To be clear, The Shining wasn’t alternated against the wishes of the director, but in fact at the behest of the director, and to positive effect. But on that n

To be clear, The Shining wasn’t alternated against the wishes of the director, but in fact at the behest of the director, and to positive effect. But on that note, if you’re interested in the studio messing with the director’s intended work, check out the “Love Conquers All” version of the movie “Brazil” (1985). It starts like 40 minutes in, makes no goddamn sense, and ends on a happy note where the original film... definitely doesn’t. A friend of mine described it as (SPOILER for the movie Se7en): “As if in the movie Se7en instead of his wife’s head in the box, it was a cake and she rolled out on a unicycle singing Happy Birthday.”