Lynch, Kubrick are Geniuses

I tend to like movies that aren’t super faithful to the book. Maybe from a character development point of view it was lame to kill Dick off like that. But I loved his death scene because it was so shocking and unexpected when I first saw it. @bijouxbroussard

@bijouxbroussard There is a mini-series of the "shining", that is way closer to the book. But this version did make for a good simpson episode 🐣

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@bijouxbroussard Yes! I had a fondness for the movie growing up, even after knowing how Stephen King felt about it. Years later I got around to reading the book and wow.. it blew the movie away. I don't scare easily, King's work doesn't scare me but The Shining book, actually scared me to where I was afraid to go to sleep. Much much better than the movie. I could see why King was so angry.

@Ethanbrooks It ruined the movie for me, because it made no sense. What was the point of his psychic connection with Danny, and then driving out to save him, just to be killed ? I wondered if Kubrick had a problem with an elderly black man in a heroic role.

@bijouxbroussard My takeaway was that SK needed to show Jack killing a major character to convince us of his menace. No way it was going to be the wife or Danny first, so it made perfect sense(to me) to have it be Dick....then the audience is REALLY concerned for their safety. I'm one of the few people I know who doesn't necessarily want to see 100% of a book turned into celluloid, and I don't mind if someone makes changes unless they work. I think these work, but of course opinions vary. I read the book after I saw the film, and it's every bit as good, going even deeper psychologically where film really cannot.

@uncalled4 Well, I liked the book, and one of the things I found heartwarming was Danny’s connection with the old man. So Kubrick wrecked that for me, and I don’t consider him a “genius”. If I like a story, the point of a movie (to me)is to tell that story. 🙁

@bijouxbroussard Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, even Eyes Wide Shut. To me, he's up there. Maybe he was beyond OCD, but he created amazing worlds. Maybe my opinion would have been different had I read the book first. But "the book is better" is a cliche, and for a reason: there are plenty of horrible King film adaptations(even see Thinner? Ouch.). King can't even adapt himself *cough* Maximum Overdrive *cough* Or, my first-ever TV hate watch, Under The Dome?

@uncalled4 I’m not going to generalize. But in the case of “The Shining”, I read the book first, right after it came out. It remains my favorite of Stephen King’s books. If it had never been made a movie, that would’ve been fine with me. And I like it much better than Kubrick’s adaptation. I needed no devices to understand that the father was going mad and becoming dangerous to his family.

@bijouxbroussard It goes places no film can. That's why I look as those mediums as more different than the same. Of course, one's own images inside one's head can never be surpassed by a film.

@uncalled4 The book was eerie...when I saw it in the theater in 1980, and Jack Nicholson did the “Here’s Johnny !” bit, people laughed.
The friends I went with liked it—but none of them had read the book. 🙁

@bijouxbroussard Did you see the miniseries with Tim Matheson I believe? Closer to the book. I don't remember the whole of it, but I remember it being pretty solid.

@uncalled4 I heard about I, but I don’t think I saw all of it.