Ugh.. Percy and Wild Bill

[Stan_Richards_of_Windsor]

Percy and Wild Bill were the first persons I ever saw on the big screen that I just hated. Absolutely hated. I don't even hate the serial killers in movies as much (even though Will is one). Just so freakin' annoying. The book too.

Like hot damn! "I didn't know that the sponge was suppose to be wet." Really? If I was Paul, I would've killed Percy and ran. At first I thought it was just the character, but I guess the actor who plays Percy (Doug Hutchison) is pretty much just as bad. He's 51. She's 16. Gross.

Anyways. My point is don't you think Percy and/or Wild Bill are the most annoying characters Stephen has ever created?

[Jax]

I don't know if they are the most annoying for me. Evil for sure. For me the most annoying King character would have to be Richard Sloat, Jack's friend from The Talisman. I wanted to tell him, "strap it on, baby luv."

[ghost19]

Percy was one of the all time dirtbag characters created by Mr. King, and the guy who played him in the movie played it to a hilt. He did a great job, can't remember his name off hand, but kudos on his performance.

[~Ally~]

They are characters we absolutely love to hate, and they were exceptionally well portrayed in the movie. Sam Rockwell just knocks my socks off every single time I watch this movie. Despicable character, but amazing performance.

[JellybeanJay]

Percy is played by Doug Hutchinson. To this day I still have hard time watching him in other movie roles because I still see him as Percy.

[CCAL]

i guess thats proof the actor is doing his job! If it affects you that strongly, say thank ye and move on. After all isnt the bad guy supposed to be believable? The whole movie would all flat if the bad guys didnt make the good guys look so darn good! Years again I used to tune in every week to watch J.R. on Dallas. I loved to hate that scoundrel.He was good in that role.I've seen very few to affect me so in the past few years. Got to take the bad with the good.

[Stan_Richards_of_Windsor]

Percy wasn't even a bad guy. He just.... was. It was like he was just there. To annoy. It's not like he really did anything he wasn't suppose to (he kills Mr. Jingles but big whop, he's a mouse and as Paul says Dale's execution was a success), it's just the annoyance he creates when he does them.

[Becks19]

Percy wasn't even a bad guy. He just.... was. It was like he was just there. To annoy. It's not like he really did anything he wasn't suppose to (he kills Mr. Jingles but big whop, he's a mouse and as Paul says Dale's execution was a success), it's just the annoyance he creates when he does them.

Yes, but with each little ugly deed that Percy does it makes you want to smack him/hate him!!

[CarrieJo]

I couldn't STAND Percy. Talk about a brat. He just did things to get under people's skin. I saw Doug Hutchison on Law and Order: SVU the other day and he was playing a complete lunatic and he did a great job with it. That and The Green Mile are the only things I've ever seen him in. I'd like to check him out in other roles. Just to see if he's just good and those type of roles or if he's well-rounded.

As for Wild Bill...yeah I hated him because of what he did but his character was more interesting than annoying to me. I usually ended up laughing when it came to his scenes on the Mile.

But either way, the story wouldn't have been the same without either of them.

[tower-obsession]

Wild Bill always reminded me of a cousin of mine, looks-wise.

[gniknehpets]

Mr. Jingles was JUST a mouse!!! What the heck are you saying??? :eek2:

[JellybeanJay]

I think Mr Jingles would disagree :eek2:

[GNTLGNT]

The most annoying character? Molly Ringwald.....wait, I got that wrong didn't I?(or DID I:eyebrow:)....

[JellybeanJay]

You got that right GNTL!

[Stan_Richards_of_Windsor]

Well yeah, Wild Bill made a pretty convincing misbehaved villain. Yes there would be no story without them. Just thank your God, or Tower, or Nothing that they're not real (I recite that before I go to bed each night).

[Stan_Richards_of_Windsor]

Well okay, Mr. Jingles was a superb circus mouse, but I still wasn't an act of villainy. I'm sure Percy wasn't going to get arrested for killing him.

[ConstantReader1973]

Well okay, Mr. Jingles was a superb circus mouse, but I still wasn't an act of villainy. I'm sure Percy wasn't going to get arrested for killing him.

