Monday 30 March 2009

the shining

the structure of the film is linear this means that it has a start middle and end of in more advance terms the x position building up the characters getting to know the plot then theres the complication this is when problems start to arise the climax is next this when the problems get sorted then theres the resolution when you start to wined down from the rest of the film so the shining theres the x position where we are introduced to jack the main character then the complication these include when danny starts talking to tony and when the hotel manager tells jack about the last caretaker that went mental also all the visions that danny gets about the hotel the climax is when jack loses his mind and goes on a rampage and tries to kill his family but danny escapes the resolution is when jack freezes to death in the maze. the film has a few muguffins these incude the dog man flating the man and the picture of jack in the picture in the end of the film the purpose of these is to through you of the sent also this film uses duse ex machine you can argue that the shining has and has not the argument for it has is that jack was always the caretaker cause the picture at the end of the film but you can argue against saying that he just caught cabin fever and went mental.
the krubick style
he is abit of a maverick when it comes to film making he utised modern technology like the stedy cam this alows him to do long tracking shots this allows for more shots and to add more atmosphere also he lets the actors make the characters to add a bit of intensity this could make the character easier to play if it were based on the actor also he has a disricard for traditionals conventions instead of tying all of the loose ends like traditional horror films this film leaves the loose ends open this film is very popular to a wide audience so evaluate a scene lets take the classic hears jonny and disect it Stanley kubrick creates meaning in this scene firstly he used the audio this includes dialect and the music also the sound of the axe hitting the door jack nicholson uses nursery rhymes to create a area of calmbess