I ' ve gotten into this argument before and I always say that Kubrick was never interested in adapting The Shining . He had just come off a flop and wanted to make something more commercial that would put people in the seats . Stephen King adaptions were still in their infancy but they were successful , so he chose to adapt a book that he could rewrite into something that interested and challenged him more . He took basic elements and made it into the classic we know today . I understand that fans of the book don ' t like the movie and even King himself has expressed his disappointment in it but Kubrick never gave a shit about the material he was adapting , he was more interested in reinventing it . <| sep |> I love this song . I don ' t have the right . to interfere .