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Did Stephen King predict the future in "the running man" (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Did he? Or was it like that even back then? I'm reading this book, and it's like a carbon copy of our world in the US nowadays. I keep yelling "oh my god, this is basically happening right now!!!" Not as blatant and (I don't know the word) as in the book, but essentially the same. The book is like now, but on steroids (to explain the word I'm missing). The divide/polarization, the police brutality, the pollution, corporations and exploitation, the government's overreach..... Etc, it's all here now.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I can only assume the Stephen King novel has nothing at all to do with the Schwarzenegger movie because I don't think we are yet putting people into heavily coporatized deathmatch game shows.

Now I wanna know it's about. I can guarantee the only reason I never read it is because I must have thought the movie was based on the book. Or maybe that is the case and there's just way more explained in it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I think we do have people in deathmatches. Amazon Warehouses. lol
Also, I just watched the movie, and man, it has absolutely nothing to do with the book, except for the names of the characters. That's it. It was a very entertaining movie of course.