Is Stephen King a cat lover?
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Evil_Magus — 19 years ago(July 05, 2006 02:06 PM)
Yes, he is. If you read his writing, you'll find cats cast an extremely favorable light every time. This can be quite frustrating for me, as I'm a dog person myself.
L.T.'s Theory of pets is a pretty good example of his sentiment. It's a short story in his collection "Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales" about a man who's wife left him. She owned a dog, and he owned a cat. He drew some pretty nasty comparisons between the wife and the dog, and both were cast in terrible lights. He and the cat, however, come out flawlessly. The same thing happens in Cell. They talk about how the cats will turn ferral to survive, but how all the dogs will starve to death, waiting for their owners to come and feed them. Likewise, in Cujo the dog was the threat.
In most of his writing, protagonist characters will have cats. If dogs appear at all, they're either shown negatively or made fun of. -
Evil_Magus — 19 years ago(July 12, 2006 10:01 PM)
Creepy, yes. But it was less antagonistic so much as it was used as a plot-device to show the effects of the Semetary. It turned what King had built up as an innocent and beloved creature into a vile demonic creature. It juxtaposes what the cat actually is, that adorable lovable thing, into what it is turned into. So you still have that very pro-feline touch in his writing.
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eugenep13 — 18 years ago(May 07, 2007 05:42 PM)
As much as I love Stephen King, I am also an animal lover. And I wish he would stop abusing animals or negatively referring to them in his books.
Even 20 years later after reading "The Dead Zone", I am still totally upset with the first scene (thanks heavens it wasn't in the movie, LOL).
In any case, he is my favorite writer. -
pianocellolove — 18 years ago(May 09, 2007 10:01 PM)
I never knew Stephen loves cats so much! Me too!
The cat in this film is just gorgeous!
He looks like a tabby yet I am not sure. Oddly, the cat and Stephen are two of the main reasons I watch the film!
He is an incredible writer!
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petekrug17 — 18 years ago(June 04, 2007 10:20 PM)
About Stepen King and animals in general:
It is true that the title dog in CUJO becomes the threat. (By the way I'm about to reveal spoilers about the book CUJO, those who haven't read the book yet but are thinking of doing so should stop reading now, and that includes if you've seen the film but haven't read the book.) Cujo does kill three people and in a somewhat inderect way cause the death of an innocent little boy. Still, that is because the dog has become rabid. It is a fact that for some reason dogs, no matter how well-behaved they were before, turn vicious and dangerous after contracting rabies, assuming they've never had any tetnis shots. In the book at the end King stresses that Cujo had always tried to be a good dog and never really wanted to hurt anyone, he was never really evil, he just became a threat as a result of the sickness that turned him into a killer.
As for cats, there is the short film "The Cat From Hell" which can be found in the horror anthology flick TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE: THE MOVIE, where a demonic cat terrorizes and ultimately kills a rich man and the professional he's hired to take the supernatural beastie out. However, the rich guy is said to have cruely experimented on and had killed about a hundred cats or so, and the man he's hired to do away with the unstoppable feline is a hitman, the sort of person who'll kill anyone he's been paid to off and feels no guilt because of it. So the cat in that story could perhaps be seen as a sort of justice enforcer, taking out bad people. -
Alex420 — 18 years ago(June 15, 2007 08:28 AM)
another thign about Cujo
The dog was slightly meant to be a reimaginationing of Frank Dodd in a way
But not necisarrily is cujo Dodd though
Its just meant to be a comparision of what happens to Cujo once it becomes rabid -
sexual_monkey182 — 18 years ago(February 08, 2008 07:12 PM)
Here is a little fun fact about Cujo: I read an interview with Stephen King recently and he claims to have been addicted to, I believe, cocaine at the time he was writing Cujo and doesn't remember writing most of it. How crazy is that? And now that he is clean his ideas keep getting more and more twisted. I love it.