 Thanks for checking out this video. So I did a thing and I thought that maybe if I put it on video that other people would find this helpful at least for Someone like me in the past as in prior to doing this thing. So for the longest time I have loved love love Stanley Kubrick's The Shining But been fully aware that there are a lot of lot of differences between that film and Stephen King's original book Now I've said so many times over the years that I should read the book I should read the book I should read the book and find out the difference and see if the books better and you know All that jazz so one of my friends pushed me rich Smith Thank you very much rich and he just bought me the book and gave it to me and said look you've talked about it I figure just read it So that was the impetus for me to go ahead and read through the entire shining Which for me personally is a pretty big feat because it's a long book It's over 600 pages and I'm a slow reader and I don't really read many books period I'm more of a movie person as you can tell by all the review videos I put on my channel, so I thought I'd make a video just kind of break down for anyone who doesn't want to read Through the whole book but wants to know what the differences are here's what's missing from the shining Stanley Kubrick's The Shining And I will say that a lot of people will say, you know, oh, I like the book. It's so much better I like the movie. It's so much better and they choose one I'm kind of in this camp after reading the book of I like both of them and I like them together I feel like it was the proper Order for me personally to have seen the movie first and then read the book because I feel like You not only see the differences, but it gives you extra context for the movie so that you can go back rewatch the movie and Understand more of what was behind those characters when they were put on the film and it really does help with that particular story Even though it is different So just saying so one of the big things is there's more time to kind of slowly develop the entire scenario and the gradual deterioration of Jack within the book obviously because you know, what about two hours of film? Versus about over 600 pages of book You just have a lot more space and a lot more time to develop things and it's the pacing of it is wonderful I mean this is considered to be one of Stephen King's best books and I easily see why Because everything feels real it feels like it's done at a great pace and it feels Like you see it happening and none none of the stuff takes any Ridiculous leap in my opinion Like it's just these little moments that kind of add on top of each other That feel like they fit within the story that end up leading to that bigger Terrible thing that happens and the biggest thing being the deterioration of Jack, you know You get inside of Jack's head you get inside of Danny said you get inside of the month Why am I blanking on her name right now? The mother's head. Why am I blanking on this? It'll come up later, but Wendy. Sorry. Okay. I look back at my notes One of those moments. I'm getting old, you know Yeah, you get inside of Wendy's head and that's another thing is you get so much more from Wendy's perspective I feel like the film really does minimize Wendy as a character in general and just makes her someone who panics And is just there to be a victim She's a much stronger character in the book and you get a lot from her perspective She's actually the person who puts everything together Story-wise of what's really going on with the overlook and Danny versus the overlook So that's a huge thing. She is more of a hero than a victim in the book And I think that's another huge difference But the big big big big big thing like I said is Jack's deterioration and how real it feels and how messed up It is but it's also just the insight into Jack's past the insight into Jack not being a terrible person Because in the film it seems like he's just a bad guy from the get-go and he just gets worse in the book Since you get so much inner dialogue from him or inner monologue from him You understand him more you feel for him somewhat You see you get information about how he was brought up as a child and how that played into how he turned out His fight with alcohol addiction, which I know is a big theme within the book intentionally by Stephen King because he went through that and It you just get a lot more and he actually becomes kind of a sympathetic character to a degree and in the book There is this separation of what is him and what is the overlook not he's a terrible person And then he just gets worse. So it there's way more impact to be had from the book for that reason I already talked about that Danny Experiencing the thoughts and feelings of his parents as the overlook becomes more sinister and their relationship takes a similar turn like I said, you know, you get a lot more kind of inner monologue and feelings and everything from the characters and The bit one of the big benefits from Danny's standpoint is you understand that he feels what's going on with his parents Which you don't get that from the movie so when their Relationship starts to fall apart partially because of well a large part because of what the overlook is doing to Jack and Overlooks trying to use Jack as a way to get to Danny because Danny is like this Very strong power which you get that in the movie obviously, but His ability to kind of feel that it adds more impact to the story And it adds more of a kind of like building dread for him in the in the story as opposed to what's there in the film Because you're reading it and you're seeing that, you know, he's getting more and more suspicious of what's going on He's getting more and more afraid of what's going on and as a kid It's terrible because of the how young he is and how much he has to deal with because he's got the special power So yeah, you get more information about the overlooks history That's one of the big things that's not touched on at all in the movie But in the book they go into some pretty good depth about the overlooks history Which makes the overlook even more of a character in the book and I love that it brings it to life a lot more I love it the hedge animals. That's one thing totally left out of the movie There are these hedge animals which are you know like bushes that are shaped into animals That are not at all in the movie in the book they have they show up quite a few times They have a pretty significant role of coming after people. They actually kind of come to life and come after people They actually inflict some actual physical damage on people have actual injuries for a few characters So that is very different even though I don't think it it doesn't really impact the story overall that much It's just an extra thing that the overlook does that's interesting Wendy actually experiences Experiences happenings with the hotel when the elevator starts working at night and there's kind of