Man, it does me real good to see this. The Shining is my all time favorite movie, half because of the King story and half because of what Kubrick did with it. I'd always heard that King hated it, just despised it, and that always made me sad. I couldn't understand how he couldn't see at least _some_ artistic merit in it. -Now I see that he did in fact.
@kelliatlargeГод назад +3
They're both brilliant and work for their respective mediums imo. I think the best summation I've ever heard is "The best parts of the book are not in the movie, and the best parts of the movie are not in the book."
@audreymuzingo933Год назад +6
@@kelliatlarge Ooo I like that. Very true. I didn't read the book until I was in my late 20's, after already seeing the movie half a dozen times or so, and unfortunately with the notion in my head that King did not approve whatsoever, so I really had my guard up, and yet found the book truly brilliant. And that was indeed because of parts not in the movie, although I felt they were forgivable because they would have made the movie too long and/or couldn't be done well with 1980 tech (like the animated hedge animals -something I think would best be left out even now that it's possible, because they're conceptually terrifying but would look a bit silly visually -just me?).
I still don't doubt one thing I've heard -that a major beef King had with the movie was that it didn't focus "enough" on Jack's alcoholism. To me Kubrick addressed it amply, and judging by movies King had more of a direct hand in, he would beat us over the head with the struggle between addiction and sobriety at any chance, bless his heart. 😆
For me the movie is "home," so much more than just the scariest horror movie ever; bizarrely it comforts me and though I didn't realize it at the time, seeing it as a little kid may have saved me in various ways. I was Danny's age when I saw it at the drive-in, because common sense about exposing such a young child to such a thing was an example of the skills laking in the wolves who raised me. They loved me very much but not very well, locked in perpetual adolescence by alcohol and substance addiction. There was plenty of violence, mostly between the two of them but occasionally lapping over to us kids, and I held underlying constant fear that it could be even more so, that we might end up chopped up bloody meat piles, like the scenes in Vietnam my dad had seen, or in the nightmares my mom had, which they both saw fit to describe to us.
In short, I had already seen The Shining before I saw The Shining. But what I hadn't seen was how a tiny helpless kid could survive it. In Danny I saw such a person learn quickly to give up the automatic trust of parents so hardwired into every infant creature, in favor of an inner voice that knew better, knew when to embrace help from strangers, when to hide silently, and when to run, just run, get out.@kelliatlargeГод назад +4
@@audreymuzingo933 I'm sorry you had to experience that as a child. I can 100% understand how Danny's survival would bring hope and comfort. Actually that reminds me of one of my favorite essays by G.K. Chesterton, called "The Red Angel."
Quote: "Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon."
Look it up if you get a chance, the whole thing is worth reading.@audreymuzingo933Год назад
@@kelliatlarge I WILL, thank you!
@VickySwindollГод назад
The shining still gives me nightmares!
