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Zero Context Example. Annie is a sadistic lunatic, and not adorable by any stretch of the imagination.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Annie, at her best moments.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Creator/RichardFarnsworth as Buster, particularly the adorable SnarkToSnarkCombat chemistry with Francis Sternhagen as his wife Virginia, is seen one of the films best highlights next to Bates' performance. [[spoiler:So much so, viewers are saddened or even enraged when Annie kills him.]]
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* WTHCastingAgency: Although Creator/StephenKing has said he really likes the film adaptation, he said once that he never really liked the casting of Creator/JamesCaan as Paul Sheldon.
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** Just the rise in visibility of real life [[LoonyFan Loony Fans]] in general who do things such as sending death threats to writers if the stay off of the narrative that they have chosen with a work.
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** Just the rise in visibility of real life [[LoonyFan Loony Fans]] in general who do things such as sending death threats to writers if the stay they stray off of the narrative that they have chosen with a work.
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* FridgeHorror: When reading through Annie's "Memory Lane" book, Paul finds out that she was married and then divorced by her husband, with Annie's writing on the divorce page showing that she was ''pissed'' about it. There's no clipping about the ex-husband meeting a nasty death afterwards, so it seems like the poor guy got away okay. Except that much earlier on, Annie refers to herself as a "poor ''widow''" and her MO has been shown to evolve to hiding bodies after she kills them, making it possible that she ''did'' kill him but his remains were never discovered and Paul simply didn't connect the dots.[[note]]Though it's also possible that Annie just pretends her husband died instead of divorced her, and it bears noting that Annie's book contains obituaries for ''all'' her other victims. Since the album contained a news clipping about Paul's disappearance, it stands to reason there would have been a similar clipping present if Annie's ex also disappeared.[[/note]]
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* FridgeHorror: When reading through Annie's "Memory Lane" book, Paul finds out that she was married and then divorced by her husband, Ralph Dugan, with Annie's writing on the divorce page showing that she was ''pissed'' about it. There's no clipping about the ex-husband meeting a nasty death afterwards, so it seems like the poor guy got away okay. Except that much earlier on, Annie refers to herself as a "poor ''widow''" and her MO has been shown to evolve to hiding bodies after she kills them, making it possible that she ''did'' kill him but his remains were never discovered and Paul simply didn't connect the dots.[[note]]Though it's also possible that Annie just pretends her husband died instead of divorced her, and it bears noting that Annie's book contains obituaries for ''all'' her other victims. Since the album contained a news clipping about Paul's disappearance, it stands to reason there would have been a similar clipping present if Annie's ex also disappeared.[[/note]]
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* AwardSnub: Creator/KathyBates deservedly won the Oscar and Golden Globe for her terrifying performance, but director Creator/RobReiner, writer Creator/WilliamGoldman, and co-lead Creator/JamesCaan weren't nominated for their excellent work on the film.
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* AwardSnub: Creator/KathyBates deservedly won the Oscar UsefulNotes/AcademyAward and Golden Globe UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobe for her terrifying performance, but director Creator/RobReiner, writer Creator/WilliamGoldman, and co-lead Creator/JamesCaan weren't nominated for their excellent work on the film.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Quite a bit.
** While it's certainly possible that Annie has no computer or cell phone, this would make the cops more likely to investigate her farm first once they realize Paul Sheldon went missing nearby. After all, it's the only place where the owner likely wouldn't be able to call or message anyone. Also it's virtually impossible in today's world for a writer to have only one copy of any manuscript, even if he doesn't particularly like keeping copies. In fact, the entire idea of a writer mostly using a typewriter is hilariously outdated, and yet apparently it's Paul's preferred method, even though word processors and personal computers already existed when the story was written. While Annie did get her Royal from an antique store, almost any antique typewriter today would be unusable, and it would probably be cheaper for her to simply get him a laptop (even in the book, three keys are broken by the time the job is finished). Finally, today's romance novels are widely known as smutty potboilers written by guns-for-hire and read only by lonely middle-aged women, and unless you're Creator/StephenieMeyer or Creator/NicholasSparks it's pretty hard to become famous as a writer with them. Also they don't usually shy away from profanity anymore, meaning that they'd be less likely to be a favorite of a woman who prefers terms like "cockadoodie" and "dirty bird" and is offended by actual profanity.
