In the sense that when you met him, and when you talked to him, he was able to interact in a perfectly normal way but you never felt like he was all the way there. I think he did some terrific things but, boy, he was a really insular man. Strangelove, for one and Paths of Glory, for another. He’s made some of the movies that mean a lot to me, Dr. But I met Kubrick and there’s no question he’s a terrifically smart guy. The other real difference is at the end of my book the hotel blows up, and at the end of Kubrick’s movie the hotel freezes. In the movie, there’s no tragedy because there’s no real change.
In the book, he’s a guy who’s struggling with his sanity and finally loses it. Ullman, the manager of the hotel, and you know, then, he’s crazy as a shit house rat. When we first see Jack Nicholson, he’s in the office of Mr. The character of Jack Torrance has no arc in that movie. I kept my mouth shut at the time, but I didn’t care for it much. In that sense, when it opened, a lot of the reviews weren’t very favorable and I was one of those reviewers. I think The Shining is a beautiful film and it looks terrific and as I’ve said before, it’s like a big, beautiful Cadillac with no engine inside it. certainly he is as peculiar as Hitchcock. I think that De Palma is a worthy pretender to Hitchcock’s throne. I wish they could have had that, but otherwise, I don’t have any real quibbles.
Also, in the book, Carrie destroyed the entire town on the way home that didn’t happen in the movie, mostly because the budget was too small. He played the part of Billy Nolan the way I wish I’d written it, half-funny and half-crazy. Sissy Spacek was excellent, but right behind her-in a smaller part than it should have been was John Travolta. The attitude of the film was different from my book I tended to view the events straight-on, humorlessly, in a straight point-to-point progression (you have to remember that the genesis of Carrie was no more than a short story idea), while I think De Palma saw a chance to make a movie that was a satirical view of high school life in general and high school peer-groups in particular. I liked De Palma’s film of Carrie quite a bit. Here's his full quote from the former chat: King, like most, is a big fan of Brian De Palma's movie, saying in a 1978 interview with Cinefantastique that he " liked De Palma’s film of Carrie quite a bit." He did say in a 2010 interview with Florida Weekly that he now found the film a bit dated. Carrie was King's first novel, and naturally, his first hit movie adaptation.
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