Carrie with the ball of the devil

Carrie with the ball of the devil ( Carrie ) is an American film of Brian De Palma left in 1976.

Synopsis

The film of Brian de Palma takes again the intrigue of the novel Carrie of Stephen King but moves away from there sometimes openly, alternating ellipse S and additions in the history.

Carrieta White is a sixteen year old young girl, introduced as of the scene of opening like a solitary girl and to the disgracieux physique. At the time of the shower which follows the course of sport, she notices bleedings, is not explained them and is humiliated by his/her comrades who shout to him that she has her rules. Finally, the professor of sport comes to comfort it then returns it to it for the day. Carrie shows in the office of the director a first impression of his capacities telekinetic, by reversing its ashtray brutally.

Margaret White, mother of Carrie, are then introduced like a religious extremist, trying to convert with its faith the family of Known, classmate of Carrie. Returning to it, it has a conversation with her daughter, the argument violently, applicant that it is fished of Carrie which led so that it becomes a woman. Carrie, in tears, is then locked up in an obscure and lugubrious wall cupboard, where it must request for expier his faults.

The life begins again with the college where Carrie studies. This one is interested in telekinesis while the other girls are with préparatif festival of end of the year. At the request of his/her boyfriend Sweats, Tommy Ross agrees to invite Carrie with the ball of end of the year. This one is astonished, thinks that one makes fun once again of it but accepts finally in front of the sincerity of Tommy. A violent argument with his/her mother constrained Carrie to be used of its gifts. Terrified, Margaret does not manage to retain his/her daughter. The ball can start…

Carrie is very anxious but manages to benefit from the evening, reassured by Tommy, which it ends up embracing on scene. She believes herself in a dream, or over Mars as she entrusts it to the teacher of sport. But Chris, another classmate of Carrie and which hates the latter, prepared a trap, with the assistance of his/her boyfriend Billy Nolan. Blood of pig was collected in a bucket then laid out with the top of the estrade of the room of dance. The results having been faked, Carrie gains the contest of the queen of the evening. It goes up on scene; its nightmare starts when Chris draws on the cord, pouring the blood of pig on Carrie.

Horrified, Carrie uses its capacities to make the most possible evil with those which made fun once again of it. It kills the teacher of sport, seals the doors and causes many fires. Finally it leaves the gymnasium, locking up her comrades in the gymnasium on fire. Carrie returns to it, takes a shower then begs his/her mother to comfort it. It morfond not to have listened to it. Margaret then tries to kill his/her daughter, with a kitchen knife, but it fails. It is Carrie which will kill it several stabs, using its capacities once again. The house collapses then, letting to the spectator suppose that Carrie died.

The mother of Known day before then about his/her daughter, one of only surviving of the drama of the gymnasium. In one of its dreams, Sue comes to deposit flowers on the remains of the house of Carrie. The hand ensanglantée of this one in fate; Sweat in fact is well lengthened in its bed but it does not seem to be able to demolish itself of its nightmare.

Data sheet

Title: Carrie with the ball of the devil
original Title: Carrie
Realization: Brian De Palma
Scenario: Stephen King and Lawrence D. Cohen
American Film
Turning: of May to July 1976, in the surroundings of Los Angeles
Coming out date: October 31st 1976 (the USA)
Kind: fantastic, terror
Production: United Artists
Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - 35 mm
Lasted: 98 minutes (1. 38)
Interdict with less than 16 years at its exit in France

Distribution

Sissy Spacek: Carrie White
Piper Laurie: Margaret White
Amy Irving: Sweat Snell
William Katt: Tommy Ross
John Travolta: Billy Nolan
Nancy Allen: Chris Hargenson
Betty Buckley : Miss Hakes
Priscilla To point: Mrs Snell
P.J. Plates:

normalized

Rewards

1977 Grand Prix of the International festival of science fiction film of Avoriaz 1977

Differences film/delivers

The structure even adopted by Stephen King in her book - alternation between account, newspaper cuttings and extracts of theses reporting the case “Carrieta White” - was impossible to adapt to the cinema.

Concerning the contents, certain scenes are identical to those of the novel, while others are specific to film. Thus, the initial scene of the shower, that in the office of the director or those of the ball are very close to the book. On the other hand, the professor of sport occupies a more important role in film and certain scenes with it appear only in the book.

Two works differ primarily on their ends. In the book, Carrie destroys the gymnasium then uses its capacities in the city, burning and devastating all on its passage. It is about an end much more apocalyptic than in film, where only the high-school pupils undergo the revenge on Carrie. The death of the mother also differs: Carrie stops its heart by the thought in the book, whereas it kills it with stabs in film. Finally in the Carrie book does not die in the collapse of its house but in the street, succumbing to the wound caused by the knife of his/her mother.

Key periods

Many scenes of film can be connected with suspense hitchcockien. It is besides to note that the small music used when Carrie is the seat of an intense emotion is the same one as that of Psychose , when Norman Bates is on the point of killing Marion Crane, in the famous scene of the shower.

At the time of the scene of the ball, the screen is separate into two. One can thus see Carrie and at the same time the doors to be closed again or the gymnasium to blaze up. The interpretation of Sissy Spacek is then particularly remarkable. Its place on the scene enables him to dominate the others; it is a goddess, able of all, especially of worst.

To also notice the final installation of the mother of Carrie, literally crucifiée by his/her daughter. Its posture and the stabs received by Margaret are similar to those of Saint Sebastien. This statue, clarified in a worrying way in a long fixed plan, is a signature characteristic of works of Stephen King.

Around film

the film gave place to a continuation: Carrie II: The Hatred of Katt Shea in 1999 and a Remake for television: Carrie of Davis Carson in 2002.

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