack is lost the heady experience…
Jack drinks deeply of their kiss. He holds his glass out and looks at it at first admiringly…
And then with sudden clarity. The beautiful woman is actually a scabrous old one/Lloyd and his shelf of booze. Jack is horrified…
The decaying woman floats in the bathtub before advancing on a retreating Jack. As Jack tells the story, he waves his hand… it was nothing…
Notable thing. The spirit Jack drinks/Lloyd unpours is Jack Daniels, whilst Jack tells Lloyd about Danny’s accident. The actor that plays Danny is Danny Lloyd.
If you interested in seeing a breakdown of these two scenes, but in the ‘ascent’ part of the movie, one can be found here.
In the following gifs, Danny’s words are shown in white and Tony’s in orange. In the whirled of MRSREGN, orange is the colour of Sensitivity because orange is the smell of ‘shine‘.
Forwards/ Whilst Jack is at the Overlook having his interview, Wendy and Danny wait for news at home.
Backwards\ Wendy and Danny are fleeing a rampaging Jack at the Overlook hotel.
Notable thing No.1: In the Forwards/\Backwards version of the film, practically every scene has some form of illumination in it – lights, lamps, headlights, shine…
Notable thing No.2: Timing. In this instance, the camera zooms in on the peculiar couple in the bedroom as Tony says ‘Don’t want to’ and Danny’s finger is illuminated.
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Part 2 to follow and in keeping with Red Universe Frank’s ‘Eternité’ post, there will indeed be a bush…
Whilst writing yesterday’s post, Elena posted news on MEROVEEof a potential Fifth Force of Nature – a ‘protophobic X boson‘
“If true, it’s revolutionary,” study lead author Jonathan Feng, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, said in a statement.
“For decades, we’ve known of four fundamental forces: gravitation, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces,”
So after my interview this morning and before going home, I visited Somerset House to see ‘Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick’.
‘Aitken’s sculpture recalls the public pay phone used, futilely, to avert nuclear catastrophe in Dr. Strangelove. Bathed in a luminous glow, this familiar object takes on a foreign nature, appearing as a relic from a bygone civilization suspended in time.’
Gravity…
No.21 ‘Gravity All Nonsense Now’ by Harland Miller
‘Both an artist and writer, Miller has based many of his paintings on classic Penguin-book covers. With his acute sense of detail for the timeworn covers and fascination for typefaces, he often incorporates his own humorous and ironic phrases. Here he creates a cover for Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.’
‘The skillful interplay of dissonant sound and controlled light to create a heighened sense of drama is central to Kubrick’s filmmaking. Mirza’s immersive installation incorporates a concave mirror by Kapoor, and used the tension between sound and light to illicit both psychological and visual discomfort in the viewer.’
Weak and strong nuclear forces 😉
No.44 Trident; A Strange Love by Peter Kennard, Music by UNKLE
‘Kennard’s installation juxtaposes images of characters from Dr. Strangelove with world leaders charged with nuclear arsenals. Using imagery of the film’s famous War Room, he shows that the ghosts of the past still inhabit the present.’
It was a really interesting exhibition and I may post some more on it again as I have some cool pix. But I’ll finish this post with my favourite. It’s actually two installations but their unintended ‘marriage’ made me giggle. The first…
No.3 PYRE by Stuart Haygarth
‘Haygarth’s glowing tower of electric fires refers to a scene in The Shining which Kubrick shot twice, once for Jack Nicholson’s take, and once to capture the roaring fireplace. Kubrick’s frequent use of fire as a motif in the Shining was echoed ironically in the coincidental accidental burning down of the film’s set during production in 1979.’
was combined with…
No.9 ‘The Shining Carpet’ by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
‘Broomberg and Chanarin’s installation translates the famous carpet design from the Overlook Hotel, the fictional location of The Shining, to the exhibition space. Crossing the boundaries of fiction and reality, this act recalls the ambiguous narrative of Kubrick’s horror masterpiece.’
Yesterday on my Twitter-feed came the story of a woman in the Midlands. She was offended by some advertising.
A gym responsible for an “offensive” billboard poster has replaced it with one described as “even worse” than the original.
*Stop smiling, Clicky*
Anti-bullying charity Combat Bullying said the poster, which suggests being “fat & ugly” requires “a cure”, gives fuel for bullies to pick on children.
*Knot a charity, Click – knot as far as I can tell. Certainly not a registered one. Perhaps ‘charity’ is the BBC’s new term for ‘pressure group’? Although, possibly ‘group‘ is being charitable… certainly calling that a ‘news’ story is… /rolls eyes*
Fit4Less said their advert in Sawley, Derbyshire, is intended to be “light-hearted fun”.
But Natalie Harvey from the charity said it “absolutely disgusts” her.
She said she was bullied from the age of four for having a “ginger afro” and always felt “fat and ugly” herself.
*What? No, no Clicky. You’re an inter-dimensional alien space dolphin… you’re as baldas a fucking coot!*
“I don’t understand why we are using these kinds of advertising. It’s almost like shaming people.”
Mrs Harvey said she can deal with the advert as a 39-year-old woman…
…but young or vulnerable people might not be able to.
*Whoa. That many children and vulnerable people in Sawley, Clicky? Better rip that poster down right now!*
“If it’s near a pub or where adults frequent I’m not bothered, but it’s a big poster outside a family supermarket,” she said.
*I know. An adult-only supermarket, Clicky? That would be fucking awesome… no more screaming brats hogging the sweetie aisle. Of course, pubs used to be adult-only but then they turfed out all of the smokers…*
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*Yes, no… just one last thing…*
The research also reveals youngsters who are bullied are almost twice as likely to go on to bully others.
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