He wasn’t much more complimentary of Kubrick’s casting and directing of Jack Nicholson, either. There’s no sense of her involvement in the family dynamic at all.” He later went a step further in his criticism by declaring in that BBC interview that Kubrick’s characterisation of Wendy in The Shining created “one of the most misogynistic characters ever put on film.” King told the BBC that Kubrick’s characterisation of Wendy in The Shining created “one of the most misogynistic characters ever put on film.” “ no sense of emotional investment in the family whatsoever on part,” King declared in that aforementioned Paris Review interview, before going on to single out his issues with Shelley Duvall’s Wendy. “I mean, talk about insulting to women. The Torrance family: a weak matriarch, a psycho biker dad READ MORE: Does Jack Nicholson make a cameo in Doctor Sleep?.In Kubrick’s version, Jack freezes to death after unsuccessfully chasing Danny through the hedge maze and the Overlook stays standing, boiler problems notwithstanding. Kubrick’s decision to ditch King’s original ending - where Jack Torrance manages to momentarily break free of the control the hotel has on him to warn his young son Danny to escape with his mother, before he is then killed by an explosion caused by the Overlook’s faulty boiler - particularly irked the author, describing it as “the basic difference that tells you all you need to know” when comparing the novel and the film. Jack Nicholson’s Jack Torrance hacks his way through the bathroom door in ‘The Shining’.
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