The Running Man - What's the Difference?
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- The Running Man was peak Schwarzenegger action cheese mixed with some surprisingly heady science fiction. The novel from Stephen King's alter ego Richard Bachman goes a few layers deeper into the dystopia. Get ready to run because it's time to ask WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?!
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I like these, although I think in this one had a few too many interruption gags. Hard to get invested in what's being said if it keeps being stopped, yknow? Good work though, well produced
Carys Nevard its part of the gag
Doesn't mean it worked well. I get the gag, and it works -- but there are too many of them and it is a bit distracting.
Edit: Half-way through, I'm turning this off, it's just too distracting.
American attention span always baffle me... thats why your stadiums need music and shit every 20 minutes xD
Most of us are here for film and book differences, not "gags".
Yes too many. Tone it down.
*_"Hey, Killian...I'll be back"_*
*_"Only in a re-run!"_*
"I live to see you eat that contract. But save some room for my fist because I'm gonna ram it into your stomach and break your goddamn SPINE!!" Best Arnie line ever.
Better than "I'll be back"? Better than "Get to the chopper!"?
I've always wanted to see another version of the Running Man. The Arnold version is fun, 80s popcorn stuff, but the story had alot more layers to it.
And to be fair, there were parts that the Arnold did get right, albeit surface level stuff:
- The Network was state run media that was actively involved in manipulating the masses.
- Much of the game shows abused and exploited ther poor and desperate in games that were designed to hurt or kill them.
- The class disparity was so bad that often violence erupted over food shortages and there were state sponsored attacks on the poor.
- Killian dies in a heaping fireball.
- There were resistance factions that Richards teamed up with to try and evade capture and get back at the Network.
- The Network did use deepfakes to alter footage of Richards to say or do things he didn't actually do.
But yeah, a more serious treatment of the original story would be an awesome watch... The only issue is alot of people would probably see it as woke propaganda due to how preachy it can be in the book.
@@shelbyherring92 Personally, I rather prefer the original 1982 Richard Bachman novel OVER the 1987 film version of "The Running Man" because the story was MORE impressive as ever. After all, I am waiting for a much better version where it would be MORE faithful to the Bachman novel and that it would be more acceptable to an audience that will sooner or later FORGET the previous 1987 film after so many years anyway. By the way, why do you think that the 1982 novel has been regarded as so-called "woke propaganda" when there have been novels for decades that had issues to contend with, especially of the science-fiction type? I can only speculate that right-wing people would always assume that anything in entertainment is being regarded as so-called "woke" politics and that is unfortunate in America these days.
@@robertpolanco1973 Just say Stephen King, Richard Bachman is an alias
@@nickirmen6671 SO WHAT? I blame whoever blew the pseudonym of Stephen King's alter ego of Richard Bachman anyway! I find it unfortunate that someone, probably in the entertainment media, did such an awful thing to Mr. King a few years ago!
@@robertpolanco1973 Would you refer to a transgender woman as woman?
The Running Man remains of my favorite Stephen King stories, right up there with another Bachman book "The Long Walk". In our reality TV obsessed culture it's not hard to imagine either books version of reality. Picture the camera he carries as a Go pro camera with 30 micro USB chips and it's doable today... meinus the bloodshed of course. Thanks guys for taking this one on.
His Bachmann stuff is some of his best. Very angry and dystopian.
If you've not read it I'd recommend checking out the Stephen King book Cell, it treats cell phones very similar to how people look at TV in The Running Man to a degree. Just don't bother with the movie, it sucks.
@@kageakuma3009 I definitely agree with you on the 1987 film version of "The Running Man" because it was NOT faithful to the Bachman novel from 1982 anyway. It really was such an awful film that had only capitalized on the Schwarzenegger phenomenon of the 1980's and a story that was, I think and believe, more cartoonish than the Bachman vision of the novel.
The fake ads were very distracting and added unnecessary confusion to the episode
Ht Rubenstein glad I'm not the only one who thought that.
