· In the film production phase, three o'clock in the night Kubrick would call King and asked him the question "Do you believe in God?"
Jack has written the book on the sentence once he has Repeatedly read again and again: All work without entertainment has turned Jack into a stupid kid. Kubrick has a separate page in each version. For example, in the Italian version of the movie, Kubrick uses the sentence: Il mattino ha l'oro in bocca (he got up very early and saw Jin Yellow day). In the German version, it is written: Was Du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf Morgen (Never postpone what you can do today to tomorrow). In the Spanish version, it is written again: No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano (Although the sun appears very early, the dawn will not come so soon). In the French version, it says: Un'Tiens' vaut mieux que deux'Tu l'auras' (a bird in your hand is comparable to two birds in the jungle).
·Before the film was shown, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) believed that there was a scene depicting blood on the trailer, so it was not suitable for all audiences to watch. In order to overcome this, Kubrick persuaded the association to prove the "blood water" surging from the elevator It's actually just rusty water.
·Since Danny Lloyd is too young, this is his first film job. Stanley Kubrick also loves children very much. Under the director's brilliant and creative guidance, Danny didn't know that he was involved in a horror movie until the final film was released.
Stephen King initially wanted Jack Palance to play the role of Jack Torrance.
·The film ranked ninth among the most horrible movies in the history of movies selected by "Entertainment Weekly".
In the film, Jack and Wendy talk for the first time in a red bathroom, which is a model of a bathroom in a hotel in Arizona, which was built by Frank Lloyd Wright.
·Since there is no air-conditioning on the shooting site, it means that it is often very stuffy and hot. When filming the maze chase scene, the maze made of hedges makes people breathless. Therefore, every time a shot is taken, the actors and crew members will desperately take off the thick clothes they wear as quickly as possible. .
· Kubrick hesitated between Stephen King's "The Shining" and Diane Johnson's "The Shadow Knows". In the end, he chose the former because of the character of the protagonist in Johnson's novel. defect. Because Johnson’s work left a deep impression on Kubrick, after vetoing the outline of the film written by Stephen King, he gave Johnson three months to write the script.
·Because of Kubrick's harsh standards, a shot always has to be shot again and again, and the actors often stay on the set for a whole day. After an exhausting day of filming, Jack Nicholson always walked straight to the bed, collapsed on the bed, and immediately went to sleep.
·In the movie, there is a scene of Jack breaking the bathroom door, and the prop team specially prepared a door that can be easily broken. But because Jack Nicholson was trained in voluntary fire fighting, he could easily open the door. The prop group had to build a more solid door.
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