How stephen king feels about the mists wild movie ending. The film s final twist devastated audiences, and it still traumatizes. Now, the author explains what he really thinks of the changes in the 2007 big screen adaptation. The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by movie quotes. The story got even more disturbing when filmmaker frank darabont wrote a new ending for his 2007 movie adaptation. Screenwriter and director frank darabont wanted the movie to be shown in black and white. The mist 2007 bluray 480p 720p 1080p english x264 hindisub. Hi there, i watched the mist last night and gotta say i was blown away by the ending. Even though over a decade has passed since it was debuted, the mist is still talked about to this day, mainly because of its controversial jawdropping ending. We look back with spoilers at the incredible ending to the mist film adaptation, based on a novella by. If shawshank is the movie about the value of hope, then the mist becomes a movie about the danger of hopelessness.
Legendary horror author stephen king has had two of his stories adapted into feature films this year, the first being 1408 back in june and now. A bunch of us hung out at my buddys house and decided to watch a horror movie wed heard of, but hadnt actually seen. Why the mists ending remains one of the best of all time. Looper the ending of the mist finally gets explained. Combine 1 a mysterious threat that attacks a town, and 2 a group of townspeople who take refuge together, and you have a formula apparently able to generate any number of horror movies, from night of the living dead 1968 to 30 days of night. The mist also known as stephen kings the mist is a 2007 american sciencefiction horror film based on the 1980 book the mist by stephen king. What follows is a longer driving sequence that hits upon the heavily.
I was feeling a little angry at the world, and at our country at that time the mist was released in 2007, so it felt like a valid way to end a movie. Why did the mist end with not with a whimper but four horrible bangs. Eventually it was filmed in color but a black and white version of the movie is on the 2disc dvd release. The mist hit theaters wednesday, and its been widely circulated that director frank darabonts ending in the movie differed vastly from stephen kings ending to the novella its based on. If the mist wants a futureand this episode ended on a cliffhanger, so you know their fingers are crossedthe writers need to stop pretending they were ever telling a structured story or that. But the mist was way more disturbing than either of those movies, and it got even darker when darabont wrote a new ending. When an entire town is blanketed with the mist that hid the giant. In the electric mist isnt exactly spectacular, but it has a certain quality to it that you wont find in most movies. I saw the movie the mist today, and they say the ending was different than the ending in the book. The mist is still one of the ballsiest movies of the 21st century. It tells the true story of her work in rwanda with mountain gorillas and was nominated for five academy awards. All you have to do is choose a new threat and a new place of refuge, and use typecasting and personality traits so we can tell the characters apart.
The mists movie ending is still one of the most shocking ever. The statute of limitations has long expired on spoilers for the mist, but king himself, a vocal fan of darabonts revised ending, described it as the most shocking ending ever, and said. Recently rewatched the mist 2007, directed by frank darabont after not having seen it for a few years. With the mists tragic ending, darabont wants to impart a similarly. In the movie, we are told that a nearby military base had been conducting experiments to open a portal to another dimension.
The ending of the mist finally gets explained youtube. The ending the ending of the mist is not like the ending of the novella by stephen king. Gorillas in the mist is a 1988 american drama film directed by michael apted and starring sigourney weaver as the naturalist dian fossey. I thought it was quite bold to leave on a low high note like that. Heres why its still being discussed over a decade later. The mists finale just barely redeems its slow, mind. A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives. The mist s ending is still one of the most shocking final scenes ever featured in a movie. The controversial ending of the mist is reexamined, explaining why its.
The story got even more disturbing when filmmaker frank darabont wrote a. While the film goes in a decidedly dark direction, kings novella is. The director and writer is frank darabont, who many fans of the walking dead will recognize. For me, the new ending ruined all of the movie magic that the original ending would have done for me. Why the twist ending to the mist movie is still bad. Both the novella and movie versions of the mist are excellent, but they radically differ when it comes to the ending.
Tell them the dark clouds have given way tot he ocean mist. The film was written and directed by frank darabont. The director said in an interview that he and the writers made it that way so that there would not be any chance of a sequel. The problem with the mists controversial ending screen rant. The novella the mist ends pretty similar to the movie, with a daring escape being made by david, his son, and two others. However, the movie has a much more brutal ending, in my opinion. Movies express such a fondness for the mist s ending. There seemed to be no middle ground, either one loved the harshness and cruel irony of the conclusion, or hated it for feeling cheap and. So in the 94 classic, andy dufresne hangs onto hope and escapes from prison. Evidently, instead of opening a gateway into another universe, the scientists tripped upon one of the todash spaces, and that is exactly where these creatures, and the mist, came from. The mist movie is adapted from a stephen king hero short story with the same title. The mist is still one of the ballsiest movies of the 21st.
