Stanley Kubrick is celebrated as one of the most dynamic filmmakers visually visually in the history of the medium, his work demonstrating a desire to play in all types of genre playgrounds. While some of his previous films tried horrible themes, “The Shining” was his first flat horror film. The horror Maestro Stephen King has shared notoriously not so kind in recent decades about the extremely different adaptation of Kubrick of his 1977 novel. “The Shining” is perhaps not a 1-1 recreation of source material, but it is one of the best examples of what can be an adaptation.
King’s story of a convalescence alcoholic fighting against his demons alongside his family in a haunted hotel nestled in the deep of Colorado rockies has taken a much wicked penchant in the hands of Kubrick. In the 1980 film, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) left from the start. The horror drifts, not from a complex individual who economically economically economically (Shelley Duvall in an exceptional performance) and her gifted son (Danny Lloyd) being mainly held hostage by their serial attacker, while being trapped in an icy environment that encourages all its worst trends. Make Jack a time bomb from the start permeates a feeling of dread before the spirits of the Overlook hotel is known.
We have already seen what an adaptation of “The Shining” looks like with King’s written approval and it’s not pretty. The 1997 ABC mini-series was so terrible that it momentarily made me ask me if the novel was never good at the beginning. This shows that being servile of source equipment does not always give the best results. A director must do what is good for the film. Sometimes it means deviating from the book, and other times it means cutting your film. Many productions end up having images that are found on the floor of the cut room, but what is not common, however, is to do it while the film is already in the world.
The brilliant cut a little coda with Mr. Ullman
In the end that most people have seen, “The Shining” ends with this incredible Jack snapshot succumbing to his cabin fever deligates and freezing himself to death in the labyrinth of Overlook hedges. We are left on a frightening note anchored in the close -up of this infamous black and white party photo of 1921. The (not so) ambiguous end lent an air of mystery among the general public to discuss the assimilation of Jack with the violent history of opinion. Certain audiences in 1980, however, witnessed a very different scene which followed the homicide goalkeeper becoming a Sicle Jackafide.
Those who had the chance to see the film in the preview projections that take place in Los Angeles and New York in the first week received a Coda that followed with Wendy and Danny after having escaped Snowcat from Dick Halloran. Stuart Ullman (Barry Nelson), the Overlook manager who hires Jack at the start of the film, appears in front of Wendy in the hospital to check the damage. He informed him that Jack’s body could not be found, then mysteriously gives Danny with the tennis ball which led him to room 237.
Kubrick finally withdrew the scene after aroused more confusion among the public, carrying the execution of the film from 2 hours and 26 minutes to 2 hours and 24 minutes. It was not the last time that something like it happened, because the terrible family comedy of 2018 “Show Dogs” deleted an unpleasant scene while it was still in theaters on complaints concerning a joke that alluded to the aircraft. As for the end of the hospital, it is entirely useless and was right to be cut. If it was an end of the version of King, it would make much more sense as a solemn sign of the trauma that Danny suffered at the hotel. In itself, however, reintroducing a minor character like Ullman as a potential accomplice of the spirits of the Overlook does not make any evolution of the same chills as going on this photo. This makes the final image impactful much more bogged down with complications.
Aside from certain fixed images, the deleted images were not easily made available, which is really a shame. However, there is at least one impression in the world. A 2011 projection in Rochester, NY, detected the rare printed for the public, probably, for the first time in more than 30 years. More than seven years later, the alternative reduction in the film would ride auction for thousands of dollars, but there have been no updates as to the place where it ended.
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