....Sweetheart, of all the ramblings and tripe I have read and typed over the last couple of days-this blows it ALL away like a fair wind after a storm and is as eloquent as anything I've ever seen composed....thank you.....
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What disturbs me is that it seems that some directors/screen writers think they can write a better story than the author (yeah, I'm thinking Kubrick lol). But if the adaption is ok with SK, it's ok with me... I guess... lol.
It is a bit presumptuous of you to deride a comment when you obviously did not 'get it' in the first place. If you read all the books then you know Steven King appears in the series as himself, and if you know Steven King he has said on many occasions he sees himself as Roland. In the series, if you have a little wit and some discernment, what you see is that all of the characters in all of his novels bear more than a passing likeness to Mr. King. Great authors are great and variable personalities and can fill their books with great and variable characters based on their inner selves and their keen observations. The comment above had to do with a comment by Steven King when he said he did not have a firm grasp on what the man in black looked like while he was writing the series of books. As noted above, the man in black is obviously yet another aspect of Mr. King's own personality and his keen observations of humanity. It was not a comment on the casting of the movie, the making of the movie or anything about the movie. Try and keep up.
I believe you need to look back at the original posts. Although his immediately followed yours, raggedyman79's comments were obviously a response to Takoren's post, not yours so you may be taking offense where none was intended.
Also, it is Stephen not Steven King. Just thought you might want to fix that in the future.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if Representative Steve King (R-IA) made a cameo appearance in the movie? 
Ms. Mod is correct. I was not responding to you; sorry for the confusion.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if Representative Steve King (R-IA) made a cameo appearance in the movie?
He's too old to play the "young" SK, but am sure they could "adapt" a role for him.
He's too old to play the "young" SK, but am sure they could "adapt" a role for him.
LOL Pimli Prentiss... They’re both kinda straight shooters?
Excellent choice.LOL Pimli Prentiss... They’re both kinda straight shooters?
Here's my thinking... since ka is a wheel and there are other worlds than these, who is to say that the movie isn't Roland's (and the ka-tet's) journey through another level of the tower?
After the 7th book was published, we had a lot of questions from fans as to whether the next journey would be exactly the same and whether Roland would have the same ka-tet as in the books. If this was another journey on a different level, the changes they're making are a possible answer to that. I'd mentioned in an earlier post that that was how I was reconciling these changes for myself, i.e. that it isn't the same journey. That may not be what the producers had in mind but it's what I'm telling myself to help me sleep at night.
Uncle Stephen is totally to blame for this current unhappiness. If he did not create characters so life-like that they require social insurance numbers and six month medical check-ups then there would be no problem at all. Sheesh!!!!!!!
...that, and the replica Horn of Eld you keep under your pillow.....After the 7th book was published, we had a lot of questions from fans as to whether the next journey would be exactly the same and whether Roland would have the same ka-tet as in the books. If this was another journey on a different level, the changes they're making are a possible answer to that. I'd mentioned in an earlier post that that was how I was reconciling these changes for myself, i.e. that it isn't the same journey. That may not be what the producers had in mind but it's what I'm telling myself to help me sleep at night.
Is that what they call it these days?
I really hope Elba's got the horn.After the 7th book was published, we had a lot of questions from fans as to whether the next journey would be exactly the same and whether Roland would have the same ka-tet as in the books. If this was another journey on a different level, the changes they're making are a possible answer to that. I'd mentioned in an earlier post that that was how I was reconciling these changes for myself, i.e. that it isn't the same journey. That may not be what the producers had in mind but it's what I'm telling myself to help me sleep at night.
I could forgive a lot if Roland had the horn.
Is that what they call it these days?
A little birdie told me for the film they were replacing the Horn of Eld with the Kazoo of Calla.
A saying I try to incorporate in my life- Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change. A true diehard for this journey, I was upset upon hearing the news reports and seeing the negative postings.
After reading MsMod post- "a different level", it all clicked. And I join her in thinking in that manner. May Roland have the Horn of Eld this time around. Ka is a wheel and may it turn well.
