Kubrick’s central thesis was that King was too empathetic to his dad lmfao
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@EPM106 Wait, Jack wasn't based on King's dad, he was based on King himself and his struggles with addiction. He was basically the tragedy King feared would befall himself
@EPM106 Probably a big reason King hated the movie was because Kubrick stripped out all of Jack's sympathetic qualities and made him an unambiguous villain