The Steven King movie "The Stand"

I have not seen the movie but I have read the book a couple of times.

 

Dejuan

Wolf and Iron by Gordon Dickson is a post-SHTF novel.

Economic collapse in this one.  Great read...

nawty

Can't help wondering what Stephen King is thinking today and if he feels a bit like a prophet. The Stand is an awesome book and an all-time classic. As frightening as the deaths from the super flu is the way Stephen King describes the disintegration of society and last but not least, how we deal with the choice between good and evil.  This forum  is helping us gear up to take a stand and choose to fight against the evil of ignorance, denial and apathy. The Stand may be fiction but it contains many truths about human nature. I haven't read it in years, but will read it again soon. And just in case Stephen King ever decides to  peek into this forum, THANK YOU STEPHEN !!!

That was a darn good movie. I liked the spiritual content, good vs. evil, faith vs. blind obedience to the ....

Don't want to be a spoiler!

One of my all time favorite fiction books. Yes, this is getting far too close for comfort! Fiction meets reality! Scary indeed.

Yes....The unabridged book vertsion of The Stand is the way to go. Have read it twice, saw the movie, but the book is so much better. As much as I loved it...I think it would creep me out too much to read it today...a little to close to reality. ICk....remember that scene in the Lincoln Tunnel?....brrrr

The death rate in the stand was 99.8%. I dont think h5n1 will come close to that Forum.

PsychoElf wrote: Fiction meets reality! Scary indeed.   Elf

I've been reading SciFi all my life... which is to say a l-o-n-g  time! I have a huge paperback collection and most of the works mentioned have their place of honor on my shelves. Another good one is "The Scarlet Plague" by Jack London. Written in 1915, it's about a plague in 2013 that wipes out most of the population of the world, and the descent into barbarism that follows.

An interesting contemporary movie is "Time of the Wolf"... in French with subtitles, but worth a look if you can find it. Unlike an Amercian movie it doesn't "spoon feed" you all the facts about what happened, so you have to think about it some, but an interesting if creepy movie considering what's going on right now.

OK, I rented The Stand again. I think this time I am going to watch it over a couple of days. It is a long movie. I did like it much better than that latest movie about the bird flu. Was it called Fatal Contact or something like that?

My favorite book of all time.  The movie leaves a lot out just because it would be a two week mini seiries, otherwise.  But the movie is still good.

 

I rented The Stand last week. I hadn't seen it in years. It is a great film. I am currently reading The Great Influenza. I am amazed at some of the situations that came up in the movie/book (The Stand)that I read in the book (The Great Influenza). Even though it is fictional, I am wondering if Mr. King researched the 1918 pandemic when writing his book. Would love to hear his background research into The Stand! Personally, facing the fear, or making a stand is empowering -- good triumps over evil. Thank you Mr. King and Mr. Barry for your contributions.

Yep.

I just purchased a book of Stephen King's called Danse Macabre. It  is a book where here talks about his reasons for writing most of his stories. On pg.370-375 he goes into great detail of why he wrote The Stand.  "It was a news story I had read about an accidental CBW spill inUtah. All the bad nasty bugs got out of their cannister and killed a bunch of sheep. But, the news article stated, if the wind had been blowing the other way, the good people of Salt Lake City might have gotten a very nasty surprise. This article called up memories of a novel called Earth Abides, by George R.Stewart. In Stewart;s book, a plague wipes out most of mankind, and the protagonist, who has been made immune by virtue of a well-timed snakebite, witnesses the ecological changes which the passing of man causes. " "In the case of  The Stand, this meanst beginning with the glum premise that the human race carries a kind of germ with it-I began by seeing this germ symbolically visulaized in the SLA, and ended by seeing it visualized in the superflu germ-which grows more and more virulent as technology misstep(not a far-fetched presumption, either, when you consider what happened at Three Mile Island lst year or the face the Loring AFB in my own state scrambled bombers and fighters ready to head over the pole toward Russia as the result of amusing little computer foulup which suggested that the Russians had launched their missiles and the Big Hot One was on)" This book was written 1981 and I just purchased it this past Sunday afternoon at the Goodwill for 1.98. Hope that gives some insight into what Mr. Stephen King was thinking when he wrote The Stand, my favorite of all of his books written.

I loved the movie "The Stand." M-O-O-N spells moon!! I just loved the guy. And "Randal Flag" as the devil. I feel sorry for anyone out there named Randal Flag. I suspect he is someone Stephen King doesn't like. lol.
    
    

I remember thinking the movie was pretty good, but also thinking the book was much better. It has been so long since I read the book (when it first came out) although I may go back and read it again since I still have my original copy. I met Stephen King at a lecture when I was in college and took my book and he autographed it for me. He was really nice!

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I have read the uncut version of the book several times and I also own the movie, which I also think is not as good as the book but was still very good. Hate the tunnel part, really scary;and I never want Nick to die. My daughter and I still say "my life for you...." when we are cutting up. I think it's the best thing he ever wrote. I have his "Cell" book as a Christmas gift, but having read everything he ever wrote,several times, it doesn't really sound like his writing in my head except for some parts.

I noticed that The Stand is on this Sunday on Sci Fi ..