Stephen King's 'The Stand' Part I - The Plague' very bizarre coincidences w/ current events | |
Seerose User ID: 59870597 United States 07/30/2014 08:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | With the missing hemmorhagic fever vial from the lab in Galveston yesterday, I was reading through some of the old sinkhole/assumption threads. Especially the ones with messages from East Texas. Lots of very bizarre coincidences began to surface.... I just wanted to share. Quoting: ladyannie2009 ---------- Stephen King’s book, ‘The Stand’ was originally released in the late 70’s. Then he released an uncut/complete version in 1990 with all of the edits restored. King had modernized some of the story. He made changes and included some of current trends/fads from the pop culture to appeal to a younger audience. The survivors begin to have precognitive dreams that lead them to one of the two groups that begin to form. The ‘good guys’ are represented by an old woman they call Mother Abigail……and the ‘bad guys’ are represented by a demon in human form. His name is Randall Flagg. .... The virus continues to spread, and within 19 days, over 99% of the world’s population is dead. The remaining survivors find each other through their dreams (or nightmares depending on what side they’re on), and together, as a group, they begin to assemble their new lives in new places with the people that will become their new families. All of the survivors must choose their own destiny by choosing their own path. They make their own choices on which team to join based on who they are as individuals. Of what’s important to them in establishing their new lives. Evil wants to control the world…..plus everything & everyone in it. Evil is materialistic, it craves power and it wants to rule over all. If Good wants to remain sovereign, they will have to fight. They will have to take a ‘STAND’ and battle evil one last time. I am not at all surprised that there is a novel ... King has to be an insider. It seems like a lot of what is to come has already been released. The small groups, the dreams, the unlikely and inexplicable bonds between people, I think those will come about in the future, if they haven't already begun. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 58192879 United States 07/30/2014 08:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Isn't he writing a sequel? Something like 6,000 pages...ormaybe they aredoing another mini series... that is already cast... I read something in this recenty. Cool original book cover, that in of itself draws rumor. thanks for this !! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 41313784 United States 07/30/2014 08:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Isn't he writing a sequel? Something like 6,000 pages...ormaybe they aredoing another mini series... that is already cast... I read something in this recenty. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 58192879 Cool original book cover, that in of itself draws rumor. thanks for this !! I thought I heard something about a remake but then nothing. I can't really imagine anyone as Stu other than Gary Sinise, though. Scary but so many similarities in this book and what's happening now. Feels like ebola is our captain trips. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 60403981 France 07/30/2014 08:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Part I – The Plague Quoting: ladyannie2009 I’m really not sure what to make of this next part, so I’ll just give you the facts and let you, the reader, form your own opinions. At the very beginning of the movie (1st part)….. there is a black screen that appears with a quote by TS Eliot: **you can see this in the link provided….it’s right before the song ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’ by Blue Oyster Cult begins….. without more cowbell ‘This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper.’ That’s on the regular film version VHS & DVD. Even when it’s on television, that quote is always shown. It really sets the pace of the movie I think and I’ve never NOT seen it. Earlier, and the main reason for me posting this, is because I had turned the tv on and started the 1st part of the movie through Netflix. Where the TS Eliot quote should have been was a different quote. One that I’ve never seen attached to this movie ever (can another Netflix subscriber verify this please?). The TS Eliot quote was gone and replaced with this: REV 6 – 8 And I saw a pale horse And a pale rider upon it And the name of the horse Was pestilence And the name of the rider Was death. *if there’s interest, I can summarize the other 3 parts of the movie for those who don’t have time to watch it. Just let me know. [link to en.wikipedia.org] [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] |
Dace User ID: 982248 Puerto Rico 07/30/2014 08:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Isn't he writing a sequel? Something like 6,000 pages...ormaybe they aredoing another mini series... that is already cast... I read something in this recenty. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 58192879 Cool original book cover, that in of itself draws rumor. thanks for this !! the 'captain trips' world is revisited in the dark tower series....which is waaaay more than 6000 pages throughout 9 books....which also tie in directly or have influence to around 80% of ALL of king's novels. flagg (walter/maerlin) does meet his final end in the series. |
Dace User ID: 982248 Puerto Rico 07/30/2014 08:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Isn't he writing a sequel? Something like 6,000 pages...ormaybe they aredoing another mini series... that is already cast... I read something in this recenty. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 58192879 Cool original book cover, that in of itself draws rumor. thanks for this !! the 'captain trips' world is revisited in the dark tower series....which is waaaay more than 6000 pages throughout 9 books....which also tie in directly or have influence to around 80% of ALL of king's novels. flagg (walter/maerlin) does meet his final end in the series. king sold the rights to jj abrams for the dark tower for 1 cent, but abrams gave the rights back, being too busy helming the new star trek and wars series.....whether it will still be made is uncertain....at least one network passed on it as well. |
