How Kubrick's THE SHINING Differs From King's

Nola Cancel at examiner.com has a fun article titled "From page to screen: What makes a great horror movie adaptation?"  That's a title long enough to make a PPuritan proud!  Anyway, in her discussion she lists several differences between the novel The Shining and Kubrick's movie. 

In Stephen King’s “The Shining”, the brilliant director Stanley Kubrick, who also wrote the screenplay with help from Diane Johnson, was able to take a terrific book and make, some would say, an even better movie. However, there were quite a few distinct differences between the two that left fans of the novel crying foul, but didn’t affect the film viewer, at all.


In the novel, Danny can, actually, see Tony. In the movie, any interaction takes place within his head. Also, in the novel it’s Tony who doesn’t want to go to the “Overlook”, in the movie it’s Danny.

In the novel, Dick Hallorhan lives and “The Overlook” is destroyed; in the movie, Dick Hallorhan dies and “The Overlook” lives on. In the movie, we all remember the part where Wendy finds Jack’s novel and reads it; in the novel she never reads Jack’s play.


And, those are just to name a few.

Cancel goes on to discuss John Ajvide Lindquist’s “Let the Right One In”, and Anne Rice’s “Interview with a Vampire".  Read the full article here: http://www.examiner.com/anne-rice-in-national/from-page-to-screen-what-makes-a-great-horror-movie-adaptation