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Stephen King probably made movie buffs cringe
when he said he hated what Stanley Kubrick did
to The Shining. “I’d admired Kubrick for a long time
and had great expectations for the project, but I was
deeply disappointed in the end result. …
Kubrick just couldn’t grasp the sheer inhuman evil
of The Overlook Hotel. So he looked, instead, for evil
in the characters and made the film into a domestic
tragedy with only vaguely supernatural overtones.
That was the basic flaw: because he couldn’t believe,
he couldn’t make the film believable to others.”
He was also unhappy with Jack Nicholson’s performance
– King wanted it to be clear that Jack Torrance wasn’t crazy
until he got to the hotel and felt that Nicholson made the
character crazy from the start. With director Mick Garris,
King ended up working on another version of
The Shining that aired on ABC in 1997.
3. After casting was completed for the movie
3. After casting was completed for the movie
version of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire
she said Tom Cruise was “no more my vampire
Lestat than Edward G.
Robinson is Rhett Butler.” The casting
was “so bizarre,” she said, “it’s almost impossible
to imagine how it’s going to work.” When she
saw the movie, however, she actually loved
Cruise’s portrayal and told him what an
impressive job he had done. She still hasn’t
come around to liking Queen of the Damned,
though, telling her Facebook fans to avoid
seeing the film that “mutilated” her books.
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Re: THE SHINING. The book was a horror story. The movie was about mental illness.
ReplyDeleteSomeone suggested there should be an Oscar for "Worst Movie Made From A Stephen King Novel." Or story for that matter. (King can be proud of "Stand By Me" and "Shawshank Redemption," and the rollercoaster ride that is "1408," but he had his name taken off the sequels to "Children Of The Corn.")
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