I completely agree
I utterly disagree. It really drives home the point of how the world is going by bringing it into a "meta" level. It's only "distracting and unnecessary" if you're utterly failing to contemplate the themes being discussed. That is to say, you're exactly the kind of brainless schlub they're warning about people turning into.
Just A Dude, people can understand the themes perfectly and still find it distracting. We get it. He is forced to censor what they say because the big man is watching their every move in the made up parking ticket story. Any slip is watched and studied carefully in that kind of world like a modern North Korea or George Orwell 1984 world. The joke supported the themes of the topic, but they decided to turn a side dish into the main meal by making the video half the ticket joke and half the actual video.
All the derp "I ARE CONFOOSED" comments on this page, brainlessly repeating each other and seeming to reflect least-common-denominator attention levels, were actually meant as ironic callbacks to the video's theme
Love these videos but please go back to NOT having all the interruptions, don’t fix what isn’t broken
Modern Nostalgia critic effect
Usual jokes and quips are fine. However, the skits here took away too much from the reason I watch the channel which is the great analysis on movies (and also novel counterparts in this case).
Man I am glad this two narrators are back (I have been force to say this, they have my family, this message is brought to you by COMMENT SECTION, the best place to share ideas and goooooo nuts)
Yeah, but a fold-out couch... Gawd, just let him sleep on the couch... those things are Horrendous!!!(Brought to you by: The Freedom of Thought Fighters)
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I saw Running Man as a kid, and loved the concept... Later I read the Bachman Books with Rage, the Long Walk, and the Running Man, and didn't know the book was so different, I was happy to get a new, decidedly more "Kingesque" story... Also the Long Walk...what a tale!
Cheeky Squirrel Nuts oh yeah forgot Roadwork, that was a good one....I don't think Long Walk has enough for a series, but it does enough for a movie...I'd like to make it in Rockstar movie editor...it's totally doable!
Cheeky Squirrel Nuts sure will..
There is a Long Walk movie in development.
check out the movie The Prize of Peril - it is what King based his book on in the first place
The writer seems like a fkn terrorist who encouraged 9/11.
There were so many huge differences between the book and movie that it's almost an entirely different story. Both great but both missing elements that if blended together could make a fantastic remake, but the book ending should stay. That was awesome.
Damn disconnection from main story. are you sure you could not pause the video more times?
When I read the book I thought it would of made a good mini series on T.V now I think Netflix could take that idea and do it justice.
True!! but i dont know if USA let the ending be like that... they still ban planes crashing on buildings from TV.
Michael Stott
It would be awesome!
C4 in the UK actually made a show out of the 'Running Man' in the book, although hunters all ex army and police just captured rather than killed.
kamatari edgar "ban planes crashing on buildings from TV" What? Remember Me, South Park, Fringe, Reign Over Me etc.
kamatari edgar www.today.com/popculture/tv-loosens-restrictions-airing-9-11-images-wbna14769404
Couldn’t finish the video the interruptions irritated the hell out of me.
The video states that they wanted to hire a real gameshow host...I would just like to say that before family feud, Richard Dawson was an actor on Hogan's heroes. So he actually is an actor.
Running man was the perfect Saturday afternoon movie I'd always watch after cartoons in the late 80's and early 90's
I'd much rather they skip the skits and just give me the facts.
BACHUR 1st video i ever dislike from this wonderful channel
I agree. I enjoy the movie and the book but all the interruptions for the skits are annoying. Though I do admit that when I saw that they were going to do this one I figured a better question would be "What's the similarities?" as the movie is fast and loose with the book.
DAMN STRAIGHT
Yep, stopped watching. Irritating.
yeah, I got 6 minutes in before it got really annoying to have the constant interruptions
This was sort of like watching the galactic broadcast of Professor Genki's Mind over Murder with Zack and Bobby commenting under the watchful eye of Zinyak.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a “what’s the difference” for Fullmetal Alchemist! You got four sources to cover! The original manga, FMA series from 2003, the other series from 2011 FMA: Brotherhood, and now the Netflix original live action movie!
Thanks to the structure of this video I still have no idea what the difference is...
You should get a refund! Be sure to write it up for Yelp too
Do you have a No interruptions version? Great video, but the skits were too much.
