While it should be noted that Shining director Stanley Kubrick is kinda crazy and hard to work with, to the point he drove the actor for Wendy insane, Steven King had slandered him as sexist by calling Kubrick depiction of Wendy "misogynistic".
This, along with the other bashing of the 80's film by King is likely why Stanley Kubrick forced him to sign an NDA to make him shutup in exchange for the movie rights needed for the late 90's miniseries. Steven King would later gloat about the NDA expiring with Stanley Kubrick's death.
Steven King would later attract controversy for defending the Regressive Left and bashing Trump.
It was better than anything king ever did.
I would say the black kid in IT was pretty normal. But I get your point.
I think the funniest thing with King is he writes sex scenes like someone that has never had sex or a normal relationship,
Given the children in IT were, well, children, and he's a Lefty elite, I'm rather glad he's writing those sex scenes like someone who never has done so, because that clock gets reset way too often.
I'd kinda forgotten the IT stuff but was thinking more of the adult ones he includes in every book. Haven't read him in years though. The worst was the older couple in 'Insomnia' and the ones in 'Tommyknockers'. I could always sense them coming and I'm just thinking "please, no dude, just stop!".
I never read the book, but I always thought the movie character was a refreshingly realistic woman. She was exactly how you'd expect someone to act in that situation.
No, she should have used fantasy girl-karate to quickly disarm a Jack that happened to be stumbling into her instead of swinging at her and knock him on his ass, then reluctantly spare him as he breaks down and grovels at her feet to not be axed to death.
Like how Black Widow is able to have armed men miss every shot within 10 feet of her as they stumble into her Ray Mysterio moves and go down with zero resistance.
Agreed. Although the book has a more positive ending
I like the book more than the movie, but I enjoy watching the movie for Jack Nicholson's acting.
Funny coming from someone who writes sex scenes with kids and a kid orgy in IT
Children don't count, his Hollyweird artist elite buddies rape them on the regular and after that IT thing, I'm not sure King isn't an active participant. Grownass women whose complaints earn you attention and money now? That does. What will small children do? Fucking sue them? Go public like Corey Feldman did so they can publicly ridicule them?
King needs to go back to doing drugs and being a sicko. That fried brain of his is not good for anything else.
Some people will say "portraying something in fiction doesn't mean you support it". Which is true, but in this case it was absolutely unnecessary, portrayed as a positive thing and the absolute same message could have been sent by a million other things that don't involve a bunch of little boys running a train on a little girl.
He wanted to include that specific thing.
I always assumed it was some fantasy he had from high school.
(but he was probably a creepy weirdo that girls wouldn't go anywhere near)
Never heard of it, and I can see why.
He must be possessed by the same demon that goes around shooting up schools.
I actually like his books but he is a rabid leftist. It’s trendy to call everything in the past sexist.
King is a moron. Anyone making a movie based on his stuff has to filter out all the dumb shit cokehead logic and ideas from it. e.g. Christine was a far, far better movie than the book was a book, because John Carpenter actually told an interesting story about the car.
King is a pedo, fuck him
...But she wins?
to be honest, I enjoyed the movie, but got sick of the way they portrayed the Dad. I read the book first, and was looking forward to that.
Kubrick wanted people going crazy, and he got that. He never got the fascinating middle bit where they're trying to figure things out, and then the Dad killing himself to save his son.
King grew up far left leaning, and never really looked any deeper than that. IT for example has tons of stereotypes and other bits that look good to a lefty in the 80's but look bad now. He trapped himself by never looking.
The Stand had a scene where a deranged cult of black soldiers is executing people on live television.
Imagine if they actually included it in a new TV adaptation, about which I only know they actually did it (during Covid no less).
BLM? Or just a show?
It was written in like 1978 or whatever.
Ah,I misunderstood your question. I meant they made the TV series, which I was sure would be canceled.
Oh. Well, it's happening now. We just need a bomb to finish it up.
Well he wrote it, so..
?! Wendy? I'm assuming here that the Dead Horse of how Scatman Crothers' character was totally swept under the bus remains dead and has not risen like some 50 year old zombie ....
I mean, there's a lot to complain about re: Kubrick's ra ... treatment of a pretty decent horror novel, such as that lame-ass ending and the replacement of the Weeping Angel-style Topiary with an even lamer-ass hedge maze, but "misogyny" in a slasher film is the least of that flick's woes.
Steven King's bitching revolved around her crying too much.