Book vs. Movie

Rating: Null/10 (21 August 2003)

In books you get the visual aspect that you make up and you create and identify, thats the magic with books is that every scene and every image is conducted by you and you navigate through your mind with people that the writer brings to you and in movies its the alternative where the director brings you the images, the characters and you see it through the movies eyes and I guess with The Shining everything just drops both ways.
May contain Spoilers: I think Stanley Kubrick arguably is the best director we have , he didnt spoil us every year with a movie, in fact he only directed two movies during the eighties, what I like about Kubrick is his artistic visual sense. His craft blends in with perfect chemistry of character and that character's surroundings (hence Barry Lyndon). This movie was nothing from the book , and it was changed drastically in almost every scene but I overlook it for the fact almost seventy or ok maybe sixty five percent of movies today from books are rearranged or dont add up to the book. That's how movies are different than books, it doesnt necessarily make it right and Kubrick really should of went by the book and he could of captivated the audience with his art the same way if it was a maze or if it wasnt. If the building blew up in the end or if it didnt, the same attraction we would have. But I also think that once the writer gives his works to movies then its out of his hands and Stephen King can regret and resent Kubrick all he wants but its been twenty three years now and this movie has skyrocketed to fame. It's got eight stars out of ten on the IMDb and it deserves it. My favorite part from this movie was the cam tracking of the kid and in the hallway he see's the beginning of doom by the twins. I have seen bits and pieces of this film when I was a kid and I wouldnt even go near it, I was always watching Freddy Krueger movies and that was more simpleminded. But as I grew up I watched it in its full length and was stunned , I didnt even read the book then and when I did I found out some horrendous errors but to me it didnt matter, cheat or not or however Kubrick had done it, was done and you cant take away the artistic view because he changed the storyline. You can nail him on that but taking away the possession of this masterpiece for what it really boils down to , you cant!
I dont know if I would say Kubrick is my favorite director, so much of my favoritism isnt really in movies or actors or screenplays, etc. There for me is too much and hard to make a final decision but I know Kubrick is at least on my top five list. I liked the fact he only directed sixteen movies in a span of nearly fifty years. And the thing was they were all beautiful, the atmosphere in each piece brought us into a world as if we stepped into the movie, like in the purple rose of cairo where the movie star steps into reality, well its vice versa for us in Kubricks movies, in most of his best movies like Space Odyssey and Barry Lyndon he shows us a world as if it was painted and after staring at it for ten minutes or so your drawn into that world , your moving along as it goes. Not many directors can do that and when they can that is the genius of which we can identify as a truly, gifted, honorable giant of a place for two or three hours we can get lost in and not worry about anything...for the record Kubrick is the master of that!!!