Cinema5 curiosities about the enlightened, which turns 45 in 2025

On May 23, 1980, The enlightenedhorror directed by Stanley Kubrick (Mechanical orange) Based on the author’s book Stephen Kingdebut in the theaters of the United States. Nowadays, the feature Jack Nicholson (The infiltrates) and Shelley Duvall (Popeye) In the main roles is one of the most acclaimed of the genre.

Here are five curiosities to celebrate the 45th anniversary that the work completes in 2025:

How are the twins today?

One of the most tense sequences of the movie is the moment when little boy Andy (Danny Lloyd) Walks with his tricycle through the corridors of Hotel Overlook and face the grady twins, first with them standing, then quartered and bloody – scene that, according to them, according to them, Kubrick It took more than a week to define how it would be filmed.

Lisa and Louise Burns They are today 57 years old and The enlightened It was the only movie of their career. They chose other ways for the professional future: Lisa is a lawyer, while Sister Louise is a scientist with published research. It is worth mentioning that, in the book of Stephen Kingthe characters are 8 and 10 years old, but Kubrick Changed this in the script, thanks to this, they got the papers.

Room 237

In the book of Stephen KingHotel Overlook’s iconic fourth is listed as 217, however, for the movie, this has been changed. Stanley Kubrick He answered a request from the owner of Hotel Timberline Lodge, where The enlightened It was filmed. He feared that people would not rent fourth 217 because of the movie, so the number was changed to 237, nonexistent in the hotel.

Stanley Kubrick and his perfectionism

The director Stanley Kubrick It was so perfectionist that it ended up traumatizing the actress Shelley DuvallWendy’s interpreter. The scene where she is attacked by Jack with a baseball stick was repeated 127 times until he was convinced that he had been good. The moment even joined the Guinness Book, the Book of Records, for so many repetitions.

Labyrinth does not exist in the book

The Labyrinth of Heads of The enlightened is one of the creations of the perfectionist mind of Stanley Kubrick. The scenario is not present in the original work of Stephen King And in the feature is essential, as there happens the tense final sequence in which Jack Torrance pursues his son Danny.

Legend has it that the scene took an entire month to be filmed because the team was lost and could not follow the actors. The director himself even got lost in the place a few times. To create the winter maze of the final scene, 900 tons of salt were used, and Styrofoam.

Stephen King hates the movie

One of the largest detractors of the version of Stanley Kubrick It is the author of the original work himself, Stephen King. The novelist is not pleased with the various changes that Kubrick He did in the plot, especially in its end, as well as the way the characters are presented.

For the author, Jack is an ordinary man who loves his family and slowly surrenders to madness, which Nicholson It does not represent. He says the movie’s Jack Torrance already begins almost crazy, about to explode at any time, which is even more exacerbated in the interpretation of Nicholson.

Already the author praises Shelley Duvall like “impressive and committed”But Wendy’s representation in the movie is a weak character, in his opinion:“She is basically just to scream and behave stupidly. And this was not the woman I wrote.”

Furthermore, Stephen King He says the feature has no compassion for the characters, as it changes their nature, especially Jack, and becomes an experience “morbid, superficial and fake”. He classifies the end of the movie”Nihilist too much “because, while in the book Jack sacrifices and obtains his redemption in the movie, the character of Nicholson He dies frozen trying to pursue his wife and son.

+++ Read more: Shelley Duvall: Trauma, Legend and criticism behind the scenes of The Enlightened

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