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| King, Stephen: The Running Man
King, Stephen: The Running Man
The Running
Man
written
by
STEPHEN
King
alias Richard
Bachman
The Running Man is one of those books, where
you think that the film is based on the book because the plot is so superficious
and fictious.
You are false the book is different, but what
happened to the plot? Now you can understand the peoples feelings and after
reading this book, you´ll see something different in your TV - SET. The
power to change your will, the power to manipulate your mind and certainly
you´ll get a distance between you and your TV - SET.
Content:
Ben Richard is just married and has a baby. He
is unemployed and always on the run to get a job. His baby is ill and the pain
is, that he simply has´nt enough money to buy the medicaments. The illness
get´s worse and worse and he panicks. But then he hears, that he can make
good money, if he is willing to work in a show.
You just have to know, that we are in Co - Op
city in 2021. The Television is the most important free time activity and for
this reason a giant concern has constructed a wonderworld on TV. It is showtime,
people are invited to play in these shows, but there is one serious problem,
they have to survive. For example there is one show where only people with one
or two heart attacks before can enter. The have to take place on a bicycle and
then they get electric shocks. That means that they should drive their bike
faster. The show ends when the candidate gets an heart attack or dies. But above
all these shows there is one show, everybody wants to see. THE RUNNING MAN.
Back to Ben Richards. Before somebody can play
a part in a show he must be tested physically and mentally, these questonnaire
lasts two days, Ben Richards passes all the tests. And then he gets to know the
truth. He will play a part in the most famous show, The Running Man. Nobody
before him has survived, but Ben knows that he has to survive for his baby and
his wife. He has two days in which he can prepare himself for the show. He meets
the showmaster Evan Mc Cone who is a bad character full of hatred against him.
It is showtime, five minutes before he can
start, the audience is introducted. Ben knows why all these people hate him,
they have changed his life. Now he is a thieve who has raped small kids, the
audience hates him. He flees, he has a start of one day to the
hunters.
He searches for a new identity, a new passport
and a good place to hide. Every day he has to send a cassette with a report to
the showmaster, it only helps the hunters, now they can find out easier, where
he hides.
In the following days he strolls through
America, from N.Y. to L.A. . He gets to know some people who trust and help him,
but the majority has seen the faked films of Ben Richards in the show and
therefore they distrust him and cheat him, so that he is always on the run. He
heads north towards Maine. The hunters are near. Then the situation
collapses.
They nearly catches him but then he takes a
hostage. A young woman, he takes her and a car to the airport. The young woman,
who first doesn´t like him at all, has to learn that the reality is
different to the show - reality. Soon she helps him and they get a plane. The
hunters try to delay him but finally he gets into the plane. Before he starts he
wants the showmaster of Running Man in the plane. Mc Cone enters and they take
off. Ben kills the showmaster in a fight and has to learn that the pilotes are
also hunters. The young woman helps him where she can. Then finally he wants her
to jump off the plane, Of course with a parachute, then he heads towards the
giant Tee Vee building, where all those shows are made. He crashes into the
building. His wive gets enough money to provide herself and the baby, but Ben
Richards is dead.
THE END.
One might say that this ia again a book from
Stephen King without sense, this time I think that the content has in a
particular way sense.
The television is able to change us, as we see
in the book it is able to force a mass to work against a single man. And this
development is dangerous.
Although the end of the book is nearly banal I
have to admit that this was the only consequence. From the beginning of the book
on, I knew that he would die
I liked it very much, the film is bad but the
book - I don´t know but you better read the book instead of watching the
film on TELEVISION!!!!!!
Thomas Bachleitner - H. 03.01.1997 - 2nd
Book Report
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