A lush dog fur collar was thrown over Carrie's shoulders and Tommy was given a scepter wrapped in aluminum foil. Family information Carrie then falls asleep in the closet shortly afterward. As Tommy arrived, Carrie mentally telekinetically pushed her mother onto the bed to contain her, and left after saying she loved her. In the beginning of the movie, the Bible is in a puddle of water. She has blood all over her arms from forcing it onto the door. In the third iteration it is unclear if Carrie survived or not and is it left to the imagination. Margaret practically chastised Carrie from right to wrong and began teaching the child that everything that one can think of is a "sin", a result of her abnormal beliefs. WebAt this point in the novel, we also strongly suspect, because of evidence that Dana herself has provided, that Rufus poses a sexual threat to her. Shock. Carrie's story becomes a controversial and highly discussed subject. Margaret believes this is a sin and tried to "cleanse" Carrie by stabbing her, but Carrie instinctively uses her telekinesis to protect herself. CarriettaN. White Margaret was very evil and abusive to her daughter, Carrie. She is the mother of Carrie White and a Christian fanatic. Throbbing veins are described whenever Carrie manifests her powers. WebShe hurts herself when she gets angry. Her mother lets her out and asks Carrie if she finished praying. Carrie did this in self-defense for stabbing her with a butcher knife, hitting an artery. At the gym, Carrie was well received by Frieda Jason, who complimented her dress, while Norma and Freddy DeLois mocked her and the others noticed how different she looked. Margaret then makes a crazy smile, as she follows Carrie downstairs ready to stab her again, as though she was in a sort of mission. Once outside and alone, Carrie began to weep upon the grass on the front lawn of the school's campus. She faced the two who she needed to finally kill most of all before the night was over, before she was completely finished with her rampage of revenge. She desperately wants to please her abusive, Bible-thumping mother, but even more badly, she just wants a normal life. The level of Carrie's "un-coolness" and the height of constant and verbal abuse she endured at the hands of her mother and peers and fellow classmates in the novel was far more extreme compared to the versions of the films. She strips off her bloody clothes and takes a bath, washing off the blood. She approaches her again and under the argument, that she must kill Satan in her attacks her again. At the end after Sue's words, Carrie's headstone cracks before exploding, you hear her screams. Before she could reach her, Carrie looked at Miss Desjardin's direction and she flew backward as if she was being pushed by an unseen force. The novel closes with a letter written by a hillbilly woman in Tennessee whose baby daughter is developing incredibly strong advanced telekinetic abilities as well. She then screams smilingly in pain and then Carrie crucifies Margaret, so that she won't recover from her attack and continue to try to kill her. Margaret dies later in her arms, but Carrie does not bring her to the closet like Carrie in the original movie did. She is the seriously mentally ill and abusive daughter of John and Judith Brigham, the granddaughter of Sadie Cochran, the step-daughter of Harold Allison, the wife of Ralph White and the abusive and strict mother of Carrie White. When Carrie was almost 3-years-old, she encountered a young and beautiful neighbor girl named, The film versions of Carrie are heavily different from. She had auburn hair, a small frame and shared the same characteristics as her counterpart in the novel. She also kills for being humiliated, while the laughing crowd is a result of her inner fear in, Carrie actually leaves the gym and remembers her "gift" outside, returning and locking her bullies in. Then Billy placed the buckets over the school's stage on a high rafter beam completely hidden out of sight. While practicing at home, the lights flicker and her mother comes up with a knife to check if she is all right. Perhaps the biggest difference between this depiction of Margaret and the earlier versions is how much she genuinely loves Carrie. Sadly, this is also the case with the movie Carrie.. RELATED: The 10 Worst Stephen King Adaptations (According To IMDb) Though both the book and the original movie are fondly remembered as being among Clocks, dishes, plates, pictures, and other religious objects where tossed and thrown into the air, breaking and shattering as they fell to the floor. Carrie then remembered her mother's ominous words that she would be scorned once again, Miss Collin's kind words of confidence, and the incident in the shower as, in her mind, everyone at the gym laughed at her. Much for her rejoice, the couple