Jamie Bell plays the omnipresent serial killer Harper Curtis. Now for the mysterious villain of the show… In Shining Girls, Moura is able to match Moss’s intensity and holds his own as a supporting character and reliable co-investigator to Kirby in the show. He is most known to American audiences as portraying Pablo Escobar in Narcosand Narcos: Mexico and for his roles in Elite Squad and Elite Squad 2. ![]() Moura is a celebrated Brazilian actor, director, filmmaker, musician, and journalist. He seems to care as much about the case as Kirby does and is the first one to identify that the cold case murders are somehow linked. The trailer shows Dan being followed by the attacker and getting beat up in a nightclub scene. He seems to be the first person to truly listen to her and not dismiss her reality-shifting experiences and sieve-like memories.ĭan brings his own trauma and history to the case and gets deeply embroiled and invested in the case with Kirby. Kirby finds a strong and reliable ally in Dan as he helps her with the investigation but also gives her a safe space to discuss what happened to her and unpack the trauma she continues to suffer. Kirby finds herself battling her mind and her memories to uncover the truth and identify the killer and her attacker. She teams up with veteran reporter Dan Velazquez to investigate, and they discover a series of murders that appear to all be connected to the same killer. One day she stumbles across a murder report that bears similarities to the assault she survived. She has lost many of her memories and much of her mind, having to detail facts of her life in a diary to ensure she can keep track of what's real and what's not. She is still very much affected by the assault and continues to have trouble telling the difference between reality and imagination. In the TV show adaptation, we meet Kirby as an archivist at a Chicago-based newspaper in the 90s, six years after her assault. He successfully does so until one victim, Kirby Mazrachi, gets away alive from his brutal assault - but not without suffering trauma and disjointed memories of the assault. ![]() strong and bright women who shine with potential). ![]() At one point killing Danny was even discussed, with Kubrick imagining a small chalk outline of the boy's body on the hotel floor, but cooler heads prevailed.In her novel, Beukes created a metaphysical world where a man travels through time to find and murder the “shining girls” (i.e. The idea of killing off Dick was also done to raise the dramatic levels of the story and heighten the horror. "He thought there might be something else that would be metaphorically and visually more interesting."īy leaving the Overlook "alive" at the end of the film, Kubrick was able to ensure its menace would not be diminished in the audiences mind. "The ending was changed almost entirely because Kubrick found it a cliche to just blow everything up," the film's co-screenwriter Diane Johnson told Entertainment Weekly. King's ending also has the boilers exploding from neglect and the Overlook burning down as Wendy, Danny and a very much alive Dick Hallorann escape. This ending has many differences from the novel, chiefly the climax which involves hedge animals coming to life instead of a hedge maze, something that with 1980 technology would have looked rather ridiculous. As horror filmmakers have practiced time and time again, there's nothing like old music by dead people to set a mood. It hones in right at the photo in the center, which depicts a massive July 4 ball at the Overlook in 1921, with Jack Torrance front-and-center, smiling almost maniacally right into the camera as "Midnight, the Stars & You" by Henry Hall & The Gleneagles Hotel Band plays hauntingly into the credits. The final shot has the camera gliding through The Gold Room out into the hallway where rows of photographs from the hotel's past are hung. A jump cut shows him the next morning completely frozen, literally stone cold dead. As Wendy and Danny escape in the snowcat that Hallorann brought with him, Jack slumps down amid the freezing maze, exhausted and muttering. Jack is misled through the maze, and winds up lost in the freezing cold. He then pursues Danny into the hotel's outdoor hedge maze, and after hotly pursuing his boy's tracks, Danny fools his father by tracing backwards over his own tracks and then escaping. Then Overlook chef Dick Hallorann (Scatman Crothers) arrives after sensing via "Shining" (King's term for ESP), and Jack heads off to murder him with the axe.
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