The sun dog 149 pages generally speaking, stephen king begins with amazing concepts that are. Oct 23, 20 whats missing from secret window, secret garden is a sense of guilt on the part of rainey. Differences between secret window book vs movie page 1. Mort rainey is a successful writer going through a rather unfriendly divorce from his wife of ten years, amy. Whats the difference between novella four past midnight. Thats basically the same ending as fight club right which was published after secret window, secret garden.
Shooter demands proof, and gives mort three days to get it. Also appearing is timothy hutton the dark half, charles s. Four past midnight is a collection containing the following short stories. Yet, depp makes it worthwhile playing the anger stricken husband with a cheating wife. The only differences are the title, the characters name, the diction, and the ending. Four past midnight is the name of the book that stephen king has secret window, secret garden the novella the movie was based on published in, everyone drops the dime is a book of morts works including secret window, killer thrillers is a name that i just made up, and ellery queen is the actual magazine that secret window was first published in. Notice the name shooter sounds like shoot her because he wants to kill his wife for cheating. The 2004 thriller secret window doesnt get enough credit from thriller and. His paranoia, neurosis, and obsession are all wellexecuted and depp really brings it to life. A team of editors takes feedback from our visitors to keep trivia as up to date and as accurate as possible. I know i can do it, todd downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. The first shot after the credits of secret window is an elaborate one. Secret window is a runofthemill psychological thriller with solid performances from a capable cast, namely a neurotic and paranoid johnny depp and creepy southern john turturro. Mort discovers that he wrote his version before shooter.
Secret window, secret garden is the second novella and probably the story i was most looking forward to reading followed closely by the library policeman. Finally, the secret window script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the movie starring johnny depp, john turturro, maria bello, etc. It was written and directed by david koepp, based on the novella secret window, secret garden by stephen king. Its the most important part of the story, the ending. Then the camera moves smoothly in to the shore, and across the grounds, and in through a window of the cabin, and it regards various rooms before closing in on a large mirror that reflects a man asleep on a couch. Ted hutton arrives, lured behind the house by amys screams. Two past midnight four past midnight king, stephen, woods, james on. So i watched this movie on recommendation from a friend and loved it. As morty wallows in his pity party, a very odd southern cracker calling himself john shooter shows up on morts doorstep and accuses him of stealing his. Secret window, secret garden by stephen king, james woods.
Secret window is one of the better stephen king novel adaptations, boosting a terrific turn from depp, an interesting story, atmosphere, some disturbing images and a dark ending. Rainey, who is going through an ugly divorce, attempts to. Mort eventually locates the magazine that proves he published secret window before shooter wrote sowing season. The alternate ending continues underground to the roots of the cornstalks, where ted and amys bodies lay. So at the end he does kill her and buries her in the garden under the secret window, hence the name of the movie. Can someone explain the movie secret window to me please. But one of his stories holds a secret that comes to life.
Who can help me understand the movie secret window. A man accuses author mort rainey of stealing one of his story ideas. This time around, the writer is held captive in his own home by an obsessed fan who insists he rewrite the ending to one of his novels. It was written and directed by david koepp, based on the novella secret window, secret garden by stephen king, featuring a musical score by philip glass and geoff zanelli. Secret window is a movie released by columbia pictures in 2004 starring johnny depp and john turturro. I came to this story having seen the johnny depp film secret window 2004. Secret window spoilers below i just saw this and im a really confused. Its the bowtied, tripleknotted kind of ending for this cast of characters, as we say our final goodbyes to secret garden. Why secret window doesnt get more credit from stephen king. Jul 29, 2006 the ending of the story is very predictable and cliche, but i can forgive it, because it is a total natural for this material. Why secret window doesnt get more credit from stephen.
