In message , Kent Betts
writes
"Christopher M. Jones"
I cut Kubrick a vast amount of slack because 2001 and The
Shining were much more his than the authors', and quite the
better for it. And the movies were still enough like the
books to wear their labels.

The Shining is word for word accurate in the movie....the most accurate film
adaptation I can think of.

Variety saw it differently.
"With everything to work with, director SK has teamed with jumpy Jack
Nicholson to destroy all that was so terrifying about SK's
best-seller... Kubrick sees things his own way, throwing 90% of King's
creation out".
Including the "shining" - the boy's clairvoyance.
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