Carrie - Patreon Version
Added 2024-09-21 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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I've never watched "Carrie" even though Brian De Palma directed one film I like a lot, "Blow Out" (1981), starring Travolta and Nancy Allen once again but in entirely different characters. Yikes! The amount of abuse foisted upon the young people amongst themselves and the slap across the face by a high school teacher is both funny and weird to see as acceptable in the movie. Sissy Spacek earned an Academy Award for Best Actress just a few years after this movie for "Coal Miner's Daughter". She did her own singing and is quite a remarkable actress. My junior high school's dean of boys was in charge of after school detentions for minor misfits. He gave us a choice - sit quietly in a classroom with other detainees for 45 minutes to an hour OR get a whack on your ass with a ping pong paddle. I chose the painless route since I could use the time to do some of my homework. One day I saw some guys drive by the dean when he was acting like a crossing guard at a busy intersection and I recognized one of them sitting in the back of the El Camino as a guy who was a student at the school but went on to high school. That guy threw a water balloon at the dean and caught him square in the chest. Good toss! That dean of boys was not such a bad guy, though - he took a bunch of us to an NBA game one day. He got the free tickets that were printed on one panel of a half-gallon milk carton and we all rode public transit to the arena to watch the Warriors. That was the only NBA game I've ever watched in person so it's pretty amazing to think that tickets could be free back then.
ButtercupsTrueLove
2024-09-25 18:58:50 +0000 UTCI'm one of the minority of people my age who read the novel before I saw the film. I would just like to speak a bit about how the story is partly about how religion can turn people crazy and cause them to make awful choices. Margaret was an insane woman who took out her psychosis on ON Carrie and totally messed her up. In the novel, it is made clear that Ralph was killed in an industrial accident at work before Carrie was born. In the movie, Carrie says that he ran away, but that could be what Margaret wanted her to believe. The 76 version was fairly true to the novel. There have been a few remakes that had positive things but none of them are on the level as the original film, in my opinion. There is a sequel which I think is just a giant pile of MEH. It's literally the same story and no one has learned a damn thing. It also features a young woman who was allegedly Carrie's half sister. If Ralph white died before Carrie was born, a 17 year old half sister would have been alive when Carrie got bullied into lunacy and mass murder, NOT 20 years after the fact.
David Bennett
2024-09-24 03:16:09 +0000 UTC
