They’re all gonna laugh at you, Carrie.

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Indeed, they laughed at her. From the moment the film starts, I was sure that the adaption of the book to film won’t fail my expectations. It was an amazing adventure, an expected events in a deprived life of Carrie White. With all honesty, I’ve read Carrie a long time ago, maybe five years ago. And I need to read the book again. For what’s it worth, the new adaption was playful and with catharsis. I won’t say that I’m gonna hate the haters if they won’t like it, but all I can say is that the film is A+. I was, in my expectation of Steve’s book, very much satisfied.


I feel like spoiling right now especially to those who can’t watch right now, but I’ll give few tidbits about the acting and how the story will get its mark as a “hell of Stephen King’s goodness.” The directing of the film had been the best there yet, and I hope and wish she would direct The Shining.


The Shining film wasn’t much of the book itself, it lacks the psychological moments of the father and even though The Shining had been the best but it wasn’t in any case the best there yet. Honestly, I love the book but not the film.


Okay, so we have Chloe as Carrie White and Julianne as Mrs. White. The first film was epic. I mean, in that decade it had been one of the best acclaimed films but for the new age I think, as a plain misfit, won’t grab any kind of young hearts to watch it. The 2013 adaption said it all.


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I won’t be talking about the book and the film. Okay, okay. Maybe just a little bit. From the first casting announcement many of the fads who love Stephen King, which I am a part also, thought that Cloe as Carrie White won’t do any good. They thought that the original was the best, but hell yeah people. Cloe can act, in any genre of film she can, and I gave her a chance on this and tell you what she did me in this one. The instant the blood spilled down to her she became Carrie White in any aspect. That sudden power mixed with hatred and crazed fire in her eyes she became the epitome of a crazy girl. Crazy. Nuh, just how brutally I state the way she looked. Because she did, it was flawless. It was…strong and plain crazy. The first adaption, as you did see, limited her power. In this newly adapted version, her power was given justice. Of how menacing, how sinister, how catastrophic that power could be. The film brought out that scare, tentional ability of Carrie. This is the new direction of Stephen King’s books.


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Mrs. White, the uber faithful woman of the powerful guy above, was sickly amazing. Julianne delivered everything about her. This one totally brought out Julianne’s ability to be a dazed believer of her too much affliction in faith. Carrie loved her, the whole picture of it was emotionally tense and heart breaking. Stuff about controlling your power to another direction. Mrs. White sang…okay. No spoilers now. *snicker


Along with the other characters, they did give justice to the point where you would hate them in person. I’ll be talking about the process and all and what’s good and what’s different next time. But overall, the film really sticks with the book till the end. There were several parts merged and divided to give emphasis to the best parts, and the satisfaction it brought to the eyes of the people in the theater. There were amazing parts in the first adaption that the Chloe version didn’t follow and instead copied neatly from the book.


That’s all I could say. Expect for a teary, heartwarming ending. And a hand gripping someone’s leg at the final 5 seconds of the film. Whoops. Did I just spoil the book ending or the film? I don’t know. Just watch it. I wish that the same director would direct other Steve’s books. I know, this lady director is a fan.


Check it out now and know why Carrie White should be loved.



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Published on October 16, 2013 03:25
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