I love how Annie is so dumb that Paul constantly makes fun of her and she doesn't get the joke/insult. Like when he flips her off and she goes "You kidder". Same with Paul purposefully mispronouncing Dom Perignon just like she did.
I loved 2 things about this film. First, it proved that James Cann could play something else besides tough-guys and shine doing it. Second Bate's Oscar-Winning, scary psycho performance. I think its one of King's top 3 all-time for sure. Happy Halloween, Dawn!
No one recognises his publisher who was played by Lauren Bacall. She starred in a lot of films with Humprey Bogarde and was married to him . One of the most beautiful women in Hollywood. This was her last film.
Her last role was in 2012 in 'The Forger' and her last work as a voice actress was in 2014 for an episode of 'Family Guy'. After Misery, she was involved in 32 productions, 25 of them as an actress and seven as a voice actress.
Kathy Bates is one of the best actors I've ever seen. I can't recall anything less than stunning performances from her. In this film she pulls off the portrayal of someone with shockingly severe bipolar and borderline personality disorder as well as anyone sane could be expected to.
Interesting fact: This film shares the same screenwriter and director as THE PRINCESS BRIDE (William Goldman and Rob Reiner respectively). Talk about incredible range! Speaking of which, this film was part of an incredible hot streak for Rob Reiner. He made STAND BY ME (1986), THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987), WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989), MISERY (1990), and A FEW GOOD MEN (1992) all back-to-back.
@@DeusExMachina50 in my experience as a non fiction writer most editors I’ve dealt with can’t find their ass with both hands and like Annie Wilkes they come up with the worst most cringe suggestions and pout and sulk when you don’t do them. I suspect most editors are failed writers, and if you read their suggestions you’ll see why
18:42 "Tell her you were masturbating." Oh Dawn, you always crack me up!! I can't imagine how it would be to watch this for the first time with you when you're making all these jokes and funny remarks! xD I too have penguin figurines standing about in my flat. Does that mean I may be as crazy about you as Annie is about Paul? xD The foot scene is what really puts this movie on the map. Thanks for uploading! Greetings from Sweden
The thing with her is that she offed her husband, but clearly always wanted a kid since she started to go off in the hospital and cause "accidental" deaths. Then the pig was to her like a.. surrogate to a child, which is why it was so important to her.
The headcanon that Kathy Bates had with Reiner(though it wasn't widely shared)was that Annie was sexually abused by her father when she was younger. The book goes further that she murdered her father, roommate at the nursing school, a man she said was her lover(though Paul more thinks internally the guy visited and said the wrong thing, setting her off)and more.
That hobbling scene - the one shot in particular - is so hard to watch, and it's probably way worse than the book when she chopped his foot off and then used a blow torch to cauterize the wound. This makes the second great Stephen King adaptation that Rob Reiner directed, after "Stand by Me", and all by the guy who directed "This is Spinal Tap", "The Princess Bride", and "When Harry Met Sally".
Got to see Bruce Willis perform in the Broadway production of this in New York City about 8 years ago, and the hobbling scene was wild! Done just like in the movie, but live before our eyes. The production wasn’t exceptional, but it was such a cool show.
Screenwriter William Goldman, who adapted the book, said if it was like the book, Misery wouldn’t have been the movie you saw, it would have been the movie you heard about
The price for a bottle of Dom Perignon depends largely on how old it is. After bottling, Dom Perignon releases the bottles in 3 stages. The first is P1 (Plentitude 1) after 7 to 9 years. The second release is P2 released after 12 to 14 years. P3 is released after a MINIMUM of 20 years. In 2019 a 1971 P3 vintage was sold at Sotheby's for $47,780. So, you CAN get a $300 bottle of Dom Perignon, but you're basically getting the drive-in fast food version.
Back in the old typewriter days, they made paper that was "eraseable". The surface of the paper didn't quickly absorb the ink, so it was possible to use an eraser to get rid of mistakes, and retype them. Normal, bad typists and students (me) bought the paper for convenience, rven though it was more expensive than normal paper. But it dod smudge easily. She thought she was buying the best paper, because it was more expensive.
