Misery Page #2
- R
- Year:
- 1990
- 107 min
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PAUL. He's inside and doing his best to fight is, but his
consciousness is going. He tries to keep his eyes open but they're
slits.
Slowly, he manages to reach out with his left arm for his
briefcase --
-- and he clutches it to his battered body. The MUSIC continues
on.
But PAUL is far from listening. His eyes flutter, flutter again.
Now they're starting to close.
The man is dying.
Motionless, he still clutches the battered briefcase.
DISSOLVE TO:
The BRIEFCASE in Paul's hands as he sits at a desk.
SINDELL (o-s)
What's that?
We are in New York City in the office of Paul's literary agent,
MARCIA SINDELL. The walls of the large room are absolutely crammed
with book and movie posters, in English and all other kinds of
other languages, all of them featuring the character of MISERY
CHASTAIN, a perfectly beautiful woman. Misery's Challenge,
Misery's Triumph -- eight of them. All written by Paul Sheldon.
CUT TO:
PAUL, lifting up the battered briefcase -- maybe when new it cost
two bucks, but he treats it like gold.
PAUL:
An old friend. I was rummaging through
a closet and it was just sitting there.
Like it was waiting for me.
CUT TO:
SINDELL:
(searching for a compliment)
It's ... it's nice, Paul. It's got...
character.
CUT TO:
PAUL:
When I wrote my first book, I used to
carry it around in this while I was
looking for a publisher. That was a
good book, Marcia. I was a writer
then.
SINDELL:
You're still a writer.
PAUL:
I haven't been a writer since I got
SINDELL:
(holding up the cover art
of Misery's Child)
Not a bad business. This thing would
still be growing, too. The first
printing order on Misery's Child was
the most ever -- over a million.
PAUL:
Marcia, please.
SINDELL:
No, no. Misery Chastain put braces on
your daughter's teeth and is putting
her through college, bought you two
houses and floor seats to the Knick
games and what thanks does she get?
You go and kill her.
PAUL:
Marcia, you know I started "Misery"
on a lark. Do I look like a guy who
writes romance novels? Do I sound
like Danielle Steel? It was a one-time
shot and we got lucky. I never meant
it to become my life. And if I hadn't
gotten rid of her now, I'd have ended
up writing her forever.
(touches his briefcase)
For the first time in fifteen years, I
think I'm really onto something here.
SINDELL:
I'm glad to hear that, Paul, I really
am. But you have to know -- when your
fans find out that you killed off their
favorite heroine, they're not going to
say, "Ooh, good, Paul Sheldon can
finally write what we've always wanted:
an esoteric, semi-autobiographical
character study.
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