<P> Only in the novel does Jack hear the haunting, heavy - handed voice of his father with whom he had a troubled relationship . In both the novel and film, Jack's encounter with the ghostly bartender is pivotal to Jack's deterioration . However, the novel gives much more detail about Jack's problems with drinking and alcohol . </P> <P> The film prolongs Jack's struggle with writer's block . Kubrick's co-screenwriter Diane Johnson believes that in King's novel, Jack's discovery of the scrapbook of clippings in the boiler room of the hotel which gives him new ideas for a novel catalyzes his possession by the ghosts of the hotel, while at the same time unblocking his writing . Jack is no longer a blocked writer, but now filled with energy . In her contribution to the screenplay, Johnson wrote an adaptation of this scene, which to her regret Kubrick later excised, as she felt this left the father's change less motivated . Kubrick showed Jack's continued blockage quite late in the film with the "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" scene, which does not appear in the novel . </P> <P> Stephen King has openly stated on the DVD commentary of the 1997 mini-series of The Shining that the character of Jack Torrance was partially autobiographical, as he was struggling with both alcoholism and unprovoked rage toward his family at the time of writing . Tony Magistrale wrote about Kubrick's version of Jack Torrance in Hollywood's Stephen King: </P> <P> Kubrick's version of Torrance is much closer to the tyrannical Hal (from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey) and Alex (from Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange) than he is to King's more conflicted, more sympathetically human characterization . </P>

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