Brian DePalma adapted Stephen King’s novel Carrie to inspire his horror film Carrie. Carrie is about Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) who is a shy and timid teenager. She is the daughter of Margaret White (Piper Laurie) who is a religious fanatic. Carrie, born with secret telekinetic powers, uses her power to exact revenge on her high school bullies who humiliated her when she had her period at the age of seventeen; Carrie’s menstruation represent her being late in becoming a women. The supernatural film
Carrie (1976) The 1976 film Carrie was directed by Brian De Palma. The summary of the film is a young, quiet and timid 17-year-old girl name Carrie White. She experiences moments of insanity, she can move objects and make things happen unexpectedly. She has telekinesis that leads up to her ultimate revenge at the prom after a humiliating prank against her. Throughout the movie its form is to the climax of the devastating night at the prom, based on the torment and bullying that the “popular” girls
how he treats one of the members of his school. Her name is Sissy Jupe. One day Mr Gradgrind said “girl number 20, who is that girl. Sissy stood up and said “me sir”. Mr Gradgrind asked her name, when she replied he said “sissy is not a name and your father should not call you it!” then Mr Gradgrind asked her fathers job and Sissy told him that he looked after the horses in the circus. Mr Gradgrind said, “right then, define a horse!” Sissy could not do this. Then he asked one of the boys to do this
ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they are filled to the brim” (Dickens 12). Gradgrind’s methods of education are employed to show Dickens’ view on the evil of the educational system. Among the “vessels” are Bitzter and Sissy Jupe. They exemplify two entirely d...
the masculine manifestation of public speech. The demand for facts can be articulated by Gradgrind and responded to in the appropriate terms by Bitzer, who too, is part of this masculine world, and who can therefore clinically define a horse. Sissy Jupe however, in the face of such assertiveness is unable to react in any terms other than being inarticulate and "alarmed". Dickens however does not share Gradgrind's demands for the masculine "fact". In writing Hard Times Dickens drew heavily
in the book is of Mr. Gradgrind harshly singling out the assumed newest and least experienced (in terms of the strict principles cherished by the people of Coketown) student among his class and ordering her to describe a horse. Although the girl, Sissy Jupe, has traveled with the circus all of her life, which can be assumed as an entity prone to the utilization of the power and grace of an equestrian compliment, she is tongue-tied when asked of the simple task of describing a horse, because she is
the novel is curiously skeletal. There are four separate plots, or at least four separate centres of interest: the re-education through suffering of Mr. Gradgrind, the exposure of Bounderby, the life and death of Stephen Blackpool, and the story of Sissy Jupe. There are present, in other words, all the potentialities of an expansive, discursive novel in the full Dickens manner. But they are not and could not be realised because of the limitation of length Dickens imposed upon himself. The novel was
"the whelp," are nearly destroyed by the strictly mechanical principles of Gradgrindery. It was Hard Times for everyone. Sissy Jupe, who grew up among Sleary's Horse Riding Circus, and was not exposed to the harsh doctrine of the Gradgrind family until later in life, represents the imaginative creativity and generosity that the Gradgrind family misses. The coming together of Sissy and Loo, at the conclusion of the novel at the circus, represents what Dickens believes industrial England needs. "Let
Donaggino, intense sequences of events that take us down a rabbit hole of emotions. Making the ending of the movie something you'll always remember. Casting was amazing with Sissy Spacek, Nancy Allen, P.J. Soles, Amy Irving, Piper Laurie and John Travolta all giving a once in a lifetime performance. It's
Affliction Affliction, based on the novel by Russell Banks, was very interesting, mysterious, and kept you guessing up until it was over. The actors/actresses portrayed in the movie was Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte), Wade’s girlfriend Margie Fogg (Sissy Spacek), Glen Whitehouse (James Coburn), Rolfe Whitehouse (William Defoe), Lillian (Mary Beth Hurt), Jill (Brigid Tierney), and Jack Hewit (Jim True). The movie begins by Rolfe Whitehouse (William Defoe) narrating the movie about a phone call he received
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” says Margret White in the movie Carrie directed by De Palma. The witch in question is Carrie White, played by Sissy Spacek, a repressed teenager with telekinetic powers. The film is filled with motifs of blood, fire, religion, and the color red and the themes of sexual repression and bullying. Specifically the scene in which Carrie is locked in the cupboard by her mother after having her first menstrual period. At timestamp 16:27 the shot shows Carrie in the
The 1976 movie Carrie, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, and Amy Irving, is a film adaption of Stephen King’s novel of the same name. The film follows the title character Carrie White, a teenager raised by an extremely religious and overbearing mother who has telekinetic powers which she uses to get revenge on her classmates after being humiliated by them. Roger Ebert’s review of Carrie states “This isn't a science-fiction movie with a tacked-on crisis, but the
Introduction- Harper Lee is a legendary author who is renown for her classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee was born on April 38,1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. Her father was a lawyer and her mother stayed home to care for her children. Lee took an interest in writing at 7 years old. She received her education at a public school and spent her first year of college in Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. She spent her next 4 years of college at the University
Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. He moved on from the University of Maine and later filled in as an instructor while building up himself as an author and writer. Having also published work under the pen name Bachman, King's first loathsomeness novel, Carrie, was a colossal achievement. Throughout the years, King has been widely recognized for titles that are both monetarily fruitful and now and again widely praised. His books have sold more than 350 million duplicates
Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947. He graduated from the University of Maine. He then became a teacher and an established writer. Stephen King is also known as John Swithen and Richard Bachman. His books have sold all over the world and have been turned into movies and TV shows. As a toddler his parents separated and his mother raised his older brother and himself. Stephen King lived in Ford, Wayne Indiana and in Stanford , Connecticut. When he turned eleven he moved to Durham, Maine
being caught. The camera gradually slides across the locker room floor, slowly so as to allow us to look at the changing girls. We stop at the last row and are slowly walked into the steamy row of showers where we find a naked Carrie White (Sissy Spacek). In Psycho, after Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) leaves Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) to her room, he goes back to his office for a reason we're not quite clear about yet. He hesitates at the wall between his office and Marion's room, glancing
No Man Should Have All That Power What are the main roles that female actresses typically portray in horror films? Maggie Freleng, an editor of VitaminW, a website that contributes toward the female empowerment movement, expresses her belief that women are cast in “poor and stereotypical representation of women in the horror genre.” Some roles that many women portray that are seen as stereotypical is the sexually promiscuous women and the saved virgin, evil demon seductress, the overly liberated
The reclusive film director Terrence Malick has to date, only directed a small number of films. His twenty year hiatus between directing Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998), may provide the explanation for such a sparse back catalogue. Malick’s refusal to talk with the media, has led to hearsay, as to how he occupied his time during the hiatus. Malick’s directing debut Badlands (1973) is a collection of concepts, all carefully moulded together to create one iconic piece of film. This
melodrama that reflects the sensibilities of melodramas of the 1950s, but also one that refashions the aesthetics of the genre to accommodate the interests of modern audiences. The film tells the story of a middle-aged couple, Ruth and Matt Fowler (Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson), as they try to cope with the murder of their adolescent son, Frank (Nick Stahl). When the film opens, Frank is romantically involved with Natalie Strout (Marisa Tomei), a divorced mother. The Fowlers do not approve of this relationship
Introduction: Political communication—communication with a political purpose about human interaction—takes many different forms including novels, poetry, music, television, and film, which all have their distinct advantages and disadvantages in communicating with the public. Although some political communication intends to enact or drive social changes, some political communication seeks to maintain the status quo. The film medium, which is the subject of this paper, has a much broader mass appeal