The Shining: Bathrooms Part 2

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)…

movie diagram showing bathroom scenes

*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…

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The shower curtain pulls back, mimicking the action of the door. He ‘tastes’ the naked woman revealed and savours…

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Jack looks on… left, then right before having a crafty lick of the woman’s breasts…

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He ‘tears’ at her flesh as she rises up out of his mouth…

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The woman steps out of the bathtub as Jack has a gnaw on her arm…

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She walks forward and Jack cradles her legs before swirling his glass of bourbon. The bottle’s pourer injects her arm…

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Jack approaches the woman/bottle of booze, index finger erect, waggling his eyebrows…

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Lloyd, the bartender, and shelves of liquor appear between Jack and the woman…

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She reaches out to Jack. He can’t believe his luck as she starts to run her hands up his body…

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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…

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Lloyd looks on as the woman’s hands reaches Jack’s throat and Jack reaches for his glass…

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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…

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They embrace and kiss. Jack is lost the heady experience…

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Jack drinks deeply of their kiss. He holds his glass out and looks at it at first admiringly…

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And then with sudden clarity. The beautiful woman is actually a scabrous old one/Lloyd and his shelf of booze. Jack is horrified…

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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…

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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.

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The Ballroom bathroom scene is up next in Part 3…

*Good one, Clicky!*

The Shining: Bathrooms Part 1

So this is a post about bathrooms in Stanley Kubrick’s film ‘The Shining’. Four are used for scenes in the film:

the bathroom at Torrances’ flat in Boulder, Colorado (Danny talks to Tony);
the bathroom in Room 237 at the Overlook (Jack encounters a young/old woman);
the bathroom (okay, toilets) next to the Overlook Ballroom (Jack talks to Grady);
the bathroom in the Torrances’ Overlook apartment (Wendy is trapped).

Inspired by CJ over at MEROVEE, this might take some time…

*Exactly! Clicky, better give Dear Reader a Song now*

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Boulder Bathroom

In the following gifs, Danny’s words are shown in white and Tony’s in orange. In the whirled of MRS REGN, 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.

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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…

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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…

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Kubrick by Roob – X

Whilst writing yesterday’s post, Elena posted news on MEROVEE of 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’.

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There were mirrors…

No.10 ‘Twilight‘ by Doug Aitken

‘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…

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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.’

Another mirror…

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No.39 ‘Bit Bang Mirror‘ by Haroon Mirza and Anish Kapoor

‘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.’

… plus a dash of ‘Elf & Safety, made me smile 😀