This article explores Jack Nicholson's legendary performance as Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's horror classic, The Shining. It discusses the impact of the role, Stephen King's contrasting opinion of the film and Nicholson's portrayal, and the enduring legacy of the character.
Jack Nicholson is one of the greatest actors of all time, but unless you're watching him in an older movie, you haven't seen him onscreen since 2010's little-seen How Do You Know. Nicholson retired soon after, but that doesn't mean he has disappeared. With how many famous roles he's had over the decades, from huge films like Chinatown, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Batman, and The Departed, Nicholson's presence is always around for film fans.
If you're a horror buff, it's as Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining that you remember him most from. Stephen King may have had his reasons for not enjoying Nicholson's performance, but it's iconic and often imitated. Thirty-nine years later, Mike Flanagan began work on a followup, Doctor Sleep, based on another King novel, so Warner Bros. asked Nicholson if he'd be interested in being part of it. Sadly, they were unable to get the Hollywood heavyweight to come out of retirement. Jack Nicholson was well-established as an A-lister by 1980, so his casting as Jack Torrance in The Shining showed just how revered both Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick were in the industry. Nicholson steals every scene he's in as the patriarch of the Torrance family, and the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, who's been driven to madness and murder by the ghosts inside. Ironically, King couldn't stand Kubrick's adaptation or Nicholson's performance. King thought Nicholson was miscast, because he seems crazy from the moment we meet him, but in the novel he's supposed to be a good and sympathetic soul who is transformed by the hotel. Still, whether King liked it or not, that didn't stop The Shining from going on to becoming one of the most famous horror movies ever made. Every year, it dominates'best of' lists (Collider put it at number five), and the American Film Institute listed Jack Torrance at number 25 on their list of the greatest villains in film histor
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