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 Like Braugher does with Brent, King and director Frank Darabont have fully fleshed out each character with an attention to humanity that elevates it above standard horror fare. In fact, the story eventually becomes more Lord of the Flies than about what’s in the mist. “That’s what the mist does to us: it invites us into madness, and we’re forced to choose what kind of human beings we need to be,” Braugher says. “And unfortunately, human beings are not consistent or logical and sane and loving and wonderful, like we like to think of ourselves. We’re really kind of bloodthirsty killers.” Because of Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden), a fire-and-brimstone townsperson who starts preaching that the mist signals the End Times, many have seen the film as an attack on fundamentalism or an allegory for current events. Braugher is a bit more realistic about any specific parallel. “A lot of people seem to think that we live in a special time. There’s really nothing special about the fact that fear and superstition rule this world – it was true forty years ago, it’ll be true forty years from now. It’s not like we’ve changed.” He also sees Mrs. Carmody as a jab at extreme fundamentalism, not religion in general. “I am [a religious person], but it’s not like – you know, I’m not going to react to everything. It’s not as though I’m going to defend Mrs. Carmody. ...She’s just kind of this unstable town lady, kind of a pain in the ass, and now she’s our Old Testament prophet. This is the kind of world that makes sense to her.” What attracted Braugher to the role was simple: the strength of the material as a well-done story. “That’s a Stephen King thing,” he says. “Stephen King seems superficially to belong to the horror genre, but he’s really a novelist who has a lot of insight into the human heart, into the human spirit. He’s very clear-eyed about what it is that people do under great duress – they typically perform very poorly.” What Braugher wasn’t looking for was a horror-movie-of-the-week gorefest. “It’s an intense ride, there’s no doubt about it. Frank has really put us in the center of that fear and that panic in the supermarket. But this film is unique. He started from a wonderful novel, and most horror films don’t have this kind of basis. Most aren’t based on Stephen King’s works. They’re all about, you know, diabolical killers, and how fiendish is this trap, you know what I mean? Blah blah blah, who am I going to dismember today? They’re just not credible.” The attention to the characters and steady build-up of suspense in The ... |
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