Gone are the colorful nicknames of the assassins hunting down Richards, replaced by a grim police state and a compliant middle class all too eager to turn in the running man for the reward money. The campier aspects of the movie are not present within the book either. While Ben Richards is still pushed into appearing on the nation’s most popular game show, here it is because of the extreme poverty his family is facing, as well as the sickness threatening his young daughter’s life. The book, originally published under Stephen King’s infamous pen name Richard Bachman, is quite different from the movie. I legitimately think Richard Dawson’s performance as the game show host is one of my favorites. I know it’s not great cinema, but I’ve always had a weakness for the movie The Running Man, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as a framed convict selected for a sadistic game show.
0 kommentar(er)
