What's the Difference between The Shining the Book and The Shining the Movie?
In the Book |
In the Movie |
Jack Torrance
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Jack Torrance
Portrayed by: Jack Nicholson
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Wendy Torrance
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Wendy Torrance
Portrayed by: Shelley Duvall
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Danny
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Danny
Portrayed by: Danny Lloyd
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The Shining Book vs Movie
In the Book |
In the Movie |
Jack is portrayed as a man with good intentions who is overcome by evil. |
He starts out as kind of bad. He is irritated by his family. |
Jack finds a scrapbook that details all the bad things that happened at the hotel. |
A scrapbook can be seen by Jack's typewriter. We don't see him look through it.
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Jack, in a moment of sanity tells Danny and Wendy to get out and tries to relieve the pressure in the boiler. He fails and the building explodes killing him. |
Jack chases Danny outside and into the hedge maze. Danny retraces his steps and Jack gets lost in the maze and freezes to death. |
The Overlook Hotel is completely destroyed by a fire caused by an exploding boiler. |
The Hotel remains intact.
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