She charged like a bull and punched down on the salt pile known as his knee, while his legs were still shattered. He had hurt her ego, but told her the truth about the poor quality paper she bought. All because he knew she would take down her prized possession known as ‘Misery’s Return’ to fawn over it, every so often, the shuffling of pages against each other would age the ink in the book prematurely. He knew he was her pet writer, and had even figured she would bind the book herself, that way she wouldn’t raise questions. At this point, Paul was so traumatized by her that he often found himself fighting at odds with himself over whether to try to free himself or do something beneficial to Annie.
In the book, there was a detail that Annie asked, why the smudging matters, you are not going to rub your fingers while reading and Paul explained, that you do have to go back and forth to check story line and the papers would rub on each other that way.
@@gracepark-pf1ks This is for me one of the best adaptations to screen ever. While it does leave a lot out, nothing that is removed is necessary to the success of the film, although perhaps it would have been nice to have some of the extra details nonetheless. With that said, I thoroughly recommend the book as it’s an absolute treasure. My favourite of King’s works on the page and on the screen.
As someone who has to lift stacks of paper quite often, I can only imagine the pain that caused Plus I’m almost sure Annie left her hairpin on purpose as a Trust Exercise, if she knows the exact position of her penguin, she’ll notice she’s missing a hairpin
I don’t care if it’s not romantic, Kathy Bates and Jimmy Caan have the best chemistry in any movie, bar none! “It’s two of the letters in my favorite nurse’s name...” ... “You fooler!” 🤣
I agree the chemistry was unmatched and just think Dustin Hoffman turn this down. Jack Nicholson turned it down. I mean it wouldn’t have worked. James con was perfect and he needed this because he was in aI agree the chemistry was unmatched and just think Dustin Hoffman turned this down Jack Nicholson, and turned it down. I mean, if it wouldn’t have worked, James conn was perfect and he needed this because he was in a major funk and member. This is the guy who turned down close encounters over money, he should take less pay and a percentage of gross Just to work with Steven Spielberg he knew he was gonna be a big hit and he would’ve made a lot of money in the back end !!
1:37. If you notice she actually lifts the wheelchair up into place at the desk. Obviously with him in it. A small detail but it speaks to her strength and .... control.
One of the best films i have seen. I saw it when it first came out and was shocked at some of the scences in the way she treated him. And every one at that time always knew what the best scene was. It was when she put the log between his anckles then used a sledge hammer to break both his anckles. O I FELT THAT. Even though it was a film it was still brilliantly done. And you just couldnt really see a way out for him, becouse you knew she always knew more than she would say, like searching his room when he was asleep to see what she could find. But cathy bates was brilliant in this and it won her an oscar and so was jimmy caan brilliant as well. This brilliant genius made film was a one off. The best film i had probably seen at that time! I was age 17 when it came out!
An intelligent, highly competent, person of good repute, yet who is secretly and selectively evil/toxic. Such a scary thought, the idea of this type of person having power over you. Kind of similar to Nurse Ratchet from '...Coo-coos Nest'
Isn't it funny how they wanted jack Nicholson to play Paul Sheldon, So they could of had jack Torrance escape the overlook and stumble down the side of the mountain to be found by Anne who should of been a fan of jack Torrance since he is a writer as well
1st Choice even during our Pre-production was Warren Beatty. But he was also in Post Production for Dick Tracy. Rob Reiner finally ask Warren if he was really going to play Paul Sheldon; but he couldn't say yes. So, Rob had to offer it to multiple actors. He even flew to London to meet with Kevin Kline...But he turned down the role. Andy Sheinman, Rob's Producet and Partner in Castle Rock suggested Jimmy. He was actually a pain at times; but nailed the role.
This movie makes me aught, because I used to work with a nurse who was EXACTY Ike Kathy Bates' character Annie Wilkes. And She was very open about being Elvis Presley's Number One Fan!
People don't talk about this movie enough, first thing's first, Stephen King is beyond a genius. Second, James Caan and Kath Bates give such perfect powerhouse performances. It's an absolutely incredible culmination of creative media, and Rob Reiner's last few good movies before he did North and nosed-dived in mediocrity.
