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EXT. COLORADO MOUNTAIN (U.S.A.) - DAY - L.S.
Lake and Mountains. CAMERA TRACKS FORWARD past island in
lake.
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EXT. ROAD - DAY - L.S.
High Angle V.W. Car moving along road - CAMERA TILTS UP with
it.
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EXT. COLORADO MOUNTAINS & ROAD - DAY - L.S.
Mountains and Road - V.W. Car moves away along road - CAMERA
TRACKS after it.
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L.S. V.W. Car moving away along road - CAMERA TRACKS after
it and passes car - TRACKING FORWARD to Mountains in b.g.
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M.L.S. High Angle V.W. Car moves away along road - CAMERA
TILTS UP with it. Car goes into tunnel and comes out other
side. CAMERA TRACKS after car.
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L.S. V.W. Car moves along road. CAMERA TRACKS after it.
Mountains in b.g.
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L.S. High Angle V.W. Car moving away along road. Mountain
in b.g. CAMERA TRACKS after car.
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L.S. Mountain - CAMERA TRACKS IN on Hotel.
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BLACK FRAMES.
THE INTERVIEW.
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INT. OVERLOOK HOTEL/LOBBY - DAY - M.L.S.
Jack walks L-R across Lobby. CAMERA TRACKS BACK & PANS with
him to RECEPTIONIST behind desk.
JACK
Hi, I've got an appointment with Mr.
Ullman. My name is Jack Torrance.
RECEPTIONIST
His office is the first door on the
left.
JACK
Thank you.
JACK moves away R-L. CAMERA PANS with him and TRACKS IN
after him through Secretary's office to open door of ULLMAN's
office - revealing ULLMAN seated at desk with SECRETARY
standing beside him.
JACK
Mr. Ullman?
ULLMAN
Yes?
JACK
I'm Jack Torrance.
ULLMAN
Oh, well - come on in Jack.
ULLMAN stands up and hands book to SECRETARY, walking round
side of desk. JACK moves into office. CAMERA TRACKS IN
after him. He shakes hands with ULLMAN.
ULLMAN
Very nice to meet you.
JACK
Nice to meet you, Mr. Ullman.
ULLMAN points to SECRETARY.
ULLMAN
This is my secretary, Susie.
SECRETARY
Hallo.
JACK
Susie, how do you do?
ULLMAN
Have any trouble finding us?
JACK
Oh, no problem at all. I made the
trip in three and a half hours.
ULLMAN
Well, that's very good time, very
good. Please sit down a minute.
ULLMAN points to chair cam.R. JACK sits cam.R.f.g. ULLMAN
walks behind desk.
ULLMAN
JAck, just make yourself at home.
Would you like some coffee?
JACK
Well, if you are going to have
some, I wouldn't mind. Thanks.
ULLMAN
Susie.
SECRETARY
Sure.
ULLMAN
Oh, and would you ask Bill Watson
to join us?
SECRETARY
Yes, I will.
ULLMAN sits behind desk. SUSIE walks forward to R.f.g.
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EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING/BOULDER - DAY - L.S.
Apartment Building - cars parked in front of it. Mountain
in b.g. CAMERA TRACKS IN on Apartment Building.
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INT. JACK & WENDY'S APARTMENT IN BOULDER (USA) / LIVING
ROOM - DAY - M.L.S.
DANNY is sitting at table eating a sandwich. WENDY sitting
cam.R reading book.
DANNY
Mom...
WENDY
Yeah.
DANNY
Do you really want to go and live
in that hotel for the winter?
WENDY
Sure, Danny, it will be lots of fun.
DANNY
Yeah, I guess so. Anyway, there's
hardly anybody to play with around
here.
WENDY
Yeah, I know. It always takes a
little time to make new friends.
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M.S. DANNY eating sandwich.
DANNY
Yeah, I guess so.
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M.S. WENDY
WENDY
What about Tony? He's looking
forward to the hotel, I bet.
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M.S. DANNY while eating sandwich wiggles forefinger of his
L.hand and speaks with different voice.
TONY
NO, I ain't Mrs. Torrance.
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M.S. WENDY
WENDY
Oh come on, Tony. Don't be silly.
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M.S. DANNY wiggles forefinger of L.hand and speaks with
different voice.
TONY
I don't want to go there, Mrs.
Torrance.
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M.S. WENDY
WENDY
Well, how come you don't want to go?
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M.S. DANNY wiggles forefinger of L.hand and speaks with
different voice.
TONY
I just don't.
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M.S. WENDY.
WENDY
Well, let's just wait and see.
We're all gonna have a real good
time.
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INT. OVERLOOK HOTEL/ULLMAN'S OFFICE - DAY - M.L.S.
JACK over ULLMAN seated at desk. BILL WATSON enter office.
JACK rises and shakes hands with him.
ULLMAN
Bill, I'd like you to meet Jack
Torrance.
WATSON
How do you do?
JACK
Bill, how do you do?
WATSON
Pleased to meet you.
JACK
Pleasure to meet you.
ULLMAN
Grab a chair Bill, and join in.
WATSON & JACK sit down.
ULLMAN
Jack is going to take care of the
Overlook for this winter. I would
like you to take him around the
place as soon as we are through.
WATSON
Fine.
