Stephen King... Pedophile?

[TygreBryte]

Nacreous, well-written and formulated analysis. I hinted at aspects of this in my earlier post in the thread, but I don't think Kyros Christian (or anyone, haha) read it.

If anything, King's continuing to return to "the well" by utilizing children is simply relying on a solid technique that works (for his audience to be appropriately chilled or immediately identify, and him to evoke that) and if there's any criticism it might be that it's laziness or formulaic by now. Certainly not pedophilia. It's something every creative artist wrestles with in what they do - reliable techniques in their comfort zone or which resonate with an audience vs. continual re-invention and challenging one's self. A lot of the time it's new and interesting twists and variants on the same basic staples that can provide some of the most interesting output, or when that thematic idea is exhausted lead to some searching out of other concepts.

No, I read it, and I think you were getting it right. Between you and Nacreous, it got me thinking about the things I've read about what King has seemed to always try to do. I don't believe I've read "On Writing," but I read some of the stuff he wrote on that in the late and early '80's, and I thought he was pretty communicative about what he wanted to do.

In something that I read in the last year or 18 months, I think it was an interview, he mentioned that, in his writing process, he is trying to get to a point where "'the boys in the basement' take over," that is, he kind of turn control over to his experience of what is sometimes referred to as "the mythopoetic unconscious." Other artists have talked about it in different ways, but I think King has had good success at accessing a creative process that is not entirely consciously directed.

This success has helped him produce some pretty engaging stuff. He's not the most polished stylist ever to put pen to paper, but when I read a lot of Stephen King, what I really appreciated about him was that I felt he gave you enough information, much of it by itself "trivial," to allow you to feel like you really knew his characters as people -- ordinary, regular folks -- who ended up in extraordinary situations. Overwhelming, scary, terrifying, extraordinary situations.

And, I think, the "boys in the basement" understand that those extraordinary situations that are good fodder for "horror" are, as outlandish as many of them are, *just* *barely* more horrible than the terrible, sudden shit that happens to us "real" folks every day. "They boys in the basement" also understand that the average everyday person is being confronted, daily, with thoughts, wishes, and desires that aren't really socially "kosher," and some of that is pretty scary, too.

 

[bimmrboy]

sick, fucked up and twisted? yes

pedophile? no

His books are fantastic, I've ready almost every one, starting from before I was a teenager.


Seriously? Why the attack on Stephen King out of the blue?

 

[sb]

I can only remember seeing one stephen king film that has a young blonde boy in it.... Cujo... the thread starter probably thinks he gets off on savage animals too.

I scrolled past this thread a few times today.... without reading it I thought that Stephen King must have got caught doing something to children.... luckily I opened and found out the thread starter just thinks that because they can't accept someone has an imagination.

I would have went to work tomorrow and told people that stephen king was a pedophile... and they would have gone and told people etc....

Just being accussed of being a pedophile can be enough to destroy your life permanently.... and I think accussing someone of being one just because you don't like their made up stories is fucking disgusting.

 

[Kyros Christian]

I think you all beat this thread to death... Many of you are getting emotional over it; im worried my words might instigate a heart attack out of one of you. Lets get over it now shall we?

 

[Kyros Christian]

Even the "sick, fucked up and twisted" assertion doesn't hold any water with me, I'm afraid. The man simply has an imagination that he deploys to explore the darker and more taboo elements of human nature and experience. That is all. Is John Carpenter a mysoginistic, teeny-bopper murdering psycho because he single-handedly kick-started the "Slasher" film epidemic of the early '80'd with "Halloween?" Is Clive Barker a sado-masochistic sociopath because he created the Cenobites? No; these people merely provide virtual arenas in which they and the consumers of their materials might explore certain drives and aspects of themselves without negative consequence to others. I'd in fact go so far as to argue that those who are truly in touch with their "darker" selves, who acknowledge the more taboo drives, obsessions and desires that are inextricable to their natures, will inevitably be much more healthy psychologically than those who attempt to deny or sublimate said "darker" selves.

Youre just being silly now..

 

[Kyros Christian]

Here, here. I also hope that the OP realises that making such claims without any firm basis could be construed as libelous, which is of course a matter that can have very serious legal ramifications.

hahahaha. okayyyy

 

[Spellbound]

I think you all beat this thread to death... Many of you are getting emotional over it; im worried my words might instigate a heart attack out of one of you. Lets get over it now shall we?

Well when you post something outrageous like that, don't be shocked when some people get pissed off.

 

[Kyros Christian]

Well when you post something outrageous like that, don't be shocked when some people get pissed off.

I think if you get emotional over anything written on one of these silly forums - youre just weird.

 

[Radio_Ethiopia]

I think he is sick twisted genius non pedophile and good man.

 

[Radio_Ethiopia]

I think if you get emotional over anything written on one of these silly forums - youre just weird.

You accused a man of one of the worst crimes imaginable! pedophilia = Not cool. If someone called you a pedophilia wouldn't you hope people would defend you emotionally.

 

[Kyros Christian]

... lol....

 

[Kyros Christian]

Everyone please take into consideration the identity of the person making these statements.

He is a young guy dating a blond, twinky young guy. And both he and his BF are porn stars.

He is more than likely projecting his own fears that everyone watching his partner is having pedophile type thoughts, so he is finding anything and everything that reminds him of that.

Sorry for the psychoanalytic post. The statements made by Kyros are not those of someone who is thinking clearly about who and what he is talking about. Stephen King writes about horrific events. The fact that he uses kids in his books is based on the fact that as humans any time we see anything bad happen to children we are terrified. He is using our own human emotions to help created fear and horror in his novels. It is also quite horrifying to see angelic children become demonic and evil. He's a fiction writer. And he's good at it.

lol... okayyyy Dr. Phil.