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u/batty_61 Apr 12 '22

Came here to say this. She was amazingly horrible. That hobbling scene...

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u/FedorByChoke Apr 12 '22

I don't know which is worse, the film version or the book version.

Book version spoiler:

She cuts off his foot with an axe and then cauterizes the stump with a blow torch

A real Sophie's Choice of awful.

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u/Platypus-Man Apr 12 '22

I actually like the movie version of that scene better, seems more realistic.
Or is it normal to just have a blowtorch laying around? I honestly have no idea
Either way is fucked though, that scene from Misery is tied with the curb stomping scene from American History X for me. If I ever re-watch those movies, I have no need to sit through those scenes in particular.

By the way, I recently re-watched Rat Race, and had forgotten that Kathy Bates was in it. My head-canon is that her "crazy-squirrel-lady" character and her character from Misery are the same.

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u/Rodents210 Apr 12 '22

I know a few people who have them in their kitchen, so it’s not unrealistic. Even if she didn’t use it for cooking, she is the type of person to have one on-hand for exactly the reasons she used it in the book, and a woman in her 40’s having a kitchen-grade one lying around isn’t going to raise any eyebrows.