What's the Difference between Misery the Book and Misery the Movie?
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In the Movie |
Paul Sheldon
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Paul Sheldon
Portrayed by: James Caan
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Annie Wilkes
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Annie Wilkes
Portrayed by: Kathy Bates
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In the Movie |
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Annie cuts off one of Paul's feet with an axe, and later a thumb. |
She breaks his feet with a sledgehammer. |
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After Paul hits her with the typewriter, she gets him down and runs to find a weapon, but trips on the typewriter, causing her to crack her skull on the mantelpiece. Mortally wounded, she exits the house through a window and goes to the barn to get a chainsaw to kill Paul, but she finally succumbs to her head injury and dies in the barn. |
Paul trips Annie, causing her to land head-first on the typewriter. Annie lunges at him but he strikes her over the head with a small steel pig statue, killing her.
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A state trooper shows up looking for Paul. Annie stabs him with a sharpened cross and runs over him with the lawnmower. |
It is the sheriff and Annie shoots him with a shotgun. |
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Paul pretends to set fire to the novel, but it is really a stack of papers. |
He really sets fire to the novel.
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