The Running Man (1987)

The Running Man is a 1987American drama film, loosely based on the book Flight to the top by Stephen King, who wrote under his pseudonymRichard Bachman. The film was directed by Paul Michael Glaser. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jesse Ventura, Jim Brown, and Richard Dawson.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == It is the year 2017. The economy has collapsed and become the society is a police state . The Government keeps the population to the line through lies and manipulation. Pretty much everything in the media is screened is propaganda.
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 4 awards and nominations
 * 5 external links

The film revolves around Ben Richards, a pilot of the police who one day on a group of unarmed demonstrators refuses to shoot. His colleagues take it over and kill the bystanders. Richards is arrested because of insubordination, and the Government used him as a scapegoat by the tv images of the shooting to edit so that it looks like Richards on the people shot while his commander expressly ordered him not to do this.

18 months later know Richards to escape from the prison camp where he is imprisoned. He leads a group of rebels to a shelter, and then goes to the apartment of his brother, disguised as a construction worker. The apartment turns out to be inhabited by the journalist Amber Mendez. Richards to ransom her to go to Hawaii to escape, but he is at the airport intercepted and arrested again. Later that night the tv see Amber-pictures of the arrest, and realizes that the situation is exaggerated considerably to Richards to make black (so that he would have shot a agent, while this is not the case).

Richards is now forced to take part in a game show called "The Running Man", in which convicted criminals in an enclosed area of Los Angeleshave to fight against gladiators. These Gladiators are equipped with advanced weapons, costumes and sometimes even their own battle areas.The public can bet on the outcome of each battle. The show is presented by Damon Killian. Richards ' fellow prisoners also must join the Weiss and Lauglin show.

While the threesome tries to keep and even manages to kill one of the Gladiators, does Amber research behind the scenes. She finds a video which is the truth of the shooting incident. However, they caught and also sent into the arena.

Weiss and kill be killed, but Richards and Amber Lauglin further each gladiator that on their path. The audience loves this action and one starts even betting money on Richards. In the arena do Richards and Amber a gruesome discovery. They find charred bodies of old participants who actually had won the show, and realize that they be killed anyway. However, the public is led to believe that the winners have gotten a vacations in Hawaii.

In the end, Richards ' popularity and let Killian enough false images showing that Amber and Richards are killed by the last gladiator, Captain Freedom. This with the plan the two later, without presence of cameras, to kill. Richards and Amber reach in the meantime a tv station by a group of rebels. With their help, they expose the entire hijack the broadcast and deception behind the show. Also they show the real video footage of the shooting which shows that Richards as some innocent. A large rebellion among the studio audience is the consequence. In the chaos calls Richards the studio within, and sends Killian the arena where he perish in an explosion. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="66" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">The film exhibits some differences from the book:

==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="411" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">In 1988 became "The Running Man" nominated for three Saturn Awards, of which he won:
 * Richards is in the film forced get involved with the show. In the book he does this voluntarily to a doctor to be able to pay for his seriously ill daughter.
 * In the film the arena is limited to a destroyed piece of Los Angeles. In the book, the participants all over the world come to escape the hunters. In the book, the film studio in addition, in the fictional town of Harding and plays the hunting place in the northeastern United States.
 * In the book see the hunters look like ordinary people. In the film they are a kind of super-wrestlers with specific costumes and nicknames.
 * The only characters from the book that are retrieved in the film are Ben Richards and Killian. Killian's personality and role in the film other than in the book.
 * In the book is unlike the film no rebels.
 * Richards hijacks a plane In the book and leave it on the movie studio crash which he of course also perish. The film has a happy ending in which Richards it survives.


 * Best supporting actor (Richard Dawson) – won
 * Best costumes
 * Best science fiction film