What is the difference between the movie The Shining and the original novel?

Most people think that the novel is better than the movie adaptation. They think that the novel is more detailed and the ending is more humane than the movie version. However, I clearly feel that the movie has surpassed the novel. In just over two hours, The main plot of the entire story was perfectly integrated within the time limit. However, due to time constraints, it was impossible for the movie to tell all the details. This left many viewers with many doubts, such as why there was a female ghost in the bathtub in room 217. Why Jack and Wendy can see ghosts in the hotel without The Shining? Some people even understand it as Jack's split personality. All bizarre events are his imagination, especially the intriguing ending that many people can't figure out.

In fact, if the movie is combined with the original work, everything can be answered satisfactorily. The advantage of the original work is that it focuses on explaining the protagonist’s psychological status and many weird details, such as why Jack knows that there is a ghost in Room 217. But he refused to admit it to his wife. The book focuses on describing his tangled emotions, and readers can understand him better. In addition, there are some supernatural events in the original work. The more classic ones are the moving hedges. In front of the quiet and vast hotel, rabbits, dogs, lions, and buffalo hedges are quietly following you behind; the elevator that runs by itself in the middle of the night, midnight. At twelve o'clock, the huge hotel in dead silence echoed with the loud roar of various parts of the old elevator. These are classic horror scenes that are too late to be mentioned in movies. Although the movie had to abandon many exciting scenes, one thing I really liked was when Wen Di saw the piles and boxes of manuscripts written by Jack, who had been immersed in writing all day long. The words "all work, no play, makes" were written on them. Jack a dull boy. The director cleverly used a proverb to vividly express the male protagonist's chaotic spirit. This sentence has also become a classic line in The Shining, but this wonderful plot does not exist in the book.

Let’s talk about the ending. The common thought is that people can’t understand the ending of the movie. They feel that the ending of the original book brings a touch of warmth in the cold murder, but when I read the ending in the book, I always felt that it was inexplicably weird and silly. When Jack pushed little Danny into a desperate situation, Danny shouted to his father to come to his senses and not to be taken advantage of by the hotel, but the words "you were cheated, the hotel you wanted will not satisfy you" actually changed. After regaining his sense, Jack had to say that Jack had a dual personality at this time. His true self was fighting fiercely with the soul of the hotel. In the end, in order to save Danny, he swung the bloody bat at himself, and finally the hotel About to explode, the controlled Jack rushed to save the hotel from its irreversible fate and the hotel was destroyed together. I can't help but feel disappointed, because I didn't expect the final showdown to end so hastily, and the powerful Overlook Hotel to be so vulnerable. In the movie, Jack chases Danny into a hedge maze. The clever little Danny traps Jack in it and finally escapes. And the last scene, which I think is the most classic, is in an old photo in the hotel, where Jack is smiling brightly in the crowd. This indicates that Jack has also become a part of the hotel, just like the woman who died in 217 and all the ghosts who have died in the hotel. He will strengthen the evil team and continue to seduce new guests and caretakers in the future.

Many people complained that The Shining was not scary enough. It's true that The Shining doesn't have many direct scenes of flesh and blood, but the huge, empty hotel and the vague ghosts are a kind of horror in themselves. It would be unfair to compare it with some low-level ghost movies that rely solely on screams and disgusting scenes to scare people. .

In summary, both the original work and the movie have their own advantages and disadvantages. If they can be combined and complement each other, I believe they will have a deeper and clearer understanding and enjoyment of the entire story.