Miss Collins arrived and stopped them, expelling the girls from the locker room. When Carrie hopped off the stage's platform, Miss Desjardin came rushing towards her with a lying compassion. By this point, the entire heart of Chamberlain was up in flames, taking literally hundreds of lives with it. All the while, Carrie was repeatedly teased and bullied by her classmates at every school she ever attended. She also owns her own tailor shop in this film. When she told her mother, however, Margaret would scold her again for believing the others were right in "God's eyes", telling her she was committing a sin and or throw her into the closet. Status Carrie then falls asleep in the closet shortly afterward. An autopsy is performed on Carrie's body. Carrie ignored her mother's crazy actions and even used her powers to physically slide her mother out the door of her bedroom and shut it in order to get ready without being distracted. She saw how Tommy had fallen from the throne to the ground with people surrounding him and as she stood safely outside the auditorium, she decided to give everyone a taste of their own medicine ten times fold. She survives the attempted murder, but only barely, thanks to Sue who enters the house, finds her and manages to revive her. Sue witnesses this from outside. For all of her lonely childhood and misunderstood teenage life, Carrie, an only child, whose father abandoned his family and later died in a construction accident, was disciplined for being taken by curses and secretly abused and beaten into submission and mistreated by her mentally ill religiously fanatical mother for everything on a daily basis. Her death causes Carrie to destroy the house with her and her mother in it dying on the way. Eventually, Carrie made her way through the exit and out the lobby doors, losing both her high-heel shoes as if she were Cinderella fleeing from the Ball. Though Margaret had love for her daughter, her illness warped her perspective on reality and prevented her from loving Carrie in a responsible, positive way. Margaret also disliked her mother, Judith and her new husband, Harold Allison, because Margaret believed that both were living in sin. "Mom, I don't think this is a safe place for you anymore. And as a result, Carrie has become somewhat of an "urban legend" even though the telekinesis part of the story is not taken too seriously, and looked at as a "suicide-revenge" type thing. Carrie in this version is more similar to the book, but in modern terms. But when Carrie told her mother about the Prom offer, Margaret threw tea onto Carrie's face and ranted. Carrie sews her own dress and buys makeup, and on prom night, her mother tries to convince her that it is a trick and threatens to tell Tommy the truth. When Carrie saw her mother and vice versa, both were shocked to realize that one wanted to kill the other. However, after seeing Tommy die, she runs back to him and mourns his death. She demands that she is going and wants to be normal. She then told Carrie, that boys only wanted "sex" from young girls like herself. At first it was funny, until she couldn't get her breath, but the kids kept calling her a "scratch a**" and Carrie got so panicky that she began to scream for air. In the aftermath of this version, Carrie did not die, because Sue later came to her place and managed to revive her by performing CPR. whenever Carrie tries to stop her mom from hurting herself, Carries mom slaps Carrie with her Bible and knocks her over. Ralph told Margaret that they "slipped" and promised it would never happen again. Margaret practically chastised Carrie from right to wrong and began teaching the child that everything that one can think of is a "sin", a result of her abnormal beliefs. On the eve of her departure, she told An-mei a story from her childhood, when she was a little girl about An-mei's age. Don't worry about her truly hurting herself. Carrie (2013) Before Carrie could make it to the exit, she was deliberately tripped by someone in the crowd and fell, causing the laughter to grow even louder. Carrie then brought down the power lines, and when the snapped power wires hit the water and gas-soaked pavement, it ignited several wildfires that burned down the majority of the town's neighborhoods. Sue wakes up screaming revealing that the arm was her mother's. She locks her in the closet and orders her to pray for "forgiveness" when she learns about the shower incident, because she said it was a "curse" for Eve's disobedience offering Adam the fruit and creating the original sin. The incidents of the rain of stones in both the past, when Carrie was a child, and in the present, when she destroys her house. At the age of 15, Carrie unexpectedly had her first period while taking a shower in the girls locker room after gym class. Sissy Spacek insisted that real blood should be spilled onto her, which the director. Also, the "downtown destruction" segment, as portrayed in the novel, which was left out from the 1976 movie because of budget constraints occurred here. At the beginning of the film, Carrie has her first period in the showers and is harassed by Chris and her gang. Despite being the main antagonist, she wasn't revealed to be the true villain until the very end. At the end after Sue's words, Carrie's headstone cracks before exploding, you hear her screams. Carrie was also uncoordinated in her movements and once fell flat on her face during dance class in sophomore year and chipped a tooth. But Carries hurt pretty badly herself. The bucket thenkills Tommy and everyone laughs at Carrie. She told Carrie that the boys always come after the blood and that all boys want from girls is "sex" how they all like to take virgins into their cars to do dirty, ungodly and blasphemous things with them. As a result of this, rocks and hail fell on different parts of the White's house that day. She then stalked the frightened child Why? Both scenes were cut. In this version, however, she doesn't try to kill Carrie with a knife. Gender 8. In her early years, Margaret's father, John Brigham was killed in a brutal gun battle and several years later she opened a fundamentalist church group. She then burns the lock, so Margaret can't escape and disturb the evening. "Red I might