![]() ![]() That was the basic flaw: because he couldn't believe, he couldn't make the film believable to others.” He was also unhappy with Jack Nicholson’s performance-King wanted it to be clear that Jack Torrance wasn’t crazy until he got to the hotel and felt that Nicholson made the character crazy from the start. So he looked, instead, for evil in the characters and made the film into a domestic tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones. ![]() Kubrick just couldn't grasp the sheer inhuman evil of the Overlook Hotel. “Kubrick is a very cold man-pragmatic and rational-and he had great difficulty conceiving, even academically, of a supernatural world. “I'd admired Kubrick for a long time and had great expectations for the project, but I was deeply disappointed in the end result,” King told Playboy. Stephen King probably made movie buffs cringe when he said he hated what Stanley Kubrick did to The Shining. ![]()
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