The American author Stephen King complained of several adaptations of his books to the cinema, but never as much as of the film directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980: “Shining”.
In terms of horrific efficiency, the film shining signed Stanley Kubrick puts almost everyone in agreement. He made mythical some of his sequences for an entire generation. However, the film has a fervent detractor: the author Stephen King himself.
“He didn't want to take the time”
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Unhappy with the treatment of his story in the film, King did not chew his words, including as soon as the film was released in 1980. The one who wrote that in 1986 was invited to David Lettermanand declared:
“I find that [Kubrick] did a wonderful job, but I have a mixed feeling. There are a lot of things in this film that I find perfect and magnificent and at times, I have the feeling of having given a grenade to Stanley Kubrick and that he heroically threw his body on it. “
With hindsight, thirteen years later, he dared go further :: “A film has moved considerably from my book and failed, it is Shining. And if I find that he failed, it is because Kubrick wanted to make the horror film which would be the stallion meter of the horror film. And he did not want to take the time to grasp the atmosphere of the book. It is a failure due to the Hubris”. The Hubris designating, according to the Larousse,, “excess in behavior inspired by pride”.
“In my novel, the hotel burns and in Kubrick's film, it freezes”
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What is certain is that the director has indeed ignored the script written by Stephen King in favor of his, co-written by Diane Johnson, keeping shining as what interested him, and abandoning King's vision. The latter will enter a little more in the detail of what has deeply displeased him in the extracts used in this video who mixes different interviews by the author, and who says a lot:
“I believe that one of the things to which readers are most attached in my books is that there is a warmth, inviting the reader to be part of the story. Kubrick's shining was very cold (…) in my novel, the hotel burns and in Kubrick's film, he freezes. (…) In the role of Wendy, Shelley Duvall is not stupid, and is not stupid, women about which I write. “
Kubrick had to appreciate.
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