** In the book, Paul theorizes that the reason Annie got away with her earlier murders is because she did them in different towns, and police departments weren't able to properly investigate her past doings. [[TechnologyMarchesOn Today, police departments have online databases]] that store all available information on a person's criminal activity, where and when it was done. Annie should have been placed in a prison or mental ward by her late teens.
** While it's certainly possible that Annie has no computer or cell phone, this would make the cops more likely to investigate her farm first once they realize Paul Sheldon went missing nearby. After all, it's the only place where the owner likely wouldn't be able to call or message anyone. Also it's virtually impossible in today's world for a writer to have only one copy of any manuscript, even if he doesn't particularly like keeping copies. In fact, the entire idea of a writer mostly using a typewriter is hilariously outdated, and yet apparently it's Paul's preferred method, even though word processors and personal computers already existed when the story was written. While Annie did get her Royal from an antique store, almost any antique typewriter today would be unusable, and it would probably be cheaper for her to simply get him a laptop (even in the book, three keys are broken by the time the job is finished). Finally, today's romance novels are widely known as smutty potboilers written by guns-for-hire and read only by lonely middle-aged women, and unless you're Creator/StephenieMeyer or Creator/NicholasSparks it's pretty hard to become famous as a writer with them. Also they don't usually shy away from profanity anymore, meaning that they'd be less likely to be a favorite of a woman who prefers terms like "cockadoodie" and "dirty bird" and is offended by actual profanity.
** In the book, Paul theorizes that the reason Annie got away with her earlier murders is because she did them in different towns, and police departments weren't able to properly investigate her past doings. [[TechnologyMarchesOn Today, police departments have online databases]] that store all available information on a person's criminal activity, where and when it was done. Annie should have been placed in a prison or mental ward by her late teens.
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** Just the rise in visibility of real life [[LoonyFan Loony Fans]] in general who do things such as sending death threats to writers if the stay off of the narrative that they have chosen with a work.
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** When the book came out, King had to establish to his fans that Annie is a fictional character and a LoonyFan that is the exception rather than the norm, when hearing that they took offense. Shortly after, one LoonyFan tried breaking into King's house when his wife Tabby was home alone, threatening her with a bomb. She ran out and got help from the police. (This is why King's house in Bangor has a spiked gate and he no longer offers trick-or-treating to the local kids).
** Paul develops a drug addiction to the painkillers that Annie feeds him, and has a hard time going cold turkey on his doctor's orders. King in ''Literature/OnWriting'' revealed that he was battling alcoholism and drug addiction at the time of writing the book, and came to realize that Annie was an analogy for cocaine and beer.
** Paul develops a drug addiction to the painkillers that Annie feeds him, and has a hard time going cold turkey on his doctor's orders. King in ''Literature/OnWriting'' revealed that he was battling alcoholism and drug addiction at the time of writing the book, and came to realize that Annie was an analogy for cocaine and beer.
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The number of serial killers has dropped dramatically since the 1970s and 1980s. There's nothing "in hindsight" about it.
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** All things considered, the story is harder to stomach nowadays given the similarities to several fairly recent cases in real life of people being kidnapped by psychos and held captive under horrifying conditions, such as Jaycee Dugard, Shawn Hornbeck, and Amanda Berry.
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* ValuesResonance: With the rise of online culture allowing far more direct contact between creators and fans, which inevitably leads to a good number of them feeling entitled to pressure the creators into bending the work toward just what they want, Annie has taken on a new life as the ultimate avatar for the dangers of toxic fandom.
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** The movie has a scene in which a depressed Annie opens up to Paul about her fear of him abandoning her. It's an unexpectedly humanizing moment for Annie, and both Creator/KathyBates and Creator/JamesCaan act it perfectly. Unfortunately, it quickly turns to NightmareFuel.
