After all, she had witnessed Carrie murdering everyone in the high school prom. I think her anger towards Carrie at that point was justified. I don't like how she treated Carrie, though. But obviously it wasn't just callousness at that point.
shareYeah, it's clear that Chris is beyond shocked as she watches Carrie kill everyone in the gym. Obviously she did not intend for the prank to cause death, so IMHO, she wanted to kill Carrie because she knew she was dangerous and possessed some supernatural power. Also, Chris may have been afraid Carrie would try to kill her later or even implicate her in the prank.
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The movie left the audience feeling more sympathetic for Carrie, even though Carrie killed all those people. Perhaps it was power beyond her control. I felt that Chris was still cold hearted , though. She wanted to kill Carrie but it was her fault that Carrie went on edge.
shareIn the book, Carrie does not evoke quite as much sympathy. DePalma's film really takes us on a roller-coaster of emotions because we feel for Carrie and can appreciate why she finally snaps, but many innocent people were killed as a result. I guess that's why it's a horror and not a comedy.
BTW, DePalma stated he wanted to convey that Carrie was not really in control of her actions at the prom and were actually the result of her emotions. That's one of the main reasons he wished he hadn't used the split-screen during the massacre, because it made it look like Carrie was in complete control.
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"In the book, Carrie does not evoke quite as much sympathy."
That's an understatement. I remember when I read the book months after seeing the movie (it never occurred to me it was a book first. Who would write such a weird story? Stephen King being unknown then.) I was shocked at how cold and cruel Carrie was. King mentioned the fault of the book was that Carrie wasn't likable from the very beginning. He considered the film to have been an improvement. In fact, you could see how she was difficult to get along with at the very beginning.
Personally, I wished somebody had made the character more likable at the very beginning and about as deliberately cruel as the book depicts her at the end.
That's why I prefer the film to the book - Carrie is much more sympathetic which makes her humiliation at the prom so heartbreaking.
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You're not kidding.
I read the book before first watching this and between this and the 2013 I must have forgot about book Carrie.
Just reread it and jesus she is not sympathetic in her rampage. De Palma did well making her so sympathic in this tbh.
Although will say I do want a sort of found footage version of Carrie, intersected with the interviews etc like it does in book. Also I want Margaret to die like she does in the book. It's so much better than the film death imo
Yes, Chris was unquestionably evil for wanting to kill Carrie. Karma. She dumped a bucket of frigging BLOOD on her in front of the entire school; what did she expect—Carrie to just shrug it off and say, "oh, well!"? Granted, she couldn't have predicted that Carrie would kill everyone, but still. You can't just expect to get away with a prank like that with no repercussions whatsoever.
In the book (and the 2002 remake), Chris shows a tiiiny bit of humanity as Billy is speeding toward Carrie—in the book, she's thinking something like, "No, not kill her! Didn't mean to kill her, Billy!" And in the 2002 movie, Chris screams at him something like, "BILLY! What are you DOING?! Don't! Billy! Stop! STOP!!!!"
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BTW, DePalma stated he wanted to convey that Carrie was not really in control of her actions at the prom and were actually the result of her emotions. That's one of the main reasons he wished he hadn't used the split-screen during the massacre, because it made it look like Carrie was in complete control.
The split-screen never influenced my judgment. She looked completely out of it and moved like a killing machine. I never thought she was in control at all. She just snapped and killed whatever moved in front of her. It's like she was on auto pilote until the bath scene.
shareI love when Carrie made Chris's car flip over 10 times before it blew up, i was like "yay! the bitch is dead!
shareI love when Carrie made Chris's car flip over 10 times before it blew up
I thought DePalma's version of this scene, was no more cheesy than the new remake, even more so. The camera pans on Carrie's eyes and we hear music that sounds like it is lifted straight out of Psycho and then the car flips several times and blows. It wasn't that great. Spacek was the best thing about her Carrie; but I am not so sold on it as a whole film, so it is easy for me to pick it apart. Not to undermine those that do enjoy it and I can see why it is a perennial favorite of many.
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The answer would seem to be no, but you should ask why did Chris thought it was personally up to her to stop Carrie, especially after knowing Carrie was like a force of nature?
I don't know that Chris was what you could call completely evil before.
By the time of Carrie's humiliation at the prom, she inevitably became the one to root for. Perhaps afterwards I could feel sorry for many of her victims, but Sissy Spacek had me on her side all the way. And that Hargensen bitch got off way too easy.
share And that Hargensen bitch got off way too easy.
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She suffered a pretty gory demise in the Carrie-13 remake Mr H.
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I saw that movie one time out of curiosity. How did she die, Rascal? Was the actress/character as good a nasty bitch as Nancy Allen?
Was there a silly scene in the locker room where Chris goes up to Carrie and pretends to be nice and says something about her boobs hurting? (lol)
I had my folks watch it with me in August last year, when I caught up with them. They watched the whole thing and made some random comment in comparison; but they were very very quiet and still from the time Carrie and Tommy went to the prom, until the end. However, they weren't as engaged with the proceedings as the original and they didn't like the actress that played Miss Desjardin and thought that she was weak, and that the others didn't really come through either. My mother did like the actress that played Hargensen though. She said..."Now she did come across", when I asked her what she thought of her character.
Chris and Billy are attempting to drive away from Carrie, when she spilts open the road. Chris yells at Billy to run her over; but Carrie's power is so great, they can't impact upon her and the force field around her dents the front of the vehicle. Billy dies from this impact and Carrie manipulates the vehicle in the air while Chris is still inside trying to run her over. Carrie then forces the car into a power pole and Hargensen's face smashes through the windscreen and has bloody shards of glass, stuck all over her bitchy face. She doesn't quite die instantly. Carrie then blows up the car and gas station.
I think the boobs hurting thing, is in the 02' tv remake, which I enjoy also. I think this one has the best Tommy Ross and has an extended prom sequence and the theme is the same as the novel...Springtime In Venice.
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