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O Iluminado Pdf O iluminado pdf Continue Durante o inverno, um homem (Jack Nicholson) yn contratado para ficar como vigia em um hotel no Colorado e Wai para l e com mulher (Shelly Duvall) e seu filho (Danny Lloyd). Porem, o continuo isolamento comena lhe causar problemas s'rios e ele vai se tornado cada vez mais agressivo e perigoso, ao mesmo tempo em que seu filho passa a ter vis'es de acontecimentos ocorridos no passado 1980 horror film director Stanley Kubrick The ShiningUK theatrical release posterStanley KubrickProduced by Stanley Kubrick Screenplay By Shiningby Stephen KingStarring Jack Nicholson Shelley Duval Ska Hetman Crothers Danny Lloyd Music Wendy's Rachel Elkind CinematographyJohn AlcottEdited by Ray LovejoyProductioncompany Producer Circle CompanyTransegrine ProductionsHawk Films Distributed by Pokner Bros.Release Date May 23, 1980 (1980-05-23) (United States) , 1980 (1980-10-02) (United Kingdom) (United Kingdom) LanguageEngBulishdget $19 million. Box Office ($46.2 million) is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick and written in collaboration with writer Diana Johnson. The film is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel of the same name, starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers and Danny Lloyd. The film's central character is Jack Torrance (Nicholson), an aspiring writer and recovering alcoholic who takes a position as the off-season caretaker of the isolated historic Overlook Hotel in Colorado Rocky. Winter with Jack is his wife, Wendy Torrance (Duval) and young son, Danny Torrance (Lloyd). Danny has shining, mental abilities that allow him to see the terrible past of the hotel. The hotel's chef Dick Hallorann (Crothers) also has this ability and is able to communicate with Danny telepathically. The hotel had a previous winter caretaker who went crazy and killed his family and himself. After the winter storm leaves Torrance snow-covered, Jack's sanity deteriorates due to the influence of supernatural forces inhabiting the hotel, putting his wife and son in danger. Production took place almost exclusively at EMI Elstree Studios, with sets based on real locations. Kubrick often worked with a small team, allowing him to make many berets, sometimes to exhaustion of actors and staff. The new Mount Steadicam was used to shoot several scenes, giving the film an innovative and breathtaking view. There has been a lot of speculation in the meanings and actions of the film because of inconsistencies, ambiguities, symbolism and differences from the book. The film was released in the United States on May 23, 1980, and UK October 2, 1980, Warner Bros. There were several versions for theatrical releases, each of which was shortened shorter than the previous one; about 27 minutes were shortened in total. Reaction to the film at the time of its release was mixed; Stephen King criticized the film because of its deviations from the novel. Critical opinion became more favorable and became a staple of pop culture. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. The sequel, Doctor Sleep, was released on November 8, 2019 in the United States and October 31, 2019 in Europe. Plot writer Jack Torrance arrives at the remote Overlook Hotel in the Rocky Mountains to be interviewed for the position of Winter Caretaker. The hotel, which opened in 1909 and was built on a Native American burial site, is closing for months. Once hired, Jack plans to use the hotel's privacy to write. Manager Stuart Ullman warns Jack about the reputation of the hotel: the previous caretaker, Charles Grady, killed his family and himself. Jack, however, is impressed with the hotel and takes the job. In Boulder, Jack's son, Danny, has a hunch about the hotel, and Jack's wife, Wendy, tells the doctor about Danny's imaginary friend, Tony. It also reveals that Jack is a recovering alcoholic who once injured Danny in a drunken rage. When the family moves to the hotel, chef Dick Hallorann surprises Danny telepathically offering him ice cream. Halloranne explains to Danny that he and his grandmother shared this telepathic ability, which he calls brilliant. Hallorann tells Danny that the hotel has a radiance and its own memories. He also tells Danny to stay away from Room 237. A month passes; While Jack writes goes nowhere, Danny and Wendy explore the hotel's hedge maze and Hallorann goes to Florida. Wendy learns that the phone lines because of heavy snowfall. Danny has frightening visions, while Jack becomes prone to violent outbursts as his mental health deteriorates. Danny's curiosity about room 237 overtakes him when he sees the door of the room open. Later, Wendy finds Jack screaming during a nightmare as he sleeps behind his