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Carrie is a 1976 American supernatural horror film directed by Brian De Palma from a screenplay written by Lawrence D. Cohen, adapted from Stephen King's 1974 epistolary novel of the same name. The film stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White , a shy teenage girl who is constantly mocked and bullied at her school.
Miss Rita L. Desjardin is a fictional character created by American author Stephen King in his first published 1974 horror novel Carrie.In the 1976 film adaptation, the character was renamed Miss Collins and portrayed by Betty Buckley.
The Musical, [34] Carrie White the Musical [35] and Carrie's Facts of Life, [36] which was a hybrid of Carrie and the American sitcom The Facts of Life. In 2018, a high school production of the musical is the focus of "Chapter Thirty-One: A Night to Remember" episode of Riverdale. [37] The Riverdale cast album of the musical was produced via ...
[2] [3] As a young director, De Palma dreamed of being the "American Godard". His style is allusive; he paid homage to Alfred Hitchcock in Obsession (1976) and Body Double (1984); Blow Out (1981) is based on Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup (1966) and Scarface (1983), his remake of Howard Hawks's 1932 film, is dedicated to Hawks and Ben Hecht.
Carrie White is a shy, unpopular girl from Ewen High School in Maine.While showering after gym class, Carrie unexpectedly experiences her first menstrual period.Believing she is bleeding to death, she runs out yelling for help, but the other girls ridicule her by throwing tampons and pads at her.
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In the novel, Carrie's full name is Carietta N. White, whereas many film adaptations spell her full name as Carrietta. She is depicted as a "frog among swans"; a white girl who has skin often peppered with pimples on her face, shoulders, and buttocks, blonde hair that at times appear completely without color, and incredibly dark brown eyes that appear to cast shadows beneath them.
Carrie originally thinks that the invitation was a means of tricking her, but Tommy pleads, and Carrie realizes that his invitation is genuine and accepts. She then sews herself a beautiful white dress to wear to the prom.