I hated the ending to the movie and it was a good scary movie, but if anyone has read the book version, i would like to know how the book ended. Frank darabonts the mist has a very different ending than the original stephen king novella. Hollywood style movie would have had a happy ending. Kings ending had the surviving group driving to what they prayed would be a way out of the mist. So in the book, our dad and his kid are in the car driving and running away from the horrors in the supermarket. The mist 2007 full movie bluray 480p 720p x264 1080p. In 1980, stephen king published one of his most disturbing stories, a novella called the mist. The ending to frank darabonts the mist though is a dark, gutpunch of an ending, that shows a man on the wrong side of fate, with one less bullet than he needed. At the store, they face more immediate danger, and their tenuous alliance breaks down. The first time i saw the mist was probably in 2009 or 2010. Aggressively ironic, deeply disturbing, and painfully difficult to watch, the mists ending is the type of ending more films should aspire to, and one that has stood the test of time impressively. Why youre still not over the ending of the mist 8 years later mtv. Film is a column comparing books to the film adaptations they spawn, often discussing them on a plotpointbyplotpoint basis. The movie can be seen as a kind of commentary on what can happen when human beings are thrown into a very scary and confusing situation.
As this is an article discussing the ending of 2007s kingdarabont collaboration the mist, its probably worth mentioning that king and darabonts careers intertwine to the point that. By the end of the film, it appears that they succeed in closing this portal, which stops the inflow of the mist and the creatures. They succeeded, but something went wrong, and the portal flew wide open letting all sorts of hostile alien life into the. Gorillas in the mist quotes, movie quotes movie quotes. The mist hit theaters wednesday, and its been widely circulated that director frank darabonts ending in the movie differed vastly from stephen. Darabont had been interested in adapting the mist for the big screen since the 1980s. The ending is different in the story than in the movie, but who am i to quibble. The mists ending is still one of the most shocking final scenes ever featured in a movie.
Director frank darabonts the mist movie has one of the most controversial endings in horror history, partially because it doesnt feel logical. The mist is basically about an army experiment gone bad. One of the story elements that factors into the film s conclusion in an interesting way involves marcia gay harden s human antagonist, the. The mist 2007 full movie bluray 480p 720p x264 1080p hevc 10bit englishhindi subs. In two little scenes the germaneuropeanversion of the film is longer than the usversion. Surprisingly, this film s controversial ending was not how it went down in the novella. Although a monster movie, the central theme explores what ordinary people will be driven to do under extraordinary circumstances. On the 25th, netflix released the series for streaming in. The mist ends its first season with incest, death, and. I remember thinking, its the perfect length for a movie, without leaving out any details, since movies based on king stories are rarely as good as the books. Not everyone will agree, but you will just have to trust me. When an entire town is blanketed with the mist that hid the giant insects. The mist also known as stephen kings the mist is a 2007 american science fiction horror film based on the 1980 novella the mist by stephen king. The mist is my favorite short story by stephen king.
With thomas jane, marcia gay harden, laurie holden, andre braugher. The ambiguous ending of netflixs io is totally up to you. Why youre still not over the ending of the mist 8 years. Following a raucous storm, neighbors david thomas jane and andre braugher, who share a troubled past, agree to head into town together for supplies. Completely not what i expected, big change for hollywood not to sugar coat something and make it all nice. The scifi horror based on stephen kings novella was released in 2007. The book ends with them just driving into the mist, it leaves it up to you. The mists brutal, controversial ending io9 gizmodo.
The result is a film thats equal parts delightful bmovie monster horror. As the mist comes and kills anything in its path, 4 adults decide to commit suicide. Frank darabont on his bizarre and wonderful shawshank. Frank darabonts the mist has one of the most unforgettable endings in movie history. As they realize the mist has covered everything and they dont know where to go, they hear something on the radio and t. On august 24, the mists seasonone finale aired on spike. The mist begins with a conflict between neighbors in castle rock, maine.
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