"Modern Horror Master" Steven King once said:
"For me, the best reading is when the reader dies of a heart attack while reading my article."
I have to say Master Jin, you are so fierce!
In fact, for many domestic audiences, compared with the novel itself, everyone pays more attention to the films adapted from his novel. (Master Jin don't be heartbroken ~~)
The old man also looks very personal
In the inventory of various thriller drama films, it is difficult not to see his works.
"Ending God Reversed" - "The Mist"
"Despair from beginning to end" – 1408 Phantom Murder
"Maddening Loneliness" – The Shining
"A Must-See Movie for Men" – The Shawshank Redemption
……
Too many to count.
He is high quality and prolific, and is very good at describing atmosphere and psychology, which is why his works are deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Stephen King and his characters
Just like in "The Shawshank Redemption", the most impressive thing is not how many difficulties and dangers the male protagonist has gone through to get free, but the loneliness and helplessness of the old man who was released after half a century in prison in the face of a world that he no longer understands;
Just like in "The Mist", those ugly and terrible monsters do not make us feel so terrible, the terrible thing is that in the endless fog, we know nothing about the environment and the future...
Stephen King, who has been wearing the "Master of Horror" hat on his head, is actually not satisfied with the title, and he hopes that his work will be more diversified.
After watching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, he was inspired to prepare his longest popular novel in history, which took 30 years to finally complete the work that was important to him, "The Dark Tower".
There are seven films, combining elements such as legend, western story and fantasy, and the main line is roland the gunman Roland's search for the legendary Dark Tower and the duel with the Man in Black, creating a grand story background.
Finally, this masterpiece is about to go to the big screen.
Just like its long creative process, the film adaptation of the novel is also fateful.
First Universal Pictures, which was preparing to develop, gave up due to the production costs were too expensive, and then transferred to Warner; then Warner gave up because of script problems, so that the project was shelved again;
It was not until it was finally taken over by Sony-Columbia that it officially began to be put into production.
Subsequently, the film underwent a series of director changes, actor adjustments, and the release schedule was adjusted again and again, and it took six years before and after the final setting. It can be said that it is quite a good thing to grind.
The film is co-starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey.
Needless to say, Matthew McConaughey won the Academy Award for Best Actor that year for the movie "Dallas Buyers Club", and his acting skills were quite recognized. Later, he starred in "Interstellar", which also made him well known to Chinese audiences.
However, the protagonist of the film, Roland, played by Idris Elba, is somewhat inconsistent with the expectations of some fans of the original book.
Because the image of Roland in the novel is "white skin and blue eyes", the film is adapted into a black figure, which is unacceptable to some fans of the original book;
Another part of the reason is that readers feel that Ebar's overly stout figure deviates from their impressions when they read the original book.
From this point of view, the film adaptation is very strong.
Is such a drastic adaptation a good thing or a bad thing? The answer can only be found in the movie.
A few days ago, the Chinese trailer for "The Dark Tower" has also been released.
At the beginning of the trailer, the little boy Jack sees two men and a tower in a dream.
One of the two is a knight who guards the world, the Gunner;
The other is the man in black who wants to destroy the world.
The tower had been hidden in the darkness.
Based on his dreams, the boy finds a building with a gate to a parallel world.
The boy arrives in a parallel world and finds it full of sand and scorched earth, revealing a doomsday scene.
At this time, the boy encounters the gunman of his dream, but the man refuses to admit it, claiming that the gunman no longer exists.
He tells the boy the story of the Dark Tower and the Man in Black, and tells the boy that the Dark Tower protects the two worlds he and the boy live in, and if the tower is destroyed, death will follow.
On the other side, the Man in Black has already begun his own action.
The little boy said to the Gunner, "Your world may no longer exist, but my one is still there." If the Dark Tower falls, billions of people will die. ”
The boy believes that only the Gunman can stop the Man in Black and thus protect humanity.
The Gunman decides to follow the little boy to Earth to protect the Dark Tower and save the lives of earthlings.
The Dark Tower in the film is the common hope of both worlds;
The Man in Black is a symbol of destroying hope, death and fear everywhere he goes;
And the gunman, who has been fighting alone, once gave up his faith due to failure, but found his own value in the boy and formed a constant bond with him.
The lines of the film are also quite flavorful, such as the words of the gunman:
“I do not aim with my hand, I aim with my eye. I don't use my hands to aim at the target, I aim at the target with my eyes. ”
“I do not shoot with my hand, I shoot with my mind. I don't shoot with my hands, I shoot with my head. ”
“I do not kill you with my gun, I kill you with my heart. I will not kill you with my gun, I will kill you with my soul. ”
Although this line has a hint of the sense of forcedness in the middle two, but with the exquisite marksmanship and cool action in the film, I can't help but marvel: there is nothing wrong with this forced dress!
At present, the Dark Tower is scheduled to be released in North America on August 4, and there is no news in the mainland, but it is expected to be introduced!