'The Shining' Film On its 43 Year Anniversary

[trekkiepetrelli]

THE SHINING was released 43 years ago today. Not a huge success on its release, it has gone down as one of Stanley Kubrick’s most popular films and most influential horror movies ever made. The behind the scenes story is as outrageous as you might expect…

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[josiefier]

Makes me want to rewatch the 1997 one tbh

[near_dark]

Underrated and I will always stand by my belief that Steven Weber is a better Jack than Nicholson was.

[josiefier]

I think part of it is Steven works better as an "everyman" than Nicholson. So just based on that his descent into madness is scarier to watch

[genbu_no_miko24]

I haven't read the book but I've read summaries/ideas on it. But the Jack Torrance is supposedly this tragic figure so you feel for him when he has that fall from grace whereas in the movie he was over his family long before they reach The Overlook lol.

[marley_love]

I need to rewatch this, it is such a wonderful piece of cinema. Scariest part for everyone? Mine is when Jack comes out of nowhere and murders Dick.

[milotic2]

The film is obviously visually amazing but they book is scarier, the way Jack gets progressively worse between alcohol and the overlook possessing him, when Danny is at the playground and the topiary animals are stalking him so he gets in the concrete tube and there’s also something there with him, when king describes the mallet breaking Wendy’s ribs. Such an amazing film

[little_vienna]

The book is definitely more slowburn scary. I find the book way more unnerving because of Jack being in recovery from alcoholism and his abusive behavior resulting from it, who gradually loses it. It's a lot scarier to me than Jack being an abusive jerk from the start. With the book Jack, you can tell that he's trying to be better, so when things start going sour, it's terrifying... will he fight it? Can he fight it? With the movie Jack, he's already boiling over from the start, and it's more like, "Okay, when is he going to turn around and try to hurt one of them?"

[pinstripe_bindi]

Yeah I mean it's a common complaint to scoff that movie Jack is insane from the jump--who meets their boss on the first day of work reading Playgirl magazine??--but it's not incorrect.

[little_vienna]

Nicholson is just too intense/intimidating IMO! Even the scene where they're driving to the Overlook freaks me out lol.

[pinstripe_bindi]

Mostly I like the movie, but King isn't wrong about what Kubrick did to Wendy. And King himself wasn't great at writing female characters at the time, which he later acknowledged and worked harder at.

Also I find the visual of Kubrick screaming I KNEW YOU BELIEVED IN GOD!!! over the phone at King very funny for some reason.

[halloween1978]

And King himself wasn't great at writing female characters at the time, which he later acknowledged and worked harder at.

If what I've read is true about a rape victim he had in one of his recent books, he should just stop writing about women completely.

[pinstripe_bindi]

I haven't read any of his recent novels, I'm not really interested in him any more. I was thinking more of some of the stuff he wrote in the '90s.

[pyroyale]

If you're talking about Billy Summers, then yes. I hated that book so much that it's the only audiobook I've ever returned.

It's such a frustrating book as well because take out that whole plotline, and it'd be great. It's an interesting story. I don't know what he was thinking.

[pyroyale]

The Shining is an amazing movie but a horrible adaptation of the book, IMO.

I think that overall I prefer the book because Jack is a much more complex character in the book, but the movie is still excellent despite the changes it made.