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The son of a Polish emigrant, as a child pursued by all sorts of ailments that prevented him from playing with his peers and left him at home at the height of the school year. A boy who fantasizes a lot and violently, adoring horror stories and comics. Time will pass, and in the literary world he will be crowned …
Long live the king!
The first big novel by Stephen Edwin King, which brought success to the author, was "caught" from the wastebasket by the prose writer's wife. The husband considered "Carrie" a bad experience and threw away the manuscript. Only thanks to the visionary Tabitha, who forced her other half to finalize and try to publish the work, the debut of the king of horrors took place even then. Almost immediately, the book was transferred to the big screen. Made it the current classic of cinema Brian de Palma. Despite its considerable age, "Carrie" is considered one of the best adaptations of the writer's works. Then there will be a lot of them. And in 1986, the only time King himself tried to take the director's chair. It was the movie "Maximum Acceleration". The man in the hat and glasses is the first character to appear in the frame. It was his money dispenser that he took and called him a nerd. This is Steven. The author sometimes allows himself mini-roles in films to which he himself had a hand (you can recall “CemeteryPets”, “Langoliers”, “Slimming”). "Maximum Acceleration" is a fantasy based on the short story "Trucks" produced by the famous Dino De Laurentiis.
Rise of the Machines?
Our planet was hit by the tail of a huge comet, with dire consequences.
The bridge connecting the two banks - two highways of a large transport interchange - suddenly, for no reason at all, began to rise, arranging a real hodgepodge of cars, cargo and corpses. But it was a warm-up, the maximum acceleration of the disaster is yet to come. The vending machines selling cigarettes and other small things began to spew out their “innards”, and then they also beat with current. The pump at the gas station "spit" in the face of the worker with a savory jet of diesel fuel and tried to burn out his eyes. The electric knife carnivorously bit into the hand of an unsuspecting waitress… The “leaders” of all this mechanical lawlessness were cars that develop maximum acceleration and crush people indiscriminately. The mechanical madness is opposed by a small company that has taken refuge in a roadside eatery near the very frenzied gas station.
Who wins?
By coincidence, a simple guy William Robinson, one of the employees of the cafe kitchen, had to lead this small stronghold of the fight against crazy technology. His role was played by the actor, director, screenwriter, representative of the glorious creative dynasty Emilio Estevez. The most famous are two of the Esteves: the head of the family Martin Sheen and his son Charlie Sheen (it is interesting that Charlie first starred under hisreal name Carlos Estevez only this year in Rodriguez's action movie "Machete Kills"). Emilio's sister Rene and another brother Ramon are also actors. Emilio, on the other hand, the audience remembered from the western "Young Guns", he starred in a parody of "Lethal Weapon" ("Loaded Weapon").
Returning to the plot of the painting "Maximum acceleration". So, people and machines, who will be more powerful in this single combat? And what kind of secret force is behind the rebellion of mechanisms that previously served humanity properly?.. A little later, "Trucks" appeared, another film interpretation of King's story. In some sources, it passes as the film "Maximum Acceleration 2", although the work of director Chris Thomson is not a direct sequel to the predecessor film. This project went almost unnoticed. Maybe because it lacked the charisma of director-King and the impressive musical accompaniment of the immortal AC / DC, which gives the picture a truly maximum acceleration?
