Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Carrie by Stephen King Carrie (2013 film) Carrie is a 2013 American supernatural horror film. It is the third film adaption of Stephen King's 1974 novel of the same name, and a remake of Brian De Palma's 1976 film of the same name, this version is a more faithful adaptation of the novel. It stars Chloë Grace Moretz as the title character, and Julianne Moore as her mother, Margaret White. The film was scheduled to be released on March 15, 2013, but was later moved to October 18, 2013. The film will be the first co-production between MGM and Screen Gems. Contents. The plot follows the same structure as the originals: Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), a misfit pupil gets beaten at home by her religious, deranged mother, Margaret (Julianne Moore) and constantly bullied at school by a group of popular girls called "The Ultras" led by the popular and spoiled, Chris Hargensen (Portia Doubleday). Carrie finally receives a moment of happiness, when one of her tormentors, Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde) asks her handsome, jock boyfriend Tommy Ross (Ansel Elgort) to take her to the prom. But Carrie's night of shine and acceptance turns into a nightmare of destruction and chaos after one final, complete evil prank is pulled on her. In the opening, Margaret was screaming very loudly in her bed, then gives birth to a baby girl, and about to kill her, but then she chooses to protect her instead. Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz) is a girl in her last three months of her senior year in high school. All of her life Carrie has just wanted to live a normal life, but her overly-religious, deranged mother Margaret White (Julianne Moore) wants her to live a life free of sin. Margaret abuses Carrie, not only physically, but by locking Carrie in a closet to pray. Carrie being humiliated once more as she has her very first period. One day, after gym class in the school showers, Carrie has her very first menstrual period. Knowing nothing of periods, she thinks she's bleeding to death. The other girls laugh at Carrie and tease her by throwing tampons and feminine napkins at Carrie. One of the girls named Chris Hargensen (Portia Doubleday), records Carrie with a phone. Chris has always hated and bullied Carrie the most. Back at home, Margaret, believing Carrie's period to be a sin, forces Carrie into the closet and locks the door. As Carrie screams to be let out, she makes a crack on the door. Both Margaret and Carrie are surprised at this, and Carrie realizes she has incredibly strong and destructive telekinetic abilities. The next day, the gym teacher Miss Desjardin (Judy Greer) informs the girls, who teased Carrie that they will have detention for the rest of the week with her. When Chris tells her she won't go, Ms. Desjardin informs her that anyone, who doesn't show up for detention, will have suspension and refusal of their prom tickets. Chris, feeling like she didn't do anything wrong, doesn't continue detention, goes away and plans to get revenge. While Carrie looks up more information on her psionic abilities and practices them in secret, Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde), one of the popular girls that took part in teasing Carrie in the shower room, felt bad about what she did and tries to make it up to Carrie. Sue asks her popular, handsome, jock boyfriend Tommy Ross (Ansel Elgort) to take Carrie to the prom and show her a good time. When Tommy asks Carrie, she is at first suspicious, but then accepts Tommy's invitation. Carrie informs her mom that she's been invited to prom, but Margaret says no. Carrie begs and tries to make her see her reason, but when Margaret walks away, Carrie reveals her power to her mother. Margaret thinks Carrie's powers come from the Devil, but Carrie explains her advanced telekinesis and how she isn't the only one, and that she wants things to change, meaning no more abuse or closet time. Margaret still believes Carrie has evil powers and that sin has found its way into her. Carrie on the other hand gets ready for prom by buying makeup, and sewing her own dress. While Chris and her boyfriend Billy Nolan's (Alex Russell) plan to humiliate Carrie at the prom begins by going to a farm to kill a pig and pour it's blood into a bucket. Carrie ready for her prom date with Tommy Ross. On the night of the prom, Carrie is excited, yet nervous, while Margaret is saying and doing everything she can to try to stop Carrie from going. Before leaving, Carrie telekinetically pushes her mother into the prayer closet and locks the door. When she arrives at the prom, Carrie feels amazing, like her whole life has led to this moment. When it's time to announce the prom king and queen, everyone is surprised to find out that Carrie White and Tommy Ross won. This is all part of Chris and Billy's plan. Chris' best friend Tina Blake (Zoë Belkin) slipped fake ballots into the voting box, so the two would win. Once on stage, Chris pulls the rope to a bucket of pig blood that stood above Carrie showering her with the blood. Humiliated she wants to get away from there, until the video that Chris taped of her in the locker room appears on the