I don't find Nicholson's performance funny, maybe the famouse Here's Johnny scene is kind of funny, but so what? King and his fans also complained that Nicholson seemed abosolutley totaly insane from the start rather than gradually going nuts as the story unfiolds. I disagree with that too. Also, yes, Kubrick was interested in artistic photography, but he was always interested in the story, whether it be science fiction, horror, war or whatever. I personally love Kubrick's version of the Shining and De Palma's version of Carrie. Kubrick and De Palma are two of my favorite directors and I look for their trademarks when I watch one of theier films.
> Stephen King has complained about the film
> versions of many of his novels. He hated The Shining.
> Despite the fact that it was a Stanley Kubrick film which
> starred Jack Nicholson. Partly because Jack Nicholson was
> more comic than scary and partly because Kubrick was more
> interested in artistic photography than he was in the
> horror elements of the story.
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