#lisey's story

[acecroft]

Lisey's Story (2021) dir. Pablo Larraín 🍂

#tvedit #horroredit #stephenkingedit #autumnedit #lisey's story #julianne moore #stephen king #autumn #mygifs #usermichi #televisiongifs #useroptional #userstream #cinemapix #🍂🍁

[texaschainsawmascara]

Michael Pitt

#michael pitt #funny games #boardwalk empire #jimmy darmody #hannibal #mason verger #bully 2001 #bully #lisey's story #lisey’s story #stephen king #dawson’s creek #dawson's creek #i origins #ghost in the shell #seven psychopaths #the dreamers #the dreamers 2003 #murder by numbers #hedwig and the angry inch

[lightningcrashes]

MICHAEL PITT AS ANDREW LANDON LISEY'S STORY | 2021

#tvedit #horroredit #liseysstoryedit #michaelpittedit #cinemapix #tvandfilm #dailytv #dailytvfilmgifs #dailyhorrorgifs #lisey's story #michael pitt #andrew landon #* #can i be brutally honest and vulnerable on the internet

[the-undoubted-queen]

"I come to you and you see me whole," he says. "You love me all the way around the equator and not just for some story I wrote. When your door closes and the world's outside, we're eye to eye."

Lisey's Story by Stephen King

#lisey's story #lisey x scott #favourite quotes

[cemyafilmarsiv]

Lisey's Story

#Lisey's Story #3 #horror #mystery movies #12 #tv series #Julianne Moore #Clive Owen #Jennifer Jason Leigh

[bloodcrosses]

On a better note - this is adorable. I really want to watch Lisey's Story.

#michael pitt #michael carmen pitt #lisey's story #instagram

[veryslowreader]

Charlie the Choo-Choo by Stephen King

Lisey's Story: "Bool Hunt"

#charlie the choo-choo #the dark tower #stephen king #lisey's story #dane dehaan

[bebe-benzenheimer]

Jonathan Harker Lisey Landon

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Choosing shovel violence

#dracula daily #Dracula #Lisey's story #Stephen King #bram stoker

[occupationdinosaur]

🡒 🎥  LISEY'S STORY •  Pablo Larraìn, Stephen King • Opening Credits, 2021.

«There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.» - Stephen King.

#lisey's story #lisey #stephen king #mini serie #tv series gif #series gif #apple tv #serie #serie gif #opening credits #opening credits gif #occupationdinosaurgif #gif #my gif #gif set #pablo larraín #2021 #graphic design #motion graphic

[tvshowpilot]

Get ready to explore the complexities of human behavior, the impact of obsession on the victims, and the lengths people will go to fulfill their twisted desires with these best TV shows about stalkers.

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[acecroft]

JULIANNE MOORE as Lisey Landon in Lisey's Story (2021)

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[lightningcrashes]

LISEY'S STORY 1.08 | "Lisey's Story"

#had to make this a gifset on its own lol #really good shot #horroredit #horrorgifs #dailytvfilmgifs #michaelpitt #cinemapix #dailyhorrorgifs #michael pitt #lisey's story #*

[the-undoubted-queen]

Every long marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark. Here again is the dark heart of theirs.

Lisey's Story by Stephen King

#lisey's story #lisey x scott #favourite quotes

[topknotstrunk]

Review Everything 13 - Lisey’s Story on Apple TV

Content Warning: Assault, Murder, Mental Health, and Cosmic Horror.

I do not understand this adaptation. I don’t get why it is the way that it is. Before I delve into the baffling choices made in turning this novel into a limited run TV series though, I want to talk about the stuff I did like.

I think making the way of getting to Bo Ya Moon always being through water was a great visual through line. I like how that made Lisey’s swimming pool also kinda “The Pool”. I really like Lisey’s memories overlapping with reality, particularly the scene in “Jim Dandy” when her wedding singer is in her yard, unable to see her, while she processes the beating she’s just had at the hands of Dooley. The weight of her grief is evident in this scene, in a way that’s super true to the story’s overlapping chronology, and it illustrates the alienation that she’s dealing with really well.

The show’s version of  The Long Boy was a little disappointing to me at first, but I don’t think the thing I imagined when reading about it could really be made visual. In my mind it's this reality spanning, long worm, scary in a cosmic horror, Oh God my mind can’t fully comprehend this kind of thing. If something is scary because your brain can’t understand it, it’s not really something you can make visual and retain the unfathomableness that made it scary. Making it into a huge [humanoid?] monster made of all the people it’s ever killed is spooky and still evocative of something you’d read in a Stephen King book. There’s also how Lisey asks Amanda, by putting the question in front of her eyes, if she wants to come home. Lisey gives her that choice. There was something gut wrenching for me about that act. Lisey loves her Sister but doesn't seem to want to force anything on her. That was a really well done scene.

The kid they cast to play Paul was great. He played his role well and did a good job of embodying the character. The Dad was great too. Joan Allen as Amanda was sublime. I love in particular her habit of not making eye contact, and often sitting and facing a wall instead of her TV or a window long before she’s Gone in the “now” of the story. That’s a wonderful little bit of foreshadowing, having her not really looking at the reality around her but sort of zoning out in the direction of images [like her wall mural] that she’s probably not even seeing. Dane DeHaan playing another crazy man drunk on his own power was a good choice in casting too, though my trepidation on turning this story of a woman’s grief and relationships mostly with other women, where the only time we get a perspective outside of hers are stories told to her by the man she’s grieving, into... I don’t even know what you’d call it. A “school shooter” type? A crazy man who hates women and films himself for his fans type. From deep space cowboy crazy obsessed fan to incel was an odd choice. And shifting so much of the focus to him when there’s so much of Lisey’s own story that’s left out of the adaptation all together was both puzzling and disappointing. The trepidation I had at this change was unfortunately met out in the text, I think these changes overall made the story and Lisey’s character weaker.

