![]() ![]() The pages also weren’t on screen long enough for the message to be noticed in cinemas and tv screenings. Kubrick cleverly allowed his audience to glance over a few pages of irrelevant repetitions of the same text so that the “adult boy” message would bypass their attention. ![]() If Jack was able to find the correct key to type the first “l” then how would his finger manage to wonder across to the “t” instead of just double-tapping for the second “l”? Quite simply, the spelling mistake was deliberate. Then there’s the fact that the mistake occurs on the second letter of a double consonant. How could Jack misspell the words “a dull” as “adult”? The “t” key on a typewriter is four letters across and one line up from the “l” key. “All wori and no play makes Jack a dult boy” “All work and no play makes Jacka dult boy” “Al All work and no play makes Jack adult boy” “All work and no play makes Jack adult boy” It appears four times on the second to last page that we see, although with slight alterations in spelling. The formats of certain pages could carry several implications, such as the pages of a screenplay, but it’s the deliberate inclusion of varied spelling and grammar mistakes in which we find Kubrick’s embedded message. The lines are formed into varying paragraph sizes and patterned shapes. The end result is shown in the film as Jack’s manuscript, however only 16 pages of this text appear on screen. If you’ve read much about the production history of The Shining then you’ll probably be aware of the rumours that Kubrick had one of his assistants manually type out the line “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” thousands of times. Here we will take this notion of interchanging appearances of Jack and Danny and apply it to several other scenes.īefore we do this I’d like to bring to your attention a subliminal detail that literally “spells out” the interchanging appearances of Jack and Danny. In chapter eight we explored the idea that the room 237 sequence was actually a dream in which Jack Torrance symbolically represented Danny, while the laughing hag was a manifestation of Jack himself as the strangler and abuser of his son, and the woman rising out of the bath tub represented Danny awakening from his amnesia.
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