![]() ![]() Stephen King’s The Shining miniseries made the ghosts more outwardly and obviously scary to denote that they were a threat. Instead, a major reading of the movie suggests that, from The Shining’s recurring Native American art motifs through to the lavish Gilded Age parties that the ghosts hold, the Overlook instead came to represent an idealized version of America’s past that sweeps its bloody reality under the rug. In Kubrick’s version of the story, the ghosts of the Overlook no longer represented Jack’s struggle with addiction, and thus his heroic self-sacrifice at the end of the movie was cut. Much of what Stephen King took issue with from Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining was the director’s decision to make Jack Torrance a less relatable protagonist, with the famously cold and clinical director instead shutting viewers out of the character’s head. For example, Netflix’s underrated 2020 chiller Things Heard and Seen is technically based on the novel All Things Cease To Appear by Elizabeth Brundage but in terms of theme, the movie borrows a lot of its story from Kubrick’s version of The Shining-but not Stephen King’s original novel. Despite this apparent impenetrability, The Shining has gone on to influence almost every horror movie made since its release in one way or another. There are so many readings of Kubrick’s The Shining that an entire documentary, Room 237, has been dedicated to expounding on various interpretations of the enigmatic movie. Related: How Lisey's Story Is The Most Autobiographical Of Stephen King's Stories Critics, meanwhile, have come to view T he Shining as a classic of horror cinema, and one of the most labyrinthine texts in the history of the genre. ![]() The author has softened his initial distaste and admitted the adaptation has its merits(perhaps because King’s directorial efforts followed Kubrick’s cues and strayed from their source text). ![]() In the decades since the movie’s initial release, the time has been kind to Kubrick’s version of The Shining. ![]()
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