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The phrase being shown in the script of The Shining "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is an old proverb that means without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring. It is often shortened to "all work and no play". [1] It was newly popularized after the phrase was featured in the 1980 horror film, The Shining. [2]
The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film [7] produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson.It is based on Stephen King's novel of the same name and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers.
Jack Nicholson’s performance in The Shining was infamously Method. During the scene where his character Jack Torrance uses an axe to break through a bathroom door, he ad-libbed the now-famous line.
John Daniel Edward "Jack" Torrance is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Stephen King's horror novel The Shining (1977). He was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the novel's 1980 film adaptation, by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries, by Brian Mulligan in the 2016 opera and by Henry Thomas in the 2019 film adaptation of Doctor Sleep.
Jack Torrance in The Shining. Of course, we had to kick start this list with Jack Nicholson’s phenomenal portrayal of Jack Torrance. Even though the film is from the early ‘80s, it still ...
A new detail about actor Jack Nicholson in horror film The Shining has left film fans reeling.. Stanley Kubrick’s film, which was released in 1980, is considered one of the best horrors of all ...
The Shining centers on Jack Torrance, a struggling writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a position as the off-season caretaker of the historic Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies. His family accompanies him on this job, including his young son, Danny , who possesses "the shining", an array of psychic abilities that allow the child to ...
Lloyd was seven-years-old when he was cast in the 1980 movie, as the son of Jack Nicholson's Jack Torrance, the aspiring novelist who loses his mind at the isolated Overlook Hotel in the Rocky ...