That’s a really good post and I was just saying that to myself he had a hell of a run stand by me. He had this movie obviously the one with the Marines, few good men when Harry Met Sally, and then after that, it was bomb after bomb after bomb and now he’s retired. He really really really bad and I don’t this day. I don’t know what people saw that stupid script north that was just asinine.
Dan Antonio Guillot Jaramillo waaaaaay worse! By heart I can tell you: She makes him drink water she just use to wash the floor and the wall She punches his knees She cuts his foot off She cuts his thumb(seem to remember the right hand) and then put it in a cake as a candle singing “happy birthday to you” and telling him if he’s good he can eat just the cake if not he must eat his own dead thumb 😦 The actress is scary,no doubt she’s great and deserved the award but the book is insane; Even the way she kills a cop
@Baraldi Gnegne: Exactly. Next to the book version, the movie version of Annie looks like a sweet and kindhearted aunt. Paul knows she's insane even before she gets upset over the swearing in his new manuscript. In fact, in his mind, she conjures up images of a scary African idol. And the hobbling scene in the book is much more graphic. Here's a hint. It involves an axe and a blowtorch.
Hawkeye Pierce right Pierce! Africa and pills that made the sea cover the woods(my bad for my english btw) And then,he finds out she kills Pomeroy,her father,her roommate and many others. Movie is also well done but reading the book scares me way more
It would've been interesting if she was reading the book BEFORE the final Misery (which she obviously loved). Part of me thinks she would've let him go but I dunno. If I recall she lied about calling his agent/people and them saying she could nurse him back to health until the roads were fully cleared BEFORE she found out about the final book, so he might've been a goner to begin with lol.
@@Birdman669 Ah interesting. I never read the book. And they left the thumb scene out of the movie if I recall correctly. I was moreso thinking if he didn't piss her off with the latest installment if she'd let him go. Like what if this happened a year earlier?
I just noticed something new about this scene that I never paid attention to before. The hairpin on the floor that Paul notices, which was his only way to unlock the door and get out of the room. Knowing Annie for how crafty and clever that she is to find out and expose what Paul is doing to escape or to prevent him from escaping, I'm surprised that she let a hairpin drop on the ground for him to use.
One of the best scene.. remember when my mother sent me to An errand again after she made me an errand… hahahaha this is realistic hahahaha you get crazy if someone don’t like what you bought…..
Corrasable paper was coated with a clear glaze. When typing on ink typewriters if a mistake was made you could erase the mistake and retype over it. But smudging would happen if the typed pages were moved around or touched to much.
Not as crazy as this, but I had a really swollen leg due to a nasty bicycle accident. One of my friends slapped me on the knee because I said something funny to her. I went : "WTF is the matter with you?!" Felt like slapping her back but just clenched my teeth and endured while everybod laughed, which I still have a hard time understanding why. My coworkers called me "Wooden leg" for a month.
James Caan and Kathy bates brilliant actors lots of high rated actors turned Pauls cast down coz they had stay in bed for 15 days lol and Bet Midler regretted turning down Annie Wilkes cast 😮
What the movie makes a mistake about and is confusing, is that Paul Sheldon said his new unpublished book was not about misery and he even said that to Anne when she asked him" what's it about?"and if she could read it. Then she went to the store and bought another misery book. So which book was about misery's death? the store book she just bought or his new book??
The only movie of Steven King To have an Oscar winner and I’ll tell you in high school no one believed in his talent but $500 million and superstar him he did it!! The movie is flawless, but if I was the Director producer, I would’ve had James conn‘s character driving up in an old 1984 Jeep Cherokee cause it was snowy and then he sees like an animal like a deer run in front of him and he loses control and he spins out of control in Maine New Hampshire, it was a 1964 Mustang that was ridiculous. I was just ridiculous. You never gonna make it on those roads in a Mustang. He should at least had a Cherokee and got startled when the when he looked down and then he looked up and maybe a deer jumps and just misses the car and loses control that’s all I’m saying 😅
Paul was a straight asshole here. Not a drop of excitement for Misery's Return and Annie's hard work. Too busy worrying about his daughter out there somewhere who thinks he's dead.
