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Stephen Kingcast

Episode Twenty One-Bryan Singer's Apt Pupil Review

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2014

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this week's review, I examine Bryan Singer's post-The Usual Suspects/pre-X-Men project, the adaptation of Stephen King's short story, Apt Pupil.  If you've reviewed last week's episode, then you know I thought it was a tense, deeply disturbing examination of hate and control.  In it, Stephen King created his most horrendous villain to date with the character, Todd Bowden.  Is Bryan Singer able to match Stephen King? Is Brad Renfro able to embody the awful characteristics of King's twisted creation?Is Ian McKellen . . . ?  Yes, Ian McKellen is awesome.  Stick around and listen to my thoughts on Bryan Singer's Apt Pupil!

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right.

0:03.0

He wants the Young America.

0:05.0

Young America

0:07.0

He was a Young American He was a Youngerland Oh, all right But he wants a Young American Hello everyone, and welcome to Stephen Kingcast, one man at musings on the works of Stephen King.

0:26.6

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication.

0:32.6

This week, however, I turned my attention to the movies as I examine examined 1998's adaptation from different seasons classic novella, Aptuple.

0:42.3

So last week I reviewed Aptuple, the novella.

0:46.3

So feel free if this is your first time tuning in, well welcome.

0:51.3

And if you have read the novella and you're of the novella, I strongly suggest, you know,

0:55.5

you just go out and you check the review because I think that it's a disturbing story written

1:04.0

by King.

1:04.6

It's very, very pessimistic from an author that I tend to categorize as optimistic.

1:11.5

But nonetheless, it is a very tight thriller about power and control.

1:18.6

And there's a lot going on.

1:20.7

There's not a lot of pages to it, but it's definitely jam-packed with a lot.

1:25.1

The movie is a very close adaptation, but ultimately I think that it doesn't

1:30.5

reach the highs of Stephen King's novella. Now, what I'm going to do, I'm going to get into the

1:37.5

movie review, which if you've listened to my movie reviews before, with the exception of the Shining movie review, the Stephen King

1:48.2

adaptations tend to just kind of be like a running commentary and my thoughts from scene by scene.

1:53.7

I'm going to take some Wikipedia pieces and interspers them with the review here and there.

2:01.7

Just so you know.

2:02.8

So, Aptuple, the movie came out in 1998.

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