What's the Difference between Carrie the Book and Carrie the Movie?
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In the Movie |
Carrie White
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Carrie White
Portrayed by: Sissy Spacek
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Boxer
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Boxer
Portrayed by: Maurice Denham
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In the Movie |
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Carrie collapses in the road house parking lot where Sue finds her. Carrie reads her mind to find out Sue knew nothing about the prank. Carrie decides not to kill her. |
This doesn't happen because Carrie is already dead. Sue escapes the gym carnage because Miss Collins kicks her out. |
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Carrie dies from her shoulder stab wound in the parking lot as she calls out for her mother. |
She died in her house.
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Sue runs away from the roadhouse and collapses when she has her period. She writes a memoir called, "My Name is Susan Snell." asking people not to forget what happened, so it doesn't happen again. |
Sue dreams of visiting Carrie's grave where her house once stood. A bloody hand reaches up as she places flowers on the grave. She wakes up screaming in her mother's arms. |
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Carrie stops her mother's heart, killing her. |
After she is stabbed she makes the knives in the kitchen fly through the air and kill her mother.
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After killing her mother, Carrie goes to the road house where her father raped her mother and Chris and Billy are. |
Carrie is guilty and grief stricken and collapses the house on herself and her mother, killing them both. |