[ SECRET POST #3312 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3312 ⌋

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[link for anime porn ... type stuff? I'm not even sure what's going on here]















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Comments

[bio_obscura]

I think there's an important difference between battling alcoholism demons (a weakness that The Overlook preyed on) to being straight unhinged, which is the impression Nicholson always gave off to me from the very beginning.

In the movie, it's almost like Jack fills The Overlook with his own evil, which is much less interesting to me than the opposite, as it is in the book.

But then, I just want the Silent Hill effect in everything, ever.

[ninety6tears]

I agree. Jack has some serious issues from the outset, he's both worried about his family while being kind of frustrated by them in how they remind him of his guilt, but there's no sense at the beginning that IF he'd remained sober (because the hotel unhinged him in that way) that he would have done anything that crazy to hurt his family. Nicholson's portrayal has the most creepily artificial emotions towards everyone around him from the beginning; I'm sure it was meant to be the very different take.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh absolutely. But when you're talking about a man who's broken his own 4 year old child's arm in a drunken rage already, we're not talking about a guy with 100% functional mental health. Nicholson does tend to chew on the scenery though, I agree.

[bio_obscura]

Yeah, but I think in the book King was trying to portray the arm-breaking incident as something he wouldn't have done without alcohol and didn't do on purpose, alcoholism being a kind of Overlook-like evil that had hold of him.

Jack in the movie doesn't seem to do anything because of alcohol (or evil, for that matter), he just seemed off his rocker. Honestly, I think you could take the supernatural element out of the movie completely and it would still make sense for Jack to snap and try to kill his family. Which is why I'm not really a fan of him being portrayed as already nuts.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, unfortunately I think the movie lacks the book's depth when it comes to showing how Jack's alcoholism and the supernatural elements of the book come together in such a destructive way.