was elected King and Queen of the Prom. Rocks start falling through the house, Carrie looks up and then back at Sue. She told Carrie that she had tried to kill her twice before during the first few years of Carrie's life, but she "backslid". She locks Carrie in the closet and scrapes her own arms with her nails until she bleeds. Her mother, Popo, told her that she could no longer be a child. Carrie was raised isolated from society by her single mother after her father Ralph White left them for another woman. Carrie's extremely powerful telekinetic abilities initiated a highly destructive rampage, causing much worse disasters in downtown Chamberlain than at the high school. In preparation for her role, Sissy Spacek isolated herself from the rest of the ensemble, decorated her dressing room with heavy religious iconography and studied Gustave Dor's illustrated Bible. Eventually, she comes across Chris and Billy who attempt to kill her by running her over, but she uses her power to stop the car and in the process kills Billy, then sends the car flying into the gas station, killing Chris in the process. She screams at her mother and the closet door cracks. She doesn't, however, die in this position like in the original movie. Margaret finally told Carrie that she would not allow her daughter to engage in such sinfulness after all she'd been taught. In her bedroom, Carrie angrily caused her mirror to shatter, and managed to rebuilt it before her mother could come in. She manages to slash Carrie's arm and then right as she is about to stab Carrie in the face, Carrie lifts her up. Carrie then, with her last strength, stops her heart, killing her. Chris had Billy viciously slaughter two pigs at a local farm and drain their blood into two big metal buckets. WebUpon her way home, Carrie uses her recently discovered telekinesis to stop a boy from teasing her. Angela Bettis was the actress who portrayed Carrie in 2002. Margaret then started to scratch and punch herself in the face, but Carrie used her power to slide her mother out of the room. Movie info The mother hurts herself (example: She stabs herself with sewing needles). Tragically, making a direct and detail-perfect novel-to-film adaptation of anything is impossible.Something will always be left out. Margaret then passes by the hallway, without Carrie noticing. Carrie researches about telekinesis for better understatement, while in the novel, she never does so. Perhaps after you have done this for a bit you will not get as upset when she criticizes you. She leaves with Tommy and arrives at the prom. Female Ms. Desjardin tries to calm Carrie down and a light fixture breaks by itself. Miss Desjardin, one of the few lucky survivors, resigns due to her guilt for not reaching out to Carrie, for not preventing what happened on prom night and secretly for having approved the evil prank in the end, even stating that she would rather commit suicide than teach again. One of the best parts of the novel Carrie is Carrie's dramatic inner conflict about whether or not she should go to prom. In the novel, Margaret was working at the laundry in the town. Female Patricia Clarkson portrayed Margaret White in the 2002 film remake. An autopsy is performed on Carrie's body. Died She also threatened Carrie with a butcher knife. Miss Collins arrived and stopped them, expelling the girls from the locker room. If there's one thing this woman is She is acting like a child, and therefore needs to be treated like one. She studied "the body language of people being stoned for their sins", starting or ending every scene in one of those positions. The 2013 remake of Carrie later teased the possibility that Carrie was not dead, when the ending showed her tombstone cracking apart, indicating that there is possibly still life within her body, assuming she was ever buried. Tommy was hit on the head by the bucket above them and fell unconscious. This version of the character in general was more similar to the novel than Sissy Spacek's portrayal. One night, they had premarital sex and Margaret became pregnant. As a result of this, rocks and hail fell on different parts of the White's house that day. When Carrie is talking to her mother about how the stuff she says isn't in the Bible, Margaret slams the bible in her face, causing her to fall. In the sudden, brief silence, she heard something within her turn over. Here are a few characteristics of the narcissistic mother. By this point, the entire heart of Chamberlain was up in flames, taking literally hundreds of lives with it. Unaware of this, Carrie believed she was bleeding to death and asked for help from the other girls. In a cold rage, Carrie's mind finally snapped and she returned to the school barefooted and with a sadistic vengeance and a thirst for bloody revenge. Carrie ignored her mother's crazy actions and