The Army has been developing a super-flu with no cure, a plague that kills people instantly and horribly, and whaddaya know, it gets loose. The A plot, which takes up nearly a third of the movie's runtime, is the more interesting of the two. It comes with its own sequel, if you will. So what's it all about? The Stand is basically two separate plots. However, from the sketchy understanding I have of King as a novelist, I think he might have pulled it off in the book.
This setup works in The Lord of the Rings better than it works in The Stand, because LOTR is drawing from the plot-based tradition of epic poetry, while The Stand draws from the more character-based tradition of the novel. They're both very long stories that deal with a Band of Protagonists meeting and kind of dealing with the Force of Evil, and a long walk is involved. I can sort of see the resemblance, I guess. I've subsequently discovered that the novel was King's attempt to write a sort of American answer to The Lord of the Rings.
I didn't know all that much about it when I started the film, other than that it was based on a gigantic brick of a Stephen King novel. What with the current vogue for dark fantasy, I'd think that The Eyes of the Dragon might also be another good choice for a King film.īut I digress. Brian de Palma's version of Carrie was amazing, for instance, and The Shawshank Redemption is a classic. One thing you gotta say about Stephen King, the guy sure knows how to write a filmable novel. In fact, my experience with Stephen King has been as much through the movies made from his works as from the books themselves. I've just never been particularly inclined to pick a Stephen King novel over any other. I don't necessarily dislike his work - in fact, I think Carrie is absolutely brilliant. I guess the best place to start this is to say right up front that I'm not a massive Stephen King fan. It may have been a result of watching both The West Wing and Parks and Recreation at the same time and wanting to see more of what Rob Lowe has done as a grownup, but that's all I can figure. As I said, I'm not quite sure what made me want to watch the movie, but I am sure that it wasn't a deep and abiding love either for this particular story or for Stephen King in general. I've never read the book, and I have no particular interest in reading the book (especially after seeing the movie). PargolettaSo this week, for reasons that still escape me, I decided to watch the 1994 miniseries The Stand, based on the Stephen King doorstopper.
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