Carrie
Short description
Carrie White is a shy, awkward teenager who has long been an outcast at her high school and the target of her classmates' cruelty. At home she is dominated by her deeply religious mother, Margaret, whose control isolates her further. Carrie also carries a secret: she has telekinetic abilities, which surface when she is frightened or furious. A classmate's attempt to make amends leads to Carrie being invited to the prom, where another, more vicious prank pushes her past breaking point.
The film is based on Stephen King's novel and was directed by Kimberly Peirce, released in 2013. It is the third feature Peirce directed, following Boys Don't Cry and Stop-Loss. Chloë Grace Moretz plays Carrie, with Julianne Moore as Margaret, Gabriella Wilde as Sue Snell, Ansel Elgort as Tommy Ross, Alex Russell as Billy Nolan and Judy Greer as Miss Desjardin. The screenplay was written by Lawrence D. Cohen and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and Kevin Misher produced.
Made for a budget of 30 million dollars, the film took in about 85 million dollars worldwide, a solid return on its cost. Audience response was mixed, with a rating of 5.8 on IMDb from roughly 155,000 votes and 6.1 on TMDB from a smaller pool of voters, while a critics' rating of 5.5 from 184 reviews places critical opinion slightly below the audience figures.
What's left behind the scenes
- Shailene Woodley turned down the role of Carrie White. Hayley Bennett, Dakota Fanning, Emily Browning, Lily Collins, and Bella Heathcote auditioned. Ultimately, Chloë Grace Moretz landed the lead role.
- Jodie Foster was considered for the role of Margaret White.
- Stephen King suggested casting Lindsay Lohan in the lead role.
- Ivana Baquero was originally cast as Chris Hargensen, but was replaced by Portia Doubleday.
- The tagline “You’ll know her name” is a reference to the final lyrics of a song from the Broadway musical “Carrie” (“Someday, someone will know my name!”).
- This story might never have seen the light of day if King’s wife hadn’t saved one of the early drafts from the trash. King seriously doubted that the story would be strong and emotional enough. King himself recalled in his memoirs: “She fished the pages out of the wastebasket, brushed cigarette ash off the crumpled paper, smoothed them out, and sat down to read. Then she told me she wanted me to continue the story. She wanted to know how it would end.”
- Filming took place in Toronto in the summer of 2012.
- The poem that Carrie reads in English class is an excerpt from John Milton’s poem “Samson Agonistes” (1671).
- This is the first adaptation in which the actor playing Carrie is actually a teenager. Chloë Grace Moretz was 15 years old during filming. Whereas Sissy Spacek and Angela Bettis were 26 and 28 years old, respectively, when they played the role.
- The film has approximately 5 alternate endings, which are available in the DVD version of the film in the bonus features.
- The film has around 10 deleted scenes, including a scene with three-year-old Carrie.
- The film's initial US premiere was scheduled for March 15, 2013.
- Carrie's hair position changes after a cut in the following scenes: when her mother wakes her up in the closet; when she tucks her hair behind her ear upon entering the library; during her conversation with her gym teacher about the prom; when her mother attacks her with a knife.
- The destruction of the house on which stones fall from the sky was done digitally. To achieve this, a real-life model of the house was scanned with a laser scanner, then 6500 photographs were taken and combined.
- When Carrie practices her telekinetic abilities on the bathroom mirror, it's clear that the shards of the mirror fall to the floor, but in the next shot, there are no shards on the floor.
- The stain from Carrie's bloody hand, left on the physical education teacher's skirt, initially appears as a blot, which is visible in the shower scene. But in the scene in the principal's office, it's already an imprint of a full palm, located higher on the skirt than the spot Carrie initially grabbed.
- In the scene of Carrie's birth, the umbilical cord disappears after a cut.
- When Carrie first uses her abilities to lift her mother from the floor, the position of Carrie's hands changes between shots.
- The blood in Carrie's eyes shifts position between shots as she attacks her classmates in the gymnasium.
- Immediately after Chris slits the pig's throat, bloodstains disappear from her forehead.
- When Carrie tries to wash the blood off herself in the bathroom and begins to cry, her left hand is seen covered in blood. After a cut, both of her hands appear clean.
- Carrie's position and facial expression change abruptly between shots in the scene where she talks to her gym teacher about the prom.
- When Tommy asks Carrie to the prom for the second time, the position of the cross around Carrie's neck changes between shots.
- Among the names on the list of candidates for “King” and “Queen” of the ball is Bryan Cranston, known for his role in the series "Breaking Bad" (2008-2013). Stephen King called the show “the best story ever told on TV.”
- In one of the deleted scenes, which is present in the book, young Carrie sees the “dirty pillows” of a neighbor’s girl, and when Carrie’s mother starts scolding and takes the child away, it begins to hail. At this point, Margaret (the mother) says: “Stop it.”
- The film is based on Stephen King's novel "Carrie" (1974).
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