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The 2004 film had so many differences in the beginning I had to look up a quick synopsis of the novella to make sure I was watching the correct novella. I was.
I understand books cannot always be accurately portrayed by a film, but this seems it's based loosely on the original text.
Not sure where I'm going with this. The past year and half I'm getting into king (read 10~ novels & short stories) and found this interesting. Do you guys appreciate deviance from the original? Thanks for any input.
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It depends. Firestarter is a pretty faithful movie adaptation, but it’s terrible. The Dead Zone is reasonably faithful but leaves out a whole lot and changes lots of little things, and I say the movie is equal to the book in quality, just different in some ways. It’s very much in the “spirit” of the story.
I’m also someone who thinks Kubrick’s Shining is actually a pretty great movie that, even though it is still different from the book in a number of ways, is actually more faithful to quite a lot of the plot and even some of the dialogue laid out by Stephen King than it usually gets credit for.