Or so you think......
That's the joke. I just think it's weird they run a twitter account for a dead man as a promotional tool.
Wait he's dead? But the blue checkmark.... Though that would explain his lack of output the last 20 years.
Yeah, the Illuminati got him to cover up their faking of the moon landing.
Considering his take on King, I am going to go with yes.
It has to suck when someone else took your work, and did so much better with it. Especially when they called you in the middle of the night to call you **** as well.
Wait what?It has to suck when someone else took your work, and did so much better with it. Especially when they called you in the middle of the night to call you **** as well.
I mean think about it. People don't remember the book. It's all about the movie.
King tells this story about Kubrick calling him in the middle of the night while making the Shining. Apparently Kubrick asked him if he believed in God. King has given multiple different version of what Kubrick said, but I specifically remember one where it seemed Kubrick was throwing shade at King for saying yes. Like, "of course you do". Another where Kubrick just hung up on King. They didn't like each other, and Kubrick did not like the material.Wait what?
Are we really going to have an argument over whether Kubrick's film or King's book is the "definitive" version of the Shining to the public? The first thing when you type The Shining into google, is the movie. Jack looking through the door is the image. Hell the Simpsons spoofed the movie, not the book.
I don't mean that "literally" no one knows it exist. My point it is that it took a backseat to the film a long time ago, and yes I would bet anything that more people know simply of the movie's existence then just the books. It is one of the issues King has with the movie. King was positive that Kubrick didn't understand the genre and made an awful film in general, not just an adaptation of his material. Instead it became the definitive take on the material.
Jack sitting in that office, seems like an alcoholic who is trying to get sober, and it isn't going well. He looks one bad conversation away from snapping and I have always liked that. He doesn't seem to like his family at all, and is so clearly tolerating them. Jack is the monster for Kubrick. He isn't "possessed" the house doesn't turn him evil. He's a bad person, who breaks from reality, during a ghost story. But the ghosts don't make him that person. He is that person.