Page 2 this category is for questions and answers related to secret window. Shooter in secret window, secret garden by steven king. Secret window, secret garden enters the suddenly strange life of writer mort rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of tashmore lake. One day, he is confronted by a man from mississippi named john shooter who claims mort plagiarized a story he wrote. The biggest challenge is getting through dickon and the sowerbys thick yorkshire accents, which frances hodgson burnett spells out with lots of weird apostrophes and unfamiliar to american readers, at least slang. Written and directed by david koepp, it is based on the novella secret window, secret garden by author stephen king. Secret window script transcript from the screenplay and. Before he kills amy, as he advances upon her, he recites the true ending of secret window, the one he wanted mort rainey to replace with the ruined ending mort wrote. Secret window, the umpteenth film based on a stephen king novella secret window, secret garden, shares a striking resemblance to one of kings best films, misery. Nov 01, 2011 secret window is about mort rainey, a blocked writer newly separate from his wife and currently living in their summer house on a lake in maine koepp shifts the locale to upstate new york.
Mort reads the manuscript and discovers the name of johns version is secret window, secret garden which is different from morts sowing season. Secret window is a 2004 american psychological thriller film starring johnny depp and john turturro. Secret window, secret garden is similar to kings earlier novel the dark half. Mystery writer mort rainey is severely depressed and in the middle of a divorce. Contentsshow summary mort rainey is visited by a man who takes the name of john shooter, with a manuscript which proves to be an almost exact copy of a story that mort himself wrote and published some years earlier. I do have to say though, that the movie ending was much better. Directed by david koepp stir of echoes and based on stephen kings secret window, secret garden. The camera pans down to the garden, fading to black when it reaches the dirt. Oct, 2017 hd movie scene from secret window, a 2004 film starring johnny depp directed by david koepp, based on the novella secret window, secret garden by stephen king i do not own the content of this. Its reminiscent of misery and the shiningthough the source, secret window, secret garden, originally a novella, is more stripped down. Kings secret window, secret garden is the kind of story that defies adaptation. Secret window, secret garden audio cd august 2, 2016 by stephen king author, james woods reader 4.
Its about mort rainey, an established fiction writer who discovers that his wife of 10 years is cheating on him. It begins with a view across a lake to a rustic cabin. Ending spoiler for secret window 2004, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and. The ending of this was different from the movie, and to be honest, i liked the movie. It was written and directed by david koepp, based on the novella secret window, secret garden. Secret window 2004 is a psychological thriller movie, starring johnny depp and john turturro. A fight ensued between the two, ending with amy laying behind the house in the garden, wounded, unable to flee. Secret window, secret garden stephen king wiki fandom. Alone and bitter in his cabin, he continues to work on his writing when a stranger named john shooter shows up on his doorstep, claiming rainey stole his story. Mort rainey is a recently divorced writer who suffered a psychotic break after discovering that his wife, amy, was having an affair. I published a novel called misery, which tried, at least in part, to illustrate the powerful hold fiction can achieve over the reader. Stephen kings short story secret window, secret gardenfrom the collection four past midnightis now available from encore at a great price. Overall i thought the movie was pretty lame unless i missed something. Mort discovers it is virtually identical to his own story, secret window, except for the ending.
Hes been holed up in his cabin for weeks when john shooter from mississippi arrives and accuses mort of. But later in the movie, it is revealed that its mort himself who was acting shooters part. Secret window is a 2004 american psychological horror thriller film starring johnny depp and john turturro. It is not without its twists and turns that a good thriller novel requires. Oct 08, 2012 you know, the only thing that matters is the ending. The losers shack up in a cabin on tashmore lake to discuss secret window, secret garden, the second novella from stephen kings 1990 collection, four past midnight. Secret window is a perfect examination of the inner madness that exists in people who create subjective art for a living. Secret window fits the bill there and is hardly oscarmaterial. Here is the title credits for secret window released in 2004. What we get instead is a story with a stock villain, a nice concept, and a twist ending that. One was evil, one was good whatever the same thing was done in identity. While its tricks that it has up its sleeves are hardly noteworthy, the performances are rock solid and the film is capably directed by david koepp. Secret window is a 2004 psychological thriller, starring johnny depp, john. Hd movie scene from secret window, a 2004 film starring johnny depp directed by david koepp, based on the novella secret window, secret garden by stephen king i do not own the content of this.
