The prank Jack Nicholson, who made Stanley Kubrick angry

There are many moments from the film that have found their place in the Hollywood Hall of Fame, regardless of whether it is Danny around the abandoned hotel. However, there is a scene that is continuously examined and selected that exists as a master class in acting and is probably the most worrying monologue from the entire film.

After his showdown with Wendy, Jack goes into the bar and applies to a drink with a bartender that is only visible to him. He mocks about his wife’s parent tactics and describes an incident that was once between him and his son, with the effects that Jack was drunk and his alcoholism caused him to violate Danny, even though he tried to violate or influence the To downplay the event. It is a frightening moment that reflects his full descent in complete deception and rejection and hides his own mental instability by distracting and relocating the guilt on everyone.

Understandably, this would be a fairly test scene for the film, especially in view of Kubrick’s call for numerous attitudes. But one of Nicholson’s co-stars, Joe Turkel, described Nicholson’s own way of infusing weapons at the moment and said: “Half by shooting one of our attitudes bent jack to me, at the bar and said ‘Joe, we’ ‘ , ‘We’ I shot this thing for three weeks. Here is what I will do. I’m going crazy – I will start four feet in the air and then go to the stratosphere. ‘The opening line should have been: “Hello Lloyd, it’s nice to see you.” But he said: ‘Lloyd, how the hell are you? I haven’t seen you in a damned Sunday for a month. ‘I said, “Serony, Mr. Torrance” when he became a wild and wilder “.

While this added to a scene that had been killed to death, Kubrick was initially less appreciated by Nicholson’s deviation from the script. Turkel continued and said: “I could see how Stanley got angry. After we were finished, Stanley continued and said: “Gee Jack, that opens a completely new can of corn.” I went through, Jack fell on the floor and laughed and Stanley knew that he had. And he roared ”.

Sometimes improvisation is the best tool to keep a scene fresh and prevent your ideas from coming across as predictable. Although this was known for his meticulous attention to detail, this may have added something new to the scene that Kubrick himself could not conjure up.

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