Think the book at the end was the one he said at the beginning of the film he wanted to write after killing off the Misery series. He wanted to write something new. That's why he killed off Misery.
Dawn, since you like westerns, please consider "Eldorado" (1966), starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. I mention it here because it also stars a very young James Caan in what must have been one of his first film roles. It has a great deal of similarity to "Rio Bravo" (1959), which I think you have already watched.
I have to agree with you, while Halloween is high on my list of great days, Groundhog Day is my favorite. Punxsutawney Phil rules. Also, it is a low-pressure holiday. Did I forget a present, no Halloween candy (Of God! I'm getting egged) (I also run the risk of forgetting presents as it's my mom's Birthday. Yep, I'm a Son of a Witch!), no terrifying family dinner, or am I really one year closer to pushing up the daisies. And don't get me started on Columbus Day, the moron thought he was in India. I would greatly welcome a change to Leif Erickson Day or Ugh the Caveman/woman who crossed the Bering Straits Day.
Such a great movie! Perfectly paced and acted. And more relevant today than ever with celebrity worship. You can feel his helplessness. Feels like rear window...but I'm still bummed about the sherrif
Great movie What always piss off about the movie is what happen to the sheriff (In the book it is even worse), He is such nice guy. but that is horror movies for you and that is why I almost never watch horror movies . Another Steven King adaptions is The Dead Zone which had a great tv show as well as a movie.
Stephen King is not above writing about a character for chapters on end; motivations, strengths, development, deep-seated fears, hopes, and dreams...AND now he's deceased.
You reacted just as the filmmakers hoped we all would to "the hobbling" scene. They were so clever editing this. You see the first foot get hit and the sound is awful. But the next one is not shown, but everyone who close their eyes still remember it and the sound of cracking bone is even louder the second time over. So even if you cover your face it's still worse than seeing it. Image and sound editing used for evil! Pure genius.
That hobbling scene gets me every time! Makes my ankles hurt! I agree dawn i can't unsee that scene! I was rooting for the sheriff too but... well... Thanks Steven King! Lol. Thanks Dawn Marie ❤️💛
Ah, I hardly remember the movie, but the novel was cool. One thing I miss in the the movie is that the "leg treatment" is not the same as in the novel (it's kind of a step up in nastiness compared to the movie).
One of the better adaptations of a Stephen King novel, but there's so much in the book that's far more disturbing. All is forgiven, since there's only so much you can fit into one film.
That was her father, not her husband. The honors nurse was a schoolmate she murdered so she'd be top student. Murdering babies probably means see was sterile, barren womb, and so she was angry at both new moms and infants
I always saw it as she lost her mind and turned violent for minor things, like she almost did several times with Paul, and small children can be annoying quite often. So I think she snapped from time to time and killed a few babies. I can't remember what the book said about it though. Long time since I read that one.
Happy halloween, Dawn! Misery is an excellent choice... and here are a few other suggestions for quality movies for a quality girrrl: Smoke (1995), The Name of the Rose (1986) and Rob Roy (1995). And these are movies that there are probably no other reaction videos to, so you´ll be a pioneer of sorts with these :-)
I've only recently been watching your videos and already I love how involved you get in them, it's almost like your part of them at times, and your reactions to certain scenes puts a smile on my face and brightens my day. I'd love to see you watch something like the In betweeners or Keven & Perry Go large.
35:15 It seems the general consensus is that Annie has borderline personality disorder, paranoia, and possibly depression/bipolar depression. Although Kathy Bates and Rob Reiner created a backstory that Annie was molested as a child, this never made it into the film. It is important to remember that genetics (and epigenetics) play an important role in mental illness. Genetics can make you susceptible to trauma that others would not see as traumatic. Also, there is "hard abuse" and "soft abuse". Everyone is familiar with hard abuse; the beatings and yelling and such. But soft abuse often goes unnoticed. For example, my parents were evangelical Christians. One of the methods they used for behavior modification was to make "I'm trying to help you" threats of "if you don't do what we tell you you're going to be left behind when the Rapture comes, and I don't want that to happen to you." Those constant threats of abandonment, while seeming innocuous, were deeply traumatic. I still have panic attacks when I'm staying with a family member and they leave the house without telling me. I know that Annie Wilkes was featured on the tv show Castle Rock. However, it has been so long since I watched it that I don't remember if they delved into her past trauma.
