She's Back! CARRIE - First preview !!! — Page 27

It was not really nasty i just said it was funny

And you can't ask a question if you do not want an answer, so i'm sorry if it upset you i did not mean too, it just made me giggle that's all.

You pose a good question actually, i think somebody in this day and age would get the dropping the blood on Carrie on camera, kind of like the whole Carrie 2 The Rage scene where they have filmed her and put it up on the screen. However straight after that happened the Destruction happens very quick and at that point i don't think anybody would be filming what Carrie did, they would just be trying to get out of there.

You have got me thinking though that if this was a modern day kind of Carrie film with the interviews with the police in etc i can totally see Hollywood adding in that somebody's camera fell to the floor in the chaos and filmed what really happened, the only real footage of what Carrie did that night, that could make for a quite good ending.

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Cloverfield Carrie! The story would actually be absolutely ideal for the "found footage" format, but it really seems silly to make yet another film version.

I still think more emphasis should be placed on this rampage after the prom, and a good way to do it might be to have a series of eyewitnesses to her destruction. Those could be the people with cell cameras and frantic calls to 911. All of that could be done with sound design and projection design while Carrie walks out into the audience covered in blood. Even if she just stares coldly at certain audience members while she's hit with freaky lights, that, coupled with a great audio/video montage of witnesses to her destruction, could be a way of giving specific details of what she does on her "night of terror" before making her way home to Mother.

And thanks, Scarywarhol, for the vote of confidence. It definitely would help create a "girl on the loose" feeling if she broke through the 4th wall and started coming toward the audience.

I even thought, with a bigger cast, that you could have multiple "lookalike" Carries, all dressed like her with the blood, walking around specific sections of the audience, with lights coming up sporadically on each of them as a different story is told via the sound design. That would require a bigger cast and budget, but I would love to get the "abstract" idea that Carrie is "everywhere," all at once, in the small town that night ... including right in front of you.

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"but what makes her a monster (in the book at least) is her giving into the behavior shown her earlier in the book by gleefully destroying not only everyone at the prom but the entire town, including innocent people that have never harmed her. "

AHHH, thanks for mentioning that, MB. that's what I was trying to learn from Besty. That makes it more clear that she's a monster-something I didn't get from the film.

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Jane, I just read the novel after seeing the original movie countless times and being obsessed with the Broadway production for well over a decade, and I wholeheartedly recommend it. It's a quick read, and the insight into the characters is fascinating!

The thing I enjoyed the most in the destruction is that we have Carrie's perspective. She's discovering the true extent of her powers AS she is destroying everything. After the prank, she runs from the gym and collapses on the ground, defeated AGAIN. It's there that she realizes she doesn't have to be the victim anymore. At first, her revenge doesn't extend beyond sealing the gym doors and turning on the sprinklers... the true scope of her powers unfold to her along the way, and we as readers get to follow along. It's absolutely riveting.

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I'd forgotten Carrie leaves the prom in the novel and makes a conscious decision to return. She doesn't even re-enter the building, does she? She stands outside the school and psychically seals off all the entrance-ways as her schoolmates burn. I guess that makes more sense than the film, she doesn't trap herself (perhaps in the movie she gathered a bubble of oxygen around her to keep her from being asphyxiated...)

Jane---sorry I skipped around here, but I did answer your question in detail on the previous page of this thread.

EDIT: And wonderwaiter---I would love to see them try to do that in the stage production!

... even abstractly, as I mentioned before.

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Updated On: 2/8/12 at 11:34 PM

No worries! I've been jumping around, too. And I wasn't tired of questions at all!

Enjoy the book! It's really terrific.

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Updated On: 2/8/12 at 11:50 PM

Enjoy it, Jane! It's a fantastic read!

Owen, she re-enters the building and watches through the doors in the lobby.

Besty, I'd love it too, but it's SO rich and detailed in the book I have trouble imagining how you would SHOW it and do it any sort of justice.

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Bwa. Bwa. Bwah hahahahahahahaha!

Doesn't anybody ever get it right?
Namo!
Why don't they remember that I'm F'in' Namo?
Namo!
Is it any harder to say than
Goddamn troll and crazy and weirdo Madonna-hater and
Doesn't anybody think that I can hear?

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(Double post for no reason! What the hell???)

Updated On: 2/9/12 at 01:38 AM

In general I agree My Oh My, but I think there can be some exceptions. E.g. The SUNDAY IN THE PARK revival..

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