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
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Replying to @HeerJeet
IIRC, Anthony Burgess was pretty annoyed by the lopping off of the last chapter of A Clockwork Orange
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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!
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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He takes a porn mag to a job interview
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Wait, does Jack Torrance do that? I missed it.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Reading a Playgirl at the interview:https://m.imgur.com/gallery/aoQAY
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