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bacardiwynn t1_iu7ng5w wrote

How about Stephen King and It? Or his issues with The Shining?

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Main_Tip112 t1_iu7pp3f wrote

It's bad enough he wrote a sewer child orgy scene in It.. thank God they had to sense to not try to film it. I like some of his works but Stephen, what the fuck were you thinking?

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Badwolf_131 t1_iu7otj7 wrote

I thought his issues with The Shinning was that Kubrick started to depart from the source material. Am I remembering it wrong or missing information?

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tregorman t1_iuaoaxq wrote

Kubrick kind of completely missed the point of Kings story and wrote his own shit instead with the shining as like the base outline. The point of the book was seeing the decline of Jack's mental state, and hiring jack Nicholson kind of went against that because he seemed kinda nuts to begin with.

I believe he also didn't like the way the stripped Wendy of most of her humanity and charecterizarion to make her the scared frail screaming lady

Kubrick version is a classic in it's own right but it's entirely understandable why King would be upset with it.

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Badwolf_131 t1_iuawaqa wrote

Ok. I can see why he didn’t like it. Especially since it was a departure of his baby. Thank you.

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