No.14

No.14 contains quite a bit within 40 seconds. Ullman, Jack, Wendy and Watson tour the exterior grounds. 

We learn a bit about how The Overlook was built, get to see the hedge maze exterior, and see the snow-cat. 

American History/Culture

“The site is supposed to be located on an Indian burial ground, and I believe they actually had to repel a few Indian attacks as they were building it.

Having the hotel was built on a Native American burial ground is as cliche for a ghost story as one can get. It’s not in the source novel. This line, and fact, are delivered by Kubrick.

Cultural Relativism. Of course you would encounter attacks if you were encroaching on a sacred space.

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Gendered Knowledge:

Ullman asking if both Jack and Wendy can drive a car. American History and American Culture. 

Women weren’t allowed to have a credit card in their own name until 1970. Kubrick is showing how non-modern the modern era is. 



The Maze

“The hedge is as old as the hotel itself”

This symbolically connects the two spaces. 



Kubrick as Unreliable Narrator:

Kubrick includes Watson in No.11 but not No.13. Having him come back in for No.14 shows things are delivered out of order. 


Kubrick also manipulates this space and changes a few things:


The opening of the maze, reflected in No.26:i520 is the same,but the dual maze directory shown here is different than No.26. 

In that scene, the opening is moved to the right portion of the frame, eclipsing the opening as Wendy and Danny run in. 



Ghost Story

Knowing the hotel was built on a Native American burial ground is as cliche for a ghost story as one can get. It’s not in the source novel. This line, and fact, are delivered by Kubrick. 



Cabin Fever

We are shown transportation that handles ‘just like a car’.

The external grounds and hedge maze are shown with Wendy and Danny as a play space while Jack is shown having overview and control, both No.26 and No.33


The remainder of the times its shown is Jack exhibiting control and harm. 


No.26

No.33

No.66

No.82

No.84

No.86

No.88

No.89 

The external grounds includes the hedge maze and the garage with the snowcat. 

Ullman

Jack

Wendy

Watson

    Ah... construction started in 1907.

            It was finished in 1909.  The site

            is supposed to be located on an

            Indian burial ground, and I believe

            they actually had to repel a few

            Indian attacks as they were building

            it.

There is no additional sound to this scene.

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