Saturday, March 31, 2007
CARRIE!
Just came back from J8 with Linda and Melvin. We met after the Life concert at SAJC which wasn't that bad after all. The intial notion of being in a crowed place with people jumping up and down wasn't that appealing but it turned out to be okay.
Anyhow, came back home all shagged only to find a pleasant surprise that is Carrie. Yeah, the one and only Carrie who killed practically everyone at prom and eventually her mother. The one showing now's the 1976 adaptation though.
Directed by Brian De Pal and starring Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, Betty Buckley, Nancy Allen and P.J soles, Carrie tells the story of Carrie. [Yeah, no shit about that.] She finds out that she has telekenetic powers after getting teased in school when she has her first mensuration. Having a mentally unstable, Christian fundamentalist as a mother, she is unaware about the concept of puberty. [Her mother believes that its because Carrie commited a hideous sin that brought about her period]
Being a socially awkward girl in a ruthless society, Carrie's repressed and perpetually the butt of all jokes. Not surprisingly, having a sadistic, Christian fundamentalist as a mother who takes her religion too seriously, to the point of having no qualms about killing her own daughter, doesn't really help at all.
She finally pops at the prom when Chris[Nancy Allen] and her friends decide to have the ballots fixed, have her win prom queen and topple pigs' blood over her when she's on stage, turning the hall into a small little piece of hell for everyone. Everyone expect Sue dies. The sad thing was, she didn't see that MissCollins, Tommy and Sue and practically the rest of the people were actually shocked that something like this had happened, contrary to her imagination where everyone was laughing at her. She then proceeds to burn all of them.
She gets home still soaked in pigs' blood only to get stabbed by her very own mother. Carrie rolls down the stairs and snaps yet another time, sending kinves and all manner of kitchen utensils into her mother. Aptly enough, and perhaps ironically enough, her mother was pinned in in such a way that made her look like she was crucified just as Christ was. Coming back to reality, Carrie realises what she has done. Mad at herself, she unconciously brings the house down while trying to save her mother, dragging herself and her mother, after getting the knives off her hands of course, into the prayer room, where they both ended up getting crushed to death.
Moral of the story?
Never pour pigs' blood on a socially repressed girl who has telekenetic powers.
I actually find this version better than the 2002 version, in which Carrie doesn't die at the end but escapes when her mother tries to drown her, instead of stabbing, by squeezing her mother's heart with her powers, rendering her dead.
Also, I find Sissy Spacek way better looking than Angela Bettis who acted as Carrie in the 2002 version.
Anyhow, came back home all shagged only to find a pleasant surprise that is Carrie. Yeah, the one and only Carrie who killed practically everyone at prom and eventually her mother. The one showing now's the 1976 adaptation though.
Directed by Brian De Pal and starring Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, Betty Buckley, Nancy Allen and P.J soles, Carrie tells the story of Carrie. [Yeah, no shit about that.] She finds out that she has telekenetic powers after getting teased in school when she has her first mensuration. Having a mentally unstable, Christian fundamentalist as a mother, she is unaware about the concept of puberty. [Her mother believes that its because Carrie commited a hideous sin that brought about her period]
Being a socially awkward girl in a ruthless society, Carrie's repressed and perpetually the butt of all jokes. Not surprisingly, having a sadistic, Christian fundamentalist as a mother who takes her religion too seriously, to the point of having no qualms about killing her own daughter, doesn't really help at all.
She finally pops at the prom when Chris[Nancy Allen] and her friends decide to have the ballots fixed, have her win prom queen and topple pigs' blood over her when she's on stage, turning the hall into a small little piece of hell for everyone. Everyone expect Sue dies. The sad thing was, she didn't see that MissCollins, Tommy and Sue and practically the rest of the people were actually shocked that something like this had happened, contrary to her imagination where everyone was laughing at her. She then proceeds to burn all of them.
She gets home still soaked in pigs' blood only to get stabbed by her very own mother. Carrie rolls down the stairs and snaps yet another time, sending kinves and all manner of kitchen utensils into her mother. Aptly enough, and perhaps ironically enough, her mother was pinned in in such a way that made her look like she was crucified just as Christ was. Coming back to reality, Carrie realises what she has done. Mad at herself, she unconciously brings the house down while trying to save her mother, dragging herself and her mother, after getting the knives off her hands of course, into the prayer room, where they both ended up getting crushed to death.
Moral of the story?
Never pour pigs' blood on a socially repressed girl who has telekenetic powers.
I actually find this version better than the 2002 version, in which Carrie doesn't die at the end but escapes when her mother tries to drown her, instead of stabbing, by squeezing her mother's heart with her powers, rendering her dead.
Also, I find Sissy Spacek way better looking than Angela Bettis who acted as Carrie in the 2002 version.
Sissy Spacek
Angela Bettis
There's a servere lack of pictures of Angela Bettis in Carrie on the net. Other than those of her drenched in blood. Someone should do something about it.