I like Sissy Spacek, but I’m not not bound to her Carrie.
However, there is but one Margaret White, and Piper Laurie is her name.
This will never change.
(Even though Laurie’s Margaret varies sharply from the book’s description, I like her version better; Julianne Moore is too pretty by 85%.)
I suppose it’s time. She’s seems too pretty to be Carrie, though. Sissy Spacek was the perfect in between. Pretty, but could be made to look very, very plain.
And I hope this isn’t too political for this forum, but I almost peed my pants the first time I heard Bill Maher say “… Michele Bachman, otherwise known as Carrie’s mom…”
Though her husband Marcus is closer to the book’s description of Carrie’s mom.
Well, after that trailer, I suppose it’s not necessary to watch the movie. For someone like me that never saw the original, it was one big spoiler. Is there anything of significance in the plot that the trailer didn’t give away?
Nope.
Didn’t they remake this once before?
Agree that the actress playing Carrie is too pretty. I think it looks like it might be good.
Yep. It was remade for TV(which gutted it due to restraints on what you could say and show on TV; they couldn’t even say “Plug it up”). There was also a musical version that flopped on Broadway but has had some success elsewhere, and there’s a non-canonical sequel featuring Carrie’s half-sister (Stephen King wasn’t involved, but Amy Irving reprised the role of Sue Snell).
She’s gay in the book?
Ah, I hadn’t realized it was a TV movie. I just remembered it being awful!
Obese and histrionic.
We don’t know if Carrie’s hand comes out of the grave yet.
…but damn, they showed everything but Carrie’s dirty pillows.
Right.
However, Sissy Spacek was probably as close to an ugly Carrie as we will ever be allowed. This new girl is all wrong.
Is it just me, or does Carrie look like she’s about 12? When the trailer started, I thought they were starting with Carrie’s middle school years, and was surprised when the same actress appeared throughout the trailer, then talked about going to prom.
According to Wikipedia, the actress is 16, which maybe would have put her at 15 at the time of filming. Maybe I’m so used to seeing 20-somethings playing high school students, but she still looks very young to me.
Bolding mine.
I think it’s this, combined with the fact that the character of Carrie isn’t allowed by her mother to wear makeup or style her hair, which (I think) makes teenagers look older, generally. Carrie is quite shy and sheltered, so I think looking younger than her peers is a good choice, though.
No mention yet that the new Carrie is Chloe Grace Moretz of LET ME IN, KICK-ASS, HUGO, and DARK SHADOWS?
That alone sells me on this, thought Julianne Moore seals the deal. Alas tho- unless they have her reading from The Book of the Crow, she’s not the character of Carrie’s Mom as given in the book either.
A waste of talent.
I recently re-read King’s On Writing in which he discusses the inspirations for Carrie. They included two separate girls from his high school, both of whom he greatly pitied but neither of whom he actually liked, and he said that to this day Carrie is one of the few lead characters he’s created who he doesn’t actually like.
Sissy Spacek did a great job of showing Carrie beginning to blossom a bit- a character that without the pig’s blood incident might have survived childhood and learned to control her powers and even had a semi-normal life once she got away from her nutso mother- but that’s more Hollywood than the book. She’s more of a bullied archetype and a vessel of the revenge fantasy a huge number of us had in junior high than a heroine.
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Well, after that trailer, I suppose it’s not necessary to watch the movie. For someone like me that never saw the original, it was one big spoiler. Is there anything of significance in the plot that the trailer didn’t give away?
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One thing:
The guy that asks Carrie to the prom is a genuine nice guy who asked her because his equally nice girlfriend thought Carrie was a good person who just needed someone to be nice to her.
I’ve never read the book, but for some reason I read an afterword King put in one of the editions. He talks about the girls who inspired Carrie and I believe he said both are dead after becoming truly heinous adults.
I suppose a re-make might work.
MGM loves to dig up old scripts and re-make them (cheap to do re-makes) and every once in awhile, it works and makes money. My guess is they will rake in a few bucks with this.
Will be interesting how that very last scene plays out in this version.
When the original was new, I can remember standing in a long line at a movie theater in NYC and, right before the movie let out, you could hear an entire movie theater audience scream at the top of their lungs and then suddenly exit the theater, sort of laughing but embarrassed to have everyone in line staring at them as they walked out.
She is the next Danielle Harris. You’ll see Chloe in everything horror soon.