It's been banned and challenged in several school libraries since its 1977 publication for its depiction of mental health crises, alcoholism, domestic violence, and supernatural horror. In one school district, the book was even challenged for “ridiculing the Christian religion.”
The author complained that Nicholson's version of the character was observably crazy from the beginning and he just gets worse as the film goes on. "Jack Torrance has no arc in that movie," King told Deadline. King also disliked what Kubrick did to the character of Wendy, played by Shelley Duvall.
The Shining is partially based on a true story, as the supernatural elements of Jack Torrance's stay at the Overlook Hotel are inspired by a real haunting in Colorado and the Stanley Hotel where King stayed.
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Why did Jack go insane in The Shining?
The family has to care for the hotel for the winter, but they cannot leave the mountainous area. In this isolation every day becomes the same for Jack as his writer's block becomes quotidian. The combination of isolation, monotony, creative frustration, and supernatural forces extract Jack's insanity.
This scene has been interpreted in many ways, and one of the most popular explanations is that it represents the hotel “absorbing” Jack's soul. Although this makes sense, Kubrick himself has said the photo actually suggests Jack being a reincarnation of an earlier official at the hotel.
It's been banned and challenged in several school libraries since its 1977 publication for its depiction of mental health crises, alcoholism, domestic violence, and supernatural horror.
Overall not a lot of violence especially for a horror film, and the violent moments which do occur aren't especially graphic. There is a scene where you see two mangled dead bodies of girls in a corridor surrounded by pools of blood, as well as an axe.
146 minutes. However, as explained above, less than one week into its release, Kubrick cut the 2 minute coda from the end, reducing its length to 144 minutes. After meeting with poor reviews and erratic box office, Kubrick decided to further edit the film for its theatrical release outside the US by cutting appr.
The story presented Jack Torrance as a man who dislikes authority. He moved to an isolated hotel with his wife and his son in Colorado over the winter, hoping to improve and cure his poor writing. As the days passed, he began showed the symptoms of schizophrenia and attempt to kill his family.
The ending of The Shining, particularly the photo of Jack in the 1921 ballroom, suggests that Jack is a reincarnation of a former hotel employee, although this explanation is not explicitly stated in the film. The Shining explores themes of cyclical violence and abuse, and Kubrick's film is full...
The title was inspired by the 1970 John Lennon song "Instant Karma!", which contained the line "We all shine on". Bill Thompson, King's editor at Doubleday Publishing, tried to talk him out of The Shining because he thought that after writing Carrie and 'Salem's Lot he would get "typed" as a horror writer.
King initially had mixed thoughts about the film, praising aspects like its visuals, but has become more critical of it over time. King's main criticisms of the film revolve around the lack of character development for Jack Torrance and the portrayal of Wendy Torrance.
Critics found that The Shining lacked what made King's novel so terrifying and pointed out its pace and how unrelatable the characters were as some of its biggest weaknesses, along with how it fails at being a horror movie.
According to Duvall, the role was emotionally and physically exhausting as she would have to coerce her body to be in a state of constant panic to appease the filmmaker's expectations regarding the character. Kubrick supposedly did not “print anything until at least the 35th take”.
Some school districts aimed to ban the book from schools because they believed the book has unsuitable topics for children to read about. One major complaints was that the story portrayed talking animals that can communicate and act just like humans.
Probably Finnegan's Wake, by James Joyce. It has been said that he wrote his first two novels in English, after which he wrote in his own language. This is barely an exaggeration: the book is full of portmanteau words and composite phrases from over sixty different languages.
Moments later, he would improvise the “Here's Johnny!” line, which was a reference to the intro of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Interestingly, Kubrick originally shot the scene with a fake door, but Nicholson – who once trained as a fire marshal – chopped it down too quickly.
Jack becomes obsessed enough with the hotel's sordid past that he wants to write a book about it. He makes a long-distance call to the hotel's manager, Stuart Ullmann, and antagonizes him with this knowledge. Eventually, he goes mad thanks to the influence of the hotel's ghosts and attempts to kill Wendy and Danny.
At the hotel, Jack begins to display the telltale signs of drinking that Wendy has come to know so well. He constantly wipes his mouth with a napkin and chews Excedrin one after another.