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** The movie has a scene in which a depressed Annie opens up to Paul about her fear of him abandoning her. It's an unexpectedly humanizing moment for Annie, and both Creator/KathyBates and Creator/JamesCaan act it perfectly. Unfortunately, it quickly turns to NightmareFuel.NightmareFuel when Annie decides to show him her pistol.
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** All things considered, the story is harder to stomach nowadays given several fairly recent cases in real life of people being kidnapped by psychos and held captive under horrifying conditions, such as Jaycee Dugard, Shawn Hornbeck, and Amanda Berry.
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** All things considered, the story is harder to stomach nowadays given the similarities to several fairly recent cases in real life of people being kidnapped by psychos and held captive under horrifying conditions, such as Jaycee Dugard, Shawn Hornbeck, and Amanda Berry.
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** All things considered, the story is harder to stomach nowadays given several fairly recent cases in real life of people being kidnapped by psychos and held captive under horrifying conditions, such as Jaycee Dugard, Shawn Hornbeck, and Amanda Berry.
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** All things considered, the story is harder to stomach nowadays given several fairly recent cases in real life of people being kidnapped by psychos and held captive under horrifying conditions, such as Jaycee Dugard, Shawn Hornbeck, and Amanda Berry.
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** All things considered, the story is harder to stomach nowadays given several fairly recent cases in real life of people being kidnapped by psychos and held captive under horrifying conditions, such as Jaycee Dugard, Shawn Hornbeck, and Amanda Berry.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Annie, at her best moments.
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** In the epilogue, Paul is still traumatized. During the book's ending, [[spoiler:he walks with a limp and a prosthetic and has random hallucinations of Annie killing him. He worries that he's lost his writing forever because without Annie, there's no one making him write to save his life. Then he sees a boy with a skunk, and starts writing about it, crying TearsOfJoy that he hasn't lost the gift and doesn't need to be held in captivity]].
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** In the epilogue, Paul is still traumatized. During the book's ending, [[spoiler:he walks with a limp and a prosthetic and has random hallucinations of Annie killing him. He worries that he's lost his writing forever because without Annie, there's no one making him write to save his life. Then he sees a boy with a skunk, and starts writing about it, crying TearsOfJoy that he hasn't lost the gift and doesn't need to be held in captivity]]. The movie ending [[spoiler: features him so shaken by his experiences, a nice woman honestly calling herself a fan fills him with enormous dread]].
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If you are hiding things, you might as well explain them yourself using the same amount of time and effort.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: The incredibly obvious dummy of Annie when her head hits the typewriter during the climactic fight is quite obviously a dummy.
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** [[spoiler:In the film, Creator/RichardFarnsworth's character is shot in the back by Annie. Farnsworth ended his own life by gunshot because he had terminal cancer.]]
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** [[spoiler:In In the film, [[spoiler: Creator/RichardFarnsworth's character is shot in the back by Annie. In 2000, Farnsworth ended his own life [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]] [[AteHisGun by gunshot because he had gunshot]] due to suffering from terminal cancer.]]
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In the film, when Annie spills her drink after Paul poisons it, did she do that on purpose because she suspected he would try such a thing while she was gone, or was it really an accident?
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** In the film, when Annie spills her drink after Paul poisons it, did she do that on purpose because she suspected he would try such a thing while she was gone, or was it really anaccident?accident?
** Paul's agent suggesting [[spoiler:he write a memoir about his captivity]]. The agent gives the reasoning that it would be a bestseller immediately, but when you remember their friend went missing for months and is visibly traumatized, perhaps they're asking [[spoiler:Paul to find a healthy outlet for his trauma]]. Note that the agent doesn't push Paul when he refuses, sensing he needs space.
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** Paul's agent suggesting [[spoiler:he write a memoir about his captivity]]. The agent gives the reasoning that it would be a bestseller immediately, but when you remember their friend went missing for months and is visibly traumatized, perhaps they're asking [[spoiler:Paul to find a healthy outlet for his trauma]]. Note that the agent doesn't push Paul when he refuses, sensing he needs space.
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* TearJerker: The movie has a scene in which a depressed Annie opens up to Paul about her fear of him abandoning her. It's an unexpectedly humanizing moment for Annie, and both Creator/KathyBates and Creator/JamesCaan act it perfectly. Unfortunately, it quickly turns to NightmareFuel.
