Its considered one of his best novels to date and one that has gone through all. The most debated element of the shining s ending is the revelation in the final shot that jack is present in a photo of the overlooks fourth of july party in 1921. He had a multibook contract from doubleday and hed gone from worrying about paying the phone bill. Whats the difference between the shining the book and the shining the movie.
The shining is the story of jack torrance, who is employed as the caretaker of the gargantuan overlook hotel in colorado one winter. Before doctor sleep, there was the shining, a classic of modern american horror from the undisputed master, stephen king. This is a rare example of something so unique that no one has been able to rip it off. For those who havent read the shining book, heres how the ending basically goes down. The folio society which sounds ominously like an organisation from a bond film or from one of kings own novels excels again in taking a classic literary book and giving it a modern makeover. The shining mainly takes place in the fictional overlook hotel, an isolated, haunted resort hotel located in the colorado rockies.
A long and nightmarish masquerade party went on here, and had gone on for years. The shining is a novel published in 1977 by stephen king, a wellknown american author. The shining is a gothic horror novel by stephen king, first published in 1977. The final, terrible shot of jack on the ground, his frozen face forever stuck in its maniacal, upwardlooking openmouth gaze, instantly freezes itself into the brain of anyone who. Are pennywise and the losers club connected to the happenings at the overlook hotel in the shining. At the end of kings book, jack torrance, busily descending into. Its no secret that kubricks version of the shining is a major departure from. The tension felt when jack jack nicholson chases danny danny lloyd through the hotel grounds is incredible. At the end of the shining, why is jack in the photo of. Theres the sense that a great talent has been wasted. There are some very small changes that do little to affect the overall plot, like changing the main characters name from john to jack, to some very. Eclipsed perhaps only by its 1980 film adaptation, the novel is one of the most popular and enduring horror stories of all time. However, the book and movie differ in some key areas, like how the iconic ending of the movie was.
At first, it feels like a traditional horror setup a guy gets hired to spend the winter in an enormous hotel, secluded from civilization, where obviously something will go very wrong. Lets talk about the ending of mike flanagans doctor sleep movie, and how it diverges from stephen kings novel and stanley kubricks version of the shining. In the lost ending of the shining, jacks frozen stare cuts to a scene where the overlook hotels manager, stuart ullman, visits jacks wife wendy and son danny in a colorado hospital where theyre recovering from their ordeal. The shining, more than any other horror film, frightens me on a deep, psychological level. Lets scrape together the shining epilogue that stanley kubrick destroyed. Jack torrances new job at the overlook hotel is the perfect chance. At the end of kubricks shining, jack nicholsons jack torrance freezes to death in a hedge maze, while on a rampage to kill his son, danny.
As the film develops, it becomes more mysterious, ambiguous, threatening, and hallucinatory. The shining, one of the stephen kings bestselling novels and the film that has had a huge impact in pop culture, finally has the ending explained. Even though the shining is over a quarter of a century old, i challenge anyone to not get freaked out by jack nicholsons descent into madness. At the end of king s the shining, the overlook hotel exploded after jack torrance left the boiler room unmonitored. His wife wendy, son danny, and even dick hallorann were able to survive the. In the movie the motivation of the ghosts is to possess jack torrance to get him to kill danny. Jack torrances new job at the overlook hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. Theres also a sequence involving a wasp nest thats gone, though the shinings trailer seems to incorporate a threatening insect buzz into its sound design.
The shining begins with jack torrance being interviewed for the caretakers job at the overlook hotel. The book tells the tale in chronological order, starting with a message no parent wants to hear. The young, psychic danny played by danny lloyd in the film has a climactic face off against his possessed father jack jack nicholson. The final shot of the shining, its ambiguity forever helping stanley kubricks most popular film carry on its enduring legacy for nearly thirty. After his day of being chauffeured around to east coast cinemas and mistaken for a rock star, friedkin spoke to kubrick about the shining two more times. Stephen king cant write a good ending to save his life. Overall, i think the both the book and the movie are worthwhile for their own sake. Shes only briefly referenced in the film when abras mother goes to visit. How does the ending of the shining differ from stephen. Stephen king fan theory connects it and the shining.