Another good Kathy Bates movie is Delores Claiborne which also has Jennifer Jason Leigh and Christopher Plumber. It is also based on a Stephen King novel but, like Misery, is not horror/supernatural.
The man who played the Sheriff Richard Farnsworth was in a 1999 movie called The Straight Story. It is based on a true story about a man who travelled 240 miles and went from Iowa to Wisconsin to see his brother who was sick . He doesn't have a driving licence so he used a 1966 John Deere Lawn Mower. The persons real name was called Alvin Straight . It's worth a look it's a good movie with a fantastic Soundtrack. Apparently, in real life within less than a year after this movie Richard Farnsworth killed himself because he had Terminal Cancer. R.I.P
RIP James caan. I forgot i have his autograph. I also used to watch his son’s dog Dot while he played softball with my ex boyfriend. And John Hamm and Jake Gyllenhaal lol
Just a side note; you have seen Richard Farnsworth before... several times. Not that you would remember him, but his first acting gig was as a jockey in The Marx Brothers "A Day At The Races" back in 1937. He also had small parts in The Outlaw Josey Wales, Blazing Saddles, The Cowboys, and Gone With The Wind. Sadly, he suffered very painfully from a terminal cancer and took his own life at age 80. That was in the year 2000.
Fun facts: The movie was shot chronologically to build up the tension between Kathy Bates and James Caan. It worked terrific! Director Rob Reiner has a cameo as the helicopter pilot.
Give me heads up yeah it was they're talking about if you should publish that and remember that tragedy for the rest of his life because it's published
Richard Farnsworth was a great actor. His last movie before he died was call "The Straight Story". A very touching movie about a man driving across country on a lawn mower to see his brother. A true story. richard Farnsworth was dying when he made that movie. Definitely worth watching Dawn.
Richard Farnsworth was a stuntman, didn't start acting until fairly late in his career. He has several good supporting roles (The Natural comes to mind), and starred in "The Straight Story".
The hobbling scene is way worse in the book. Instead of breaking the writer's legs with a sledgehammer she cuts a foot off and cauterizes the wound with a blowtorch.
Richard Farnsworth was a beloved actor with a huge resume. For a lovely story I recommend 'The Straight Story' with him playing the lead. The Silver Fox is also good with him as the lead. Bates was so good in Misery that Stephen King had her do Dolores Claiborne. A fantastic book made into a fantastic movie. Bates was brilliant in it. In some ways the character is a love letter to a certain type of person. But being Stephen King it isn't a romance. But it is a much easier watch. I think you'll enjoy it.
James Caan said Stephen King said: His biggest fear is of his "biggest fan", 🫡/😡 & so he wrote "Misery" as his personal✓ horror story! 🚬🤕📖 ;Dawn Mary!👍
While the most glaring change from the book is changing Paul's leg injury from a removal to a breaking in terms of hobbling(way worse in the film, IMO), but in the book, the old keys from the used typewriter Annie got him keep breaking and when he complains at one point, she slices off his thumb with an electric knife(though Paul knows its really because he refused to just tell her the ending and the complaint about the keys was just an excuse). Just finished reading "Misery"and Kathy Bates does such a good job, but book Annie was a thousand times worse without having any of the sweetness Bates can bring across(which makes her a little scarier, IMO.) Annie got out of jail because there was a lack of evidence to tie her to the deaths, and Annie was very careful. She's nuts, but she was clever enough to get away with it. However, all of the town doesn't doubt for a second she's the murderer and their are multiple attempts to foreclose on her house to get her out of there, as everyone knows she's the Dragon Lady.
7:03 -- RE: Her True Colors; So Yeah, tell us more about how it's understandable she's a creepy stalking predator because her lived experience gives her a 2-tier pass to being abusive the rest of her life.
I love horror. The gorier the better. Buckets and buckets of blood, guts and brains, all that.... BUT the "hobbling" scene in this movie gives me intense chills every time LOL its SO real and impeccably horrific