have known it would be red". Carrie then questioned why she was there, and was told that it was because she liked his poem. Carrie finds out about the truth behind her Prom attendance after her mind is bonded to. Tommy visited Carrie, once again insisting in taking her to the ball. Carrie was the eldest of four girls and two boys. It's a rather big mystery, due to the fact Carrie killed almost all of the witnesses in her mass homicide, and with so many people dead and so much destroyed outerly and innerly, Chamberlain becomes a virtual ghost town, and even a popular tourist attraction because of Carries actions. Carries powers gave her the thrill that she had never felt all her sad, depressing life. Carrie's powers were strong even when she was a small child and she was also able to read other people's minds and inner thoughts when they were close enough to her, namely Miss Desjardin, the gym teacher, who secretly felt both disgusted and pity for the young girl. She also shares similarities to Dahlia Gillespie from the. It also shows that Carrie was not consciously aware of what she was doing, because the prank and the subsequent laughter had put her in a temporary, catatonic state of mind where her inner rage took over and unleashed her secret powers which led to the subconscious activation of her prom rampage and the tragic destruction of the town. A lush dog fur collar was thrown over Carrie's shoulders and Tommy was given a scepter wrapped in aluminum foil. Her memory about what happened will haunt her for the rest of her life. One of the best parts of the novel Carrie is Carrie's dramatic inner conflict about whether or not she should go to prom. She dialed 911 four times as her mother was attacked. Furthermore, when Carrie was almost 3 years old, she conversed with a young girl next door about her breasts, Margaret became very unhinged and started to scratch herself, howl and scream, shaking violently she grabbed Carrie and shoved her indoors/back in the house to give her a harsh reprimand for associating with their young neighbor. We also recognize that the town of Chamberlain has changed because of Carrie's rampage. Here, Carrie had long strawberry blonde hair, clear skin and the plot of the film was close to that of the novel, but certain differences did occur. In all continuities, Margaret finally went off the deep end and tried to murder Carrie when she returned from the Senior Prom after killing her peers as revenge for a cruel prank involving pig's blood. In the 2013 remake, Carrie White mentioned that she inherited her telekinetic power from either her father Ralph, or from her great-grandmother Sadie Cochran, who was the mother of Judith Cochran, the mother-in-law of John Brigham, the grandmother of. Carrie witnessed as Margaret agonized to her death, and screamed in terror over her loss. Sue then witnesses the house crumbling from the rain of stones. She mortally did wound Carrie, but Carrie, using her telekinesis to stop her heart killing her. Chris then had her friends rig the ballots for Prom King and Queen to ensure that Carrie and Tommy would win the contest. WebThe backstory: Carries dad quit her and her mother when she was 5. In preparation for her role, Sissy Spacek isolated herself from the rest of the ensemble, decorated her dressing room with heavy religious iconography and studied Gustave Dor's illustrated Bible. Carrie, however, had heard enough about everything being sinful. Stephen King Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. She warns her readers to never forget about Carrie, or the events that occurred in Chamberlain, or something like it could happen all over again. The force is to strong, Carrie falls to her knees. At Christian Summer Camp, her comrades played pranks on her such as hiding all her underwear and putting a snake in her shoe or short sheeting her bunk-bed. The original high school is left abandoned and lies in ruins and has not been rebuilt while its surroundings have also been abandoned. After Popo died, An-mei's mother prepared to leave. There she meets Tommy's friend George and his girlfriend, Erika. This woman died because her master beat her child out of her. Margaret then makes a crazy smile, as she follows Carrie downstairs ready to stab her again, as though she was in a sort of mission. Her telekinesis would give her the ability to make her tormentors pay for what they had done. Carrie (1976) Margaret was very evil and abusive to her daughter, Carrie. She clumsily attempted to flee the blood-splattered thrones while struggling to keep her balance. Enraged, Carrie used her powers to close every door of the gym, locking everyone in, and turned the lights red. Focusing on the fire hose, Carrie opened it, washing Norma and everyone away from the door, creating a turmoil in the gym. Then Billy placed the buckets over the school's stage on a high rafter beam completely hidden out of sight. When arriving at the Senior Prom, Carrie was dazzled by all the glamour surrounding her, and as the night progressed, Carrie's nerves began to fade and she felt comfortable while opening up to her peers and even made a few small jokes with some of the Prom goers who finally treated her equally and with respect for once. Due to her mother's religious believes, Margaret refused to discuss the concept of menstruation with Carrie, resulting in Carrie to think she was internally bleeding to death. Behind closed doors, Carrie was beaten by her mother into submission on a daily basis and regularly slapped Carrie in the face and grabbed, dragged, violently shoved and locked into a "prayer" closet by her mother. Now she's ready because "the devil has come home" (2.733). Why does Carries mom hurt herself 2013? But regardless of the iteration, Carrie has been vilified by the surviving residents of Chamberlain, Maine only because she chose to fight back against the constant, collective tormenting and bullying in a way that most people cannot understand or comprehend. Carrie, thinking additionally that Tommy had been purposely killed for taking her to Prom, was overcome with humiliation and utter grief. While Margaret attempted to recite The Lord's Prayer, her heart came to a complete stop. 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