This video explores what exactly makes it so creepy. Stephen kings hatred for stanley kubricks the shining. The novel was famously adapted into a film in 1980 by stanley. The book was released by viking on 8 september 1981. With ghosts, visions and psychological horror, the shining by stephen king is a very good horror story, i would say one of his best, right up there with the likes of salems lot which is another sk novel that i recommend if you enjoy horror. The shining is set in the overlook hotel, which is located in the rocky mountains of colorado. Published in 1977, it is kings third published novel and first hardback bestseller. The deeper you dive into this books narrative, the worse your nose begins to burn. This is why stephen king hates the shining so much. Jack lets the boiler explode to destroy the hotel while the. The shining is a horror novel by american author stephen king.
The shining is one of the all time classic horror movies, buts its also a pretty great book too. But the shining the book and the shining the movie are two very different. The shinings 1980 hedge maze chase is one of the most iconic endings in horror history. Jack then goes after danny, who runs into the hedge maze all this. Whats the difference comes at you this week with one of the most popular viewer suggestions.
The true story behind the legendary lost ending of the. Few regular readers of kings novels will claim to have carped at the ending of every book. Some important things to remember about the hotel are that it is isolated due to the winter. I am 12 and i have read cujo, misery, and now reading the shining. At the end of the novel, jack had ignored the boiler for too long, and the hotel explodes. And we can see why its a book by stephen king, a film by stanley kubrick, and the. Lets talk about the ending of mike flanagans doctor sleep movie, and how. In the final shots of stanley kubricks the shining, the audience sees the corpse of jack torrance jack nicholson frozen to death in the hedge maze where he tried to kill his wife wendy. Stanley kubricks the shining is widely praised as a brilliant film, but not by the man who wrote the book it was adapted from. In this instance, theyve taken stephen kings third book the shining with illustrative artwork from edward kinsella and have lovingly madecontinue reading. The shining had a much darker alternate ending, and it. Kings book is a direct sequel to his 1977 novel the shining, and most. You start pacing around your house, ranting about black helicopters and brainstorming illconceived house appliance inventions, gripping the books spine so tight arthritis kicks in years early. Shining the light on all the right tells the story of the daisy foundation through its cofounders, and how a cruel twist of fate sent them down a path that would transform the nursing profession on a global level.
He was renowned for using supernatural events in many of his stories making them a mixture of horror, gloom, and fantasy. Having forgotten to maintain the hotels aging boiler, jack perishes as the resort goes up in flames. The shining novel, however, has a very different ending, and one that even made way for a sequel. The books most visible monsters, including a fire hose that attacks like a snake and animal topiary that comes to life, are dropped completely. Doctor sleep movie vs book differences how mike flanagan. In an interview with ew, producers jan harlan and diane johnson explain the steps that were taken in making the film, and the decisions made by director stanley kubrick to create the final ending. Ive gone through the novel and film multiples times and comprised this list of changes and similarities between the two versions. Based on the novel of the same name by stephen king, the shining. Ending spoiler for the shining 1980, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more.
Stephen king is happy to crap on stanley kubricks film version of his novel the shining whenever possible. Stanley kubricks version of the shining came out decades ago, and among the many details from the book that were changed for the big screen is the. In the novel, jack manages to fight the hotels possession long enough for him to tell danny to run for his life. The shining is a tragedy, and wed be remiss to classify the ending otherwise. How does the ending of the shining differ from stephen kings novel.
Lets scrape together the shining epilogue that stanley. Stephen king has also written doctor sleep which is the shining book two. However, jack is able to fight off the dark influences. Jack rushes to go release the boiler before it explodes, but danny uses his shining to help him see what hes become. Differences between the shining book vs movie page 2. The hotel will soon close for the winter, but cant be left unattended. The shining was stephen kings third book, following carrie and salems lot. The shinings ending has made way for a lot of interpretations, but there was. The shining has an alternate ending you will never see. Differences between the shining book vs movie page 1. The two filmmakers revealed some juicy bits of trivia regarding the film specifically the ending that kubrick came up with, at the last possible moment. I also own the movie it is quite different from the book but i love them both, i know what you mean about why you didnt think jack nicholson was the. Kubrick called once to make sure that everything had gone okay with the editing of the shinings ending, and another time with a question about box office receipts.
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