stephen king Returns To the shining With doctor sleep

[@binklebabe4725]

Always remember that, at his core, King is a STORYTELLER. People emphasize his horror writing, but his characters are so complex, you can't say they are all good or all bad. They are all human. King has a real gift for really bringing his characters to life in a believable way. He also has the rare gift, as a male writer, of getting into the female mind in a believable way. He can write about any age group and sound true. He is truly a genius.

[@attackontitanfollower]

The only story that Stephen king should of never written is Storm Of The Century

[@katieb2098]

"love creates horror" best and truest thing ive ever hears

[@BeelySalasBlair-uy5wn]

❤🤍🖤

[@Matt-rm5ir]

I respect both creators. Kubrick and King I mean. Both created truly groundbreaking material, even if there are strong differences between them. King had a set story in place, and Kubrick read that story but saw it in a completely different light, he had his own interpretation of the novel; actually, he had his own version of the book which was created only for film. Both are creative geniuses and their work shows it greatly.

[@REECEM92]

Doctor Sleep is a fantastic book. I have read it twice and The Shining book about 5 times. :)

[@mrbojangle6118]

Which book is better.

[@djdragon2351]

Mr Bojangle That’s tough for me to pick. Both books are really good

[@ashlynyoung9020]

i love this writer !

[@Elflightwarrior]

Stephen King is a legend!

[@matthewballon9948]

If King's books are not cold, then who should be directed the shining instead, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott?

[@Elflightwarrior]

@@matthewballon9948 Cold? What?

[@matthewballon9948]

@@Elflightwarrior he mentioned Kubricks movie is cold, but Stephen King isn't a cold person, neither are his books have a warmth

[@Elflightwarrior]

@@matthewballon9948 Oh, okay. But like you said it, at least to me Stephen King is incredibly benevolent and sympathetic!

[@miakaal]

King was my favourite author, and I still believe that The Long Walk is on of the best stories I ever read. Closely followed by The Running Man. Then his books just didn't jibe with me. And they haven't since. Misery was the last, boring.

[@virgogaming6488]

King is spot on about the movie, its a nihilistic take on his book.

[@Rodwayy]

I get why Stephen King is mad about Stanley's version of the shining, I mean, he completely changes wendy and cuts out a lot of the story, but when Stephen King made the mini-series I thought it was boring, when it comes to books you need to explain it but when it comes to video you need to explain it visually not through speech. In Stanley's version, there was a lot more action but in Stephen's version 50% of the mini-series was just talking. Either way, I respect both creators I just think the mini-series was boring. Hate me all you want but at the end of the day it's just my opinion.

[@moorsidefc]

The Greatest

[@humanentity2214]

The shining is one of my favorite films. Just came back from watching Doctor sleep. Slow brew but very good 👌

[@GetToDaChoppa-k5r]

I love King but he looks like a character from a Dr. Seuss book.

[@georgeshotrodbarn2113]

The first book i read from cover to cover was the shining at age forty.

[@katieb2098]

"love creates horror"

[@michaelcanada6583]

I respect the hell out of king but i disagree with him entirely. The shining is a deep and amazing movie

[@denniskissane2300]

Kubrick's film is awesome but it does cut some interesting stuff

[@susanmctavish6639]

Luckily I was like 17 when I started reading King and I never really expected to be scared to to death. I had already seen movies like Poltergeist at 8 years old. I just wanted good stories and that is what I got.

[@matthewmedley8532]

I would love to see king write a sequel to It where penny wise returns. ALways felt there was the potential to do that.

[@zzzhuh]

Imagine IT comes back and kills of the rest of 'The losers club' and then Danny somehow ends up in Derry, where he works at the local hospital, and finds that kids are being killed. Danny then has to confront IT and uses his Shine to create a lock box and conceals Pennywise in it. That whole thing would just be bad ass.

[@Unqualifiedmedicalperson]

Kind of hard for Pennywise to return though. You know, since the losers ripped out and destroyed his heart.

[@hotelbastard7853]

I’m not a cold guy either. Blood is warm, and therefore it should be experienced.

[@_Sedorikku97]

I'm so glad he feels the same way as I do with The Shining movie.

[@zzzhuh]

I just started Doctor Sleep so I'm not too sure. But I have read the shining, and I have read IT. I think it would be awesome to see Danny Torrence meet IT. It seems that the losers club, specifically Bill had a bit of the shine. But someone like Danny that can create lock boxes would prove to be very dangerous to something like IT. It'll never happen, but fuck. What a cool idea to think about. Anyone else wonder if Maturin the turtle is responsible for giving people 'the shine?'

