Cujo question
Katherine
I just saw the movie version of Cujo and was wondering if Cujo was possessed
by some evil being or was he just bitten by a rabid bat. There is some
reference by the little boy "That's what's in my closet." but it seems
unclear if the dog is possessed or just has rabies. Which way was it in the
book? In the movie he sticks his head in a rabbit's hole and there are bats
down there and I think one of them bites him on the nose. After that he
gets very sensitive to sound and goes even more crazy when anything is
noisy. Could someone help me out with this. TIA
BSJAD
>by some evil being or was he just bitten by a rabid bat. There is some
>reference by the little boy "That's what's in my closet." but it seems
>unclear if the dog is possessed or just has rabies. Which way was it in the
>book?
The dog WAS bitten by bats in the book, as well. I believe that King (as
always) leaves the subject open as to how people interpret the messenger of
evil. In this little boy's case, it was the same feeling he got from the
monster in his closet...doesn't mean it was literally the same thing. Of
course, the ending of the book is much different than the movie. Most King
books are softened somewhat on screen because Hollywood doesn't believe in
bumming out the audience on the way out the door. If you read the book, you
will see the HUGE difference in the way this ending takes place. Similar to
what Kubrick did the ending of the Shining as opposed to THAT book.
Endy
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Also, in the book King makes a reference to the bats underground cavern
being close to the ground where the evil cop, Frank?, in the Dead Zone was
buried. Leaving a hint that possibly the spirit of this killer has entered
Cujo? He's subtle about it, like the previous post-er commented. Kind of
like Hitchcock's weekly show. He leaves a lot up to the imagination of the
reader/viewer to figure out for theirself.
sr...@my-deja.com
interesting than anything paranormal. Monsters exist in real life,
that's what the boy finds out. Maybe that's the whole point.
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Jadz...@webtv.net
never been able to bring myself to read the book.
SJI
>I'm a huge animal lover and watching Cujo disturbed me greatly, so I've
>never been able to bring myself to read the book.
You know, I've never even thought about considering it from that
angle. Are you saying that you couldn't watch Cujo because you
felt too sorry for the *dog*, or that it bothered you too much to
think about an animal behaving that way towards people?
CH Gustavsson
felt too sorry for the *dog*, or that it bothered you too much to
think about an animal behaving that way towards people?"
Yeah, right! Look who愀 talking........a human!
Don愒 you se/read the news?????
War, serialkillers, mad gunners, and on, and on, and on.......
Of course it isn愒 because his behaviour,look how we are treating each
others.
CH
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CH Gustavsson told me:
>Yeah, right! Look who愀 talking........a human!
>Don愒 you se/read the news?????
>War, serialkillers, mad gunners, and on, and on, and on.......
>Of course it isn愒 because his behaviour,look how we are treating each
>others.
While you might have some insight into Jadzia's thought processes,
I think she is in a better position to answer a question about her
own feelings.
Now, if you're saying that *you* felt sorry for the dog, that's a
different story. For my own part, I tend to lack sympathy for
spree killers no matter how many legs they walk on <g>.
Victor Montequin
really his fault. After all, he wasn't a mean dog; he became mad (crazy not
angry :o} ) due to the rabies he contracted.
Rosandra
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phrase I read (I'm not sure if it was on the dust jacket or not, but I think it
was.) It said something about "an ancient evil waiting to be unleashed." And
I waited and waited for an ancient evil...and it was just rabies! It was Jaws
with fur! Now, there is the Frank Dodd connection, but I think that it was
overused so much in the book (Frank Dodd did this, Frank Dodd did that, Frank
Dodd is in your closet, Frank Dodd once hung his coat on this very hanger, blah
dee blah blah) that it because uneffective.
Jadz...@webtv.net
didn't care what happened to the people. I know it's only a movie and I
could separate the people as being just a bunch of actors, but I
couldn't seem to bring that same separation when it came to the dog.
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Group: alt.books.stephen-king Date: Wed, Jan 26, 2000, 6:36pm (EST+5)
From: qua...@REMOVEhotmail.com (SJI) Re: Cujo question
SJI
>One thing I complain about regarding the book Cujo was the misleading teaser
>phrase I read (I'm not sure if it was on the dust jacket or not, but I think it
>was.) It said something about "an ancient evil waiting to be unleashed."
I only have the paperback edition, but your post got me to get up
and see what it said. Quote follows:
***** THE ULTIMATE BEAST
IS LOOSE - AND STEPHEN KING
IS SENDING HIM YOUR WAY
A big, friendly dog chases a rabbit into a hidden underground cave
- and stirs a sleeping evil cruler then death itself. A terrified
four year old boy sees his bedroom closet swing open untouched by
human hands, and screams at the unholy red eyes gleaming at him in
the darkness. The little town of Castle Rock is about to be
invaded by the most hideous menace ever to savage the flesh and
devour the mind.... ********
God's below! Where on earth did the publishers get that sh!t
from? I can see how, if the hardcover dust jacket was anything
like the above, you'd be spending the whole book waiting for the
strongly implied supernatural evil to make it's appearance.
Tracicle
>
>>One thing I complain about regarding the book Cujo was the misleading
teaser
>>phrase I read (I'm not sure if it was on the dust jacket or not, but I
think it
>>was.) It said something about "an ancient evil waiting to be unleashed."
>
>I only have the paperback edition, but your post got me to get up
>and see what it said. Quote follows:
>
>***** THE ULTIMATE BEAST
> IS LOOSE - AND STEPHEN KING
> IS SENDING HIM YOUR WAY
>A big, friendly dog chases a rabbit into a hidden underground cave
>- and stirs a sleeping evil cruler then death itself. A terrified
>four year old boy sees his bedroom closet swing open untouched by
>human hands, and screams at the unholy red eyes gleaming at him in
>the darkness. The little town of Castle Rock is about to be
>invaded by the most hideous menace ever to savage the flesh and
>devour the mind.... ********
I found out recently that it's generally someone in the publishing house
that writes the blurb on the back...and most of the time they haven't even
read the book, they just get told what it's about or skim-read it and then
write this pathetically overdramatic paragraph. Pretty bad, huh?
Tracicle
SJI
Tracicle wrote:
>I found out recently that it's generally someone in the publishing house
>that writes the blurb on the back...and most of the time they haven't even
>read the book, they just get told what it's about or skim-read it and then
>write this pathetically overdramatic paragraph. Pretty bad, huh?
Oh yeah, pretty bad ;-) The worst I've seen, though, was the
teaser for a 400 page novel (name evades me) that gave away the
secret of a mystery that the novel itself took about 375 pages to
reveal. The worst part is that the novel was *about* the
discovery process that lead to finding out the information which
the teaser gave me before I'd even read page one. After that
one, I pretty much gave up on reading teasers. <g>
Aslan's Friend
murderer tells Archie ..." All you had to do was run across the quote
(which you did shortly after the murder in question took place -- about 25%
of the way into the book) and unless you read the book for the characters,
the suspense was shot.
FoN
--
"He's not a _tame_ lion, you know ..."
The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis
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Patricia Mangone
Stout actually gave away a murderer's identity early on unless it was
not related to the main story. He may have indicated that the murderer
had been in the office, one of several visitors, male and - reluctantly
for Nero - female, but he's never revealed the name that early in the
book. I've never been disappointed with his suspense-building talent.
Aslan's Friend
wrote the blurb gave it away!
FoN
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"He's not a _tame_ lion, you know ..."
The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis
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