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SirPaulMuaddib	Brian DePalma's Menstrual Epic	Lead	[-]
Posts: 5756 (01/11/09 09:03 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Of all the things I've lost, I miss my ads the most. Right! Remove this ad WHY DID NOBODY MENTION THAT CARRIE WAS ON TONIGHT???? I would have watched it, I haven't seen it in a long while, I just caught the tail end of the movie....with the bat shit crazy mom. Of course the best scene ever in any movie is the pig's blood prom night revenge scene.....Sissy Spacek was brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.....and the scoring of the movie was genious.
CBRetriever		#1	[-]
Posts: 23999 (01/11/09 09:07 PM) MESS member Reply Quote More Recent Posts	the last scene scared the crap out of me back in the day
SirPaulMuaddib		#2	[-]
Posts: 5757 (01/11/09 09:08 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	The visitation of the grave by Amy Irving, was classic....love it.
SirPaulMuaddib		#3	[-]
Posts: 5758 (01/11/09 09:11 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	some good trivia of the movie Sissy Spacek wasn't considered for the role of Carrie until her husband, Jack Fisk, convinced director Brian De Palma to allow her to audition. Her audition so pleased De Palma that she got the lead role. 'Buckley, Betty', who plays the gym teacher in the film, went on to star as Carrie's mother in the ill-fated Pitchford/Gore musical version of Carrie. The song "When There's No One" from the show is included on Buckley's Sterling records release "Children Will Listen." No official cast album exists, although several unofficial recordings have been made. The name of the high school is Bates High, a reference to Norman Bates from Psycho (1960). In addition, the four note violin theme from Psycho is used over and over in the film. The dizzying camera shot during the prom scene was achieved by placing William Katt and Sissy Spacek on a platform that was spinning in one direction, while the camera was being dollied in the opposite direction. Initially, P.J. Soles was only cast for two weeks, but after she hit Sissy Spacek over the head with her red baseball hat during the volleyball scene, Brian De Palma decided to keep her around longer. The pig's blood dumped on Sissy Spacek was karo syrup and food coloring, although she was willing to have real blood dumped on her. The script called for a model of the White home to be crushed by a hail of rocks. The filmmakers spent an evening trying unsuccessfully to pull off the effect, and as dawn approached, they abandoned the rocks and decided to burn it down. They liked what they saw so it stayed in the film. Sue Snell and her mother are played by real-life daughter and mother Amy Irving and Priscilla Pointer. Melanie Griffith auditioned for the title role. This was the first Stephen King novel adapted into a movie. George Lucas and Brian De Palma held a joint audition for Carrie and Star Wars (1977). There is a long-standing rumor that originally, Sissy Spacek was cast as Princess Leia, and Carrie Fisher as Carrie, but when Fisher refused to appear in nude scenes and Spacek was willing to do them, they switched parts. However, Fisher refuted this story in a Premiere magazine article called "The Force Wasn't With Them," about actors who auditioned unsuccessfully for Star Wars (1977). That article quoted Fisher as saying, "Not only do I love being nude, I would've been nude then... But anyway, it's total bullshit [that Fisher refused to play Carrie]." Amy Irving, who played Sue Snell, originally read for the part of Princess Leia, and William Katt, who played Tommy Ross, originally read for the part of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars (1977). 'Betty Buckley' provides the voice over ("Creepy Carrie! Creepy Carrie!) for the little boy on the bike that chastises Carrie on her way home. John Travolta drives a 1967 Chevelle SS 396 hardtop in this film, and in Pulp Fiction (1994), he drove a 1964 Chevelle Malibu convertible. Nancy Allen claims that she never realized that her character was going to be so evil until she saw the finished film, she thought that she and John Travolta were playing such self-centered, bickering morons that they were there for comic relief. Piper Laurie also thought that the character of Margaret White was so over the top that the film had to be a comedy. The fake blood dropped on Sissy Spacek kept drying and adhering to her skin because of the hot lights. The only solution was to hose her down when the substance got gluey. For her screen test, Sissy Spacek rubbed Vaseline into her hair and didn't bother to wash her face. She also wore a sailor dress (which her mother had made for her when she was in the seventh grade) with the hem cut off. When Carrie flips Billy's car, the interior shot shows them spinning along with it. This effect was not achieved by actually rotating the actors in a car but by simply spinning the film frame in post production. Sissy Spacek asked Brian De Palma how he wanted her to react when Carrie first realizes that she is bleeding in the showers at the start, De Plama told her "It's like you've been