Carrie Adaptation

I am reading the book Carrie by Stephen King and there are some important parts in the book that would be essential to keep in the movie through the adaptation. The first part that you would need to keep is in the beginning of the book when she gets made fun of in the gym shower in the locker room. She gets made fun of because she is on her period and it is her first one at her age 17 and she doesn't know what to do about it. This is essential to the story because it shows how little she actually knows about herself and society. I mean a girl who doesn't really know about that probably isn't aware of a lot of things. This scene may also show about her mom how she didn’t even tell her daughter about these hangs that are going to happen to her and maybe even her mom has zoned out of society a bit. Because in the book it describes there house as a bungalow because it has all these weeds over it so it looks old and if the mother cared I think that she would fix it

 

Another scene that I would also keep is actually her reading the poems I know that I had made a big deal yesterday why they didn’t make sense but now I see it. In the beginning one of the poems that were scratched on the desk was just calling Carrie stupid but throughout the story the poems get worse. I think the poems show how severe of bullying she is going through and the more bullying and stress she has the stronger her powers become with her telekinesis. So as the poems get worse Carries powers get more destructive and more evil. Like in one part of the book she is talking about smashing the people’s heads with rocks. Another scene that should be kept in the movies in when this little boy is riding down the street and he yells out to Carrie that she is fat and he sticks his tongue out at her. Then she thinks to herself I wish that boy would fall off his bike and a couple of seconds later he loses control and scrapes his knee and she thinks to herself I wish I could make that happen more often.

This foreshadows in the story that she has telekinesis powers and that she will use them to get back at the people who have done her and her mom harm. Also it shows one of the first parts where she uses her power and the power itself is a major part of the story. Two specific parts that I would cut form this story is when Carrie is walking home and is just thinking about random things like Summer Camp. This part is just her thinking to herself for a long time and I think that it would be weird on screen to just see her talking to herself for that long period of time. The Summer Camp is kind of relevant to getting made fun of but that is what the whole beginning of the book is basically about.  Another scene that I would cut is in the beginning they are just playing volleyball and she is just thinking to herself again. I think that any scene in an movie where someone is just thinking to the themselves isn’t really a good scene that is in of the reasons Catcher in The Rye can’t become a movie next to the fact J.D. Salinger