Kathy Bates is a terrific excellent actress of all times.
No she's fat
Yes loved her in fried green tomatoes too
She definitely carried this picture.
I love her, but in this movie she scared me! 😱
@@lauraluffman6177 Yes, this is not her only movie in which she acts well.
The way he looks at her like helpless prey classic...
The way he stuffs the ashes of the book down her throat in the end is better.
The razor bit is the best. His face and the "If I'd known this was the surprise I would have burned all my books" LMAO
I know right!!!
😂😂😂
The way he looks at her like you crazy b without saying a word kills me every time
Oh he is so so good in this. So real
📌RIP, James Caan, 6/6/2022 age 82 years. Great Actor.🏆🕊️
*Kathy Bates... Perfect performance✍️ ❤️*
Writing slippers lol. She’s awesome. Brilliant acting
Tbh, having my feet in good comfy slippers would inspire me to type a novel.
@@cristianm7097 not like this I hope
She charged like a bull and punched down on the salt pile known as his knee, while his legs were still shattered. He had hurt her ego, but told her the truth about the poor quality paper she bought.
All because he knew she would take down her prized possession known as ‘Misery’s Return’ to fawn over it, every so often, the shuffling of pages against each other would age the ink in the book prematurely.
He knew he was her pet writer, and had even figured she would bind the book herself, that way she wouldn’t raise questions.
At this point, Paul was so traumatized by her that he often found himself fighting at odds with himself over whether to try to free himself or do something beneficial to Annie.
hahaha it was because he wanted to get the bobby pin. all paper will smudge with fresh ink. he was just manipulating her so he could pick up the pin.
@@humansubstitute5178 Exactly. I think OP was reading into it too much (see what I did there)
Um, OP is directly quoting the book.
When he found out his surprise was a new studio to write a new Misery book, he must have thought to himself, "Oh, gee. You shouldn't have."
In the book, there was a detail that Annie asked, why the smudging matters, you are not going to rub your fingers while reading and Paul explained, that you do have to go back and forth to check story line and the papers would rub on each other that way.
4:28 Kathy Bates deserved that academy award......HA! What about Caan nailing that pain performance?? 😆
award*
I love that she specifies that the typewriter weighs 50 pounds. Great foreshadowing. It's Chekhov's Typewriter.
Excellent! These two actors fits perfect. I was thinking of them while reading the King book. I loved the book, and the movie,
I need to read the book. Many times I've heard a movie about a book leaves out a lot that's in the book.
@@gracepark-pf1ks
This is for me one of the best adaptations to screen ever. While it does leave a lot out, nothing that is removed is necessary to the success of the film, although perhaps it would have been nice to have some of the extra details nonetheless.
With that said, I thoroughly recommend the book as it’s an absolute treasure. My favourite of King’s works on the page and on the screen.
Kathy Bates was so great in this film, as was James Caan, RIP!
She’s the type of nanny you never want to leave you kids with🤭 And there’s really sick ppl out there like this
It’s why “don’t stick your dcik in crazy” exists.
I mean ofc you wouldn't she was literally arrested for going on an infanticide spree
As someone who has to lift stacks of paper quite often, I can only imagine the pain that caused
Plus I’m almost sure Annie left her hairpin on purpose as a Trust Exercise, if she knows the exact position of her penguin, she’ll notice she’s missing a hairpin
In the book she leaves her hair around the house. When she finds them broken, she knows he’s been out of his room.
I'm sad the film left out some of the better details "Goddess, Africa" etc - and the lawn mower death scene
It was just the box cover,not the entire box of paper.
I don’t care if it’s not romantic, Kathy Bates and Jimmy Caan have the best chemistry in any movie, bar none! “It’s two of the letters in my favorite nurse’s name...”
... “You fooler!”
