Running Man (film)

Running Man ( The Running Man ) is an American film carried out by Paul Michael Glaser in 1987.

It is inspired by the novel Running Man of Stephen King (1982).

Synopsis

A police officer is stopped to have disobeyed the orders while refusing to shoot at an innocent and famished crowd. When he escapes from prison, he is noticed by a TV host who wants to engage it (against its liking) for his emission The Running Man in which a man must escape launched killers with his cases.

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Realized in 1987 by Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky in the series Starsky and Hutch), this film of science fiction fits perfectly in the line of action films of the Eighties, intended for a general public. One indeed finds there the various characteristics of these popular films, while proposing some more or less voluntary details related to Schwarzenegger. Before Running Man, the actor had already made thirteen films of which some great success: Conan the Barbarian (1982), Terminator (1984), Commando (1985), or Predator (filmed a few months earlier in 1987).

Various stereotypes of the kind are thus observable all along this film: omnipresent violence, the coarse language of the protagonists, the confrontation between the “malicious ones” stripped of intelligence (here gladiators) and the “nice ones”, the final kiss and history of love between the two heroes of the film who at the beginning pushed back themselves… Wink of the realizer or detail naturally closely related to Schwarzenegger, one also finds several elements already resulting from its films: thus, at the end of film, the clothing of the hero (a docker), the large weapon with the fist and the large cigar clearly make think of the character of Colonel Matrix incarnated in Commando. The funny sentences shocks and of the hero at the time of the large brawls or scenes of combat mark also films of Schwarzenegger, this film does not escape the rule.

Despite everything, this film is not only used to propose Schwarzenegger and her hero… It also tries to transmit a rather clear message within sight of film, by denouncing the drifts of the media of its time and the passivity of the public which is watered with length of day of these spectacles. At the time of film but much more at the time of the writing of the book, the realizer TOKEN ENTRY Glaser and Richard Bachman the writer (pseudonym of Stephen King) wished to show through this very realistic futuristic company the capacity of television able to handle avid crowd of programs Peeping Toms and violent one.

Without disavowing popular film, the realizer judiciously chooses to use various images related on ancient Rome and the Circus games through this television game offered by the capacity to his people as did it formerly the Roman leaders when they offered the Plays to the Plèbe to make sure of their support. Thus, the heroes clash in an arena, one of the “gladiators” to the service of the emission and State fights on a tank and one finds various elements of the armament of the combatants of the Antiquité. By rewarding its public by various gifts, the organizer Damon Killian also offers the “bread” to people which are entitled already to daily Plays. The alienation of the people and the policy which took place at the time antique seem reproduced here…

Anecdotes

  • the film does not have great a deal to see with the book of which it is the adaptation (at most one finds the name of two or three characters) and lorgne more readily on the film the Price of the Danger of Yves Boisset.
  • Richard Dawson, which interprets the role of the organizer Damon Killian , animated a long time the television game Family Feud .
  • Two of the actors of film became governors thereafter: Jesse Ventura ( Captain Freedom ) was elected governor of the Minnesota in November 1998, and Arnold Schwarzenegger ( Ben Richards ) governor of California in October 2003.

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  • Card IMDB

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