big screens above the stage. Most people laugh, while the rest don´t do anything. Soon afterwards the emptied bucket falls on Tommy's head, killing him instantly. Finally having enough and driven by the feeling of being in a room full of killers with evil purposes towards her, Carrie mercilessly unleashes her extremely powerful telekinesis on all of the prom-goers. The telekinetic shockwave knocks everyone down. Then she throws Heather Shyres across the room and into the doors, smashing her face. All the students, now terrified, begin to panic, and in blind hysteria, stampede for the exits. But before they can escape, Carrie locks all the doors so no one can escape, and telekinetically controls and moves multiple objects at once, killing people with them. She kills Jackie Talbot and Freddy Holt, crushes Jackie with bleachers and smashes Freddy with a table. Carrie spots the Thibodeau sisters, Nicki and Lizzy, trying to leave and knocks them down and holds them there, while the panicking prom goers trample over them, killing them. She then breaks all the electrical equipment which crashes into the floor, setting the curtain on fire. Carrie becomes enraged at the sight of Tina Blake attempting to leave with Mr. Ulmann and she throws a burning silver moon at her separating them both. She then begins zapping Tina with wires causing her to stumble backwards into a piece of burning debris, which sets her dress on fire. Tina burning to death. Flailing her arms around, Tina screams as she burns to death. Desjardin and George watch in horror before she eventually falls to the floor, dead. Tina screaming while flailing her arms around. As Sue comes to see Carrie, she sees the terror that Carrie is causing. The fire from the curtain has consumed the gym and as burning objects fly across the room, Ms. Desjardin and a few students are able to escape. As the school burns to the ground, Carrie leaves and walks home covered in blood, while barefoot and leaving a trail of fire and mass destruction in the town. On the way home, Carrie sees Chris and Billy driving toward her in an attempt to run her over, but she uses her abilities to stop Billy's car in its tracks by telekinetically levitating it in the air. Billy dies from too much blood loss after breaking his nose, and Chris tries to get out, but Carrie's telekinesis is strong enough to prevent her from doing so. She revs up the car, but Carrie stops her with her powers, causing her to drive to the gas station, causing her to have her face go through the windshield with shards of glass in her cheeks. She begs for help but Carrie refuses as she sets off a gas pump causing the car to explode and kill Chris with her corpse burning alongside Billy's. When Carrie gets home, she runs to the closet where she locked up her mother, not knowing that while she was at the prom, Margaret broke out and grabbed a knife. After Carrie washes off the blood over her, Margaret then finds Carrie and tells her about how she and her father believed sexual intercourse was a sin, but Carrie's dad got drunk and raped Margaret, but she admitted that she "liked it," thus Carrie was born. Margaret attacks her with her knife but Carrie stops her mother's hand, and uses her powers to push her away. Carrie's mother attacks her, cutting her with the knife. Carrie launches her against the wall and "crucifies" her with household objects and sends other blades into her chest and stomach. Carrie releases her mom, cradles her, and watches her die. Carrie, after realizing what she has done, becomes hysterical and makes stones start to rain from the sky and into the house, until Sue shows up. A furious Carrie grabs Sue with her powers and asked her why everyone tricked her at the prom. Sue then shows Carrie her mind and proves to her that she had nothing to do with what happened at the prom. Carrie tells her that Sue's unborn child is a girl and throws Sue out of the house. before the stones crush the house and herself in the process, while Sue, horrified, touches her stomach to feel like she's pregnant, completely surprised at the revelation, that Carrie found out she was pregnant, something not even she suspected. During a voice-over of Sue's testimony in court regarding the prom night massacre and devastation surrounding it, in which she places the blame of the disaster on everyone, including herself, she visits Carrie's grave, which has been vandalized. There, she places a single white rose by the headstone before leaving. The headstone then cracks prior to exploding as we hear Carrie's scream, leaving Carrie's ultimate fate ambiguous. as Carrie White as Margaret White as Miss Desjardin as Sue Snell as Tommy Ross as Chris Hargensen as Billy Nolan as Principal Morton as Tina Blake as Nicki Watson as Lizzy Watson as Heather Shyres Max Topplin as Jackie Talbot Kyle Mac as Kenny Garson Cynthia Preston as Eleanor Snell Jefferson Brown as Mr. Ulmann Tyler Rushton as Tommy Erbter Connor Price as Freddy Holt Demetrius Joyette as George Dawson Mouna Traore as Erika Gogan Philip Nozuka as Ernest Peterson Skyler Wexler as Little Carrie White (alternate opening) Production. Kimberly Peirce, the director of Stop-Loss and Boys Don't Cry , is slated to direct the MGM/Screen Gems film with a script written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa of Glee , Big Love , and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark fame. 15 year old actress Chloë Grace Moretz, who has played the child assassin Hit Girl in Kick-Ass and the vampire Abby in Let Me In , has been cast as the title role, Carrie White [1]. Julianne Moore will play Carrie's fanatically religious mother Margaret White. Portia Doubleday (Youth In Revolt) has also been cast as the girl who started it all Chris Hargensen. Gabriella Wilde has also been chosen to play the role of Sue Snell. About the new film, Chloë Grace Moretz says, "… We’re kind of going off the book. It’s darker and much more psychological. More ‘Black Swan.’ You’re really looking into her mind and it really looks into the relationship of Margaret and Carrie. It’s set in modern time, so it’s a lot different… It’s something that’s very different from me. It’s an out of body thing. I’m becoming a totally different person for it. I’m letting go of all of my self-esteem issues and just kind of going into it. You have to." Sony Pictures held a "First Look" event at the New York Comic Con on October 13, 2012. It was followed by a panel session with several members of the cast and crew. The first teaser trailer for the film was released on October 15, 2012. Promotion and Release. The film was set for release on March 15, 2013, but by early January 2013, the release date had been moved to October 18, 2013. Sony held a "First Look" event at the New York Comic-Con on October 13, 2012. It was followed by a panel session with several members of the cast and crew. Trailers for the film have included a phone number which when called results in playback of a recording simulating an encounter with characters from the film. An option is given for the caller to receive additional promotional phone calls and text messages. Carrie Summary. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Written by Polly Barbour. Margaret White is a strange woman with despotic, fanatical religious beliefs that she instills into her daughter Carrie. Carrie herself is a frumpy teen who does not really get along with her mother, or anyo=body else; she is bullied at school and is the frequent target of teasing and public ridicule in the town of Chamberlain, Maine, where she lives. Carrie has her first period whilst showering after a physical education class, and is terrified because she has no idea what is happening to her. Her mother will not talk about anything relating to the intimate parts of the human body and so Carrie is completely uninformed about her own changing body and puberty. Chris Hargensen, a wealthy and extremely popular girl in her class leads her classmates to torment Carrie over the incident. They throw tampons at her and humiliate her completely. Rita Desjardin, her gym teacher, tries to explain what is happening to her whilst she helps her clean up. Carrie develops a strange ability on the way home; she realizes that she is able to control objects from a distance away. At school the following day, Ms Desjardin punishes the girls who bully Carrie with a week of detention. If they do not attend detention they will be suspended from school and banned from the upcoming prom, which is exactly what happens to strident Chris when she leaves. Chris sends her father, an odious and influential attorney, to the school to get her prom privileges reinstated, but he is unable to, so Chris makes up her mind to get revenge on Carrie whom she sees as responsible for her punishment. Sue Snell is also popular at school, but unlike Chris, feels guilty about the way she treated Carrie, and persuades her boyfriend to invite Carrie to prom instead of her. Carrie is wary, but nonetheless accepts the offer and makes a prom dress for herself. Chris, meanwhile, persuades her boyfriend Billy to find two buckets-worth of pigs' blood so that she can put her plan of revenge into action. At first, Carrie's prom experience is very positive. Tommy is a very gentlemanly date, and his friends are very welcoming to Carrie. Tommy, for his part, is genuinely attracted to Carrie. Chris rigs the election for Prom King and Queen; Carrie and Tommy win the voting, but as they are crowned, Chris, from outside the prom, dumps the pigs blood on their heads. She accidentally drops one of the buckets, which hits Tommy hard in the head, and kills him in minutes. The image of Carrie drenched in blood provokes laughter from almost all the other attendees, but Carrie is so humiliated that she runs from the building. Outside, Carrie remembers her new ability and decides to use it to get her own back on her bullies. She hermetically seals the gym from afar and activates the sprinkler system. She also causes a fire which ignites the gym's fuel tanks, exploding the school. Everyone present at the prom is killed. Carrie is so filled with rage that she opens the hydrants that are near the school so that they cannot be used to put the fire out. She also telepathically tells everyone in Chamberlain that she caused this carnage. At home, Margaret believes that Carrie has been possessed by the devil himself, and that she must kill her ini order to save her. She