The Mist
The movie adaptation of Stephen King’sThe Misthas an infamously dark ending , but the volume it ’s base on is actually more hopeful in its conclusion . Out of the dozens of film made based on Stephen King ’s body of work , it ’s honest to say most of them do n’t really come close to replicate the book . This is fine for the most part , as what works on the varlet often does n’t figure out when done visually . One of the movie adaptation that stick closest to its literary opposite number is 2007’sThe Mist , written and directed byFrank Darabont .
Darabont has shown a knack for catch the perfume of Stephen King ’s history , most magnificently with 1994’sThe Shawshank Redemption , a moving-picture show often held up as one of the peachy in cinema story . Darabont also earn acclaim for writing and point 1999’sThe Green Mile . One affair those two King adaptations have in mutual though is that they ’re two of King ’s fairly rare non - horror stories . WithThe Mist , Darabont finally took a snapshot at reproducing a King story build wholly on terror .
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While most King rooter enjoyedThe Mist , and thought it was a well - done version , there was one major sticking point that divided audiences : the ending . The Mist ’s ending onscreen is unrelentingly stark , and hits the looker like a poke to the catgut . While King ’s Scripture ending is n’t exactly happy , it ’s much less heart - wrenching , and a scrap hopeful .
The Mist Had a Hopeful Ending (In Stephen King’s Book)
As anyone who ’s date the picture no doubt can never forget , The Mistmovie ends with a ostensibly hopeless David Drayton and his fellow grocery computer memory escapee decide it would be better to die by gunshot than by monster oral cavity . David uses his four stay on hummer to effectively put the rest out of their impending miserableness ( including David ’s young Logos Billy ) , and fix to become intellectual nourishment for the creatures within the mist . All of a sudden , the mist begins clearing , and it ’s revealed that the military is mount an effective campaign against the Lovecraftian fiend . David has just kill his Quaker and Logos for nothing , and is go out a blubbering , scream , peck .
The Mist ’s end is one of the most shockingand harsh in the history of horror films , and is still open of dividing new viewers . InStephen King’sbook , however , the story end on a less cheerless note . While David and company do n’t break loose the mist , they do manage to travel a considerable ways , and plan to continue to do so until they ’re no longer able , or until they reach the end of the titular phenomenon . As David puts Billy to seam after they ’ve stopped off for the night , he whispers two words in his ear , Hartford and hope . David was able to pick up a brief radio infection with the Book Hartford in it , and chooses to believe that the urban center might bid some type of sanctuary for himself and the others . Will his Bob Hope be rewarded ? King never wrote a sequel toThe Mist , so we do n’t know . But we can sure enough hope it was .
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