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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts) Thu May 9, 2013, 12:25 PM May 2013

Making of "The Shining"

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Making of "The Shining" (Original Post) Blue_Tires May 2013 OP

Bookmarking to watch later, thanks Duer 157099 May 2013 #1

I wish Nicholson would do audiobooks. nytemare May 2013 #2

Do authors ever prefer the movie to their own book? jakeXT May 2013 #3

Duer 157099

(17,742 posts)

1. Bookmarking to watch later, thanks

Reply to Blue_Tires (Original post)

Thu May 9, 2013, 02:18 PM

May 2013

nytemare

(10,888 posts)

2. I wish Nicholson would do audiobooks.

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Thu May 9, 2013, 07:33 PM

May 2013

Love that guy.

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

3. Do authors ever prefer the movie to their own book?

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Thu May 9, 2013, 07:43 PM

May 2013

It's natural for authors to feel protective of their own novels, of the worlds and characters and ideas that they nurtured from the opening sentence. In some cases, that puts the author at odds with the film's audience; Stephen King famously hates Stanley Kubrick's The Shining because of Kubrick's thematic changes.
http://io9.com/do-authors-ever-prefer-the-movie-to-their-own-book-491686565

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