Talk:Carrie (novel)

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^^ If you mean it's a scary book, yeah I guess so. Anyway...regarding "false documents", I have a rough idea what this means, but how is it demonstrated in Carrie (I haven't read it for about 8 years)..? pomegranate 23:59, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)

Carrie, the movie, is definately one of the better film adaptations of King's work. Directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek, it is a truly terrifying movie.

I expanded the plot synopsis a little — it barely described what happens in the story line. Leroi henri christophe 20:50, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Should this be in the Fantasy film category? 2 Remake 3 Necessary? 4 King's attitude to adaptions of his work 5 Miss Desjardin

[edit] Should this be in the Fantasy film category?

should this (and Carrie 2) really come in the Fantasy category, otherwise every Horror film that involves the supernatural would (which is a lot) and I wouldn't think of a lot of those as my idea of a Fantasy movie? Arnie587 00:20, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Remake

So where is the section on the remake of the film? There are obvious differences here. Alyeska 19:32, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Necessary?

I don't know if anyone's noticed, but there is an article called Carrie (film), which basically includes all of the info in this plus a bit more. The silly thing is that, if you search for "Carrie", it comes to this one. I would recommend this page for deletion.

moved this page to Carrie (novel) with the original disambiguation moved to Carrie. Hbdragon88 04:54, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] King's attitude to adaptions of his work

The statement in the opening paragraph of this article, describing how the film version of Carrie is one of the few adaptions of King's work that he appreciates, is in direct conflict with the following quote from the main article on Stephen King:

Unlike some authors, King is not at all troubled when a movie based on his work differs from the derivative work itself, and is often pleased with film adaptations of his work. He has contrasted his books and its film adaptations as "apples and oranges; both delicious, but very different."

I'm not sure which of these concepts is accurate, since neither of them are backed up by relevant sources.

[edit] Miss Desjardin

Does it ever specify if Miss Desjardin made it out of the prom alive? JackOfHearts 10:57, 1 January 2007 (UTC)