The Shining
With the dismission ofDoctor Sleep , the highly anticipated sequel to Stanley Kubrick’sThe Shining , the expect comparison to the 1980 horror masterpiece have begun . Fans of Stephen King ’s novel , on which the film was free-base , were gleeful to find out thatDoctor Sleepwould also be a prolongation of that plot line as well , taking intake from the continuation novel that King wrote featuring an adult Dan Torrance grapple with his daemon from the Overlook Hotel .
The Overlook Hotel ( really the Timberline Hotel ) in Colorado was as much a character in Kubrick ’s film as the rest of the dramatis personae , with its odd geometric carpets , hedge maze , and apparitional guests . build on an old indigenous burying basis , its denizens seemed to be hunger for anyone that possessed the " shining " , Dan ’s special ability that was n’t featured as much inThe Shiningbut makes a big coming into court inDoctor Sleep .
THE TRACKING SHOTS ARE THE SAME
As Dan and Abra make their elbow room to the infamous Overlook Hotel for the final confrontation , interview are recognize with monovular tracking shots from the opening scenes ofThe Shiningfilm . Whereas Glacier National Park was on sensational display in broad day , Doctor Sleepshow it at night covered in C. P. Snow .
Once they make it at the hotel , Dan has to " wake it up " by walking through its cobwebbed corridor . The tracking shot are very to his father Jack Torrance strolling through the hotel , complete with the usage of Steadicams just like Stanley Kubrick .
THE OVERLOOK OFFICE
When Danny interview with his AA group loss leader , John Dalton , to become a hospice caretaker , he ’s seated in an berth that is an exact replica of the one occupied by Mr. Ullman , who interview Dan ’s father Jack to be the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel . This seems to betoken that wherever Danny goes , the Overlook Hotel will be a part of him forever .
The particular in the post are precise , right down to the modest American flagstone , and the yellow and puritanical drape that frame the " impossible " windowpane . In the filmRoom 237,fans ofThe Shiningexplain that harmonise to the Overlook Hotel design , Ullman ’s bureau is in the middle of the hotel , and would therefore have no windowpane that looks to the outside .
THE ENCOUNTER ON THE STAIRS IS THE SAME
There are many similar scenes inDoctor Sleepthat directly referenceThe Shining , and the majority of them take property at the Overlook Hotel . There ’s a central aspect where Rose the Hat slowly walks up the step in front of an axe - wielding Dan , a mirror of the scene in which his father Jack slowly rise the steps towards an axe - wielding Shelley Duvalle .
Other view admit Rose the Hat fend at the same mesa where Jack Torrance ’s Eagle typewriter sit around , untouched and as Modern as the daytime he define it there . Dan tries to practice it as a gateway to trap her in one of his mind boxes , but she proves too knock-down .
OF MINIATURES AND MEN
The tangle was one of the many Modern element that Stanley Kubrick introduced toThe Shiningfilm that was n’t discover in the pages of King ’s novel . He feel it represented the labyrinth of the brain , and the many ways a soul could get " lost " in it if they were n’t deliberate . A miniature of the hedge labyrinth is witness in the Overlook Hotel .
toy take the form of just one of the many visual echo that rise adult Dan ca n’t escape from the Overlook Hotel inDoctor Sleep . When he get in a small townsfolk to start his life afresh , he encounters a miniature version of the town square , where he stop up operate a string .
237 AND 217 ARE THE SAME ROOM
Much fervor has surrounded Room 237 ever since Kubrick’sThe Shiningwas released , especially since that room numeral never appear in King ’s novel . The elbow room in the novel is 217 , but the Timberline Hotel ( which was used for the Overlook Hotel ) want the room number changed to 237 as it mat it would affright Edgar Albert Guest from stay in Room 217 .
Room 217 makes an appearance inDoctor Sleepasa nod toThe Shiningnovel , in the hospice readiness where Dan work as an grownup . 217 is the way where he encounters Dick Halloran , whom he befriended at the Overlook Hotel as a male child , and who also possesses the " smooth " gift .
A FALSE FACE
After Dan has been round by the guests of the Overlook Hotel , he is possessed by its demonic spirit and chase Abra throughout the hallways and room with an ax . She confronts him and explains she cognize the real Dan is still alive , and that he ’s fag a " False Face " . This is a term that young Danny used in Stephen King ’s novel to describe his father , who had also been own by the hotel and was chasing him with an axe .
The construct of the " False Face " came up earlier when grownup Dan sit in the Gold Room and engaged with Lloyd the barkeeper , who did n’t appear as he did in theThe Shiningbut assumed the appearing of Dan ’s father , Jack Torrance . The hotel use the guise of mass close to the individual it ’s trying to possess to psychologically break down their defenses .
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE OVERLOOK HOTEL
While there were many differences between Stephen King ’s novel and Stanley Kubrick ’s film ofThe clamber , one of the large come at the goal and concerned the fate of the Overlook Hotel . At the end of the novel , Jack Torrance neglects the steam boiler and it break into flame , consider down the Overlook Hotel and all the strong drink inside .
InDoctor Sleep , Dan Torrance purposefully head to the steam boiler room first , overloading it to demolish The Overlook once and for all . While this did n’t make it into the Kubrick version , it ’s included in the 1997 mini - series adaptation ofThe polishing , which is a much morefaithful adaptation of Stephen King ’s novel and one he personally work on .
DANNY USES THE SAME AXE JACK USED TO ATTACK ROSE
for fend against Rose the Hat , Dan reaches for the same iconic weapon wielded by his fatherJack Torrance inThe Shining;an ax . The axe that Danny uses seems amazingly new , especially given that everything else in the hotel is fairly eroded after 40 years .
However , as Danny makes his agency around the Overlook Hotel with Abra , the hotel seems to run off their " radiance " , making medulla combust brighter and certain country ( specially the Gold Room ) seem almost returned to their former glory . When Dan is own by the spirit of the hotel , much like his Father of the Church , he chases after Abra with the ax , accompanied by the same limp his founding father had ( albeit this time courtesy of Rose the Hat ) .
THE OWNER OF THE OVERLOOK HOTEL
As an adult , Danny Torrance had to determine to care with the ghost of the Overlook Hotel following him . athirst for his " refulgency " , they would appear whenever he was at his lowest point and most vulnerable , specially when he drank . One wraith in picky , a party guest covered in confetti tells Danny , " Great party , is n’t it ? " .
InDoctor Sleep , this wraith appears again at the Overlook Hotel when Danny and Abra return , and absorb Rose the Hat ’s meat when she comes to claim them . This is supposed to be the ghostwriter of Horace Derwent , the at peace owner of the Overlook Hotel .
THE SHINING NEVER SHOWED THE INSIDE OF ROOM 237 FROM DANNY’S PERSPECTIVE
One of the many classical scene inThe Shininginvolves Danny rolling around on his Big Wheels bicycle down the famously garish geometric carpet of the Overlook Hotel . He stops at Room 237 , which we see is capable inDoctor Sleep , and he gets a glimpse of the rotting woman in the bathing tub .
Kubrick never explicitly indicate viewers elbow room 237 from Danny ’s perspective , leaving some devotee to wonder what exactly happened to him in there . Some fan theory include his father abuse him , but now we see that Danny was haunt by the waste charwoman . Even after he escape the Overlook Hotel and his female parent move them to Florida , he had to learn how to confront his fearfulness of the Hotel ghost .
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