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« on: August 06, 2017, 12:52:01 PM »
The Shining is one of my favorite books. The movie was a major disappointment. The book chronicles Jack Torrence's slow descent into madness but in the movie, it seems like he's more than halfway there to begin with. There's not a lot of suspense watching Jack Nicholson go crazy when his characterization seems Walter Brennan on acid. The Wendy character is a much stronger and resouceful character in the book.
Worst of all, for me, the screenplay jettisons almost all of the supernatural elements and seems to revolve around a very severe case of cabin fever. A lot of arbitrary changes are made in the transition from book to film. Too many of them were pointless.
Stephen King's stories are very vivid in description but, for some reason, few of them have adapted well to the screen.