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fandomsecrets2012-09-27 06:43 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-09-27 06:43 pm
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I think, having read the novel, you probably got a much stronger sense of the characters than I did. From what I saw of them just in the movie, the dad wanting to kill his son after the son had made him promise "not to let the monsters get (him) no matter what" seemed very consistent. He just want to spare them what he thought was inevitably, painful death (which was wrong, as you agree).
Oh, okay. Fair enough. I think it would have lost some of the impact if it had been paced differently, but for sure it would have been more realistic. But I 100% read it as a condemnation of people killing themselves - I don't think King would have liked it as much as he did if the director had meant something different from his intent, either? Is my view.
See, I really liked that military is so effective here. In most horror films they're (necessarily) useless so a plucky band of heroes with no training or real firepower can save the day. But why would they be? The revolver is extremely effective against the monsters, which means better guns would do even better, right? Like I said, I haven't read the novel, but if 12 .45 rounds can kill several monsters dead, and thin sheet metal can stop even the biggest and strongest monsters, a 20" reinforced steel BTR with a .50 turret is going to kill hundreds. And the US military has lots where that came from. I can't stand it when the military just shits their pants in horror films while an untrained civilian saves the day, personally. I'm glad the movie didn't go that route.
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The problem is that, it's an amazing adaptation of the novel. Usually with King novels, I have no problem separating novel from movie. Here? The characterization is perfect (Ending non-withstanding), the casting is excellent (Even when I wouldn't have cast Norm as a PoC to avoid any misunderstandings, or would've probably cast more PoCs for other characters), and the imagery of what the monsters look like is just right... and then the ending is like an absolute curve ball. So, it's hard to me to accept David and his last solution.
Because he also promises his son that in the novel, but there he's very clear that he's going to keep them all alive. So it's a quite jarring change from the original.
Finally, well, if you plan to read the novel (Or any King novel, for that matter), let me tell you that no, the army is not that effective in it. But there's no plucky band of heroes saving the day either.
Now that I think of it, King rarely gets with the army in his novels. The only other one I can see right now in my desk (yes, I'm a King- nut) are Dreamcatcher and The Stand, and in both the attitude is very much : The army, on itself, is quite effective and capable. It's just that the idiots in charge don't give all the information to the grunts who NEED the information in order to be effective.
(And if you like military being effective in horror stories, I recommend World War Z. The first act might put you out a little, but it picks up fast)
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Well I retract my statement then to "butthurt or has read the novel and disagrees with that characterization" lol. I mean that's totally reasonable. I can't stand OOCness either. If it was character-breaking for David to do it, then that's lame.
King (seems?) pretty leftist, so I'm not surprised he's not big on the military. I'm pretty left myself, so I don't mind, I just find it grating when they're cartoonishly incompetent. That's the stereotype, sure, but I don't think you'd want to count on it if you were ever up against the army.
(I've read World War Z, but it rubbed me the wrong way for an entirely different reason: why is virtually everybody who matters after the apocalypse a dude? As I recall, there's one female pilot and one mother figure and a huuuuuuge deal is made about how "unfeminine" the pilot is. Why would a male civilian scrub do better in the zombie apoc than an equally out of shape, unused to fighting woman? Bleh.)
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And yes, OOC if you know the novel. And not just for David, but for everyone in that van. Hell, I wanted Ollie to come back from the dead just to rag on them :)
King is very leftist, yes. But he also tries to be a fair writer, so he tends to go against the powers in charge, rather than against the grunts. Again, the Stand. Sure, the army lets out a horribly deadly disease... but the ones containing it are the ones who have no idea what is it. So of course there were slips and mistakes.
(MMm... I seem to remember more women being interviewed, there's the woman who had been a child in the Canada camps and now is working killing frozen zombies, and I'm sure the russian soldier is a woman, but you're right, now that I think about it. There's a lot of men on the novel. mmm... What about the Newsflesh trilogy? I didn't quite like the last book of the trilogy, but the army as efficiently scary bad guys there are amazing and the first book is very good)
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I have not read the Newsflesh trilogy, I will give it a try! After I read The Mist.