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I’m listening to the shining rn and god I fucking hate Jack Torrance. Like literally from chapter one I was like this man needs to die (some dreams do come true) and I’m sure that’s King’s intent.

Is he not going to give Stu and Fran a happy ending then?

I’m going to rewatch the shining but it’s honestly tainted by the fact that Kubrick tortured Shelley Duvall so much to get ~genuine reactions. Then whatshisface went on to do the same thing to JLaw w Mother!

scriptedending September 11 2019, 21:02:04 UTC

The book version of The Shining is so much better than the movie. I really should reread it.

talklikelions September 11 2019, 21:10:25 UTC

I’m really enjoying it! I initially got it bc I had an audible credit expiring and when in doubt, King, but I’m totally hooked. I think one of the problems w a lot of king books being made into movies is that so much of the fear is psychological. Like Pet Sematary? Good effort I guess but without Louis’s thought process being explained my bf said it didn’t make a lot of sense. But like...in the book is made so much sense and that was what made it scary to me, bc I was like “what would I do? WHAT IF....” and that’s terrifying!

And the shining, you start off hating Jack and you get Danny’s thoughts which genuinely adds soooo much to it

headcaseheidi September 12 2019, 18:16:02 UTC

#teamwendy

very late to this post but i definitely recommend the shining miniseries from the ‘90s if you haven’t seen it! carries a lot more nuance of the book and isn’t attached to any bts abuse like kubrick’s is

talklikelions September 12 2019, 19:08:16 UTC

I was just reading an article that mentioned that, I didn’t know about it until now! Apparently it bombed but King himself wrote it. Telling that he hates Kubrick’s version, as well. Ill give it a go!

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