tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808487949051617772.post7322118316388064922..comments2023-10-18T03:50:27.006-04:00Comments on xoxoxo e: the shiningxoxoxohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11993751439653647136noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808487949051617772.post-9198927383519636382011-11-09T16:30:06.200-05:002011-11-09T16:30:06.200-05:00Thanks! I have never been able to get on board wit...Thanks! I have never been able to get on board with calling the film a masterpiece, because of that lame decision. It's especially nasty, because it's perpetrated on a character that the audience has really connected with - Hallorann and the rest of us are the only ones outside of the hotel and we want to get them out of there. Stupid, stupid, stupid. But I do love the chase in the snowy hedge maze.<br /><br />Re the sexual imagery - the scene that jumped out at me, that bugged me, was Danny in the ballroom with the elephant clock. Clockwork figures came out and performed a lewd act. Danny didn't even pick up on the sex - he just thought "gross." So why did King and the "ghosts" want to expose a 5 year-old to that? I guess I felt that King was really pushing it pretty far as it was to have a such a young child be so world-aware and put in such danger and that was just too much for me.<br /><br />I read The Stand years ago and really liked it. It was a paperback edition I bought at a used bookstore. As much as I really liked it I can't imagine it being longer. Especially if some of the extended stuff included more of the wack-a-doodle character (I forget his name) who is so fond of blowing things up. I really hated him.<br /><br />Some authors I guess, after they achieve great success, are treated as untouchable. J.K.Rowling comes to mind. Boy, would I have wanted to take a red pencil to books 5, 6 and 7. I haven't read any of King's Gunslinger series yet, because they are long and seem like quite a commitment. I just took Duma Key out of the library. We'll see ...xoxoxohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11993751439653647136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808487949051617772.post-20795341388422180922011-11-09T13:54:32.616-05:002011-11-09T13:54:32.616-05:00"The Shining drags a bit, is too long. I thin..."The Shining drags a bit, is too long. I think if it was tighter, it would have been even scarier."<br /><br />Stephen King needs an editor, and this becomes more obvious with each successive book. I didn't read <i>The Stand</i> when it first appeared, but recently read the re-issue wherein King has restored the passages the editor had deleted, and it is one heck of a bloated book. Wonderful ideas, etc. etc., but far too long. And this from one who grew up on Victorian lit. and loves it still.<br /><br />"The hotel (and author) expose Danny to sexual imagery for no really good reason except to shock."<br /><br />Shock whom, the reader / audience or Danny? I thought it added to the evil of the hotel, myself, although perhaps I need to read the book again -- I haven't read it since it was first published.<br /><br />"Kubrick completely screws up the character of Hallorann and subjects him to a very unnecessary and cheap shot at the end of the film, which is most definitely not in the book."<br /><br />And that is something I never forgave him for. I can understand simplifying down the characters, since you don't have the luxury of book-length exposition, but not this. Hallorann is the balance to Danny, and not a throwaway character.--MarioJJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13404985455733545060noreply@blogger.com