Stephen King is undisputedly one of the most productive and successful writers in the present. He has published so far Over 60 novels and over 200 short stories, His fan base extends over the world. It is therefore no wonder that its huge pool of literary works is a popular source for various films.
For most of these adaptations, King also has a clear opinion with which he is by no means holding behind the mountain. Surprisingly, a film does not get away well in its evaluation, which for many horror fans as staging masterpiece The following applies: Shining.
Stephen King holds Stanley Kubrick’s version of Shining for anything but successful
Regie Perfectionist Stanley Kubrick (clockwork orange) filmed King’s Roman Shining in 1980, who had only been released three years earlier. If the film received more mixed reviews at the time, he received more and more recognition and over time Even enjoy cult status today.
Especially Kubricks Unique visual language and a sense of dark-surreal atmosphere made his shining version for horror enthusiasts: inside to a highlight of the genre and one of the best King films in general. But of all people the template creator personally sees it very differently.
In an interview with Deadline in 2016, he revealed the reasons for his resentment against the 1980 adaptation. Above all, the representation of the main character Jack Torrance played by Jack Nicholson came up with King Sauer:
There is no character development of Jack Torrance in this film at all. When Jack Nicholson [in der Rolle] For the first time […] You already know, he’s crazy like a shit rat. Everything he does is to become even crazier. In the book he is a guy who fights with his mind and finally loses him. For me this is a tragedy. There is no tragedy in the film because there is no real change.
The handling of another figure of his novel did not fit King at all. So Wendy Immens embodied by Shelley Duvall from his written version of the character, as the author explained to BBC in 2013:
Shelley Duvall as Wendy is one of the most misogynistic characters that have ever been seen in a film. Basically, she is only there to be screaming and being stupid, and this is not the woman I wrote about.
King King was able to gain a little visually from Kubrick, but he attested it to the “great look“. Finally, he felled a fairly pictorial comparison for his opinion about the film by shining as”Large, beautiful Cadillac without engine “ designated.
King also emphasized that he was Kubrick away from his opinion about Shining for a “very clever guy“Holding, who had otherwise delivered fantastic films that would mean a lot. A fan of the horror strip that holds a very special world record, the bestselling author is probably no longer a reason why it is no longer a reason why King produced its own adaptation with the Miniseries The Shining.
Shining stream: Where you can see Kubrick’s adaptation by Stephen Kings Horror novel
Shining is currently available in the streaming flat rate of Amazon Prime Video in the 23-minute longer US kinofo. With various other providers you can also buy or borrow the horror classic.