first tells Carrie that she was conceived from a rape. She stabs Carrie in the shoulder with a kitchen knife but Carrie does not need weapons to retaliate; she stops Margaret's heart using only her mind, and kills her. She then runs to the roadhouse where she believes the rape of her mother took place, and sees Chris and Billy leaving. One of Billy's friends has told them about the explosion at the school and so when Billy sport Carrie, he tries to run her down in the car. Carie telekinetically takes over the car and runs it into the wall of the roadhouse, killing Chris and Billy instantaneously. Sue Snell has been receiving Carrie's telepathic messages and finds Carrie bleeding to death in the parking lot. Carrie believed that Sue and Tommy had set her up but comes to realize that neither had anything to do with the prank. Just before she dies she forgives Sue. She cries out for her mother as she passes away. The town of Chamberlain is decimated. The survivors of the night's carnage plan to re-locate elsewhere and although money is allocated by the state for a rebuilding project, nobody wants to stay. Ms Desjardin blames herself for what happened and resigns her position. There is an investigation by a committee who conclude that there will never be another Carrie White; as they do so, a woman writes to her sister about her baby daughter's telekinetic powers and believes that she must have inherited them from her grandmother. Update this section! You can help us out by revising, improving and updating this section. After you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. An editor will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. Carrie. The story of misfit high-school girl, Carrie White, who gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers. Repressed by a domineering, ultra- religious mother and tormented by her peers at school, her efforts to fit in lead to a dramatic confrontation during the senior prom. Images. From the Flap. Carrie was the odd one at school; the one whose reflexes were always off in games, whose clothes never really fit, who never got the point of a joke. And so she became the joke, the brunt of teenaged cruelties that puzzled her as much as they wounded her. There was hardly any comfort in playing her private game, because like so many things in Carrie's life, it was sinful. Or so her mother said. Carrie could make things move--by concentrating on them, by willing them to move. Small things, like marbles, would start dancing. Or a candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her game, her power, her sin, firmly repressed like everything else about Carrie. One act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious jokes of her classmates, offered Carrie a new look at herself the fateful night of her senior prom. But another act--of furious cruelty--forever changed things and turned her clandestine game in to a weapon of horror and destruction. She made a lighted candle fall, and she locked the doors. Inspiration. The character "Carrie" was a composite of two girls Stephen knew during high school. The story is largely about how women find their own channels of power, and what men fear about women and women's sexuality. "Carrie White is a sadly mis-used teenager, an example of the sort of person whose spirit is so often broken for good in that pit of man- and woman-eaters that is your normal suburban high school. But she's also Woman, feeling her powers for the first time and, like Samson, pulling down the temple on everyone in sight at the end of the book." Stephen King's Carrie: Theme. A theme is an underlying message of a story. Stephen King's Carrie holds many themes in its context. Most of them represent the attitudes, personalities, and decency of the average high school student. The moral standard that you should treat others the way you wish to be treated is reflected in Carrie through the characters of Christine Hargensen, Margaret White, and Susan Snell. . Christine Hargensen is Carrie's number one enemy, and she is usually the ringleader of the mean tricks played on her. Chris, for example, is the one who starts the rude chanting when Carrie gets her period for the first time at school. She ruthlessly throws tampons and sanitary napkins at Carrie as she stands helplessly in the showers after gym class. Chris is also behind the pig blood incident at prom. She and her boyfriend, Billy Nolan, dump buckets of pig blood on top of Carrie when she and her date, Tommy Ross, stand on stage after being announced the prom king and queen. Carrie's hatred for Chris grows throughout the story, and she finally wreaks vengeance. Although Chris and Billy fled immediately after pulling their stunt at prom, Carrie eventually finds them driving in Billy's car. Using her telekinetic powers, she spins the car out of control and it crashes into a local bar. "The gas tank split open, and fuel began to puddle around the rear of the car. Part of one straight pipe fell into it, and the gas bloomed into flame." (220) Christine Hargensen makes Carrie's life miserable at school, but she is not the one causing despair at home. . Margaret White, Carrie's mother, is an extremely religious woman who forces Carrie to believe and trust things she does not necessarily want to. When Carrie goes home and tells her mother about her period, "Momma" does not comfort her or explain anything to her. Instead, she screams at Carrie, telling her she is sinful, and she locks her in a closet where she is supposed to pray for forgiveness. Page 1 of 2. Essays Related to Stephen King's Carrie: Theme. 