I always thought Kubrick's The Shining was just a coat of a Stephen King book, essentially his own work. In The Shining, Kushen focused on creating a pattern of space, suppressing the horror to the point of suffocating. He concealed all the ins and outs of Yuanwang Hotel in the original work (it was ambiguously involved), and he didn't even pay much attention to it. Find out what kind of thing the Shining is. He focused all his experiences on the Yuanwang Hotel itself, and some seemingly inadvertent horror points achieved a deep horror effect of deep thought.
Therefore, The Shining, which does not rely on ghosts to scare people, stands out among the horror films of ghosts and blood, and is still a masterpiece in the field of horror films.
This is so, Kubrick's style of going his own way, although the IP Shining shines, it also successfully angered Stephen King (you can think about the second-hand store owner in Joker Returns 2). A face with grim, persistent and disdain). Because the movie version of The Shining has tampered with a lot of the content of the movie, the worldview, themes and other aspects of the performance are also very different.
Probably for the purpose of honoring his own work, Stephen King personally wrote the script for The Shining's orthodox sequel "Doctor Sleep" (the original novel's name is "Doctor Long Dream") nearly forty years later. To a certain extent, Doctor Sleep describes a more pure world of Shining, which is more in line with Stephen King's works about the Yuanwang Hotel and The Shining.
You can understand him as the original work of The Shining (because Kubrick's version is too classic, and the film has many tributes), you can also understand this work as an interpretation of the world of The Shining, as love and love continuation of responsibility. . . Old fans can definitely get a lot of surprises from this film. And the new powder. . . Personally, I think this film has a high threshold for new fans, and it is not very friendly.
The time of this film is more than two hours, which is a relatively long time, which allows him to have a very sufficient space to have a complete, specific and in-depth discussion of the male protagonist Danny's growth line, psychological activities and experiences. The space to introduce the part about the extension of the world view.
The film embodies the true identity and function of the so-called Shining through specific plots. The Shining is not a separate spiritual body, but the spiritual power of people with special abilities. The spiritual power of ordinary people is also limited by physical space, and will be dependent on the body. However, Shining with powerful spiritual power will break through the limitations of physical space, see everything he sees (such as the little girl and the devil in the film), and even transcend the time limit and make predictions (such as the male protagonist Dan) Ni). The interpretation of The Shining also makes the main contradiction of this series, driven by the horror of the previous work, into the spiritual power confrontation of this work.
In the tense battle between good and evil, the film adds a lot of humanity and warmth through the character of Danny. And this relatively soft setting, combined with sufficient space, makes the image of adult Danny more vivid and concrete. The adult Danny's Shining ability is degraded because of his age and the reason of fighting the hotel ghost. Therefore, although he knew that there was a cult that sucked the lives of the Shining people, he didn't want to care about it, until he was taught by the black Shining, and began to fight against the cult gang resolutely. The reincarnation of the spirit is almost cursed. The image of Danny, through this treatment, is more real and complete.
Cult gangs, I understand Stephen King to open a hole for the follow-up works. At the end of the film, Danny, who has become The Shining, chats with the heroine, saying that these people from the cult may come again. It may be an introduction left for the sequel. Through some plots, the film introduces the ins and outs of cult gangs more clearly, including their ways of attracting people, their standards of attracting people, their way of life, and even their lifespan and operation time. But the only thing they don't know is the nature of their lives: are they the Shining ones who have fallen into evil, or something else? Regarding the origin of this evil thing, I personally think that it may be reflected in later works (or the original work has already said it?).
Doctor Sleep is a very good movie, although the change in content and focus has changed the genre a lot. However, this film emphasizes the routines and anti-routines of spiritual power, and through tribute and inheritance, it has a deep connection with the previous work. . . These are still impressive.
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