To showcase Carrie utilizing her powers to put waste to the promenade, De Palma relied on split-screen. Talking with the journal Cinefantastique in 1977 (by way of Jessie Horsting’s e book “Stephen King on the Motion pictures”), De Palma stated: “I felt the destruction needed to be proven in split-screen, as a result of what number of instances might you narrow from Carrie to issues shifting round? You’ll be able to overdo that. It is a lifeless cinematic system. So, I believed I might cut up display screen.”
De Palma spent about six weeks chopping the sequence along with split-screen, however one thing was off. “I put all of it collectively and it lasted 5 minutes, and it was simply too sophisticated,” the filmmaker stated. “Additionally, you misplaced a whole lot of visceral punch from full-screen adion.” De Palma and editor Paul Hirsch then went again and “proceeded to drag out of the cut up display screen and use it simply after we exactly wanted it.”
As a part of her revenge, Carrie electrocutes some folks to demise — which in flip begins a fireplace. Since “Carrie” was made earlier than the age of CGI, actual hearth was used. They set the set ablaze, after which star Sissy Spacek was instructed to face among the many flames. Such a job may appear daunting, however Spacek embraced the second. In “Stephen King on the Motion pictures,” she’s quoted as saying: “I was Carrie. Hearth could not harm me. I stayed till my eyebrows bought singed.”
The outcomes communicate for themselves: when you consider the “Carrie” film, the very first thing that involves thoughts is that massive, climactic promenade scene, with all its sound and fury (and hearth). It is iconic for a purpose.
