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The Running Man
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The year is 2025 (the film version is set in 2017-2019). Ben Richards desperately requires money to get medicine for his ill daughter, Cathy. To stop his wife Sheila from continuing to prostitute herself to pay the bills, Richards turns to the state-sponsored Games Network, which runs several TV game shows that put contestants at risk of severe injury or death. Contestants win money by surviving challenges such as Treadmill to Bucks, where a person with a heart or respiratory condition runs on a treadmill while answering trivia questions, or the self-explanatory Swim the Crocodiles. After an extensive screening process, Richards is selected for the country's most popular and dangerous game, The Running Man.After being declared a public enemy on the show, Richards is given $4,800 cash and a pocket video camera and turned loose. His family will win $100 for every hour he stays alive; if he can survive for 30 days, he wins the grand prize of $1 billion. He also gets a 12-hour head start before the network sends out a team of trackers known as "Hunters" to find and kill him. He can travel anywhere in the world, and each day he must videotape two messages and courier them to the TV show. Without these videotaped messages, he stops racking up prize money but the Hunters will continue their search. Despite the producer's claims to the contrary, as soon as the Network receives a videotaped message, the Hunters immediately know from the postmark the runner's approximate location. Viewers can earn cash rewards by calling the network with tips on his whereabouts. To date, there have been no survivors — and the producer frankly states that he never expects there to be any. The survival record is eight days and five hours.The story, written by Stephen King under his Pen Name of "Richard Bachman", is better known for its 1987 film version with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Dawson, which turned the story into one of a Blood Sport played by condemned criminals and changed Richards' reason for entering the contest — he was framed for a massacre that he was actually trying to stop. In 2021, it was reported that Edgar Wright is going to helm a new movie adaptation that will be Truer to the Text. It will be from Paramount Pictures, which previously got the rights to the original version.Not to be confused with Running Man, the South Korean variety show, or The Runner, an evidently unrelated 2016 series with a very similar premise (though presumably with nobody dying). | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Richards has one when Killian tells him about his family's murder. | |
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Deadly Game | |
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Deadly Game: The eponymous Running Man, along with other wholesome family entertainment such as Treadmill to Bucks, a trivia game where contestants with heart or lung problems must answer questions while running a treadmill and trying to avoid passing out or dying. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Oh so much. A future Dystopia that is slowly dying of both pollution and its own corruption. The government and the Games Network provide the sadistic games shown on the "Free-Vee" in order to keep the rabble content and docile. Anyone who dares stand up is blackballed from any work, if they're lucky. If they're unlucky they're forced to take part in the aforementioned Deadly Games or simply hunted down outright. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Curiously, while passing time counting cars, Richards mentions Studebaker automobiles. Studebaker had already been out of business for more than 15 years when the book was written; possibly this anticipated a situation like Cuba in which old vehicles were kept running indefinitely, but the book also shows hover cars... ('Air cars', perhaps cryogenically propelled, but not exactly speedy even by the standards of the 50mph blanket limit that existed at the time) A solitary 2013 Humber is also mentioned. It was a British make built by the Rootes Group, but any Rootes cars sold in the U.S. were badged as Sunbeams to keep continuity with the Alpine and Tiger sports cars. Rootes were later taken over by Chrysler, whose European operations were bought out around the time of the book's publication by Peugoet/Citroen. For one dollar. Far more numerous are 'Wints', perhaps Wintons. This would be a true anachronism, the firm dying out whilst cars still had seperate fenders. Perhaps General Motors resurrected the name for 'air cars' . Hard to believe now with names like Pontiac in the dustbin of history. | |
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Polluted Wasteland | |
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Polluted Wasteland: Most of America in 2025. The corporate networks have gained unrestricted license to pump out exhaust gases that cause a surge in bronchitis cases, to the point where the relatively well-off part of the population use special nose filters. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Killian makes it clear that Richards gunning down civilians aimlessly wouldn't be kosher. Killing cops and Hunters is fine, though - in fact, he gets a bonus for each one he kills. | |
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Flipping the Bird | |
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Flipping the Bird: Richards does this both at the start and end of his time as a contestant on the show. | |
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Dystopia | |
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Dystopia: Similar to the one seen in The Long Walk, with an emphasis on Bread and Circuses. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: When Ben Richards with his last ounce of strength flips the jetliner out of autopilot and crashes it into the Games Network skyscraper. Also, the few allies Richards makes in his journey are either heavily implied to die or are outright said to, his warnings about the mega corps poisoning the air being the cause of all the cancer and emphysema spreading among the lower class citizens are censored, and his wife and daughter are revealed to be have been dead since before he even appeared on the show. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "Your wife and daughter are dead. They’ve been dead for over ten days." | |
