In the latter shot the bear rug face is seen with snarling teeth and the fast movement of the camera causes the face to move toward us rapidly, which parallels the zoom shot in the bear man felatio scene. We see it in the wide shots of the room and in the steadicam shot of Wendy running to wake Jack up from his nightmare. A stuffed bear is featured on the Colorado Lounge set, directly in front of the fireplace. Now here’s where things start getting a bit weird and confusing. The Winnie toy seen on the couch with a fire engine further communicates that Danny is represented as a bear elsewhere in the film. The same stuffed bear is seen sitting on a couch next to Danny’s fire engine and a baseball bat as Danny watches TV in a trance-like state with his mother. Note the presence of a ball - a further connection to Halloran's murder as a "ball" or party event. It is also placed next to the column from which Jack launched his axe attack. Now are you a Winnie or a Freddie?” A Winnie the Pooh stuffed toy appears in the lobby not far from the black teddy bear that parallels Halloran’s murder. In the kitchen Halloran asks Wendy, “Your husband introduced you as Winifred. This chapter will introduce the other two themes.Īs well as Danny’s teddy bear pillow, there are a handful of Winnie the Pooh refs. The first was the revelation of Jack sexually abusing his son. I mentioned at the start of the last chapter that I’d found three themes simultaneously communicated in the bear costumed man scene.
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