Misery assignment notes

• good use of sounds at the beginning, while hes driving the happy driving music up until the point where he crashes then you hear nothing but the wind. cut to flashback
• flashback gives a little back story about the book misery and why he is where he is, instantly we know more than annie wilkes
• led in to a false sense of security when you think he is being rescued although we arent shown who it is rescuing him
• annie wilkes introduced. seems perfectly pleasant and lovely. 
• handicapped protagonist revealed as annie describes whats wrong with him
• agent tries to find out where he is and tips off buster the local sheriff.
• first bits of suspicion  revealed while she is shaving him, saying she was following him. 
• paul tells annie she can read his new book
• the way annie dresses and acts its very uptight and fuddy duddy. gives the impression of something wound so tightly that eventually it will snap
• she lives on a lonely homestead with nobody else quite a way out of town, her house has a very typical 70's design that denotes uneasiness. 
• annie starts to really loose her shit over the swearing as you start to get little hints that she is far from ok. aswell as the fact she is driving around as is the sheriff. she returns to her house and begins to lie to Paul. 
• stringed music building tension throughout the movie. 
• its night time and paul is asleep in bed as annie enters and is furious that misery has been killed and annie reveals her true colors. and also tells paul the truth that she hasn't called any of his family etc. 
• paul realizes his predicament and tries to get out his room. 
• annie declares that god has set her a task to show paul back on the right path. she interprets this as having paul burn his manuscript, the only copy. 
• she also sprays gas around his bed in a threatening manner. 
• annie sets paul up a writing area but paul requests different paper and annie once again goes mad with a background of the stringed music again to build tension and is the first time she physically hurts him
• paul finds a bobby pin and the classic ideology of cat and mouse comes in to play. paul trying to find a way out or something of use or use the phone, you also see alot more of annies house aswell as the fact the phone has been taken to pieces. you cut to annie leaving the store and about to drive home. cut back to paul, cut back to annie. cat and mouse
• while paul is out in the house he knocks over a tiny penguin figure and puts it back facing the wrong direction. this is important. 
• the tension builds further as annie gets closer to home and the music becomes climatical as paul is literally on the floor out of his chair taking his time. then you hear the car. and the tension becomes fever pitch
• paul begins collection the medication out of the pills that annie keeps giving him. 
• as paul is beignning to write annie walks in and tells him to re-write it and begins the famous cock-a-doody rant.
• days and nights pass as paul is writing the new book as instructed by annie. finally she approves 
• they have dinner together at pauls request in order to commence his plan. but it goes wrong and annie spills her glass with the drugs that pauls been savoring in there 
• a time lapse happens to more stringed instrumentals as paul begins to finish the book.
• a storm comes. a fierce storm. annie comes in to give him his pill and looks awful. she divulges that the rain gives her the blues. she explains that she loves paul. she also begins to tell him that she is terrified that his legs are getting better and soon he will leave her (you get a feeling this cant possibly be good) 
• annie pulls out a gun in the same scene, she says she sometimes thinks of using it. and that she might put bullets in it. she drives off
• paul is once again in and about the house while she is out. he finds an album called "memory lane" that has a lot of cuttings from annies life. you find out she was on trial for a number of deaths of babies and cuttings saying she was being questioned and then finally arrested. Branded the "dragon lady" this helps add more suspense and adds another dimension to annie as a character and makes her all the more fearsome.
• annie comes home. stands outside pauls door and then goes upstairs. paul, aswell as the audience, are lured again into a false sense of security.
• a close up of pauls face and the a straight cut to annie stood over him during the night. she drugs him.and ties him to the bed. also telling him she knows hes been out.
• mozart playing of the top of this terrifying scene adds to the effects that her behavior is somehow profound
• she begins to tell a horror story of old mine workers being "hobbled" for stealing. 
• buster the sheriff starts to clock on to annie and begins digging a little deeper and find a quote she said at one of her trials that was from the misery books. he decides to pay her a visit. 
• paul sees this and finally a ray of hope before annie drugs him and hides him in the basement
• this time the cat and mouse effect its between the sheriff and annie. as she tries to hide paul before he gets to the door. 
• annie offers a number of well thought out reasons as to why theres a writing area. the fact she wanted to try and write "exactly like paul sheldon" 
• paul knocks over the bbq from the basement and the sheriff returns back in to find paul and then annie shoots him straight through the back 
• annie tells paul they are meant to be together and that she plans to kill them both that evening. pauls persuades her to let him finish the book to let misery live on
• he grabs the lighter fluid while her back is turned 
• as paul is about to finish the book, you can see on his face he's planning something.
• as soon as she leaves the room to fetch another glass he throws the manuscript of the new book on the ground, covers it in lighter fluid and does unto her as she did him to and burns it all infront of annie.  
• they then start fighting and paul force feeds her the burning manuscript. annie gets up and tries to run off. paul trips her and she hits her head on the type writer. you think shes dead
• the camera angel shows only pauls upper body crawling as annie cones back and lurches after him 
• paul goes for the door stop and hits her directly in the face with it. 
• suspense over.