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Non-Action Big Bad | |
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Non-Action Big Bad: Killian is just an executive who pumps out horrible entertainment to the masses, so he simply spends all his time in an office. McCone, the head Hunter, is charged with tracking Richards down and killing him, even though they only run into each other at the end. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Killian tries to be this, but winds up coming off as a condescending Jerkass instead. | |
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Politically Incorrect Hero | |
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Politically Incorrect Hero: Richards is racist against black people at first in the book. He uses "Negro" and the n-word, the latter being the first thing that pops into his head when the word "doctor" comes up in a word-association test. However, he changes his opinion when a black family in the Boston ghetto gives him shelter and helps him get out of town. Also, he makes himself feel better during the degrading application process by sexually harassing one of the examiners, Slut-Shaming her, and taunting her that she can only get herself fired if she tries to do anything about it. On the other hand, it's implied that he's entirely correct when he points out her privileged social status and the reason she dresses so provocatively in front of starving plebeians is because she feels nothing but contempt for them, and wants to mock them before they go off to certain death at the hands of the murderous corporation she is happily part of. | |
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Pragmatic Villainy | |
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Pragmatic Villainy: The Corrupt Corporate Executive insists to Ben Richards that he didn't have his wife killed as part of a plan to recruit him as a Hunter. He makes no attempt to convince Richards that he's above such a thing, merely that it would have been a lousy plan and Richards would have seen through it, as evidenced by the fact that his suspicions immediately landed on the network when he heard about the misdeed. | |
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Agonizing Stomach Wound | |
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Agonizing Stomach Wound: Suffered by Richards aboard the Lockheed. | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler: In at least one re-issue edition, King writes a foreword that gives away the ending. | |
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Immoral Reality Show | |
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Immoral Reality Show: Every reality show on TV. The most prominent is The Running Man; other shows mentioned are Treadmill to Bucks, How Hot Can You Take It, Fun Guns, Dig Your Grave, Swim the Crocodiles and Run for Your Guns. | |
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Kids Are Cruel | |
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Kids Are Cruel: Two kids turn in one of Richards' fellow contestants, earning $1,000 each and a lifetime supply of cereal. | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome | |
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Dying Moment of Awesome: Ben crashes his plane into the network tower, killing those responsible for the show. While gutshot and barely conscious. And Flipping the Bird straight to Killian's face through the jetliner's cockpit windshield and Killian's huge office window-wall. | |
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Brandishment Bluff | |
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Brandishment Bluff: Richards claims to be carrying 12lb of Dynacore high-impact plastic explosive. | |
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Eating the Eye Candy | |
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Eating the Eye Candy: Weaponized by Richards during his entry tests, when he meets a gorgeous, busty young woman in tight clothes whom he presumes does it to mock the entrants before they get tossed into the Network meat grinder. He finishes the tests faster than expected and spends the extra time staring at her like a predator, until she obviously wishes she could cover up her body. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Well, number - the airliner is designated flight 1984. | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain: McCone calls Killian several variations of the n-word when he offers Richards a position as a hunter. | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield? | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Takes place in the fictional Harding, somewhere in the Midwest. The exact state is never revealed. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Killian is the head of the Games Network that organizes the Immoral Reality Show and distracts the population from their country being turned into a Polluted Wasteland. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Done to Bradley while he's being tortured to give up Richards' location, but it turns out to be All Just a Dream. | |
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Future Imperfect | |
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Future Imperfect: Where to start? But perhaps most poignantly Lampshaded when Richards only vaguely remembers, "the old tee-vee sex stars (Liz Kelly? Grace Taylor?) he had watched as a kid". | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Richards thinks that he is one step ahead of his pursuers after taking refuge at a YMCA in Boston. As he spends time looking out the window, though, he gradually realizes that the loiterers in the area have spotted him and tipped off the cops. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Richards. In spades. | |
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Pragmatic Hero | |
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Pragmatic Hero: Ben Richards is forced to engage in some morally questionable actions to survive the Deadly Game, such as killing off several cops in an oil tank explosion to avoid capture. At the end, when he learns that his family is dead, he flies a hijacked airplane into the Games Tower. | |
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All for Nothing | |
