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Aug '22
I was just thinking about this. Can anyone think of any Stephen King book, or movie, where he makes a character in the military who is positive or sympathetic?

He might do it in some of his books from the middle period of his writing. I have read most of his early stuff, and a fair amount of his recent stuff, but I am having a hard time thinking of any of his books showing people in the military as the good guys. Maybe he did this in some of his books from the 90s or early 2000s.

Anyway, I guess I just find this interesting. In The Stand, the military guys are just about always very unsympathetic, because they were responsible for the virus. There might have been a few very low-ranking, sort of everyman, regular dude characters in the military that you feel bad for, but overall they are pretty awful people. In The Long Walk, the army guys are just soulless killers, pure and simple. In the novella The Mist, the army is clearly responsible for whatever the hell happened to the world... some kind of portal to another dimension, or something like that.

Can anyone think of any of his books or movies where he presents military people in a sympathetic way?

I might have started thinking about this just in the context of 80s horror movies. The 80s had Predator, Lifeforce, Day of the Dead... probably others. They all had a major military element, whether it was for good or for evil. But, Stephen King just doesn't seem to like to write about military people, except as part of a soulless machine... it is just difficult to imagine Stephen King writing a fun Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, or a Rambo, Steven Seagal, or Jean Claude Van Damme movie, with the main character saying lots of deadpan one liners before vengefully machine gunning dozens of his enemies into tiny little bits and pieces.

I'm repeating myself a lot, here... well, whatever. Anyone have any thoughts?

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Tommix says:
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Aug '22
There was one character in The Stand who was SORT OF a sympathetic military character. His last name was Creighton... I think maybe he was a colonel. He worked in the base where the virus was released from, I think. Anyway, he did a hell of a lot of harm to the world, if I recall correctly, but Stephen King wrote about him in such a way that you at least sort of felt like you could sympathize with where he was coming from.


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Ballz says:
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Aug '22
I don't really remember Creighton in the book as I haven't read it in a long time and his role in the old miniseries is small. In the new miniseries, I'm not sure he exists at all.

I was going to mention General Starkey, but after reading up on his actions in the book, I think it's only his fate that makes him seem at all sympathetic. In the new miniseries though, he actually does something to help one of the main characters.

Also, King technically did write a fun Arnold movie: The Running Man. I'm guessing King hates that movie.


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Tommix says:
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Aug '22
Yeaj, good point about The Running Man. I bet he does hate that movie, LOL! I read the (short) book that the movie was based on, years ago. I doubt they would even think about filming it, in this century, because it ends with the Arnold character piloting an airplane into the studios of the Running Man TV show.



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