Jack Torrance

fiction novel by the author Stephen King. Stephen King is famous for his novels in the horror genre and The Shining is just one of the many thrilling books he has written. The Shining tells the story of a family of three: Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy Torrance, and their son Danny Torrance and the winter they spend at the Overlook Hotel. The Shining tells a great horror story, but what makes it a memorable book is the amount of detail that Stephen King provides the reader with. He uses many…

Emery Goss Laura Mclister English 1030 February 12, 2017 Genre Analysis The movie that I chose for my genre analysis was a horror classic, The Shining. The film was made in the year 1980, starring Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, Shelly Duvall as Wendy Torrance, and Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance. The film was directed by Stanley Kubrick and screen written by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson. Critics originally poorly reviewed the film, however with time the film became a classic. The film…

characterise Jack Nicholson’s character, Jack Torrance, by showing how his character changes throughout the film and how isolation is an unnatural environment for human beings to be put into and causes evil to triumph over an individual causing their mindset to be tainted and can set off evil tendencies. During the early stages of this film Kubrick uses camera…

In The Shining, Jack Torrance moves to the a place called Overlook with his son, Danny and wife, Wendy. Jack becomes the caretaker of the place during the Winter times while all the workers are away on break. His son, Danny can see and witness premonitions with his spirit friend, Tony. Danny has what people may call the shining. However, not many have it and if they do not many show it. As the Torrance family stays in the Overlook, Danny’s visions become frequent and wilder to the point where…

“scream queens,” it’s rare in a horror movie to find a particularly moving female victim who isn’t much more than a lamb being led to slaughter. In The Shining, Duval’s character Wendy Torrance is snowbound in a haunted hotel she and her abusive husband Jack are watching for the winter. As the damned spirits drive Jack towards a murder spree against his family, the frail and weak-seeming Wendy struggles to maintain her sanity and protect herself and her young son. What was happening off screen…

is the exposition as it is only 44 minutes in the movie that there is a noticeable change of character in Jack and only at one hour and thirty-six, so 52 minutes after, that Jack finally those something evil, which is taking out the radio. The scenes seems unnecessary long like when Wendy looks through Jack’s writing at one hour and forty-one minute, and is caught for then frightened by Jack. The scene is nine minutes long. A considerable…

filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is a chilling movie with themes of isolation, the supernatural, and contorted time. Kubrick’s use of unique and complex visual styles along with many subtle details often confuses the viewer at a subconscious level. With Jack Torrance being influenced by an evil, spiritual presence in the hotel and his son witnessing the supernatural, The Shining is a terrifying movie with an ominous feel throughout. The various techniques and plot used by Kubrick in The Shining often…

eye that he decided to kill. The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is a movie about Jack Torrance becoming the winter caretaker of a hotel with a very large history. Both of these compositions use the characters, the plot and the setting to demonstrate that obsession can cause a person to go completely psychotic. The characters in both The Tell Tale Heart and The Shining first seem to…

Further on in the film Kubrick shows Jack being sent into the forbidden Room 237 to inspect the room to see if there was anyone in there, after Danny comes back extremely disheveled with bruises around his neck claiming that a strange woman had strangled him in Room 237. Kubrick uses a variety of camera shots, sound techniques and symbolism to show Jack being triumphed by an evil and unstable mind. In the scene Jack is shown to be confronted by a young, beautiful, naked woman stepping out of the…

The horror genre is a severely underrated and neglected literary zone that not many writers choose to call home. Stephen King is an author who dares to face the odds, writing about what he truly enjoys, which has paid off for him in the end. If you have read any amount of King’s books, you can see a similarity in both tone and style. With over fifty works under his belt, including books, movie adaptations, and short stories, King has worked his way to the top, becoming one of his generation’s…