Nothing really clicked to me at the end other than that the guy had multiple personalities. It is a psychological thriller from stephen kings book. While its tricks that it has up its sleeves are hardly noteworthy, the performances are. But when he gets out of his car, the sheriff approaches him with a smirk asking him if he could ask a few questions. Mort rainey, played by johnny depp, is a struggling author suffering from the. At the outset of the story, she is living in india with her parentsa dashing army captain and his frivolous, beautiful wifebut is rarely permitted to see them. In the movie secret window, morts dog chico is found dead stabbed with a screwdriver and mort deduces that shooter have killed the dog as a letter was attached to the dogs body. Mort rainey is the main character of the short story secret window, secret garden, and the 2004 film adaptation, where he was portrayed by johnny depp. Six months later, we see the scruffy, bespectacled mort holed up in a remote, lakefront cabin struggling with both writers block and the fact that his beloved amy is trying to get him. Rainey, who is going through an ugly divorce, attempts to prove to his accuser that his own story was published first, but all evidence to support his argument begins to disappear, along with the people who might confirm his case. John shooter is the main antagonist of the novel secret window, secret garden and the movie adaptation secret window.
Shooter argues that his ending is right, you know, the only thing that matters is the ending. It explains, very well, the insanity of a well known author, mort rainey. As the sheriff leaves morts house, you see mort working on the ending to his book. This shot suggests that mort might have reached the point of having to make some sort of decision. You know, the only thing that matters, is the ending. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay andor viewings of secret window.
Secret window, secret garden which became the 2004 film secret window starring maria bello, johnny depp, timothy hutton, and john turturroexplores how authors may appropriate the ideas of others and how the characters they create may come alive, seeming at. Id personally like to say farewell to omoqueen secretary kim. He was portrayed by john turturro who also portrayed jesus quintana in the big lebowski, the title character in monkeybone, and goat in green eggs and ham and johnny depp who also portrayed sweeney todd in sweeney todd. Timothy hutton, johnny depp, john turturro, maria bello, charles s. Mort rainey is a best selling author whose imagination thrills his reader to the core. Secret window johnny depp gets high off another acting challenge in this tricky adaptation of a stephen king yarn.
But you may guess the ending in secret thriller chicago tribune. Jan, 2014 the dark half and secret window, secret garden share a great deal of thematic similarity, and so having hutton in both films is a nice bonus. Dec 07, 2008 the man is too nice so when he caught his wife cheating on him he didnt know how to deal but he developed a split personality i. A successful writer in the midst of a painful divorce is stalked at his remote lake house by a wouldbe scribe who accuses him of plagiarism. I know, i know, i still need to get the cast names in there and ill be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections. His work on secret window reveals a writerdirector who is thoughtful. There are all these lines about the ending throughout the movie.
Secret window, secret garden by stephen king audio cassette, unabridged edition,abridged edition at the best online prices at ebay. Secret window, secret garden is a novella written by stephen king that was included in his 1990 collection four past midnight. Secret window is a psychological thriller film, starring johnny depp and john turturro. Having learned that sowing season was published two years before shooter claimed to have written secret window, secret garden, mort confronts shooter with this information.
The secret garden is a fastpaced novel with just a few characters to follow, so its not too difficult to read. And also, for the other murdered people greenleaf, the detective, etc, it can be said the shootermort killed them as. Secret window, secret garden the book and secret window the movie. Mort followed ted and amy to the motel and watched which room they went into. A writer is stalked at his remote lakeside cabin by a psychotic stranger seeking revenge for perceived plagiarism. The story was as fun to read as the film was to watch. The secret garden opens by introducing us to mary lennox, a sickly, foultempered, unsightly little girl who loves no one and whom no one loves. With johnny depp, maria bello, john turturro, timothy hutton. Secret window, secret garden project gutenberg self. One day, after suffering from a particularly harmful depression and writers block, mort is confronted by a. He goes to the post office, where he gets the magazine.
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