The Shining Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance with the Overlook's hallway in the background
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining made many changes to Stephen King’s novel of the same name, and it subtly set up the novel’s ending but, ultimately, completely forgot about it. King’s novels have been a source of inspiration for many artists for decades, especially filmmakers.
The Shining opens with Jack arriving at the Overlook Hotel to meet manager Stuart Ullman , who tells him all about the job and the basics of the hotel, including the story of Charles Grady and how he murdered his family when he worked as the off-season caretaker. When Ullman explains to Jack what the job is about, he mentions the boiler room, as the basis of the job is to “cope with the very costly damage and depreciation”, which consists mainly of running the boiler.
In the novel, Jack is also told to keep an eye on the boiler room as the hotel’s boiler is unstable, so Jack has to relieve the pressure on it. With everything that happens with the strange presences in the hotel, Jack’s mind, and Danny’s “shine”, Jack forgets to relieve the pressure on the hotel's boiler, and at the end of the book, the boiler explodes, destroying the Overlook and killing Jack, but not before Danny, Wendy, and Hallorann escape.
As for the photo at the end, Kubrick said it suggests Jack was a reincarnation of an earlier official at the hotel.
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