The Shining | film by Kubrick [1980] (original) (raw)
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discussed in biography
In Stanley Kubrick: Films of the 1970s of Stanley Kubrick …King’s updated gothic horror novel The Shining. Jack Nicholson played a writer who becomes increasingly deranged and eventually turns upon his wife and young son while acting as the winter caretaker of an isolated hotel. The Shining (1980) earned what had come to be the usual mixed critical reception for… Read More
Nicholson’s role
In Jack Nicholson: The Shining, Terms of Endearment, and As Good as It Gets …was in director Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980); an adaptation of the Stephen King novel, it is a film over which critical opinion remains divided but the one with Nicholson’s ax-wielding rampage—culminating in his demonic cry of “Heeeere’s Johnny!”—that became one of the indelible cinematic images of the era. Nicholson… Read More
novel by King
In Stephen King: Other novels and 2004); The Shining (1977; film 1980; TV miniseries 1997); The Stand (1978; TV miniseries 1994 and 2020–21); and The Dead Zone (1979; film 1983; TV series 2002–07). The Shining, a horror novel set in a haunted Colorado hotel in the winter offseason, was inspired by King’s one-night stay in… Read More
In The Shining: Adaptations Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film, starring Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance and Shelley Duvall as Wendy, is the most famous adaptation of King’s novel. It was one of Kubrick’s many film adaptations of books. Kubrick’s vision for the film differed significantly from King’s; in fact, Kubrick rejected the screenplay… Read More
screenplay by Johnson
In Diane Johnson She also wrote screenplays, including The Shining (1980; with Stanley Kubrick); a collection of essays, Terrorists and Novelists (1982); and Into a Paris Quartier (2005), about Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighbourhood. The memoir Flyover Lives was published in 2014. Read More
