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About two months ago, I took my family on a Spring Break vacation to Estes Park, Colorado. Up a hill and behind the Safeway in Estes Park was a large hotel, which I learned is the Stanley Hotel. Built by the family that started Stanley Steamer, this hotel served as Stephen King’s inspiration for the Overlook Hotel, which is the setting of his 1977 novel The Shining. Here is a photo I took of the Stanley Hotel on our trip.
Cinephiles know the late Stanley Kubrick was as an absolute perfectionist director. For example, during the filming of the 1980 movie adaptation of The Shining, Kubrick ...
Any child of the 80s (or really, anyone with taste) recalls such cinematic masterpieces as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, The Karate Kid, or Breakin’, which constitutes the movie debut of not only Jean Claude Van Damme (albeit in an uncredited role) as a bystander at an outdoor “dance-off,” but also Ice-T.
Each of those movies followed a basic plot: main protagonist unites with friends, learns of problem, experiences adversity, overcomes adversity, and ultimately prevails. Realizing the financial success of the original, the movie studios subsequently repeated ...