A while back, I posted about hunting down all of the exact cars that Danny was playing with in the hallway and re-creating that scene. I finally got around to making it a piece of wall art and hanging it in my stairwell.
That scene appears in one of the many novellisations of the 1997 movie. I don't think they invented it ex-nihilo and I am wondering it was not in the original script, where elements go scrapped when it came to screen. I shall try to verify if, like our poor Danny outside the Overlook, the Great-Duchess got attacked by big leafy animal topiaries to lure her to her final showdown on bridge Alexandre III. What a reference!
If I would ever meet Lloyd somewhere I could not trust him. One of the creepiest characters in the movie besides Delbert Grady.
He joins his siblings Blair & Jigsaw!
The Shining was my first seriously chilling horror book, and it left an amazing impression. I loved every little bit of characterisation and detail about the Overlook. Jack’s slow transformation- his unintentional wiping of his lips, his trance state smashing the radio. None of it felt right to me when I watched the movie the day that I finished the book. Jack’s transformation is obviously a difference but I felt that something else was off.
Besides Jacks transformation, what did you guys think about the creative differences?
People who have consumed both, did you feel similar, and what about the movie? Or did you like the movie more?
An immersive dining and theatre experience at The Metropole Hotel Venue and Spa in Llandrindod Wells Powys Wales U.K.
I wish l didn't have work commitments or I would be there.
Went upstairs in a bar to use the toilet and was greeted by Jack steering towards another door which led to the men’s toilets lol cool concept I thought!