Okay into my ranting.

I unfortunately don’t buy either Julianne Moore as Lisey nor Clive Owen as Scott. Scott is the better of these two, the actor at least has the right look, but I just don’t like the way Lisey was played. Scott’s lines are all delivered in this half slur, half sleepy tone, like Scott is constantly either a little drunk or has just woken up. It flattens the actor’s delivery, so there’s never any “big emotions” when he speaks. He wakes Lisey from her first trip to Bo Ya Moon in the exact same tone he asks her to marry him in, which is also the same tone he apologizes for their first big fight in. Lisey doesn’t seem like a lady who thinks she has all her shit together but finds out that she’s wrong. She’s played half like a woman in an action flick, sort of a Sarah Conner type which felt weird.

And then there’s just a ton of little choices that don’t seem to have been made to better the story, but just for... Reasons?

Like, why was the lighthouse added as a visual motif? Why did they change Scott’s music collection in his study from Rock and Roll and Country to classical? Why is Bo Ya Moon so dark all the time when almost every time Lisey goes there in the book it’s at Sunset? Why is Lisey’s other sister, Darla, such a focus in this adaptation? What was the creative intent behind switching the weapon Jim Dooley attacks Lisey with from cutting her with a can opener to beating her with a pizza cutter? Why was Scott confirmed to be one of the shrouded figures, and not just a thing Lisey imagines may be so, and further, why make him still an active player in the story outside of Lisey’s memories of him? Watching him float away into the pool at the end of the show was really fucking goofy. Why leave the “I brought you ice” line in if you had Scott get shot not in the suck oven heat of Summer, but in the what, Fall? Winter? Coat wearing time. Why does Scott’s gunshot wound suddenly reappear when it’s his time to die instead of him getting sick with something from Bo Ya Moon? Has he just been going back and forth all these years keeping it closed? Why was this change made? To make the story more violent? So that he can puke up his pool water on stage?

The ending of the show is straight up baffling. Why the fuck did Dooley get ripped to bloodless shreds, his body end up in the swimming pool back on earth, then those somehow bloodless parts get packed back up into a blanket, into Lisey’s car, and then tossed over a bridge? Hiding his body in Bo Ya Moon was the only reason Lisey was able to get away with killing him in the book. Why take this perfectly good, solid, well thought out ending and turn it inside out? Why force Lisey to have to deal with that? And the part where she just hands the shovel to the Long Boy? Why did that work? Why was that written? How come the part where she has to deal with the Long Boy for the rest of her life, a lingering portion of her grief and the madness of her Husband’s family, was completely deleted from the story? Why take away her agency, good coping skills, and smart planning like this?

These changes are frustrating because they don’t make sense to me. I understand that part of adapting a written story into a movie or TV show is making changes, but those changes are supposed to be so that written elements that would not translate well on the screen are made to make sense for the screen. These changes almost feel like they were made just for the hell of changing things.

I don’t normally care about shit like this. Really, I am usually just really happy to be able to watch a movie or TV show based on a thing I read that I liked. But it seems like the changes were made with no consideration for making the story either A, more interesting or B, work better for the screen.

What really sucks is that visually I think a lot of the show works. Parts of it can be gorgeous. Partiality Bo Ya Moon, I mean look at the gifs I included.

There are lots of small visual details that are really great too, like being able to see a reflection in Scott’s eyes when he’s Gone, as if he’s looking into The Pool.

I think this has cemented for me a suspicion I’ve had for a long time. When a story is mostly the character thinking thoughts to themselves, that’s either impossible to adapt well or so difficult that I’ve personally never seen it done well. It also reminds me that the vast, vast majority of Stephen King Movies are not great adaptations, and sometimes not even good movies on their own.

In Summary: There were a few small parts of this that worked really well, but most of it was so weird that it made the whole show just straight up not enjoyable. Which really sucks because Lisey’s Story is my favorite standalone Stephen King book, right next to It.

Overall: 4/10.

An additional note. This is the first time I watched something on Apple TV. Their player doesn’t work on Firefox, it never remembered where in an episode I had left off, and I had to Google Search to find the show most of the time. I give Apple TV a 2/10.

🌟 Check out more of my Review Everything Project here.

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[the-losers-are-still-losing]

the feminine urge to remake as many book-to-film adaptations as possible in the highly specific way that you interpreted them from the book (i’ve never made a film in my life btw)

#for once this isn’t actually about it #although there were sooo many things wrong with 2017 and 2019 #idk ab 1990 i haven’t got round to watching that yet #anyway #misery stephen king #carrie stephen king #the running man #the shining #misery #carrie #lisey’s story #lisey’s story stephen king #stephen king #yes it’s entirely sk books i am completely invested in them and then only #bookblr #booknerd #booklr #writeblr #writers #writing

[notbecauseofvictories]

honestly if anyone in my various book clubs decides to slap me one day, it will be because I am incapable of reining it in and pretending like I’m not angling for an A+ in book club, a thing that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

which, I might even deserved to be slapped for it! I imagine it’s ridiculously annoying! but slapping me wouldn’t really accomplish anything since this is just....who I am as a person. it is all our problem now.

#I managed to reference on the road flannery o'connor and lisey's story and it felt like I had won some sort of prize #it's just a bunch of people in a room! there's no professor to pat me on the head and tell me good job! #and yet. #celestial emporium of benevolent knowledge