By T. Magistrale
For the earlier 3 a long time, Hollywood has faithfully tailored a lot of Stephen King's fiction into movie. Of the numerous significant movies which have been made, now not one has misplaced funds. a part of this can be defined by way of King's personal reputation in American tradition; he has been, in any case, a best-selling author because the past due Nineteen Seventies. yet extra fascinating is what this cinematic fascination finds approximately postmodern American tradition. within the first evaluation of Hollywood's significant cinematic interpretations of Stephen King, Tony Magistrale examines some of the thematic, narrative, and personality interconnections that spotlight the relationships between his movies. establishing with a revealing interview with Stephen King, the publication takes us via chapters that discover such well known motion pictures as Stand by means of Me, distress, The Shining, the golf green Mile, and The Shawshank Redemption between others.
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The problem with that film is that I was coked out of my mind all through its production, and I really didn't know what I was doing [as the director of the film]. I learned a lot from the experience, however, and I would like to try directing again some time. Maybe I'll direct Gerald's Game. TM: Gerald's Game remains one of my favorite books. I have always presented it to students as an appropriate bookend to Misery: Its limited setting, the gender conflicts, and the bedroom as a battlefield. SK: I had all these things in mind when constructing both these books, and I've always thought to myself that Misery was a kind of trick.
King may have achieved his reputation by writing about threatening and disconcerting subject matter, but this does not necessarily impose a corollary that his vision is hopeless. Perhaps the most misunderstood opinion of those who have never actually read King or seen the films adapted from his work is that he lacks a sufficient moral base to counterpoint the human and supernatural evil that the popular imagination associates with his art. In fact, Carrie may well be the single notable exception to the axiom that children represent the most viable spirit of hope in the frequently desolate landscape of Stephen King's universe.
It's the best color photography I've seen since the Godfather films, particularly Godfather II, which is filmed like no other movie before it. It's the difference between a color photograph and one that has been hand-tinted. I think Dolores Claiborne is a remarkably beautiful film to watch, if simply as an exercise in cinematography and the technical possibilities of using a camera and colors as active vehicles in the presentation of a story. TM: As horrible and as violent as the moments leading to the eclipse are, the actual scene of Dolores gazing down into the well where she has just 18 I HOLLYWOOD'S STEPHEN KING committed murder with the eclipse at her back is actually almost transcendent, beatific.