Co.Create | creativity + culture + commerce: She steered Hilary Swank to an Oscar-winning performance as a transgendered hate crime victim in Boys Don't Cry. Then writer-director Kimberly Peirce told the story of a war veteran who didn't want to go back to Iraq in Stop-Loss. So how did Peirce wrap her head around a horror movie about a high school kid who pins her mother to the door with daggers, among other acts of mayhem, through the power of positive telekinetic thinking?
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This is a real inspiration to all artists, but it unfortunate that money is a constraint. It is easy to be morbid. I don't know why so many people have such a hard time with it. Pouring blood on people sounds like a blast. I don't see how her version of it would be any more grotesque than Stephen King would have wanted it to be. It is interesting to see the remakes of shows because of the increase of technology that has happened since the first version was released. I'd be interested to play them side by side and see how they line up and what was changed from the original.
First of all, I'm really excited to see this movie! With that in mind, reading this article with words directly from the director, I feel more compelled to watch it. When you have such inspiring words and break downs of certain aspects of a movie without spoiling anything, I feel a much more powerful message comes across. I feel I have a better sense of what the director was looking to achieve and I appreciate what they are trying to get across, so now, when I watch the movie, I can better appreciate the work of the director. Also, with the mindset of not having money be an obstacle, I fully support this. Money is always something that gets in our way, but we figure it out. In comparison, it's like applying to college in some regards. I knew very well that most of the colleges I applied to were out of my price range, but I still applied and continued on, forgetting about money and worrying about my future and the outcome I wish to gain for my education. It didn't stop me and I am where I wanted to be in the end. Everything works out in the end.
I am somewhat excited to see this movie. Carrie is one of my favorite books/movie and I hold really high standards for it. And the casting of Chloe Grace Mortez is already a disappointment to me. (I think she is too pretty to play Carrie and Carrie's physical features is a big part of the story. There's a lot of symbolism in his story to the way she looks. Maybe this is another one of the director's changes). I do think it's neat to have it a more modern version and having the shower scene be a video on a phone. I also want to see what they meant by the intensifying the interaction between Carrie and her mother because anyone who has seen the original movie or has read the book knows that what ever it is between the two is already extremely intense.
I'm excited to see how the movie turns out, I have to try and keep my expectations down because I think the production will be very good on its own and I don't want to not enjoy it because I have such high expectation from previous versions.
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