That was the entire point of the boiler room scene.
the real hotel wouldn't allow it.
He took what he wanted from the book, but had no interest in making a faithful adaptation. In doing so, he made the best horror movie ever made.
>>215670074based. adaptations do not have to be 'faithful to the source material'.
>>215670074very disrespectful
Film is better. Seethe and cope, Mr. King.
>>215670074In his picking and choosing though, he made an empty shell of a movie.
>>215670089it should be that's the point of adaptation
>>215670094you can't really measure different mediumsbesides you didn't even read the book, so you can't say that
if stephen king's vision were honored, It wouldve been child porn
>>215670117It is absolutely not.
>>215670049Bc it’s much more haunting to leave it open-ended, with the timeless evil still existing in the hotel. As King and e=his audiences have been saying for 35 years, his endings always suck. Kubrick was right to ditch it.Holy fuck I don’t even remember how the film actually ends now.
>>215670049Kubrick only adapted the book because Barry Lyndon was a flop and he knew he needed something with name recognition that would make money. He saw horror movies like The Exorcist and Carrie making bank and decided that was his in.
>>215670353It ends with the photo showing Robert and the rest of the kinoplex gang
>>215670353>Holy fuck I don’t even remember how the film actually ends now.Really? It zooms into a photo in hotel featuring Jack, suggestin either that:>Jack is the reincarnation of a hotel guest who died and is doomed to come backOr:>Jack became one of the ghost of the hotel
>>215670049I think Tarkowski would have made a better shining movie.
>>215670686>>215670920Oh yeah that’s right. So yeah definitely better leaving it open ended as Jack is an eternal evil part of the hotel.
>>215670049the book is retarded and could never be faithfully adapted 1-to-1 to the screen. kubrick completely elevated the material
>>215670920>orThere is no "or"If you die in the hotel, your ghost becomes part of the hivemind of ghostsGrady, for example, as a ghost did not know who he actually was anymore, he thought was/is/will forever be a waiter at the hotelhe would be added RETROACTIVELY to photos of the hotel, even ones from decades before he was ever there, or even bornThis is what happens to JackIt's not ambiguous at all, Jack was not literally "always" the caretaker, he was not in the picture before he died.If he had died 10 miles away from the hotel out in the woods, his ghost would not have been trapped inside the hotel's collectiveIt's extremely simple.
>>215670049>He did.
Movie's boring for the most partAlso I don't know why King was so offended since his book was already a ripoff of Burnt Offerings
>>215670049kubrick's autism would dictate to burn the real hotel, but as >>215670069 mentioned, burning timberline lodge would be a bit expensive
>>215670069Stephen King is not a great writer, the reason that the shining and 1408 are great is the actors and directors
>>215672716am I supposed to believe all people in the phtoo are ghosts?
Studios wanted the option of a sequel. Also Kubrick didn't give a shit about the source material and was just trying to pay some bills and turn shit into shinola in the process.
