| “ | "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy..." | „ |
| ~ ~Shining |
"Here's Johnny!!"
Jack Torrance is the villain in the 1980 film, The Shining. He lives with his wife Wendy and his son, Danny. He is a writer. He's gone crazy at the moment.
Role In Film
At first Jack was a fairly likeable protagonist and a writer who accepts the job of winter caretaker for the Overlook Hotel despite being informed of the building's grisly past and reputation as a cursed place - which he shrugs off as superstition and he takes his wife and son with him to the hotel, thinking that the solitude of the place will help him in his writing as well.
However Jack soon descends into madness that is never fully explained, depending on the view of the audience he could either of suffered an intense mental breakdown or he was possessed by the spirits of the Overlook Hotel - whatever truly happened to the unfortunate Jack is never fully explained.
At any rate Jack soon loses his mind completely, becoming increasingly abusive towards his wife and son while holding conversations with a ghostly bartender that apparently on he can see - he also has a traumatic experience with a ghastly phantom in a hotel room and ultimately descends into a murderous psychosis in which he tries to murder his wife and son with an axe: much as the previous caretaker had done years previously.
However Jack was outsmarted by his family and ultimately left to freeze to death in the giant maze outside the hotel - though it is unknown if he truly died or not, though it is very likely given his vulnerability and the intense cold.thumb|300px|left|Opening to The Shining.
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