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I have had a vision that I am going to be President of the United States someday. And nobody, and I mean nobody, is going to stop me!
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~ Greg Stillson
Gregory Ammas "Greg" Stillson is the main antagonist of Stephen King's 1979 novel The Dead Zone and its 1983 film adaptation.
Not much is known about Stillson's early life. The only information given by the novel is that Stillson was, as a young man, a door-to-door Bible salesman. One day, while visiting a house, he was assaulted by a dog that he killed in retaliation. Feeling twisted pleasure from the act, Stillson also experienced a sort of epiphany, believing that he was destined to a great future.
Many years later, Stillson has become a politician and, at the time of Johnny Smith's awakening from his coma, is currently running for congress, with the goal of one day, becoming the president of the United States. Using various duplicitous means, including (in the film) blackmailing a newspaper editor to change the way, Stillson is depicted in an article. During a rally in the town of Trimbull, he happens to shake hands with the psychic Johnny Smith, who has a vision of Stillson becoming President and starting a nuclear war, despite the news of a peaceful and diplomatic solution.
A few days later, Johnny decides to assassinate Stillson and tries to shoot him during another rally. Unfortunately, he misses several times and Stillson grabs a baby, a little boy, in order to use him as a human shield. Hesitating due to not wanting to risk the child's safety, Johnny is shot and mortally wounded, but foresees Stillson's reputation and political ambitions being ruined after the photograph of his cowardly act is published. In the movie, Smith also foresees that Stillson will commit suicide after failing to be elected, presumably because Stillson's reputation and ambitions were all that drove him in life, or because he he'll never get to kill millions of people.
Trivia[]
There are a few differences between Stillson's depiction in the book and the film adaptation:
In the movie, all elements of his past are omitted.
Johnny's vision of his suicide is only present in the movie.
In the book there is ambiguity as to how Stillson came to cause a nuclear apocalypse, but in the movie, the scene of him forcing a general to give his clearance heavily suggests that Stillson wants the apocalypse to happen in order to go down in history.
Stillson can be considered as one the most dangerous and scariest Stephen King villains of his novels, due to his plans in the future. This would later be a prediction about Donald Trump’s rise as president King has said.
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