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Doc Creed

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Another new pic!

From "The Green Mile", Percy Wetmore and "Wild Bill" (or "Billy the Kid", if you ask him) Wharton.

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Percy or Percy's sister.

I tried to make them look 19 and 21, like in the book. :D
Thank you. It must be they are more stylized.

I know a certain dead boy I will have to stylize when I finally draw him. ;;D
That must be it, idk. The Green Mile pic is very realistic, too. Great work.
 

César Hernández-Meraz

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That must be it, idk. The Green Mile pic is very realistic, too. Great work.

I hope it does not make you think less of me if I admit that the base for that one was traced from photographs from a couple of guys I chose as models for Wetmore and Wharton. :crushed: :dejection: :disillusionment: :devilish:

The Gage pic will be difficult to do because nothing is scarier than one's own imagination but I'll be curious to see it, of course. Lol

Yeah, I really want to see what I can come up with. But, at the same time, I fear it may not be as cool as I want it to be.
 

Neesy

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From "Graveyard Shift" (included in "Night Shift"), he is Hall.

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The hottest June on record in Gates Falls.

This was not something I did consciously, but it turns out tomorrow is one year after I drew my previous Hall picture.

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So this will be a good way to end this one-year period, I suppose.
I love the rat in the second picture!
 

César Hernández-Meraz

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Have you seen the movie Night Shift? It's not too bad - a good adaptation of the book

I haven't, but I want to. I know Wisconsky is a good looking girl now.

Is "John" Hall a more heroic guy? I may not be a fan of that part if that is the case, but I still want to see them go underground and face the rats.
 

Neesy

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I haven't, but I want to. I know Wisconsky is a good looking girl now.

Is "John" Hall a more heroic guy? I may not be a fan of that part if that is the case, but I still want to see them go underground and face the rats.
Oooops - my mistake (I think) - it was quite a while ago I saw the movie so maybe it was not called Night Shift? When I Googled that one, a movie with Henry Winkler came up :facepalm_smiley::facepalm:

:waaaht:
 

Neesy

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Graveyard Shift (1990) - IMDb

This is the one I meant - I had it in my DVR, but had to delete it because it was getting too full.

I liked the movie and remember having sympathy for the main character - if you ever get a chance you should watch it!

Wow you had "Graveyard Shift" up there in giant letters - how could I miss that?
 

César Hernández-Meraz

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Graveyard Shift (1990) - IMDb

This is the one I meant - I had it in my DVR, but had to delete it because it was getting too full.

I liked the movie and remember having sympathy for the main character - if you ever get a chance you should watch it!

Wow you had "Graveyard Shift" up there in giant letters - how could I miss that?

Actually, I did not notice you wrote "Night Shift" (I totally understood you meant this movie). It is an honest mistake since the story was included on that book (Night Shift).

I really want to see it someday. I just watched the trailer now (after my last post) and it does spoil a good number of scary scenes. I hate it when trailers do that. Some of the rats look so cute! Nothing like untrained rats one could find on streets...

And if you felt sympathy for Hall, then they did change him. In the book one may root for him, but not because he earns sympathy. That boy is evil, I tell you. :applause: :blush:
 

Neesy

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Actually, I did not notice you wrote "Night Shift" (I totally understood you meant this movie). It is an honest mistake since the story was included on that book (Night Shift).

I really want to see it someday. I just watched the trailer now (after my last post) and it does spoil a good number of scary scenes. I hate it when trailers do that. Some of the rats look so cute! Nothing like untrained rats one could find on streets...

And if you felt sympathy for Hall, then they did change him. In the book one may root for him, but not because he earns sympathy. That boy is evil, I tell you. :applause: :blush:
His foreman/owner was the evil one - the guy who plays the foreman did a great job!
 

César Hernández-Meraz

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His foreman/owner was the evil one - the guy who plays the foreman did a great job!

I started watching it now (currently at the halfway mark of 45 minutes). I see they let Hall remain a drifter, and they kept his affinity for using soda cans as ammo. They made him the just-arriving hero, though...

In the book the foreman is an evil antagonist, too. And Hall is actually content with living his life and letting others live theirs, even if he is somewhat antisocial. But the rat-killing with the cans is more of a hobby done only for the fun of it (like the guy who appears at the start of the movie). And his revenge on the foreman's abuse is blown completely out of proportion by him (if not evil, he was at least somewhat touched in the head). ;;D

Am I right in believing you have not read that story recently? Just as I am half-done with the movie (which I wanted to watch, anyway), I also recommend to read the story (again, if you already have). It is my favorite from "Night Shift" out of the ones I have read (I still have to read the last two short stories). I have read "Graveyard Shift" three times already. I even bought the Spanish version only so my boyfriend could read that one story (he still hasn't, though; also, he understands English, but refuses to start a book in English; I think he underestimates himself).

