Showing posts with label The Sleep of Reason Breeds Monsters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Sleep of Reason Breeds Monsters. Show all posts

Friday, January 5, 2018

Goya and The Shining link:

In the front of Stephen King’s source novel, The Shining, there is the quote:

The sleep of reason breeds monsters.
– GOYA.

This is a reference to the 1799 etching by Francisco Goya:


The pose of the man in the etching is eerily like Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 movie adaptation: 


Coincidence … or an intentional reference?