1 fan” Annie Wilkes to the hilt: She’s as frightening and implacable an antagonist as her inspiration in King’s novel. Kathy Bates deserved her Oscar for playing “no. I respect the film’s fan base, which was mostly accrued after its initial box-office flop: Let’s just say enough other people love it enough that I don’t feel like I have to. But a recent rewatch revealed something irredeemably sentimental about Frank Darabont’s film, much of it rooted in Morgan Freeman’s saintly acting (and voice-over), which doesn’t give us much room to think (or feel) on our own about his character or Tim Robbins’s jail-breaking banker the explanatory dialogue and pushy musical score are the cinematic equivalent of having your food chewed for you (which is fine if you’re a baby bird like the one being secreted in the pocket of James Whitmore’s doomed lifer, Brooks). I promise I’m not trying to troll by omitting this deeply beloved-and, in its way, extremely accomplished-modern American classic when I was 13 years old, I loved it very much. Honorable Mentions The Shawshank Redemption (1994) So while I don’t have the strength to go through 80-plus titles-and settle once and for all whether, say, The Mangler is better than Maximum Overdrive (it is!)-I’ve been entrusted with a list of the 10 best, as well as some favorites that didn’t make the (completely subjective) cut. With It Chapter Two set to open (and possibly top its predecessor’s record-setting box office) all of those previously comprehensive rankings of King’s film adaptations will be reshuffled given his prolificacy, we’ll be doing this until the Maine Coast is underwater (we’ll float, too). Some of King’s best novels have made for lousy movies, while minor efforts have been translated brilliantly by imaginative filmmakers, and faithfulness isn’t a particularly useful barometer for quality: from Carrie and The Shining to The Shawshank Redemption and The Mist, the King-branded films that have endured have displayed a willingness to rework and revise their core texts, sometimes to a startling degree. And the films produced out of his source material vary about as wildly in quality as the books themselves-although not necessarily at a 1-to-1 ratio.
With more than 80 credited adaptations of his novels and short stories, King has provided more grist for the Hollywood mill-its gleaming studios and dingy grindhouses alike-than any other author of the last half-century. They are both fruit but they taste completely different.” This is not the greatest analogy in the world, but it’s the one we’ve got on the record from Stephen King about the two mediums that have made him a household name. “Books and movies are like apples and oranges.
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