The Shining: AI imagines what the classic anime film would be like

There are rare directors and actors who manage to maintain an almost unchanged status of acclaim over the years. Stanley Kubrick e Jack Nicholson are at that level. Both are notable figures in the history of cinema. Much of this popular outcry over their names is related to a film they worked on together: The Shiningreleased in 1980, an adaptation of a 1977 work of the same name by writer Stephen King.

King is definitely not in the group of those who idolize the film. On the contrary, he hates it. But for millions of moviegoers around the world, The Shining is an undeniable classic, a project that integrates the great productions signed by Kubrick, side by side with other pearls such as 2001: A Space Odyssey e A Clockwork Orange.

The Legacy of Performances

In addition to the narrative issue and the moments of tension, driven by all the great ambience that Kubrick managed to create with his directing style, The Shining was marked by Jack Nicholson’s vigorous performance as Jack Torrance, and by the disturbance, which escaped fiction and collided with reality, delivered by actress Shelley Duvall. The scene below is a clear example of this:

Iconic Movie Moments

Some excerpts from the film have become part of pop culture, like Nicholson’s iconic face on the door that he just tore apart in the middle of one of his moments of rage, or even the young Danny Torrance, played by Danny Lloyd, who was just 6 years old at the time, riding a tricycle around the hotel.

The Shining like Anime?

Now imagine if The Shining become an anime? Well, with the progress of artificial intelligence, more and more people are using tools like MidJourney to explore these possibilities. A user on Reddit shared Some images of the result he managed to generate based on this theme: The Shining in anime version. Check it out below:

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