A Carrie remake – so why care? Mainly because this one is being helmed by Kimberly Peirce, the director of Boys Don’t Cry. So what does this mean?- We can expect a more interesting approach to the representation of women in this version. Probably one that doesn’t rest entirely on a concept of female hysteria.
- Another woman is stepping up to the directorial plate to make a commercially viable genre picture. Groovy.
- Sometimes, ‘I before E except after C’ doesn’t apply.
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10 responses to “Carrie (2013): New Trailer”
I am having a hard time getting excited about this one although I am sure I will end up seeing it due to my curiosity all the same. I saw the trailer for it at the theater last week and felt Carrie appeared to be a bit too “hip” to portray a convincing outcast but I could be wrong; a lot of the shots seemed to resemble De Palma’s direction as well. Nevertheless, as one commenter remarked above, if the film ends up integrating more of the book’s structure I will end up feeling a bit more excited about it but, otherwise, the original is a bit too near and dear to me to be too open-minded about a remake, haha.
You may well be right… a lot more info has come to light since I wrote this. I’m not quite as optimistic as I originally was.
OMG. I didn’t know that!!!! Now I’m interested in the film. Otherwise I would have had…zero interest in yet another remake. Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on Katherine Bigelow?
Katherine Bigelow… I’ve always liked her films. But I’m one of the many people not comfortable with the depiction of torture in Zero Dark Thurty.
I hear ya. Me too. I’ve always liked her films too, but she is taking an uncomfortable turn (in her work) for me (and not good uncomfortable). 0_0
The novel (King’s first, as you know) has a tricky structure, alternating after-the-fact court testimony and documentary evidence with real-time narrative leading up to the prom-night disaster. The trailer suggests the new film will follow that structure more closely than De Palma’s film. That’s smart — it would be hard to match, let alone equal, the emotional impact of the earlier film.
Finger’s crossed!
Looks like it could be a worthy remake. Most of them should be sent straight to Hell, along with the studio executives and producers who couldn’t be bothered to come up with an original idea.
Really looking forward to this one…looks like they amped up the destruction a bit!
Definitely… Chaos!