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2020k wrote:A couple friends and I read The Shining about a month ago and I was a bit disappointed at how different it was from the movie. But, I suppose they're to be seen as two separate entities really, as Kubrick's work is still absolute flawlessness.

I had a friend at the bookshop I worked in who absolutely hated the film because it wasn't that close to the book, which she loved. I think I read it about 30 years ago(!). Thought it was a great horror novel, properly creepy. It was some time later that I saw Kubrick's interpretation. It didn't trouble me at all that it wasn't a page-for-page copy of the book. They're both great pieces of storytelling in their respective mediums. I wish more film adaptations of novels had the courage to be their own thing.

I didn't read the book, but it's funny how an artist rejects the others work so strongly even after many years. This film has the most uneasy feeling I ever had with films, even watching documentaries about how it was made makes me uncomfortable.

The brain in that head... Words to live by.