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Uncle Creepy at Dread Central posted, "Entertainment Weekly scored the very first images of Chloe Moretz as Carrie White and Julianne Moore as her crazy mama!" (HERE)
Not quite as . . . clean and neat. . . as the original, is it? Or even the remake. This looks like a girl who really could take down the house!
Nice...!
ReplyDeleteI do not envy either of these actresses. Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie made these characters iconic to moviegoers and King afficianados. It will be difficult for them to redefine those characters for themselves.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Brian.
ReplyDeleteThough no movie should be compared with another -- it will be impossible not to in this case; and the standard is very high. Just the same, I'm looking forward to it.
Now, if someone would please fork over a billion dollars so they get get to work on the Dark Tower. Or the next Children of the Corn -- I wait with baited breath!
I disagree with you about movie comparisons. Some movies just don't need to be remade. Carrie is just such a movie.
ReplyDeleteIt was a 1970s book with a 1970s flavor. The movie was much the same. It was well written, well acted, well directed, and well shot. It doesn't need to be improved.
That's not to say that this version of Carrie can't be good, or even great. Perhaps it might even be better than the original. But it must be compared to the original because, whatever they do in the remake has been done before and done well.
I disagree with your disagreement, Brian!
DeleteI don't think the DePalma movie has aged all that well. Parts of it are still excellent (I'm thinking specifically of Sissy Spacek's performance), but parts of it are WAY too campy. I'm referring here to Piper Laurie's performance. She may as well have been a drag queen; it's THAT campy. Julianne Moore will hopefully keep it more restrained, believable, and scary.
Some bits of DePalma's direction are also quite lame, such as the lifts of Bernard Herrman's "Psycho" music and the wretched comedic scenes. He's one of the most overrated directors in Hollywood history, as far as I'm concerned, so the notion that he can't be improved upon is not a notion I can support.
Not that anybody needs me to! Nobody does.
Well, Bryant, I must admit to having been accused many times of having been too fond of 70s kitsch and camp.
ReplyDeleteThe reason I'm so fond of Piper Laurie's performance is, years after the movie was made, when I was in college, I delivered pizzas and we had a regular customer who acted just like that. The first time I delivered to her, I remember thinking, "Oh God! Where's Carrie?!?!?" But she was always good for a two dollar tip.
Piper Laurie's performance became real for me for the next two years, every Thursday night when I delivered for her, got my sermon with a smile, and got my two dollars.
Hah!
ReplyDeleteHard to argue with that.
I should also confess that a couple of days ago, I spent about half a day writing a blog post about how much I love "Live and Let Die," so I'm hardly immune to a bit of seventies-style kitsch.