Here's Johnny Movie Vs Book

“Here’s Johnny” (Kubrick) is one of the most famous lines in a movie. When you first think of The Shining you think of that line. So isn’t it funny that the most famous line in the movie was actually never written in the book? That “Here’s Johnny” is something that the actor, Jack Nicholas, ad-libbed while on set? That is the thing about movie adaptions: so much is changed from book to movie. There is so much leeway that the director and actors have that sometimes it like the movie and the book are two completely different things. Stanely Kubrick as both the screen play writer and director was able to take as many liberates as he pleased in the 1980 movie adaption of Stephen Kings book. But what really were some of the biggest changes besides “Here’s Johnny”? The Shining as a book and the Shining as a movie are almost so different that you can barely tell that they are the same thing. Stephen King wrote The Shining after staying in the Stanely Hotel in Colorado. He tells the story of showing up at the hotel a day before it closed for season and how deserted it was. “We were the

As mentioned before “Here’s Johnny” was something that was added in by the actor in the heat of the moment. But that line isn’t the only thing that was changed based on an exterior motive. The room number for the room the family was staying in is another change. 217 was the chosen room number in the book because that was the room that Stephen King and his wife stayed in while at the Stanely Hotel. Unfortunately, the hotel that they used for filming, Timberline Lodge, didn’t want Kubrick to use the room number 217 because he didn’t want it causing an issue with people being too afraid to stay in the room when they came to stay. This forced Kubrick to use the number 237 instead since it is a room that does not exist. Although it is a minor change it is still something that is noticed by fans of both the book and the