It might be over four decades old, but “The Shining” has never stopped being a dazzlingly unfathomable piece of cinema.
Like any of Stanley Kubrick’s films, it was not so warmly received when it first premiered and is still famously disliked by Stephen King himself.
The reason for the author’s contention resulted from the liberties Kubrick took with his novel and the pivotal changes he made to the plot.
One area that Kubrick intentionally wanted to avoid focusing too overtly on was the supernatural aspects of King’s novel — especially the psychic abilities possessed by young Danny Torrance (Danny Lloyd) that tune him into the horrors…The post How Stanley Kubrick Solved The Shining’s Psychic Problem appeared first on /Film.
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