Some of the biggest references and inspirations while thinking about the short film and writing the script and poem are "The Shining" by Stanley Kubrick and the poet Robert Frost.
The similarities shown in The Shining and my short film are the madness of a writer that tries to write and find inspiration by staying on its own into an enclosed space, turning them mad and not being able to situate their own reality. In The Shining, the main character, loses the perception of reality, becoming a threat to its family and himself (ends up dying). Which the details such as the place both being enclosed, and both characters being artists that turns crazy because of their art, makes reference to Stanley Kubrick's probably most well-known movie.
And as an inspiration, the author Robert Frost is taken as a base. Robert Frost is an American poet, tortured by life since his young age :
His personal life was plagued by grief and loss. In 1885 when he was 11, his father died of tuberculosis, leaving the family with just eight dollars, after which, in 1900 his mother died of cancer when he was 26.
In 1920, he had to commit his younger sister Jeanie to a mental hospital, where she died nine years later. Mental illness apparently ran in Frost's family, as both he and his mother suffered from depression, and his daughter Irma was committed to a mental hospital in 1947. His wife, Elinor, also experienced bouts of depression.
Elinor and Robert Frost had six children: son Elliot (1896–1900, died of cholera); daughter Lesley Frost Ballantine (1899–1983); son Carol (1902–1940, committed suicide); daughter Irma (1903–1967); daughter Marjorie (1905–1934, died as a result of puerperal fever after childbirth); and daughter Elinor Bettina (died just one day after her birth in 1907). Only Lesley and Irma outlived their father. Frost's wife, who had heart problems throughout her life, developed breast cancer in 1937 and died of heart failure in 1938.
Overall, the inspected elements within the characters of Jack Torrance and Robert Frost are their similarities of both being writers and mentally affected by insanity.
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