In dannys case, the future is perhaps even more murky. Differences between the shining book vs movie page 1. Of course the documentary room 237 posed all kinds of crazy theories like the movie is really about americans cruel treatment of native americans or. In the movie, however, the bar is, for that moment, real. In the movie the motivation of the ghosts is to possess jack torrance to get him to kill danny. What stanley kubrick got wrong about the shining stephen king has always disliked stanley kubricks film of the shining, and he has a point. In stanley kubricks the shining, you watch a writer named jack torrance lose his mind while acting as caretaker of the overlook hotel.
The hotel will soon close for the winter, but cant be left unattended. 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. In the novel, the shining ends with the death of jack, as well as the hotel that goes up in flames due to an aging boiler. What happened at the end of stanley kubricks the shining. The scrapbook after the torrance family begin settling into their home at the overlook hotel danny is shown more murder like scenes from tony worrying his mother and father.
When jack first moves into the hotel with his family the hotel starts speaking to him,posessing him,driving him to do strange and hurtful things. The shining is one of the most talked about movies of all time, and certainly, 1980s only release to be the subject of so much tortured exegetical speculation with second and third place going, respectively. Thats why king statements like this arent to be trusted. The overlook hotel where the film is set was built on a native indian burial ground as explained by stuart ullman. That part in the movie wasnt in the book and it doesnt make any sense. Maybe jack was the one who killed the people in the hotel back in 1921. Ending spoiler for the shining 1980, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more. Jack is left in the snow and freezes to death, and its implied that the overlook continued with its cycle of murder by bringing in more reincarnations of past workers. The popular interpretation is that the scene is a throwback to a subplot of stephen kings book, in which a party guest in a dog costume has a homosexual relationship with one of the hotels former owners. The shining, gothic horror novel by stephen king, first published in 1977.
But kubricks original version of the film included another scene inserted between these two iconic. For the first time, the shinings producer and cowriter explain in detail why the horror tales ending changed from stephen kings novel and. Until the last minute, the plot seems to be wrapping up in a conventional way. In kings novel, the overlooks boiler explodes at the. Jack and jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Stephen kings the shining, published in 1977, is a horror novel. The shining begins with jack torrance being interviewed for the caretakers job at the overlook hotel. 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. When the shining premiered in limited release in may 1980, the hospital scene was still there. Jack instinctively dislikes the hotel manager, stuart ullman, and the feeling is mutual.
No horror movie ever has been more analyzed and debated than the shining. Mar 10, 2016 stanley kubricks the shining has one hell of an ending. Jan 07, 2008 ok all these other answers are horribly wrong. Stanley kubricks the shining has one hell of an ending. Watch the shining deleted original ending and read. Though she may not always seem it at first glance because she spends much. The shining, one of kubricks later movies, is now widely considered one if not the greatest horror movies ever made, and an excellent example of what an alist director at the top of their game can do with the genre. The doctor sleep ending bridges the gap between stephen kings book the shining and stanley kubricks movie, which king famously hated.
In the 20 novel doctor sleep, kings official sequel to the shining, a grown danny torrance suffers from alcoholism like his father. How the shining movie s ending differs from the book as mentioned above, the film ends with wendy and danny escaping during a snowstorm thanks to the snowcat hallorann arrived in. Stephen king is brilliant, but hes also sometimes wrong. It eventually makes him sabotage any means of escape. The shinings 1980 hedge maze chase is one of the most iconic endings in horror history. Eclipsed perhaps only by its 1980 film adaptation, the novel is. King famously hated kubricks intellectual approach to the material castigating it as a film by a man who thinks too much and feels too little and, uniquely, managed to wrest the rights to his own work back from. A sequel, titled doctor sleep, was published in 20 summary. The overlook hotel is their last chance to make it as a unit, or so they believe. The setting and characters are influenced by kings personal experiences, including both his visit to the. Lets scrape together the shining epilogue that stanley.
Jack torrance interviews for a job as the winter caretaker at the overlook hotel, a remote resort in colorado built between 1907 and 1909. Of course the documentary room 237 posed all kinds of crazy theories like the movie is really about americans cruel treatment of native americans or an apology for kubrick filming a fake moon landing. Jan 01, 2018 it is about the slaughter of the native americans. The shining is a story of a desperate family, made up of jack and wendy torrance and their son, danny. It also was a scene created by the brilliance of stanley kubrick, not stephen king. The shining is a gothic horror novel by stephen king, first published in 1977. The shining is a great example of stanley kubrick twisting stephen kings story to fit his vision of a man going crazy in an isolated mountain hotel. Jack rushes to go release the boiler before it explodes, but danny uses his shining to help him see what hes become. Published in 1977, it is kings third published novel and first hardback bestseller. How does the ending of the shining differ from stephen kings novel. At the end of the shining, why is jack in the photo of. Stanley kubricks the shining was released in 1980, and since has been hailed as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. With jack nicholson, shelley duvall, danny lloyd, scatman crothers. Note this was also used for the remake 2007 shining movie, where instead of a bee hive its a different insect nest which fills up that night when it was suppose.
