The Behind-the-scenes Production of Carrie the Witch

One of the most important horror films in 1970s, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, has become a famous classic horror film in film history. The classic of this film lies in laying the basic formula and various ways to die for similar teenagers or campus horror films in the future. This repressed girl retaliated against her classmates with her super powers and became the originator of teenage horror films such as Scream, and her degree of fright was far better than that of the current follow-up movies. This film was the most successful film directed by Depalma at that time, with profound implications. In addition to using a large number of auxiliary pictures, Brian De Palma has another unique symbol: the nightmare ending with the fake.

The protagonists in the film are all high school students, which adds a bit of youthful and lively atmosphere to the work, but it is among these young people that a fight is brewing at any time. Although there were many movies aimed at schools at that time, none of them was as shocking as Carrie. The producer handled Stephen King's first novel skillfully. Kelly's world is like a snake pit. There are beautiful things in it, but you may be fatally bitten at any time. Director Brian de Palma showed his master style in the film, especially in the climax scene, he effectively used the split screen method and created excellent visual effects. 1999, the second film was released, but both the plot and the skills were disappointing and could not be compared with the last film.

Bipolar review

Some people think it's bad, others think it's great, and Carrie the Witch inevitably encounters two poles in the comments.

I don't feel good: It's really unfair to blame Stephen King for the failure of Carrie, but the script adapted from his novel is really a mess, the characters are pale and barren, the dialogue is dry, and he is too nervous when expressing the anxiety of teenagers. Everyone in the film is like a character in a comic book except Kelly. Therefore, in this large group of plane figures, the protagonist Carrie shows her uniqueness, and she can at least resonate with people. In the climax, there is a chance to enter one of the great moments of horror movies. There is no suspense and dramatic tension, but there is no sense of terror because of chaos. This film, like other works of this best-selling writer, has exposed all its limitations because it is presented in a visual way. It is hard to believe that the film is actually adapted from the same work, and the imagination necessary for the novel disappears without a trace in the film. The film compresses everything in the novel to the simplest elements, which is a serious retrogression of time and fails to save the film. Today it looks as cheap as before.

I think it's good: There are many factors that make this movie a milestone of classic horror movies. First of all, it is the first novel in Stephen King that has been put on the screen, and it is one of the special cases in which the script has been adapted quite successfully. Secondly, the elements of this film show Cece Speysick's acting skills. Third, it's not really a horror movie.

The development of the story is not the focus of Palma's attention, but here he shows the talent of narrative personality: he can go so deep into the essence with his usual flashy style. The film's success is largely attributed to the wonderful performances of Cece Spacek and Rosetta Jacobs, the actor of Mama Carrie. They formed an isolated and claustrophobic relationship. Mother turned her psychological fear of sex into a distorted personal belief and imposed this deformed "belief" on Carrie. As a punishment, she often keeps her daughter in a storage room full of horrible religious statues and forbids her to develop normal friendship with her peers. The last 20 minutes of the movie were wonderful, cruel and inevitable. This is not a dangerous science fiction film, but a study of characters that can be recognized and understood.

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Cece Speysick was nominated for best actress in the first Oscar for her leading role in this film, but faye dunaway, the heroine of the film network (1976), won the best actress of the year. 1980, she starred in the film The Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), which was adapted from the autobiography of American country singer Loretta Lynn and won an Oscar.

Nancy Allen, who played Chris, later became Palma's wife, and they divorced. This film was her first collaboration with Palma, and they later collaborated on home movies, razor edges and fierce routes. Amy irving, who played Sue, later played the heroine with super powers in Anger. John Travolta, who plays Billy, was not famous at first. A year later, he became a famous dancer because of Dancing Weekend and Grease two years later, and later he became the hero in Fierce Line.

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In addition, the music of this film is also excellent.

After working closely with bernard herrmann, Herman died in 1973 and 1976, and Palma had to find another music score that was good at some horror movies, so he found the Italian music score Pi Nuo. Donagio was a singer who was a smash hit in Italy in the 1950s, and later began to work. In the early days, the constellation Lions, including Visconti, didn't really become famous until the early 1970s. Before Carrie, the famous work was Don't Watch Now (1973). This is his first collaboration with Brian de Elma, and they have collaborated six times since then, except for 1979' s Family Movie, all of which are suspense thrillers. Palma's horror movie Toy Man was also scored by Don Taggio.