She's Back! CARRIE - First preview !!! - Page 27
She's Back! CARRIE - First preview !!!
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Posted: 2/8/12 at 7:37pm
Songanddance, dont u think chris would make sure her epic trick would be caught on camera?! Norma and Billy at least would be filming? Chris would make sure that sucker was streaming.
Your nasty retort, however, leaves me uninterested in discussing it anymore.
I encourage those interested in seeing this, if only for Miss Ranson.
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#651King Musicals
Posted: 2/8/12 at 8:02pm
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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#652King Musicals
Posted: 2/8/12 at 8:08pm
See I think those ideas are interesting- if they wanted to really update Carrie why not go there? Especially if they are doing so much with projection work.
You know they are developing yet another film remake- I wonder if they won't incorporate some similar ideas- it would at least make for a reason to doing a third version of the story.
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Posted: 2/8/12 at 8:10pmCloverfield Carrie! The story would actually be absolutely ideal for the "found footage" format, but it really seems silly to make yet another film version.
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Posted: 2/8/12 at 8:26pmI'm not happy about the new Carrie remake, i just don't see the point. They ruined the remakes of Elm Street, Amityville, Salems Lot, The Hitcher etc, why bother. The sequel was awful and lost money, the TV remake good pretty bad reviews and not great ratings and the TV series never happened. Leave it alone.
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#655King Musicals
Posted: 2/8/12 at 9:38pm
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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Posted: 2/8/12 at 10:34pm
"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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Posted: 2/8/12 at 10:47pmHi supportivemom! Yep, I went to HS with Molly (she was a drama major and I was a voice major)- we actually did Ragtime together, in which she played Mother, the role that Mazzie originated! She is incredibly talented and hard-working and is one of the most genuinely nice people I've ever met.
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Posted: 2/8/12 at 10:56pm
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.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
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Posted: 2/8/12 at 11:05pmyup, you read my mind, ww. I was just planning to see if the book is on kindle for my ipad2.
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Posted: 2/8/12 at 11:19pmI'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...)
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Posted: 2/8/12 at 11:25pmWW-just bought the book from ibooks on my ipad!
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Posted: 2/8/12 at 11:34pm
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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Posted: 2/8/12 at 11:47pm
Oh, I'm SO sorry, Besty. You did answer me. I'm also jumping around on this thread and totally missed it. I had figured you were tired of my asking questions on the topic-thanks so much!
I'm looking really forward to reading the book which I'm about to start this minute.
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#665King Musicals
Posted: 2/8/12 at 11:50pm
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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Posted: 2/8/12 at 11:57pmI'm just grateful for this venue to discuss great literature.
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Posted: 2/9/12 at 12:01am
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.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
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Posted: 2/9/12 at 12:01am
And with that, Namo contributed the Carrie thread's 666th post.
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Posted: 2/9/12 at 12:40am
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Posted: 2/9/12 at 1:38am
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Posted: 2/9/12 at 1:38am
(Double post for no reason! What the hell???)
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Posted: 2/9/12 at 3:47am
I don't buy that projections as implemented recently in live theatre to be in any way "updates" and, much less, an 'improvement.' Not saying anyone who thinks so is wrong as it's subjective, but that isn't stagecraft to me. It's video, it's cinema, it's projections, it's flat, cartoonish, and usually just an excuse to boost profits and skimp on traditional, tangible sets.
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Posted: 2/9/12 at 4:01amIn 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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Posted: 2/9/12 at 8:32am
'Goddamn troll and crazy and weirdo Madonna-hater and'
Namo is a Madonna fan now, dont let him lie to you lol
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