Jack lets the boiler explode to destroy the hotel while the. Its a scene that works wonderfully on film, but probably wouldn. The shining collectors edition introduction by ken. The story of this film is based off the book, the shining by stephen king. In the shining the movie, what phrase is repeated hundreds of times in jacks draft novel. Movie, hell be taking a critical look at movie adaptations of horror novels. Jul 08, 2015 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. Eclipsed perhaps only by its 1980 film adaptation, the novel is one of the most popular and enduring horror stories of all time. The shining is violent from its first moments and has violence on just about every page. The shining is a horror novel by american author stephen king. As the film develops, it becomes more mysterious, ambiguous, threatening, and hallucinatory. Ultimately, the genius of the shining is that the ending can. Facebook messenger click the button below and wait for a.
The shining is the story of jack torrance, who is employed as the caretaker of the gargantuan overlook hotel in colorado one winter. Jack lets the boiler explode to destroy the hotel while the other three escape. Ive read the book several times and seen the movie more times than i can count. The unsettling theories about the shining that you havent. One of the most frequent questions ive received about the shining is what does the guy in the bear costume mean. Check out his first column below, exploring the shining. 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 witnesses it. As the cavernous hotel shuts down for the season, the manager gives jack a grand tour, and the. The shining, even though might not be the one to deliver an extremely frightening tale, it manages to provide us a pool of drama, thrills, disturbance, and everything you could think of in a good horror story for us to dive into. May 25, 20 the shining, one of kubricks later movies, is now widely considered one if not the greatest horror movies ever made, and an excellent example of what an alist director at the top of their game can do with the genre. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
The outsider is a horror novel by american author stephen king, published on may 22, 2018, by scribner. We recently shared some interesting information regarding stanely kubricks the shining in which we learned some of the original alternate endings that were explored by the director and his creative team the other versions of the ending included wendy killing jack, jack killing danny, and even one in which dick hallorann was one of the real villains of the story. Currently, we are building the largest digital library of film and television inquiry and related. Wendy walks up, jack stares, the typewriter changes, a chair disappears, and the research book next to him flips to another page. The novel ends with danny and wendy spending the summer at a resort in maine where hallorann works as head chef. The overlooks manager, ullman, is concerned about giving jack the job. After jack blows up at wendy the typewriter, chair, and book all return and wendy acts as if nothing happened implying it all happened in jacks mind. Ullman describes the hotels layout and notes it has hosted presidents and millionaire moguls in its nearly 70year history under a variety of owners. The novel was adapted into a 1980 film of the same name and was later followed by a sequel, doctor sleep, published in 20. Note this was also used for the remake 2007 shining movie, where instead of a bee hive its a different insect nest which fills up that night when it was suppose to be empty. The book is dark and the movie captures the required essence, but the book gets deeper into jacks mind which is not a fun place.
Sep 15, 20 the shining by stephen king was amazeballs. Adapted, fairly loosely, from then upandcoming author stephen kings novel, the film is a fascinating, twisted and dark. When he came back in this life to the hotel, the ghosts started to haunt them. Differences between the shining book vs movie page 2. How does the ending of the shining differ from stephen. The main character jack torrance is a violent, recovering alcoholic who has broken his son, dannys arm while drunk before. 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. Oct 01, 20 jack nicholson in the shining warner bros. Jun 22, 2012 the shining is the story of jack torrance, who is employed as the caretaker of the gargantuan overlook hotel in colorado one winter.
He goes on to say that the builders had to repel several attacks from indians d. The final shot of the shining, its ambiguity forever helping stanley kubricks most popular film carry on its enduring legacy for nearly thirty years. The photograph at the end of stanley kubricks the shining. This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of the shining by stephen king. 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. The tension felt when jack jack nicholson chases danny danny lloyd through the hotel grounds is incredible. He explained his rationale to the press in a telephone statement, saying, when i was able to see for the first time the fantastic pitch of excitement which the audience reached during the climax of the film. 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. Director mike flanagan and producer trevor macy on recreating the overlook hotel, casting the shining doppelgangers and necessary diversions from stephen kings book in doctor sleep. As the offseason caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, hell have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his. Jack torrances new job at the overlook hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. Just days after the film opened, however, kubrick decided the epilogue needed to be excised. Jul 08, 2015 when the shining premiered in limited release in may 1980, the hospital scene was still there. The shining by stephen king meet your next favorite book.
In flint city, oklahoma, police detective ralph anderson arrests popular teacher and little league coach terry maitland in front of a crowd of baseball spectators, charging him with raping, mutilating and killing an 11yearold boy. At the end of the novel, jack had ignored the boiler for too long, and the hotel explodes. 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. The hotel closes during the winter, but someone still needs to stay in the hotel to ensure its assets remain. For years, the prolific horror author has asserted that stanley kubricks 1980 adaptation of the shining is not just a bad adaptation but also a bad movie, a cadillac with no engine in it that you cant do anything with except admire it as sculpture. You definitely wouldnt want to be a character in this novel, unless you.
When jack leaves, spiralling into insanity, we have to. The book is more psychologically disturbing, thrilling, and all of those are sprinkled with touches of spooks. Jun 26, 2012 the shining went on to become a bestseller, a stanley kubrick movie, a tv miniseries scripted by king, and an indelible reference point in popular culture redrum. Moving his wife, wendy, and their son, danny, into it for the. The world of cinema has not been the same since stanley kubrick died in march 1999, several months before the theatrical release of what turned out to be his final film, eyes wide shut.