[@FeedLikeDW]

zzzhuh wondered this myself

[@CherylFloyd]

This was great. I am a humanities major, homeschooler, and classical educator. There is a lot of philosophy and human inspection in King's work. He IS literary and not just scary. If you can truly scare a reader it is from a place of human observation. In The Shining, he makes the reader care about all three characters. One sees one's self as a spouse, as a sinner, as a parent, as a child. One feels the negative self talk, and the helpful "voices". It IS a warm book, and the film IS a cold film. The film is not made for the story but for the art. OK. I just think that if you want to do so, then get your own story and don't redrum someone else's. I hate that one form of art wants respect but is crafted at the disrespect and consumption of another. Kubrick didn't make his film for money the same way King didn't write his book for cash. They are both artists. I just wonder what The Shining could have looked like if they had collaborated and respected the artifact of the story with the art of film.

[@BeelySalasBlair-uy5wn]

❤

[@lone-welf]

it ended just as it got good. cool.

[@tmoody1998]

I first started at age 9

[@mrboston1738]

im glad hes a Red Sox fan hes scary .

[@maadmaestro]

Always thought Kubrick was way off the novel...Strange to hear King's confirmation for the first time here...thanx...Where's the rest?

[@dannydarko7565]

@Move_I_Got_This you are SOOOOOOOO WRONG! KUBRICK'S FILM WAS A MASTERPIECE

[@AdamRee-lx8uh]

Danny Long Legs He is actually talking about the shining miniseries that released after the film version.

[@gotohellaaron]

I'm looking for the entire The Shining mini series because I've never watched it before. Does anyone know where I can find it?

[@nicholasjanke3476]

I liked the book The Shining and the tv made remake best of all. The Kubrick film is good but Kubrick instead chooses to focus only on the horror effects and not as much on the characters as the book does. So I thought the remake got that part better.

[@mja4752]

king should not meddle with cinema ... it bs an art form he does not understand ... just watch the shinning tv serials ...

[@NetTubeUser]

@lolilol A -- Pardon me, but... so what? We are talking about his book here. And who made a film about his book? ... Stanley Kubrick. So, in this case, I'm sorry but you are wrong. You dislike the TV series? Well, that's your own opinion. Don't get me wrong because the movie "The Shining" by Stanley Kubrick is one of my favorite movies of all time since I was 15. But what you say here is irrelevant and really rude. Specificity about Stephen King who is the author of the book. So, please... even if you love, like me, Stanley Kubrick very much... please, don't be arrogant and condescending. Be respectful when you speak about the author of the book because it's his creation... OK? Thank you.

[@nicholasjanke3476]

Stanely Kubrick:"In the book Wendy Torrance is depicted as an intelligent, gorgeous, blonde, model type. But with these features the reader wonders why she's been married to a creep like Jack for so long. The ending of the book seemed very hackneyed to me.

[@supernovagirl5741]

What hit home with doctor sleep was how Danny was a binge drinker and his father was an alcoholic

[@marlasinger6989]

I always thought Harold Lauder was his most autobiographical character (well, aside from the obvious Paul Sheldon), because he was the most interesting and complex... King is one of my all-time fave authors, and I think he is a brilliant storyteller and hilarious wordsmith, but 3-dimensional characters are not his strong suit ...

[@jbro8934]

I'm still waiting for the third installment of The Talisman.

[@cybernautadventurer]

When King said ''Love creates horror'' - sorry but that isn't always true. At least in movies.

[@jessicaluce3745]

I wish they would have done a Stephen King approved version of the shining movie and then done a sequell to that

[@ashleytroup8928]

They did it's a made for tv version closer to the book

[@jessereale]

They did and it was awful.

[@theloyalone100]

Where is the rest of the interview?

[@govindanashkar8436]

I thing, King Sir is being too harsh with the film...God knows what was his problem with Stanley Kubrick, personally👆

[@possessedbyhorror4685]

I love Stephen king his books are really good some better and I do agree with him his books have warmth in them and I did not at all like Stanley Kubrick's version of the shining it had a cold feeling to it and it was nothing like the book and I also really love his trump tweets super funny

[@prycetag09]

@GuiltyUntillProvenSober I disagree that it lacked narrative structure, I think King keeps track of where and when things are taking place pretty well, even when he keeps cutting between Hallorann and the family. You could also look at Jack's fate in the book as a man despairing at his inability to take care of his family and ultimately deciding they are better off without him, pretty fatalistic 'redemption'

[@videogamesTSH]

The movie is better don't @me

[@AdamRee-lx8uh]

Stephen King loves the film, but he doesn’t like the adaptation of his novel.