typewriter. After she woke him up, Jack said he dreamed he had killed her and Danny. Danny arrives, visibly traumatized and bruised. Wendy accuses Jack of abusing him, which Jack denies. Jack wandered into the Hotel's Golden Room and meets a ghostly bartender named Lloyd, to whom he complains about his marriage. Wendy tells Jack that Danny told her a crazy woman in room 237 who tried to strangle him. Jack explores Room 237 and meets the ghost of a dead woman, but he tells Wendy he hasn't seen anything. Wendy Jack argues over whether to remove Danny from hotel and Jack Jack to the Golden Room, which is now filled with ghosts attending the ball. He meets a ghostly waiter who identifies himself as Delbert Grady. Ghost informs Jack that Danny contacted Halloran using his talent and says that Jack must fix his wife and child. After telepathically feeling Danny's fear, Halloran flies back to Colorado. Danny screams red and goes into another trance, calling himself Tony. Wendy discovers that Jack has been typing a page filled with the phrase All the work and not playing makes Jack a boring boy. She begs psychopath Jack to leave the hotel with Danny, but he threatens her. Wendy knocks him unconscious with a baseball bat and locks him in the kitchen pantry, but she and Danny are both trapped as Jack disconnected the hotel's two-headed radio and snowcat. Jack talks through the pantry with Grady, who opens the door, frees Jack. Danny continues to chant and draw the word REDRUM. When Wendy sees the word reversed in the bedroom mirror, the word is revealed as MURDER. Jack hacked the main door of the block with an axe. Wendy sends Danny through the bathroom window, but can't get out on her own. Jack breaks in the door, but retreats after Wendy stabs his hand. Hearing Halloranne arrives in a snow cat, Jack is ambushed and kills him in the lobby, and then pursues Danny in a maze of hedges. Wendy runs through the hotel in search of Danny, meeting ghosts, a cascade of Danny's blood, provided in Boulder, and the corpse of Halloranne. In the hedging labyrinth, Danny makes a false trail to mislead Jack and hides behind a snowdrift, while Jack follows a false trail. Danny escapes from the maze and reunites with Wendy; they leave in the snowcat Hallorann, while Jack, now hopelessly lost in the maze, freezes to death. Pictured in the hotel hallway, Jack is pictured standing among a crowd of party revellers from 1921. Starring Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance Shelley Duval as Wendy Torrance danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance Scatman Crothers as Dick Hallorann Barry Nelson as Stuart Ullman Philip Stone as Delbert Grady As Jo Terkel as Lloyd Ann Jackson as Dr. Tony Burton as Larry Durkin Leah Beldam as Larry Durkin All scenes involving Jackson and Burton were removed, but the credits remained unchanged. Dennen is on screen in all versions of the film, albeit to a limited degree (and without dialogue) in the European context. The actresses who played the ghosts of Grady's murdered daughters, Lisa and Louise Burns, are identical twins; However, the characters in the book and the film's scripts are just sisters, not twins. In the dialogue film, Mr. Ullman says he thinks they were about eight and ten. they are often referred to in discussions about the film as the Grady twins. The similarities in the production of Grady's girls and Diana Arbus's Twins were noted by both Arbus's biographer, Patricia Bosworth, Kubrick's assistant who cast and coached them, Leon Vitali, and Kubrick's many critics. Although Kubrick met Arbus in person and studied photography under her youth as a photographer for Look magazine, Kubrick's widow says he is not intentionally modeled by Grady's girls in arbus's photograph, despite widespread attention to similarities. The production of Lake St. Mary with its Island of Wild Goose can be seen during the premiere of the film The Shining. Genesis Before making The Shining, Kubrick directed the film Barry Lyndon (1975), a very visual period film about an Irishman trying to get into the British aristocracy. Despite its technical achievements, the film was not a box office success in the United States and was ridiculed by critics for being too long and too slow. Kubrick, frustrated by the lack of success of Barry Lyndon, realized that he needed to make a film that would be commercially viable as well as artistically fulfilling. Stephen King was told that Kubrick was his staff bringing him stacks of horror books as he planted himself in his office to read them all: Secretary Kubrick heard the sound of each book hitting the wall as the director threw him into a deflect heap after reading the first few pages.
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