MISERY | The Hobbling Sequence: Scene Breakdown
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- If you’ve seen the 1990 adaptation of Stephen King’s MISERY, you're no doubt scarred for life from watching Annie Wilkes bash Paul Sheldon’s legs with a sledgehammer.
But did you know that’s not how the scene plays out in the book? Or that James Caan almost wasn’t Paul Sheldon? Or that MISERY is actually about cocaine?? Come explore all the ins and outs of everyone’s favorite Number One Fan in this iconic sequence from the legendary film…
VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: This episode contains depictions of gruesome violence.
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David is the Host / Writer / Director of The Stephen Kingdom. He has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing and a Master’s of Fine Arts from the USC Film School. He has also written for the PBS RUclips series “It’s Lit” and regularly collaborates with Lindsay Ellis. Among writing and directing numerous award-winning short films, David wrote and directed the acclaimed indie thriller Bullitt County, which you can watch on Amazon: www.amazon.com...
Edited by Josh Riedford
Original Music by Aaron Riedford
The mallet honestly makes it more extreme in my opinion. Maybe its because dismemberment is so overplayed in modern horror and thrillers but the way the ankles snap is so much more visceral.
With you there. Part of me would rather lose my foot than have it all floppy and dangly like that. And you just know they never healed properly.
Agreed I flinch more at limbs being bent the wrong way than dismemberment
I feel the same way. Plus BOTH feet got the mallet. Only one got the ax.
Stephen King’s rendering of the hobbling scene is so visceral and gruesome, the movie makes it seem a lot simpler. Kathy Bates deserved that Oscar though.
Yeah, she was awesome. I think she paved the way for Jodie Foster winning the Oscar for another horror/thriller, The Silence of the Lambs.
The way i was literally infodumping about this scene to my friend last night 😂😂
For such a simple movie about two people in a room, there is SO MUCH fun trivia. We had to leave a lot on the cutting room floor.
@TheStephenKingdom Agreed! It was actually one of the first books I read from Stephen King and I watched the movie immediately afterwards. Really stuck with me with the brutality of both!
@@owltakizawa Misery is a lot of things, but brutal is probably the most spot on 😄 And King's writing is so visceral that you really feel like you're stuck in the room with Paul and Annie, watching all of this horrible stuff happening
Oh my god, your reading of this scene in the book has absolutely transported me right into their minds!! Brilliant, and horrifying!
Hey, thanks! I'm a wannabe audiobook narrator deep down in my heart.
It was so intense! I read the book, a very long time ago after I had watched the film. Immediately I knew I was this movies biggest fan. Lol but really reading it after seeing it was so much worse. It did make my stomach turn badly.
How do videos like this have so little views? Very entertaining. Thank you!
We're all at the mercy of the RUclips algorithm. 😑 But fans like you help us get more eyeballs... thanks for the kind words!
Somebody let this man narrate an entire audiobook
I'd be so dowwwwn
This was awesome - and I thought I was a superfan who knew the whole story.
THANKS!
Glad I could share a few tidbits you hadn't heard yet!
Great video and awesome reading! This video definitely deserves more attention! Best of luck to you 🤞😀
Thanks very much! Fans like you help us keep on growing ☺
I am glad that I checked this out. I have a horror scene in the novel that I am working on and I needed to hear you read that scene. Stephen King is definitely on of the best writers and that section was near-perfect, but I still have no interest in reading any more Stephen King that what I already have.
Best of luck with the writing -- glad this could serve as some inspiration...
One too many female relatives like Cathy Bates’ character.
Yiiiiiiiiiikes 😬
It’s such an iconic scene. I can list 10 separate instances of other films and tv shows aping it directly or obliquely just off the top of my head.
Just goes to show -- all you need is a room and two legendary actors to make movie magic.
Oh thank God William hurt didn't play Paul Sheldon. Ironically for a man named after an emotion, William hurt fails to display any.
At that point I think the audience would just be rooting for Annie the whole time 😄
is "insanity" an emotion??
it's like all the emotions at the same time, like if emotions had an emotion
This is why I could not listen to the audiobook.
The scene really is almost more gruesome to read/listen to than it is to watch in the movie. Not for the faint of heart, that's for damn sure