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  • A Closer Look at Stephen King I had been browsing through the premium channels on Dish Network last night when I happened upon an old Stephen King movie on Cinemax. I decided to watch The Dead Zone since I have never seen it. It was almost time for bed, so I knew it wouldn't kill me to shut it off should it prove to be a flop. The avid reader really started to get into it and ended staying up way past my bedtime. I was never an enthusiastic reader, and I must admit I've never read his novels, but in regards to horror movies, you could say I have seen them all. There clearly was nothing like those high school days when I would get together with friends watching his nail-biters with one eye open. There was usually a parallel narrative within his horror movies that most people could relate to, making his films more interesting as well as the horror more believable King wowed us with the launch of The Green Mile. A lot of us do not connect King to the play genre, so that it was definitely a pleasant surprise he could step outside of his element and still bring us a winner. I wondered what goes through Stephen King's mind on a daily basis and whether he has ever been haunted by his own thoughts. I'd presume there has to be a narrow line between imagination and driving yourself insane when your fulltime occupation is conjuring up the most unimaginable chilling stories potential. The avid reader also assumed that King might have been in a traumatic car accident at some time in his life. Take into account the speeding trucks in Pet Sematary, the infamous car Christine, the driving injury in Misery and in The Dead Zone and much more. I decided to dig around a little and learn more about horror master Stephen King. Their dad went out for a pack of cigarettes some time around 1949 when Stephen was two-years-old and never came back. The family went through tough fiscal times and moved around a few times from state to state but eventually returned to Maine where King was born. His mother had no choice at this time but to deal with her sick affilorama until they passed away. This time in Stephen's life reminds me of Pet Sematary. The mom in the film thinks back to the times she was frequented as a young girl who had been responsible for taking good care of her ill sister and her penned up feelings of fury and animosity were building throughout her life causing her to become extra careful with her kids. The avid reader was proud of myself, you might say, that I had been right in assuming King really did witness a couple of traumatic events in his day, not I would wish that upon anyone. As a young boy, he came home in shock one day after going to hang out using a friend. The young boy wouldn't talk to his family about what was erroneous, and then the family discovered that King saw his buddy get hit by a train. This ignites up old memories of best friends walking along train tracks in Stand By Me and of the meetings the children would have in the woods with their buddies in the picture IT. It might not be surprising if myself learned that the scene with Gage in Pet Sematary along with the tanker truck was not taken from subconscious memories of King's traumatic encounter. King had his own brush with death back in 1999 when he was accidentally hit from behind by a minivan while walking along Route 5 in Maine. The blow sent King sailing about 14 feet from the side of the road. He almost needed to have his leg amputated and he could sit just for a just 40 minutes at a time before falling upon excruciating pain from his shattered hip. He needed to undergo five procedures along with physical therapy to defeat a number of his harms. King, his attorney and also some friends chipped in to purchase the minivan so that it couldn't be sold to the highest bidder on Ebay. King told everyone how disturbed he was that he did not get a opportunity to ruin the van himself before it was sent to be destroyed. Apparently, he fantasized about taking it out using a pick axe. Think about Annie Wilkes standing at the highest part of the cellar stairs in Misery with the abindenpa.tumblr.com/post/126777750126/seopressor her hand. This movie seems quite similar to King's own expertise after his accident. King wanted to compose but was prevented by the unbearable pain in his hip. In the film, Paul gets a sledgehammer to his foot by Annie and this may be emblematic of the panic that King had of losing his leg before the doctors had the ability to save it. The feeling of wanting to break free in the pain and confined surroundings could happen to be shared by Paul in Misery and King himself. King had not only seen his share of traumatic occasions, he also developed a drinking problem back in the early 70's after he was married and landed his first job out of college. I wonder if his feelings of frustration, fury and anxiety coupled with his addiction could have contributed to Jack Nicholson's character in The Shining. King's alcoholism was going full fledged during the time his mother died, right round the launch of Carrie. He has acknowledged to the people that he presented his mom's eulogy while below the influence. Drinking wasn't King's only vice but he was eventually in a position to confront his demons with the help of his family. From the late 80's, King selected to become sober. This really is when his family dumped everything he was using; cannabis, cocaine, pain-killers, cigs, beer, even cough medicine, in front of him and helped him to confess he had a difficulty. King has been sober ever since. Himself has three grown kids, grandchildren and not only is he still composing but he has also led to a lot of causes throughout time, mostly in the state of Maine where he and his wife Tabitha still reside today. Stephen King has developed The Haven Foundation to support freelance artists, mostly in the writing business. The goal of the foundation is to provide restricted financial aid to individuals in this area should they become ill or injured and not be able to work. Stephen King received The National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2003, kept the title of 1992: World Horror Grandmaster at the World Horror Convention in addition to a number of other awards for his accomplishments as among America's most famous authors. By: Francis

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