🤣
@@seannaamani121 well that’s like…your opinion, man. 👍🏼
I agree the chemistry was unmatched and just think Dustin Hoffman turn this down. Jack Nicholson turned it down. I mean it wouldn’t have worked. James con was perfect and he needed this because he was in aI agree the chemistry was unmatched and just think Dustin Hoffman turned this down Jack Nicholson, and turned it down. I mean, if it wouldn’t have worked, James conn was perfect and he needed this because he was in a major funk and member. This is the guy who turned down close encounters over money, he should take less pay and a percentage of gross Just to work with Steven Spielberg he knew he was gonna be a big hit and he would’ve made a lot of money in the back end !!
1:37.
If you notice she actually lifts the wheelchair up into place at the desk. Obviously with him in it.
A small detail but it speaks to her strength and .... control.
I sure as hell wouldn't want her as my nurse!😳😳😳😳
One of the best films i have seen. I saw it when it first came out and was shocked at some of the scences in the way she treated him. And every one at that time always knew what the best scene was. It was when she put the log between his anckles then used a sledge hammer to break both his anckles. O I FELT THAT. Even though it was a film it was still brilliantly done. And you just couldnt really see a way out for him, becouse you knew she always knew more than she would say, like searching his room when he was asleep to see what she could find. But cathy bates was brilliant in this and it won her an oscar and so was jimmy caan brilliant as well. This brilliant genius made film was a one off. The best film i had probably seen at that time! I was age 17 when it came out!
Dolores Claiborne is superb movie too
In the book she is way worse. She does not break his legs. She fucking chops his foot off with an axe.
They need to come out with Misery Returns
But Annie died at the end of this film. Not to mention, James Cann is dead.
@@majorfanboy2005 But if she has a crazy sister then maybe. Played by "Mayim Bialik"
@@Sparrows1121 That wouldn't work.
@@majorfanboy2005 Kathy Bates plays a character called "Mrs Fowler" who is apparently the mother of Amy in Big Bang Theory
@@Sparrows1121 What does that have to do with anything that was just talked about.
if annie wasn't crazy she and paul would've been such a cute couple.
Annie wasn't Paul's type of woman.
@@GeminiladyJackson-xq6hcI feel like there’s also some sort of age gap here lol but I can’t tell
An intelligent, highly competent, person of good repute, yet who is secretly and selectively evil/toxic. Such a scary thought, the idea of this type of person having power over you. Kind of similar to Nurse Ratchet from '...Coo-coos Nest'
Lol!!! " MR. MAN"!!!
She must have to let him out of the room to wash unless she actually gives him sponge baths
She gave him bathes in the book
She said she cleans him, but what did she mean by that? By cleaning his mouth after she feeds him?
She does in the book. Also in the book he’s allowed to go outside with her sometimes I’m pretty sure
Don’t pull fun mister man
Yes, Virginia.
Aaahh... What a movie !
I always wanted to visit the other side of the room."
Love the sarcasm 🤣
Now she can’t return the cacadoodie paper…
She has to check herself to see if it really smudges.
Professor John Frink’s sarcasm detector would have blown off.
RIP James Caan ❤️
Mr Man!! I love it! An old line from The Blues Brothers. Mr Man!! Mr Man!!
Kathy Bates made a great villain
I wonder if Paul told Anne that he uses the cheap typing paper to write all of the Misery books. Would Anne have snapped like that?
🤣😂🤣😂the music after she said Thank you for thinking about me awww man..
When 👀Paul Sheldon Came Around The Bed In The Wheelchair He’s Scarry To 👀At His Face Scares The Crap Outta Me
by Fall Out Boy
With her obsession you'd think she'd be happy to get the right paper though so it doesn't ruin the work
Shows how psychotic she is.
She felt unappreciated, I guess.
Mr. Man LOL! Love it!
One of my favorite movies all time
When you ask your mom for the name brand Pop-Tarts
R.I.P. James Caan😥🙏
I’ve always wanted to see the other side of the room 😂
I love them both they both oare great❤❤❤❤❤
It sounds like she said nursing him back to hell
He would have escaped the pain had he not asked her what the matter was. That's the part that sent her over the edge.
