Stephen King's The Stand
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| German title | Stephen King's The Stand |
| Original title | The Stand |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 345 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Mick Garris |
| script | Stephen King |
| production | Mitchell Galin |
| music | WG Snuffy Walden |
| camera | Edward J. Pei |
| cut | Patrick McMahon |
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The Stand is a four-part television film from the year 1994 based on the novel The Stand by Stephen King . He also wrote the script . The series brings together several classic film motifs: an apocalyptic catastrophe, the struggle between good and evil and a road movie . The series appeared on German television on June 3, 1995.
action
In a military research laboratory for biological warfare agents, deadly viruses escape in an accident . Before the site can be sealed off, a security guard who is already infected with the super flu escapes and triggers a pandemic that wipes out almost all of humanity in a short time. Some of the few survivors, in their dreams, are invited by old Abigail Freemantle to visit her on her farm in Hemingford Home , Nebraska. Once there, they learn that they are embroiled in the final battle between good and evil. From there they travel on to Boulder , Colorado . But not only mother Abigail , but also Randall Flagg as the representative of evil visits people in their dreams and asks them to come to Las Vegas , where he has set up his headquarters.
The Boulder Free Zone eventually sends a group of messengers to Las Vegas to "God's plan" to end the conflict. Flagg has her captured and wants to have her executed as a deterrent for his followers. At the meeting on the occasion of the execution, however, an atom bomb explodes, which the simple-minded garbage can man wants to bring to his Mr. Randall Flagg.
A member of the messenger group, who had an accident along the way and stayed behind, returns to Boulder and talks about the mushroom cloud he saw on the horizon.
criticism
“In contrast to Wolfgang Petersen's virus thriller ' Outbreak ', the focus here is not on the fight against a catastrophe, but on its striking illustration: People die with pathos and a face distorted by pain; in the end, a survivor trudges through a still life of dead bodies. Unfortunately, the whole thing is staged bloodless and unimaginative and often remains a series of episodes that seem arbitrary. "
Awards
- The series won an Emmy in 1994 for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup .
- She was also nominated in the categories of best camera work , best sound mix and best mini-series .
various
- The series was originally broadcast in four parts and was the first DVD -18 when it was released (i.e. double-sided and double-layered).
- Stephen King lived in Boulder, Colorado when he was a teenager.
- Stephen King has a mini-appearance on the series as Teddy Weizak ; he drives with Nadine to Mother Abigail's in Boulder and then turns up again at the end of Stus and Tom's return as a guard guarding the entrance to Boulder. While the character Teddy Weizak dies in Harold Lauder's attack in the book, she remains alive in the film. However, this change has no impact on the story itself, as Weizak is only a supporting character. Weizak is a Jew, because he mentions in the book when removing the corpses in Boulder that he can only now imagine how "his people" must have fared in Auschwitz.
- Basketball superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has a mini-appearance in the film as a monster screamer . This designation is correct in the book, but a bit misleading in the film. The reason: In the book, the character screams “The monsters are coming!”, While Abdul-Jabbar's text reads: “Bring out your dead, the monsters are coming!”, As the gravedigger shouted during the plague in the Middle Ages . However, both statements have the same meaning, they point to the imminent end of humanity. Another difference is that Larry Underwood hears the character in the book screaming loudly in the already deserted Central Park of New York, but only sees him as a corpse (stabbed, not died of the flu) (this is only the case in the original book - in the full edition, Larry Underwood also sees the monster screamer alive and describes him as "a crazy old man in corduroys and zoris and with horn-rimmed glasses, one temple of which was held together by adhesive tape"), earlier and directly in the film meet the road.
- Abigail Freemantle is 108 in the book and 106 in the movie.
- In the book, Fran Goldsmith and Jesse Rider's child is a son (Peter, after their father), in the film it is a daughter (Abigail).
- In the book, Larry Underwood leaves New York with Rita Blakemoore, who later dies in a tent. He only met Nadine Cross later on the way to Boulder.
Web links
- Stephen King's The Stand - The Stand in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stephen King's The Stand - The Last Stand at Fernsehserien.de
- Stephen King's The Stand - The Last Stand on KingWiki
- Stephen King's The Stand - The last stand in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ TV feature film
- ^ Neuhaus, Wolfgang., Christensen, Harro., Wrightson, Berni .: The stand; The last stand: Roman . License edition. Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-86047-824-9 .