Monday, 3 April 2017

Shining Happy People...




A writer knows the secret to the ‘Shining’.  

Jack Torrence went to the interview at the Overlook…saw the place…heard the story about the caretaker in the 70’s who went mad and killed his family…& decided not to take the job.  He stayed in Boulder with his family…and started writing the book…as if it were HE who was the mad caretaker.  And everything that happens in the film is Jack writing about a writer going mad at the Overlook.  As a recovering alcoholic…he knew something about madness…& as an intuitive writer…he decided to process his madness through writing, rather than LIVE it.  For someone who left his job to write a book that would have commercial appeal…this chance piece of inspiration gleaned from the interview made the whole thing a no-brainer.  And his key piece of inspiration…was Danny.  He felt guilty about how he hurt Danny… wanted to make it up to his family…& knowing about Danny’s imaginary friend…he had all the ingredients for a supernatural/ psychological bestseller.  More than enough raw material for a book without needing to lock himself away to try to write in an environment he KNEW would not be healthy. 


Jack was a perfectly healthy man…processing his demons through writing.  I think he succeeded.      

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