Keys 02

(continued from)

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?s=78daac6d57aff3e1f7c4ad1ee0553efc&t=205856&page=45

Mata’s key 1 here is basically the same as what I explained in the “New Tree” post below.

I’ll quote from his thoughts on key 2 now:

The second key is composed of three parts, two of which relate to a “prop”, a prop which represents the reason the Torrence family is at the Overlook Hotel in the first place. Jack Torrence’s typewriter. We know from his interview with hotel manager, Stuart Ullman, that he wants the job of Winter Caretaker in order to ‘outline a new writing project’ in a secluded environment. To this end, Jack Torrence sets himself up in the Colorado Lounge and begins his project on a White ‘Adler’ typewriter. When we see him next, later that evening, he is still in the Colorado Lounge however something has changed. His White Adler typewriter has become a Grey one!

Between Jack Torrence’s writing session with the White Adler – and his evening writing session with the (now) Grey Adler, Stephen King had sent Jack Torrence down to the Hotel’s Boiler Room. During this trip, in the book, Jack Torrence had discovered the Hotel Scrapbook. This is the large open book that we see on the table next to Jack Torrence’s Grey Adler. Stanley Kubrick famously wrote Jack Torrence’s trip to the Boiler Room out of the film script entirely, despite the lengthy protestations of his co-writer, Diane Johnson – who identified the trip to the Boiler Room as the story’s most critical ‘point of characterization’ in regards to Jack Torrence, because his discovery of the Hotel Scrapbook is what initiates his ‘insanity’, the very insanity that the film is supposed to be all about.

I propose that Stanley Kubrick wrote Jack Torrence’s trip to the Boiler Room out of the script – because he is using the ‘omission’ as a device. A device which shifts the ‘weight of importance’ that was previously assigned to the Hotel Scrapbook – to some other item which can be found in the Boiler Room later in Stanley Kubrick’s film. The changing colour of the typewriter, from White to Grey (during what would have been Jack Torrence’s ‘plot-critical’ trip to the Boiler Room) indicates that there is something very special about the word “Grey” – specifically in relation to the Boiler Room.

I knew from previous readings of Shining research about the typewriter changing colors, and that Adler was a German brand, used by the Nazis. What I didn’t know about was Kubrick’s omission of King’s boiler room scene where Jack discovers the Hotel Scrapbook, despite the fact that it appears to be famous. 🙂 I did know of the Hotel Scrapbook in the movie, and had written about a deleted scene involving it here (the “New Tree” post again), where the contents are explained in some detail. In the final film, the scrapbook is not even mentioned, although we see it open beside Jack several times while he’s writing with his white/gray/(blue?) typewriter.

Plainly speaking, mata is invoking an alien allusion here, and again we’re speaking of the Greys, the best known reptilian e.t.s. I’m deciding not to go down that road with mata, but I am interested here in the boiler room now, and why Kubrick chose to dissolve into it from Danny entering Room 237. Instead of continuing to saunter into that most definitely famous room, we find ourselves among the lowly boilers with Danny’s missing mom. She presses a button marked “danger high voltage”, and it seems to instead shock Jack, who begins to grunt and then scream before a rushing Wendy wakes him up and he falls to the floor.

And we’re also, of course, back in the scene where the 2 ChOking posters are found.

Another red spark is seen beside the DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE sign after Wendy seems to shock Jack (58:56).

Wendy’s hair clip begins to shine, and a shiny dot appears on the column above the refrigerator (59:01).

In the next frame, another similar dot on the refrigerator.

Turns out these 3 white glints form a seemingly perfect Giza style pyramid shape.

Chance, right?