73. Jack Torrance
The Shining
A failed and stressed writer, Jack Torrance takes his family to his new job house-sitting the quiet and peaceful (ALERT ALERT) Overlook Hotel so that he can try to work on his story. Slightly unhinged from the start of the film, Jack begins to go madder and madder as the demons inhabiting the hotel start getting to him.
After a few months, with his novel going nowhere, Jack starts to slip into alcoholism by frequenting the hotel ballroom's bar. One day he comes upon a costume party in the ballroom and meets the former caretaker (said to have taken in his life due to cabin fever) who tells Jack to "correct" his wife and child. Needless to say things start to go pretty bad at that point what with the axe and the chase through the hedge maze.
Jack Nicholson is pretty out there anyways, so transforming into Jack (the character) was a pretty easy task. The great thing about Jack (the character) is that he's not even there from the start as he lashes out as his wife and it's only a short time until he descends into total madness.
Defining moment: When he's looking down at the hedge maze, it represents such a stark
Hahaha fuck you guys, you know what his defining moment is and because I can't accurately express the tension and horror of that scene, you get a SPECIAL VIDEO PRESENT WOWWWWWW YOU GUYS!
And for those of you too jarred to even think about that scene, here's some Yakety Sax (which I'm sure most of you are going to watch more than the actual scene. Seriously, watch the first video and then come back down here to ease your nerves)
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