I felt lost almost the entire time. If each voice could be one the book and one the movie, that would be nice.
The "bits" detract from your typical style that make me click on your videos.
Great video, very well researched. However I didn`t care for the running gag, in the future either keep it to a minimum or just cut it away.
Yes sir.
heh he.. the "running gag" in the "running man" review?
gonna have to agree with everybody else, I love your guys content. it's literally the only channel i got the bell on and stuff. but the fake commercials and the interrupting "cause they got my family" makes me think he had actual things to say that I missed.
Good information and the actual content shown was quite decent. Unfortunately, the pacing was all over the place and it really hurts the end product. I wish I could like this, as I'm a huge fan of your videos, but this was one of the worst simply because of the presentation alone.
Agreed
Yeah. First video I've watched. Think im good
i agree, the video is somewhat hard to follow and incoherent.. i hope they go back to the usual stuff..
I felt lost almost the entire time. If each voice could be one the book and one the movie, that would be nice.
This comment and the replies are all meant as parodies of moronized 2020 media consumers, right
These jokes are awful. Otherwise, good content.
I think they are a joke based on the idea in the book and movie of controlled information so they do fit with the theme but that doesn't make the skits/jokes any less annoying to deal with.
If that's the case, they failed at it miserably. I agree with OP, always great content with what's the difference, but they over did the lame jokes this time around imo. Hopefully the feedback helps shape the channel a little if they look at them. Plenty of comments suggesting it.
here's sub zero now plain zero
The whole “they’re listening” bit was mildly amusing at first but by the 3rd time i was like “FFS JUST STOP IT”
My brother bought me this book for Christmas in the mid 90s and wouldn't tell me what it was, only teasing me that the clerk at Walden Books kept saying that it was really good and I had to read it. The surprise on Christmas morning was totally worth it. It's a very grim book that I've read several times, and I can't decide whether I prefer the movie or book better. Both are good for different tones. =)
The skits were super annoying.Right when it seemed you were about to say something interesting Casey had some nonsense bit. I get the meta joke, but it wasn't funny. It made the video almost unwatchable.
While reading the book, I had so many pictures in my mind , how a movie could be and then a saw that disappointing movie : ( .... I still hope for a new version as a series! Stephen King's work is timeless and his genius can always fascinate the next generation!
The fake ads do tend to take this video down just a bit. Also some of the jokes are as stale as four-day-old donuts.
To scatter brained . Hard to watch with all the cutting away to bad jokes.
I just want to say, before I watch this, that you are extremely ambitious to make a "what's the diff" video on The Running Man, especially considering the movie is so greatly different than the novella. I half expected the vid to be an hour long due to thw vast amount of diffs.
Brilliant! Kudos for pulling this off so masterfully. You guys and gals are most awesome movie nerds!!!
Especially with how big a piece of shit Ben is in the book, and how the game works.
Indeed. Much darker and more layered in the book.
I see sincerity makes you uncomfortable.
That was close. I almost got into a cyclical debate with a professional troll. Nice try, trollster :)
Thanks for the upload, i missed this series while yall were talking oscar bait.
Edit: Welcome bk Casey!
Saw this movie as a kid in the 90s. Loved it, as I love all Arnold movies. Then read the book by Bachman (Stephen King) in high school and couldn’t believe how different they were lol
The whole 'pause' interupt thing was very aggravating. Once or twice was enough for the skit but doing it throughout the whole video just grated on me when I knew whatever was being said would hit a brick wall suddenly and the other guy would go off on a tangent. Didn't work for this episode despite knowing why you did it thematically with the story in question.
Where have you guys been?!
The message of the book is, "if everything is lost and there is absolutely no hope of victory, or even survival, you do whatever it takes to make sure you take your enemy down with you because at least then they don't win either."
Great video. Can you next do a WTD on One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest?
And also, in the book, did the runners know what their hunters looked like, or was that information kept from them so as to make the game more difficult?