Mr man 😂😂
Isn't it funny how they wanted jack Nicholson to play Paul Sheldon, So they could of had jack Torrance escape the overlook and stumble down the side of the mountain to be found by Anne who should of been a fan of jack Torrance since he is a writer as well
1st Choice even during our Pre-production was Warren Beatty. But he was also in Post Production for Dick Tracy. Rob Reiner finally ask Warren if he was really going to play Paul Sheldon; but he couldn't say yes. So, Rob had to offer it to multiple actors. He even flew to London to meet with Kevin Kline...But he turned down the role. Andy Sheinman, Rob's Producet and Partner in Castle Rock suggested Jimmy.
He was actually a pain at times; but nailed the role.
This movie makes me aught, because I used to work with a nurse who was EXACTY Ike Kathy Bates' character Annie Wilkes. And She was very open about being Elvis Presley's Number One Fan!
Do you leave this comment on every scene of this movie that you have watched on RUclips?
When you stupidly decide to tell your girlfriend you didn't like your birthday present, and want to trade it in.
Don’t pull fun mister man
Dammit Annie!!
Kathy Bates is GREAT in this movie >
Yes she’s phenomenal
RIP James Caan.
People don't talk about this movie enough, first thing's first, Stephen King is beyond a genius. Second, James Caan and Kath Bates give such perfect powerhouse performances. It's an absolutely incredible culmination of creative media, and Rob Reiner's last few good movies before he did North and nosed-dived in mediocrity.
That’s a really good post and I was just saying that to myself he had a hell of a run stand by me. He had this movie obviously the one with the Marines, few good men when Harry Met Sally, and then after that, it was bomb after bomb after bomb and now he’s retired. He really really really bad and I don’t this day. I don’t know what people saw that stupid script north that was just asinine.
In the book she hits him like in the movie?
Yeah, but even worse
Yeah and even worse. She pounds his already-broken knee with her fist.
Dan Antonio Guillot Jaramillo waaaaaay worse!
By heart I can tell you:
She makes him drink water she just use to wash the floor and the wall
She punches his knees
She cuts his foot off
She cuts his thumb(seem to remember the right hand) and then put it in a cake as a candle singing “happy birthday to you” and telling him if he’s good he can eat just the cake if not he must eat his own dead thumb 😦
The actress is scary,no doubt she’s great and deserved the award but the book is insane;
Even the way she kills a cop
@Baraldi Gnegne: Exactly. Next to the book version, the movie version of Annie looks like a sweet and kindhearted aunt. Paul knows she's insane even before she gets upset over the swearing in his new manuscript. In fact, in his mind, she conjures up images of a scary African idol. And the hobbling scene in the book is much more graphic. Here's a hint. It involves an axe and a blowtorch.
Hawkeye Pierce right Pierce!
Africa and pills that made the sea cover the woods(my bad for my english btw)
And then,he finds out she kills Pomeroy,her father,her roommate and many others.
Movie is also well done but reading the book scares me way more
great!!! i always wanted to see the other side of the room 😂😂
It would've been interesting if she was reading the book BEFORE the final Misery (which she obviously loved).
Part of me thinks she would've let him go but I dunno. If I recall she lied about calling his agent/people and them saying she could nurse him back to health until the roads were fully cleared BEFORE she found out about the final book, so he might've been a goner to begin with lol.
@@Birdman669 Ah interesting. I never read the book. And they left the thumb scene out of the movie if I recall correctly.
I was moreso thinking if he didn't piss her off with the latest installment if she'd let him go. Like what if this happened a year earlier?
I just noticed something new about this scene that I never paid attention to before. The hairpin on the floor that Paul notices, which was his only way to unlock the door and get out of the room. Knowing Annie for how crafty and clever that she is to find out and expose what Paul is doing to escape or to prevent him from escaping, I'm surprised that she let a hairpin drop on the ground for him to use.
One of the best scene.. remember when my mother sent me to An errand again after she made me an errand… hahahaha this is realistic hahahaha you get crazy if someone don’t like what you bought…..
what is the purpose of making paper that smudges?
