Stephen King at the University of Georgia - Part II (November 5, 1980)
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The book he put away was Pet Semetary. I read the authors notes 💚
Thank You for digitizing this, hope you can find Kurt Vonnegut’s too!
His comment about movies being short lived is hilarious at the dawn of the home video age.
And it was equally as ludicrous then; movies playing on TV is what gave second life to countless films, including Wizard of Oz and It's A Wonderful Life. But you're totally correct. What's even more hilarious is that if you look at reaction videos people make for movies, "The Shining" is one of the absolute most reacted to movies of any genre or time period! 🤣😄😆 If ever there was a movie that never disappeared: it's The Shining!
Oh how I wish he’d write a sequel to Salem’s Lot. That would rock 😎
One for the road!
He did the sequel within the Dark Tower books
The Salem's Lot sequel ended up in The Dark Tower!
@ 5:40 Stephen was a little off on his prediction about the life span of Kubrick's The Shining. I understand that at the time (1980) King really hated the movie adaptation. But with over 40 years of hindsight, it is hard not to acknowledge that the movie was/is a masterpiece in film, just as the novel was a masterpiece. The film is great AS a film, if you can watch it without thinking about King's original.
I'm an oddball. I watched the movie first, hated it. Read the novel and rewatched the movie and appreciated the movie more but I still don't find it nearly as good as everyone else seems to. There's so many flaws. I think it's mostly the technical aspects that make the film watchable. There's no character development and Wendy is portrayed as a weak woman who is so dependent on her man. If the camerawork wasn't so interesting and the score wasn't so good it would have flopped hard.
Stephen Edwin King (pronunciación: /ˈstiːvən ˈɛdwɪn ˈkɪŋ/) (Portland, Maine; 21 de septiembre de 1947), más conocido como Stephen King y ocasionalmente por su pseudónimo Richard Bachman, es un escritor estadounidense de novelas de terror, ficción sobrenatural, misterio, ciencia ficción y literatura fantástica. Sus libros han vendido más de 500 millones de ejemplares, y en su mayoría han sido adaptados al cine y a la televisión. Ha publicado 65 novelas, once colecciones de relatos y novelas cortas, y siete libros de no ficción, además de un guion cinematográfico, entre otras obras.
76 AÑOS.
Great sense of humor
Well, he was sure off on the time span of movies. Classics never die
Well, you have to understand too, that film isn’t a classic to him. He was being very objective about it because he isn’t a fan of the film, he was pretty much just talking about a film (any film) and it’s shelf life. In those terms, he wasn’t far off, he described the cycle well.
Of course, to you and me, we know the film turned out to be a classic in cinema history. Him, then, though? Nah. He didn’t have the perspective to know how big it would be.
@@Kerunou I think it's clear he's talking about film in general. At the time he was speaking, there was some truth to what he said; he didn't know about the home video revolution that was about to happen, which, as it's now developed, allows movies to stay in constant circulation if there's any audience for them. I think it's fair to say at this point that Kubrick's film is easily the better known version of the story for the general audience; when someone says "The Shining," most people think of that movie first. That might not have happened without home video.
Joe looks just like his Dad.
The movie the Shining will be gone.--wow, that didn't age well
This is really cool.
Ive been watching every old interview of SK that i can find, hes been telling the same anecdotes for abt forty years 😂 id still love to hear them live!
Same dry corny comedy for years
Ive been doing the same
40 years later, still waiting on that Salem's Lot sequel, Stevie!
One for the road
@@dmitrymedvedd no
@@r.c.reidfilms yes
@@dmitrymedvedd wrong
@@r.c.reidfilms right
"Movies have a short shelf life, they all disappear after 2 years. A good example of my point is the recent bomb, Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'..."
Lol, I was thinking that, too.
Before most people had VCR’s I guess 😂
Yeah this comment by mr king didn’t age well 😂…. 43 years later.
He had a lot of nerve to disrespect Kubrick like that
This man had a drinking problem
NO WAY 😳
Oh man, was he ever wrong about The Shining movie. I don't get why he's so salty about it. The differences aren't that bad.
It's all a matter of opinion. I too detest the film version but everyone's mileage will vary.
@@MarkGunnells I understand. There's differences about the book that I wished the movie used, like the man in the dog costume confronting Danny in the hallway instead of the twins. But at the same time I'm glad there wasn't a million boiler room scenes like in the book. I guess both have their strengths and weaknesses.
The comparison is the go to example of how both can be stellar in their own way, but boy was he wrong about the shelf life of Kubrick's film. It's on every top 5 horror films list out there.
The main problem I had with the film version was the shabby way the character of Wendy Torrence was treated in the adaptation. They took this complex, three dimensional character and turned her into freaking Olive Oyl. I kept expecting Robin Williams as Popeye to pop up.
He's salty cause they tossed his screenplay in the trash
Steven King looks like a tall Richard Wozniak
Glen Bateman LIVES, 1.5yr.s of graveyard shift survived. Lived way beyond my few 1980 days at Lincoln HS, SaMo. Screw Randall Flagg.
I guess the book he is talking about is Pet Semetery
The book he's talking about is Pet Sematary.
I wonder which book he is talking about that he put aside and didn't want to finish. I'd be willing to bet by now it's long since been published. If he had just given a little clue as to the plot or the characters we might be able to figure it out.
If you read his preface in Pet Sematary he describes exactly this feeling. It was written around the time he described so it's most likely that book.
I think at 14:06 the dude was possessed
No he was just coming off a hit
15:39
...im with him on Shining the movie since it got not much to do with the essence of his book: Alcoholism, but it is for a fact Cult now...( maybe it is just Jack...
That's no Steven King. That's Jody Farrell. 😆
Do you mean Jordy Verrill? 😁
9:09: Sounds like Trump here 😄
I think his work went down the shitter when his wife got him sober
you clearly haven't read 11/22/63
@@jagdeepkaul1261 I'm reading that right now and loving it.
You clearly haven't read Revival, Duma Key
@@jagdeepkaul1261 agreed
@@parthk5513 I'm reading revival right now!
Just finished hearts in Atlantis, the shining and Dr sleep.