1. Stephen Kings Carrie. In his book Carrie, Stephen King writes about a young teenage girl named Carrie White who has been teased and ridiculed throughout her life by her peers. . "Kings early novel Carrie is a study in the unresolved tensions that accompany the transition from adolescence to adulthood." . The Stephen King Story. . The Moral Voyages of Stephen King. . Stephen King A Critical Companion. . Word Count: 1371 Approx Pages: 5 Grade Level: High School. 2. Stephen King. Stephen King's writing is influence by his life experiences, historical events throughout his lifetime, and also share common themes. . After having lived in, as well as, around Bangor since their marriage, the Kings moved their growing family to southern Maine because of Stephen's mother's deteriorating health at the end of the summer of 1973. . In the fall of 1974, the Kings left Maine for Boulder, Colorado. . On returning to Maine in the summer of 1975, the Kings bought a home in the Lakes Region of western Maine. . One of the most prevalent. Word Count: 1741 Approx Pages: 7 Grade Level: High School. 3. Stephen king on writing. Stephen King Whenever someone mentions the name Stephen King, people tend to contemplate about writings of horror and fiction. . If it were not for Tabitha pulling Carrie out of the trash, Stephen would have never been published. . In Carrie, a father was never mentioned. . His high school years can be compared to that of Carrie in his novel Carrie. . Carrie was a lonely girl who did not have any friends. . Word Count: 1005 Approx Pages: 4 Grade Level: High School. 4. Carrie by Stephen King. Carrie realizes that she has telekinetic power. . In the meantime Susan Snell who was also involved in the shower-situation feels sorry for Carrie and asks her boyfriend Tommy to go out with Carrie. . Everybody laughes at Carrie and she runs out of the hall. . Susan is able to see Carrie in her mind and searches her. . He asks Carrie if she would go to the Prom with him. . Word Count: 734 Approx Pages: 3 Grade Level: High School. 5. Carrie: A Formulaic Expression of the Horror Genre. The novel Carrie possesses themes of; sexual crisis, supernatural talents (www.washington.edu), the victim status of women, family dysfunction (www.washington.edu), and the heroine defeating the monster, each an essential component of the horror genre. . Sexual crisis is a prevalent theme in the horror genre and is prevalent throughout Carrie. . Perhaps the most prevalent theme found in the horror genre is the victim status of women. . "Carrie felt her face twisting and crumpling why didn't you tell me? . Another common theme found in horror pieces. Word Count: 1878 Approx Pages: 8 Has Bibliography Grade Level: High School. 6. Stephen King. Stephen King was born in Portland Maine on September 21, 1947. . Hyde and when he was around seven Stephen began writing horror stories of his own. . The principal put an end to it by directing Stephen's obvious talents elswhere. . Carrie was fished out of the trash can by Tabitha and she pursuaded King to finish it. . Carrie was a huge success and the paperback rights were eventually sold for $400,000. . Word Count: 702 Approx Pages: 3 Grade Level: High School. 7. Sister Carrie Analysis. He uses this description to set the theme of industry before Carrie even begins to look for employment. . To heighten the theme of industry and its importance in the novel, Dreiser goes into detailed descriptions of money itself. . First, Dreiser himself grew up much like Carrie. . For Carrie though, prostitution was a way of life. . Dreiser wrote about Carrie from a sense of feeling. . Word Count: 1024 Approx Pages: 4 Grade Level: High School. 8. Dreamcatcher - From Page to Screen. There have been cinematic masterpieces such as "The Godfather", "Jaws", and "Carrie" (1976). There have also been some lesser adaptations such as "The Cat in the Hat," Bonfire of the Vanities," and "Carrie" (2013). . The novel had a very complex and versatile theme. . The film, on the other hand, completely sets aside this major theme. . " The adaptation offended me, personally, because the novel is one of my favorite novels by Stephen King. . Word Count: 1307 Approx Pages: 5 Grade Level: High School. 9. Stephen Crane, Stephen Foster and Realism. American realism was most commonly a feature of narrative fiction such as in the works of Stephen Crane, although authors occasionally applied its themes and literary techniques to poetry and drama as Stephen Foster did. . Stephen Foster was a musical gifted man who wrote minstrel songs and sentimental ballads about the different aspects of America. . Both Stephen Crane and Stephen Foster faced the facts of life and accepted it for what it was. . Nineteenth-century realist writers Stephen Crane and Stephen Foster addressed social, economic, and political concerns through their depictio.