Maybe for people who draw and sketch? Artists who use charcoal and maybe want to shade or smudge on purpose, I dunno, just a thought
Corrasable paper was coated with a clear glaze. When typing on ink typewriters if a mistake was made you could erase the mistake and retype over it. But smudging would happen if the typed pages were moved around or touched to much.
It made for broke guys
It was just the wrong paper
I like paper that’s weak so I can treat it any way I want to.
Good boy... ;-)
I would have loved to see Annie Wilkes vs. Norman Bates
Not as crazy as this, but I had a really swollen leg due to a nasty bicycle accident. One of my friends slapped me on the knee because I said something funny to her. I went : "WTF is the matter with you?!" Felt like slapping her back but just clenched my teeth and endured while everybod laughed, which I still have a hard time understanding why. My coworkers called me "Wooden leg" for a month.
James' acting was no less than Kathy's. The academy as usual ignored him.
Kathy Bates does it's better than anyone but does that so good, it would deserve to oscar? but i don't really care about those oscars
Gonna kidnap Hideo Kojima and make him rewrite the last part of the Big Boss story. 😈
James Caan and Kathy bates brilliant actors lots of high rated actors turned Pauls cast down coz they had stay in bed for 15 days lol and Bet Midler regretted turning down Annie Wilkes cast 😮
'stop resisting and let me help you!'
-modern times
This asome movie classic
Any other crucial requirements that need satisfying?
What the movie makes a mistake about and is confusing, is that Paul Sheldon said his new unpublished book was not about misery and he even said that to Anne when she asked him" what's it about?"and if she could read it. Then she went to the store and bought another misery book. So which book was about misery's death? the store book she just bought or his new book??
The store book has misery die
OH hell yeah now i remember whos misery and paul sheldon is... hes a cool author.
I wouldn't block her drive in.
were okay just me
What is the point of paper that smudges like that?
Drawing
Easily erase a mistake if you’re using a typewriter.
Paul takes big risks
The only movie of Steven King To have an Oscar winner and I’ll tell you in high school no one believed in his talent but $500 million and superstar him he did it!! The movie is flawless, but if I was the Director producer, I would’ve had James conn‘s character driving up in an old 1984 Jeep Cherokee cause it was snowy and then he sees like an animal like a deer run in front of him and he loses control and he spins out of control in Maine New Hampshire, it was a 1964 Mustang that was ridiculous. I was just ridiculous. You never gonna make it on those roads in a Mustang. He should at least had a Cherokee and got startled when the when he looked down and then he looked up and maybe a deer jumps and just misses the car and loses control that’s all I’m saying 😅
I could see Audrey Plaza reprising this role.
No.
Sorry, she's nowhere as great as Kathy Bates.
MISTER MAN😂
Always appreciate your woman. Don't take her for granted or you'll be taught a lesson in an unpleasant fashion.
Isn't she a serial killer and a kidnapper? I think most people in his situation wouldn't be so peachy either.
@@PIB2000 I like peaches
@@PIB2000 /woooosh
@@theCatsitter878 Not wooooosh worthy you Reddit dweller.
This is too much violence for me to watch… but Kathy Bates is a great actress.
This is what happens when Sonny keeps bangin that young girl.
Why does this lady remind me of my wife?
she ain't wrong tho...
I'm not calling no numbers I'm not doing that shit. I'm done.
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quicksand
If she married I bet her husband has nightmares lmao
She's single for a reason.
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Annie wilkes (Assuming that's who it is)
What are writing slippers
She being sarcastictic.
Slippers you use to write
movie said
After all that woman has done for you, you show no appreciation for your new studio and supplies she provides.
Its not worth it if she provides pain too, y'know?
@@Love-Sensibility I understand your point.
I was being sarcastic :)
Great movie!
@@jaredolson7543 haha, I was too🤗
@@Love-Sensibility Good one. HAHA
Paul was a straight asshole here. Not a drop of excitement for Misery's Return and Annie's hard work. Too busy worrying about his daughter out there somewhere who thinks he's dead.
Mr man 😂
Women... amirite?
Where's hames? James I mean bane
Betty old 42
nun but the devil speakin
One bests scenes but not best