From the light of a different sun
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This is Angela Bettis playing Carrie in the 2002 TV movie. In some ways I found it superior to both the original and the 2013 remake but overall thought it shoveled too much dramatic filler and missed the point completely with its ending. However, Bettis did a much better Carrie than did Spacek or Moretz simply because she does a truly supefying "girl who is most definitely WEIRD", and I have to believe that a girl who grew up the way Carrie did would have been very, very weird.
As grossly unfair as this is to Moretz as an undeniably capable actress, I was more than half expecting her to break out with all kinds of bad puns, devastating insults and tons of profanity as she hurled thunderbolts across the gym floor on the night of the prom. Spacek's Carrie went very much in the opposite direction, her being so flipping soft-spoken, and sweet enough to put a diabetic into a coma for most of the movie.
Carrie's mother (Patricia Clarkson) in the upper right insert conforms more closely to my idea of a stern, grim and juiceless religious fanatic than did either Julianne Moore's lifeless Margaret (2013) or Piper Laurie's (1976) charismatically wacked looney tunes. Signs of the times, maybe: in the 1970's, religious terror a la Exorcist was still perfectly possible even while the Church's influence had begun to erode, and a great many sectarian fanatics of the time could experience paroxysms just by stamping their feet on the ground and shouting bible verses. This may be still be true, but I've not seen it in many years.
One of the places where the TV remake missed the point partially is in the shower where the other girls are shouting "plug it up!". In 1976 and 2013, the Carries were pelted with "feminine hygiene products", where the 2002 Carrie had simply been tormented verbally. The group dynamics still worked very much against her, but the visual representation of the contempt the 1976 and 2013 girls had for Carrie added a grotesque dimension and a visceral punch missing in the 2002 version.
This is Angela Bettis playing Carrie in the 2002 TV movie. In some ways I found it superior to both the original and the 2013 remake but overall thought it shoveled too much dramatic filler and missed the point completely with its ending. However, Bettis did a much better Carrie than did Spacek or Moretz simply because she does a truly supefying "girl who is most definitely WEIRD", and I have to believe that a girl who grew up the way Carrie did would have been very, very weird.
As grossly unfair as this is to Moretz as an undeniably capable actress, I was more than half expecting her to break out with all kinds of bad puns, devastating insults and tons of profanity as she hurled thunderbolts across the gym floor on the night of the prom. Spacek's Carrie went very much in the opposite direction, her being so flipping soft-spoken, and sweet enough to put a diabetic into a coma for most of the movie.
Carrie's mother (Patricia Clarkson) in the upper right insert conforms more closely to my idea of a stern, grim and juiceless religious fanatic than did either Julianne Moore's lifeless Margaret (2013) or Piper Laurie's (1976) charismatically wacked looney tunes. Signs of the times, maybe: in the 1970's, religious terror a la Exorcist was still perfectly possible even while the Church's influence had begun to erode, and a great many sectarian fanatics of the time could experience paroxysms just by stamping their feet on the ground and shouting bible verses. This may be still be true, but I've not seen it in many years.
One of the places where the TV remake missed the point partially is in the shower where the other girls are shouting "plug it up!". In 1976 and 2013, the Carries were pelted with "feminine hygiene products", where the 2002 Carrie had simply been tormented verbally. The group dynamics still worked very much against her, but the visual representation of the contempt the 1976 and 2013 girls had for Carrie added a grotesque dimension and a visceral punch missing in the 2002 version.
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Re: From the light of a different sun
"A definite plus: he doesn't snore."
Durn. That means she wouldn't want me.
Durn. That means she wouldn't want me.
“For drama to deepen, we must see the loneliness of the monster and the cunning of the innocent.”
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Yep that leaves me out too..dongregg wrote:"A definite plus: he doesn't snore."
Durn. That means she wouldn't want me.
Please Oskar.Be me for a little while.
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A badly executed grab, chop and plop job, done purely for giggles and titters. Just imagine the possibilities, though: don't you think Saoirse Ronan could have made a brilliant Abby?
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Well, yes. Once she got that conjunctivitis under control.
“For drama to deepen, we must see the loneliness of the monster and the cunning of the innocent.”
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That ain't conjunctivitis, dude. Eliforms use Visine in massive quantities!dongregg wrote:Well, yes. Once she got that conjunctivitis under control.
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Re: From the light of a different sun
So do we who spend way too much time online.
In fact, a little bottle of Visine was in the original Swiss Army mouse, along with a nail clipper, nose hair trimmer, a little bottle of No-Doze, and the like.
In fact, a little bottle of Visine was in the original Swiss Army mouse, along with a nail clipper, nose hair trimmer, a little bottle of No-Doze, and the like.
“For drama to deepen, we must see the loneliness of the monster and the cunning of the innocent.”
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Re: From the light of a different sun
A match made in...somewhere.
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