Entertainment
luing is Bummer's
of art
work
By L.R. Bert Parrish
Generally when a novel is made into a
movie the complaint is that the book was
better. This is not true with The Shin
ing. Stanley Kubrick has taken this
rather average horror story and made the
terminal horror film.
The Shining contains every bit the
suspense in a classic Hitchcock film. King
placed the emphasis of his book on the
supernatural.
Kubrick, working in a visual medium,
is able to place the emphasis more natu
rally on the characters interaction with
each other.
Jack Nicholson is superb in his por
trayal of Jack Torrance. It is fascinating
to watch the transformation of Jack Tor
rance, ex-teacher and supposed author, to
that of possessed killer.
Torrance is the typical confused lib
era who is having a mid-life crisis. He be
comes the caretaker of a beautiful resort,
The Overlook, that closes down in the
claustrophobic isolation of harsh Colo
rado winters. Here he hopes to sort out
his life and write a novel. He brings with
him his wife Wendy, played by Shelly
Duvall, and his seven-year-old son
Danny, played by Danny Lloyd.
Torrance is told by the hotel manager
that The Overlook was built on sacred
Indian ground, and he also is told of a
gruesome 1970 incident. Former care
taker Grady took an ax to his two daugh
ters and wife. He stacked the pieces of
the bodies neatly in room 237 before
blowing his own brains out with a double-barrel
shotgun. The speculation being
that he went mad because of isolation
and loneliness. Torrance laughs it off, ob
livious to the dancers ahead.
The Shining is a movie of faces and
facial expressions. Those who remember
Nicholson as R.P. McMurphy in "One
Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest remember
how insane he could make himself look.
Here we see a friendly, sane, recovered
alcoholic from a small town in Vermont,
become a monomaniacal ax killer. His
change, however, does have humorous
moments.
When Torrance smashes through the
bathroom door with his ax and the
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viewer thinks Wendy's life is over, Tor
rence interjects a familiar "Tonight
Show cry; "Here's Johnny!
But the show is not all Nicholson's.
Inspite of all the blood and decaying
corpses shown, perhaps the most terrify
ing scene is when Wendy looks at the
writing her husband has been doing for
all these weeks. Written in a variety of
ways is page after page of the sentence;
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull
boy."
The boy, Danny, is not spared either.
It is he who has the psychic gift of "shin
ing" as the hotel cook, played by Scat
man Cruthers, calls it.
His imaginary friend Tony shows him
the two murdered little girls. It is Danny
who is attacked in room 237. It is Danny
who knows wht has happened to his fa
ther when he writes the cryptic "re
drum, which when placed before a mir
ror spells murder.
As with all of Kubrick's films, "The
Shining is rather long almost two
and one-half hours long. The movie starts
slowly, and builds slowly. The first hour
is as banal as the role Shelley Duvall
must play.
The use of time sequence direction
chops the film into unnecessary parts.
But, when campared with this summer's
other offerings of terror, "Screams, and
"Friday the 13th,' there is no compari
son. 'The Shining is art, the others are
schlock entertainment. The Shining is
now playing at the Cooper Theater, 54th
and O Streets.
Summer Nebroskon Junt 1923 3
Student hosts
help newcomers
adjust to UNL
By Mary Louise Knapp
Helping incoming students to adjust
to life at UNL with a minimum of stress
is the basic goal of New Student Orienta
tion, which began June 10 and ends July
1, according to etudent host Sheva
Brown.
As a student host, Brown, a UNL jun
ior, takes students on tours of the cam-.
pus and answers questions they have
about UNL.
The program, which begins at 8:30
a.m. and ends at about 4:30 p.m., pro
vides new students with an opportunity
to visit the UNL campus, review their
class schedules with an academic advisor
from their college, and learn about daily
campus life.
Assisted by student hosts from their
colleges, incoming students will attend
several mini-sessions on campus life,
which include topics such as campus
services, financial planning, the first day
of class, housing alternatves, student ac
tivities, and student rights and responsi
bilities. In addition, students will be able to
talk with their college academic advisor,
and go through free drop and add if nec
essary. This year, there will be a special
Study Skills Workshop conducted by the
staff of the UNL Educational Learning
Center, which emphasizes time manage
ment, listening, reading, and notetaking
skills.
Students wishing to attend Summer
Orientation must register by filling out a
registration form in the New Student
Orientation Office or a form that is sent
to their homes, and send a check payable
to UNL for the registration fee.
Summer Nebraskan
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