![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of a sane man pushed into insanity as Stephen King wrote him, Jack Nicholson’s character is already likely insane and he is trying desperately to stay sane while locked in the hotel for the winter. Stanley Kubrick’s movie flips what kind man that the main character is. Since the movie is more about Jack losing his mind from the inside, a motivator like the scrapbook is less important. In the movie, while the iconic picture from the 1920s is a major reveal, the rest of the scrapbook is essentially left out of the plot. ![]() The ghosts in the hotel and in the scrapbook are the ones driving him mad, but he can’t avoid them they inundate him completely. The impact of the scrapbook on John’s psyche is a major subplot of the book. In the book, John’s motivation for writing a book based on The Overlook comes from a scrapbook that he finds. John’s Motivation In The Book For His Book Is DifferentĪgain, in the movie, it’s unclear what Jack is trying to write, other than it being a novel of some sort. ![]()
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