That’s the impression that I get with Stephen King as well. In his interviews he seems like he hates or gets depressed about the movie adaptions of his books. Like he has post adaptation regrets - every interview whether tv or article write up, he is filled with deep rooted animosity, and multiplied when he doesn’t like the actors/actresses that star in the movies.
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I’ve had a lot of things where I felt, been able to feel really pleased about the outcome. And if it doesn’t work so well, I can say, well, they went out and they gave their best shot but I didn’t have anything to do with it. I’m just a bystander in this car wreck."
He’ll sit there and talk for 45 minutes about his books. But as soon as the interview switches to his books, his mood changes. Interviewer “Stephen, what’s your best movie”
Him:
*10 seconds of awkward silence
Except for “Carrie” “Misery”
and “The Dead Zone”. Seems like his most popular movies are a direct coorelation to how much he dislikes it.
“Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is a horror staple. However, the book's author, Stephen King,
openly professed his dislike for the film. When Stanley Kubrick's The Shining was released, it became an instant success and has since solidified its place as a staple horror film and supernatural thriller.”
“When Stephen King agreed to this interview [CONDUCTED IN 1984], he had not yet seen the movie Christine, and was therefore, understandably,
not willing to comment on the film. He was, however, happy to talk about his novel and his own feelings about the fifties.”
“I kept my mouth shut at the time, but I didn't care for it much,” King once said. “
I feel the same because the character of Jack Torrance has no arc in that movie. Absolutely no arc at all,”
And the fact that he has authored all of those horror books to the point where he scares himself-
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King himself sleeps with the lights on to keep monsters away, as he explains in this his first “up close and personal” TV interview with Henry Nevison for UMO (University of Maine Orono) in 1982.”
this man is legit crazy - the line between insanity and genius