[@fluffyfiber]

I feel sad. I'm completely immune to horror films and books. I enjoy them, but I don't get scared

[@jenniferjohann2505]

Same and I'm 12

[@garbageday587]

Cubic Same and I'm 54 . I never understood how people would get scared by words on papers..

[@1805movie]

Cubic It means you've conquered your fear. I use to be scared of Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Chucky, and so forth, but the more I've watched the films, the more I understood how to be brave. You focus more on the story, and the characters, and find out how they'll overcome their fear. Plus, I've seen so many horror films that I'm just use to it.

[@themadlibrarian2933]

You would like a quote from Ambrose Bierce, author of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and other short stories that runs something like: "If you are going to be upset over the death of imaginary people, you might as well take up knitting!"

[@Paranoidrobot1982]

KING has no idea what horror is. Maximum Overdrive is evidence.

[@oldschool3424]

He wrote that as a b movie

[@supernovagirl5741]

I'd have to disagree with you some stories he's written are pure nightmare fuel his short stories in particular reading Gramma made my blood run cold and I don't scare easily lol

[@thoughtfinder]

I never liked Stanley Kubrick's version of the Shinning either. It didn't make any sense to me. Plus it didn't have the character Horace Derwent which was a main attribute to the book.

[@dannydarko7565]

Because you are an idiot and you dont understand REAL BRILLIANT film makers you moron

[@prycetag09]

Come on now, he's referenced at most (the fact that the derwent family has some stake in the overlook is slightly more focused on) but he's not as important as is the simple knowledge that a lot of terrible and deviant things happened at the Overlook

[@thoughtfinder]

@@prycetag09 this just came back to memory and I would like to share this with you. To my knowledge Horace Derwent was not mentioned at all in the 1980 version of the shinning. Stephen King once recalled the fist telephone long distance call he had with Stanley Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick asked Stephen King if he believed in the afterlife which he yes I do. But Stanley Kubrick said he had no such belief in life after death. That influenced the way Stanley Kubrick wroth script. Stanley Kubrick saw Jack Torrance going mad from isolationism inside the hotel rather the hotel spirits making I'm made

[@jbiz1346]

I think Kubricks the shining was 1k fold scaier than anything king wrote. The fact that king cant appreciate it shows what a total dbag he is. While kubrick appreciated kings books and made a movie which made king more famous, King can`t appreciate arguably one of the scariest and best horror movies ever made= total Dbag and all from ego..

[@prycetag09]

Imagine if you wrote a book one way and you were pretty proud of it, then a creepy pervert came to you and said he was making some changes to your story, characters and tone, how would you feel?

[@aitakemi]

@@prycetag09 That's subjective. I personally wouldn't mind as long as they give me credit as the original author. King should've kissed Kubrick's ass for turning his book into one of the most treasured and iconic film in all cinematic history while still choosing to retain King's name in it cause lets be real, The Shining film might as well be an original work inspired by the book, Kubrick could've changed the title, characters and hotel names and credit King's book as an inspiration for his film. All I see here is just bitterness from King that the adaptation (especially one he disliked) is valued far more than his original work.

[@p4u7y]

I don’t know why people hyped him. He’s mediocre at best and if it wasn’t for Kubrick he’s just another run in the mill horror writer

[@fooel7630]

2:07 I love how Stephen King doesn’t hide his true feelings about what he thought about The Shining

[@dannydarko7565]

I LOVE you Stephan King but you are SOOOOOO wrong!!! Kubricks film was a masterpiece

[@oldschool3424]

Yes. Because if someone disagrees with you, they’re wrong. Because as we all know, you’re the most important person on the planet, and the universe revolves around you

[@CubixRube]

I'm 10 and I really didn't think The Shining or 'Salem's lot were really that scary. I'm not saying that they were bad, but they didn't scare me at all.

[@guileniam]

Cubix Rube book or movie?

[@CubixRube]

Both

[@zzzhuh]

I still find when Danny goes in Room 217 to be horrifying. The fact that you are 10 and have read those, is awesome.

[@constancekreese8946]

I didn't like it I dreamed for years of the sequel, I felt Wendy and jack was bad casting