{"id":7416,"date":"2007-12-28T13:45:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T18:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2024-10-27T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T01:50:05","slug":"the-shining-book-to-film-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7416","title":{"rendered":"The Shining<\/i>: Book to Film Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

An excellent analysis.<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m a huge Stephen King fan – but to my taste, the best adaptations of his books are:<\/p>\n

The Dead Zone<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, Stand By Me<\/i> (adapted from Stephen King’s novella “The Body”) and The Shawshank Redemption<\/i> (adapted from his novella “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption) – both included in the collection Different Seasons<\/a>\"\"<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I love all of King’s stuff (well, maybe not Rose Madder<\/a>\"\"<\/i>) – but I think there are problems adapting his more terrifying stuff to the screen. The book It<\/a>\"\"<\/i> is one of my favorite books of all time – literally, ever – and I couldn’t bear to watch the mini-series. I was too scared that it would LIMIT the book (a sensation that Jonathan covers in his post). How could the monster “It” ever be more frightening than what I saw in my own mind? The book lives in my memory banks in such vivid completeness that I didn’t want to muck with it by seeing a director’s interpretation of it – and the special effects just couldn’t measure up to what lived, horrifyingly, in my mind. Same with The Stand<\/a>\"\"<\/i>, another masterpiece.<\/p>\n

Anyway: go check out Jonathan’s great post<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An excellent analysis. I’m a huge Stephen King fan – but to my taste, the best adaptations of his books are: The Dead Zone, Stand By Me (adapted from Stephen King’s novella “The Body”) and The Shawshank Redemption (adapted from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,4],"tags":[969,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103494,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions\/103494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}