It was kept from them, and every other runner were killed by them because they couldn't differentiate them to normal civilians, but Richards was a goddamn genius and 20 steps ahead of them, in one chapter he manages to kill like 10 hunters by trapping them in an underground parking lot and then blowing it up
I grew up with the movie, action liners etc. Older i read the book; movie did it's own thing and i kind of like it. The ending on the book is amazing flipping pages counting down until the impact of the tower. Seeing Arnie holding his guts on the cockpit when it hits would have been perfect. Instead we got a happy hollywood ending where bad guy gets blown up for some reason
Better than the Hunger Games.
what wrong with the hunger games movies?
Everything is better than the Plagiarizing Game.
what the plaiarizing games?
Read either the book or manga "Battle Royale".
Or go all the way back to books like The Most Dangerous Game and Lord of the Flies. Had it for those two, Battle Royale and other similar stories would not exist.
good flick
Wow they accurately predicted CNN
Stephen King should do his version. Unlike his other remakes, this would be better than the movie.
You mean the one about trucks
@@warreng675 Idk man. "Maximum Overdrive" sucks, but "Trucks" sucks too.
check out the movie The Prize of Peril - it is what King based his book on in the first place
CineFix, can you guys *PLEASE PLEASE* upload some videos on King Kong (2005), such as Art Of The Scene (like when King Kong gets captured and when he dies), or a What's The Difference between it and the 1933 film, or even some never before seen facts? Thanks guys!
Welcome back Casey! I hope you were well while you aware, we made sure Clint didn't change too many things while you were away. I hope you can continue helping out with continuing "What's the Difference?" Videos.
Richard Bachman was a head of his time when he wrote is novels. Admittedly when you pick up any of his work you have to abandon all hope. Still I've read the long walk twice, Rage four or five times,
He's still writing novels. He cranks out one or two a year.
check out the movie The Prize of Peril - it is what King based his book on in the first place
Might I reccomend you guys do a what's the difference on The virgin suicides, One flew over the Cuckoos nest, American Psycho, Girl interrupted and Lolita. I love this series and its super well made. Good work
I loved these interruptions. Please do more!
Hated how you kept stopping for fake ads and the whole family hostage thing, breaks up the whole narrative
I really really love the editing in all the videos.
YES CASEY THE SEGMENT ISN'T THE SAME WITHOUT YOU, YOU TWO COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER SO WELL ON THESE VIDEOS
I agree on their take on the media and how they constantly lie and contextualize and fake footage...
Thank god the duo is back! You two have great chemistry!
In the book, I was under the impression while reading it, Killian was casted as the same person as his buddy that bit the dust from Buzzsaw in the movie.
Yeah very good episode. Maybe could do one on Forrest Gump next or some old Disney films like 101 Dalmatians, Hercules, and Aladdin. It may seem good here.
can you please go back to the old format of what's the difference?
Having read the book and seen the movie, I expected this video to be about ten seconds long and just plain text on a black background reading 'EVERYTHING'.
Finally the good narrators... I'm going to make an exeption and like before I see the whole video just to encourage them to continue.
1. It's a good idea to have two narrators, one to talk about the movie, and the other to talk about the book. The subject matter contrasts two inherently similar things (the movie and book versions of the same story), and using different voices would make that distinction explicit for the audience in an elegant and intuitive way. This series *almost* does that, generally the deeper voice, the first one heard, describes the movie, while the more nasally voice heard second describes the book, but the first voice will sometimes talk about the book as well.
2. A short format video series such as this one has room for one running gag per video. This video had two running gags that were tangentially related: the "They've kidnapped my family over parking tickets" gag, and the "therefore, we're going to read goofy 'marketing copy'" gag. Having to devote time to both meant the interruptions in the core content were numerous and distracting, particularly for the former, where one presenter literally hushed the other while making a point about the film several times in a particularly grating way.
3. A running gag, particularly in the short time span available in a ~10 minute video, is best kept to the Rule Of Three. Introduce the gag, expand the gag, pay off the gag. BOTH of this video's running gags get recalled five times each, slamming the main idea of the video to a screeching halt a total of ten times.