By the way, I wonder if they could have filmed this movie now (without using a lot of CGI for the rats). Carrying rats by their tails, throwing them, using a water hose to attack them... Poor working conditions for these little actors...
 

Neesy

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I started watching it now (currently at the halfway mark of 45 minutes). I see they let Hall remain a drifter, and they kept his affinity for using soda cans as ammo. They made him the just-arriving hero, though...

In the book the foreman is an evil antagonist, too. And Hall is actually content with living his life and letting others live theirs, even if he is somewhat antisocial. But the rat-killing with the cans is more of a hobby done only for the fun of it (like the guy who appears at the start of the movie). And his revenge on the foreman's abuse is blown completely out of proportion by him (if not evil, he was at least somewhat touched in the head). ;;D

Am I right in believing you have not read that story recently? Just as I am half-done with the movie (which I wanted to watch, anyway), I also recommend to read the story (again, if you already have). It is my favorite from "Night Shift" out of the ones I have read (I still have to read the last two short stories). I have read "Graveyard Shift" three times already. I even bought the Spanish version only so my boyfriend could read that one story (he still hasn't, though; also, he understands English, but refuses to start a book in English; I think he underestimates himself).

By the way, I wonder if they could have filmed this movie now (without using a lot of CGI for the rats). Carrying rats by their tails, throwing them, using a water hose to attack them... Poor working conditions for these little actors...

It has been a while since I read Graveyard Shift - I will go check to see if I have the Night Shift collection. When I first started posting on the SKMB I did not have a large collection of his books, but just went to the library to take them out.

Since then I have started collecting Stephen King books.

The book is always so much better than the movie!
 

César Hernández-Meraz

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It has been a while since I read Graveyard Shift - I will go check to see if I have the Night Shift collection. When I first started posting on the SKMB I did not have a large collection of his books, but just went to the library to take them out.

Since then I have started collecting Stephen King books.

The book is always so much better than the movie!

Finished watching it.

It was good when not comparing it to the book. Hall retained quite a few of his characteristics, except for being transformed into a boy scout-ish, hero protagonist.

The big rat looked nice, but there was too much light in the cave; so much that even the characters inside the fiction forgot all about their lanterns and had no problems seeing anything (with a couple of exceptions where the "lack" of light was used to surprise them. Also, there were more rats in the mill than in the cave. I would love to see the cave
full of small rats, and then have bigger and bigger rats, more than one rat with wings, and then huge, eyeless mother rat in a static place. Of course, that would have made it impossible for anyone of them to leave alive, much less win in the end. But I suppose the studio wanted a hero and a clear win, even if the romantic interest died. About that, there is no way anyone should kiss anyone else after swimming in that thing. Hall surely died a few weeks later due to an infection. Yeww.
 

GNTLGNT

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I started watching it now (currently at the halfway mark of 45 minutes). I see they let Hall remain a drifter, and they kept his affinity for using soda cans as ammo. They made him the just-arriving hero, though...

In the book the foreman is an evil antagonist, too. And Hall is actually content with living his life and letting others live theirs, even if he is somewhat antisocial. But the rat-killing with the cans is more of a hobby done only for the fun of it (like the guy who appears at the start of the movie). And his revenge on the foreman's abuse is blown completely out of proportion by him (if not evil, he was at least somewhat touched in the head). ;;D

Am I right in believing you have not read that story recently? Just as I am half-done with the movie (which I wanted to watch, anyway), I also recommend to read the story (again, if you already have). It is my favorite from "Night Shift" out of the ones I have read (I still have to read the last two short stories). I have read "Graveyard Shift" three times already. I even bought the Spanish version only so my boyfriend could read that one story (he still hasn't, though; also, he understands English, but refuses to start a book in English; I think he underestimates himself).

By the way, I wonder if they could have filmed this movie now (without using a lot of CGI for the rats). Carrying rats by their tails, throwing them, using a water hose to attack them... Poor working conditions for these little actors...
....they would probably have to CGI, though they have handlers for critters on all films I believe....a friend of mine was a rat wrangler and cockroach coach on Shawshank.....
 

César Hernández-Meraz

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....they would probably have to CGI, though they have handlers for critters on all films I believe....a friend of mine was a rat wrangler and cockroach coach on Shawshank.....

This movie had the "no animals were harmed" thing at the end. And perhaps they weren't, but they may have been slightly mistreated, heheheh.

But cockroach coach? That must be a difficult job!
 

GNTLGNT

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This movie had the "no animals were harmed" thing at the end. And perhaps they weren't, but they may have been slightly mistreated, heheheh.

But cockroach coach? That must be a difficult job!
....she was hired as a local professional....from what I can recall, she'd helped out on a couple of other film projects and was running a pet store in the Mansfield, Ohio area when the film crew came to town-so it was an easy call for them.....