Stephen King is the king of contemporary thriller novels, the master of popular fiction, well-known in the American literary world and even the world, since the 1980s, in the past years of the United States best-seller list, Stephen King's works have occupied the top position, becoming one of the most read and famous writers in the history of the United States.
The horror movies adapted from his novels are also classics: "The Shining", "Pet Graveyard", "Ghost Show 1" and so on...
Today, the prolific writer has produced more than two hundred short stories, more than forty novellas, and sold more than 350 million copies... In 1974, Stephen King's first work, Carrie the Witch, was published and was a great success, and for more than forty years, Stephen King maintained a strong creative ability.
In 1976, Brian de Palma's work "Gary the Witch", the first film adaptation of Stephen King's novel was successfully released, the heroine Sisyspec's acting skills are great, she also won the oscar nomination for the first time with this film, the film involves classmate relations, religion, sexual repression and other content, the shooting method is particularly outstanding, followed by 2002 and 2013 have been remade "Garly the Witch", but none of the first impressive.
At present, Douban has a score of 7.4 for 1976's "Witch Carrie", which is much higher than the other two parts.
In fact, since the beginning of "Carrie the Witch", many of his works have been put on the big screen and have been recognized by the audience, in fact, since the birth of the film, the novel has maintained an inseparable relationship. Throughout the ages, many literary works have become the material for film and television creation, showing enduring vitality, although not all novels are suitable for adaptation into movies, but Stephen King's horror novels are very unique, which is closely related to the artistic characteristics of the work itself.
Stephen King's novel storyline is wonderful, which also provides more possibilities for the original film adaptation, Stephen King is a master of creating stories, his horror novels are always climactic, bizarre twists and turns, can fully capture the curiosity of readers, through the suspenseful setting and bizarre plot to create a lingering horror atmosphere, let alone when reading the text, let alone watch his novel adaptation of the film.
One of the factors in the success of "Carrie the Witch" is to reveal the elements of horror in postmodern daily life, confirming the existential concept of terror everywhere, and promoting the contemporary transformation of horror novels at that time, "Carrie the Witch" tells the story of a young girl at Irving High School in the United States, Carrie, who erupted into evil thoughts because of the torture of her classmates and mother, so that it caused the school fire to explode, destroyed the town, killed her own mother and finally destroyed the story. The horror elements in the novel are very complex, showing the contradictions and entanglements of daily life, mainly focusing on the horrors of the ordinary life of contemporary children.
The most important horror element of the novel lies in Carrie's evil power.
As an innocent and cute, intelligent and diligent girl, in the eyes of outsiders, she is an ordinary middle school student, she does not have any terror, she is not willing to use her own power to threaten others, and always maintains the moral and legal consciousness and daily life habits of human nature, although Carrie has the ability to manipulate objects to force the movement of objects with the power of the mind (a bit like the mind to take objects) This ability will not bring any unpleasantness to Carrie's daily life, but will help her to be happier.
But in front of Carrie face the horror of her mother and classmates, her strength was forced to appear again and again, slowly deteriorating, she also embarked on an irrational point, you can see that the living environment is the biggest change in a person's personality, from the attitude of the people around you, you can see whether Carrie's psychology will be healthy, Carrie was told at the age of three that "good children do not grow breasts, bad children only grow breasts" The original sin of the idea, thirteen years later, the mother will be the daughter who has terror due to the first menstruation to further push to the extreme, The mother forced her to go to the dark prayer room dedicated to Jesus to repent of the woman's menstrual sins...
Then comes Carrie's humiliation and bullying at school, which leads to the fact that carries herself is very weak and finally transformed into a "witch", which embodies Stephen King's insightful ability to put ordinary daily life in a terrifying situation, and the terrifying Carrie is actually a female victim and a fighter who dares to rise in the predicament.
Watching the whole movie, I believe that many people will fall into contemplation, everyone wants to find the source of evil, originally a girl who regained confidence in life, completely disappointed after a joke, strangled all people with the original idea, "Witch Carrie" is known as one of the most famous horror films of the era, but it is clear that the director is not for horror and horror, his film technique is to play a low-self-inferior girl's anger against this evil world to the extreme.
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The feasibility of adapting the film from the original book is also reflected in the narrative of Stephen King's horror novels with a sense of picture.
Hotels, guesthouses, supermarkets, towns, schools... Through the ordinary perspective, Stephen King reversed people's desire for "life", turned the lives of ordinary people into a source of creating terror, used ordinary people's lives to write the reality behind terror, watched several popular horror films adapted from Stephen King's novels, whether it was the school in "Carrie the Witch", the hotel room in "Phantom Murder", and the small town in "The Return of the Joker", or the blocked supermarket in "The Mist". Everything in daily life has become the soil for Stephen King's creation, from the horror experience of the audience and readers in novels and movies, from the divisive and overhead environment to the real life environment.
The literary visualization of Carrie the Witch is the embodiment of the author's literary concepts, and it is also the result of Stephen King's understanding of modern and contemporary popular film and television culture, especially inspired by horror movies, Stephen King mentioned in an article published in 1980: "I grew up in the 1950s, and the slogan was 'Read, Watch Movies', and now it seems to be 'Watch Movies, Read Movies Fictionalized Things'. ”
As a best-selling author, Stephen King is known for his horror novels and has won numerous awards in his lifetime: the Bram Stoke Award, the O.Henry Award, the Hugo Award, the Science Fiction Achievement Award...
Nowadays, a large number of horror movies adapted from his novels have become classics, and the success of the film has further expanded Stephen King's readership, which is the interoperability of literature and movies, and those who like his films will fall in love with his novels, in the same way, those who like to watch his novels first will also go to see movie adaptations, Stephen King's large number of adaptation examples have shortened the gap between many Hollywood counterparts and texts, so that the relationship between adaptation and original works has become a kind of "visual writing rewriting".
The two symbiotically complement each other, creating a feast of story and vision together.
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