Screenwriter Todd Alcott’s seven-part series on The Shining: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Lots of great insight into the film, its structure, and who the actual protagonist is. I hadn’t heard this one:
One of my favorite factoids regarding the movie is that Kubrick didn’t just have a ream of “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” typed up, no — he had reams and reams typed up, in different languages, one for every major territory the movie would play in — Spanish, Italian, French, German, etc., all with a regional phrase specific to the territory. Production Assistant on a Kubrick movie must have been the worst job available in show business.
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