Review: Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
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How to squeeze more than 4,000 pages of book series into a one and a half hour long movie.
A new Stephen King’s story is in the cinemas. The eight books can be described as dato fantasy and science fantasy, horror and western. He considers this series as his magnum opus which means masterpiece. The story is about a gunslinger who acts like a typical western hero. Stephen King said this character was inspired by Clint Eastwood from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. This gunslinger, who is called Roland Deschain, tried to save the world by killing the evil wizard who dressed in black. The wizard, who was called Walter by his mum, attempts to destroy the universe by ruining the dark tower which lies at the center of universe. This tower can only be destroyed by the mind of a child. That is why the wizard is looking for a special child in our universe who has the power to achieve this evil plan.
Unfortunately, it is evident to leave out many important scenes from the books to be able to squeeze eight books into a film. This is the reason why the film feels incoherent and unexplained properly. For instance, the demons, which are only kept away from our universe by the dark tower, are not described and explained properly. That is why the spectators cannot fully understand and feel the threat of these demons.
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This series is really important for Stephen King which is shown by the fact that he even created a new language like J.R.R. Tolkien did in the Lord of the Rings. That is why it is said his work has not been shown in the cinemas properly. The film makers had thought it was too risky financially to invest in a whole film series such as Lord of the Rings.
Despite of these facts, it is still worth to watch the movie if we are fun of Stephen King’s work.
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