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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2017

      Kurbrick always re-worked his source material. It's interesting that this bothered populist Stephen King more than elitist Vladimir Nabokov

      23 replies 18 retweets 213 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      It's odd that there have been some truly awful Stephen King movie adaptations but the one King really hates is Kubrick's The Shining

      69 replies 22 retweets 302 likes
    3. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 4 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      IIRC, Anthony Burgess was pretty annoyed by the lopping off of the last chapter of A Clockwork Orange

      4 replies 0 retweets 13 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2017
      Replying to @CathyYoung63

      He was -- and thought that this altered the meaning of the book. Virtually everyone Kubrick adapted was unhappy with results except Nabokov!

      4 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
    5. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 4 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Hmm. I like the movie, but it's not really Lolita. It changes the story from pedophilia to a middle-aged man's sexual obsession

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2017
      Replying to @CathyYoung63

      I know -- which is why it's strange that Nabokov didn't resent the movie but liked it.

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    7. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 4 Aug 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Maybe b/c Kubrick & Nabokov have somewhat siimilar sensibility -- cerebral, perversely ironic, keeping emotional distance from the material

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Aug 2017
      Replying to @CathyYoung63

      Exactly. Both chess players as well. By contrast, King though Kubrick too cold. "It's a warm book but a cold movie" was his complaint.

      9:46 PM - 4 Aug 2017
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        2. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 4 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Ooh, didn't know Kubrick was also a chess player! Would have loved to see him tackle The Defense (or The Luzhin Defense, in Russian)

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        3. Jeff Foster‏ @grung0r 4 Aug 2017
          Replying to @CathyYoung63 @HeerJeet

          In Dr Strangelove, George Scott refused to play Turgidson as over the top as Kubrick wanted. They would play chess over it. Guess who won?

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        2. P. Bone‏ @p_bone 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @CathyYoung63

          Right, he'd spent a lot of effort making the main character's slow fall into madness the main story, Kubrick starts him off as insane

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        3. ΟΣΥΜΑΝΔΥΑΣ‏ @Rachel_O 5 Aug 2017
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          It's been a while, but I didn't see Kubrick's Jack Torrence as initially insane. Abusive tendencies, but not insane.

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