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1. The Shining (1980)
-Extreme long shots while establishing scenes
-Rather unnerving music contrasting green, tranquil and
open scenery
-Red Pillars may be used for foreshadowing due to the
colours connotations
-Photographs on wall show the tranquil scenes we saw
earlier
-Theme of change, childhood innocence.
-Red is a recurring colour throughout the Interview, covers
all of Jack while a window covers Ullman’s head and red only
covers him from the neck down suggesting he is free from
this.
-Jack has a dark colour scheme while interview has a much
more diverse palate
-Jack is frequently shown around the colour red
-Rather schizophrenic behaviour from Danny
-Brief insert of twins for a potential foreshadow?

2. -The family relationship seems rather stale which can be seen
through the sarcastic tones
-Hotel is shown in the clouds giving it a heavenly
appearance
-Sight of twins could be a symbol of schizophrenia?
-Jack and Wendy’s clothes match the colours of the
apartment symbolising they are being consumed by the
hotel?
-Freezer, foreshadowing the cold and of Jacks demise
-Indian face on powder can in storage, Indian burial ground
-Repeating mention of ghosts and horror (carrying on from
the interview)
-Telekinesis and secrecy theme
-Ice cream used as a childhood symbol
-Tone immediately changes when room 237 is mentioned
-Tricycle connotes innocence
-Sun and warm weather connotes happiness, the pleasant
weather fades in conjunction with Jacks happiness.

3. -Wendy surrounded by red when on the radio while the
officer is surrounded by open whites
-Danny passes through a red room which triggers the twin’s
appearance
-The visions of the twins degrade Danny’s mental state, his
after Jacks.
-Themes of mental breakdown
-Jack seen as productive at first but then seen just sat staring
at a wall
-Jack interacts with Danny while wearing a cold blue
-Jack shown smiling (sadistically) while Danny is seen as
somewhat terrified
-“You would never hurt me or mummy would you?” blatant
foreshadow
-Wendy and Danny seen happily wondering the peaceful
maze while Jack is seen aggressively throwing a tennis ball
around the hotel
-Jack looks over the miniature maze giving him a god-like
appearance

4. -False suspense reoccurs throughout
-The music gets slowly more chilling as we zoom into the
miniature where Wendy and Danny seemingly are, the
suggestion being that Jack is developing the killing idea?
-Room looks paler and Jacks actions are much more
dramatic as his mental state collapses, snaps at family
-Wendy shown with her head in a white column surrounded
by black to show her innocence
-We see Danny in an Apollo 11 jumper, could this link to his
idea of an escape?
-Jack fights his mental decay which is seen by him screaming
at his nightmare that foreshadows the end of the film
-Danny slowly enters the scene from Room 237, he is shown
as a silhouette to suggest mystery
-Danny and Jacks minds collapse first therefore portraying
females as stronger.
-“I’d sell my soul” returning mention of horror/ghosts
-Jack starts hallucinating

5. -Alcohol loosens his tongue to which he expresses his hate
for Wendy
-Wendy comes down the same corridor into the same room
mirroring Jacks actions
-“You out of your mind?” this could be Jacks denial?
-Thumping consistent throughout multiple scenes, what we
assume to be a heartbeat
-Bath in centre of the frame to suggest isolation therefore
Jack wishes to join the woman in it.
-Jack is frequently seen through mirrors, schizophrenia?
-Red rum is the liquid coming out of the lift?
-Jack walks down the corridor to the gold room in the same
way he did before, monotony
-He is seen as out of place in his own fantasy
-Post-modern (at the time) designed toilet with a mainly red
colour scheme
-Shot reverse shot symbolising Jacks mental stability having
two sides

6. -Jack always appears in front of Grady, dominant because
this is his fantasy
-“an outsider” makes us believe this will be spiritual
-Dick is then painted as the hero, he gets a plane and then
drives to the hotel, and throughout the driving scene we see
a prominent blue colour scheme
-Theme of deceit between Jack and Wendy
-Jack becomes isolated in storage room
-Doctors mentioned for both males, female dominance
-We learn Danny called upon Dick via “the Shining”
-Danny entered the maze with his mother which led to
happiness while when he did this with his father it almost led
to his demise
-Wendy hallucinates throughout Jack chasing Danny
meaning every mental state collapsed therefore chaos
-Cross cutting between Jack and Danny as well as Wendy
-Jack experiences true isolation when Wendy and Danny
leave.

7. -Smoke/mist sets in after Wendy and Danny escape
suggesting they have escaped to heaven?
-History is doomed to repeat itself with the final image.