Posted on 12/26/2020 12:50:38 PM PST by DallasBiff
As anybody who read the book, Harold is a young Stephen King, in this adaptation.
Since I was too late to add an “Anthony” comment, if you grew up on a farm, corn fields can be scary, disorienting places.
You can lose your direction, hear things off in the distance, unidentifiable, the corn itself is always making unnerving sounds.
It’s the edible version of The Shining’s maze.
Plus, there’s also the ancient pagan Harvest/Corn/Sacred King festivals that always ended up in ritual sacrifice.
Lots of reasons for corn fields.
:)
I’m curious about this most recent adaptation, but it also features Whoopie Goldberg. So.... no.
Definitely not interested. Saw the picture of her, plus I am tired of anything that Commie King comes up with. I’d rather practice my piano.
King is all teenager level suspense an no delivery of action.
In original mini series they found a
battery powered record player.Harold
and Frannie listened to Don’t Dream It’s Over by Crowded House.
Ironic moment in original novel: the scared almost feral young boy, Joe, speaks of
the devil and blurts out “barr-ackk man!”
King pun in book:”Nick and Tom were eating
Underwood deviled ham in the park”.
There’s another character named
Larry Underwood..and “devil(ed)”? Randall
Flagg, ha
Pt 2 of new version is full of crap you
could say: Larry Underwood swims through
liquified excrement in the NYC sewers.
Randall Flagg frees the criminal Lloyd
Henreid who feared starving to death
in prison.He gives him a stone which
can transform into a key.
Song at the end of episode, Melanie:
I got a brand new pair of rollerskates
You got a brand new key
In the book a young Abagail Freemantle sings the Star-spangled Banner to an entirely white audience who “applauded fit to raise the roof. That was the proudest day of her life.”
She did this “on account of what happened back in the middle of the States War...my family was able to come here [to Nebraska] and live with the fine neighbors we have.”
I wonder if this scene will be faithfully depicted...
M-O-O-N spells hollyweird woke crap.
LOL..... beat me to it.... M.O.O.N. spells moon.
“With Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail, pass!”
I would like to watch this, but I’m with you. Will not watch anything with that psycho idiot in it. She said Dr. Jill Biden is a great doctor and would be good surgeon general. No apology, no remorse, no concept of how stupid her comment was.
Harold was a followed the walking man.
For a liberal from Maine, it represents everything dark, dangerous, boring and non-diverse of the evil conservative Christian heartland.
“How can a record player play when the electric is gone?”
You mean the battery powered record players? My sister had that one.
Ditto.
Not interested in this, however, ‘Carrie’, scared the HECK out of me at the end, and ‘The Shining’ was awesome and well worth watching more than once but that was ALL Nicholson’s doing. I didn’t care for ‘Misery’ though Kathy Bates is good in just about anything; ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ and any TV cameo. ‘The Green Mile’ was exceptional.
Really loved his short stories in ‘Night Shift’ but I stopped reading him once I got out of High School. I’m more of a Ray Bradbury Girl, truth be told. ;)
https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/ray-bradbury-books
Does it show when he became a brain-dead, globalist-loving, Soros-adoring, left-wing socialist?
Thanks.
Did you see the TV miniseries re-make of The Shining. It was more faithful to the book, and was really well done. Halloran the cook (played by Melvin Van Peebles) was a much tougher character than the version (Scatman Crothers) in the Jack Nicholson movie.
I watched the first movie as a child, and Nicholson was good in it, but in reality, it seems to be a Jack Nicholson vehicle, in which Jack Nicholson could be his Jack Nicholson self.
Thanks for the (Shining) recommendation. I’ll look for that. And, yes. Nicholson WAS being Nicholson in the original!
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