Lloyd Scene
The scene begins with Jack walking down the corridor with backwards tracking long shot, the lighting is clearly from the candlelit chandelier. In the scene we hear non-diegetic music playing as he walks through the corridor, the way in which the stringed instruments are played gives the impression that something has happened and his mind isn't quite right at the moment. In the scene there is mirrors on the left side of, as he walks past this mirror his attitude changes and he becomes more angry, this is shown with him waving his arms up and down, this is also shown through his facial expression, I heard what i thought to be the sound a child makes when he doesn't get what he wants, another thing to suggest how his mind is handling the hotel. He is alone as he walks down this corridor, which could suggest his isolation. The non-diegetic music that is playing sounds as if it is trying to build tension as it gets louder. When he walks in "The Gold Room", the whole room is under low key lighting, until he turns the lights on, which then completely shows off the gold aspect of the room. It cuts to a side on tracking shot of Jack as he walks across to the bar.The room has green tables and red sofas all around the room, which is a contrast because of the connotations associated with the colours, green represents nature, growth or safety, whereas, red represents fire, blood, power so not the safest of objects. The music then begins a diminuendo, immediately after its crescendo. The lights are on, but the room still seems to have low key lighting. the camera stops and pans across as Jack continues to walk and we see several mirrors and Jack's reflection. We then get a corner shot from the bar as he sits down and we can no longer see the mirror, he looks left and right looking for something, his sanity maybe? When he is looking we get sudden bursts of sound as he turns his head. He starts talking to himself, when he is alone, saying that he'd "Do anything for a drink" covers his face with his hands then looks directly at the camera, which happens to where the mirror was. He says "Hi Lloyd" when we know that there's no one else in the room and the camera is exactly where the mirror was. We then have a view to the side of Jack looking forward to see no mirrors but a person standing there. Whilst they are talking you can hear an echo in their voices because the room is empty, isolated. Jack mentions that Lloyd is the best bartender from Timbuktu to Portland Maine, this means Jack has seen Lloyd before, possibly because Jack is insane ,sees people and hears voices. He then starts talking to Lloyd about how he didn't hurt Danny, when he mentions Wendy, his face went from a smile to angry, could show hate towards her. Then he says that he did hurt him once, but he says it with a smile on his face,generally if someone harms their child, they don't smile about it.
Delbert Grady Bathroom scene
At the start of the sequence we are shown a red and white bathroom, two colours with opposite connotations towards them, we also hear diegetic music play combined with the diegetic sound of their voices. When the door is about to shut the diegetic sound of the clapping after the music from the sequence before has finished, but Jack, Wendy and Danny are the only ones in the hotel.The whole bathroom is full of high key lighting. When Delbert is wiping the drink off Jack, he seems to go into the position of someone who is receiving a pat down from a police officer, this could be foreshadowing. In the scene, there are mirrors in which we cannot see either Delbert or Jack in, this could be the angle that Kubrick has chosen to obey the rule of thirds or he had them there to show how Delbert isn't actually there. It cuts to a mid shot of both of them, whilst Jack is looking through the mirror, and not at Delbert, when he is meant to be talking to him, maybe he is. When Jack is told Delbert's name his facial expression changes completely, from happy to confused to angry.He then looks in the mirror again, after asking if he has seen him somewhere before. Jack asks about his family, Grady responds with "a wife and two daughters", the two daughters we keep on seeing throughout the film and the wife ,who was in room 237. Jack seems to be acting all smug about how Grady was the caretaker even though he denies it. The scene follows the rule of thirds, as always for Kubrick. After Grady informs Jack of him being the caretaker, there's a moment of silence and confusion on Jack's face. We then get a mid shot reverse shot of the characters to show Jack's reaction to the revelation, this is to add effect on how Jack's character has developed as the film went on. This film has many racial slurs in it because of the time it was made. When they are talking about the outsider being brought in the way in which both of them are standing are completely different to each when they are meant to be the same person, this could just be all in his head. The performance by Phillip Stone is great because of how he went through this scene with basically only one facial expression, disgust due to the Danny bringing Dick into the situation. After this, Delbert tells Jack that Danny s a very willful boy, Jack continues to look back at the mirror constantly, it's as if he doesn't know what is going on. Inference is used a lot during this scene as it is not obvious, to me, what they are actually talking about. Delbert tells Jack that he corrected his twin daughters, corrected could mean correction as in death, this is shown in the way he says the word "corrected".
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