Talk Stephen King: Moretz: The CARRIE Novel Drove The Film

Moretz: The CARRIE Novel Drove The Film

In this interview, Moretz discusses the Stephen King novel and her choice not to watch previous versions of Carrie before taking on the role herself.

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PrisonerNumber6November 19, 2013 at 11:08 PM
The issue here seems to be the question of adaptation.

My take is, if the story holds true enough to the essentials of the source material (or in certain rare cases, if the changes in some way enhance the story i.e. Roger Rabbit, Green Mile, Stand by Me) then I'm willing to say that a film is the book or story proper.

As for whether the Carrie film approaches the book, well, Moretz was determined to portray the book character, however I have a different take on the main character.

For me it's never a question of innocence, or envy of the same. The main character is the result of a bad environment, in fact a whole bad culture (making Carrie similar to other of King's Death of a Small Town stories) and in the end is really the catalyst for that whole society's rush to self-destruction. That's sort of why I thought of it in terms of a school and town like a mental ward where the doctors and staff have abdicated, and the patients are in control.

However, I'm not sure if the film ever got that element down right or not, as if done right, th idea of this whole society destroying itself could have served as a good engine for onscreen suspense, as it would have carried the ever present threat of sudden violence from any quarter, similar to a film like "Good, the Bad and the Ugly".

However, again, I'm not sure whether I'd say this Carrie really "is" the book or story.

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Bryant BurnetteNovember 20, 2013 at 5:08 AM
She's welcome to SAY that it's based on the book, but it's clearly a remake of DePalma movie moreso than an adaptation of the novel.

I still liked the movie a lot, though.
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LuisNovember 20, 2013 at 10:03 PM
I was one of the naysayers that thought Moretz was too pretty for the role and it's nice to hear her address this issue and her take on it. Having said that, Ms. Moretz may have based her performance on the literary Carrie but director Kimberly Peirce clearly had the cinematic (Depalma) Carrie in mind.
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