Adaptation Deviation: Because the Overlook Hotel was destroyed at the end of King's version of The Shining, the climax of the original book took place at a campground where the hotel once stood.Her repeated line of, "Fucking men," does imply some kind of abuse in her history, though, and she did lure a man who enjoys underage girls as a form of retribution against their type. Snakebite Andi is stripped of her backstory of having been repeatedly molested by her father, thus making her come off as a far more spiteful and despicable character.Even the subtitles call him Lloyd rather then Jack. Dan may have been speaking to the hotel itself, which might have been using his father's form. It does tie into the Adaptational Villainy he received in Kubrick's version of The Shining, in which he was a fundamentally unpleasant man as opposed to the tortured but well-meaning father and husband he was in the novel. In the movie, he appears inside the hotel bar, having seemingly taken Lloyd's place, and tells him to "take his medicine" like Kubrick's Jack did in the original movie. In the novel, Jack Torrance's spirit helps Abra and Danny to kill Rose.Adaptational Nice Guy: Dick Hallorann's abusive grandfather isn't implied to have molested him here like he did in the novel.Abra does refer to him as Barry the Chunk in the novel, however. He wasn't Chinese though, he was a Caucasian man with "slanted" eyes hence the name. In the novel, he calls himself "Barry the Chink". One of the True Knot members, Barry, is nicknamed "Barry the Chunk" as opposed to his much more racist nickname in the novel. In the final showdown, she effortlessly brushes aside all of Dan and Abra's attempts at tricking or capturing her, corners Dan on the stairs in the same way his father did his mother in the book and while in the book she was taken down by the combined efforts of Dan, Abra and Jack Torrance, in this, Dan is forced to unleash all of the monsters of the Overlook Hotel from their prison in his mind, and they consume her before turning their attention to him. Rose is much less easily provoked and manipulated and mostly reacts with Tranquil Fury to the deaths of her comrades.Snakebite Andi, rather than screaming the name of her abusive father as she is tortured to death, manages to pull a Taking You with Me and goes out with a smile.He dies being taunted by Abra the same way Rose does in the book. Crow Daddy dies the same way as Umbrae in Us, being catapulted through a windscreen and into a tree, rather than being forced to turn a gun on himself by Abra's superior mental powers.Adaptational Badass: The True Knot in general.King even initially conceived of the True Knot in the book as a group of retirees traveling the country in RVs looking for prey, whereas here they come across more like a mix of New Age Retro Hippies and somewhat wealthy homeless people. The movie shows them as being more conventionally attractive (with the exception of Rose, who's still beautiful), and considerably younger than their book counterparts. In the novel, while they usually appear human, their true form is a monstrous kind of Humanoid Abomination with elongated mouths, which they turn into when they feed. Adaptational Attractiveness: The True Knot as a whole.Here, while Rose and Crow are still romantically linked, Rose has more of a "mentor/pupil" dynamic regarding Andi so as to reflect the similar relationship between Dan and Abra. Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the book, Rose the Hat is part of a polyamorous romance with both Crow Daddy and Snakebite Andi.Actor Allusion: Ewan McGregor plays someone with powerful telepathic abilities who acts as a mentor to someone far younger with similar and also very powerful abilities and continues in that role even after dying.Abandoned Area: The Overlook Hotel became one after Jack's rampage.The film was released on November 8th, 2019. Abra's innocence and fearless embrace of her shine compel Dan to call upon his own powers as never before at once facing his fears and reawakening the ghosts of the past. Forming an unlikely alliance, Dan and Abra engage in a brutal life-or-death battle with Rose and the True Knot.
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