What was so special about The Mist ending?
The big difference between the movie (Frank Darabont) and the book (Stephen King) is that in King’s ending, Drayton doesn’t shoot everybody. He also doesn’t find out what happened to his wife. He tries to drive the Scout to his house on the lake, but the road is blocked by fallen trees and he can still hear creatures out in the mist, so he decides that trying to walk the rest of the way would be a BAD idea. Next, he and the people in his Scout drive to a motel where they stop for the night. Drayton then spends the night writing the story down. At the end, Drayton wonders about how they’re going to manage gassing up the Scout with all the critters still out there, and mentions how he was listening to the radio and heard nothing across the whole band, except for one spot where he heard a word that might have been either “Hartford” or “hope.” So he decides that in the morning they’ll make for Hartford, and that’s where the story ends. Darabont’s “O Henry” ending is considered special beca
