• i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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      My favourite bit of trivia from that movie was that Stephen King watched it and was furious by the ending because he wished he’d thought of such a grim ending when he wrote the book.

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        That seems to happen to a lot of adaptations of his work. I think he may have even admitted that he’s not great at ending what he starts.

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          He’s my favorite author, up there with Pratchett anyway, and yes he’s said that. He doesn’t plan anything, just sits down and starts hammering it out. He’s so engrossed in writing the tale, he doesn’t want it to end, doesn’t plan that part.

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            It’s in the end of the last Dark Tower book. What he wrote can be reworded as ‘Do you have sex only for the orgasm alone, or for the whole process of it?’. And it wasn’t the weirdest part of said series.

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          He left the ending ambiguous for the reader to imagine what happens. He missed out on twisting the knife.