even used her powers to physically slide her mother out the door of her bedroom and shut it in order to get ready without being distracted. As she walked home, Chris attempted to run her down with her car, but Carrie attacked her, causing the car to keel over and explode, killing Chris and Billy Nolan. Sue then witnesses the house crumbling from the rain of stones. As she walks home, she unleashes her powers on the town as well, destroying several buildings and killing hundreds of people. "POWER" and oh, what a word that was! When Carrie hugs her Mom, she says to kneel down and they talk about how she was raped. Once, Tommy had even been approached by the Boston Red Sox team, who wanted to recruit him after he graduated. WebThe backstory: Carries dad quit her and her mother when she was 5. In one iteration of her story, Carrie died as a result of her injuries. Winter 1979 Margaret Brigham-White, best known as Margaret White is the opening antagonist of the Stephen King multiverse. It's then, when Carrie first shows her power by slamming a door in front of her. Some ways to approach this: 1. She telekinetically pushes her mother into the closet and locks the door (in addition, she somehow welds the lock). Margaret was very evil and abusive to her daughter, Carrie. George and Erika leave the two to dance and while Tommy wants to follow them, Carrie is scared to be in the center of attention. On prom night, Carrie kills many of her classmates by willing their bodies into walls, and sparking electrocutions and fires with her brain. However, Carrie felt the car approaching and wrestled the oncoming vehicle with her telekinesis and violently slammed it full force into the roadhouse. Chris believed that Carrie was to blame for her being banned from going to the Prom after she became the ringleader in humiliating Carrie in the girls locker room, when she received her first period. Carrie lived in the very small and peaceful town of Chamberlain, Maine, with her severely mentally unstable mother who had cut her daughter off from all social life due to her religious beliefs. Ralph White (Husband)Carrie White (Daughter)John Brigham (Father)Judith Brigham (Mother) Carrie experienced her first period at age of 15 and Margaret had never discussed menstruation with her prior to the incident. Since Carrie had no previous knowledge about the concept of menstruation the students rejection of Carrie became even fiercer. Before Carrie's father died, both Carries parents had left the local Baptist church many years before, because they believed Baptists were doing the work of "The Antichrist". Enraged, Carrie used her powers to close every door of the gym, locking everyone in, and turned the lights red. She uses her powers to push Ms. Desjardin away, shocking and scaring George and Erika. Reluctant to vote for themselves, Tommy persuaded her to do so. Don't worry about her truly hurting herself. Margaret then tormented, slapped, pushed, pulled and threw Carrie into the closet and Carrie became vulgar with her mother. However, after seeing Tommy die, she runs back to him and mourns his death. Carrie, with the butcher knife still stuck deep in her shoulder to the hilt, wandered aimlessly until she approached The Cavalier roadhouse, where her father drunk himself into a stupor before raping Margaret. The mother hurts herself (example: She stabs herself with sewing needles). Carrie finds out about the truth behind her Prom attendance after her mind is bonded to. But before Carrie died, Sue invited Carrie into her mind to see that she had no part in planning the nasty joke that occurred earlier that evening, and just paired her up with Tommy as amends for locker room incident. Seconds after, Sue got up to fetch for help, but could feel herself miscarrying, though she initially thought that she was apparently having her period. Carrie then leaves to go to the prom. "Mom, I don't think this is a safe place for you anymore. While Moore's Margaret is just as abusive towards Carrie, she also displays genuine love towards her. She is portrayed as less attractive than Laurie's version of Margaret, as she looks tired and deranged throughout the film. In 1960, she met the equally religious Ralph White. She demands that she is going and wants to be normal. As Carrie fell down to her knees to weep and pray with her mother, Margaret stabbed her daughter in the shoulder; the blade went all the way into Carrie's shoulder with only the handle visible. On the evening of the Prom, Carrie prepared for the night and tried on the elegant and authentic Prom gown she made. In this version, however, she doesn't try to kill Carrie with a knife. This is traumatizing. However, little did Carrie or anyone else know was that she was walking into a vile prank initiated by another girl in her class, Chris Hargensen, the main leader of