![]() ![]() King said the movie's lead Jack Nicholson was "a fine actor" but was "all wrong for the part. That was the basic flaw: Because he couldn't believe, he couldn't make the film believable to others." "So he looked, instead, for evil in the characters, and made the film into a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones. a visceral skeptic such as Kubrick just couldn't grasp the sheer inhuman evil of the Overlook Hotel. ![]() First, Kubrick is a very cold man-pragmatic and rational-and he had great difficulty conceiving, even academically, of a supernatural world. ![]() I think there are two basic problems with the movie. "Parts of the film are chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fall flat. Helpless, he wanders from one dimension to the next, searching for his own. Pete Jacobs involuntarily travels through the fog into the future (the year 2007) and eventually to a world inhabited by dinosaurs. He told Playboy in 1983: "I'd admired Kubrick for a long time and had great expectations for the project, but I was deeply disappointed in the end result. The story concerns a mysterious fog that serves as a door between dimensions. However, the story came from King's 1977 novel of the same name, and he wasn't happy with the adaptation at all, although in recent years has praised it for contributing to the horror genre. ![]() Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall is considered one of the greatest horror films ever made and is a pop culture staple thanks to moments like "Here's Johnny!" Jack Nicholson peering through axed in door in lobby card for the film 'The Shining', 1980. ![]()
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