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Originally Posted by Niamh.

I love Stephen King as an author but I find that his books don't often translate well to film (or maybe the ones that were made were just made at a bad point in time) so i fnd it odd that he wouldn't like The Shining considering, imo, it was one of the best films

It isn't all that faithful to the book though, it left out a lot (...most? ) of the actual stuff about "The Shine" which is a major element that runs through many of King's books e.g. many of the characters in The Stand have it - Mother Abigail being the obvious example, but also Tom Cullen definitely and heavily implied with Fran, but potentially ALL of the plague survivors have it to some extent as they all dream of Abigail / The Man In Black if they're good / bad respectively. Also at least a couple of the "IT" core cast.

Another obvious example is John Coffey, like the drink, only not spelt the same. And lots of theories that "Carrie" also has a form of The Shine.


But yeah, it plays a huge part (obviously...) in The Shining but it's mostly glossed over in the Kubrick movie, despite the... err... title. I suppose that would be somewhat frustrating as an author. It's a good "simple horror adaptation" but the roots are severed.