The movie was really bad. The CGI movie shitweasels lost all semblance to the ones in the stroy, that was just a minor complaint on my long list of complaints about that steaming pile. I really enjoyed the book. Thought it was fairly good.
I always wondered why it never occurred to any of the characters to, you know, take the car apart and find out what makes it different from other cars.
Well, the walkers breifly discussed a past winner who died of a stroke or something several days after winning, and one of the walkers suggested (albeit in a moment of anger) that there was no prize and the government just took the winner out back and shot him. For Garraty, though, it looks like he starts hallucinating some kind of spectre of death in the final stages of the walk and then goes completely nuts and/or dies (runs to Valhallah, as it were) in the last paragraph. I get the impression King didn’t really have a solid notion on how to end the story, which is understandable since the story is about the Walk itself, not the outcome.
If it is true,can’t wait to see it ,I will be the first in my country ,ready to watch this
movie ,I know for sure that movie will be sad and heartbreaking ,maybe in the movie ,we will know what became of Raymond garraty,
but can’t wait!!!. hope it comes out soon king,love your books ,thought u need to know .
As I recall at the end of the story, Garraty had essentially devolved into madness by the time he crossed the finish line. Even as people cheered and congratulated him, he was alone in his head, knowing he’d die if he stopped. The point being that the trial made the prize pointless in the end, I think.
I also agree that King’s best works are psychologically driven. Characters’ personalities, interactions and motivations weave together the narrative. He is also, excuse the pun, the king of creating immersive worlds. I think the fact that someone wrote an entire book mapping out the connections between people, places and events spanning decades of his work speaks for itself.
Undeniably some of his works are less than stellar, but that’s true of any artist I think. I’ll also say the man is far too fond of sexual content. I think that it’s rarely needed in books, movies, etc. It seems a common trope for him, though and it’s frankly off-putting.
Don’t get your hopes up. I heard the movie is going to have zombies in it.
This is exactly how I interpreted it. He won, but it didn’t matter. I think *The Long Walk *is my all-time favorite by King. Interestingly enough, I’d rank Thinner up there too, and they were both Bachman books.
It’s interesting to go back and read comments like this now that we have The Hunger Games.
I think you could make that work. There’s a ton of dystopian backstory that was well hinted-at in the book, but could be too cumbersome in a movie to explain. With zombies, you could just line the sides of the road with fence, and put slow zombies behind the pack, who kill and eat anyone who can’t keep up. Plus, you then get away with not having to have soldiers kill children.
…if you fall below 4 mph, you get a ticket…to the zombie show!
Which could be a problem for any movie adaptation, because it will seem derivative, even though the novel came first.