{"id":10713,"date":"2020-05-22T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10713"},"modified":"2020-06-20T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T21:48:28","slug":"how-the-shining-was-a-true-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/22\/how-the-shining-was-a-true-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"How THE SHINING Was A True Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Independent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Making The Shining was hell\u2019: How tormented stars, Kubrick\u2019s temper and box-office disaster led to an immortal horror<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Stephen King hated it, but even set fires, bullying accusations, Shelley Duvall\u2019s misery and Razzie nominations couldn\u2019t stop \u2018The Shining\u2019. As it turns 40,\u00a0Geoffrey Macnab<\/a>\u00a0speaks to Kubrick\u2019s trusted assistant, and tells the gruelling true story of the production<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shelley Duvall\u2019s Wendy Torrance struggles to keep a lid on her husband\u2019s swelling mania (Warner Bros)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jack Nicholson must have needed a lot of toothpaste. When he was starring in\u00a0Stanley Kubrick<\/a>\u2019s horror movie\u00a0The Shining<\/em><\/a> (1980), he felt it a matter of common courtesy to brush his teeth before any new scene. Working on a Kubrick film was, he thought, \u201cgruelling enough\u201d anyway for the crew and his fellow actors without having him breathe over them through \u201ca face full of lamb cutlets\u201d. In her\u00a0BBC<\/a>\u00a0documentary\u00a0Making the Shining<\/em>, Vivian Kubrick, the director\u2019s daughter, shows Nicholson bent over the basin, rinsing his mouth. The moment the ritual was complete, he very politely walked back on set, picked up his axe and started trying to hack his co-star Shelley Duvall into pieces all over again with that demented grin on his face. There was take after take after take \u2013 and his breath was as fresh at the end of the day at the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicholson was playing Jack Torrance, a troubled writer and recovering alcoholic who takes his wife Wendy (Duvall) and young son Danny (Danny Lloyd) to the Overlook Hotel in the Rockies. Jack is planning to spend the winter as caretaker, working on a book, but he\u2019s an angry, combustible figure anyway and the solitude brings out the devil in him. Little Danny has psychic powers. Through \u201cthe shining\u201d, he can sense the evil and violence lurking within the hotel \u2013 and inside his own dad, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Shining<\/em>, which turns 40 tomorrow, is one of Kubrick\u2019s greatest films. This was a director who never took shortcuts and who approached every film he made with a manic zeal to match that of Jack Torrance with his axe. Radiating a slow-burning fury, the movie turns up the intensity from frame to frame, with Nicholson\u2019s performance increasingly deranged. The fast-moving camera work, strident music and intricate but absurdist plotting induce a sense of mounting hysteria in audiences who\u2019ve regularly voted this the scariest movie ever made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The Independent \u2018Making The Shining was hell\u2019: How tormented stars, Kubrick\u2019s temper and box-office disaster led to an immortal horror Stephen King hated it, but even set fires, bullying accusations, Shelley Duvall\u2019s misery and Razzie nominations couldn\u2019t stop \u2018The Shining\u2019. As it turns 40,\u00a0Geoffrey Macnab\u00a0speaks to Kubrick\u2019s trusted assistant, and tells the gruelling true […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}