Talking about The Shining. Didn't realise he hated the movie version of his book, particularly slating Jack Nicholson, and Shelley duvall's performance:eek:
Talking about The Shining. Didn't realise he hated the movie version of his book, particularly slating Jack Nicholson, and Shelley duvall's performance:eek:
Shelley Duvall's performance was amazingly good, the best protrayal of hysteria I have ever seen. She was too tired and worn out to be pretend hysterical, and had trouble holding up the knife and bat. The fatigue made her droop.
Strangely, King is one of few (maybe only) authors where I find that film adaptations of his novels are usually an improvement on the original book!
Half a dozen or so maybe (Carrie, Stand By Me, Green Mile, Shawshank, and Misery come to mind). The other 40 or so adapations of his books are pretty awful!
Kubrick's The Shining may not be true to the book, but it's still a brilliant film and infinitely more watchable than King's boring six hour long t.v. miniseries adaptation.
And it looks like Ben Affleck is adapting my favourite, The Stand, for a feature film. Not sure how that's going to work.
Talking about The Shining. Didn't realise he hated the movie version of his book, particularly slating Jack Nicholson, and Shelley duvall's performance:eek:
I thought King's dislike of "The Shining" film was
common knowledge.
Half a dozen or so maybe (Carrie, Stand By Me, Green Mile, Shawshank, and Misery come to mind). The other 40 or so adapations of his books are pretty awful!
Talking about The Shining. Didn't realise he hated the movie version of his book, particularly slating Jack Nicholson, and Shelley duvall's performance:eek:
Neither did I; it was most illuminating. I thought the (really scary) book It and Tommy Lee Wallace's screen version were both fine although they've successfully put me off clowns for good. :eek:
Half a dozen or so maybe (Carrie, Stand By Me, Green Mile, Shawshank, and Misery come to mind). The other 40 or so adapations of his books are pretty awful!
I agree. I would also like to add The Mist to your successful movie adaptions list. I love that movie.
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Shelley Duvall's performance was amazingly good, the best protrayal of hysteria I have ever seen. She was too tired and worn out to be pretend hysterical, and had trouble holding up the knife and bat. The fatigue made her droop.
Half a dozen or so maybe (Carrie, Stand By Me, Green Mile, Shawshank, and Misery come to mind). The other 40 or so adapations of his books are pretty awful!
I never read the books for the other tv series
And it looks like Ben Affleck is adapting my favourite, The Stand, for a feature film. Not sure how that's going to work.
However, my fav Stephen King is The Stand
I thought King's dislike of "The Shining" film was
common knowledge.
Some reviewers like The Dark Half as well.
Neither did I; it was most illuminating. I thought the (really scary) book It and Tommy Lee Wallace's screen version were both fine although they've successfully put me off clowns for good. :eek:
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Mine's the Stand too, even after all these years, (and I loved the miniseries with Rob Lowe)
I agree. I would also like to add The Mist to your successful movie adaptions list. I love that movie.