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  1. May 23, 2020 · Like a lot of Kubrick’s work, especially the films toward the back half of his career, The Shining was greeted first with bafflement and hostility before people started to come around on it.

  2. Oct 25, 2012 · James looks at its growing cultural impact…. Inspiring devotion, imitation and obsession in equal measure, Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining inarguably stands ...

  3. May 22, 2020 · J ack Nicholson must have needed a lot of toothpaste. When he was starring in Stanley Kubrick’s horror movie The Shining (1980), he felt it a matter of common courtesy to brush his teeth before ...

  4. Jul 27, 2024 · The Big Picture. The Shining is a horror masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick, but Stephen King hated it, including Jack Nicholson's portrayal of Jack Torrance. Stephen King found Wendy's character ...

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  5. Feb 8, 2024 · When, in July 1976, John Calley sent Kubrick galley proofs of Stephen King’s manuscript of The Shining, he had found his source. King was already an enormously popular author, and film-makers discovered that his popularity could be successfully transferred to the screen. Adaptations of King’s novels were becoming a craze.

  6. Dec 19, 2021 · The truth is, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining could in no way be called a “faithful adaptation” of the source material. The book and movie are extremely divergent. And Kubrick all but disregarded the novel when making the film. King famously hated the adaptation in Kubrick’s film because it was such a far cry from his original story.

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  8. Jul 26, 2020 · When Kubrick’s film was released, King was already more than just famous – he was “a brand name”: his first two books, Carrie and Salem’s Lot, sold 35,000 copies in their hardcover editions and 4,5 million copies as paperbacks; The Shining was King’s first hardcover bestseller, reaching 50,000 copies sold. 47 Yet perhaps, and this was true for Burgess too, King kept talking about ...