4. This video is made in an out-of-universe style, referring directly to the works of fiction. The "they've got my family" gag, however, is told in an in-universe style. This is needless inconsistency.
5. A running gag in such a dense, rapid fire video should be as an aside, worked into the general pace of the video. This is done well in this channel's "Things You Didn't Know" series. In this video, the running gags slam the pacing to a halt with one speaker literally interrupting the other.
5. The "they have my family" gag is used ENTIRELY for speaker 2 to interrupt speaker 1 while he's making a point about dystopian censorship, for speaker 2 to make a point about dystopian censorship. It's a second layer of commentary that interrupts the first layer of commentary, yet doesn't add any new ideas.
6. This video seems to have two main ideas: comparing and contrasting the book with the movie, and making a point about the themes of dystopian censorship/media control/fake news. Both are good ideas that are worth exploring, the latter being particularly relevant to life in the 21st century, so much so that it almost deserves its own video.
Thank you! I felt like I was the only person asking for this one but you still heard me. "ask and you shall receive." Thanks agaiin
Actually, King's novel was really just a reworking of Robert Sheckley's "The Prize of Peril" - And oddly, the movie is closer in spirit to that (Whatever else you might say of Stephen King, he isn't very good with humor in stories).
Yeah, that ending in the novel wouldn't fly today, due to 9/11.
Same with Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor.
LOL.. poor choice of words. Boy, that joke really crashed and burned.
Why not? Sensitive little Amerikan cupcakes?
92JazzQueen it would though. Many shows and movies have 9/11 imagery.
This is one of my favorite books of all time, it gives you a major sense or paranoia when reading it but it's amazing.
I'm glad u guys are doing these again
I feel like I'm the only one here who found the "constant Interruptions" quite enjoyable??
Me to friend me to
Any chance of you guys teaming up with The Dom from Lost in Adaptation to do an episode? I like both LIA and WTD very much. Maybe you guys could do a complex book like L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy or The Cider House Rules by John Irving.
Here's a few more suggestions
Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter/Shooter
Jumper by Steven Gould
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H.F. Saint
Absolute Power by David Baldacci
I used to love this movie when I was young, but I don't think preteen me quite understood it. This story... is WAAAAAY too accurate for comfort, in our modern political climate... I could literally see all these things being true, without any real sci-fi stretch.
You know, I really wish they'd do a remake of this soon. Based on current politics, that would be quite the explosive theatrical release.
When the movie comes out, please do a What's The Difference on "Ready Player One" between the book and the movie! And please make the video longer on that. ❤!
I really hope that is not shit, the book deserves everything well done x_x i will see it on the first day anyway xD
I didn't like the guy talking about his traffic tickets and stuff but what's the difference is one of my favorite shows on RUclips I read a couple of books because of you guys hopefully you'll make what's the difference more often
What's the difference 11.22.63.?
Dan the homosapien
Yes please.
The novel is astronomically better.
John Rambo but you'll probably have more of a fun time with the movie.
nah, it's a great read and the final part, with his guts out almost made me throw up. That's how good it is :)
john rambo - your's is the best comment on this video. why hasn't anyone made that movie? it would win oscars for sure!
Weirduniverse2 The reason I'm pretty sure it will never get made into a proper film is because the ending would trigger all the retards who would relate it to 9/11.
Not just that, class warfare (wealth i equality) is a very touchy subject...
What's the difference between the "Running Man" book and movie?
Honestly, a question with a much shorter answer would be, what do they both have in common?
Next What’s the Difference video will be for the upcoming Annihilation movie and Area-X book. At least, that’s what I’m predicting.
The fact that Clint Gage is Charles dolling from the sex offender shuffle gives me chills
could you do a 'Whats the Difference' for Altered Carbon?
plz dont, that just depresses me...
God the skits make this so hard to get through. If your going to go this over the top with the comedy, then dont try to claim it as informative. The jokes overshadow everything to the point where its difficult to focus on the differences. Also once you do the same joke more then 3 times in a video its just gets repetitive and boring.
Stephen LeGresley It's not comedy sarcasm used as a way to imitate what the news do to the real information, It's a two way to convey the information, the Front end and Back end
Read over the comments I'm far from the only one that found the jokes disorienting a distracting from the information being presented.