No, but Percy was a bully, and I don't believe that 'forgetting' to wet the sponge was an accident. Underneath his brattiness, Percy was evil, and I could easily see him doing something that would cause him to end up on the Green Mile himself. As far as Wild Bill, he was evil, evil, evil. Have you read the book, or are you commenting based on the movie? There are nuances in the book that are not there in the movie, and some of the important aspects of the story are lost.

[Stan_Richards_of_Windsor]

Read the book AND seen the movie. I never take just from the movie.

And I doubt Percy has the guts to do anything to get him on the Green Mile. He only picked on things/people/animals he knew he could pick on without actually getting in SERIOUS trouble. He didn't do anything to Paul or Brutus, because they were together then him and in more authority.

However, to Percy, he saw easy targets in a defenseless mouse and a convicted murder who was about to be fried.
Yes, he was evil, but not a villain. He was a major pain in the rear.

[91rewoT]

Hey.
Mr Jingles "just a mouse"?
I don't think so.
:eyebrow:

[tmac61]

I think the reason Percy's character annoyed me so much was the fact that I have had the displeasure of having to work with people like him at different stages of my life. You know the type, people who couldn't stay employed if they didn't have someone in power looking out for them.

[bmcmolo]

King has a knack for giving us some real creeps and scary baddies, and Percy and Wild Bill were certainly fine examples of such.

Don't want to spoil anything for anyone who hasn't watched it, but I thought the reveal re: WB at the end was a little uneven in tone. Maybe it's just that Sam Rockwell has a likeability even when he's playing despicable characters, but there are some almost comedic moments with him, even when he's raising hell, and the reveal at the end was... well, anything but comedic.

I don't suggest Rockwell's performance was comedic, just that there were a few times where you couldn't help but laugh at some of his antics. That was hard to square with the feeling at the end. Tho, that's life, too. Perhaps by design.

Just my two cents! I thought both performances were top notch.

It took me years to give Andrew Robinson a chance in any other role, so convincingly creeptastic was he as Scorpio in Dirty Harry. I'll likely have the same thing with Jack Gleeson, who plays the insufferable sadistic git on Game of Thrones.

[muskrat]

I think Stan is sweet on ol' Billy the Kid. Bar-B-Q, me and you, stinky pinky, phew phew phew...

Just kiddin, Stan.

Sam Rockwell ROCKS!

[Bryan James]

They were both superb.

Without them, the movie would have fallen far short of the masterpiece that it is.

[sswolf]

yes percy is the worst most evil character mr. king has ever created, i don't even hate the dark man in the dark tower series as bad as percy.

[~Ally~]

yes percy is the worst most evil character mr. king has ever created,

I disagree. Why do you feel this way about him compared to the rest of King's myriad of criminals and delinquents? He was definitely a bad man, but King has wrote about people with personal traits far worse than Percy's. In the context of this story I believe Wild Bill is much more deplorable than Percy.

[Daniel Lee Severn]

I couldn't STAND Percy. Talk about a brat. He just did things to get under people's skin. I saw Doug Hutchison on Law and Order: SVU the other day and he was playing a complete lunatic and he did a great job with it. That and The Green Mile are the only things I've ever seen him in. I'd like to check him out in other roles. Just to see if he's just good and those type of roles or if he's well-rounded.

He played a great character in the X-Files named Eugene Victor Tooms. He was in A Time to Kill and Con Air too.

[Anni M]

Percy was a lily livered evil little schmuck with a Napoleon complex and a chip on his shoulder the size of a 6 by 6. Wild Bill was a class A sociopath. No comparison at all...

[twellwood70]

Percy was a pathetic loser and I think many of us can relate to that type of co-worker we had to endure sometime in our careers!!

[blunthead]

I haven't read The Green Mile yet, but I've watched the movie, TV version, a couple of times recently, admiring the acting so much. Of course Hanks provides a superior performance wherever, as well as does Cromwell, and Duncan's Coffey is legend. But I especially appreciate Doug Hutchison's ability to make me despise him, not simply a twerp but an evil one. David Morse is a character actor I have always really liked and have followed somewhat down thru the years. My favorite of his roles is in The Negotiator. I never really noticed Sam Rockwell til I saw Moon, in which he has two roles, is virtually the only actor, and makes a fairly bad script entertaining enough to get through.