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** The movie has a scene in which a depressed Annie opens up to Paul about her fear of him abandoning her. It's an unexpectedly humanizing moment for Annie, and both Creator/KathyBates and Creator/JamesCaan act it perfectly. Unfortunately, it quickly turns toNightmareFuel.NightmareFuel.
** In the epilogue, Paul is still traumatized. During the book's ending, [[spoiler:he walks with a limp and a prosthetic and has random hallucinations of Annie killing him. He worries that he's lost his writing forever because without Annie, there's no one making him write to save his life. Then he sees a boy with a skunk, and starts writing about it, crying TearsOfJoy that he hasn't lost the gift and doesn't need to be held in captivity]].
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** In the epilogue, Paul is still traumatized. During the book's ending, [[spoiler:he walks with a limp and a prosthetic and has random hallucinations of Annie killing him. He worries that he's lost his writing forever because without Annie, there's no one making him write to save his life. Then he sees a boy with a skunk, and starts writing about it, crying TearsOfJoy that he hasn't lost the gift and doesn't need to be held in captivity]].
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Deleting the first example for being misuse and moving the second to Narm Charm
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** What little we see of Fast Cars ''really'' doesn't justify Paul's pride in it, especially if (admittedly a pretty big if) Annie is at all accurate about the dialogue being a constant ClusterFBomb. Possibly justified, as he ends up deciding it wasn't as good as he thought.
** Annie's choice of words such as "cock-a-doodie" and "dirty bird". No way can she be taken seriously like that. Which of course is the point: you are meant to think that her bark is worse than her bite until she proves to you that you are very much mistaken.
** What little we see of Fast Cars ''really'' doesn't justify Paul's pride in it, especially if (admittedly a pretty big if) Annie is at all accurate about the dialogue being a constant ClusterFBomb. Possibly justified, as he ends up deciding it wasn't as good as he thought.
** Annie's choice of words such as "cock-a-doodie" and "dirty bird". No way can she be taken seriously like that. Which of course is the point: you are meant to think that her bark is worse than her bite until she proves to you that you are very much mistaken.
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** What little we see of Fast Cars ''really'' doesn't justify Paul's pride in it, especially if (admittedly a pretty big if) Annie is at all accurate about the dialogue being a constant ClusterFBomb. Possibly justified, as he ends up deciding it wasn't as good as he thought.
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** Annie's choice of words such as "cock-a-doodie" and "dirty bird". No way can she be taken seriously like that.
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** Annie's choice of words such as "cock-a-doodie" and "dirty bird". No way can she be taken seriously like that. Which of course is the point: you are meant to think that her bark is worse than her bite until she proves to you that you are very much mistaken.
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** Nine years after the film's release, Kathy Bates starred in Disney's film adaptation of the famous Broadway musical... '''''[[Film/Annie1999 Annie]]'''''.
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* AwardSnub: Sure, Creator/KathyBates deserves all the praise she received for playing the terrifying Annie Wilkes, but Creator/JamesCaan gives a brilliant performance too, and yet got no nominations.
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* AwardSnub: Sure, Creator/KathyBates deserves all deservedly won the praise she received Oscar and Golden Globe for playing the her terrifying Annie Wilkes, performance, but director Creator/RobReiner, writer Creator/WilliamGoldman, and co-lead Creator/JamesCaan gives a brilliant performance too, and yet got no nominations.weren't nominated for their excellent work on the film.
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* LoveToHate: Creator/KathyBates gives a chilling performance as Annie, being able to act sweet and nice one moment and horrifying the next. Sometimes even appearing somewhat sympathetic as a mentally ill woman. Kathy Bates became very well recognized for the role.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In the film, when Annie spills her drink after Paul poisons it, did she do that on purpose because she suspected he would try such a thing while she was gone, or was it really an accident?
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** [[spoiler:In the film, Creator/RichardFarnsworth's character is shot in the back by Annie. Farnsworth ended his own life by gunshot because he had terminal cancer.]]
