Moviefone: Watching De Palma's CARRIE For The First Time

On the hunt for a review of the upcoming Carrie, I  noticed this link provided to King's website to the original Carrie movie by director Brian De Palma.  Katie Calautti discusses her sisters first viewing of the film and how it pretty much traumatized her.  She also looks at why the story itself holds up.

"it's a movie about a girl getting her period, essentially. I can't believe somebody wrote that! Like, there's more to it, but it essentially started and ended that way -- the reason they poured pig's blood on her is because they were mocking her for what happened when the bathroom scene went down in the first place. It's a central theme in this, and I get that it turns into something much bigger, but it's all predicated on a period, which, to me, is so strange. Why wouldn't you pick something else?"

Why?  I think King wanted to pick something else.  That's why Carrie went in the trash.  But it connects with us; something in the story is strong and speaks up for itself.  That's why Carrie came out of the trash!

Calautti relates that her sister was unaware Carrie was being remade.  In fact, her sister yelled that they would never get away with that today (blowing up as school).  She shared these thoughts  about the upcoming film:

So what are her requests and predictions for Kimberly Pierce's version? "It'll be really interesting to see how Miss Collins changes -- you obviously can't slap a student in the face nowadays," she said. "But if you take a look at Columbine and a number of instances since then, there's a lot of outcasts. I feel like this new film needs to change the dialogue on that, introduce the whole idea that outcasts should be embraced and not chastised. And the prom massacre? Obviously it's a fantastical plot line to have someone stare at a hose and have it telepathically move, but the locking the doors and the starting fires? That reasonably could happen in real life, and I don't see how that won't rub people the wrong way. I wonder if they'll tweak that somehow."

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