12-16-2012, 10:55 PM
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From The Beyond
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Gates Of Hell
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Originally Posted by The_Knife
Kubrick's Shining is just that: Kubrick's Shining. It's a very separate entity to the King novel. As a piece of celluloid, the imagery, for me, is totally memorable. The whole thing has a hypnotic, dreamlike (or nightmarish) quality. I also remember that 2-part tv adaptation of the novel, penned for the screen by King himself. Even though that was significantly more faithful to the source material, I much prefer the Kubrick Shining as something that exists for the screen in the same way that, if you were to convert Kubrick's Shining directly into a novel, it'd be an utter mess.
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Couldn't have put it better myself 100% agreed :)
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