Almost 5 decades later, a scene of ‘The Glow’one of Stanley Kubrick’s great films and the most popular adaptations to Stephen King’s cinema -although he renows her -, his mystery seems to have turned out. It’s about The image that hangs from the walls of the Hotel Overlook, dated 1921in which Jack Torrance appears – the character of Jack Nicholson – along with other attendees to a party.
The fact is that the photo is completely real, and truly It is taken in 1920, although Nicholson’s face is overlooking that of another person. We have had to wait for this 2025 for two people – an academic and a journalist – to have discovered who it is originally.
“I guess I wouldn’t have worried so much if it hadn’t been because the movie mattered to me. I thought it was an important movie,” said British academic retired Alasdair Spark. According to Spark, it was in 1985 when it was published in the book ‘The Complete Airbrush and Photo-Secret Manual’ a cut version of the original photo, and that reveals the face of the man in question.
It was during the 2024 past when a Reddit user used a facial recognition system to reveal it, finding a coincidence: These were Santos Casani, a dancer from the time of the time. But Arik Tolar, a journalist from the New York Times, did not satisfy 100%, which requested Spark’s help, starting an investigation between them, concluding that, so it was: it was Casani, although that It was the artistic name that John Golman adopted. Golman had suffered an aviation accident – an veteran of the RAF, Royal Air Force – who had survived, but that had left him scars on his face, which coincided with those that mysterious character.
But there was still an unknown to clear. When and where had the photo been taken? Well the photo It was taken in a Valentine’s dance on February 14, 1921, in the business hall of the Royal Palace Hotel in London“I feel great satisfaction. We knew the photograph where Jack Nicholson appeared. We knew there was an unknown man, but we didn’t know who he was. We didn’t know where he was or when,” Spark said.
The film that detesta Stephen King
The fact is that, despite being considered a classic of the genre, Maine’s genius never approved this film. The relationship between King and Kubrick did not even start well, since The director refused to read the script that the writer had preparedbut from there, everything only worse. Kubrick called King at untimely hours to consult his opinion on different aspects of the genre of terror, something that ended up in discussions, since they seemed condemned to constantly contradict themselves.
Once the film was released, Stephen King’s opinion was clearly clear. “It’s a beautiful movie. It’s like a Cadillac without engine inside,” he said, also making clear that the characters seemed horrible. He considered Wendy Torrance “one of the most misogynist characters in history”, while he did not perceive evolution in Jack, who during the novel has an evolution until madness, when in the film “When you see him for the first time, it is already clear to you that he is like a goat”.
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