Yes, you are not the only halfwit millennial here who couldn't understand the video. This is true.
I understood the video just fine, I said the jokes were distracting, not that they were preventing me from understanding the content.
And I'll take millennials over the generations before them who fucked up the planet anyday.
Dorkus Malorkus The video can be understood just fine but those comedic skits are so annoying that they kept me thinking about stopping the video or dreading there would be more of them. By the way, I'm pretty sure that you are either a millennial or a or Gen Z. Unless you are like 37 years old and you are a Gen Xer. Which would make you a pathetic middle age male having throwing tantrums in RUclips.
in the early 2000s I along with some others put a treatment together to make The Running Man an actual TV show, but call it The Mark due to some necessary changes. The runners would be in teams of 2 and they don't get killed at all. They would get netted by the stocker/hunters. Each day they would nextday air video recordings of themselves for an hour. for Everyone that watched the show would see clues and recordings as to where the runners were. The runners were given a list of 40 things they could do for prize money (ie $5000 to ride a major Six flags coaster and record it). YOU a regular person watching the show help the stockers, if you get a pic with them and send it in you got $50. If you recorded video you got $100. Which meant that EVERYONE everywhere was playing the game 24/7. It was passed around Hollywood for a bit and ended up on Quincy Jones' desk. He put a team together to see if this was doable. They decided that it was too risky for the runners to get kidnapped and held for ransom so the show idea was ditched.
In the book, Richards' wife and daughter aren't killed by an angry mob; it's stated by Killian that his family were killed in a burglary or home invasion. Richards doesn't believe this, but it isn't explored any further and we're left to decide whether Killian's telling the truth or not. And it's very vaguely implied that destroying the Games Building will precipitate a revolution. Otherwise your synopsis is spot on. :)
Perfect! I was about to get annoyed with the pause button jokes, but then you stopped just in time. The final pause button joke was a criticism of the jokes thus far. Almost meta. I liked it, keep it up.
... based on the German made for TV movie "Das Millionenspiel" based on yet another book (from France, I believe?)
What's really funny is that, when I first read this book (long before the movie was made), my mental image of Dan Killian as Stephen King describes him was Yaphet Kotto, from Alien, Live and Let Die and a host of other great films. Flash forward to 1986, and I hear they're making Running Man and Kotto's in it!
Great video but for the love of god, drop the bits and just give us the facts there really was no need for the stupid parking ticket subplot and the "sponsors"
Pretty creative way to explain diffrences through the ads. Must have been fun writing them lol
Difference between the 1999 film the Iron Giant and the Ted Hughes 1968 Novel the Iron Man?
Was 1982 when Stephen King was on drugs, because the ending of the book sounds like a slightly more downbeat version of the ending to The Dead Zone. Also, my predominant memory of the movie is that it features what is probably the most bloodless revolution ever (in contrast to the book apparently).
The social commentary is awesome. Keep up the good work!
Wasn’t there a part in the book where Ben Richard hides out in Manchester, New Hampshire before heading to Maine?
Stephen King prophecized our current situation
Have you guys done an episode of the repomen? Or anyone else know?
Fuck yeah! Welcome back, Casey!! Missed you!
So.... can I like just get the differences without all the extra lame gags?
The OG narrators are back. Nice.
I LOOOOOVE that you made little game commercials! That's really cool! this and as a guy that's read the book I LOVE that you incorporated that. Ty!
Thanks for doing this video guys.
You guys do a great job. Hope to see more of this.
I LOVED this video. I really enjoyed the snuck-in political commentary. The issues today need to be constantly discussed so that they never need to be discussed again. This was brilliant. And I loved the pauses and cuts. I found them entertaining.
Next month will be the release date of Ready Player One, so you think they’ll make a what’s a difference of Iron Giant or a Steven Spielberg book to film adaptation? You know like Minority Report or War of the Worlds
those skits are really unfunny and very distracting
The foldout couch was first invented in 1899, but didn't become popular until a simplified design was produced in 1931.