Personally I hated this movie. It doesn't follow the book at all and I find that it has terrible acting. It is very predictable and is not creative in my mind.
I think one of the main reasons that the acting was terrible is because the little boy who plays Danny in the film didn't even know that it was a horror film that he was acting in. He was told that he was starring in a drama film. In fact, when Wendy carries Danny while shouting at Jack in the Colorado Lounge, she is actually carrying a life size dummy so he wouldn't have to be in the scene as it would give hints to the fact that it is a horror film he is starring in. I feel that if he had of known that he was acting in a horror film than he would have done a better job at his acting as a whole. Also there were so many changes to the script that Jack Nicholson apparently stopped reading the script because he knew it would just change again the next day. He would only read the new pages that were given to hi, at the beginning of each scene. Another thing is that the character of Wendy just seems to weak and blind to see what is happening around her, and that just makes me hate her character in the movie.
Another reason I hated the movie is because it didn't follow the book at all. In the book the character Wendy is supposed to be strong and stand up for herself. Where as in the movie she is seen as a weak character who doesn't stand up for herself even when her son's life is at stake. It is even said that Stephan King the writer of the book originally wanted Jessica Lange to play the role of Wendy because she followed his description of her in the novel. In the book the motivation of the ghosts is to possess Jack Torrance to get him to kill Danny; if Danny dies in the Overlook, his "shining" ability will be absorbed along with all the other awful energies that are manifest there; the hotel itself is a sentient entity and so would become far more powerful and able to extend its powers beyond the confines of its grounds. Where as in the movie the motive is more ambiguous but seems to be to "reclaim" Jack , who is apparently a reincarnation of a previous caretaker of the hotel, as suggested by the 1920s photograph of Jack and Jack's repeated claims to have "not just a deja vu". Also at the end of the book the hotel is supposed to be destroyed by a fire and in the movie it remains in tact.
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