I don't know why they felt the need to remake this incredible end times tv movie. It was near (99%) perfect the first time. No need to wreck the original.... of any art.
He would never had been my choice for Nick Andros but he actually nailed it so well that whenever I re-read The Stand he is completely my visualisation of the character.
I have read the book and watched both series. IMHO, Laura San Giacomo and Amber Heard both did excellent portrayals of Nadine. However, the 2020 screenplay told more of Nadine’s background, and why she was the way she was, as the book did. For some reason, Amber’s portrayal of Nadine seemed to be a little colder than Laura’s portrayal. Overall, the screenplay and the casting was much better for the 1994 version but I don’t think that they totally goofed Nadine Cross in the 2020 version. Other things they did muck up pretty bad in the newer version.
He is the embodiment of the demise of the human species. Sometimes that feels more inevitable than other times. That's why Randall Flagg is creepy AF to me. We don't learn from our failures and follies and he smiles real big and wants to profit from selling cremation services or some such.
SK uses this part in the book from Yeats’s poem which fits Randall Flagg perfectly - And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Here’s the whole thing.. The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
The fact is that within the stand his agenda is played out a little too shortsighted. He may be charisma, familiarity, and temptation. I think King's theme was here is that charisma is good but only with truth behind it or you get a salesman, familiriaity is only good as long as we take stock on ourselves, and temptation is only positive without deciept. Im not religous but the themes seem to suggest a morality without concrete, unmovable beliefs. Back then when he was writing this the man could make you think.
Adam Storke was awesome! I love this portrayal of Larry as both shady and corrupted by the music industry, yet he’s the voice of humanist reason who’s only major sin is that he doubts God’s presence and involvement in everyday life. He’s a great example of others who would become Flagg’s acolytes simply through man’s gift of the tree of knowledge, but turns away because sin can still be combated as a moral choice.
I’ve always wondered whether Flagg caused the plague or just capitalized on the doom we created for ourselves. Open to interpretation I think, but I prefer the latter.
In my interpretation of the book, Flagg never caused anything, but when he sensed something evil was to occur, he doused gasoline on the fire. He saw the evil in human's hearts and incited it 100 fold. He was a force of nature
Randal Flagg is not Trump or Hitler or Satlin or Mao or Pol Pot or another human monster. Flagg is the dark force behind them all. He stands in the shadows laughing as the trains rolled east to the extermination camps. He stood laughing at the killing fields of Cambodia. He is the incarnation of the darkness in all the human race. I see him as the antiChrist
Same. I watched five minutes of the remake and that was enough for me. Complete garbage. Adam Storke is the ONLY Larry Underwood in my book. This miniseries is a masterpiece.
Hilarious how people act like it is always the “end times”….they have no idea how bad it was in past history. Do you know about 70,000 years ago a super volcano in Sumatra erupted…and the ensuing global impact killed off just about all humans? We were down to about 40 “breeding pairs” and a total of about 5-10,000 humans on the planet…It took until the late Stone Age before our population recovered…just about got snuffed out. Of course, the religions then were probably very different than the ones we made up in the last couple thousand years.
I thought it really odd as big a character that he played even if pre collapse that Harris was uncredited as General Starkey, same with Kareem Abdul Jabbar who played the man yelling about the end of the world in Times Square
In is own words, King said that Randal is pretty much a incarnation of the Crawling Chaos, the Black Pharaon, The one who haunt the dark, Nyarlathotep. One of the original God created by H.P Lovecraft and he is the more dangerous one, if Cthulhu or any other god come back we will be dead or Mad but him? Is already here and he play with us, some time save us but to bring a horrible Damnation. Look how King describe Randall and now look as many variant of Nyarlathotep are like this.
I'm on page 473 while they get bikes to finally ride on I love this story. I have the uncut and complete version its roughly 1159 pages. I'm loving every bit of it. I love Larry. Baby can you dig your man he's a righteous man Baby can you dig your man.
