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Halloween - Kubrick vs King - "Here's Johnny! The 45-Year War Over The Shining's Soul"
Stanley Kubrick turned Stephen King's most personal novel into a cinematic masterpiece—and King has never forgiven him. From the moment King watched Jack Nicholson prowl through Kubrick's cold corridors in 1980, he's waged war against the film that erased his story about alcoholism and redemption, replacing it with a meditation on inevitable madness. Featuring King's furious interviews calling the film "a beautiful Cadillac with no engine," Kubrick's silent dismissal of the criticism, and King's failed revenge with a 1997 TV miniseries that proved you can't kill a masterpiece. Marcus Reid…
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