The Running Man was one of the great dances to come out of the 80's, and -
What? Not the dance? The Richard Bachman dystopian thriller? Do over!
The Running Man is a Richard Bachman (also known as Stephen King) novel written in the 1980's set in an America in financial ruin and a world beset by violence by 2025. It follows a hard-on-his-luck Ben Richards who is forced to put his life in danger in order to get medicine for his sick daughter. After approaching the government's Games Federation, he is placed in a brutal game of survival called the Running Man, which takes General Zaroff's idea to an even sicker extent by attaching prize money to how long Richards can survive. Man, the future is not a bright place.
At first glance you might say to yourself: America in financial ruin? People going to life threatening lengths for affordable healthcare? Sounds awfully familiar. Well, we certainly could have another awful recession in the next 15 years.
But lets talk about reality TV. Thing is, we've already gone through our heyday of violent reality TV. Fear Factor, American Gladiator, When Animals Attack, et. all have given way to the more emotionally focused Jersey Shore, Real Housewives, and other "throw people in a house an' watch 'em stew" shows. The future has shown that if the Romans had really wanted to opiate the masses, they would have thrown a bunch of strangers into the coliseum, and manufactured suspense through clever editing.
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