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All for Nothing: Richards joins the Running Man contest, being pursued by groups of 'Hunters' and receiving money for every hour he stays alive, in order to provide for his wife and his sick daughter. He survives longer than any previous contestant in the history of the show, eluding the Hunters for eight days and change and managing to escape on a plane after he threatens to blow up the airfield with a fake bomb. Killian then offers him a job, but reveals that Richards' family had been killed in a random home invasion only two days after the start of the contest. With nothing left to live for, he hijacks the plane and flies it right into the Games Tower, killing both Killian and himself, not to mention who knows how many Network executives. He couldn't save his family, but it wasn't truly all for nothing after all. | |
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Bread and Circuses | |
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Bread and Circuses: Everyone has access to "Free-Vees" which are free televisions airing stupid shows that keep citizens occupied and distracted. Richards notes that it's still legal to turn them off, implying that may not last much longer at the rate things are going. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: Richards is married, and declines Killian's offer of female company. | |
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Gilded Cage | |
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Gilded Cage: Between qualifying and participating, Richards is in the plush Games Federation suite. | |
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Killed Offscreen | |
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Killed Offscreen: Richards briefly meets another contestant of the Running Man contest before they're separately sent out into the field. He later hears a news report that the other contestant was found in another town hiding in a shed and killed by the Hunters. | |
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Cop Killer Manhunt | |
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Cop Killer Manhunt: Richards kills five Boston police officers in a gas explosion during his underground escape from the Boston YMCA. He already had a target on his head, but now every cop in the city wants his blood. | |
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Healthcare Motivation | |
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Healthcare Motivation: Richards's reason for entering the contest is to be able to afford medicines for his sick daughter. | |
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Word Association Test | |
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Word Association Test: Richards gets one of these when he's trying out to get on any game show he can. His responses are part of the reason he eventually gets tapped for The Running Man. | |
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We Can Rule Together | |
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We Can Rule Together: At the end, CEO Killian offers Richards a job at the network to replace the lead Hunter of The Running Man. Richards responds to his offer in the most spectacular way possible, by first accepting in order to put Killian off-guard, then flying the passenger plane he hijacked right into Killian's ivory tower office while flipping the bird at him through both the cockpit's windshield and the huge glass wall of Killian's office as Killian stares right back at him in disbelief. | |
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Slut-Shaming | |
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Also, he makes himself feel better during the degrading application process by sexually harassing one of the examiners, Slut-Shaming her, and taunting her that she can only get herself fired if she tries to do anything about it. On the other hand, it's implied that he's entirely correct when he points out her privileged social status and the reason she dresses so provocatively in front of starving plebeians is because she feels nothing but contempt for them, and wants to mock them before they go off to certain death at the hands of the murderous corporation she is happily part of. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Dan Killian is the smarmy head of the Games Company, overseeing the Immoral Reality Shows that are broadcast to the poor populations to distract them from how the network is poisoning the air. | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient: Richards's daughter has a case of the flu bad enough to spark her father's Healthcare Motivation, and Richards meets a young lower-class black boy with a five-year-old sister who is dying of lung cancer due to the air pollution. | |
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Inherent in the System | |
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Inherent in the System: Similar to Nineteen Eighty-Four, the violent, corrupt world of The Running Man feeds off its own degeneracy. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Ben Richards, in the book and the movie. | |
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Dwindling Party | |
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Dwindling Party: The rigorous contestant selection process gradually filters out most of the other applicants. | |
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The Running Man / int_ee7ed46e | type |
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything | |
The Running Man / int_ee7ed46e | comment |
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The Hunters. Although they are apparently tracking Ben Richards, he never encounters any of them until the very end, when their leader participates in a hostage exchange. Every time Ben is close to being caught, it's by normal police or ordinary citizens who want to turn him in for the bounty. (Possibly a result of King writing the entire novel within the space of a week.) | |
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The Running Man / int_f32d85ab | type |
20 Minutes into the Future | |
The Running Man / int_f32d85ab | comment |
20 Minutes into the Future: The setting is 2025, when America has become a polluted corporate dystopia. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
The Running Man / int_ff7f34c5 | comment |
Pet the Dog: Early in the novel, Richards manages to convince an asshole cop to give him some money for a phone call to his family. The man adds that if he tells anyone that he's a "softy", he'll come back and kicks Richards' ass. | |
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