hit by a truck". Spacek talked to Jack Fisk (Art Director), who as a child had been run over by a car when he was standing in the streets looking at Christmas lights a neighbor had put up, and used his description of the experience as a basis for the scene. Many of the girls present in the locker room were originally hesitant to appear nude in the film, but after Brian De Palma showed them the nude shots of Sissy Spacek, they became more confident. The boy on the bike was played by Brian De Palma's nephew Cameron. Brian De Palma wanted 'Betty Buckley' to really slap Nancy Allen. Because Allen couldn't get the reaction De Palma wanted, Buckley ended up slapping her as many as thirty times. The uncredited band that performs at the prom is named "Vance or Towers". The uncredited song that they perform, "Education Blues", is available on their 1975 self-titled album. Nancy Allen was the last person to audition for the film. There was originally a scene where Carrie as a little girl is caught talking to a woman sunbathing in the backyard by her mother. Margaret drags Carrie inside and Carrie makes stones rain on the house which tied with the original ending of her burying the house in a shower of boulders. The scene was dropped because the stones didn't have the right effect. In Carrie's house, the statue of a religious figure shot with arrows represents St. Sebastian. It is not a crucifix and does not represent Jesus Christ. Amy Irving's feature film debut. Amy Irving admits that she originally hated the script when she first received it. After seeing the finished film, she thought it was simply 'magic' and loved it. Amy Irving was originally rather disappointed that many of her larger scenes were cut. A scene featuring Irving and William Katt in the backseat of his truck was cut, for reasons unknown. Originally, De Palma had used the split screen effect extensively during the prom scene. Disappointed with the results, he re-edited most of the scenes into full frame shots leaving only the few split screen moments that he felt worked. The ring that Amy Irving wears throughout the movie was a gift to her from Stephen King the author of the book the film is based on. The student at the prom being knocked unconscious by the gym fire hose, was a shot of the actress truly being knocked out by the pressure of the water. It was kept in the final cut for being realistic. The film that Tommy and Sue are watching on TV when Tommy agrees to take Carrie to the prom is Duel at Diablo (1966). Betty Buckley's movie debut. >>> WARNING: Here Be Spoilers <<< Trivia items below here contain information that may give away important plot points. You may not want to read any further if you've not already seen this title. SPOILER: In the scene where the fire hose kills P.J. Soles's character, the water pressure actually burst her eardrums, knocking her unconscious. Soles is actually unconscious when her head rolls to the side from the force of the fire hose. The director decided to keep the shot in. SPOILER: In the second-to-last scene (where Amy Irving lays flowers on Carrie's grave) to make it more "eerie", the shot was filmed backwards - then run in reverse in slo-mo - to give it a surreal effect. This is evidenced by a background automobile traversing the perpendicular intersection backwards, which the viewer can clearly observe as driving in reverse. SPOILER: Ever the stickler for authenticity, Sissy Spacek insisted that she - not a double - be the one whose hand shoots up out of Carrie's grave during Sue Snell's nightmare sequence SPOILER: While filming the bloody prom sequence, Sissy Spacek's trailer was parked behind the set. After being covered in fake blood, for continuity purposes, Spacek refused to wash the effect off. She elected instead to sleep in her bloody clothes for three days of filming
unduli clone		#4	[-]
Posts: 4324 (01/11/09 09:14 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Of all the things I've lost, I miss my ads the most. Right! Remove this ad That copy + paste has store sticker ass taint all over it.
Lila Fowler		#5	[-]
Posts: 845 (01/11/09 11:03 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I'm watching it right now. I just heard "I can see your dirty pillows" Question: Were Amy and Tommy being sincere when they said they were just being nice to Carrie? It wasn't part of the others' plan? Best part of the movie: that weird pop sound when Carrie pulls her mother's stabbed hand off the wall. I love the music during that scene.
Phuz1		#6	[-]
Posts: 3326 (01/11/09 11:07 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Posted in the Clown Rape thread, but relevant here for obvious reasons...
SirPaulMuaddib		#7	[-]
Posts: 5759 (01/12/09 06:13 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Of all the things I've lost, I miss my ads the most. Right! Remove this ad Lila Fowler wrote: Best part of the movie: that weird pop sound when Carrie pulls her mother's stabbed hand off the wall. I love the music during that scene. lol. Yeah.....loved when she's pulling and pulling on her mother, and then you hear that cartoon popping sound.

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