confetti and streamers and masks and everything So not only is Wendy more of a character and she's more of a hero than a victim She also actually experiences some stuff from the overlook. So in the movie she experiences nothing basically She's just experiencing the changes in Jack's behavior and then things that are done to Danny that she has to deal with in the book She experiences things as does Jack as does Danny, but it's kind of this progression of it So like she experiences the least then it's Jack then it's Danny because of kind of their levels of How in tune they are with the overlook? So that is an important thing There are a bunch of parallels drawn to the story the mask of the red death That comes up quite a few times in the actual writing never comes up in the movie And it is appropriate kind of those parallels between the stories of what it is. So that's awesome I really did enjoy that in the writing There are questions raised of how much parents influence who their children become Which is pondered by both Wendy and Jack because of Jack's father and also Wendy's mother So I talked about how you get insight into Jack's upbringing and what made him who he is But you also get that for Wendy a little bit and her fears of Becoming her mother because she has a very troubled relationship with her mother Her it sounds like at least the way it's written out her mother wasn't a very good person same thing with Jack's dad So it's this kind of mirroring of both of them being afraid of becoming their mother or becoming their father And then to some degree actually that happens more so with with Jack But it plays to something that's very real in life, which is people's fears of becoming all the shortcomings of their parents I know a lot of people struggle with that So yeah, and you don't get that you don't you don't get that nearly as much in the film Wendy is aware of the overlooks condition and Danny's as well. She verbalizes most of the revelations about it I talked about that earlier. So she's a very important part of piecing things together in the book She's not at all in the movie Jack becomes so close to and influenced by the overlook that he wants to join the staff and work his way up to manager He the hooks of the overlook get in him so much at some point that he talks about actually joining it So for me, this was really good on giving me more clarity into what it means at the end of the movie Where he's in that picture with all the other people at the overlook that old black-and-white picture Because in the book he wants to become the staff like he starts to act like he works for the overlook And then he starts legitimately having these delusions about working his way up to manager there Believing that he's in this time with all these other people there who aren't there anymore. They're all ghosts basically So that was great for giving more context to the movie because the ending is a little cryptic in In Kubrick's film because of that. So this is why partially why I say that Reading the book after seeing the movie gives it so much more context and I and I like that Already talked about the hedge animals, I don't know why I put that twice on my nose Danny meeting Tony in an alternate overlook in his mind that happens Tony's kind of abandoned for the most part after the very beginning in the film Tony comes up. Yeah, he gets lost for a bit in the book But then he comes up kind of at a key point and in this kind of alternate universe basically or like alternate state of existence Danny meets Tony in a different overlook and kind of gets pertinent information to trying to save himself and his family and Obviously that doesn't happen in the movie at all and I think it was a good Thing to to have in there and I kind of wish they would have done it in the movie, but you know You get insight into the overlook wanting to have Danny for his power in the film. It just seems like events Without motive basically, you know, you don't get that context of the overlook is really coming for him Danny specifically to harness his power. I know that gets integrated into Dr. Sleep though Because Mike Flanagan did a good job of kind of bringing all the sources together to kind of make the the best story possible To bridge the gap between Kubrick's film and King's book Dick Halloran survives and is momentarily overtaken by the hotel by the overlook That's another thing very interesting for a little bit Halloran becomes a minion of the overlook It's very very brief in the book, but it's it gives you more insight into how invasive the overlook is It can't just get into one person And it's kind of a scary moment in the book actually because you're like, oh no I think we're gonna lose Halloran at this point The other thing is Halloran gets killed pretty much immediately in the movie and that's one thing I really hate about the movie is he's an interesting cool character and Once he gets to the overlook to help Danny out and Wendy he just gets axed and that's the end of it It's so anti-climactic it feels like everything with Halloran in the movie was for nothing Where he feels like he's much more important in the book and he really matters and he's a great character in the book And I love that he survives and they have you know a whole thing in the end where it's you know flashing forward a bunch of years and Halloran is you know still there In touch with the family and it's a good ending And then the overlook explodes. That's another thing the overlook explodes At the end of the book giving this kind of finality to done. We're good here So that's actually all I had hopefully people found this interesting I know me from the past would love to watch a video like this But I do feel happy that instead I actually just read the book like I said, this is a big accomplishment for me and it's really Most people would probably assume that it would Reading the book would make me dislike the Kubrick film a bit or maybe a little bit more But no it actually kind of makes me like it even more because like I was saying it gives more backstory It gives more context for things that were a little more vague. So I'm gonna rewatch it. I haven't rewatched the movie yet, but I'm definitely going to so Anyway, if there are things that you think I missed in this or things you just want to talk about the movie The book whatever go ahead and put the comments down there I mean this wasn't this wasn't so much for me to talk about the movie But this was just to kind of for me to talk about what extra is in the book. That's not in the movie That's basically it so but put some comments down there if you want to talk about this We can get nerdy because that's what I'm all about on this channel getting horrid nerdy Do me a quick favor though hit that subscribe button I really do appreciate it when people subscribe Literally I get an email every time I get a new subscriber I look at who it is and I think to myself. 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