[ SECRET POST #5049 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5049 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[this was a text secret, I just screencapped it - I'm not one of the pretty secret makers, sorry]


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Comments

[philstar22]

I don't much like the Shining either. To me we don't get the progression of a character being driven to evil by the hotel because he starts out as not very nice to begin with. So that misses the whole arc of the story. I'm a big fan of the original Steven King story.

[(Anonymous)]

The spirit of the two are definitely very different (there is, for one, absolutely no ambiguity as to the supernatural occurrences in the book whereas the film seems to go with an ambiguous interpretation - I hear King either didn't like it or didn't find it scary at all?). I would, however, argue that Jack Torrance was also not very nice in the book either, although maybe yes a bit more compelling, for me at least.

[greghousesgf]

the version I heard was Stephen King said, "It's a very effective horror movie but it has little or nothing to do with my book."

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[(Anonymous)]

I THINK what Kubrick was going for was that Jack Torrence knows that he's a screw up and he's actively trying to be a better person so he tries to do right by wife and son by giving them a change in scenery and taking on a new job that allows him to pursue his passion. So the tragedy is that the hotel encourages his worse tendencies and eventually consumes him to make him a part of the hotel, hence his face appearing in that photo.

I never read the book as I've read some other novels by King (Carrie, Cujo, It, the first Gunslinger book) and they were terribly uninteresting to me. It seems to be a common sentiment that the book is better though which I can understand.