Is that although Kubrick was a brilliant film maker who made absolutely brilliant films, he was horrible at making faithful adaptations. The Shining, while being brilliant in its own way, was an atrocious adaptation. Clockwork Orange deviates significantly from the book. So what bothers me is how any time there is talk of novels being adapted, such as Oryx and Crake for example, his name always gets brought up.
shareUnless one feels (as I do) that the novel is really ruined by the explosive ending. Then you see Kubrick's film as an improvement over the novel, and the mini-whatever-the-hell-that-was.
A film is not a book. Thank God.
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Kubrick's film - will always be the definitive version of The Shining.
A film is not a book. Thank God.
Yep, "thank god" for you, because I doubt you could actually be bothered to sit through ANY book. You are a pompous, condescending moron. You are not as intelligent as you keep boasting to be.
You spend entirely too much time thinking and writing about me on IMDb message boards. Interesting how my posts or comments about films always create these personal attacks from others:
"I don't like this film because ____________"
"Well then you're just a complete a$$hole because I disagree!"
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At least I struck a nerve.
"He was horrible at making faithful adaptations".
As in, he tried his damndest to be faithful, but just couldn't hack it? Also, apart from the ending, A Clockwork Orange played it pretty close to the source material.
"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan
You clearly don't know Kubrick if you think he had any intent on making faithful adaptations.
His whole MO was taking source material and using his perspective/vision of it to let it evolve into something new.
Actually, the ending was pretty faithful to the ending of the American version of the novel he was adapting :)
shareA Clockwork Orange does not deviate significantly from the book.
shareBooks are different than films.
Books have to change often quite alot to make the movie work (due to time) but also due to story flow.