ULLMAN
Jack is a schoolteacher.
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M.C.S. JACK.
JACK
Eh - formerly a school-teacher.
WATSON (OFF)
What line of work are you in now?
JACK
I'm a writer um... Teaching has
been more or less a way of making
ends meet.
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M.C.S. WATSON.
WATSON
Well this ought to be quite a
change for you.
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M.C.S. JACK
JACK
Well, I'm looking for a change.
ULLMAN (OFF)
Our people in Denver recommended
Jack very highly, and, for once, I
agree with them.
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M.S. ULLMAN
ULLMAN
Let's see, where were we? Yes. I
was about to explain that eh... our
season here runs from oh May 15th
to October 30th and then we close
down completely until the following
May.
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M.C.S. JACK
JACK
Do you mind if I ask why you do
that? It seems to me that the
skiing up here would be fantastic.
ULLMAN (OFF)
Oh, it sure would be
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M.S. ULLMAN
ULLMAN (CONT'D)
but the problem is the enormous
cost it would be to keep the road
to the Sidewinder open. It's a...
It's a 25 mile stretch of road -
gets an average of 20 feet of snow
during the winter, and there's just
no way to make it economically
feasible to keep it clear. When
the place was built in 1907, there
was very little interest in winter
sports, and this site was chosen
for its seclusion and scenic beauty.
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M.L.S. ULLMAN over WATSON & JACK.
JACK
Well, it's certainly got plenty of
that.
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And did they give
you any idea in Denver about what
the job entails?
JACK
Only in a very general way.
ULLMAN
Well...
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M.S. ULLMAN
ULLMAN (CONT'D)
...the winters can be fantastically
cruel, and the basic idea is
to...to cope with the very costly
damage and depreciation which can
occur. And this consists mainly of
running the boiler, heating
different parts of the hotel on a
daily rotating basis, repairing
damage as it occurs and doing
repairs, so that the elements can't
get a foothold.
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M.C.S. JACK
JACK
Well, that sounds fine to me.
ULLMAN grunts off.
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M.S. ULLMAN
ULLMAN
Physically, it's not a very
demanding job. The only thing that
can get a bit trying up here during
the winter is eh... the tremendous
sense of isolation.
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M.C.S. JACK
JACK
Well, that just happens to be
exactly what I'm looking for. I'm
eh... I'm outlining a new writing
project, and eh...
five months of peace is just what I
want.
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M.S. ULLMAN
ULLMAN
That's very good Jack, because eh...
for some people eh solitude and
isolation...
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M.C.S. JACK.
ULLMAN (OFF) (CONT'D)
can of itself be a problem.
JACK
Not for me.
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M.S. ULLMAN.
ULLMAN
How about your wife and son? How
do you think they'll take to it?
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M.C.S. JACK.
JACK
They'll love it.
ULLMAN (OFF)
Great...
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M.S. ULLMAN
ULLMAN
Well, before I turn you over to
Bill, there is one other thing I
think we should talk about. I
don't want to sound melodramatic,
but it is something that's...
been known to give a few people
second thoughts about the job.
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M.C.S. JACK
JACK
I'm intrigued.
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M.S. ULLMAN.
ULLMAN
I don't suppose they eh told you
anything in Denver about the
tragedy we had up here during the
winter of 1970?
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M.C.S. JACK shakes his head.
JACK
I don't believe they did.
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M.S. BILL WATSON.
ULLMAN (OFF)
Well, my predecessor in this job
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M.S. ULLMAN.
ULLMAN (CONT'D)
hired a man named Charles Grady, as
the winter caretaker. He came up
here with his wife and two little
girls of about eight or ten. And
he had a good employment record,
good references and from what I've
been told, I mean, he seemed like a
completely normal individual. But
at some point during the winter, he
must have suffered some kind of a
complete mental breakdown.
He ran amok and eh... killed his
family with an axe,
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M.C.S. JACK
ULLMAN (OFF) (CONT'D)
stacked them neatly in one of the
rooms in the West Wing, and then he
um... then he put eh both barrels
of his shotgun in his mouth.
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M.S. ULLMAN sitting behind desk.
ULLMAN (CONT'D)
The police eh... they thought that
it was what the old-timers used to
call cabin-fever, a kind of
claustrophobic reaction which can
occur when people are
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M.C.S. JACK
ULLMAN (OFF) (CONT'D)
shut in together over long periods
of time.
JACK
Well, that is eh quite a story.
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M.S. ULLMAN laughs.
ULLMAN
Yes, it is. Oh, it's still hard
for me to believe that it actually
happened here, but it did and eh...
I think you can appreciate why I
wanted to tell you about it.
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M.C.S. JACK.
JACK
Ah, I certainly can, and eh... I
also understand why your people in
Denver left it for you to tell me.
JACK laughs.
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M.S. ULLMAN laughing.
ULLMAN
Well, obviously some people can be
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M.C.S. JACK.
ULLMAN (OFF) (CONT'D)
put off by the idea of staying
alone in a place where something
like that actually happened.
JACK
Well, you can rest assured Mr.
Ullman, that's not going to happen
with me, and eg as far as my wife
is concerned, I am sure she'll be
absolutely fascinated when I tell
her about it. She's a confirmed
ghost story and horror film addict.
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