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PhotinoBird User ID: 60896938 United Kingdom 07/30/2014 09:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Isn't he writing a sequel? Something like 6,000 pages...ormaybe they aredoing another mini series... that is already cast... I read something in this recenty. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 58192879 Cool original book cover, that in of itself draws rumor. thanks for this !! the 'captain trips' world is revisited in the dark tower series....which is waaaay more than 6000 pages throughout 9 books....which also tie in directly or have influence to around 80% of ALL of king's novels. flagg (walter/maerlin) does meet his final end in the series. And what a delightfully sick end it was |
Citizenperth User ID: 60940255 Australia 07/30/2014 09:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Isn't he writing a sequel? Something like 6,000 pages...ormaybe they aredoing another mini series... that is already cast... I read something in this recenty. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 58192879 Cool original book cover, that in of itself draws rumor. thanks for this !! the 'captain trips' world is revisited in the dark tower series....which is waaaay more than 6000 pages throughout 9 books....which also tie in directly or have influence to around 80% of ALL of king's novels. flagg (walter/maerlin) does meet his final end in the series. And what a delightfully sick end it was uggggh! tell me!.. all over again! what a punishment! It's life as we know it, but only just. [link to citizenperth.wordpress.com] sic ut vos es vos should exsisto , denego alius vicis facio vos change , exsisto youself , proprie |
PhotinoBird User ID: 60896938 United Kingdom 07/30/2014 09:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Isn't he writing a sequel? Something like 6,000 pages...ormaybe they aredoing another mini series... that is already cast... I read something in this recenty. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 58192879 Cool original book cover, that in of itself draws rumor. thanks for this !! the 'captain trips' world is revisited in the dark tower series....which is waaaay more than 6000 pages throughout 9 books....which also tie in directly or have influence to around 80% of ALL of king's novels. flagg (walter/maerlin) does meet his final end in the series. And what a delightfully sick end it was uggggh! tell me!.. all over again! what a punishment! Absolutely. He totally deserved it but still..made me a bit sick to read it Though it's far from being the most gruesome death I've ever read about. |
Dace User ID: 982248 Puerto Rico 07/30/2014 09:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Dace the 'captain trips' world is revisited in the dark tower series....which is waaaay more than 6000 pages throughout 9 books....which also tie in directly or have influence to around 80% of ALL of king's novels. flagg (walter/maerlin) does meet his final end in the series. And what a delightfully sick end it was uggggh! tell me!.. all over again! what a punishment! Absolutely. He totally deserved it but still..made me a bit sick to read it Though it's far from being the most gruesome death I've ever read about. it was cool and all....but i was hoping for a showdown with roland.... the spider was creepy but I still felt a bit cheated. |
Citizenperth User ID: 60940255 Australia 07/30/2014 09:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Absolutely. He totally deserved it but still..made me a bit sick to read it Though it's far from being the most gruesome death I've ever read about. it was cool and all....but i was hoping for a showdown with roland.... the spider was creepy but I still felt a bit cheated. yeah dace, after all them books, i felt the same..... It's life as we know it, but only just. [link to citizenperth.wordpress.com] sic ut vos es vos should exsisto , denego alius vicis facio vos change , exsisto youself , proprie |
Dace User ID: 982248 Puerto Rico 07/30/2014 09:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Absolutely. He totally deserved it but still..made me a bit sick to read it Though it's far from being the most gruesome death I've ever read about. it was cool and all....but i was hoping for a showdown with roland.... the spider was creepy but I still felt a bit cheated. yeah dace, after all them books, i felt the same..... i've always hoped 'bachman' would take a crack at it....especially after the talisman/black house tie in (twinners). |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 60876980 Japan 07/30/2014 09:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | “ Hey, you people! ” Whitney cried. A confused murmur ran through the crowd. Whitney was shaking all over, as if with a palsy. His head kept jerking toward the dark man and then away again. Flagg regarded Whitney with a ferocious smile. Dorgan started toward the cook, and Flagg motioned him back. “ This ain’t right! ” Whitney yelled. “ You know it ain’t! ” Dead silence from the crowd. They might all have been turned to gravestones. Whitney’s throat worked convulsively. His Adam’s apple bobbed up and down like a monkey on a stick. “We was Americans once!” Whitney cried at last. “This ain’t how Americans act. I wasn’t so much, I’ll tell you that, nothin but a cook, but I know this ain’t how Americans act, listening to some murderin freak in cowboy boots—” A horrified, rustling gasp came from these new Las Vegans. Larry and Ralph exchanged a puzzled glance. “That’s what he is!” Whitney insisted. The sweat was running down his face like tears from the brushy edges of his flattop haircut. |