Carrie's tormentors who ruthlessly bullied her, as well as all her life. After Ralph came back hours later, after heavy drinking at a roadhouse in Chamberlain, Ralph forced himself on Margaret and both engaged in intercourse in an "unearthly" form of marital rape. #1: She always has to be right. Serving as the titular main villainous protagonist of Stephen King's first horror novel, Carrie, its three film adaptations Carrie film, Carrie TV Film and Carrie 2013 remake, a mentioned character in The Dead Zone and IT, and a posthumous character in The Rage: Carrie 2. This tragic event later lead to The Black Party. Now there are instanceswhere Carrie's special abilities manifested all by itself without her even trying. Tommy invited Carrie for a dance, which she initially declined. Margaret stabs Carrie in the back, but they fly in opposite directions. When Fisher died at age 60, her mother and brother were left to plan her funeral, and during the preparations, Reynolds passed away from a stroke, some believe to have been caused by grief. Carrie seemingly keeps her powers a secret from her mother until she talks about the Prom. But Carrie used her power and slammed them shut again, catching somebody's fingers, to her, it felt like Dale Norbert in the jamb, severing one of them. WebCarrie instantly feels she has been wronged, and begins to question whether her life would have been different should she have had a college education. lovable mort. In an alternate ending, we see Sue giving birth to the baby mentioned by Carrie. To manipulate Carrie into staying at home, Margaret began to physically hurt herself as she scratched and clawed at own her face, pulled her hair out and punched herself in the mouth, causing herself to bleed a little. After cradling her mother to death, Carrie realizes what she has done and makes stones begin to rain from the sky. In the beginning of the movie, the Bible is in a puddle of water. She locks her in the closet and orders her to pray for "forgiveness" when she learns about the shower incident, because she said it was a "curse" for Eve's disobedience offering Adam the fruit and creating the original sin. Miss Desjardin came out of her office to stop the commotion and to stop the hysterical Carrie from panicking, Miss Desjardin slapped her across the face which caused a light bulb above them to explode and a bucket of baseball bats to knock over all by itself. Margaret dies the same way as the original Margaret, with house-hold objects stabbing her and being crucified. Carrie rushes to her closet, carrying her mother and stayed there as the house came down, dying. class, Carrie gets confronted by her classmates and gets her first period. In the second iteration, Carrie survived The Black Prom and the trauma associated with it. At only a few months of age, Carrie's powers already began to manifest, as she cradled her bottle above her crib using only her mind. When Tommy asks her if they want to vote for themselves, Carrie is unimpressed. Her death causes Carrie to destroy the house with her and her mother in it dying on the way. Born She saw how Tommy had fallen from the throne to the ground with people surrounding him and as she stood safely outside the auditorium, she decided to give everyone a taste of their own medicine ten times fold. Carrie begins walking away, ignoring Tommy's attempts to get her back on stage. The younger Carrie was played by Jodelle Ferland who causes a rain of fiery stones to fall out of the sky like in the novel. She examines such questions such as whether or not she would have chosen and married Doug, who was a sloppy, overweight, blue-collar package deliveryman. In the novel, people around her telepathically know she is the one wrecking everywhere in vengeance. A seamstress, Carrie made herself a dress for the night. Margaret, thinking that Carrie was possessed by the Devil himself, carefully took out Ralph's old kitchen butcher knife from the folds of her dress so Carrie couldn't see. All the while, Carrie was repeatedly teased and bullied by her classmates at every school she ever attended. Once the hot sparks from the cables caught onto the Prom's backdrop mural, causing it to completely catch fire, the hot flames quickly spread throughout the entire gym. Carrie sews her own dress and buys makeup, and on prom night, her mother tries to convince her that it is a trick and threatens to tell Tommy the truth. Being that she has just killed Later, she and Tommy win the election and Carrie is handed flowers while George and Erika cheer them on. She unleashes her power on everyone by locking the doors and causing objects such as tables and chairs to fly around the room, killing several people. 2 boys caught for skipping French 1, got a weeks detention for staring at the blood. 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