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ADAPTATION NATION: CARRIE

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SPOILER ALERT IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE BOOK OR SEEN BOTH MOVIES!

The new movie is much more a reboot of the original movie than a re-adaptation of the book. The main difference the new movie has is it takes place in modern day rather than the ’70s, which hurts its believability. In the ’70s sex ed wasn’t what it is today, so you can believe a high school girl with a crazy mom could not know what a period is, but today, not so much.

As for a locker room of girls pelting her with tampons while she weeps naked on the floor in the fetal position? Yeah, that shit don’t fly.

In this day and age that entire incident would’ve been all over the news and resulted in multiple law suits. The school would not just send Carrie home and make the girls run laps in detention. During the ’70s however, inhumane bullying practically counted as a high school elective.

The big difference between both movies and the book is that the book is framed by an investigation looking back on the prom night incident. Through this investigation the reader finds out the genetics behind telekinesis, something that scientists started doing research on only after Carrie’s killing spree. In the movies, instead of using this device they simply have Carrie find out everything she needs to know about it at her school’s library.

That’s right, dozens of books on something no one knows is real, just sitting in the library.

The endings to both movies are pretty much the same, but are both different from the book. In the movies Carrie destroys the high school, kills Chris and Bobby as they drive a car at her, then heads straight home. When she gets home she takes a bath and when she gets out her mother stabs her in the shoulder. Carrie retaliates by shooting every knife in the house at her, poetically pinning her to the wall crucifixion style. Then, overwhelmed with guilt, Carrie brings the house down on the two of them.

In the book Carrie doesn’t stop with the high school, but goes on a war path through the town; blowing shit up and destroying fire hydrants so the fires can’t be put out.

She goes home, but there’s no rub-a-dub in the tub, just an immediate stab in the back from her mother. Carrie retaliates not with knives but by stopping her mother’s heart with her mind. She then goes to the local roadhouse (where she was conceived via rape) and finds Billy and Chris, who she kills. After this her heart gives out and she dies on the spot.



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