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Lydia22 User ID: 24289757 United States 07/30/2014 10:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I red an post that someone things he was KILLED because of this book. His death was no accident. With the missing hemmorhagic fever vial from the lab in Galveston yesterday, I was reading through some of the old sinkhole/assumption threads. Especially the ones with messages from East Texas. Lots of very bizarre coincidences began to surface.... I just wanted to share. Quoting: ladyannie2009 ---------- Stephen King’s book, ‘The Stand’ was originally released in the late 70’s. Then he released an uncut/complete version in 1990 with all of the edits restored. King had modernized some of the story. He made changes and included some of current trends/fads from the pop culture to appeal to a younger audience. The movie is an apocalyptic, end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it story about a virus with a mortality rate of over 99%. The military calls it ‘Project Blue’…… civilians reference it as ‘captain trips’ or just ‘the super-flu’……but whatever the name, it’s a global killer that presents itself with typical, flu-like symptoms. King had wanted George Romero to direct the movie version because of the work he had done on his dawn/dead zombie films which King was (still is) a huge fan of. The two had collaborated on/off for 10+ years on a screen play, but there were issues almost from the beginning, mostly because of the length of the uncut version. Romero didn’t think it would hold an audience’s attention….and King didn’t want to make revisions to shorten the film because of how he had taken the time to really build the characters. He made them real by injecting real events and real life lessons that he wanted people to be able to identify with. Eventually, they parted ways (remaining friends)…and the idea for Romero to direct was scrapped. A few years later, ABC & King agreed on a screenplay for the movie, the cast was chosen, and ABC made the film. It was released in the mid 90’s as an 8 hr mini-series shown in 4 segments. The movie has a theme of ‘Good’ v/s ‘Evil’. Most of the people who have natural immunity to the virus have lost everyone (book is slightly different than the movie) Entire families, gone. Friends, neighbors, co-workers…all gone. Most animals have died off as well. The survivors begin to have precognitive dreams that lead them to one of the two groups that begin to form. The ‘good guys’ are represented by an old woman they call Mother Abigail……and the ‘bad guys’ are represented by a demon in human form. His name is Randall Flagg. *****SPOILER ALERT***** Part I – The Plague: Movie starts off at a high-level security army base in Baja, California. It’s a research facility where they’re doing top-secret testing on biological & chemical weapons. They’re in a bio-level 4 medical lab when there is a containment breach on one of the highly virulent strains they’re working with. Something so deadly, that it kills everyone inside the lab in a matter of minutes. Because of a malfunction with the security gates, one of the MP’s on outside patrol, Charles Campion, manages to escape from his military guard shack. He quickly grabs his wife and baby, and makes it out of the army facility before the gates lock-down with them inside. Unfortunately, he & his family are already infected. Campion, in a delusional & advanced state of illness, is able to get all the way to a small gas station in the north east corner of Texas. In a small little town called ‘Arnett’. Unbeknownst to him, his wife and baby have died along the way….. he dies a few minutes later. The military moves in, and the residents of Arnett are put in a mandatory quarantine. They are told it’s necessary because of a new strain of anthrax. The virus is then purposely spread to other countries so that the contamination leak cannot be traced back to the military base in California. The virus continues to spread, and within 19 days, over 99% of the world’s population is dead. The remaining survivors find each other through their dreams (or nightmares depending on what side they’re on), and together, as a group, they begin to assemble their new lives in new places with the people that will become their new families. All of the survivors must choose their own destiny by choosing their own path. They make their own choices on which team to join based on who they are as individuals. Of what’s important to them in establishing their new lives. Evil wants to control the world…..plus everything & everyone in it. Evil is materialistic, it craves power and it wants to rule over all. If Good wants to remain sovereign, they will have to fight. They will have to take a ‘STAND’ and battle evil one last time. When people have the choice to chose... they chose wrong... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 47820996 United States 07/30/2014 10:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Anonymous Coward 41313784 If SK were a Christian he would tell the world that Nazis weren't hunted down as war-criminals (like he pretended in Apt Pupil) but that instead they were RECRUITED, GIVEN NEW IDENTITIES AND PUT TO WORK IN SECRET PROJECTS! He will never admit Operation Paperclip was the truth, and that Nazi hunting was a cover-up. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 60865017 United Kingdom 07/30/2014 10:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | BTW...a little more info... Quoting: Dace Randall Flagg didn't first appear in the stand,...he first appeared as simply 'flagg' in 'the eyes of the dragon'. it was also hinted that he, 'the man in black', was the evil dude in 'storm of the century'. but mainly, flagg was who roland pursued on the way to the dark tower. Hmm i wonder if falgg was also he who walks behind the rows, in children of the corn. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 58362005 United States 07/30/2014 10:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am a huge King fan, and have read all of his books many times over. Flagg works for the Crimson King, who is taking over the Dark Tower to bring down all levels of the universe. Captain Trips (one name for the virus) happened only in one level, one world, out of many. Given all that is happening with nuclear reactors, it seems fitting with the end of the story. Side note, a Catholic priest wrote a dissertation on the whole of Kings work, calling it 'religious'. For some reason, I cannot paste a link, so Google: Catholic priest writes on Stephen King. |
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