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Originally posted by HorrorJunkie17
~sidebar~ Has anyone seen the version of The Shining that is 6 hours long (like a miniseries)? Well anyone who's a big fan of the book should read it because unlike Stanley Kubrick's version of it, it follows the book almost 100%. I just watched it a couple of days ago and although no one can hold a candle to Jack Nicholson's performance in the original Shining, if you've seen the miniseries, you gotta admit it's a better, more explaining, story. Possibly because Stephen King actually had a bigger role in the actual MAKING of this film.

Stephen King did this because he never really cared for Stanley Kubrick's version...He said that it left too much of the story out...He was ESPECIALLY pissed off about downplaying the boiler threat...King has to have at LEAST 2 ominous factors in his stories working simultaneously...You know like, if the rabid dog doesn't get you, heat and suffocation will, that sort of thing...There are examples of the 'second element' in EVERY ONE of Stephen King's stories...If it hadn't bothered him SO much, and for SO long...This second version would never have been made...It "follows the book almost 100%" because that was its purpose...

King loved Jack's performance though...As well as Shelley Duvall's

No one can argue with Nicholson's skill in this movie...I truly believe that Jack Nicholson's performance ALONE is what kept King from just telling Kubrick, "Fuck it, I hate it, you ruined, I'm not allowing you to do it"